I was super bitter that my passport was expired

Technically it was the needing a job and the sick Dad that made me not consider jaunting off but dammit, my passport is expired. And I probably shouldn't spend the money right now for it but I really should make a big note so that once i find a job I remember to get a new one. Especially since Mexico and Canada now require them. I'm not used to thinking of Mexico as passport requiring. That makes me youth sound much more debauched than it was, I should add.

That reminds me I need to look into Canadian and Irish passports, I'm apparently eligible for both of them.

I went to the one eyeglass place within 45 miles that has the equipment to make glasses the same day you buy them. Got two pairs of new glasses. They don't have the thin lenses in stock, but they're making me one pair with the thick lenses, and they'll replace the lenses when the thin ones com in next week.

I'm a little better, but DAMN, whatever this is has kicked my backside.

My temp has gone from 102 to 100, so there is that.

I sweated (is that a word?) like a pig last night and I am super weak. My back hurts and taking a shower required a long sit down to recover.

Still, my mind is clearer, so that has to be good.

I really can't tell what it is. Blergh.

Thanks Steph, for the drug advice and others for the good thoughts.

I've been SO careful this winter, I'm deeply disappointed to have gotten this bug.

I went to the one eyeglass place within 45 miles that has the equipment to make glasses the same day you buy them. Got two pairs of new glasses. They don't have the thin lenses in stock, but they're making me one pair with the thick lenses, and they'll replace the lenses when the thin ones com in next week.

Holds major metropolitain area close and petses it.

Ah, bonny, I'm sorry you are feeling so beat. This bug needs to go bugger itself.

This bug needs to go bugger itself.

What YOU said.

Yesterday was pretty scary, so this bit of improvement...however small...helps.

bonny, it may be the same thing I had when I came back from Paris. If so, the first three days are miserable. I couldn't break a 102.1 fever and getting up and down the steps was a major chore that almost led to disaster. The good thing is there was dramatic improvement on days 4-7. Just be careful with secondary infections. I ended up with bronchitis.

I hope you feel better soon.

Maria, that sounds really familiar.

Thank you so much for the encouragement.

I have been SO careful this winter but I was on the Metro and in public spaces over the weekend. Curses.

I don't have to be out of the house for the next few days and the people who are coming to walk Cagney don't even come up stairs...I'm pretty sure I'm contagious...so I have a better chance to avoid any other bugs.

A friend has picked up some soup and generic Ensure for me. I have not been able to eat much of anything and my faux-sure (hot chocolate, protein powder, almond milk) is not really helping.

I'm as weak as a kitten. No lie.

Holds major metropolitain area close and petses it.

Oh, totally. I had to call around quite a bit before finding a place that makes the glasses right in the store. Everywhere else, you pick out the frames and then they send them somewhere else for the lenses to be cut and put in. Although, even in DC, I usually had to wait for them to order lenses -- I've got a weird prescription, and they almost never had my lenses in stock. I got one pair of rimless glasses like I had before, and one pair of clunkier Tina Fey style glasses, so that I can have some different looks, and so that I'll have a backup pair for when I inevitably break one of them. My history with keeping glasses safe isn't so great. (One of the really nice benefits of working here is vision insurance -- for two pairs of glasses, I paid about $400 and insurance paid about $500.)