The Invisible Woman Chronicles

I should have went to urgent care Saturday morning.  Now my mom has a cold.  She swears it's from standing in line at the food pantry on Wednesday.  No.  It was me.  I've been hacking all week with my cough so sooner or later it would have affected her.  Maybe it wouldn't have made a difference if I went on Saturday or Tuesday.  It just sucks.  I do feel responsible. I hesitated on leaving for a hair cut. I thought am I going to start choking during the appointment? I was fine for the most part.  Just a couple of moments that I covered with the water I requested.  I swear I was on the verge of cancelling it when I had trouble with the parking meter.  I hate that they stopped doing weekend appointments.  It didn't bother me that I paid $2 for parking.  It pissed me off that I couldn't get my debit card in.  I realized the first meter was broke and I had to pull up to another one to do it.  It's not easy when it's ...

Kind of a quieter week with people being out due to spring break, the holiday, all that good stuff.  Nice to catch up on some things.  I don't miss the keeping up with the joneses moments I'd have to hear.  Oh boo hoo, I don't know if I have the right shoes for London.  Sigh.  I can relate. I thought I'm such a grouchy bitch when I think about those things.  You are an unhappy person I told myself.   Do I want to do the things that people do?  Not really. I don't know what it is. I think of Cassie telling someone that I'm an unhappy person after she got promoted.  That stung because I thought is she right?  Maybe.  I don't know.  I'm not a saint. I look at her life.  She traveled around the country to follow the Grateful Dead when she was in her 20s.  When she got married, she stayed home with her girls until they were in school for awhile and she got her paralegal certificate from MATC.  Then she got a job ...

I should have cancelled my appointment for today. I am doing much better but I have a feeling I'll have a sneak attack come up on me and I'll probably piss a student off.   My mom got the air purifier out last night and that seemed to help.  That and maybe drinking a little extra cough medicine. I had forgotten about it and started taking it last night and this morning.  It seems a lot looser and not as annoying.  I know how the pop up attacks can occur when you don't want it to and it sucks. I talked to someone yesterday and I was fine.  Then I talked to someone about an IT issue and I started with the hacking.  I am so hoping for cooler air at the school and lots of water to drink to help me out here. I'm on the mend, people.  I'm trying. Next time?  Just straight to urgent care.  I'm not the type to say Oh, I can tough it out.  No, I want the antibiotics damn it. I believe in medicine.  Yeah, I'm sick of the I'll do my resea...

Yeah, no such thing as a 24 hour sinus infection.  More like 24 days that feels like 24 months.  I saw someone yesterday to get on antibiotics.  I had them before.  Always seemed like they ran out too fast but if they can help ease me along for the next week, I'll take it. It was really quiet when I went into the clinic yesterday.  Guessing a lot of doctors are out on spring break so I wound up seeing a physician's assistant which is fine with me.  I don't stray from my doctors but if I need something like that, I got to go with whoever will take me. I probably should have went to the urgent care we have in the area on Saturday but I thought this might be a weird fluke and I'm on the mend.  Every time I kept thinking I was ok I'd have a coughing fit.  I definitely don't recommend this diet.  At least I'm not gaining weight.  Been living on fruit bars, pretty much. I usually regret it when I try something like a slice of cheese. I probabl...

 I've had my share of women interfering in my love life.  Don't get me wrong.  They did me a favor but it's also disappointing when other women have been involved.  I could do a series on each one, but today's episode of Other Women belongs to Alison, Harold's ex and "friend".  I am doing an eye roll as I say this as well.  Yeah, he was probably doing the dirty deed with her. My first inkling of her appearance came on my first visit.  I spent most of the night sitting up and talking to Harold and having this magical bonding appearance.  We slept for 2 hours.  I heard him get up and I could hear him in the bathroom talking to someone. I wasn't suspicious but I wondered.  I got up and didn't eavesdrop.  He told me it was his sister.  She was worried about his parents. I brushed it off.  I did raise an eyebrow when I saw him step away when we had breakfast that morning.  He had to go to work and he said it was his job ca...

 It seems to be lasting longer but it's not as painful as it was last night.  I was kind of worried. I couldn't sleep and I thought I'm going to have to go to urgent care in the morning. I seem to be ok this morning or this afternoon. I did doze off a little bit watching my Bravo shows, much to my dismay. I never want to doze during the reunion shows damn it.   I actually wonder if this is an almond allergy. Sounds crazy but I wonder.  My mom had brought home from raw almonds from one of the food pantries and I kept grabbing a few here and there.  Then I started with the coughing.  I thought maybe I swallowed some salt or something but I didn't have salt!  I googled raw almonds and I thought oh shit. I didn't realize you could have an allergy.  It was related to tree pollen?  I'm not diagnosing myself off of Google but I kind of panicked when I saw that.   I kept sipping water and staying hydrated.  Then my voice started c...