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I am a retired English teacher and department head, the mother of three grand mother of four, and have been married to the same man for 53 years, two years after we met at college. I taught in both middle and high schools as I really love teens and in-betweens. I was also a certified Lamaze instructor, and for a short time a volunteer chaplain at Howard County General Hospital. I am a two-time cancer survivor, ovarian (2003), and breast (2019) I was born in South Philadelphia and grew up in the 'burbs with great parents, in a bilingual household. I love soft pretzels and cheesesteaks, the Phillies, the Eagles, the Orioles, and sometimes the Ravens. I love being Mom, Aunt Kathy, Nona Kathy (Kath), and Teacher. I spend a lot of time in my gardens in the spring and summer, and in the winter I plan what I'm going to plant. I also am an avid reader, cook, photographer, lover of languages, music, and four-footed furries.

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Showing posts with label Tamiflu. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tamiflu. Show all posts

Monday, January 9, 2012

On the Mend and Pigskin!

I snapped the header photo when I was down on Eastern Shore, just on the other side of the Bay Bridge on Piney Narrows.  Was so surprised that I could actually see the nest and the fledgling osprey.


I'm feeling a little better each day.  I had read someplace that they weren't sure that the vaccines developed for this year's influenza were appropriate, so I had to just go ahead and try out their theory.  Would you know they were right?  Tamiflu helped a lot though negating the high fever, chills, and body aches within 24 hours.  Now I'm dealing with the cough.  I have a great prescription cough syrup that works beautifully, but pretty much renders me stupid.


And no there's been no knee surgery.  It had to be postponed several times.  And, yes, it's been re-scheduled, but I'm not telling anyone until it's over.  Too many false starts.


I so loved watching Denver beat Pittsburgh yesterday.  I'm not a Tebow fan, but I will cheer on anyone who can take down Roethlisberger and his two different colored shoes.  The injured foot had on a size 15 and the healthy foot, a size 14.  But why have on two different colors?  To call attention to his injury?  So the other team knows which ankle to kick?   So he can remember his left from his right?  A veritable mystery.    I'm not sure how Denver will do against New England on Saturday (actually, I'm pretty sure how they'll do and it isn't pretty) and how our Ravens will do against Texas on Sunday, but I'll be watching.

Tuesday, January 3, 2012

And We're Off!!!

We enjoyed a lovely Christmas -- especially Christmas Eve when we gathered at son and DILs home for lasagna, presents, chaos, and Italian cookies. Christmas Day was quieter; we stopped in to see Ariana and give her some presents Santa had left for her at our house.  I spent most of that time wiping her schnooky nose and playing with her new fairy house.


On Monday, I went to the gym had a fantastic workout in spite of my misbehaving  knee, came home, made chicken piccata, cleaned up, and sneezed about 20 times....Hmmm, never done that before.  Then I started to cough -- just a little at first.  By 12:00 AM I had a fever of 102.5°, was shaking with chills and suffering from body aches.  It seems that little, schnooky-nosed elf had brought me the flu.


A week and a half and two postponed surgery dates later.  I'm still here with the remnants of a cough and a sinus infection.  Let's just say I'm able to get a lot of reading done.  Did I mention on New Year's Eve I was in bed by 7:30?  I waited as long as I could.


The surgery has been re-scheduled for Thursday.  Whether I make it or not is anyone's guess.