It Is Early!!

 It’s 4am…. I am sitting here with my good friend Insomnia, yay!

I have some health news. To make a really long story short, the bacterial infections that I kept getting kidney infections from had formed pockets in my spleen, which according to my spidey senses, is way better than cancer. BUT! There’s always a BUT!

I have to take a weekly injection from a couple of weeks ago until… “ We’re not exactly sure” AND, I was put on a black box antibiotic. What is that? You might ask? Well, literally poison. I’ve been on one before and I tore a tendon on the left side of my jaw, that was… Two(?) years ago. I was given a different one…. Last week I tore a tendon in the right side of my jaw. Can I take a moment to explain what that feels like?

Let’s say that you’re just eating a taco when suddenly you HEAR a ripping noise and you feel like someone has put a white hot nail into your jaw bone/lower cheekbone, and hammered it in with Jack hammer or, maybe, getting shot in the face…. One of those and then you have to dislodge the taco without moving any part of your mouth and really try not to scream, which I failed at. Of course, being my second time to this particular rodeo, I knew right away what had happened and I was not excited. 

My doctor told me to “ Be glad” that it wasn’t my achilles tendon because that’s a “ Real nightmare.” So, I was just having a sorta bad dream, I guess. Like this dude was basically, “ Whoa! You’re so lucky! Imagine if your foot was dangling off! Nightmare!” 

For the record, I’d chose none of the above if given the chance. One less antibiotic I can take, phew, for a minute there I thought I hadn’t crossed off enough of them.

As a side note, I can talk better and I had a video that was ready to go and a podcast episode so, I didn’t have to worry about that but to make myself feel better I bought another….. COAT. I know! It’s stupid! But I have an empty hole in my heart that needs to be filled with something and this month it’s been coats. This one is a very very light beige , cropped, suede with wool pockets on the chest, wool collar and wool along some of the seams and it’s brilliant. I gasped when I saw her. Why am I even in a Western Wear Store? 

Ok, I’m gonna take a bottle of Benadryl and see if I can’t get some sleep.

Good morning!

Me