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[the_rck]

We're all still alive. I have my antibiotics and popsicles, and Scott has plenty of Gatorade. (Thanks much anderyn!)

Thanks for all the good wishes.

Scott's managing to sit up in bed and watch DVDs on his laptop. He's not very steady on his feet, though, and he's not ready to eat anything. I was worried about him earlier because he was in a lot of pain. We called UHS and talked to the nurse who saw him yesterday. She suggested Tylenol, and that has reduced the pain.

I'm very, very, very tired. Part of that is being sick, and part of that is needing to take care of everything I do every day and everything Scott does, too. I'm ambulatory, after all. The thing that took the biggest toll today was shoveling the walk. It had to be done. The city requires it. Scott couldn't do it at all, and I'm not supposed to do it. I shoveled rather than attempting to use the snow blower because I have a lot of trouble with things that vibrate-- they hurt-- and because I'd have had to figure out how it worked with no instruction manual. A shovel's hard on me physically, but it won't make me wish my joints were better cushioned, and it's pretty easy to understand how one works.

I'm very seriously considering asking either my sister-in-law or my mother-in-law to take Cordelia tomorrow night. I'd go for tonight, but her class' holiday party is tomorrow. Bad enough that nobody attended her concert. I don't want to take the party away from her, too. I talked to the teacher about the possibility of Cordelia missing Friday, and the teacher didn't think it would be a problem. Thursday night isn't as helpful for us as tonight or last night would be, but it's at least possible. Plus, my niece and nephew have their last day of school before break tomorrow.

I also told Cordelia's teacher that I have strep. I wanted her to watch Cordelia for any symptoms of it and to pay attention if Cordelia says she's got a sore throat. I don't want Cordelia to catch this, but there's not a lot I can do beyond what I'm already doing. I could stop cuddling her, but I think that might be worse for her than having strep at Christmas time. She's already freaked out by the fact that both her parents are sick and by the fact that we're over-reacting to her normal level of disobedience. (Last night's struggle over tooth brushing...blew up spectacularly. I couldn't handle it, and rather than helping, she fought harder.)

ETA: Apart from the five cards I mailed Friday, all my holiday cards are on hold until I reach the point with the antibiotics when I shouldn't be contagious any more. I figure nobody wants an envelope that I've sealed by licking at this point in time. That may well mean that cards arrive closer to the New Year than to Christmas. (I tend to aim for Christmas as that's the holiday I celebrate.)

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[filkertom.livejournal.com]

Aiee. Very, very, very gentle hugs to you all.

[the_rck]

::hugs back:: Thanks.

I'm actually not doing too badly apart from the sore throat and the exhaustion. At least as long as I don't have to think.... I suspect that Cordelia and I will order pizza tonight. I'm not up to doing anything more complicated (and that's plenty complicated, actually).

[anderyn.livejournal.com]

You do know that you can order from Dominos on the web, and it's less nasty than actually talking to them, because you can pick your coupons and all. Plus, it's prepaid if you want to do it that way. So no hassles when you get it. Of course, if you don't like Tom Monaghan or Domino's, then this is not good advice. But since ours is so close, I tend to use it as default for delivery.

[the_rck]

We usually order from Marco's because they're so close. Of course, Scott also usually picks the pizza up. We run into trouble with various pizza places because of my needing a pizza with no sauce (the notion tends to boggle most people) and because black pepper is both a problem for me and an ingredient nobody thinks worth mentioning even when it's all over everything.

Does Domino's offer chicken as a topping? How reliable are they about getting details, particularly unusual ones like 'no sauce' and 'don't cut the pizza' right? I haven't had their pizza in years. I'm not keen on Tom Monaghan, but right now, online ordering may be more important.

[anderyn.livejournal.com]

They do offer chicken as a topping. I have had very good luck with special orders though I don't have quite the special orders you do (but if I ask them to leave something off a sandwich, say, they do). But I have been very happy with the online ordering because I don't have to call, be on hold, worry about what kind of coupon they might have, and generally listen to elevator music. Plus, if you care, there's a neat "watch your pizza" bar graph that tells you who is preparing your pizza and when it's done, and when it's in the car. Griffin especially likes to watch it turn red.

[marith.livejournal.com]

Augh, strep is bad enough, but in this particular situation it sounds hellish. :/ I wish you could Fedex food, I'd send you meals from California. (Vegetarian restaurants are usually pretty good about special directions.)

*hugs* Hope you feel better really soon, and that Scott does too.

[weisshund.livejournal.com]

Could any neighbors be kind enough to shovel the sidewalk? Especially since Michigan is going to get clobbered again with 6-10" of snow Friday.

[the_rck]

Fortunately, I think Scott will be well enough to use the snowblower today. He worked yesterday and survived.

This makes me miss the small town I lived in during high school. The village paid people to clean the sidewalks. They had a bunch of those riding snow blowers with brushes. Of course, they also routinely got more than six inches of snow at a time. It was just nice to get up in the morning and know that the sidewalks would be clear.