Saturday, I awoke with the slim hope that I am getting better. I had slept a solid 3.5 hours without waking every hour. I wasn't freezing. I got up around 10:30 and took my regular medicines. My temperature was only 99!
Since I was feeling kind-of okay, not extremely nauseous, I decided to wash the dishes that have been sitting beside the sink. I was kind of weak walking around to the sink. I did not like the cold shower that sprayed out of the dang spigot that Farmer H won't treat with vinegar to make it stop doing that. But sooon enough, I had hot water in which to plunge my hands.
I washed the container from the delicious noodle/chicken/mushroom/pea dish that went to waste because we got sick right after I made it. And a pan from The Pony's supper, and a pan from my oatmeal, which wasn't really dirty, but looked like it hadn't been clean to start with.
WHOA! Too much! So exhausted. I hobbled back to the table and HIPPIE. Rested a minute. Read some internets. I was again feeling kind-of okay. So I decided to write out the bills for Pony House expenses. About halfway through, I started to regret it. But I had to finish.
Then Farmer H came home with my DQ grilled chicken sandwich. I mustered the strength to take it to the living room and eat it. Took about a half hour. He was watching that dang Barrett/Jackson Auto Auction. I KNEW he would fall asleep in his recliner. Yet he wouldn't give me the remote. Kept it where I couldn't reach it. So I got stuck watching an hour of that dang show. Then he denied sleeping.
I took a shower, but got SO EXHAUSTED that I couldn't stay in that delicious hot water very long. Then Farmer H went to the auction, and I waited on The Pony to get home.
I tried putting on socks standing at the piano bench, like I always do. I almost fell over! Pony had to rush over to help. This dizziness is a pain.
Pony agrees that I am getting better, but that I just overdid it today. I hope he's right.
2 comments:
How does a vinegar treatment stop a spigot from spraying cold water?
Why do you stand to put on socks? sit down and pull them on.
Take it easy while recovering.
River,
There is hard water/calcium buildup where that round part screws onto the spigot. Vinegar dissolves. Farmer H just needs to unscrew it and let it soak. Or stand there and hold a ramekin of vinegar on it until it dissolves. I, myself, am too weak. Then the water will run straight out like normal. It's COLD, because my kitchen sink takes about 5 minutes to get warm water to it.
I've always stood to put on my socks. At the piano bench. Just a habit. If I sit and bend, the blood rushes to my head.
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