A New Entry, Just For Tammy
Well, since Tammy thinks it's been a long time since I did an entry, I will give a brief update.
After a second full week of taking Robitussin, I decided to give it a rest, with the hopes that I would get better. It was obvious things weren't improving after another week (bringing the life of my chest cold/cough to 4 weeks), so I went to the doctor again yesterday morning. She thought I was well beyond the average 10-14 day duration of a typical cold/flu virus, so she actually prescribed some antibiotics, some Robitussin with codeine, and an inhaler. Now hopefully I can kick this nasty ailment.
Other than that, we had a nice time at Thanksgiving (my mom hosted this year). We had a wonderful meal and a nice time visiting. My cousin Nick came this year, as did Kris' sister Tiffany... it was nice to have a different mix of people for a change. We played with the kids quite a bit, and then ended up playing a few games... Apples to Apples seemed to be the favorite.
The day after Thanksgiving, I put up the Christmas tree (and spent close to an hour tracking down a burnt out bulb). Then I headed to Canby to get dog food and a new bookcase for Noah's room. Noah 'helped' me put the bookcase together, and then we loaded it with his books. I'm sure I could have put it together a lot faster without his 'help', but he wanted to help so badly that I just had to let him.
Noah's New Bookcase (Dark Walnut Finish)
Saturday morning, Roger and I installed a new home theater system for some friends from church. It turned out very nice. When I got home from that, I had just enough time to put up the outdoor Christmas lights, and then run to the hardware store (with Noah) to get some replacement bulbs. I've never figured out how I can put the Christmas lights away with all of them working, and then pull them out 11 months later with 5-10 burnt out bulbs.
Saturday night I went and played some cards at my friend Sabino's house. I think I stayed up a little too late though, because I felt miserable by the time Sunday morning rolled around.
So there you go Tammy, an update of my not-so-exciting, lung-hacking life. I just hope these antibiotics work so I won't be barking like a seal when we have the Roth gathering at your house here in a couple weeks.
Now if you'll excuse me, I need to go take some more nausea inducing drugs...
Comments
Thank you adn what a lovely update. Now wheres a pic of that tree. and Jeff you dont spend an hour looking for a burnt out bulb, honey. A whole new string can be bought for a buck ninety nine!
Nice bookshelf. I see Noah has a tree! Kids like that. Hope your new meds work!
Posted by: tammy | November 29, 2005 7:02 AM
When you have a 'fake' prelit (read: lights intertwined with the tree) Christmas tree, you spend an hour looking for a burnt out bulb. The thought of just throwing a new string on the burnt out section did cross my mind, but for the money we spent on this blasted tree, I wasn't about to give up that easily.
Posted by: Jeff | November 29, 2005 7:18 AM
Yeh I hear ya! I have a six foot prelit one upstairs. Luckily theres been no problem with it yet! Wallys had his tree for two years now and it has now gone kuput. It's prelit but it's so small I think nothing of throwing another string on there. I like my lights to blink on and off but thats a tremendous pain in the buhunkus! Every time you turn the lights on in the morning you never know which string will decide not to blink. Theres no point in putting a new bulb in because by afternoon it just might be blinking and surely by the next time the tree gets turned off and back on it will be a different string and those others will be working just fine! It's enough to make a saint swear!
Posted by: tammy | November 29, 2005 12:08 PM
I'm very glad you are on antibiotics, Jeff. It's too bad they make you feel ill but I am hoping that they will get you on the road to full recovery.
How cute of Noah to want to help you and good of you to let him. :-)
Posted by: Mom | November 29, 2005 5:56 PM
Tomorrow is my last course of antibiotic. I had expected to feel better by this point in the medication cycle.
So, I have another theory... I had assumed that my acid reflux was only giving me heartburn and that horrible chest pain that sent me to the ER. But, after further investigation, it can also cause irritated bronchial tubes and esophegus, as well as a sore throat, a hoarse voice, and a raspy cough.
I just took some tums tonight, and at the moment, my cough seems to be under control. The ER doctor prescribed an actual acid reflux medication, but I just never picked it up because my heart-attack-like symptoms had subsided.
If my cough has not subsided by tomorrow afternoon, I will make a run to Kaiser's pharmacy to get my prescription... that is if the sky doesn't fall between now and then, of course.
Posted by: Jeff | November 30, 2005 8:54 PM