This has been a weird day. I woke up at 4:00 after going to sleep after 1:00. I could not fall back asleep. A little before 6:00 I gave up and got up. I finished making the last of the masks. That project is DONE! I made over 1,500 of them. Enough is enough. I gave most of them away but kept the last 220 of them. That should last us until we can stop wearing masks at some time in the future.
I took care of the dogs, cats and chickens. I headed to Emporia at 9:30 for my 10:00 haircut. Getting my haircut always makes me feel better. After my haircut I went to Walmart and got my prescription for the antibiotic and picked up a few groceries and headed home.
I took a long nap this afternoon to make up for the sleep I didn’t get last night. I was emotional and cranky when I went to bed and am feeling much better now.
The ER doctor called me last night around 6:00 to tell me the stool test came back positive for C Diff and Salmonella again. He sent a prescription to Walmart but the pharmacy closes at 6:00 so I couldn’t go get it last night. I was surprised he called as he had told me my doctor would let me know the results Monday. The ER doctor told me if I came back to ER he would arrange to have me admitted to the hospital. But he also admitted there wasn’t much they could do to speed up the recovery process so I declined his kind offer of a stay at the big house. I promised to go in if the diarrhea doesn’t stop and I start to get dehydrated. So far I have been able to keep up with the fluids.
I sent a note to my doctor and asked for a referral to a specialist. They sent back a note that said I could go if I wanted to. I called the Cotton O’Neil Digestive Health Center in Topeka and had to leave a message and haven’t heard back. I will call them again in the morning if I don’t hear back tonight.
I get the notices from one of the local funeral homes in Emporia and saw that one of our ex McDonald’s Employees had died. I sent the obit to Craig. He responded and let me know one of our White Glove supervisors had died from COVID. Damn!
Since my nap I am feeling a bit better. I had to take one of my slow the trots pill this morning. I had gone 6 times before I left to go to town. I didn’t want to have an accident in town. The pill worked and I haven’t had to go this afternoon and was able to take my nap and not get woken up.
While I was gone Lynn came by and picked up the finished Newsletters. It’s good to have that project done and out of here.
A guest who has house sat for me several times called late morning. She wanted to bring a friend and come spend the night sometime the end of the month. I told her I wasn’t open yet and mentioned that I needed a housesitter for 10 days the first part of November. She said she would take care of the house and critters for me that whole time! That was easy! I need to talk to Jim and see if those dates work for him and if they do we can go to Stillwater together and get some good work done on the house together. I love how easy things can be when they are meant to be.
I need to go out and finish mowing the yard but it is too windy. The wind is gusting up to 31 MPH. Not in the mood to fight the wind today. It is to be nice for the next couple of days so I will wait for a day when the wind isn’t in such a hurry.
Still processing in my head that I have C Diff for the 3rd time in a little over a month. This is getting old and I am emotionally, physically and mentally exhausted. Being sick wears a person down in many ways. I feel very vulnerable, weak and angry. I’m grateful this round has not been as severe as the first round but I can also tell my energy has been depleted again. I’m sick and tired of being sick and tired. And this too shall pass! If this round is like the other two cases by tomorrow night I will start feeling better and will slowly start to feel even better each day after that. It makes me tired though and that takes longer to go away. Hopefully I will get to a specialist sometime soon and they will have some ideas of something else that can be done to prevent another occurrence.
Grateful for antibiotics, grateful the ER doctor called me last night, and grateful for a haircut.