What a day. Not sure much of it has gone as planned or expected. Another reminder to not have expectations I guess.
I figured out this morning that part of my not feeling good has more to do with the cholesterol medication than it did with the COVID vaccine. I happened to think to look up the side effects of the new medication I inject myself with. Not so common side effects include sore throat, fluid in the ears, leg cramps, fatigue and insomnia among others. My leg cramps have been getting increasingly worse over the last couple of months – now that I look back they started when I took my first injection. The new injection made them even worse. The sore throat and fluid in the ears started after my new injection and the insomnia worsen then too. It also mentioned the possibility of chemical burn at the site of injection which I have.
I have an appointment with my doctor the first week of May and I will have to have to risk/reward discussion with him to see if this new medication is worth it. I will take the next two as scheduled as they cost so much I don’t have the heart to waste them.
The manager of my internet company called me this morning and woke me up. Not a pleasant start to my day. He didn’t have much new to tell me other than I found out that their router has a card in it so the router is not interchangeable with other brands. He didn’t have an answer to me as to why I wasn’t told the router has a one-year warranty. No compromise or interest expressed on his part to keep me as a customer.
Unfortunately my internet provider choices are very limited. Jim has a class to teach tomorrow and needs internet to be able to do so. So we ended up driving to Council Grove to exchange the router for another one. I had to sign a two-year contract to get it for free. When the new company comes my way I will break the contract and have to pay $240 to get out from under it.
The new router did not fix my printer issue. The printer is still going off-line and you have to reset it every time you want to print something. And even then it only decides to print occasionally. I am beyond frustrated with computer issues. The internet tonight is working very slowly and am not sure why. Jim wants to call the company tomorrow and have them send a tech out but if they don’t find anything they will charge me $150 per hour. Not sure they have any interest in finding something wrong on their end.
Jim and I volunteered to help with the distribution of Commodities. We only had to work for one hour this afternoon and then returned early evening for another hour. They had plenty of volunteers both time so not sure we were too needed. Most of the boxes had been handed out early and were gone before we got their at the designated time this evening.
It is getting cold again and there is an icy mix in the rain we are getting. We are in a Winter Advisory for overnight with wind gusts predicted to be over 30 MPH during the night and up to two inches of snow expected. It will be a good day tomorrow to stay home.
I obviously didn’t make it to the house in town again today to paint. Another day wasted on that front. We have no plans this weekend so hoping I can spend a lot of time in town and get that project going. I need to call the dumpster people and have them come pick up the dumpster. We aren’t adding to it so it might as well go away.
I have a shift on the hot line tonight. I didn’t get a nap and the internet issues have made me grumpy again. I hope I don’t take my frustrations out on a texter.
I spent way too much time today around other people. After not being around people most of the time I find it very draining to be around people now. Thinking I like the isolation of COVID and will not be breaking out much. I can handle one or two people in a home setting but beyond that I have forgotten how to handle that and not sure I want to remember how to do it.
Grateful for the commodities that will go to families in need, grateful for the additional moisture we are getting on the prairie tonight, and grateful most of the time I don’t have to people.