This is getting to be ridiculous! Anyone who has been reading my blog for any amount of time knows I am NEVER sick . . but my luck seems to have run out. First, the eye, then the kidney stones, now . . a sinus infection. About the worst thing in the world for me is reading a blog with constant complaining and I feel like I’m there! I’m doing nothing but feeling bad and I don’t do that very well.
Tuesday I woke up with a sore throat . . just scratchy and sometimes it was worse than other times so I was pretty sure it was sinus. Yesterday I was tempted to see if the urologist would give me meds for the sinus infection but figured that was pushing my luck and I didn’t feel terrible yesterday but last night, I just felt awful. During the night I had fever. This morning, it was all I could do to get out of bed, take care of the chickens and the garden and drag myself back to the house.
I was able to see the doctor and I got a steroid shot, antibiotics and cough medicine so I can sleep. Ughh . . I have to get well SOON!
Once I got home from the doctor, I went to bed and finally fell asleep and then I heard the home phone ringing. I figured it wasn’t anyone I felt like talking to so I let it ring. Then I could hear the cell phone ringing and I figured even if it was someone I wanted to talk to, I didn’t feel like talking. Then the home phone rang again so I thought . . what if it’s Chad or Nicole so I got up. “Hello, this is your internet company!”
We have the world’s worst internet. We have “high speed” internet which is very slow and often doesn’t work at all. It’s so bad that we pay for two “high speed” internet services, hoping that at any given time, one will work. In the evenings when we’re both on the internet, every night it’s this conversation:
Vince: Are you on Cisco or Netgear?
Me: Netgear!
Vince: Will you switch to Cisco?
Me: NO! It’s too slow!
Vince: You get to play on the internet all day!
Me: OK . . I’ll switch to Cisco.
Cisco and Netgear are just the names of our routers, and it isn’t the fault of Cisco or Netgear that we have problems. When you hear folk stalk about crappy internet in rural America . . trust me . . it’s bad! We figure it’s just the cost we pay for living in paradise.
I had to know the password for the router so I had to call Vince and he started . . YOU TELL HIM HE’D BETTER NOT MESS WITH THE OTHER ANTENNA and I said . . I don’t feel like messing with either one y’all so if you want to tell him something, YOU come home and you can talk to him.
Vince is now home. . the guy just drove up . . let’s home that by tonight we have at least one fast internet service. And let’s home I feel a whole lot better!
Pam says
Sick and feeling crappy, but dealing with internet problems compounds your situation.
So I am sending hugs and prayers to you that you get better as well as improvement with the internet.
Sherry V. says
Judy,
First, I hope you feel better soon. . . . but it sounds like all that time that you never got sick is catching up on you all at once.
Second, the way you complain is completely understandable. There is a blogger out there that says stuff (’cause she’s talking to friends, right) and the first mention of anyone not agreeing with her, or, heaven forbid, speak about a different point of view, she goes off on how she puts so much work into the things that she does and all that happens is she gets persecuted and she’s a person too, and on and on and on. . . . . and then followers start posting to their blogs about how “put upon” this person was.
Needless to say, your blog gets read all the time. . . . . the other one, maybe once in a blue moon.
If you were still teaching I would gladly drive to Hell and back (if you wanted to teach in a place that hot) — lol — to meet you and take your class. . . . the other blogger, it’s not worth the effort.
So, you just complain if you need to. . . . . we’ve all been there, done that, AND you are probably no where near as bad (or good) at complaining as our husbands are!! ROFLOL
Donna Williams says
You just go on and complain, sister. Doesn’t bother me a bit. I have to tell you that my friend who is 64 used to tell me all the time – You just wait. You turn 60 and things just start happening! Well, I did and they do. Not enough, thank goodness, to keep me from doing what I want/need to do, but yeah. Hope you are feeling better SOON! 🙂
Deb P says
Bummmmmer, and here I was thinking that you had snuck of to MO. Feel better and know that if we were all there, we’d give you a hug and say “there, there.” lol
Tinkerfeet says
I am sorry to hear you are not feeling good. I know in the heat of summer it is even worst. Feel good real soon!
Linda in NE says
You rarely complain about your health, so it’s just your turn. Feel better soon.
Why is it that third world countries can have decent cell & internet services and our rural service here in the U.S. is such crap? I really think it is protectionism by the old land-line companies who are fighting tooth & nail to not be put out of business by the newer technology, but yet don’t want to spend the money to update their equipment to give us truly good service so they lobby for all kinds of rules and regulations to hamper the newer tech. Our gov’t seems to be all about protecting the profits of big companies over the needs of the consumers so they go along with protecting the old tech.
Just yesterday a friend was telling me that she had switched her plan with Frontier to the digital phone to go along with the internet and satellite TV plan she has. They were supposed to start the digital service, leave the internet & TV alone and disconnect the land-line service. Of course they screwed up and shut off the internet and left the land-line. By mid-afternoon yesterday she had talked to them six times and spent seven hours on the phone (with all the on hold time)over several days. She was upset to say the least. She was on FB today so maybe she got her internet back.
Linda says
Sometimes a whole bunch of bad stuff, even health-wise, hits us all at once. Don’t worry about complaining, Judy. We still love you and you have a great sense of humor about it all.
Dar in MO says
Judy, If you didn’t complain at all, we’d think there was something wrong with you. After all, you are human, though in my book ONE OF THE BEST!!! Hope you get to feeling better soon.
Pat (EagleKnits) says
I hope you feel much better very soon!
Dianne says
Gee, Judy, you’ve really had a time of it lately. Hang in there girlfriend. Hope you’re soon good as new.
Dottie N. says
Hope today is a better day for you!