So I took a little break from blogging until I had fully found a way to extricate myself from an overly competitive, creepy, and covertly unhinged coworker - then my husband got Flu A with pneumonia.
Well, it was weird because I took him to the doctor the Monday before with a 104.2 temp, the flu swabs were negative, but the heard crackles in both lung bases and prescribed 2 antibiotics. The temp came down, but suddenly spiked back up to 103.8 the day before Thanksgiving, he coughed almost without ceasing, so the doc said to take him to the ER.
ER doc said she heard crackles in both lung bases, too, but chest x-ray said pneumonia had resolved/was resolving, but he now tested positive for Flu A. Guess he had both, I don't know, but I've never seen my husband that sick since his stroke.
Needless to say, Thanksgiving Day was ... quiet.
I still cooked, though, because damn the flu, I say!
He didn't eat much on actual Thanksgiving Day, though, except the pumpkin pie.
(Hey, I feel like he earned the right to eat whatever he even felt like eating, at that point!)
He did later, though, that entire turkey was gone by Saturday lol.
I'll be honest - it was a little harder to find my gratitude that day, but I'm pretty practiced at it already, so I still found a few things, like ...
Good food, Ziggy, and having each other, as well as all who called, texted, or wrote us to wish us a Happy Thanksgiving/check on Mark.
But a special thinks to and for our friends, Rico and Angelie, who actually surprised us by dropping off a bottle of authentic coquitos that they special-ordered from Puerto Rico for us, after I fell in love with coquitos after spending last Thanksgiving with them, but we were unable to do so this year - love you guys 🩷
I actually teared up at that surprise, it happened at a perfect moment - we had returned from the ER, I had just gotten Mark bundled in bed, medicated up, and settled, and I was in the middle of baking the cornbread for the dressing the next day, so I was pretty stressed, exhausted, and overwhelmed - so what a great surprise!
So I also ended up getting the flu this past weekend, one week after him, but it's milder, despite being a smoker.
The difference?
I got the flu shot, Mark didn't - so get your flu shots, people!
Just like COVID shot, the flu shot doesn't keep you from getting the flu necessarily, but it does keep it from getting too severe - I could tell at onset it wasn't going to be as severe. Also helping was I took Tamiflu the 2nd day, it shortens it/mitigates the severity.
He's going back to work tomorrow, and I'm almost better, so there's that.
But I'm grateful that I'm a week behind him, , so I could still care for him properly and still cook his favorites for Thanksgiving, even if it was just us, this year, and even if he could only handle a small slice of pumpkin pie at first. 🥰
And one more thing to be grateful for - I found out last week that I was accepted into the program I applied for at the University of Cincinnati!
(From UK Wildcat to UC Bearcat😊)
In other news, singer Sabrina Carpenter blasted the White House administration via X today, over using her song "Juno" during ICE arrest raids.
Considering she's 4'11" and still at the beginning of her career, it's like watching David and Goliath - Go Sabrina, work that slingshot!
Then Abigail Jackson, a White House spokesperson responded via statement:
“Here’s a Short n’ Sweet message for Sabrina Carpenter: we won’t apologize for deporting dangerous criminal illegal murderers, rapists, and pedophiles from our country. Anyone who would defend these sick monsters must be stupid, or is it slow?
Hahaha!
1) Your sentence "deporting dangerous criminal illegal murderers, rapists, and pedophiles from our country" even made sense - murderers, rapists, and pedophiles are, by definition, already criminal and illegal, dear. So much for stupid and slow.
2) You managed to even accidentally stumble into capturing and deporting even 1 actual murderer, rapist, or pedophile during your ICE raids, instead of poor families - including children - just trying to survive.
At what point, do you think, will Trumpists finally realize that their 3rd-grade bullying tactics are ineffective at turning some of us to the dark side because we're immune?
I mean, maybe they work on each other, but we don't feel stupid or ashamed or whatever they're trying to bully us into feeling - we just roll our eyes, walk swiftly away, and avoid them like the plague.
Also, I couldn't help but notice that the top rationale of "drug-cartel trafficking" previously used to justify ICE raids (curiously only on people with darker skin from poor countries) is curiously missing from that sentence.
Why?
Oh, wait, I know!
BTW, JOH is is also a Christian Evangelical cult leader, who blames the "radical left" and "deep state" for "setting him up" and crediting God for his release.
Hmm, I'll take things cult leaders say for $1,000 Alex.
(Tack onto calling people corrupt also calling them "pedophiles, rapists, and murderers" as projection/deflection off their own crimes, when methinks in their case, the smellers are actually the fellers.)
Also, isn't Trump et al calling anyone that doesn't agree with him corrupt, a murderer, rapist, or pedophile starting to wear and lose its effect yet?
No?
The sad thing is, the pedophile accusation in particular has become so frequently made that I fear society may become desensitized to it or wave it off like wolf-crying and people stop taking it seriously anymore.
And why would the U.S. government go to all the trouble and expense just to set up a president from a small country and actually bring him here for conviction and imprisonment, as some sort of setup, hmm?
And btw, it doesn't make any sense, because before his conviction in 2022, he cooperated with both the Obama and Trump administrations - both left and right administrations.
Which, of course, is proof positive that Trump doesn't actually care if you're "dangerous criminal illegal murderer, rapist, or pedophile (or cartel drug trafficker)" - just so long as you support him, and especially if you made a lot of money doing it he can use to support himself with.
Erm - that IS the definition of corruption, Ladies and Gentlemen.
Oh my, aren't you glad I'm back, folks? lol
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