COVID continues...

 Skip this, if you prefer. It is a warning. Most of you have been very kind in your comments, and providing some advice. We're not done with COVID in 2024. Our Premier has stopped funding waster water testing. It's not good for politics, nor re-election. Younger people can kick it much more easily. We are in pain, and suffering, we old farts.

A new week begins. Joe Brian was supposed to have a full week: Monday, foot care from the nurse in town, Tuesday appointment with our GP to asses his Lyme Disease progress, Wednesday PSA test to prep for his Lupron injection next week. All have to be cancelled on Monday. 

Friday

I had trouble sleeping. I didn't actually get to sleep until 2:30 a.m. Friday night. I think it is all the drugs. The coughing is awful. My intercostal muscles are very painful. Advil for that. 

During the day JB took Reactine, but it didn't do anything much. As I said, we haven't had colds since 2020. The Reactine expired in Dec. 2023. Dunno.

My buddy doesn't last long on my lap. One cough and he is gone. I don't blame him! The cough drops seem to help soothe my throat but not much.

Saturday

It was a terrible night Saturday night, too. I coughed my guts up until I cried just before 8 p.m. It was a bit cloudy, the phlegm, which is worrisome. I used the turbo puffer again (Symbicort) after I was nearly retching. It was Joe's from his 9-month bout with a horrid cold he contracted on his 70th birthday, November, 2019. He hasn't needed it. Somebody wisely counselled me that we not share those germs on nasal medications. 

I think I drank 3 or 4 L of water during the day. The diarrhea really doesn't help, a side effect of the Paxlovid. I'm wearing a pad for protection. I sure wish our old house bathroom could handle a bidet!

We thought we might both go to the ER Sunday morning after the day we had Saturday. Thing is, I am not sure what else they can give us. JB is taking Otrivin at hight to keep his nasal passages clear at night. It helps, Sorta. 

I sweated through two nightgowns Saturday night, and had to put a towel on the soaked sheets. That'll be a job today. Even the mattress cover. Oops. Not to be. JB has to go back to bed and I still haven't replaced the guest room sheets I washed after the kids were here.

Poor Joe Brian. His nose is like a faucet! And the sneezles... They might shatter the sound barrier. He was using paper towels, but blowing his nose did not help. I gave him a hand towel to use as a mop, we're low on tissues. He put it on his pillow. It's broken sleep, which doesn't help. There is brain fog, too. 

This morning I didn't wake up unable to cough up the phlegm. It is looser. I am hoping I've managed to sweat it out. 

I found some Pharmasave Daytime Cold Relief in the cupboard (expired in Apr., 2022), for daytime for him. We'll see how that works out. He's just taken Advil for the headache, and it has Acetaminophen. Whatthehell, this is a time for drugs. He isn't taking his weekly Calcium booster, to ameliorate his cancer drug (Lupron) side effects. Prostate cancer often, when it metastasizes, leads to bone cancer. That's what my last client died from. In fact several of my clients have had this. 

I've a good haul of books. Thing is my eye floaters are awful. I tried reading on the back deck, but that didn't work out. They seem worse since COVID. What's with that?! 

We're still trying to laugh. We watched some Landscape Artist of the Year, as well as Gut Job (a Canadian show where they gut a whole house due to one thing or another). Being couch potatoes is the only remedy. At least it is summer and I can open all the windows.

The news is fun, too. 😰 It puts things in perspective, as I am dealing with First World Problems. But then you have to turn it off. 

We've some quick dinners. I can place an online order, I guess, for essentials. One of us can drive in. JB thought we might be headed for this, he stocked up Monday on said dinners. Caitlin offered to send us some frozen meals, but we don't have any food delivery here being in rural Ontario. They've landed in British Columbia to visit with her brothers at Jesse's cottage. That will be fun for them to have the 4 grandkids together. 

We've no nearby neighbours, so I need not put a sign on the door!  

Anyway, if you made it to the end, you've done well. I need to record and process this to see how we are faring. Did I mention brain fog?!  Thanks for your moral support. I am pretty discouraged.