I'm home today with back pain. And interestingly, a tooth ache that I didn't have until I ate. I think the filling has come out of a wisdom tooth. I only have two of them and this is the top right one. The pain is not bad.... yet, but the reason I only have two wisdom teeth is that one went bad about 40 years ago and they had to pull both teeth on the left. It was a bad experience and I refused to allow them to pull the other two. Since the other two have never given me any trouble I don't think it was a bad choice.
I called the dentist last night and left a message and they called me back this morning. I have an appointment to see my dentist at 1:30 today. I have a trip in October and since I don't want to be out of town if something goes wrong with it, I'm not ignoring this mild pain.
On top of the back and tooth issue, I appear to have a chest cold. I was coughing a bit for a couple of weeks now and I'd begun to feel like I had something sitting in my chest. It was just a mild cough now and then. As of last Friday I began to cough a lot more and harder and that something seemed to get harder. I started a generic of Mucinex. As of today, I'm still coughing but now whatever was in my chest is breaking up. I hate it when that starts because the coughing then become much stronger and last longer. The lungs want the stuff that is now loose out.
I've been doing more cooking. Dave's job ran out and he's basically broke at the moment. Please pray for him to find some kind of work, at least for a few months. He's moving to Arkansas to get married but he needs to be able to pay his child support and provide for himself while he is here.
I don't want him to go. I can't even think how this is going to affect Sarah. I remember how it affected me as a child. In addition, I rely on him and Mike a lot and it will be much more difficult in a lot of ways. They do a lot of manual labor around here that I simply can't do anymore. Dave is my mover and builder. I can't afford to hire someone to do the things he does for me. More than that, I just don't want to have someone else leave. I know, grow up. Act my age. Kids leave. Yada, yada, yada. But generally, families live where there are other family members close by. I'm stuck 12 hours from any family other than my sons, sister and granddaughter. If they all up and decided to leave I'd be stuck here alone with virtually no friends that could help if I needed it. I suppose I could sell my house and try to go somewhere else but finding a job at my age is going to be virtually impossible. Thanks to your president, health care is even harder to get through employment now.
Ok, that's my whine today. Mustn't to drink too much of that. I have to drive. Pass the cheese.
Living in semi isolation seems to be the way life pans out these days. It's a bit sad really. 100 years ago men in this town were all fishermen and women worked in the mills. It was a hard life but it kept families and communities together. Guess life is easier now but people move away all the timd for work and there is no such thing as extended family anymore. I think its a very sad way to live. Hope things work out for you.
ReplyDeleteFollowing family history, there are migration trails showing where family members followed each other as they moved in the past. We've found that continues today as people seek to be close. Or, maybe it's just our close families that seem to congregate. It is a blessing to have so many of our family members with an hour's drive. Frankly, we could not have made it through these past two years without family, and church family, assistance, physically or emotionally.
ReplyDeleteOh boy. Sarah. And you. *sigh*
ReplyDeleteKnow what? Kat and I really do need to come down there for a visit.