I finally got a job, started it, was doing well enough to be offered extra hours and -- after I accepted the etra hours, I got sick. I went to the Emergency Room and got medicines and went back to work for those extra hour days.
Not the best plan, but I had said I would do it, so I did it.
But by the time the time was done, I was dragging, and went to the doctor.
Who put me off work for the next five days.
Who gets sick like that? Babies? Old people?
I am neither, although I often feel very, very old.
Being widowed, losing my caretaker role, being unemployed (maybe unemployable) are all aging factors.
Being free of caretaking, being employed, I hope will be freeing. Will restore some youth, some joy, some energy.
So, I got sick.
Boo!
Seems to be a family thing going on. A curse upon our house, or something bad written in the heavens. A curse upon us!
One sister had bleeding issues back at Thanksgiving and ended up with a hysterectomy in April.
She is doing much better these days -- even has energy to take walks for fun.
Another sister, more recently, fell and hurt her back. It has just come to light that she actually broke a bone in her back. She's still walking and stuff, although it's been painful for her -- but the broken bone isn't even the cause of her pain and discomfort!
She is, ever so slowly getting better.
Bronchitis, even the ever-lasting kind, looks like a walk in the park (for fun) after those experiences.
I'll get better, too.
After all, it's in the stars.
Not the best plan, but I had said I would do it, so I did it.
But by the time the time was done, I was dragging, and went to the doctor.
Who put me off work for the next five days.
Who gets sick like that? Babies? Old people?
I am neither, although I often feel very, very old.
Being widowed, losing my caretaker role, being unemployed (maybe unemployable) are all aging factors.
Being free of caretaking, being employed, I hope will be freeing. Will restore some youth, some joy, some energy.
So, I got sick.
Boo!
Seems to be a family thing going on. A curse upon our house, or something bad written in the heavens. A curse upon us!
One sister had bleeding issues back at Thanksgiving and ended up with a hysterectomy in April.
She is doing much better these days -- even has energy to take walks for fun.
Another sister, more recently, fell and hurt her back. It has just come to light that she actually broke a bone in her back. She's still walking and stuff, although it's been painful for her -- but the broken bone isn't even the cause of her pain and discomfort!
She is, ever so slowly getting better.
Bronchitis, even the ever-lasting kind, looks like a walk in the park (for fun) after those experiences.
I'll get better, too.
After all, it's in the stars.
