I haven’t baked or knitted in over a week now because we’ve been hit with one type of sickness after another around here. Earlier last week our new kitty Jack was attacked by something (we think a fox or a small coyote – and yes, its news to me that we have coyote here in Georgia) in our yard and had the side of his face torn up and his back leg injured. He was doctored up and is healing quite nicely.

I put a new piece of jewelry in my stretched earlobes and had a horrible reaction to the metal (surgical steel.. but maybe a high nickel content?) leading to a really big infected nightmare. Thankfully I caught it before it was unmanageable and I ordered in a nice new set of jewelry from BodyArtForms.com. My ears are now much happier…

On Friday at noon I got a call from the school to come get Munchkin because he has “pink eye”. A highly contagious illness you say? OF COURSE. We waited 24 hours (b/c the person in the clinic is not medically trained at all and even said it <em>might</em> not be conjunctivitis) and his eye was nasty – so we had to take him into one of those ‘emergency’ clinics and wait for 4 hours to be seen and get antibiotic eye drops. (Did I mention we don’t have insurance and the state run children’s medical insurance has been dicking me around for on the upwards of 6 months??? yeah… you don’t want to know what that visit cost.) HUGE amounts of sleep lost while I cleaned Munchkin’s eyes every few hours so that they didn’t get stuck shut. He is MUCH better today and has a note which allowed him back at school today.

Yesterday when I was woken up by the cats chasing each other around the bed (they were jumping on our heads.. what a great way to get woken up) I realized that I couldn’t see out of my left eye. When I stumbled into the bathroom and looked in the mirror I realized that I had caught Munchkin’s pink eye!! The good news is that the clinic doctor anticipated this issue, had given us enough eye drops, and had told ME how to take them (Love ya doc.. seriously.) should this happen. I’m doing much better but my last pair of contact lenses had to be thrown in the trash because they were contaminated.

I wear 2 week disposables but my prescription is LONG expired and I’ve been wearing this particular pair for an obscene amount of time. The only glasses I have are now about 12 years old (though apparently my prescription hasn’t gotten that much worse because I can see pretty well, just don’t ask me to read you anything on the tv or identify anyone at a distance).. and I’m blind as a bat (and I don’t have that handy sonar feature) without some sort of prescription eyewear. Fortunately my parents (who are AWESOME) are going to help me out for the extra money I need to get myself an eye exam and a box of new contact lenses.. they even said “happy mother’s day” – which means its a gift instead of a loan.. so I don’t feel as crappy about accepting money.

My husband is on a business trip to the West coast for the next 6 days (hence the utter chaos a contagious infection in the house has caused…) and he left early this morning for the airport.. so I’ve been up since about 4am. I’m going to go take a very VERY long shower (all your hot water is belonging to me!!!!) and veg in front of the tv. *sigh* Is it Friday yet??