CynthiaWVirginia
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From: West Virginia, USA
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I had a birthday last month and it sucked big time; I was all alone, without even a phone. Not what I had planned for that night, but bo's sister had wanted to go to the hospital and bo went with her.
I've had one germ or another since April 26th and I am so tired of either having fever and chills, or going through boxes of Kleenex that I could SCREAM. I warned one of our new munch groups about my being a germ factory but was told to come anyway. If anyone catches this, in spite of the germ mask I was wearing and the copious use of hand sanitizer, they agreed to talk junk about me for the next month. 
Mom has been jealous of the time I spend with my boyfriend/slave, and has been trying her ever loving best to make trouble. She is skipping the lectures on his needing to wear the pants in the family, or of not letting my bossiness chase him away. Yesterday she phoned him and had a long talk with him, guilt tripping him about my never talking with her now that he is in my life, that he is stealing all of my attention. (The woman turned off her phone for two months so she wouldn't hear it ringing when I phoned, and conveniently "forgot" to return my phone calls...so I decided to let her stew.)
I visited her yesterday with my germ mask on, and looked at her friend's curtains. Mom has been all grrr these past two months because I didn't drop everything and go look at her friend's curtains on the exact day she wanted me to look. (My right knee has been hellacious and I needed to give it a break...I've been using my boyfriend as my walker.) Anyway, while I was sleeping today, the woman was verrrry busy. Phoning my sister in Texas and then talking with my boyfriend. See...(wait for this)...he is going to kill me. Seriously, lol. See, I have taken over the driving because I feel it is safer that I do the three hour drives than for him to do them. Because of his brain injury, he tends to nod off and ends up rubbing the guard rail. When this happened twice, I took away his driving privilidges except for short trips when he is not tired or overstimulated. Due to past cancer surgeries that removed all the lymph nodes at the top of my right leg, it swells up. This same woman who has noticed the swelling, yet has twisted my arm into driving her (16 hour days of driving) from WV to Florida, or to Texas, or eight hours to Dayton, Ohio without batting an eyelash, is all of a sudden certain that three hour drives to Chapmanville will be the death of me. My swelled up leg will give me blood clots.
However, if I am driving her royal arse all over Bluefield and Princeton so that she can go to mebbe five stores in one day...ah, there's nothing wrong with my sitting without my leg raised for six or eight hours. My leg also swells if I am visiting her apartment and am sitting in one of her chairs for hours, but...I need to stop driving to Chapmanville and need to spend more time sitting in mom's apartment and driving her all about town. (Way back when, when I was having chemos, mom also twisted my arm to drive her from Welch to Bluefield, an hour each way, to go to Walmart and to the mall. When I told her I was terribly tired from the chemos and didn't feel up to it, she told me, "What's to be tired about? You'll be sitting the whole time. First with driving, and then in Walmart you'll sit in a go cart.") This is the SAME woman, Ms. Drive-Me-To-Timbukfuk and Ms. Deeply-Concerned-For-My-Health-And-Wellbeing. Maybe this also has something to do with the fact that my sister is getting married again soon, I don't know, but she managed to get my sister to agree with her.
Before I have a talk with either of them about upsetting my boyfriend, I'll need to find someplace online that explains about a swollen leg due to lymph node removal and the increased likelihood of blood clots. I already spent two years of my life watching that leg like a hawk, keeping it up all day long and babying it, and all I got for my troubles... was...fatter. And less physically fit. This past year I have been standing up and sitting in normal chairs just like everybody else, and yes, as a natural consequence, my right leg has been very large. I am sick and tired of having my entire life go on hold because of this leg.
I must confess that my right ankle is more uber fugly because several years ago I shattered it but good, and needed to have steel plates and screws put into my lower leg. I try not to think about it much or I'd have to start crying over all the lovely boots and strappy sandals I had to get rid of.
I'm still sipping my "morning" tea and have been trying to handle bo's guilty feelings and explain to him how my mother can be. Between his mom referring to me as the slut he met from the internet, lol, and my mother's "You're stealing my daughter away from me and you will get her killed with all that driving"...well, life is never boring.
Maybe I need to have another talk with mom about why I had all those blood clots in my lungs last October. Cuz I was on "The Pill". After the clots, they snatched that pill away from me and won't let me have anything with estrogen now. Funny, but an article I read on the internet said it wasn't the estrogen that gave the blood clots, but the synthetic form of progesterone.
Family matters aside... I bought way too much fabric in the past two months, but there was a faux black leather that I went crazy over and something inside of me said MINE! MINE! MINE!!! In four Walmarts. So, yup, I bought it out in every store, especially a week ago when it was marked down from $9 per yard down to $5 per yard. If I didn't have this annoying germ that makes it so hard to breathe I'd be an a mad sewing frenzy. I even bought caps over at Kmart yesterday, and of the black ones, one or two will be covered in this faux leather fabric. Some of the others are doomed to have Pokemon on them...
The wall in my driveway has to be replaced and that is going to set me behind in the next few months. I had plans to use my money for more floor to ceiling book cases so I can get rid of these crates full of books and DVDs and have more empty floorspace. I am bad this month, cuz I bought wood (Lowes went up $5 per piece of wood in one week's time, grrr) for two book cases and I think my money is gone for buying cinderblocks. Maybe I'll behave next month and buy at least 1/4 of what I need. The blocks I'll need are estimated at $400, so it's going to take me several months.
Whenever the computer room is emptied of crates and wood for shelving, one of my exercize machines is coming out of the box and will be put together. Yay!
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