The past week has been exceptionally crazy.
Everyone is sick!
My husband has this phlemmy nasty chest bug, and one of my dogs, Bridgette, has demodex (a skin problem) flare-up which leave patches of baldness all over her.
Here's the thing:
With "bugs", like my husband has, there is nothing you can really do but ride it out. Sure, he's got an arsenal of cough syrup, mentholated rubs, and pain relievers to ease him through it; but, in the meantime, he is coughing his brains out all over the house.
I am a confessed germ-ophobe; and, as he coughs, I can see (and I mean SEE) the microbes of putressence billowing all about the air in the house.
I am also acutely aware that neither my daughter nor I can afford to get this same bug. She has already missed a bunch of school due to the snow days, and I am too busy, and (even scarier) can't take any of those medications in my husband's arsenal.
Yikes!
Now, my dog is miserable.
She looks like Weazer's dog on Steel Magnolias.
Her problem is normally no big deal, easily remedied with pills for a couple of weeks...UNLESS she is a colley.
Typical...she is part colley.
So now, she must undergo a series of dip treatments. The problem, (besides the obvious one of it being a general pain in the butt to dip a dog): The chemicals in the dip are poisonous to pregnant women. So now, we are taking her to a vet once a week to have them dip her (to the tune of $45/week for the labor and all the medications were $100).
DOUBLE YIKES!
Financially speaking, ....well, you are all students,...you know where I'm going....
YYYYYYIIIIIIIKKKKKKEEEESSSSS!!!!!!!!!
Healthfully speaking--So far I am feeling fine, save for those moments I wake up in the middle of the night and my cough is just a little too hearty. Then I have a minor bout of paranoia. But, I am always fine in the morning.
Wish me luck and sanity. If you need me, I'll be the awkward pregnant woman sporting a hermetically sealed bubble suit.
4 comments:
LOL. I feel like the rest of the world is sick around me too. Take plenty of vitamin C and carry Lysol everywhere you go.
Mandee,
This blog is especially excellent. And, in fact, you may now be my favorite writer of all time for your ingenous use of the word putressence.
Just think, one day we'll all be drinking lemonade while lounging by our pools. One day.
I know what you mean - I am a self-proclaimed germophobe [sp?] as well. In fact, I make MY OWN hand sanitizer out of Everclear. It doubles as a fruit/veg wash. I never get sick, I swear. While everybody around me is sick I go around spraying door knobs and telephones and insisting that the infirm spray their hands as well. Just call me Monk.
Maria!
Don't be stingy.
What's your recipe?
I love making my own cleansers. I have an all-purpose cleanser that is eco friendly that I use for dang near everything.
It is:
2 quarts water
2 drops liquid dish soap
1 cup white distilled vinegar
then add the essential oil fragrance of your choice
(I like 6 drops eucalyptus, 5 drops spearmint, and 3 drops lemon)
This cleanser will disinfect most things. It isn't a very good de-greaser though.
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