End O May 2008

Saturday, May. 31, 2008 - 1:39 a.m.

It's hard to believe that this is the final day of May.

Despite the fact that I'm still on this side of the dirt, to paraphrase Her Royal Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, this is nevertheless a month on which I shall not be able to look back upon with undiluted pleasure.

Here are some of the highlights of the last three weeks:

- I lost two very well-thought-of friends from my fannish family, Rory Root and Robert Asprin.

- I screwed up the installation of my husband's computer's system software (which fortunately has been unscrewed and put right).

- I had my friend Jeremy survive a nasty fall from his brand stinking new scooter after colliding with a skateboarder who veered in front of him and who was wearing an ipod and didn't hear the scooter motor.

- I set my iTunes program to sync with John's shuffle after I'd erased the bulk of his music from my hard drive, so that when his shuffle was reintroduced to my newly denuded iTunes program and found the songs gone from my computer, it then erased those songs from its own shuffley self! Whee!

- Some chowerhead at a Verizon kiosk switched John's phone off and accidentally give his phone number to another fellow named Jon for part of a day, but that was eventually dealt with, and OtherJon turned out to be a nice guy. But still, grrr for it happening in the first place.

- Last Sunday, I ingested an amoxicillin capsule in the hopes of getting on top of this low-grade UTI that had been threatening to settle in, and it nearly ended up costing me my life in the form of a severe allergic reaction to that medicine. As of this writing, I've lost about half my sense of taste, and apparently all of my sense of common.

- A couple of other things that aren't on the list, but they have to do with people I love who are experiencing some Interesting Times, whose welfare I care deeply about.

So there things were, in a nutshell.

To top things off, yesterday morning, Aunt Flo got here, but in the greater scheme of things, it was a normal and nice and very pleasant thing to see. I'm very glad my body believes it is not on high alert anymore and can do a normal thing.

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Now, I'm sitting here at the computer and I'm thinking about the fact that I've been given the great grandpappy of all do-overs.

I've done more than a little reading about amoxicillin allergies and anaphylaxis and so forth, and the reading repeatedly points me to only one conclusion:

I shouldn't still be here. I'm supposed to be dead. The dose should have killed me.

But that didn't happen, and I can't for the life of me figure out what the random elements were that conspired to keep me here.

I've decided not to question it, though. I'm just glad to be here.

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I'm skipping the Friday Five this week; I am usually up for them, but this one held my interest a little less than others.

Have a good Saturday. And give a thought to Omaha Dave, cuz it's his birthday today.

I'll be back in June!

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8 of my readers commented on this entry

Sorcerer Mickey - 2008-05-31 05:39:35
Aw,look on the bright side, it could have been worse...much worse. You could have gone to BayCon.
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Brin - 2008-05-31 05:43:19
That, my brother of choice, will never happen. My Chinese Zodiac representation is the snake, so, appropriately, I'm sitting up and turning into a nice pile of white flaky goodness. But wow, the skin beneath is really nice!
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art - 2008-05-31 08:24:46
i for one am very happy that you are still here!! stay away from that stuff!!
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bluesleepy - 2008-05-31 09:55:08
Wow, that's amazing that you really shouldn't be here anymore. Was this an unknown allergy? My daughter has a peanut allergy, and it scares me. I try not to be hyper-vigilant, but anything can happen. The next time she has peanuts, she could end up in your situation -- or in the situation you are SUPPOSED to be in. Blargh. We currently have our dog on amoxicillin for a "raging" UTI. He's already feeling amazingly better after a few days on the meds.
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Shippie - 2008-05-31 15:28:44
Glad to hear you are doing better, and of course happy that you didn't end up being a statistic from that attempt at making yourself feel better! Scary shit, eh? And for the record, I've never heard the term "chowerhead" but it cracked me up. Not sure I really get the meaning of it, but I definitely hope I remember that term and have the occasion to use it soon!
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Brin - 2008-05-31 17:05:43
Heh. Chowerhead ended up being a mis spell of Chowderhead, but I'm going to let it stand.
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requiel - 2008-05-31 23:44:59
I am so glad you are okay and still on this Earth. We love you!!!
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requiel - 2008-05-31 23:52:15
Oh ya, thanks for the note. You were one of my very first favorite buddies. I still love reading you. You are also the first internet friend I ever met IRL. (hug)
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