I, meanwhile, am better except for the part where I still spend my mornings hacking green shit out of my lungs for about 20 minutes before I can go anywhere. It’s getting old.

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But I need to.
I think I might be too old for LAN parties.
*shudder*
*cough*
*hack*
_pain!_
Yup, I’m sick again. There’s a shock. Something about not taking my zinc I suspect…
Third LAN party in a row I’ve gotten sick after. The LAN party ended on Monday. On Tuesday I woke up with weird gurgling crap in my lungs. By Thursday I was starting my days by throwing up the slime I’d swallowed the night before. Friday afternoon was spent having a fever for a good 8 or 9 hours.
And now I’m up, trying to allow my girlfriend, who has to get up for a meeting tomorrow morning, to get some sleep. At first she was being very sweet, understanding, and supportive. By the time I got up, she was trying not to whine everytime I coughed. And really, there’s three other rooms I can easily be as miserable in without disturbing her.
What I should have done was gone over to Mom’s house, and if I hadn’t have been so sick, I’d be there now.
my mother called me this afternoon. It took me a while to get the message… I was home, sleeping, and heard the phone ring, but it had melded into my fever dreams. When I was finally able to comprehend that the beeping MEANT something, I checked my messages to find out that my mother was having severe dizzy spells, to the point of being unable to move or see, at work, and that she needed help to get home.
When I called her back, she was still at work, and had spoken to the Kaiser advice nurse, who was %99 sure it wasn’t a stroke because she didn’t have all the symptoms, and that her co worker had gone to get a dramamine like substance for her.
These are, if you’ll recall, the same people who misdiagnosed, and prevented my father from getting proper treatment.
She wanted me to come follow her while she drove home to make sure she got there.
I got my girlfriend to drive me so I could drive her home.
Ironically, Kaiser appears to have gotten the diagnosis of an inner ear viral infection correct, and once on the Dramamine, my mother was probably far more fit to drive than I was.
She’s not supposed to be staying alone though, as when it hits, she’s totally immobalized by the dizziness. Apparently dehydration is a big issue with this particular infection because all the dizziness makes you prone to puking, and being too nauseous to eat.
And I thought my sick had a good gross factor on it.
No, really. Because the vivid stress dreams have no meaning what so ever.
Admittedly though, this one was a bit over the top.
I don’t remember all of it now, but the general idea was that grandma, while crazy in the dream, was, on some level, aware that she needed full time care. But since all her children were panicking about putting her some place that could provide her with that (IE, a “home”), she decided that she’d have to do something so over the top that they’d have to do something. So she killed someone.
But that doesn’t even begin to cover it. She didn’t just kill someone, she grabbed a guy off the street, dragged him into the shop/house that we were staying in, and literally ripped his throat out with her teeth. We found her giggling, covered in blood. My mother was understandably upset. I think this pissed Grandma off. I think she may have rushed at my mother, but I can’t remember for sure. I do remember the last bit before I woke up though… Monacita and I were supposed to be staying in separate rooms for some reason. It was late, and I was getting ready for bed. Monacita came over and knocked on my door. I let her in and we bolted the door shut. I remember we were hearing sounds from the hall. In the dream I believed that as long as Grandma kept some sense of sanity we were safe… But it was still horrifying. Monacita and I curled up in bed holding each other. It was a surreal moment… I heard sounds in the hall that I was pretty sure was Grandma doing a repeat performance on someone (perhaps my mother), and I was terrified, but as we curled up together, and got more into our little world, the sounds faded, and I felt warm and safe.
From a relationship stand point, that dream is pretty damn awesome.
From a family stand point, Thursday may sort of suck.
The idea of Grandma ripping some guy’s throat out with her teeth was kind of funny though.
Did I mention that the whole dream, while stressful, did have a certain black comedy aspect to it?
It’s 5:45. I have not slept yet. I’ve been watching Daria (about 4 hours worth at this point, maybe more) and trying to figure out a way to re-arrange my room. Between the tansu, the bed and the desk, there is just no other way I can arrange them, and still be able to walk through my room.
My mother’s suggestion was something along the lines of, “we could pull the extra shelving unit out of my room, and take it to the storage unit.” I think this is supposed to help with my room, but I’m not sure how.
My preferred solution would be to move out.
It’s good to dream.
Okay, it’s getting hard to concentrate, so it must be time to go to bed. If this is totally incoherent, you know why.

