Dear So and So

[Catrin]

Everything crossed for you!

[Catrin]

Very big smile from reading this, so glad for you!

[azfiddle]

Great story, happy beginnings!

[Catrin]

So sorry Crankin, hope you feel better soon!

[Crankin]

I decided to just hole up in bed. No urgent care. I just don't know if I really need an antibiotic. I took all my otc meds and a Tylenol, which I try to avoid, d/t liver side effects, but I can't take ibuprophin at all. My friend made a delicious breakfast of pecan encrusted French toast, which I dragged myself out of bed to eat. The horrible, really horrible body aches started disappearing a couple of hours ago, now I am sneezing (which is good). DH went to take our friends over to Von Trapp nordic center and then he will get me a few treats (bagels, plain yogurt). We mapped out a few local trails to hike tomorrow, Sunday, and Monday... high is going to be 2 degrees, so these are not 6 hour hikes. My goal is to stay in bed all day, and be able to go out to dinner tonight, and hike/snowshoe tomorrow. No wine for me . Just finished reading a really great book about a couple hiking the PCT and I have another one to start.
It's hard for me to stay in bed, but I am forcing it.

[Pax]

That's good, rest and fluids will help the most. Maybe a steamy hot bath or shower later.

[VeganBikeChick]

I'm so sorry, crankin. If it is sinusitis, you likely wouldn't get antibiotics until the symptoms have been around more than 10 days. I second Pax. Lots and lots and lots of fluids and rest. Tylenol if you can't take ibuprofen. The steam will help open things up. Feel better soon.

[Crankin]

Yes, I am an expert in this.I've had an insatiable thirst, so I have been drinking tons of water. Will take the steamy shower in awhile. Mostly just stuffed up/full head and tired now.
My earlobes hurt from wearing my glasses so many days in a row!

[Catrin]

Oh my, that seriously sucks

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[Blueberry]

UGH. I'm so sorry.

I presume the police can't/won't do anything? That would definitely get to me. We actually have a security system as of the last year. We didn't want one, but we kind of thought our number might be up and decided to err on the side of caution. I don't like paying to protect my $hit, but I really do appreciate that the thing would wake me up if someone came in overnight (or when I'm sleeping weird hours thanks to the med student schedule).

[emily_in_nc]

So sorry, Oak. I don't know the circumstances, but that just doesn't sound right. If people know who did it, can't they be reported and questioned at least?

[OakLeaf]

It's not like we "know" know. It's like, these people are a known problem, they've broken into other surrounding houses and gotten caught doing that, there are only a handful of people who even know our house is back here. We're half a mile from the road on a shared lane - we try to intercept any parcel deliveries and have them held at the depot, but when that doesn't happen, half the time the delivery drivers leave the parcel at one of the other houses on our lane because *they* don't even know our house is here. So there's a pretty limited pool of people who might have done it, and most of those I know well enough to be sure they didn't, but no evidence against anyone.


Security system wouldn't help anything for the same reason, but I'm thinking about a webcam that would at least capture images and let us know if someone's inside.

[Crankin]

Our web cam helped us a lot during the sale of our house. But, the reason we got it was because we had a weird scam-like thing happen in 2008. We were in San Diego for Thanksgiving, when DH got an angry phone call from a woman berating him for stealing her credit card and using it to order things to be delivered to our house. It was surreal, when it happened; we were in Barnes and Nobles, purusing books with both of our sons. But, DH and the woman figured out that somehow her data and DH's had been compromised, and we were worried that a bunch of packages were going to be dropped off on our front door, which, as you know, isn't really visible to anyone. We called the Concord Police, and they either intercepted the scammers before anything got delivered, or the people got scared. But, it freaked us out, and as I said, I am not the paranoid type at all. It was also helpful when we were away and the weather, was bad, we could monitor the need for snow removal or if a package was delivered when we were not there.

[Catrin]

So glad you found out what had happened! I am sensitive in the same way and know my fellow female coworkers do things regularly without inviting me. It used to really bother me but I decided to not allow it to do so. My interests outside work are quite different from theirs which is probably the reason. Occasionally they do something different and make a point to invite me so I don't think its really personal, at least not in that way. Used to really bother me though so I do understand.

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[emily_in_nc]

I too am really sensitive about these sorts of things and tend to feel left out if I am not invited to do something, even if I end up declining because I don't want to do it, and that happened with some frequency back when I was working since I am introverted and pick my social occasions very carefully.

I am glad it was no big deal after all, VBC, but I too would have felt bad at the time.