A rainy morning in Tucson.\u00a0 The mountains are hidden in clouds and all is gray.\u00a0 A good day to nurse a cold.<\/p>\n
Thursday and Friday I felt a chest cold coming on but felt well enough to go for a bicycle ride Saturday.\u00a0 I’m sure the ride had nothing to do with it, but I came home with laryngitis, and now I’m working my way through the medicine cabinet pharmacopeia.\u00a0 Poor Donna’s just coming out from under a cold so we had a lot of non-prescription stuff in the first place; our friend Mary Ann brought over a bunch more.\u00a0 Zicam, Sudafed, Robitussin . . . bring it on!<\/p>\n
I keep hearing they’re (who’re?\u00a0 DEA?\u00a0 ATF?\u00a0 FBI?) going to make all the strong stuff . . . the good stuff they keep behind the pharmacy counter because you can make meth out of it . . . prescription only.\u00a0 Damn that Obama!<\/p>\n
Well, at least we’re close enough to Mexico to make drug runs into Nogales.\u00a0 I go down once a year anyway to freshen our supply of amoxicillin; if they make it so I can’t get Sudafed here without a prescription I can always buy it south of the border.<\/p>\n
Speaking of Mexican drugs, the cat bit me a couple of months ago (I was trying out one of those furminator(?) brushes on her, and she didn’t want anything to do with it).\u00a0 She gave me a deep puncture wound on the ball of my thumb and it immediately became infected.\u00a0 I started taking amoxicillin and it cleared right up.\u00a0 Amoxicillin and 800 mg Ibuprofen tablets . . . great things to have on hand!<\/p>\n
Whatever, life can’t stop for colds.\u00a0 Donna tells me there’s some sort of football game on TV later today, and I’ve been enlisted to deep fry a few dozen chicken wings for all the company she’s invited over.\u00a0 I do love me some wings; I only hope I’ll be able to taste them.\u00a0 And I’d better remember not to kiss our guests . . . or cough on them, or sneeze.<\/p>\n
If you’re back East under two feet of snow, I hope you have plenty of food and drink on hand, and that you won’t have to drive anywhere until the roads are clear.\u00a0 Hunker down and wait it out, which is pretty much what I’m doing today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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