Waiting to exhale!

Well that was a film or song or book title and right now I simply do not know which, But I am waiting to do it anyway.

After so much prednisone, 2 weeks of a Z-pak and so much darned Mucinex, I am done. Still coughing and sounding like an idiot every morning. Have washed and sanitized sheets, towels, bedding and still I cough and cough and cough some more. last year I got something similar than began in September and did not finish with medication until Christmas Eve. Now, that was way to long for anyone to be sick.

I have Fibro and fight that daily and have asthma and when I get an allergy attack well it is not pretty and I know to jump on top of something when I get a fever of nearly 103. That is a sign my body is fighting whatever is attacking it but no real answer to the what's and why's of it all. I tried resting and believe me I needed it. I was so exhausted and I feel that it is all due to the months of severe stress I went thru the last part of 2011.

Today, I had to turn down a free cat whom I had come to love. My son simply could not afford her allergy meds any longer with twin boys due very soon. the poor cat had itchy skin from God knows what and has had to have shots and pills and even flea dip and she still could not seemingly get well. She is probably already put to sleep. My son is so upset as he loved her a lot. I told him that in life pets just can't come before people. It is the way of things. I have had to put many pets down through the years and I know his hurt very well. My one dog has a cough and gags a lot. I feel that soon I will have to stop ignoring and pretending it isn't happening and address the issue like an adult. the dog is eating ok and not loosing weight so I will hope he continues to do so.  Loosing a pet is so hard and they had to do it. He simply could not afford any more vet bills and Gosh he tried to find it a home. She was a swet cat and if I did not have so many allergies I would have begged to bring her here but with 2 animals already here, we could not afford to adopt a sick one.