Every day I feel a little better yet still haven’t returned to my normal self. I am sleeping now – boy am I sleeping! I slept about 10 hours last night straight. Yesterday I kept trying to work on my stories and I’d get going for a bit, then suddenly start coughing or feeling overwhelmingly tired, so I’d nap for a bit. I’m really starting to stress out about the issue at work though!!!
Today I need to go to the bank and the drug store, but I think it’s taken me so long to get moving this morning that I should wait. The bank’s hours are all screwy, and I don’t want to get all the way there only to discover I can’t get anything accomplished.
My going to the bank, grocery and drug store has just become a much more complicated task. It’s a blind thing. There’s a street light at 79th Street, and then another one at 75th Street. Crossing Metcalf, the major street that runs by my house, is dangerous without the light because it’s very busy. But, on one side of the street someone has bought one of the old car dealerships and torn it down. They’ve now leveled the ground and are building something new in it’s place. The same thing has happened to the McDonalds across the street. They’re tearing it down and redoing it. The trouble is they also tore up the sidewalk and the ground remaining is full of holes and nails and other such dangerous things (especially in the snow when they’re harder to find with my cane) on both sides of the street. It’s impossible now to get my grocery cart to and from the store without going several blocks out of my way. If you’ve got a car that might not seem like a big deal. But, if you’re walking with groceries, dry cleaning, your stuff from work etc. and hey, it’s freezing cold and you don’t breathe so great – it’s a real picnic let me tell you! No one ever thinks about pedestrian traffic when they do these things! Okay, that’s my whine for the day – now, back to coughing and blowing my nose.
Today I need to go to the bank and the drug store, but I think it’s taken me so long to get moving this morning that I should wait. The bank’s hours are all screwy, and I don’t want to get all the way there only to discover I can’t get anything accomplished.
My going to the bank, grocery and drug store has just become a much more complicated task. It’s a blind thing. There’s a street light at 79th Street, and then another one at 75th Street. Crossing Metcalf, the major street that runs by my house, is dangerous without the light because it’s very busy. But, on one side of the street someone has bought one of the old car dealerships and torn it down. They’ve now leveled the ground and are building something new in it’s place. The same thing has happened to the McDonalds across the street. They’re tearing it down and redoing it. The trouble is they also tore up the sidewalk and the ground remaining is full of holes and nails and other such dangerous things (especially in the snow when they’re harder to find with my cane) on both sides of the street. It’s impossible now to get my grocery cart to and from the store without going several blocks out of my way. If you’ve got a car that might not seem like a big deal. But, if you’re walking with groceries, dry cleaning, your stuff from work etc. and hey, it’s freezing cold and you don’t breathe so great – it’s a real picnic let me tell you! No one ever thinks about pedestrian traffic when they do these things! Okay, that’s my whine for the day – now, back to coughing and blowing my nose.
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