Late winter fun

I took Game Fanatic to the doctor on Wednesday. He’s now on a codeine filled cough syrup, which to date hasn’t accomplished anything. He’s to continue the asthma medication and the nasal spray along with the cough syrup. He sounds worse than ever today so I presume we will be back at the doctor next week again. Possibly to trial some reflux medication. Poor guy already takes several medications for mental health issues and now he’s got all this on top of that. :(

Meanwhile I still have my sore throat and it makes swallowing a bit uncomfortable. I have found that Game Fanatic’s delicious guacamole goes down wonderfully but the avocadoes have run out so that will have to be delayed. With any luck I will be better by the time we replenish our supply.

My work stint only game me four days of work. I went in on Tuesday despite my sore throat and got through the whole day. I felt pretty sure the part of the project we started would surely be finished by yesterday and I was proven to be correct when my supervisor called Wednesday afternoon to tell me I would need to come in again. I had debated as to whether to go in on Tuesday, partly due to the chance of spreading my germs around. Curiously nobody seemed bother I had come in anyway and seemed surprised I had debated at all.

Apparently I was having some interesting dreams in the night because the Scientist said I was shouting out loudly enough to worry the dogs during the night. I can’t recall the dreams but did wake up to use the toilet once and wasn’t keen to head back into whatever story my brain was trying to tell at the time.

I didn’t mention this in my last post but I have started to read Stephen King recently. It all started when Amazon had a recent book on their daily deal and I thought it would be worthy of a dollar to give it a read. It’s called Joyland and is one of a series of sort of detective stories, hard case crime, I think. It was really a thriller in the end and I quite liked it. So I decided I would give another of his books a try and chose The Shining. I already know the main story, having watched the film many years ago. I’m not too sure why I watched it since it isn’t really in a genre of movies I that generally enjoy. I got through the book within a few days and really enjoyed it and strangely wasn’t totally scared from it despite finishing it late at night. I borrowed the dvd of the film from the library and plan to watch it again soon to see how it compares to the book. I remember being more scared from the movie though. I am now reading Salem’s Lot and so far it’s been pretty benign but it’s early chapters right now. I have known King’s work is not all horror but I have just never felt inclined to read any of his stories until now. My younger brother and my grandma (who died a few years ago) would be pleased to know I have taken the plunge into his work.