Being sick, however, is quite conducive to reading and I've been blowing through a bunch of books I got from the library about life on the Oregon Trail. Granted, I got them for my kids, but they weren't interested in them so I was forced to read them all by myself :)
I also started reading a book I picked up quite a while ago that I'm totally enthralled with. Which is another reason I haven't been posting. The book is Blood and Thunder: The Epic Story of Kit Carson and the Conquest of the American West. I'm already about half-way through and enjoying it immensely. I have a sick fascination with the American West which involved a period of time back in the mid-90s when I read about eight books straight on the topic before I finally burned out on the subject.
I hope to be back in action posting on Sunday. If I don't show up, you'll know where I am - nose buried in book. Anyone want to travel the Oregon Trail with me?
19 Crunchy Thoughts:
Feel better soon!
"I have a sick fascination with the American West"
-pun intended?
;)
There is nothing more fun to me than staying cuddled up with a book. Enjoy!
I just happen to live really close to the start of the Oregon, Santa Fe, and California trails near to the land first surveyed by Lewis and Clark. I can't say I'm currently fascinated with reading about them though.
My current read is about the origins of fortune cookies, chop suey, and General Tso's chicken. I seem to be on a China phase, mixed with Irish romance comedy. Hmmm...
I sure hope your symptoms are temporary and pass soon!
As to the Oregon Trail invitation, haven't we already done that? Pickin' our wagon teams and everything? ;-)
Hope you feel better soon. If I agree to go on the Oregon Trail with you, promise me you won't try to fix me up with that nasty nellie oleson?
I think this is just the year for sickness. I and everyone else I know have been hit harder than ever this year with weird symptoms that we never had before. Let me know if your hands and feet start tingling. I won't know what's wrong with you, but I can commiserate.
I already traveled the Oregon Trail. That was how we formally started homeschooling - I packed son, tent, sleeping bags and supplies into a Buick and drove off into the sunset. Starting in Alexandria, Virginia as if we had just stepped off a boat from Europe, and on to the Oregon coast (and then down to San Francisco).
While on the drive I met and visited with people I had only 'met' online before.
Six weeks of mother/13 year old son time in a car. I had a great time. Son got a lot of Gameboy time in. This was mostly August, so I can't say I loved tent camping in 100+ degree weather, tho.
Much of the time we were on US 30, paralleling train tracks. The number of coal trains was bloody AMAZING. But even more amazing were seeing wheel tracks from covered wagons in solid rock (okay, limestone, not the hardest of rock), hiking, looking down from bridges into a river about 18 inches deep at that time and seeing cat fish that were at least 3 feet long navigating it, introducing my son to the Cascades (the last time I was there I was pregnant with him), camping among the redwoods in Oregon and northern California.
My son liked the video games at the casinos in Nevada.
Fern
Hey Crunchy, that's no fun. Sounds like you are having a dead cell throw off, which means that as all sorts of bacteria and candida are being killed by the penicillin, they are basically off-gassing in your body and emitting all sorts of toxins that make you feel like crap. It happens to a lot of people. My adivice when this happens to friends is generally to drink a LOT of water and take double doses of probiotics every day for a few weeks. Dandelion or Nettle tea can't hurt, either. Hope you get better soon!
Feel better!
I saw this trip you can take where you go in wagons and horseback as if you were on the Oregon Trail back in the day. I want to go so badly!
Feel better soon Crunch. I had that awful flu that's going around a few weeks ago. As a result I am so far behind at work/home on things to be done (breathe/breathe self imposed deadlines are ok to let slip). When I get stressed/sick/tired I read knitting magazines and patterns. Something sooths me with the mental creative process of reading about knitting. That, and I've been reading Marlena De Blasi books about Italy.
Hope you feel better soon!
Hope you feel better soon.
I to have had a few (not enough) theme reading periods. Read a series of books on the same topic/area and they all contributed to a richer experience.
MJ
Yep. Antibiotics like Azithromycin and Levaquin make me sicker than what they are trying to cure. I've learned now to tell Docs to not even prescribe them for me.
I agree with Healing Green: take lots of probiotics during and after the round of antibiotics. You need to get the good bacteria brewing again.
Hope you feel better soon!
"Jedediah has been bitten by a rattlesnake. How would you like to treat him?"
Sorry, I loved the Oregon Trail game. I hope you feel better soon!
I think Jedediah is in for a fasciotomy and debridement. Now, where's my scalpel?
Very authentic procedure, Crunchy. I am impressed.
Hey Crunch - All my sympathies on the illness, and just so you know you aren't alone, I had recurrent strep for a month in Nov/Dec, and it was awful. The antibiotics gave me a three week period, complete with cramps, headaches and nausea. It was worse than the disease.
So copious sympathies, and I hope it all goes away soon. Enjoy your reading.
Sharon
Headaches? Check. Nausea? Check. I'm also still battling low-grade fever and chills, which isn't a whole lot of fun, but at least the headaches aren't as bad since I stopped the penicillin.
Yes, I stopped one day short. So, sue me. Oh, and I also have wicked heartburn.
Feel better, Crunch!
(A shout out to Fernwise - What a great trip! Gives me some ideas...though my boy will likely enjoy the Nintendo DS time more than the history lesson)
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