(10/15)...streaming

Oh boy...here we are halfway through October. How did that happen??

I recovered pretty well from my surgery...thanks so much for your prayers. I was feeling pretty well, had been dressed and out and about on Wednesday and Thursday, and Faith and I had a little field trip scheduled for Friday (we won't dwell on the fact that the field trip was scheduled around paying Joshua's speeding ticket in person). We were going to take a road trip to a sweet little neighboring village, do some school at the their library and have lunch as a local diner. With the peak color around here, and the little village located in the "hills" (as hilly as it gets around Columbus, Ohio), it would have been a memorable trip. 

In the wee hours of Friday morning I woke up shivering under the covers. Felt like fever. I hunted down a thermometer and some advil and took my temp -- 101.6. With nothing else to think about in the wee hours of the morning waiting for sleep to find me again, I, of course, determined that I probably had sepsis, obtained after having a doctor shove a catheter up the veins of my leg.

Logically I knew it was probably the same virus the kids passed around, paired with a flu shot obtained the day before, but you know middle of night thoughts are rarely logical.

I called my surgeon's office when daylight broke and after several conversations with the nurse and several conversations between the nurse and the doctor we decided that I probably, unknowingly, compromised my immune system a bit too much. I woke up today with a raging sore throat, and no voice, which just confirms the fact that I have a virus.

Today is the second day in a row that I took a shower and put a clean nightgown on, so I'm laying low (actually I think I am lying low, right?).

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I had the opportunity to do some reading and found a book on iBooks that looked interesting. I had read this author before and liked the book I had read. About 25 pages into the book, I realized that I probably should stop reading because the author and I had very different beliefs in regard to gay marriage. Yet, I kept reading because I hoped that it would not be a significant issue in the book. About a quarter of the way through the book I realized it was going to be a significant issue in the book, but I kept reading because I thought the other issues would make the book worth reading. I am now over halfway through the book and I deleted it from iBooks so I wouldn't be tempted to read another word. I'm not even going to mention the title here because I don't want this blog and this book to be associated with each other ever. I'm so very tired of liberals trying to normalize same- s*x attraction. They will not admit the fact that if everyone in the world chose that particular lifestyle, our world would end. So, how can that ever, ever be a good thing? I am not a gay basher, and I believe that people with same-s*x attraction are God's creatures (though I do not believe their attraction was created by God) and need love. But same-s*x marriage is wrong and defies natural law. No matter how much one tries to sell it, it doesn't change the truth.

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On another completely different topic, it's halfway through the month of the rosary and I have hardly even mentioned it. I will rectify that tomorrow when I post a giveaway for a lovely, little tenner rosary that I made while I was "lying low." See ya then...