Wednesday, January 23, 2019

Here I Am


Oh, I have missed you! One whole day without writing here and I feel as if the earth is not quite turning as it should be.
But. I have unwound myself from the sheets and even washed the sheets and although I am not what you might call completely well yet, I am so much better and have only slept a little bit today and I got a few things done before that.

I did not get a flu shot this year. I never get one. And up until this week, I had not had the flu in years but I do believe that's what we've had around here. The people in the family who got the shot have not had this particular illness and the ones who have gotten sick did not. And that's just the truth of the matter. I am wishing, quite honestly, that I had gotten one and I wish that Mr. Moon had gotten one too. He finally went to the doctor today after not being able to sleep for over a week due to a headache and he was told that he has a "raging" sinus infection which I feel quite certain is a secondary infection to the flu.
Of course I could be wrong and quite frequently am but these are my thoughts on the matter.

Being ill is like being in an odd country where things look familiar but nothing is quite right. I am sure you know what I mean. And it has been that way for me. I have managed to do some reading, which is good. I have almost finished up a book I've had on my shelf for years. Sister Age by MFK Fisher and I recommend it. I've also watched the entire new season of Grace and Frankie on Netflix which I did enjoy even though sometimes the acting would make a community theater director cringe. But what the hell? It's fun and I have finally come to appreciate Jane Fonda now that she's in her eighties and of course, Lily Tomlin is always a love. Sometimes when I'm watching the show I think that if Kathleen had been allowed to hang around for another few decades, she might have been a great deal like Tomlin's character, Frankie, who never met a New Age philosophy she couldn't embrace for awhile, at least. Kathleen had that openness to her, that belief in a sort of magic and ritual, of universal love and acceptance.

I'm straying. Which is what I do best, I suppose.

Here's a picture of August eating his pancakes Monday morning before I went to bed.


And here's one of Maggie that her mother took and sent to me. 


I feel as if I haven't seen those beautiful children in a month, as if I've been away on a journey, which in some ways I have. 

My husband is home. He has taken the first of his antibiotics. I'm going to actually cook our supper tonight which I have not done in two days. The frogs think it's spring and are singing their hypersonic song which pierce my human ears. It's going to rain tonight and then get cold again. I can hear the magnolia creaking in the wind which is blustering its way through right now, bringing the rain and cold on its wings.
I am glad to be back to the land of the living but I'm not going to push anything until I truly feel ready. 

Anyway, hello. I hope all is well with all of you. 
See you tomorrow?

I hope so. 

Love...Ms. Moon


19 comments:

  1. i am glad you are both on the mend.

    xxalainaxx

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  2. It is good to hear you are both mending. My man got sick too and he had not had a flu shot. I seem to have escaped so far tho I’ve never had a flu shot. I did get a raging bad flu last year April so hopefully that imparted immunities. Lovely eggs! Lovelier babies!

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  3. Thank goodness you are getting better. Those little children are just divine.

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  4. I’m glad things are looking up in the Moon household. I’m glad you’ll take it easy for a bit. I had a cyst removed from my liver on Friday and have been fairly immobile since. The incisions they make are painful and now itchy. I’m hoping tomorrow the surgical site will all feel calmer. Those cherubs of yours are darling. You’ll be back with them very soon. Sending a big hug! Joanne

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  5. Glad you are feeling better. I used to always get a flu shot when we lived in the US and would happily get one here except they are hard to come by. That said - I have never had the flu in my entire life. A few colds here and there, but never the flu. How lucky is that?!

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  6. So relieved to see your post tonite and to know you are both on the mend, albeit slowly. Flu is the worst! I do get a flu shot every year and so far so good. Your eggs look like they piled up for a day or two LOL, beautiful...your grands await you...... take it easy and feel better!
    Susan M

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  7. It was weird to be without your post yesterday, and a bit worrying. So glad you're doing better. I hope you'll get flu shots next year, tho I guess you'll have trouble bringing yourself to it. I'm sure your nice doctor will make it as trouble free as possible!

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  8. So glad you are both getting better. My husband and myself have had a "virus". It was savage.
    I miss my grandchildren too, when I'm ill. I also miss my routine. Even the ironing!

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  9. H1N1 is one of the flus going around and it's a bad flu. Remember the outbreak about ten years ago? I've never seen so many young people in ICU from a flu. Glad you're on the mend.

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  10. It's nice to hear that you have turned a corner - gradually getting back to full health. When we are at the horrid bottom of a period of ill health, it's hard to think that we will ever be better again.

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  11. I'm glad you're feeling better. I was starting to get alarmed! I can imagine that Glen is in pain from the sinus infection -- those things are no fun. I didn't get a flu shot either.

    Look at all those eggs! They're so beautiful. We're way behind on Grace and Frankie.

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    1. If you read this, see my post to Mary below. Hope you are having a great day.
      Tom

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  12. glad you are feeling better and only laid low for a day or two. I never get the flu shot either and don't plan to start.

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  13. Welcome back. I've missed you and the children.
    I have not had a flu shot since '03 or '04, when three years in a row the shot put me in bed, asleep, for three days. This year I read 80,000 people will get the flu. 80,000 divided by 50 states is 15,000 per state. I didn't like the numbers. I got the super shot. I guess it's done it's job and didn't affect me. I'd recommend it.

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  14. Good Morning Mary,

    It's so good to have you back, baby steps now to keep getting better. Don't immerse yourself in mud in order to pull a few nasty roots out of the ground.
    I'm having trouble accessing you blog these days. I don't know if it is this spectrum cable or something about how the blog link is posted on Steve Reed's Shadows and Light, but I get weird search loop for your site when ever I click on it. I can use Google to find you but I wonder why that link isn't working right. One day it works, the next day it doesn't.
    And FWIW I think a bowl of eggs has to be one of the most beautiful sites in the world. Many, many years ago for me, our farm, mostly they were kept in cartons, but I recall a wooden salad bowl filled to the brim...
    Have a great day...please convey that wish to your husband too. I hate the being sick part of life.

    Tom

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    1. I fixed it Mary, nice to have a geek husband. Damn software updates.
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    2. Well, I'm glad it wasn't me! LOL

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  15. I’m so glad you’re feeling better. So much love from those kiddos awaits!

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  16. I find those eggs unbearably beautiful.

    I got my first ever flu shot this year, right before I started chemo.

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