Do you have a modem? A router? Do you have a cat? Does your cat think it's cosy to sleep on your modem/router? Mine does. Does your modem or router disagree on the cosyness of said so much that it prefers to die? Mine does. I've now lost one of each to my cat's sleeping habit. This time I still have a valid warranty though, so I should be able to get a new one. If only I had a way of connecting with my Internet provider. My phone is still off line and I'm not well so I can't go down town. Yesterday, when my social services person accompanied me to town we only had time to go to the bank. Can't pay bills without Internet. Can't pay bills without a login thingy either. I was just thinking about ordering a new one when the router gave up on me. In a way that was a good thing. At the bank my assistant managed to get me one for free. Anything you get for free is great. Especially when you're broke, like me.
What happens after that? For how long can you be too ill to get Internet up and running again? That depends on what happened then… I ended up in hospital and I wasn’t allowed to go out to fix these things. To begin with I had no charger with me so my phone quickly ran out of power. When I got hold of a charger and got back being one of the power-full phones I had to move to a different ward and their WiFi was the worst ever. Not only was it awfully slow, it was such a weak signal it would go on and off, most of the time it was out of range. It was practically impossible just to like pics on Instagram. At least I got a chance to tell people I still was alive. Twitter though, my phone has a very strange way of dealing with Twitter, most people I wanted to message didn’t have an account anymore, which made me very sad because I really missed talking to them. Turns out that was just my phone version of Twitter being too lazy to look for them. They are still there.
Eventually someone agreed to take me to town to sort things out, hopefully once and for all, so right now all my accounts are open. It’s so amazing to have a working phone again. My rehabilitation coordinator was so glad when I called her. Finally people can reach me again. Unless they have forgotten all about me during the time I’ve been phoneless.
Anyways, this isn’t a regular blog post. I’m only at home over the weekend. There’s apparently a new wave of influenza hitting the hospital right now and until they have figured this out they wanted as many patients as possible to go home unless they have to stay because of their treatment and stuff, which I don’t. I got loads of medication in tiny paper bags and tubes. My diabetes is perfect right now, perfect levels of blood sugar, I had high blood pressure, but that’s down too and there’s an amazing drug that tastes like super duper, heavy duty minty toothpaste, but I sleep like a kitten. I would say baby, but most babies I’ve met aren’t really sleeping as much as you’d think and they have been very fussy and crying. Kind of more like I was before. Kittens sleep a lot do, as does older cats, more sleepy time than awakey time, though I am actually up at day now, feeling very grown up and responsible.
I do, however, plan to reopen my blog later and I have a lot to say. I might even try to write a book, though that’s a very big undertaking, especially for someone who’s afraid of failing and who knows she’s never good enough. I have been writing very much during my two week long stay at the hospital and, even if I might not be able to write a complete book, at least I’ve got a lot to write about for my blog and it fits perfectly. Because, as you probably know, hospitals are all about healing. When I go back, though I can bring my own charger and I have my own mobile Internet, it’s difficult to write on my phone. I guess I could bring my laptop, but I don’t have Internet on that one and no word program. So I guess I won’t do that. I’ll try to keep up with Instagram and Twitter, write on a pad with a pen and be back with the real deal on March first, when I hopefully am home for good. I like the idea of starting over on the first day of a new month. Easier to keep track on how long I’ve been going with this challenge. Right now I just wanted you to know what’s going on and why I disappeared so suddenly again. At least so you know that I am okay and I will be back. I am going back to hospital on Tuesday to talk to my doctor and try to figure out what they can do for me. There’s talk of more medication and such, but nothing has been decided yet. I’ll tell you all about it when it has been. Has been decided, that is.
I wasn’t really aiming for a thousand words this time, but I’m using Google Docs which has a word counter so obviously I still check in on it. Just for fun. I am getting really close now, so I guess I’ll just add a few words more to make the magic number. Even though I didn’t really try, old habits die hard (not just Bruce Willis apparently) and I’m still trying. If I count all I’ve written by hand today already I’m definitely beyond one thousand words.
Take care people, for most of us spring is on the way and things are looking brighter every day. Thanks for reading!!!
