Took the 88 that would have been a 75 today. Yesterday was one of those wonderfully unusual days where I had energy. Today, I’m back to the usual fatigue, but I expected it. This is what my body is used to, though. Who knows how many days it will be before I have energy again?

My day started off a bit emotional yesterday thanks to all the stress I’m under. Helen made me feel a lot better when we were done talking. Next week is when we’re gonna do the EMDR.

I have three appointments next week, counting Helen. I swear it never ends! I gotta make sure the GI appointment doesn’t spawn another appointment. Hopefully Monday, I’ll find out what’s going on with the surgery.

Continuing with this entry after taking a nap and doing other things…

Sure enough, I’m still having UTI symptoms. I was warned, after all, that it can be resistant to amoxicillin. I’m going to finish the nitrofurantoin. I have 7 left. They said the drowsiness and warm flushing are OK as long as I don’t get hives, stomach pain, or trouble breathing or anything like that. If I still have symptoms after Monday, then we’ll do a urine culture.

I called Margaret yesterday thinking she just had a few tech questions and it was horrible. The woman babbled non-stop for 45 minutes, mostly about Dixie and Diane. Dixie was like that too, and I had to wonder how they could have been friends for over a decade. I mean, how could they have gotten a word in edgewise? I know I barely could. I don’t understand why there are so many people like this in the world. I get that she’s 93 and lonely and that her kids don’t live anywhere near her, but it’s not like she’s alone all the time. She does have a large group of friends. There seem to be a lot of people of all different ages and walks of life like her that can’t shut up.

Not once did she ask what was going on with me. I will admit that a part of me was hoping that as long as she agreed to let us pay her back, she would help get us out of debt since she’s supposed to be wealthy. But it was all about her past friendship with Dixie and how she only hung on to that friendship for Diane’s sake. She said Dixie had 1.4 million dollars before she died and was so obsessed with money that she would do things like not eat at expensive restaurants and would find old clothes to sell and do whatever it took to make and save money. Margaret still doesn’t know what became of the money.

Then she talked a little bit about the 4000-square-foot home she and her husband used to have in Loomis on 17 acres. She’s now in a 3-bedroom house outside of Sacramento.

So yeah, it was all about her. I politely listened but I’m sorry I gave her my number. I could have hung up on her rambling away as she did and she wouldn’t have known it for a half hour. I’ve always hated one-sided relationships of any kind. I hate it when a person wants to know all about me and won't let me in on what's going on in their life, and I hate it when everything is all about them only.

And yet again I continue this entry. This time I’m determined to finish it! We ran out to CVS and got some treats. I’m sipping pink Moscato that should be mostly out of my system by the time I take my antibiotic, though it’s not on the list of ones they say you shouldn’t have alcohol with. Even so, now that I’m going to begin treatment again, I won’t drink anymore until after I’m done.

I also got some cranberry pills enriched with vitamin C and probiotics.

Saw a pest control truck at Ray’s earlier.

Finished the latest VZ challenge! It took me about two weeks to do it and there’s a little more than a month left.