I can't seem to keep track of days anymore.  All I know for sure is that it is Winter.  I am still taking antibiotics.  I took the sulfa-based antibiotic for 5 days, and would have died or ended up in the hospital with an allergic reaction if I had taken just one more of them.  I had sharp stabbing nausea, dizziness, rapid heartbeat, nightmares about dying, and jerking movements all through my aching body.  I called the urgent care place at the hospital, and they quickly gave me a different recipe for disaster, named Cipro.  I took Cipro before and it was working - maybe it will again.

So this whole thing began last summer?  With a prescription for a strange new antibiotic whose name escapes me.  It was only for 3 days.  That's when I think I started getting more? infections.  I don't even remember now why I needed that one.  Hey, wait a minute.  I could look it up on this blog.  I will have to do that later...but for now, then they gave me Cipro and that was for 5 days.  Five was not enough.  The infection came back, and then they prescribed SMX-TMP, the sulfa-based drug that I reacted badly to.  They wanted me to take it for 10 days, but the reaction occurred after 5 days.  Now I'm back on Cipro for 7 days.  Will they have correctly guessed this time?  I need to add sulfa to the list of things I am allergic to.

Just as scary is my recent bout of forgetfulness.  Just now, I found a pan on the stove, burning away, empty.  Forgot I was going to cook spaghetti and peas for the chicken.  I am kind of dizzy.  I hope this is temporary, due to taking antibiotics.  But there are many times during the day that I find things like that - things I forgot I was doing.  

My New Year's Resolution - stop singing stupid, goofy songs out loud or in my head.  Lately, I've noticed that I will hum just a refrain of some idiotic song that I wish I had never heard, just a few notes, like "doo-ti-doo-ti-doo-ti-doo-ti-ti" and then I catch myself.  I want silence!  Inside and out.  So that is what I have been working on.

Last evening, I made that recipe for guacamole again, and I love it!  I had cooked up some beans too.  John refried them and cut up strips of soft tortillas, fried them.  We had a wonderful Mexican feast of refried beans, fried tortilla strips, guacamole, sour cream, cheddar cheese, tomatoes and salsa.  I slept very well last night, and it was below zero again.