VERTIGO

Yep, it's vertigo this time. I can't write much as it comes out dizzy and I have to retype over and over. I can't walk much as I trip, fall and have to hang on to walls or whatever I can grab (like this morning the glass walls in the shower that I almost fell through! I HAVE to still stay clean!). I also can't talk much as I seem to stammer my words and slur my speech sometimes. It has to be from my brain being so dizzy and I can't make any sense of anything! UGH! I hope by Monday it's over. This started Tuesday morning and I'm still suffering with it. I've already missed 4 nights from work and I really can't afford to lose more. I'm sorry UPS friends! I'll write more when I can type quicker without tons of errors that I have to fix! Toodle loo!

Long Time No Write!

I know! Not much to report lately! We are leaving today for our much anticipated mission trip to Chattanooga (Soddy Daisy really), TN. We are going to help out some friends who pastor a church there. We are going to paint, demolish, refix, etc. while we are there. We haven't seen these friends for months and are SOOO anxious to see their new home, their church and their community. On the way back, we plan on stopping to see some other friends that recently moved to Madisonville. We can't wait for that too! I've been so excited tonight that I've actually shed some tears!

Please pray for our safety, our fellowship and our work. It should be a good time and I'm sure I'll have more to say when we return! GOD BLESS!

Leva-What???

Well, the new antiobiotic (Levaquin 500 mg) has really messed me up! Yes, as of Monday, I was still sick and the other antibiotic wasn't working. Well, let me just tell you - maybe I shouldn't have called the doc again to get another one. I read over the 3 page insert they print off for you about the drug and the side effects and drugs not to mix, etc. I think each and every side effect went with this one. I noticed the "may cause dizzyness" so I decided to wait and take it when I got home from work yesterday. BIG MISTAKE! I took it say around 5am and then drank 8oz of water with it, like it said. I finally made it to bed around 5:30am. So, let's begin. By 10am, I had to pee 7 times. I couldn't relax long enough to fall into a deep sleep BUT when I did finally drift off somewhat, my dreams were WEIRD! In one dream, I lived in an apartment each day until 9:30am and then another family moved in the rest of the day. Now, if I chose to stay in and not go out, they couldn't move in. Another dream put me going around a maze of fast food restaurants, which could have been fine except it was the same maze, the same restaurants and I would stop at the same one each time over and over and over and over.... Another one, I had all these stairs to climb down to go through to get to different work areas and large spiders were in webs over top so I couldn't go through them. Another one, I cleaned tables on the same porches over and over and sat people on them. The best one is the one where I had a piles of rocks or beads or something that I was trying to coat with different liquids and I couldn't seem to get it done because the beads/rocks kept disappearing. Oh - it gets better. I would wake up after each dream and I felt like I wasn't real. My room seemed strange. Carissa seemed like a mannequin in the bed and when she moved I kept thinking of snakes. I finally had to get up at 10am and find Rob. I was freaked out after hours of this! He tried to calm me down but I was acting so strange telling him these dreams and slurring my speech! He suggested getting something else to drink and going back to bed. I grabbed something, drank it and tried to go back to bed. By noon, I was done with it and got up. I tried taking another nap in the afternoon but couldn't relax long enough to fall asleep deep and when I did finally drift off, Carissa woke me up! So, I've been going on about 4 hours of sleep. I decided to take the medicine after dinner instead because they think I'm "fruit loops" anyway at work and if I did start hallucinating, at least I'd be awake and not trying to sleep! I made it through the night at work and now I'm going to attempt to get some real sleep. I hope this stuff is worn off enough to accomplish that! Now, just to make it until this stuff is gone next Wednesday.............

Thursday

Well, I'm feeling better. I went to the doctor on Tuesday and got some meds that seem to be working - even if slowly. Work went fine last night even though I really didn't want to be there. Neither did my voice. It was rough answering phones for 4 hours and dispatching calls over the radio when my voice would come and go. I was so frustrated at times! I'm sure the hazmat responders were too! One more night of work and then I'm off until Monday. I know, the holiday sort pay would have been nice, but I didn't want to work this one. First holiday sort I haven't worked.

I'm so looking forward to spending tomorrow night with Rob and Carissa. We really need a night to just relax and not run around. Saturday brings our annual family reunion in Hodgenville. That will be great! All that home grown fruit and veggies to eat while sitting on some beautiful farmland. It's always a good time. We are usually just tired as can be when we get home. But worth it!

Carissa has her 3rd loose tooth! Her two bottom middle ones are coming in perfectly. The one loose is one of the top middle. She's got about 4 loose right now but this one might come out by the weekend. As she says, "Mom - you are freaking me out when I show you my loose tooth and you look away!!!" I'm sorry! I just can't stand loose teeth! That's why her Daddy helps her pull them.

I guess that's about all happening right now. Not much. Just more life and times of the Allen family. Good day!

Down & Out

I'm on the down and out this week so far. A sore throat from Sunday night has developed into a severe sinus infection which is now moving into my chest with tons of congestion. I told Rob my throat feels like it's bleeding it hurts so much and is so scratchy! I've had to call in two nights, which I hate doing! There is no way this voice can talk on the phone for 4 hours at a time! The doc gave me antiobiotics and stuff to loosen the sinus cavities and chest area. I took one of each in Meijer parking lot after I picked them up to get them started ASAP! I feel yucky............thank you, Rob, for picking up all the slack this week so far........................