Friday, 27 March 2009

  • It's been a while

    Yep, I'm still alive and still here.
    Sorry I've been silent here for a while. I have been busy and desparately ill. So let me catch you up on all that has happened and where I stand now:


    The whole roommate debacle turned out extremely well. It wasn't long before I was over the whole thing. The peace that came back into the house after the constant drama, tension, and just sheer selfishness and inconsideration of the former roomies were gone was amazing. I'm sorry I seemed to have 'freaked out' over things, but, please understand that when I treat people with consideration I am naive enough to expect the same back. I have no lingering anger or ill will towards them. This is the first time I've even spared a thought towards them in a long time.
    After they left a really dear friend of mine moved in. You know him in this blog as 'Protector'. This has worked out very well. Protector and my Beloved get along extremely well. We are family. Protector even has a cat. Evidently she is part Bobcat with a distinctive facial shape, eyes with diamond shaped pupils, and a bobbed tail. She keeps my cat company.  The apartment feels very cozy now. We actually sit in the living room of an evening to watch TV where, when the other roommates lived here, we stayed in our rooms and never ventured out unless we had to.We take turns cooking dinner.

     Protector is a Tennessee hill boy with quiet country wisdom and a blunt but truthful way of speaking.He has taught me how to make beans with bacon and cornbread. Let me tell you there is nothing finer on a cold winter's night than a plate with yummy, bacony beans, some fried greens ,and skillet fried cornbread. My Beloved usually bakes up some chicken when it's his time to cook. Or better yet: bacon wrapped greenbeans! Because he works so hard everyday his meals are usually very simple. Which works out just fine as we are not a household rolling in cash. My meals are usually experiments and pretty cheap to cobble together. The last one I made consisted of rice flaored with vegetable soup base, italian sweet sausage cut up in small chunks with peas and mushrooms. The guys loved it! I am also very good at making chicken stew (it's too thick to call a soup because of all the things i put in it).

    My health took a turn for the worse for a while. Long story short is, on top of  a heart condition I now have a nasty form of anemia where my red blood cells die prematurely and my body isn't manufacturing enough of them to begin with. We have no idea why. It got so bad for me that both Beloved and Protector got frightened for me. You know how men are..it takes a bit for a man to be worked up over anything. Men are creatures that tend toward logic and women tend towards the emotional side of things. It's great how we can balance each other out! Anyway, they insisted I see a doctor. Again, long story short: The doctor was amazed at how very pale I was. No color whatsoever. He took blood and had it rushed to the lab for analysis. A few hours later my doctor called me and told me to stop what I was doing and go to an emergency room ASAP. I spent the night with I'V.s in both arms and a bag of blood going into each. Beloved had to work, he had no time off, so Protector stayed with me over night. I had a private room on a floor where transplant patients usually go. Under the windows was a big blue vinyl couch and that is where Protector slept..or at least tried to. He kept an eye on me all night and filled Beloved in on all that was going on.Beloved felt badly that he couldn't be there.  

    This happened on a Friday I think. My memory is still very foggy because my brain wasn't gettign what it needed at that time in the way of nutrients and oxygen. Anyhow I was reluctant to see a doctor because Doctors tend to be less than ...pleasant...to people without health insurance. I was going to wait another week and see what developed before seeking medical care. I was assured by the ER doctor that, if I had done so, I wouldn't have survived to see another week roll in.

    Ok folks ,well, I'm tired. My mind is still clearing so I'm afraid if I keep writing I'll keep babbling or something. It's 4 in the morning here right now. I really need to crash.

    I'm back! So I'll be writing again soon about something or  other before too long.

    I learned 3 things though:

    God still walks with me, I am so blessed to have Protector and Beloved, and I am not afraid to die. However, I'd rather not.

     

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