Whew

Thing1′s fever has finally broken. It  reached 104.1, or just over 40C and it did not respond to Motrin all day so I was getting quite concerned. T2 had the same on Monday night, but it responded beautifully, so she never got over 103F and I never felt that I needed to call the doctor. [...]

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A quiet weekend with President Obama

The German got back last night from Munich and we spent today doing the ordinary things: a big shopping trip, a hot afternoon meal, laufradding and rollerblading. Thing2 is developing a cold (gosh, we have been illness free for almost a week!)but she has finally decided that she will take medicine. This is an exciting [...]

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There and Back Again… to the Doctor’s, that is.

It’s been a long slog. April 19th I woke up in bed in Paris with a high fever and tremendous bodily aches and pains: influenza. By a week later, the fever was past, my neck pain was almost gone, I was starting to feel better. That’s when the breathing problems started. I waited a while, [...]

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What’s going on right now (in my lungs).

All sorts of nasty things. As I mentioned before, when I woke up that Monday morning in the Paris suburb, I was quite ill. Aches, pains, fever, sweats: I clearly had the grippe. Since it was before the Swine Flu panic broke, I felt that I just needed to rest, and I did. This severely [...]

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Tuesdays… but not with Dorie

Even though today’s recipe, Tiramisu Cake, from Megan at My Baking Adventures looks nice, I am still weltering in my illness and I am not doing either baking or cooking. So far I am in my third week of significant illness: this actually feels far worse than when I had pneumonia twenty years ago. I [...]

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NOT the Swine flu…

I should have all sorts of interesting posts and interesting photos. After all, we were in Holland for the long Easter weekend, than I had 6 days out of Paris. Locally we had the riots last night. But I have been too sick. The flu struck my first morning in France and it has just [...]

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Stupid and Selfish People: Medicines and Vaccinations

Let’s start with stupididity. Here in Germany, homeopathy is a multi-billion Euro industry. It was invented here, so perhaps that’s why even insurance will often pay for it (although not as much as it once did). It is a ridiculous and stupid concept, basically operating in the same way as this true anecdote: When I [...]

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What I haven’t been blogging about.

It’s been a busy and chaotic few weeks. It started with Thing2 coming home from school with what looked like a scrape on her arm. By bath time that night the “scrape” had resolved to teeth marks. What concerned us, above and beyond the actual bite, was that I had not been called and told [...]

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Plantar fasciitis revisited, and bronchitis as well.

Sometimes I am amazed to turn around and realize that another week has gone by. When I worked 16 hour days, and even when I worked 9 hour days with a commute, I would never have dreamed that it would be possible to have no time to get everything done if I didn’t have an [...]

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What I haven’t been blogging about.

It’s Friday night and the German has just left for the gym, I’m watching the season premiere of Pushing up Daisies, I have just cleaned the kitchen, my feet are up, and I am drinking Diet Light. The week has been exhausting and, as Germans would say, stressful. It started with Saturday’s mobbing and then [...]

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