I'm still sick today, but feeling way better than yesterday. I think the antibiotics are kicking in. I actually was able to sleep all night long. From 9 p.m. to 5 a.m., and then again until 6:30 a.m. when I took my next dose of meds. I still barely have the energy to walk around the house, but now I can at least breathe through my mouth without sparking a huge coughing fit. And I am starting to be able to breathe through my nose again a little. I doubt I will be going to work tomorrow still, but maybe on Tuesday. I am dying for some human contact.
Maya has been very nice and cuddly with me since I have been sick. She fell asleep in my arms last night watching Happy Feet. (Mike bought her Happy Feet at Carrefour and a set of cheap plastic bowling pins over the weekend, which made me raise my eyebrows a little -- until he told me he was just trying to divert her attention from the Barbie doll she asked for... Yikes!)
Sunday, 8 February 2009
Saturday, 7 February 2009
SOS
Did I mention that the telephone at my parents' house has an SOS button?? That means a button that calls 911 automatically when pressed. Did I mention that nobody knew about this button until we were visiting??
That's because Maya picked up the phone and started playing with it. She managed to call 911 twice before we realized she was talking to another human being. We took the phone away. Then a few seconds later we got a call back. From 911. Saying we had called 911 twice. My brother assured them it was just a 3-year-old playing with the phone and apologized profusely. Within 5 minutes, a sheriff's deputy arrived at the house and rang the doorbell to make sure everyone was ok. Maya was a bit freaked out by the experience. So were we.
Then we put the phone WAYYYYY out of reach. OK. That's my confession for the day.
That's because Maya picked up the phone and started playing with it. She managed to call 911 twice before we realized she was talking to another human being. We took the phone away. Then a few seconds later we got a call back. From 911. Saying we had called 911 twice. My brother assured them it was just a 3-year-old playing with the phone and apologized profusely. Within 5 minutes, a sheriff's deputy arrived at the house and rang the doorbell to make sure everyone was ok. Maya was a bit freaked out by the experience. So were we.
Then we put the phone WAYYYYY out of reach. OK. That's my confession for the day.
Family get-together
When we were getting to know Baby G, we also got to meet up with a couple other relatives. Cousin Jess and Auntie Michelle. Here are some pics.
Meeting her baby cousin
Maya, who had managed to steal the spotlight for three long years as the first grandchild on both sides of the family, got to meet her new baby cousin while we were on home leave. And she couldn't be more excited to have a new baby in the family!! We had to remind her several times that the baby was in fact not her baby sister and we could not take her home with us.
Hope you enjoy the pictures of Maya and her new cousin Baby G.
Better late than never Christmas pictures
Here are my better late than never Christmas morning pictures. As you can see, Maya changed her clothes about a million times. Her favorite gift by far was the electric mixer.
Sick and self-medicating
Aaah! I have been sick, sick, sick over the past few days. Actually, everyone in the family has been sick with colds, but everyone else recovered. I started feeling down last Friday but then I thought I was getting better. (Maya and Mike both got better). But then on Tuesday I started feeling bad again, and I stayed home from work on Wednesday and Thursday. I was barely conscious all day those days, and totally drugged up on pseudoepinephrine and tylenol.
Then yesterday I still felt bad. Well, my brain felt like I could think clearly again but I was still really sick. And this morning I still felt really, really bad. So we tried to make an appointment with the doctor's office, thinking that I either have a sinus infection or bronchitis or pneumonia. Only for some reason he wasn't answering the phone.
So I decided to just self-medicate. Mainly because the last time I tried to go to a random Egyptian doctor (I was desperate because I was due to fly to Sudan the next day), I told him what I thought I had (a sinus infection), what drug I needed, and he just gave it to me without any real examination or anything. So I'm a bit reluctant to drag myself out of bed for that again. So now I am on antibiotics (amoxiclav) and hopefully I will get better. I took the first dose this morning. I think I feel a slight bit of energy coming back. It could be a placebo effect. But heck, I'll take that over nothing. And it's very convenient to just be able to call up a pharmacy and have antibiotics delivered to your door within the hour...
Then yesterday I still felt bad. Well, my brain felt like I could think clearly again but I was still really sick. And this morning I still felt really, really bad. So we tried to make an appointment with the doctor's office, thinking that I either have a sinus infection or bronchitis or pneumonia. Only for some reason he wasn't answering the phone.
So I decided to just self-medicate. Mainly because the last time I tried to go to a random Egyptian doctor (I was desperate because I was due to fly to Sudan the next day), I told him what I thought I had (a sinus infection), what drug I needed, and he just gave it to me without any real examination or anything. So I'm a bit reluctant to drag myself out of bed for that again. So now I am on antibiotics (amoxiclav) and hopefully I will get better. I took the first dose this morning. I think I feel a slight bit of energy coming back. It could be a placebo effect. But heck, I'll take that over nothing. And it's very convenient to just be able to call up a pharmacy and have antibiotics delivered to your door within the hour...
Monday, 2 February 2009
Writers block
Sorry for my hiatus from blogging. Life has been insane. Work has been insane. Work managed to intrude on my vacation and then has been intruding on my personal life since then. Then we all caught a bad cold that I am still recovering from. And Mike went to South Africa for a conference, so it was just me and Maya for a while. But now everyone is home and we are getting back to normal in Cairo.
I do have some pictures I still need to post from our vacation. But my slow internet connection is not encouraging me to do that, as I have to add one picture at a time, and it just goes so slowly.
Maya has been enjoying herself lately. While Mike was gone we made banana bread for the first time. She really enjoyed it. The bread was a little burned on the sides, but otherwise yummy. It's hard to translate 350 degrees to an Egyptian gas oven. We were supposed to cook it for 60-65 minutes, but it was burned at 40 minutes. Whoops! It'll be better next time.
And yesterday when Mike was teaching his class at the university in the evening (why do they insist on evening classes??), Maya and I made pink playdough. Maya actually thought it would be red, because we used red food coloring. She was very surprised when it turned out pink, and has been telling everyone who will listen about how she dyed her playdough with red coloring but that produced pink playdough. Now Maya wants to make green playdough. But I'm not really sure I want multiple colors floating around, especially ones that don't mix well.
I do have some pictures I still need to post from our vacation. But my slow internet connection is not encouraging me to do that, as I have to add one picture at a time, and it just goes so slowly.
Maya has been enjoying herself lately. While Mike was gone we made banana bread for the first time. She really enjoyed it. The bread was a little burned on the sides, but otherwise yummy. It's hard to translate 350 degrees to an Egyptian gas oven. We were supposed to cook it for 60-65 minutes, but it was burned at 40 minutes. Whoops! It'll be better next time.
And yesterday when Mike was teaching his class at the university in the evening (why do they insist on evening classes??), Maya and I made pink playdough. Maya actually thought it would be red, because we used red food coloring. She was very surprised when it turned out pink, and has been telling everyone who will listen about how she dyed her playdough with red coloring but that produced pink playdough. Now Maya wants to make green playdough. But I'm not really sure I want multiple colors floating around, especially ones that don't mix well.
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