My mom in El Paso and Michael's Aunt Kathy in Austin are both having knee surgery today. My mom's is and has been planned for some time now. She is having her knee replaced. It has gotten to the point that is is hard for her to walk at times so I know she is very much looking forward to finally being able to get this done and start walking again as are we all happy that she gets to finally have this done! As for Kathy she isn't so lucky as her surgery wasn't planned. Last week she was in a really bad accident and broke her knee (leg) in several places. She has to go under to get it all fixed up and will be in a cast for 6-8 weeks.
I hope all my loyal readers will keep both these wonderful women in your thoughts today and the next few days as they get all fixed up and start their road to recovery. We will be sending many many get well and good luck vibes from this side of the ocean. We love you both :)
As a side note. I'm still sick. Felt better on Saturday, but yesterday and today haven't been all that great. I keep morphing into different symptoms. It's not so much fun. Mary and Jason get here in about 5 hours. We are SOOO excited for that. I just hope they don't get whatever it is I have.
Showing posts with label Sick. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sick. Show all posts
Monday, May 14, 2007
Friday, May 11, 2007
Ugg.
Michael brought back some bug with him from the states. Itchy throat, runny nose. He was sick Wednesday and Thursday and seems to be completely better today. Yesterday at about 4 I swallowed and it hurt and I thought, oh no, not me too. As much as I tried to convince myself I wasn't sick my body had a different idea and as the day moved on, I felt worse. I crashed early last night. My body feels fine, it's just my throat is killing me and I have a bit of a stuffy nose! Drinking OJ this morning felt like I was swallowing nails. At least I am not achy or feverish. It's quite rare that Michael and I are both sick with completely different tings. Hopefully he will not catch this and I won't also catch whatever he had. I will say one of the only really bad things about living abroad is being sick. That is because we can't get the same kinds of medicines here and when we can, we just aren't familiar with them. We stocked up on things like Thera Flu, Clariton, Nitequil, Vicks, etc. but there is always something we could use and don't have. A bottle of chloraseptic would have been nice to be able to run out and get, but we just can't. We generally don't get sick that often. The first time we lived here though we both got what I think was the flu twice along with several other little colds here and there. This time, Michael has already been sick twice and this is my first. I think it has something to do with being exposed to a bunch of "Euro-germs" that are bodies aren't immune to yet.
Keep your fingers crossed for us that we are back to 100% by Monday when Mary and Jason get here!!! That's only a few days away and we are SOOOO excited to have our first visitors.
Keep your fingers crossed for us that we are back to 100% by Monday when Mary and Jason get here!!! That's only a few days away and we are SOOOO excited to have our first visitors.
Friday, February 16, 2007
My Little Traveler
Michael's all better, but before he got better, he got worse. He basically had an off and on fever from Tuesday night until last night. But today he has felt fine all day and its already 3:45. I think its safe to say, he is over whatever it was. We both have our fingers and toes crossed that I don't catch it too. When I catch something from him, I always get it much worse. So here's hoping I stay healthy.
Michael got his itinerary for his little whirlwind trip of the world. He will be leaving here Tuesday afternoon flying to Chicago to Dallas. He will leave Dallas on Sunday (he made it so he had an extra day there so he could do some shopping for us) and fly back to Chicago, then onto Tokyo. He will get to Tokyo Monday at about 3pm and will be there until noon on Friday. He will get back here on Friday afternoon. Turns out, while he is in Tokyo a second very big company wants to talk to him about a different chip that he worked on almost the entire time we were in Dallas.He isn't very happy about having to go all these places for such a short time, but hopefully it won't happen often. While he is gone he asked me to start looking into going somewhere at the end of March, even if just for an extended weekend. So I can spend some time figuring out where we need to/want to go for a few days. Any suggestions on a destination?? :)
Michael got his itinerary for his little whirlwind trip of the world. He will be leaving here Tuesday afternoon flying to Chicago to Dallas. He will leave Dallas on Sunday (he made it so he had an extra day there so he could do some shopping for us) and fly back to Chicago, then onto Tokyo. He will get to Tokyo Monday at about 3pm and will be there until noon on Friday. He will get back here on Friday afternoon. Turns out, while he is in Tokyo a second very big company wants to talk to him about a different chip that he worked on almost the entire time we were in Dallas.He isn't very happy about having to go all these places for such a short time, but hopefully it won't happen often. While he is gone he asked me to start looking into going somewhere at the end of March, even if just for an extended weekend. So I can spend some time figuring out where we need to/want to go for a few days. Any suggestions on a destination?? :)
Wednesday, February 14, 2007
A Sick Hubby on Valentine's Day.
Happy Valentines Day!!! :)
Michaels birthday went great. Well mostly. He had an up and down kinda day. Sometime during the middle of the day he said he felt like he was getting sick again. Achy, stuffy nose and sounded like what he just got over about a week ago, was starting to come back. We will get back to that in a moment. We are on spring break for Danish lessons this week so it was nice we didn't have class on his birthday and got to stay home.
For Michaels birthday he asked if I could make fajitas. Sure thing! So I spent the day running around to about a billion different grocery stores, and markets looking for all the ingredients I needed. I have found that Cilantro is near impossible to find here, and I didn't find it yesterday. I also was going to make homemade tortillas but couldn't find shortening. Michael asked some of the guys from work what it was called here and no one seemed to know what it was. They looked it up online and found that Denmark was the first to ban tans fats (which we knew) but all shortening is, is basically a big blob of trans fat. So outta luck. I was trying to use illegal ingredients. I did find a substitute, but I didn't have time at all once Michael got home to get the tortillas made too,so we had store bought ones. But I was able to manage to have enough time to make the guacamole and Spanish rice and of course the fajitas marinade from scratch.
Monday night we made a bunch of brownies. They seem to do things backwards here, but you know, when in Rome! Apparently it's customary to do your birthday like your in elementary school . You have to make the cake and bring it for everyone else instead of being giving a cake. We made some espresso brownies that Michael always loves so he could take them to work on Tuesday. We saved some so we had some to eat at night with ice cream. yum. Also on people birthdays they tend to decorate with the danish flag, so, I did too! I got the sun room all decked out for a party :)
Michael came home and I had to run out to get some chili powder (and had to go to two stores because the first one, didn't have any) because I used it all, came home and spent about 2 hours cooking while he laid on the couch, watched tv and tried to feel better. He started to and we opened a bottle of wine, ate and had fun.
I think when we pull down the shades in the sun room it makes it feel like we are in a tent like a party tent..
By the end of the evening Michael felt all better. We went to bed and the alarm went off at 5:00 (we were suppose to go to the gym this morning) Michael said he really didn't feel good again and that he felt really hot, but really cold at the same time. uh oh.. I was a little warm from the blankets so touched my neck first to feel my temp so when I felt his I had something to compare it too. I felt his chest, neck and head and I am surprised my hand didn't catch fire. He was burning up! And I could hover my hand above his body and feel the heat coming off of him. I know he had to have been at about 100 or slightly over. Unfortunately somewhere between Lubbock to Allen to Plano to Denmark we have misplaced our thermometer, and there is nothing open at that hour here so I couldn't go get one. He took some Tylenol and reset the alarm to 9 and said he would go to work late if at all. He woke up and felt surprisingly better. OK good! But I had a sneaking suspicion that the Tylenol was masking the fever and any pain. He took it slow this morning, but had a meeting with the other language school at 11:30 so had to leave for that. His skin felt cooler this morning right until he was getting ready to leave and then he was starting to get warm again (just about the time the Tylenol would have been wearing off) So he took some more and then out the door. He was going to come home early too. Poor thing. I feel bad for him.
Oh, also Michael found out he is heading to Dallas on Tuesday-Saturday then to Tokyo from there from Saturday-Tuesday then back here. He isn't looking forward to all the traveling and doing stuff he could do from here. The only thing he is excited for is to be present during a design review in Tokyo with a big wig from a big big Japanese corporation where he will be drilled about this product. I know he will do great, but he will be a MESS when he gets back home.. Jet lag in Dallas...jet lagged from Dallas and new Jet Lag in Tokyo to jet lagged from Tokyo to jet lagged again from Denmark. He isn't going to be a happy camper when he gets home.
Michaels birthday went great. Well mostly. He had an up and down kinda day. Sometime during the middle of the day he said he felt like he was getting sick again. Achy, stuffy nose and sounded like what he just got over about a week ago, was starting to come back. We will get back to that in a moment. We are on spring break for Danish lessons this week so it was nice we didn't have class on his birthday and got to stay home.
For Michaels birthday he asked if I could make fajitas. Sure thing! So I spent the day running around to about a billion different grocery stores, and markets looking for all the ingredients I needed. I have found that Cilantro is near impossible to find here, and I didn't find it yesterday. I also was going to make homemade tortillas but couldn't find shortening. Michael asked some of the guys from work what it was called here and no one seemed to know what it was. They looked it up online and found that Denmark was the first to ban tans fats (which we knew) but all shortening is, is basically a big blob of trans fat. So outta luck. I was trying to use illegal ingredients. I did find a substitute, but I didn't have time at all once Michael got home to get the tortillas made too,so we had store bought ones. But I was able to manage to have enough time to make the guacamole and Spanish rice and of course the fajitas marinade from scratch.
Monday night we made a bunch of brownies. They seem to do things backwards here, but you know, when in Rome! Apparently it's customary to do your birthday like your in elementary school . You have to make the cake and bring it for everyone else instead of being giving a cake. We made some espresso brownies that Michael always loves so he could take them to work on Tuesday. We saved some so we had some to eat at night with ice cream. yum. Also on people birthdays they tend to decorate with the danish flag, so, I did too! I got the sun room all decked out for a party :)
Michael came home and I had to run out to get some chili powder (and had to go to two stores because the first one, didn't have any) because I used it all, came home and spent about 2 hours cooking while he laid on the couch, watched tv and tried to feel better. He started to and we opened a bottle of wine, ate and had fun.
I think when we pull down the shades in the sun room it makes it feel like we are in a tent like a party tent..
By the end of the evening Michael felt all better. We went to bed and the alarm went off at 5:00 (we were suppose to go to the gym this morning) Michael said he really didn't feel good again and that he felt really hot, but really cold at the same time. uh oh.. I was a little warm from the blankets so touched my neck first to feel my temp so when I felt his I had something to compare it too. I felt his chest, neck and head and I am surprised my hand didn't catch fire. He was burning up! And I could hover my hand above his body and feel the heat coming off of him. I know he had to have been at about 100 or slightly over. Unfortunately somewhere between Lubbock to Allen to Plano to Denmark we have misplaced our thermometer, and there is nothing open at that hour here so I couldn't go get one. He took some Tylenol and reset the alarm to 9 and said he would go to work late if at all. He woke up and felt surprisingly better. OK good! But I had a sneaking suspicion that the Tylenol was masking the fever and any pain. He took it slow this morning, but had a meeting with the other language school at 11:30 so had to leave for that. His skin felt cooler this morning right until he was getting ready to leave and then he was starting to get warm again (just about the time the Tylenol would have been wearing off) So he took some more and then out the door. He was going to come home early too. Poor thing. I feel bad for him.
Oh, also Michael found out he is heading to Dallas on Tuesday-Saturday then to Tokyo from there from Saturday-Tuesday then back here. He isn't looking forward to all the traveling and doing stuff he could do from here. The only thing he is excited for is to be present during a design review in Tokyo with a big wig from a big big Japanese corporation where he will be drilled about this product. I know he will do great, but he will be a MESS when he gets back home.. Jet lag in Dallas...jet lagged from Dallas and new Jet Lag in Tokyo to jet lagged from Tokyo to jet lagged again from Denmark. He isn't going to be a happy camper when he gets home.
Friday, February 02, 2007
5 Orders of Buisiness
Danish Classes
- Umm they are.. Oooookaaaay... besides being inconvenient they kinda seem like a waste of time right now. I think it's a little difficult because we seem to know a bit more Danish then everyone else in the class so it seems to be moving really slow. We have gotten some clarification on some pronunciation and thats good, but still makes it boring. and did I mention inconvenient? ;) I actually found a couple places that offer basically one on one classes or one on two in our case. Michael was going to contact them and see if perhaps we could get private lessons if you will. TI provided us with 10,000 US dollars a person for language training for 1 year.. THATS 20,000 BUCKS!! WOAH! so, we could afford them since TI would be paying for them. Hopefully that will be good, because I can't see us keeping up this schedule every week for the next 2 years. *sigh*
Michael Sick - Michael was a bit under the weather this week, but seems to be better today. Nothing serious, just a yucky cold type thing. Cross your fingers I don't get it. I have a habit of when I catch something he has had, I get it 10 fold.
Laundry Machine - Remember when it was broken? Ya is broken again. This time it is spewing water out onto the floor when we turn it on.. thats always fun. Hopefully our landlord will send someone soon. Our pile of clothes is just about to start growing big time :(
Party - Tonight we are having a little get together at our place with the past and present students from the Texas Tech/Denmark Technical University exchange program. Besides Micheal and Klaus, there will be one other Dane named Jens(and his girlfriend Sarah) and two Americans here currently studying named Austin and Roland. We just thought it would be nice to have everyone get together. There will only be 3 people missing. 2 other Americans who are both in Dallas right now and one Dane whom I believe is also in Dallas right now.
Mom/Sharon Blog - I've been meaning to mention this, my mom and her best friend stated up their own little blog and today mentioned some of my loyal blog commenter's! So look, you guys are famous! ;)
http://mrspeepsandnursiepooh.blogspot.com/index.html
While I'm at it, either though I know only about... oooo 5% of the people that read this actually post comments but I wanted to thank all my loyal readers for letting me know that you read this. I always get a feeling of satisfaction when I hear you tell me you have read it, or tell me via email or even via myspace!! It lets me know this isn't a waste of time! ;)
- Umm they are.. Oooookaaaay... besides being inconvenient they kinda seem like a waste of time right now. I think it's a little difficult because we seem to know a bit more Danish then everyone else in the class so it seems to be moving really slow. We have gotten some clarification on some pronunciation and thats good, but still makes it boring. and did I mention inconvenient? ;) I actually found a couple places that offer basically one on one classes or one on two in our case. Michael was going to contact them and see if perhaps we could get private lessons if you will. TI provided us with 10,000 US dollars a person for language training for 1 year.. THATS 20,000 BUCKS!! WOAH! so, we could afford them since TI would be paying for them. Hopefully that will be good, because I can't see us keeping up this schedule every week for the next 2 years. *sigh*
Michael Sick - Michael was a bit under the weather this week, but seems to be better today. Nothing serious, just a yucky cold type thing. Cross your fingers I don't get it. I have a habit of when I catch something he has had, I get it 10 fold.
Laundry Machine - Remember when it was broken? Ya is broken again. This time it is spewing water out onto the floor when we turn it on.. thats always fun. Hopefully our landlord will send someone soon. Our pile of clothes is just about to start growing big time :(
Party - Tonight we are having a little get together at our place with the past and present students from the Texas Tech/Denmark Technical University exchange program. Besides Micheal and Klaus, there will be one other Dane named Jens(and his girlfriend Sarah) and two Americans here currently studying named Austin and Roland. We just thought it would be nice to have everyone get together. There will only be 3 people missing. 2 other Americans who are both in Dallas right now and one Dane whom I believe is also in Dallas right now.
Mom/Sharon Blog - I've been meaning to mention this, my mom and her best friend stated up their own little blog and today mentioned some of my loyal blog commenter's! So look, you guys are famous! ;)
http://mrspeepsandnursiepooh.blogspot.com/index.html
While I'm at it, either though I know only about... oooo 5% of the people that read this actually post comments but I wanted to thank all my loyal readers for letting me know that you read this. I always get a feeling of satisfaction when I hear you tell me you have read it, or tell me via email or even via myspace!! It lets me know this isn't a waste of time! ;)
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