First of all – THANK, THANK, THANK to Allie who sent funds to my PayPal account for groceries. I’ll probably use the full amount to purchase glycerna snack drinks. They are so expensive at $3 a day.
I thought once I started healing from the surgery, I’d begin feeling better. But that isn’t the case. I still feel so tired that all I do is lie in bed most of the day. I cut my medications way back. I only take one pain med a day. But still the tiredness and being unable to do much just hangs on.
I keep waiting for our luck to turn around. I survived the surgery and that’s certainly and big, big plus for my family. But our unending poverty just continues.
We recently found out we were infected with bedbugs. It’s horrible. It seems my older son and his girlfriend brought them in with them when they stayed here for December and January while looking for an apartment they could afford. They stayed at the Stratosphere just prior to coming here and it seems they must have been in the bedbug alert section of the hotel. They stayed in the baby’s room so that’s where we found the infestation, but of course, it’s all over the house. Estimates to rid us of the bugs ran $2200 to $900 dollars. More wasted money gone. We have to get rid of them, there is no choice there. Thankfully we found one that will take $100 down and payments of $100 a month. We agreed to him, being our only choice without much money. I hate to say, but I will sign the contract. Since I don’t own the home, I’ll have to have them spray and then only make a payment or two and let it go to collection. That way they can’t place a lean on our house. The two payments will cost us our entire grocery amount for the two months.
On top of that, I still do not have a primary doctor and the bills are getting higher and higher. As long as my oncologist is willing to continue my blood pressure and other meds, I’ll be okay. The cancer institute wants me to complete a couple more rounds of chemo. I just feel too weak to do that now and told them so. Plus they no longer can get the one nausea medication that worked for me for the chemo. Last time I was hospitalized as heart attack critical during one treatment. I don’t want to go through that again.
My husband’s birthday passed at the beginning of this month. I felt so bad. I was having a bad day and barely got out of bed. He spend the day cleaning all the surfaces with clorox bleach while we waiting for the bedbug exterminator. He has about 1/3 the house cleared and is working on the rest all by himself. What a lousy birthday. They scheduled the extermination heaters for the day after Valentine’s Day. We have to leave the house for a full 24 hours. I’m sending my father with dementia to stay at my son’s new apartment and then I have to de-bug him before he reenters the house. My son’s place will be too crowded plus, I know he hasn’t debugged so we can’t stay there. Everyone else lives too far away to put us up for a night. We luckily have a friend with a player’s card at Texas Station. They had a special for rooms for players for $13.99. He said he would use his card, pay and get the keys, then just give us the keys for $13.00. That was soooo very nice, even though we are so broke that $13.00 kills us, we can stay there. We won’t have money for food. So I’ll go through the cabinets and take my little tea pot plug in water heater and use it for Raman noodles and such while we are there. The exterminators begin at 11am, so we’ll have to hang out at a park until the hotel registration begins at 3pm. Check out is 11am, and they are suppose to be done by then.
My poor hubby. Happy birthday and Happy Valentine’s Day to him. What a shitty life we have. On top of everything else, the baby is sick. It’s that time of year when allergies make his asthma bad.
