The last week of July, Ashley started feeling bad. She had pain in the right side of her abdomen. Thankfully, it wasn't appendicitis. The doctor said it was a pulled muscle. After a few days on medication, she started feeling better.
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When I went to vacuum the church on Saturday, July 30th, the flooring in the foyer was mostly complete. I took a couple pictures of it.
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Tuesday, August 2nd, Charlie was rear-ended on his way home from work. The person in front of him had suddenly decided to turn, so Charlie hit his brakes. The person behind Charlie hit Charlie and caused the work truck he was driving to hit the person in front of him. The person Charlie hit drove off. There is some damage to the back of the truck. They're still waiting for insurance to make a decision about damage, cost, etc. Charlie had some pain in his neck and maybe back, so he went to the doctor for that the next day. He's on medication for the pain.
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Tuesday, August 9th, my right ankle started hurting badly. By that evening and the next day, I was having to slide/drag my right leg along and I was moving in what felt like slow motion. Taking a shower took a little longer than usual (I didn't realize how often I turn in the shower lol) and getting up after sitting for a little while was almost agony. I'd say an 8 on a scale of 1-10. Barely touching the area above the inside/left side of my right ankle was and is unbearable.
I went to the doctor on Thursday, August 11th. They did x-rays (no injury) and then the doctor felt/rubbed/squeezed my leg, achilles, and ankle (gently). He believes it's tarsal tunnel syndrome and prescribed naproxen. It has helped with the pain and I can walk normal again, but just because it doesn't hurt to walk doesn't mean it's better. (It still hurts so bad to touch above the inside of my ankle.) I do an exercise I read about online (rotate ankle/foot clockwise and counterclockwise 5 times each) and I sometimes wear an ankle brace. It can take 2 weeks to 6 months to heal. If things don't improve, the doctor said I could go to an orthopedic doctor for steroid shots in my ankle. I really don't want to do that. Just the thought of a needle in my ankle - no.
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Charlie started feeling sick with a sore throat this past Wednesday morning. (Or maybe it started the previous evening.) When he came home from work, he was feeling worse - fever (100.5), sore throat, headache, chills, tired. I told him he shouldn't go to work the next morning. He was still feeling bad when he woke up and so he stayed home. (Though thankfully his temperature was only 99.2.) A home covid test was positive. He went to CVS before 1:00 PM to be tested there, but hasn't gotten the results yet. They said they'd text him.
Yesterday evening, he said his chest was starting to hurt. I told him that if it got worse or if he started coughing or had trouble breathing that he would need to go to the ER. He used the oximeter we have and his blood oxygen was about 94 or 95.
Kelly and I are avoiding him. She stays in her room. I usually come to my office, which is on the opposite end of our house, or the kitchen if I'm cooking. I told Charlie to wear a mask if Kelly and I are in the same room or area of the house that he's in. Usually we just sort of pass through the room he's in (the living room) and try not to linger. I'm using hand sanitizer and spraying the house with disinfectant spray. I'm going to wipe everything down with wipes tonight. I sprayed the remotes with disinfectant spray and wiped them with hand sanitizer when he went to bed for a nap yesterday afternoon.
A woman who works at his job (I forget what she does) came to his office on Monday or Tuesday and then ended up testing positive for covid. So he thinks he probably got it from her.
There are only about a half dozen or so people who work where Charlie works. It's a place where cranes are fixed and maintained. The two women who work there are in HR or mail/delivery/orders/secretary positions. Charlie worked on cranes for years, but he's been a manager there since 2016. He still helps out with the cranes when they need an extra helping hand.
Anyway, I hate that he's sick and I hate that I'm having to avoid him. I like eating supper with him each night, watching TV with him, looking at our phones together (lol), sharing funny or interesting videos or articles we see on our phones, talking. We're still in the same house and it's only been a couple days, but I miss him.
I'm praying Kelly and I don't get it. If Kelly's ever had it, she had no symptoms or light symptoms. I've been sick once or twice where I thought afterwards that I might have had it, but it wasn't horrible (bad, but not horrible; kind of like a bad cold/sinus infection) and I didn't get tested. To be safe though, I did stay home those one or two times I might have had it.
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Ancestry has a new DNA update. These are our new ethnicity estimates:
My results. Finland hasn't been a part of my ethnicity estimate since the first results I got. (Current estimate is my 7th.) I was like, "Hey, Finland's back!"
My mom's results.
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I finally finished reading Go Tell the Bees That I am Gone by Diana Gabaldon on August 9th. I started reading it on November 24th! This is the first Outlander series book that was mostly boring. I really struggled to finish it. I stopped reading it in April or May and read the 5th book in the Surviving the Evacuation series. Then picked Bees back up in June. If I didn't love the characters so much and if it weren't the 9th book in what will be a 10-book series, I probably wouldn't have read past the halfway mark. I gave it 2.5 stars out of 5 at GoodReads.
After Bees, I started reading Under the Gray Skies by Jacqueline Druga. It was so bad that I couldn't finish it. The plot might be good, but the writing was awful and the spelling errors were too much. She misspelled "lightning" twice just a couple paragraphs apart as "lightening". The last straw (after many previous straws) was when she wrote something like, "I thought I was going to throw up. I really did. But I didn't." I rolled my eyes, groaned, thought "Oh, my God" so many times because of the bad writing. I DNF'd it at page 25.
I'm now reading Turbulent (Days of Want #1) by T.L. Payne. It started off a little rocky, but it's gotten better. I'm not far enough along to decide if I'll continue the series, but I'm liking it better than Bees and Under the Gray Skies.
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Clothes purchased since my last entry:
I bought this to go with the plain green Talbots dress I bought a couple months ago. This sweater is also by Talbots. I ordered it from ThredUp through eBay. I paid less than $29 after tax. Shipping was free. (This is ThredUp's photo.) The flowers are also on the back of the sweater.
I bought this from someone on Poshmark. (This is their photo.) This skirt is Lauren Ralph Lauren. I paid $23.48 after shipping and tax.
I bought this from someone on Poshmark. (This is their photo.) Sweater by Tahari. I paid less than $16 after shipping and tax.
I bought this from someone on eBay. (This is their photo.) Sweater by Max Studio. I paid $34 and change after shipping and tax.
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