Scattered Thoughts . . .

I n just another seven days, we'll have a house full of people including excited grandchildren bursting with energy to open Christmas gifts.   There is no more room left under the Christmas tree for more presents.  We even have presents stacked up against an armchair and the piano.  We only have a few more presents to wrap but those presents still have not yet arrived here at the house.  We had a couple of late additions to our Christmas present list.  Most of these gifts were purchased in early November!  I think the last present will be delivered to us on Friday, the day before our Christmas party.  That is cutting it too close for comfort! I've already decided on what we will be eating for dinner on Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and on Saturday for the party but we still need to compile a shopping list of food and to go grocery shopping.  We'll do that sometime early in the week.  If all goes well, we won't need to go back to the groce...

My health this week has been rather miserable.  I don't know if I had a stomach virus or if it was just my usual problems due to my systemic mastocytosis but this week has been pretty miserable.   I seem to always get sick after spending time with the grandchildren and we spent time with the grandchildren this past weekend.  By Monday, I was spending much of the day in the bathroom every day.  So, either I picked up a bug from the grandchildren yet again or my primary illness had crashed my overall health.  Either way, this week has been rather miserable. I guess this is a good indication of how lousy my health is due to my illness...  it is indistinguishable from a stomach virus that lasts for days.  This illness doesn't always cause gastrointestinal problems but it doesn't some of the time.  When this happens, the nausea is unbearable, the diarrhea is relentless, and the vomiting is really annoying.  Then combine all three of those at ...