The coverage of the tsunamis makes me feel numb. I cannot compute the number of dead in my head, even though news reports have it at 71,000 now.
I feel grief for all these people who have survived but lost their entire family.
This horror, I cannot understand.
No memorials. No special burial. Mass graves of unidentified people.
How very sad.
My issues pale in comparison to such tragedy.
I will pray for these people. That is all I can do.
First, Jackie has pink eye. Sunday, her right eye started looking kind of red. There was an eye booger.
By Tuesday, not only did it not go away, but the left one also turned red. I was hoping it was allergies that were causing the redness, but this was not the case.
I called Jackie�s doctor, but he, nor his partner, were in. So, I took off work a half an hour early and took her to Medstop. It�s sort of somewhere between a doctor and the emergency room.
Jackie�s now on antibiotic eye drops. This is just great. Not even a week ago she finished her antibiotic for her sinus infection.
I thought that since Jackie was on winter break, she�d avoid any health issues.
I was wrong.
It sucks too because I feel like I�m hemorrhaging money, between the dentist, the doctor and medication.
Moving on�in my first few journal entries, I wrote about my bizarre sleep issues. I used to have night terrors on a nightly basis. I never completed a whole nights sleep. I woke up many times of night, often, my heart pounding in fear.
Well, for the first time in a year or so, I had a severe night terror last night. All night, I felt like I was in danger, like someone was in my house or trying to get in. The last time, I sat up and imagined that I saw someone in the corner of my bedroom. I started to go back to sleep when a voice (in my head of course) said, �Are you nuts, you�re in danger!�
So, I called the police.
I came to, I became aware, sitting in the living room waiting for the cops to show up. It was 12:30 a.m. I started to think, and was horrified that I had called the police because of an imagined threat.
I called 911 again, this time I was really awake, and told the dispatcher that I sleepwalk and had mistakenly called the police. He said he�d tell the officer.
I felt I should wait though, and the police finally did show up.
�Did you see him again?� He asked. I knew he was referring to whatever I�d told the 911 operator about someone trying to break in. I explained, sheepishly, that I sleep walk and have night terrors, and sometimes behave irrationally. I also apologized.
�It�s the first time it�s ever resulted in a police call.� I said.
�No problem,� he replied. With a wave, he drove off.
I wondered if any of my neighbors had noticed this little interaction.
How embarrassing!
I have a feeling the battle of the fruit flies is not over. My dear friend, wifemotherme, left me a note with some critical information about battling the little buggers.
I�ve cleaned the drains, I�ve vacuumed and disposed of gerbil bedding that had fallen outside the cage. I�ve tried to eliminate every food source in the house.
Yet, after reading the info, it has occurred to me that there are two things I�ve neglected. One, I was in Jackie�s room last night and saw that she had spilled soda on her entertainment center. Obviously, it had been there a while. I forgot to remind her to clean it up. That�s a potential food source for fruit flies. They like soda.
Two, my trash can. I totally forgot about that. I�m either going to clean that out tonight, or throw it out and buy a new one. It depends on how disgusting it is.
9:57 am - December 29, 2004
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