2002 I am sleeping on a mattress on the floor in front of the piano. It used to be a rollaway mattress on an uncomfortable spring support, but it was unbearable. The mattress on the floor worked best. Stan bought me ampules of a strange mint-scented roll-on anti-headache treatment. I sniff it just because I like the way it smells. I'm rediscovering in Pink Floyd. I will always think of Pink Floyd when I smell the mint.
1989 It's not really a vacation, but we are in a motel. There's a big field between it and the Iowa interstate, and on this humid midsummer day, the fireflies are out. It has literally been ages since I've seen fireflies. When I would visit my grandmother, it was too late in the summer for fireflies. The last firefly I saw must have been 18 years before, when I lived in New York. Stan and I go down to the field and catch fireflies and put them in a jar, like we did when we were kids. I smell that weird bug odor that can't be described, but is instantly recognizable for anyone who's held a firefly. The next day, we will be in our new home.
Labels: Vacation
7 Comments:
Every time we travel on I - 80 and go by the field where we caught the fire flies it makes me feel happy that we moved to Wisconsin.
I wonder what the dividing line for fireflies is. Is it the Missouri River?
I remember seeing them in western Kansas when my parents drove to the east coast in 1976. This was the first time I saw fire flies and there were some orange looking ones in Kansas. When we stayed in Missouri I went out at night to catch them and they were green like the ones we have here. I understand there are several species of these glowing insects and I'm sure the scope of their land goes far past the Missouri River, but it is strange that they can't be found in drier climates.
oh my goodness! you were very sick. any idea what was wrong? how terrible....
I caught some sort of infection...strep, maybe. They took me to the doctor's after we got back home and they did a strep test, but for some reason they said I didn't have strep. Except I didn't get better. My throat was so sore and I had a horrible fever and I still kept barfing my guts out. Finally, they decided to give me antibiotics anyway (this was before I was allergic to antibiotics) and WITHIN A DAY I got better FAST.
There is so much doctors don't know and can't determine from their little tests.
I had lost so much weight after that sickness (not that I had a lot to begin with at that time in my life...I have plenty to give up now!!!) and that fall I kept losing a lot of hair. Each hair that would come out had a colorless area of growth about half an inch long near the root. I determined that the colorless growth started when I was sick.
wow! how odd! i am glad they medicated you!
Me too. It was awful! I thought I was going to die. I sure got a lot of awful stuff in high school through college, and then my bout with mono when I was 27 (then, they *shouldn't* have treated me with antibiotics, but they did, which made the mono worse ((they didn't know I had mono)) and elevated my liver functions and sealed my fate with antibiotic allergies...pushed me over the limit.
I never have strep-like stuff anymore, fortunately,, because I wouldn't be able to take regular antibiotics for it.
Post a Comment
<< Home