The answer to the question, what have I done lately, is, nothing. Nothing much. In a way, killing time. I plan to move to a larger apartment this summer, and meanwhile caught shingles. Here I must highly recommend the shingles shots if you have not had them yet, unless you somehow had the chicken pox vaccination--in which case you would be too young to know the likes of me, but anyway.
Shingles is painful. I had a very mild case of it when I was around twenty-one years old, and it was painful even though I only had one little area of rash. This time, many many years later, my whole right side, front and back, was covered in rashes and . . . I had no idea there were so many varieties of pain. Good grief. I'm better but still on the pain meds. It can take weeks and weeks to get over this. I had the anti-viral meds so I hope I escape that. So, to summarize, get the shots. Word to the wise. 'Nuf sed. And so on.
You may or may not know that my hometown football team, the Kansas City Chiefs, won the Superbowl last night. I have jokingly been telling people I just hope both teams will have fun, but last night the San Francisco 49ers were not having fun after the game. Tons of people in Kansas City were, however. I live downtown so from out my third story window I saw the streams of people and cars leaving after watching the game on giant TV screens in a few places downtown. Happy screams and woo-hooooos filling the air, horns honking, streetcars stalled in place, flasher on as they gave up trying to move up and down Main Street, occasional sirens. Good for them. I'm not a football fan, really, but it's nice to see an entire city the size of Kansas City in good spirits and all in accord.
Even President Trump caught the fever and Tweeted his congratulations and in his own inimitable fashion said the Chiefs represented the great state of Kansas in their victory--except of course as I've said many many times, KANSAS CITY IS IN MISSOURI---NOT KANSAS. (If you mean Kansas City, Kansas, then you must say: "Kansas City, Kansas.") The tweet was corrected almost immediately of course, but the damage is done. You Missourians and Kansans who live in at least two states that "went Trump" during the 2016 election would do well to realize that the man doesn't give a flying f**k about either state along with many of the surrounding states in the center of the country, as he demonstrated last night when he revealed not only his ignorance but his unwillingness to inform himself for lack of . . . a flying f**k.
But I digress.
That's about all from Missouri, now in the middle of the oddest winter here that I can remember, for it's frequent freaky warm spells--not that I'm complaining. Anyway, spring is coming, as it always does.
Note: Kansas City was named before the Territory of Kansas was a state and named Kansas. Hence the confusion for all of us who do not have a staff of highly intelligent and well-informed aids at our disposal.
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ReplyDeleteShingles?!! Holy shit! Kristiana had them a few years ago. Like you were, she is far too young but got them anyway and said she never had so much burning pain in her entire life. Scared me into getting the damn shot ASAP. I take it the anti-viral meds are different than the shot. Correct? And, if so, when can you get the shot. Once is enough.
ReplyDeleteAnd congratulations to Kansas City MISSOURI for winning the Super Bowl. I didn't know it was last night but nice the whole town was happy.
As for King Trump, under all the trappings, I see him as a sad little man who will never, ever get the acclaim he craves. The maga is just an ego booster, a fill-in. He wants billionaires to fawn over him but they just use him like the whore he is.
I was told I won't need the shot now for five years, since I now have some immunity. I will mark my calendar. The anti-viral pills will work, they say, if you start them within 48 hours of breaking out in the rash. I fell into that category, so I can only guess that maybe the severity was lessened. If that's so, well I can't imagine what Kristiana may have gone through. Definitely not a disease to trifle with.
ReplyDeleteThe funniest thing was after Trump's tweet, Claire McCaskill (former U.S. senator from Missouri) tweeted, "It's Missouri you stone cold idiot." Now, of course not everybody knows that--I hear it all the time--but, c'mon. The President should know, or at least find out. The casual attitude about tweets, when apparently they are supposed to be "official" presidential communications, should get fixed, or take away the idiot's cell phone.
I had shingles when I was 45. I assumed that was a harbinger of getting that shit frequently for the rest of my life, but it has not yet recurred.
ReplyDeleteI'm so horrified by politics I'm making the daily decision to just stay a way. Trump is a symptom of problems that are going to put us all through a lot of hell frequently for the rest of our lives. A life spent in the benign bubble that is California's I-80 corridor did not prepare me to discover what a horrible country we are.