I’m still quite ill, but I have pockets of time during the day when I feel quite a bit better. Then, the next morning comes around and I feel like crap. That’s always the way with these things. I’ve made Don promise not to run any errands today and I am very grateful NOT to have to coach today. I sound like Tallulah Bankhead with a raspy cough and that ain’t pretty.
I think I have a few free days before I have to go back in the city, so I’m laying low.
I can’t even concentrate on reading at the moment, though I’ll give a try again today.
More egg cups:
• On the left, an egg cup from France that I purchased many years ago when was back in San Diego to do some coaching. From my favorite shop at the time, Vignettes. There’s a slightly different flower design on the other side of the cup.
• A lovely little cup from Holland; it’s Delft. This is a very special egg cup because my mom found it somewhere and sent it to me. When I started collecting egg cups, she got right on board and looked for them wherever she went. I cannot tell you how much I miss her. (This cup was included in the Country Living spread.) I love you, Mom.
• I love this one. It was one of my earliest purchases because I love brown transferware. My one regret was that I didn’t collect more of it. I have a few pieces here and there. Anyway, this is Mason’s Vista series (from England) – each design showing a view of some well-known place in the world. Note the design inside the rim.
• And this last one I know very little about. I really love it as it reminds me of Clarice Cliff’s designs. I found it in a local shop. It’s very heavy, and quite old, with crazing. There’s a big yellow flower on the other side. I’d love to know more about it!
Vicki, I’m glad your husband made it through surgery and that he is safely home with you now. Sending prayers for an easy and relatively quick recovery though I know it will take time.
We’ve scheduled Don’s hand surgery for April 28th because I’ll be done with my commitment to the show by then. I can drive him around and take care of him.
Stay safe.
Happy Sunday.
glad there are bits of time when you feel better, claudia, and that you have days ahead off to hopefully heal completely before the work resumes. glad you’re taking it easy. glad you and don have each other to rely on and love.
hope you both feel 100% better soon!
i’m guessing (also hoping) there’s some relief for having scheduled the surgery on don’s thumb, to know it will soon be done and he will heal with therapy and love and return to his wonderful music.
same for vicki and her husband, that he’s gone through surgery, is home and recuperating has begun.
keeping you, don, vicki, her husband and everyone else here in prayers.
lovely group of egg cups again today … thank you. have you tried doing a google image search on that fourth egg cup? maybe it could provide some information for you.
i didn’t get much sleep and woke up with a sore throat so am taking it slow this morning. no big plans for it being sunday. online church, watching the iowa hawkeyes women’s team hopefully win the national championship this afternoon. time with members of my family, of course, depending on how i feel physically. knitting on another dishcloth. also looking online for a cabinet to hold books, etc. (my sister suggested that may be easier to find than a bookcase and also be more versatile and helpful to me as i live in an apartment of 550 square feet and have some collections …).
onward to a good day.
stay safe, be well and happy.
kathy
Take it easy and rest that sore throat, Kathy.
Stay safe.
thanks, kathy; I sure hope your throat starts feeling better … I’m hearing of quite a few people who are coming down with some mild colds and scratchy throats … of course Claudia and Don got hit hard with flu, too … ugh … must be a transition period as we exit winter and get into the new season of spring (and just hope not too many allergies!) … when I was trying to find a place to park yesterday at the hospital to pick up my husband in a nearby city, I couldn’t find any shade for me and the car until I went over by the maternity ward (I had to wait 90 minutes for him to be discharged; nurses were just too busy to get him checked out of his room!) and I was really startled to see more than one person going out to their cars just coughing awfully, sounding like honking geese or something, the poor people, but all I could think of was that I hoped they’d been careful being around new moms and newborns with such bad coughs!
Vicki I thank God your husband is home with you and pray he has a speedy recovery. Good news about Don’s surgery date.
Linda, thank you; I appreciate your prayers; my husband is getting along okay; the esophageal surgery is already a success because he already has much less congestion and chronic-sinus issues which had actually been a result of a type of silent reflux which was undetected for years because there was no way of knowing as he exhibited no signs of distress or heartburn; it did its dirty work silently, dangerously eroding his esophagus and then there were also related abdominal problems associated with this which were putting him at risk for cancer; so, now, we’ve mitigated some of the risk and if he can just tough it out for two months with not being able to eat solid food, he’s going to have so much better quality of life; we’re grateful; and I know he can do it; never a blender guy, he’s already learning how to blend some ‘food’; and he has already gotten the green light from the surgeon today to go from clears to a sort of precursor to pureed food (still has to be liquidy) so just making rapid progress here although I’ve given a little TMI on the whole thing when I know lots of people out there have lots of health stuff going on (one of my best friends has a mother-in-law who can only do liquid foods with a tube, but she is such a trooper, still lives at home with a little help as she approaches age 100 this year!).
Hope you and Don are through the worst of your illness.
I really love that last egg cup. It’s very unique.
Rest and feel better.
Well, I’m not, but I think Don is, as he had it first.
Stay safe, Marilyn.
Claudia, did you ever have a momentary scare it could be Covid? I think with most of us, it never really enters our minds, true?
Yes, I made Don test for Covid – ironically, I ended up coming down with the flu/cold that same day. He tested negative and I tested myself the next day because I knew the stage manager would want to know. Also negative.
xo
Going to walk in clinic…..not Covid but feel miserable…..thought I could shake it but now have bronchitis…..no sleep, tired from coughing and coughing. My husband cannot get this….so I am pushing him out and pretty much staying in one room. Feeling sorry for myself and for you and Don. Whatever this is….it is miserable. Just have to drink plenty of fluids and rest. When I do get some relief….it is in the hot steamy shower….Take care Claudia hope you recover soon….from a fellow sufferer.
Oh, Maria, I’m so sorry you’re feeling badly. Exactly. Plenty of fluids, rest. I haven’t vacuumed in days because of work and then getting sick. It can wait. I’m sorry. Take care.
hej, maria …
hope you have all you need and handy, that you feel better soon and your husband stays well! will be praying for you both.
kathy
maria, you poor thing .. !!! .. how awful for you; thank God it’s not Covid; bronchitis is so draining and tiring; and, yes, how on earth can you sleep when coughing so much; I would get bronchitis and feel like it must be pneumonia; was the hardest thing to have to get up in the morning, go to work, be talking to people on the phone and in person, or trying to, when I knew I needed to NOT talk and just try to calm the cough; I hope you feel better soon; just wanted to tag on to Claudia and kathy in iowa; best thoughts your way ..
Hope your illness clears up soon, Claudia. My son had a bad cough and hoarse throat that wouldn’t go away and saw his doctor. Turned out to be a weird strain of strep that’s going around so he needed a different antibiotic.
Check in with your doctor if that raspy throat doesn’t get better.
Stay safe!
The raspy throat is from phlegm and coughing. It isn’t strep.
Stay safe.
Hope you feel much better by the time you have to go back to the city, Claudia. Glad you have a date for Don’s surgery. He must feel quite anxious about it. Glad Vicki’s husband is home and she can give him some TLC. So many cute egg cups. Hard to choose a favourite. Stay warm and cozy. Apple pie time. Hugs, Elaine
I don’t think Don is up to making an apple pie, Elaine.
That will have to wait.
Stay safe.
Claudia, I feel I missed something. I know Don was having the problem with a trigger finger. What am I forgetting, that now it’s to be a surgery? Poor Don; how upsetting to him because he’s musical and needs to write and play the guitar. And he’s the family chef! And when you can’t use the hand, just a helpless feeling. What is the surgery; a tendon repair or something? I’m sorry I’m having a brain lapse on this, but April 28 will be here before we know it, considering how fast time seems to fly these days. What is the prognosis, the good result hoped for? What is the proposed ‘down time’ he’ll have before his hand is fully recovered?
It has to be surgery because it’s not getting better, and he’s in enormous pain. The cortisone shots worked temporarily but ultimately didn’t improve the situation. The doctor will do it in his office, make a cut at the base of the thumb and go in and snip a bit of the tendon. He will be bandaged up (it’s his right hand and he is right-handed) and he’ll have to keep it dry. Should take a week or two to recover. He may still have pain afterward but nothing like he has now and he’ll have much more flexibility. That’s why we’re waiting until my work with the show is done – so I can drive and run errands (he normally does a lot of that kind of thing) and, god forbid, cook.
Hi, Elaine; thanks for your comment about my husband; I’m definitely giving him some TLC because he’s a bit forlorn about not being able to chew food, now that his appetite is back (no solid food til June).
The egg cup on the end with the colorful flower is gorgeous!
Thank you for taking the time to write a post.
Take care and hope you both feel up to par soon.
Thank you, Betsy!
Stay safe.
I especially love the Delft and brown transferware cups. I wish I’d collected more of the brown as well and it seems a little late in life to do it! But it’s such a calm color.
Yes indeed, lay very low and get well soon. I’m glad you’re at least having bursts of “better.”
Yes, I’ve concluded it’s a bit too late in my life to start collecting more china!
Thanks, Jeanie.
Stay safe.
That’s a nice variety of cups….the one with the bright flower looks like the colors of Fiesta Ware. Thinking of all who are ill or recovering…..
You know, it really helps. When people are having a rough go, just knowing that others are keeping you in their thoughts and prayers means a whole lot!
Thank you, Barrie.
Stay safe.
Yeah, these guys of ours and their surgeries; they need our help! Thanks for the shoutout, Claudia; I appreciate it; between the 75-lb dog in my care who was so traumatized that Daddy left him and didn’t return for a couple of days, such that Doggy couldn’t poop for 43 hrs from the stress, then the husband who is the last person on earth who should ever be on a liquid diet; well, it’s been a stressful few days already … but Claudia: I am also SO sorry that both you and Don are feeling poorly! This is such a load of crap; I want you to get well soon!
How you can feel well enough to post; well, bravo girl; thanx. I love all the cups and I really love Delft that’s genuine because my grandpa was a Netherlander but, gotta say, the cup on the left from France really caught my eye today. Just love seeing the cups, Claudia; it’s so Easter-ish and I want to feel Easterish. Can’t believe that yesterday was April 1 and we still had snow-capped peaks here in MY part of formerly-drought-ridden Southern Calif; today is beautiful, sunny, in the high 60s. I wish everyone had such nice spring weather; I know they don’t. We have bulbs about to burst with flower; the meadow patch is already in full-flower of every color of the rainbow in my front yard; really pretty driving up to it; and my roses are starting to bud out, just barely. How can it not fill your heart to bursting with the beauty of nature!
Don’t laugh, but yesterday was the first time, to my memory, since March 6, 2020 that I walked into the CVS pharmacy counter to actually purchase something. (I recall that on March 4, 2020 that I went to the optometrist [was a Weds], then March 6 [Friday] to the CVS [there right as they opened at 8am to hopefully avoid too many potentially-germy humans], then March 12 [a Thursday] to pick up my new eyeglasses, a fast in & out and they didn’t even measure the glasses to my face; everybody was so Covid-scared; the girls in the optometric office were threatening to just walk out; we didn’t know anything then BUT to feel scared! How I remember this precisely [these dates], I have no idea; but I think it’s because they were such striking moments in a ‘normal’ everyday life; a life about to close down to a different/new ‘normal’ when none of us knew what to expect.)
Anyway, I’ve only been there (to my local CVS) since (2020), to do one thing and one thing only; get my Covid boosters, get in, get out quickly.
But what happens, fast-forward to April-2023, three years later, when you’re the partner, and the other of the two of you can’t fend for himself because he just got out of the hospital? Well, my turn to go to the pharmacy. Had to pick up his after-surgery meds which the hospital ordered at patient discharge, and he HAD to have them of course yesterday.
So, brand-new N95 on my face, hoping for the best for my immune-compromised body, I braved the store on a busy Saturday afternoon (the shopping center in general just teeming with people; everybody out and about on a sunny weekend); the CVS crowded with customers (week before Easter; kids off on vacay). Here I was, waiting and waiting in the pharmacy line as I was Customer No. 12 with only ONE pharmacy clerk at the counter.
Ohmygosh, I couldn’t help but be nervous; I’m never around people; rarely out in public since the pandemic although I know things are getting better now. Most of the clerks and roughly half the customers in the store were masked (pharm folks/employees still behind counter-to-ceiling plexiglass protection), but nobody lining up with me was masked; and, I’m tell’in ya, a lot of those waiting customers were coughing and sneezing and blowing snot into their kleenexes, so I had to really tap down my urge to flee.
But I did it. Gotta be there for my husband. I consider myself no heroine (ha!); I’ve just realized I’ve gotten ‘way too dependent upon my spouse (I lived alone for 13 years before I ever met him!); it’s just as the pandemic started, he decided I should be the one to stay safe, out of stores, keep to home, as I was the most vulnerable to virus of the two of us.
The other part of me wildly wanted to shop the CVS! Hit me like a ton of bricks how much I wanted to shop! Just browse; look around, look at Easter stuff. Retail therapy used to really relax me! The day is coming … (!!!!)
Vicki, hope your husband recovers quickly, take care, Jen
Jen, thank you for your kind thoughts! From Vicki
So proud of you, Vicki! I know what a big deal that was for you. But you did it! Huzzah!
xoxo
If the cups help you feel Easterish, I’m very happy!
Hang in there, Vicki.
Stay safe.
They do. I want to feel Easter-ish! My husband and I both were very grouchy yesterday. I don’t want to be grouchy for Easter! Maybe it would help if my darned local bakery would finally do their hot-cross buns which I just HAVE to have at this time of year.
(I think it’s the letdown from a lot of buildup to his surgery. The grouchiness. Thank God his pain is quite manageable. Getting out today in the sunshine [high 40s when I woke up this morning] to go retrieve the car from the hospital parking lot; I think it’ll help to get out a bit. He’s doing okay. Adventures in Eating [well, not really eating; sipping; because he IS a cook {unlike you and me!!}; it’s giving him something to do by figuring out how to make blended ‘drinks’/food to satisfy; truly sounds gross to me like grinding up scrambled eggs {can’t eat them ‘regular’ til Week 5} with something else for breakfast, then grinding up something else for protein in tomato soup for dinner; yuckola].)
Wanted to say, too: I’m sure glad you both tested negative for Covid but I knew ‘inside’ you were smart enough to think of it (for as Covid-aware as I think I am, it’s never first in my thoughts when someone is sick, which I don’t understand in terms of how my mind works!). Also, so sorry you both are still feeling lousy. And thanx too for the info about Don’s hand; poor guy. Appreciate all the response to my multiple questions!
I was going to ask about his pain but you’re answered. So glad to hear it’s manageable, Vicki.
xo