It's been a couple of years. But it's been busy too.
After my last post, I got c.diff again once more and was extremely ill with it. I was also on long-term antibiotics and found it hard to get off those because of how they worked with my bung immune system (which I've been told by doctors doesn't exist anymore). This means I can catch pretty much anything going around - virus-wise.
I had no immune system as a child... and now I don't have one in my 50s and I don't know how long it'll be before I can build it up again. If it ever comes back. But I'm doing my best to get myself sorted out for the next lot of viruses and infections. Hey... I caught one and they don't even know what the name of it is; but it's nothing they've ever seen before (isn't that fun?).
Anyway, later in 2022, I caught a stomach bug caused by c.diff... and the doctors couldn't do anything for me except put me into another droplet room and wait for it to pass. They actually thought I was catching covid and put me into a room down the corridor from the main Covid Ward in Greenslopes - and I tell ya, it's a freaky looking place that ward!
Anyway, when I got home, I began the clean-out to end all clean-outs of my townhouse. I started on my living room, went through the kitchen, the art supplies, my bedroom, bathroom, and this year, the last room on the list was my home office.
I got rid of so many clothes that didn't fit me. Tossed out a lot of things that I just simply didn't want or didn't like, or didn't use anymore. Then, I went through my books, and found there were entire genres I had no interest in, and gave them away to Lifeline (a charity here) and then? I went through the place with a fine-tooth comb and did it all over again.
I know that sounds strange, but six months had passed and I my winter and summer wardrobes had swapped over and I was perusing through another wardrobe, for a different season. So, I did it all over again. And I'm improving, parring back and making sure my place is just filled with things I want and would use in the next few years. And that'd be it.
I did end up catching Covid. After four years, being in a hospital with a gut infection caused by the vaccine, and getting my appendix out, I finally caught THE Virus. I caught it off a customer at work who wasn't supposed to be outside the house - who was still contagious and, well, she didn't care that she was spreading it. She coughed on me once, and that was it. Yeah... great.
Anyway, I hope you're all keeping well. It's a dull, rainy day here in Brisbane (a total change from last week of stinking hot heat and weirdo thunderstorms with spikey hail and weather events which look like tornadoes!). It's a nice day really. Until next time.
