My Single Mom Life

Yesterday, Tuesday, Mark and I took a walk and went up to CVS to get his script and a Moneypak card so that I could pay my hosting bill and the water bill, and then we stopped and had lunch at the Chinese place near there.
I use the Moneypak cards because I can add cash to the Moneypak card and then transfer it to my PayPal account, and then use my PayPal card to pay my bills.
My web hosting company, ICDSoft.com, takes PayPal directly, so I used PayPal to pay the hosting renewal bill, and then the card to pay the water bill.

Mark and I had a really great lunch (or so we thought) and we talked about a lot of things.
Mark has spent a lot of time online researching his spine problems, the Spondylolysis and Spondylolisthesis, he wanted to know for himself exactly what he has, not just hear the doctors say those big words to him and not really explain what anything is or how it can be corrected, so we talked about all of the information he learned and a whole bunch of other really interesting subjects he looked up online as well.
We took a really slow walk home because after walking there, I was simply in too much pain to walk quickly back home.
To be honest, I should have spent the stinking $7 and taken a cab home, I'm still in pain from the walk.

But anyway, everything was going good, (or so I thought), until around 6:30pm or so.
When we came home from our errands, Mark went and laid down, he wanted to take a small nap and I had no objection to that because he had actually been up all night.
Sebastian was going to wake him at 7pm because I went to my friend Nikki's house because she was going to help me dye my hair.
While I was sitting there with dye in my hair, Sebastian calls and tells me that Mark is feeling really nauseous and is "sorta green looking".
I told him that I would be back home as fast as I possibly could, and to just tell Mark to stay laying down and take it easy.
While there for about another 45 minutes, I got two more calls from Sebastian telling me that Mark had now puked three times and for me to not rush home, he was just giving me updates.
When I got in the door, Mark was definitely green looking, he had now puked a total of five times, and he got up and ran into the bathroom again to go for round six.
Poor kid.
He had the curry chicken at the Chinese place, and something must have been really wrong with it because Mark definitely has food poisoning.
I do believe it's all over now, (I hope) he's been in bed sound asleep since about 11:30pm, he hasn't puked again, and the wicked bad stomach cramps that he said he was having, have totally stopped too
What was a nice lunch and really great talk with Mark, turned into him being sick for hours because of that "nice lunch":
Ugh.

I've been awake all night (nothing new there) and just sitting here thinking about a lot of things, mindlessly watching crap on the tv, and trying really hard to get myself out of this horrible depression that I've been in for several months now because of all of the new medical issues that I'm dealing with.
I so just want it all to stop, after all of these years, I just want the medical crap to stop.
It's just not going to, not anytime soon anyway.
So I was sitting here and then decided to go lay on the couch and surf the channels looking for anything even halfway decent to watch, and it was cold in here even with the blanket I was wrapped up in, and I was thinking how much I used to love my electric blanket when I was a teenager and how nice it would be to have one now for the winters here because we don't have heat in this house, it usually doesn't ever get cold enough for the use of heat.
That's when the cats realized that I was on the couch with the blanket, they love the blanket, and they love it when someone is on the couch with it, they all come cuddling up on you.
After about 15 - 20 minutes with Kali, Nova, Shahiro, and Simba all curled up on top of me, I was definitely not cold anymore, as a matter of fact, I had to get back up off of the couch because I was sweating.
The cats are like little fur-covered breathing electric blankets. hahaha!
They cuddle all up, start purring, and within minutes, you're definitely not cold anymore.

I got up off of the couch over two hours ago and I've now just been sitting here mindlessly surfing the channels again, thinking, and trying to find the positive in all of this stuff and wondering why, why I go in for one painful medical issue in my left hip, and come back out with two medical issues, one in each hip!
I keep telling myself to laugh, you know, gotta laugh because if you don't, you'll cry, and I do end up laughing because of the insanity of it all.
I just wonder how many more things can possibly go wrong with my body, how many more titanium implants I can get inside of me, and wondering when it's all going to stop, when I'm finally going to catch that break that everyone keeps telling me that I should be getting really soon.