I was diagnosed with pneumonia a week ago tomorrow. The doctor thinks I was walking around with it for a good long while. I rested all week as best as I could. Tom stayed home from work all week to help take Juniper to daycare and take care of the dog so I could sleep. Today is Monday, and I had to take Juniper to school. I also have my first grad school application due Friday and well, I’m not ready. So I tried to shoot some photos of my paintings. I wound up on the bed, hyperventilating for I don’t know how long, 10 minutes? 20 minutes?. I was going to go back into the doc this week anyway so I decided today was as good a day as any. I feel better but I still feel crappy and I don’t feel like 3 more days of antibiotics is going to clear this pneumonia. They x-rayed me and confirmed, yep, I still have active pneumonia. It must have been a pretty good case to start with because it’s active in both lungs still. The doctor decided since I’m getting better, just slowly, to keep me on the same antibiotics but add a few more days. So the long and short of it is, I’m getting better, just still sick.
I’m trying to just power through the last bits of this grad school application best I can so I can get it done with and rest up before the next one is due in two weeks. I’ve got all the images gathered together and tonight with the help of Tom I burned an auto-playing dvd of my short video. My friend is doing an editorial pass on my statement of purpose. It’s been really rough to write. I hope she can help me with it and doesn’t just barf all over it.
I had to turn in a painting today for a little Sasquatch themed show at Arbor Lodge cafe. I was dragging along and looking like a half dead thing. Juniper spilled her milk after 2 seconds of holding it. It was bleak. But got the painting turned in. Hopefully no one will remember me. I can’t come to the opening, but I’m going to try and make it over there to take photos at some point.
So anyway. The year hasn’t started out so good. Looking through my portfolio, I feel completely doomed. I guess atleast I don’t have my hopes up too high. I’m still proud I made it this far and I’m thankful for progress. Sigh. Just gotta keep trying, keep pushing. As far as the rest of the year’s start. So sick, I’m so sick. I thought for sure I was going to be all ready to get in shape, start going to the gym after my applications are done. Looks like I might spend the first few times in the steam room trying to clear my lungs. Still, I’ll get better and things will look up. Mostly life looks pretty good. I just need to get better.