Unpacking goes on and on and .....

Jeanne has been here for most of the past week and what a
relief that is.  I've had Shingles for almost two weeks
now and I think, hope, I'm over the worst of it.

Both eyes were swollen shut for a while so that I could
not see and, of course, was afraid of losing my vision.
Dr. Roberts has seen me twice and prescribed prednisone
and an anti-viral.  The anti-viral may/may not do any
good, but it can't hurt and the prednisone has helped
a lot, I think.  In any case, I can now see out of both
eyes.

The pain has switched from a headache to many shooting
pains, needles of pain that jump from one area of the
left side of my skull to another.  Sleeping has been
very difficult, but Tylenol PM seems to work the best.
I suppose the benedryl in it helps inhibit the itch.

Connie, Meara and Alan were here sometime in the
last week or so.  I have been so out of it, much of
the time, I'm not sure when they were here.  But,
Alan worked with Robert on the TV system and
Meara and Connie unpacked all of my clothes.

Jeanne has totally organized my kitchen!  It is better
organized than it ever has been and certainly better
than had I done it myself.

Robyn and Janis were here over the weekend and Janis
did the book and bathroom unpack.  We had a cupboard
in the pantry which was stuffed with first aid products and
multiple other pharmaceuticals.  Janis unpacked and
stowed all that stuff.  She also unpacked all my books!
Robyn and Robert did the detective work necessary to 
finish installing our cable phone, Internet and TV.  No 
longer do we have a greenwire running from the guest 
room to my office.

Connie is coming tomorrow.  She and Jeanne will make
a map of where all my kitchen "stuff" is now located.

Robert is taking me to see a dermatologist, Dr. Steinhauer,
in the morning.  Ironically, my dermatologist whose
office was in Louisville, has left the practice.  For
years I have driven to Louisville to see him; now that
we are 5 minutes away from that office I shall be going
to the Boulder office in north Boulder.