TEA

Hello, friends!  Hope you are having a good day.  As for me -- I am still sick.  I have had a fever, sore throat and runny nose.  They are gone, but now I have a stuffy nose that I am constantly blowing and a wicked cough.  I can feel the congestion in my chest.  And being the person that I am, I shared it with Joe.  He is about a day behind me and is feeling so bad.  He went to the doctor yesterday who told him he just had to ride it out.  It is now 21 days that I have been sick.  I am so sick of being sick.  To top it off, my doctor had surgery yesterday and will be out of the office for about three weeks.  At least there is Urgent Care if I get worse.

To help me out with this cold, I have been drinking a lot of hot tea which seems to help a great deal.  For Christmas my sister Elaine gave us a really nice box of assorted teas.

It is by Taylors of Harrowgate and is used by the Prince of Wales.  Well, according to the box.  I can understand if he does use it, though.  This tea is wonderful.  Some people like coffee.  I love my tea.

It was so pretty when I opened the box.

There were 8 different teas, each in its own little cubby in the box.

And the box closes so nicely keeping everything fresh.

So far I have tried the Decaffeinated Breakfast Tea, the Earl Grey Tea, and the English Breakfast Tea.  All were excellent.  Joe has had the Organic Chamomile which he really liked.  What is good is that the ones I do not like, Joe does.  So the Green Tea with Jasmine, the Chamomile and the Organic Peppermint are all his.  I want to try the Lemon and Orange Tea and the Assam Tea this weekend.  In fact, I think I will have the Lemon and Orange for breakfast.

After Joe's doctor visit yesterday we stopped at Shoprite to pick up a few things we needed.  With this snow storm coming, I did not want to go out driving to the store for things.  I forgot eggs and bread but I was not going back through that mob to get them.  I can get them at 7-11 today.  We are both feeling so bad.  In fact, the facial tissues were on sale for 88 cents, so we each have our own box which we carry around with us for our poor noses.  We had even run out of tissues and were blowing our noses on paper towels.  Ouch!  These are much softer.

I am hoping that my next post I can say to you that I am feeling wonderful and am finally over all my illnesses.  I think my body is so run down that no matter what comes along, I just get it.  The only place I have been besides hospitals and doctors' offices for the past three weeks is Monday I was feeling good and went to the nursing home with Joe and Rick.  I stayed far away from the ladies and gentlemen that were there, so I hope I didn't pass on what I have.  I wasn't feeling sick then or I wouldn't have gone.  Joe says we will probably cancel this week because he is too sick to preach.

And I think we will both stay home from church this week.  I have never in my life missed three weeks of church in a row.  In fact, I can't remember when I missed three weeks of church in a year!  You know I am sick if I don't go.  My sister's church records their service and posts it on YouTube so we have been watching those when they go up on Tuesday.  But it's not the same as being there.

At least I am getting a lot of reading done.  I am reading "Anne of Green Gables."  Can you believe I have never read it?  And as I am reading, I wonder why I haven't read it before now.  It is so good.  Yesterday at the VA Hospital while I was waiting for Joe to have his appointment, I read 11 chapters.  Yes, we waited from 2:00 to 4:00 for the doctor to get around to seeing him.  He said he was running a little late.  Uh huh.

And now I think I will get something to eat and lay down again.  I look around and know I should clean the house and do the wash and I just can't.  The dirt will be there tomorrow.  And the day after that.  And the day after that.

Thanks for not giving up on me.  This is a rough time in my life but I have hope it will get better.  Really.

Kathy