It's Friday Wine Day.

Yes, it's Friday. Let's celebrate with some wine or whine. I heard that yesterday was National Drink Wine Day and I missed it. As you can imagine for me to miss that, it's been a bad week.

Wednesday evening (day of accident) my head hurt so badly I wanted to cry.
I have never ever had a headache like this. I was nauseous as hell and I was sore everywhere.  I just figured the accident, the stress, no biggie. I knew I'd be sore. Then I kept waking up all night with this headache that was just barking at me and my neck was so sore. I got up and took some advil and went back to bed.

Yesterday morning it wouldn't leave. When Rick got home I had my head on the desk.  He encouraged me to go to Urgent Care. I said no, I'll be fine, its nothing.
About an hour later I realized that is what he does to me when I ask him to seek help or treatment and it drives me bat shit crazy.

Guess what I did?  I grabbed my purse and drove over to urgent care. I was the only one there and I must admit that is rare.  I got right in and after my exam and testing with my eyes and all kinds of goofy things I was told I had "whiplash" which the doctor informed me they no longer call it that.

They gave me a shot in my hip and told me to lie on the exam table and they'd be back in. They closed the door, turned off the lights and bam, I was out.  It felt like I slept for hours when they walked back in. They repeated some tests and walked me through the Rx they were giving me and telling me not to work for a couple of days. Yea, right. I'm self-employed, no work, no food. Peggy likes to eat.

The shot took my headache down 50% but it was still there.
I got 2 Rx, one for inflammation and one to relax my muscles. She told me to take it at bedtime. It was valium. Having only had valium once in my 20's before my first back surgery I knew it made me laugh like crazy. Not the reaction one is supposed to get from this stuff.

Before bed I said to Rick, I am taking this to help me sleep so if Izzy needs to go out or needs anything it's all on you tonight okay?  He says, "No problem. I got it covered Margaret"

I take my valium and it hit me just like they said it would. I was asleep in no time. Until I hear the dog gagging like she may vomit.
Rick sleeps through the whole thing.  I get her outside and while it was just bile I am concerned that something is wrong with Miss Izzy. She has had tummy issues for a week or so now and that is not normal. So after she is ill, we walked a few blocks. Because really, doesn't everyone do this at 2 am?  She appears happy, her tail wagging and she seems normal. We came back in and she went to her covered corner of the sofa.  After this bone-chilling cold walk, I feel very much awake. I sit on the sofa and think, Gee glad Rick was willing to do this tonight.

As Izzy is settling in, I get a glass of water and think I may just watch How to Get Away with Murder that I recorded since I went to bed at 10p. I turned it on but that was all I saw. I too fell right to sleep on the sofa.

At 3:45 (am) I hear her shake, which makes her collar jingle. She does her I have to go to the bathroom stare. Oh for the love of God dog, you're killing me. We go outside and she quickly pees AGAIN and we come back inside. At least, this was quick. Now, we've awakened sleeping beauty and he comes down the stairs asking what is going on?
I wanted to hit him or be snarky but only told him what was going on.
He told me to go back to bed. I climb the stairs and crawl into my warm bed.
I can't sleep. I laid there until 4:30a. Then I got up and went back downstairs to find Rick watching TV.  I turned on the coffee pot and said, we may as well have some coffee and get on with our day.

All the while this headache is bearing down and I really can't believe that a headache this bad isn't a tumor. Gee, how awful would that be?
I wouldn't wish this kind of a headache on anyone.

My rental car is a Toyota 4runner. It's a truck basically. I need a ladder to get in this thing. It only had 33 miles on it when given to me so it even has a new car smell. But getting in this thing is not easy for 5'1" me. I have to open the door, put my leg up as high as my chest and then grab the wheel and pull myself in.
If I were wearing anything other than pants this would be a sight. Hell, it's funny now. When I shared this with Rick he laughed, not having been in the car yet. So yesterday when I was leaving he came out to see the car as I got in. He had a mighty good laugh. I have this rental until my car is done. They expect that to be done on the 4th of March. So I will be climbing up into this car for awhile.

Oh, and did I share this tidbit?  The afternoon of the accident, as I was sitting at the service station that I was told to go to by the insurance of the person who hit me, guess who walks in? Yep, the man that hit me. He sees me and says, "Oh I'm so sorry."  Honestly, this young man has apologized so many times it crazy. I told him that it's called an accident because he didn't mean to do it. I am fine and my dog is fine and he is fine so our cars can be fixed - all good. He said he wasn't sure his car wasn't totaled. He asked if I was sore because he was very sore. I told him I was indeed. He said, "you told my insurance company right?"  I told him I did. If one must be hit, this young man was a very nice person to hit me. I'd show you pictures of his and my car but I'm sure he wouldn't want his license plate on the web. I don't know how to block that out or I'd show you photos of our cars.

My weekend plan is nothing. Oh, sure, clean toilets and the like because we all know how much fun that is. But nothing more than cleaning and trying to rid myself of a headache. The cure may involve a glass or two of dry red wine.
Monday morning we must be at the hospital at 7 am for Rick.

I hope and pray that all the bad shit is over with now. Life will only be on the upswing from this day forward. Hey - a girl can dream.
Hope you all have a wonderfully calm and happy weekend.

I'll be back before you know it.
Oh and btw, I think I can do a password thing but you may all have to email me to get it. I will continue to work on it. I so want to go back to how I was here in my little space. But don't worry, I'll let you all know when it will be needed before I do it.