Loose Ends (Reprise)

So I know I left a few plot threads dangling here in my last long post, so let's get back to what we were talking about, eh?

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The Car.

I got her back on Tuesday. The problem with her was the "ignition coil", and while that was not a huge and expensive fix, it did cost me enough that between this and having her towed from the highway, it ate up pretty much all the rent money I'd saved up for this month. So that's a pain in the ass, and it means a couple of weeks of living on the cheap while I break my ass to make that rent money back up.

But the car had to be fixed. There was no choice. I can't depend on other people to cart me around. That's just no good.

But she is getting less and less reliable. Once I get caught up to things, I'm going to have to look into trading her in. That will be sad, because we've been through a lot, but she deserves some rest, too.

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The Sick.

So I was just not getting better. This week was an improvement over last week, but I've still been coughing. It's generally not as bad, but still every night at some point I'll fade out and devolve into a massive coughing fit. I bombed it with Day-Quil, cough drops, and chicken soup, but it just would not go away. And it's been off and on for a month now. I finally gave in and went to the doctor.

I called my last doc, out in Enfield, but the earliest they could get me in was next Tuesday. I thought maybe I could do better, so I called the local center here, the place where I had my physical for my current job, and they could get me in the next day (Thursday). Much better.

I saw the lady doc they gave me an appointment with, and she and the nurse ran all the tests and whatnot, and she decided I had a something that was like a virus, but not quite, but my nose is a little inflamed, and so is my throat, and the guck is all mostly down in my chest now, I guess. I have a phlebotinum. She gave me a prescription for some anti-biotics, which I started taking last night. I think they're working, although I am still coughing right now. I can just kind of tell a difference in the way I feel. Hopefully, by the time these pills run out, I'll be all right.

Because I'm sick of the phlebotinum.

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The smokes.

No cigs in eleven days.

Don't even miss them.

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That's all for now. See you later. I have to be up early.