Beneath the Wraps

  Before Thanksgiving I had gone to the emergency room for a sinus infection – not that I really consider that an emergency, but getting into the regular doctor is like a three month wait . . . Then again, just before Christmas.   Unbelievable pain in my mouth – but it isn ’ t dental.   A pain I was hoping would leave my body before Christmas – but did not. Unfortunately the Z-pack did not heal in the way it used to.   The first dose went right through me before it had a chance.   I wondered if it would do anything to take the rest.   It didn ’ t.   My mouth was sore through Christmas and the New Year.   Every day I took a pain reliever – sometimes as often as four times a day, but have slowed down.   I ’ m now down to one pain pill and one tooth.   I understand why people may abuse the drugs and become addicts.   I get it.   The pain is real.   I hate taking medication.   I hate the side effects, the depend...

Day 3          Since it has been light enough to drive Jenna to seminary in the morning, I have been taking her in while Roland sleeps.  He gets the honor of picking her up as the sun is glaring so loudly that I am not comfortable with it.  Happy Doughnuts offers specials each day: Maple Bar Monday, Twists on Tuesday and so forth. Wednesday's specialty is biscuits and gravy for a dollar.  Thus after we picked Jenna up from seminary we went to Happy Doughnuts to get biscuits and gravy for Roland and me and a bacon maple bar for Jenna.           Roland and I left the house again just before 9:00.  We drove to Canyonville to get our second shot.   Unlike the first shot where we had to get out and go inside, we stayed in the car while they came out to us to get our ID and give us our shots.   So we are now good to go.             Since we were alrea...