MY LIFE - SEPTEMBER

Friday, September 15, 2000

There is one huge drawback to having ten cats in this, at least for someone who's allergic to them like I am. It eventually catches up to you. Sure, you can feel fine most of the week, but there's always one day, sometimes more, where you feel like moving would be the biggest mistake of your life. Today was one of those days. Of course, waking up at 7:30 in the morning because of a thunderstorm and not getting to bed until late in the first place doesn't help, but the fur just overwhelmed me today.

I woke up at 10 and groaned before falling back to sleep instantly. I woke up again at 12pm, then again at 1:30 and finally pulled myself out of bed about 2:30pm. I'm not exactly proud of myself for that, even if I did feel like I had a hangover (which I'm guessing on since I've never actually had one before). My head was pounding, I felt sick when I stood up, and I could not breath very well at all. So there went all my ambitious plans for the day, shot down by my allergies.

I managed to get to the bank and I did mail my payment for my car insurance in, but that was about the extent of it. I was going to rollerblade today, but the off and on rain shot that one down in a hurry. So today was pretty much a lost cause, which only figures because today was the day where I was going to get a lot done. I was going to clean up my room before I lost my sanity. I was going to stop by Tri-C and apply for a student loan. I was going to rollerblade. I was going to do stuff and I didn't get to any of that.

My head hurts now in fact, but that's because there is still fur everywhere. I love my cat, but she sheds way too much, making her the sole perpetrator in the allergy problems. It doesn't matter what time of the year it is, she sheds like mad. It's the worst in the summer because she has fairly thick fur. You pet her and the fur goes flying into the air beforing settling in a clump somewhere in the room. Even now it's bad and the temperature's around 70° outside at the warmest. It just doesn't matter.

I have two cats in the upper level that's my room. That's more than enough for me. I don't want any of the eight that are downstairs, no matter what my mom says. She can keep them down there.

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What strange weather today. It stormed early in the morning, then it was sunny, then it became a mix of clouds and sun, then it started to rain before the clouds finally thickened up and really let it pour, then it was clearing up for a while, then it rained again, and it finally cleared up with just a little drizzle every now and then. I know it's September and this kind of weather isn't unusual, but just about three days ago it was 85° and now it's 60°. It's the kind of thing that makes people think they're getting sick.

It amazes me that there as many people in this country who think they're sick or think they need medication. I know of patients who have been on some kind of antibiotic for the last year. Any time a little kid coughs the parents go into a fit and take the kid to the doctor. This is why medication costs so much now. Most of the time these are false alarms, yet the doctor puts them on Bactrim or Biaxin. I've seen people get Amoxicillin one week, Biaxin the next, then Cipro, then Ceftin, then Bactrim, then Ceclor, and so on. It's amazing.

You are not always sick because you cough. You are not always sick because you sneeze more than once. You are not always sick because you have a runny nose (especially if you eat certain food). Yet people run to their doctor at the slightest notion of being sick. It's mostly panicked parents though. There's one newborn that's been on three medications in two weeks and he's only a few months old. Let's ease up a little bit. I don't think I was this heavily medicated when I was younger. Hell, I almost rarely went to the doctor's office and I haven't been to a doctor since February of 1998. It just hasn't been necessary.

If I get sick, I just let it run its course. If it sticks around for more than a week or two, then I'll think about calling the doctor. But I'm just not all that keen on going to the doctor because I have a sniffle. It just seems like a waste of time.

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Tribe Watch 2000

Cleveland Indians, 11
New York Yankees 1

Summary

The Indians got a run in the first and another in the third inning off of David Cone before blowing it wide open in the sixth inning. Russell Branyan walked, Sandy Alomar singled, and Kenny Lofton bunted his way on to load the bases for Omar Vizquel, who hit into a fielder's choice to score a run. Then Roberto Alomar hit a long sacrifice fly to score S. Alomar. Manny Ramirez walked, then Jim Thome walked. Cone was replaced by pitcher Jason Grimsley to face David Segui, who worked the count to 3-1 before slamming a home run to the second deck in right field to make it an 8-0 game.

The Indians finished the scoring in the seventh inning as one run was scored before Manny Ramirez came to the plate with a runner on. He promptly hit a two run homer to make it 11-0. Meanwhile, Dave Burba pitched eight innings of shut out baseball before being replaced by Steve Woodard, who gave up the only Yankee run on a solo home run by Glenallen Hill in the ninth inning. The win keeps the Indians in the lead for the wild card.

Record - 78-65