If only my blog entries were as interesting and lively as the comment debates I get into, lol.  It snowed.  It's all gone now but still, it snowed  - and there are still quite a lot of green leaves on the trees around here.  I'm not going to Skepticon this year after all, turns out my parents are giving me a trip to Florida/Busch Gardens for my birthday.  A little sad about missing Skepticon, but then since my car died I'm not sure how I'd get there anyway, lol.  Maybe next year.  And Florida at the end of November sounds pretty good right now.  I also got a new digital camera for my birthday, got it early.  Yes, my parents are spoiling me lately but I'm letting them, I know it has to do with my brother being gone and besides that whenever I tell them "no" they don't listen anyway.  Been busy with work and reading a lot lately.  I know, not very exciting.  And now I'm off to sleep.

Last night was absolutely terrible.  I went in to the doctor at 10:30 a.m. to get an antibiotic for a UTI and the regular flu vaccine.  They gave me Cipro for the UTI.  I got home and took the Cipro at about 11:30 a.m.  I was doing fine until around 2:00 p.m. when I started to get really tired and my arm was hurting pretty bad from the flu vaccine.  By the time I was finishing up work around 5:30 p.m. I was nauseous, tired, dizzy, disoriented and had chills and a fever.  I was so cold that I went to bed right after work and climbed under a sheet, a blanket, an electric blanket turned on to high and a comforter.  I still couldn't get warm.  My mother called at 9:00 and wanted to take me to the ER, but I hate being in the hospital and my general rule is if I'm not actually vomiting I'm not going to the hospital.  I took some Tylenol and had something to eat and went back to bed.  Then I had another bout of the chills.  Finally by about 11:00 p.m. I was feeling about halfway better.  Fortunately, by the time I got up this morning the fever was gone and I was feeling about 70% better.  I'm still not 100% better but I'm almost there now. 

I've been getting the flu vaccine for the past 8 or 9 years and never had a reaction to it so I doubt that was it.  I also doubt it was due to the UTI as the symptoms were quite mild and I only went to get on the antibiotic to prevent it from possibly getting worse.  I am quite certain it was a reaction to the Cipro.  I need to call my clinic and let them know to note it on my chart that I am allergic to Cipro. 

It occurred to me that if Obama's healthcare plan goes through I actually can move out of Minnesota.  I won't have to worry about not having health insurance if I give up my job here.  Now the biggest obstacle would be how to transport my 4 cats, lol.