This Spring has been a trial. I caught a cold in late february. It lasted until near the end of March and I still am congested with a near constant nose drip. That has been aggravated by the seasonal allergy onslaught. Yesterday the tree pollen count wat way over 1000. I go to level three when that happens. I have to drive with the windows up and the AC on freeze. The house allergies are high. Cat hair, dust and leakage of whatever is outside. Everything has bloomed and pollen is thicker than fog.

Two weeks ago tomorrow - Thursday - I tweaked my entire ribcage on a chunked hard golf swing. I kept twisting but the club stuck. I haven't played in two weeks and tomorrow is the morning I usually go out with the Men's Club at Seneca Hills. Not yet!

Last Friday evening I was moving my quarter ton barbecue and pulled my right hamstring. It is awful. I started Percodan yesterday just so I could function.

This morning the rib thing has got my back in pain. When will it end?

The day promises to be a slow and easy one. I have to go buy

1. Cat food cans
2. Drano Gel (dammit!)
3. Bread of some kind
4. Claritin
5. Zyrtec
6. Ibuprophen

Oh my!

Taking oxycontin (Percodan) means no alcohol. The combination makes one a strange person to be around. I enjoy social activity and must drink nothing stronger than coffee for a while. Alcohol and Oxycontin can make one a bed-ridden vegetable. Who wants to be a turnip?

That pains me even more, looking at these bottles of Laphroaig my dear, loving, good friends and family have awarded me for my birthday. I received four!

That's a very bountiful harvest! A year's supply if taken modestly.

But now I can't.

Onward, then. Maybe a light lunch at Bob Evans? A visit to look at cowboy hats over at the Farmer's Supply Warehouse Store? A walk through at Big Lots?

I hate getting old. I'm a Peter Pan character. I have been seeing a 29-year-old princess. I love rock and roll, baseball (playing it too) and joking. How can I get back to my better self where pain was only an "Ouch."

Oh my.

I am not soliciting sympathy, and I realize tons of folks on MyBloggers are going through much worse difficulties, but, boy, do I need a change!