Recovering & Keeping Busy

I hadn't been feeling so great for the past two days but thought it was just sort of a withdrawal from my rheumatoid arthritis medication that I was told to stop last Friday when I was put on an antibiotic I'd used in the past to treat an infection. I had a bad time with chronic leg cramps and muscle spasms last night being off the medication and was tired this morning, but also felt woozy and shaky, and my face was bright red and my skin had blotchy red patches. I went in to work as scheduled for 1PM but immediately booked an appointment with the office doctor today because I was not feeling well. He walked into the examination room, looked at me and said, "Uh-oh!" I quickly gave him the nutshell version of what had been happening and he had a diagnosis for me immediately. Being a D.O. he treats the whole body and is familiar with the type of arthritis I have, so understood I was having a flare-up being off my medication. He also knew I was having an allergic reaction to the antibiotic so ordered a shot of Benadryl be administered. Then he said the antibiotic can cause tendonitis...which I have been struggling with for the past few days. I had to call John to come get me. I went home, fell into bed and took a three hour nap with Revere who curled up beside me with his paw in my hand. Woke up when Kelly got home from work, ate dinner and then John drove me back to work to get my car.

I thought the whole day would be a total waste but when we got home this evening with my car I had three cartons of books waiting at the garage door to sort out for the Articulture event here in town on the 30th where I'll be one of the local authors offering my books and talking about self-publishing if anyone is interested in pursuing that route. I got them all sorted out into their proper boxes in the basement. Then I came upstairs and went into CreateSpace where my cover design had crashed last night. I was able to delete it and re-do it tonight, so now the fourth Talon novel is in their review process which is done before I'm able to order a printed proof copy. I should be able to order that tomorrow. It'll be in shades of purple. Book three is shades of gold. (One is red, two is blue and the fifth book when written will be green).

I missed a call from the Archway/Simon Schuster consultant this morning, but sent him an email to reschedule our next chat for the first week of May. I was too sick this morning to take his call.

And now, I'm going to bed and hopefully tomorrow will be a better day!