Thank you, Sakina, Angel and Drear, for the (metaphorical) tea and sympathy.  I am feeling somewhat better.  Saw the doc, actually the physician's assistant, today and bronchitis it is.  I am on antibiotics for the next 10 days, and am trying a new cough suppressant.  She said it doesn't work for everyone, but might for me.  I think it does help; I don't seem to be coughing as much or as hard.

Finally feeling better, altho' still very tired and coughing somewhat.  I can't believe that I taught all my classes last week, comparing how I feel now to how I felt last week.  I was a mess.  I only get these respiratory things about once a year, on average.  Last time was a year ago Jan.  Fortunately I have been going to the same medical practice for about 10 yrs, so it's all in my records and they don't argue with me when I say I have an infection.  The PA said I was very healthy, despite the infection.  I told her I would probably die of a heart attack or stroke sometime in my 80s or 90s if I follow the rest of my family.  My mom is going on 80, looks 15 yrs younger  and is still active and driving, altho she scares me sometimes.  She just replaced her garage door because she backed into it.  Knowing her, she put the car in reverse and tromped on the gas.  When my sister told me what she had done, I almost fell off the chair laughing.  I could just picture the size of dent in the door.  Anyway her oldest sister is 88 and healthy as a horse, so I guess there is hope for me.

Well, I am still coughing, but it is a dry cough, mostly irritation, I think.  I take the last of the antibiotics tomorrow, and hope I will not feel so tired after that is done.  I was thinking that when I was younger and had one of these really bad respiratory infections, I would feel really awful for a week, then all of a sudden, it was over and I felt fine.  Now it takes a couple of weeks of gradually getting better, if not 3 or 4, until I feel fine.  However, when I was younger I would stay bed for at least five days, now I keep going to work until I absolutely can't get out of bed.  The day this hit me was the first day of classes for the summer semester, and I couldn't not be there.  And it was a 14-hr. day, which didn't help matters.

Got my hair trimmed and colored today.  My hairdresser said to stop using the claw clips as I am getting some breakage in the center back.  Shit.  If it's convenient, it's bad for my hair.  I will either have to shampoo more often, or wear it up and use hairspray.  Damned if I do and damned if I don't.

Well, we are back.  We left Wed. afternoon to drive to Annapolis for his mother's interment at Arlington National Cemetery.  His dad's ashes are interred there, so Kay was interred with him.  We drove to Toledo, OH on Wed, and from there to Annapolis on Thurs.  Got in about 6pm and went to his sister's house for dinner and to see everybody.  We actually stay in the guesthouse of the Bay side property belonging to friends of his sister and her husband.  It's really cute, furnished with 19C antiques and has a view of the water.  The ceremony was at 9:30am Fri and was very nice.  Weather was gorgeous, sunny, altho' humid and got to 90 degrees later that day.  Visited with family and we all went to dinner Fri nite.  Got up Sat am and were on the road about 10am, got to Toledo about 8pm.  Left at 11am Sun and got home about 3pm.  I did most of the driving on the way home since my husband picked up the same virus I had 3 wks using the computer provided by the hotel and was sicker than a dog.  He didn't work today, but is feeling better and wil go to work tomorrow.

Right now I am so furious with his boss I could kill him.  Will was supposed to get away early and we had planned to be on the road by 4pm.  His boss dreamed up a project and told Will it had to be done by Fri so he could see on Mon.  The asshole is on vacation this week and won't be back in the office until next Mon.  When Will explained why he needed to leave early, his boss said, "Oh, yeah, you're doing that Arlington thing." 

When he told me that, I was instantly furious.  If that man had been in front of me, I would have killed him.    I didn't realize until yesterday that what infuriated me was not the unfairness and insensitivity of the remark, but the disrespect of Will, his mother, his father and all the heroes and veterans buried at Arlington.  What a complete and total asshole.  I sincerely hope that something horrible happens to him.  If I have anything to do with it, something will, as I sincerely and deliberately cursed him.

The reason we drove is because Will is still not over the viral inner ear infection he had in November and until the dizzy spells are gone, he can't fly.  And his boss is the cause of the inner ear problems as he came to work very sick with flu and infected at least 6 people, my husband being one of them.  The flu led to the inner ear infection.  So while we were in Toledo, he used the hotel computer to check on the project his boss dreamed up and picked up a virus from the keyboard, which is also his boss's fault.  It has been many years since I have hated anyone as much as I hate his boss right now.

I am finally over the bronchitis and coughing and have my singing voice back after 3 wks.  So I guess I will call and schedule voice lessons for the rest of the summer.

Shampooed my hair in Annapolis and it looked beautiful.  The water there is so soft.  I am thinking of putting in a water softener.  I think I will price them later this week.

Your husband's boss lacks an empathy and sensitivity gene!

I'm sorry for yours and your husband's loss.  What a lovely place you got to stay in though.

Thank you, Curlgirl, Sakina and Drear.  I am still simmering with rage.  I would like to gut that man with a dull knife and wrap his intestines around his neck to strangle him.  Hanging, drawing and quartering sounds good, too.  You should never enrage a Scorpio with a taste for horror movies.   

So I have started singing again.  Right now I am learning Time to Say Goodbye, in Italian.  Apparently I am going to learn most of Sarah Brightman's music.  I like almost everything she does, and she sings in my range.  I get enraptured by one song and play it over and over until I learn it.  I have to buy the sheet music, so will probably do that Thurs or Fri.

Time to Say Goodbye sung by Andrea Bucelli and Sarah Brightman is one of my all time favorite songs!!!  Both are excellent artists!