Is anyone else sick right now? I woke up with a bad cold yesterday. And a lady problem. So I'm miserable. It's been straight Alka Seltzer and Nyquil for 24 hours. My throat is so sore and my whole body hurts. I'm turning in.

Ruth spent her early married years here in Oklahoma! I am already impressed. 

Not that I wasn't anyway, but you get what I mean.

Rabid describes how furiously I flew through this. I now know more about rabies and it's culture than I ever thought i would. What a horrific virus. This book was both fascinating and terrifying. 

Peasant: "He attacked me. He's gone mad. And he's barking like a dog. What could possibly be the matter with him?"

Doctor: "Hm....must be a werewolf."

Gotta love old-school medicine.

I just haven't been able to read lately. Migraines are the worst. So I finally saw a neurologist and he was pretty flabbergasted by why nobody was taking this seriously. He took me off the Topamax and prescribed Aimovig, which is a monthly injection. And of course Tricare put a screeching halt on that, saying it's too expensive and demanding a pre-auth. A pre-authorization is basically the doctor making a case for why I need it, as if the doctor prescribing it isn't enough. Now I'm waiting for my damn insurance to say it's okay for me to have this lifesaving medicine so I can function like a human being again. If anyone ever says the military have good benefits, tell them to bite you. Our insurance is only good if you have a cold or a sinus infection. When there is something really wrong, they lose their shit.

Anyway, I should be listening to my audiobook of Spinning Silver but I don't even have the motivation to start it. I really want to read a lot of these nonfiction books I got. I'm in a slump.