What a week

At the end of last week, Nia had a bad cough and a couple strange symptoms. I talked to Dr. ChatGPT and we agreed that this was more than a usual cough and she should see a doctor on the soon side. Next day she was diagnosed with strep and bronchitis, making her asthma really bad. She was put on multiple inhalers and some other appropriate medicines. Her turtle nebulizer (seen below) is named "Georgina".

Nia and Georgina play Mario

Joy and I didn't get sick, but we spent the weekend SO tired and basically spent our time trying to prevent the infection from taking hold. We succeeded, but everyone's sleep schedules have been absolutely destroyed. We haven't had a single night when all four of us slept through the night. We keep switching between 8-12 hours of sleep one night followed by 2-4 the next and multiple naps and ... it's been a doozy.

... Joy happily corrects me! We all slept through the night last night!

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A few weeks ago, we were voluntarily haunted by several "ghosts" - HVAC, electric, plumbing, etc. giving our house its irregular checkup. They identified a number of areas in the house that need improvement. We decided on a few that were high priority and set up an appointment for the plumber to come over. 

Our water pressure is way too high, so for $1500 they'll install a water pressure valve. Maybe some of the plumbing problems we've been dealing with for the last few years stem from this.

So the plumber pops in and says, yeah, we'll have to dig a 4' deep trench and replace the 60 year old rusted pipes outside so we have something to attach to. That'll run you another $5500.

He checks a couple more things, scratches his head a bit and says, Actually, it may be a LOT worse than that. With our plumbing luck, it probably is. Long story short, it is worse. So we're going to get an entire plumbing overhaul done this coming week for the internal water, and we may be without water for a little bit.

So to relax, Joy and I assmebled a couple wooden puzzles. Fun little date. How is y'all's week?