SHIVARATRI

Oh well I'll give this a try anyway

Shivaratri here was weird. I guess that's how I KNEW IT WAS SHIVARATRI.

I've been forgetting more and more lately....old age....and so the last time I did my package of spinach, I cooked it and then just turned off the stove and left it....and left it and left it and finally at about 3 in the afternoon, the next day, I ate some of it with cold yogurt. Tasted just fine.

Somach didn't think so, however and pain and suffering began! I thought...right! Shivaratri....it was Sunday night so not quite Shiva's night. Pain and discomfort increased to vomit and loose motions. (I love to explain to Americans that WE say loose motions rather than anything revolting!) Anyway I vomited all Sunday night....almost....while watching the Academy Awards with my 'throw up bucket by my side. Actually 'the Awards' were done so badly, in my humble opinion, that they may have required a vomit bucket too. Just kidding! Anyway I went to bed finally with the bucket tucked under the bed to wake the next morning and wait for the man from the Health Department who brings me 15 pills twice a week for my ha ha TB which I'm still not convinced that I have because the stuff is still hiding deep away in my right lung and won't appear for sputum or x-ray or even skin tests. But someone said they found it...live TB and so according to the law I MUST MUST have these god awful pills. Health Dept man said if I refused they'd throw me in jail. So there is no doubt about that!

Well anyway, dosen't that have a Shivaratri feeling to it? I thought so even though it was a day earlier. I took the 15 pills which had been cut in two and I have done twice a week since I was back from the hospital.

And anyway, being a great devotee of Lord Shiva (You remember my calling Tampa Bay, Lord Shiva) I had an easy time of the swallowing of the pills which is always horrendous. I take them with 'Ensure' a very thick sweet substance which coats the tum at the same time....thank God....or thank Lord Shiva!

As you can see, I've been ill and my mind is still ill so you can't expect a lot of rationality from this blog.

Anyway after swallowing two 'Ensures' and 15 pills and expecting terrible pain....nothing. The stomach pain was gone and I was healthy....on Monday AND TUESDAY and now today is Wednesday and all is quiet on the southern front.

Naturally being such a 'devotee' of the 'Great God' I wanted to blog Shivaratri...and I sort of have. Good thing He has unconditional love!

And this morning my RN Nurse from the agency came to see me. She said that she 'journals' which is sort of like 'blogging' . Every day she writes three things that she is grateful for from the day before and then expands on that. I thought that was a great idea and that I should write down at least one thing each day that I'm grateful to Swami for from the day before. That is a good idea and it came from Shiva Sai Shankara and I will try to do it. If a busy nurse can, a reclusive old lady can...who is a Sai Graduate too.