Susie MacGyver

My Sue is an impressive problem solver: a Susie MacGyver as it were. She can look around and pull together the necessary items to find a workaround to a problem. While I should have countless examples of this talent, the latest and current example is on my mind.

Thankfully, we got through the Christmas season in good health, but Sue awoke on the 26th with a persistent couch. By the next day, it had developed into a humdinger of a cold. I started to forget about that when I found myself uncomfortable in my chair, where I do most of my sleeping. So, I thought I would go to the bed for awhile. I realized before I got there that Sue's germs made that a bad idea, but since I was up, I peered in regardless to see how the lady was faring.

This ↓↓ is what I saw — in the darkness, of course, because it was nighttime.

A makeshift shelf to hold the supplies for her infirmity.
Note a lack of room for AC in the king-size bed.

I escaped back to my chair in the den, but, unfortunately for me, I did not escape the virus because two days later, I awoke with a sore throat, and it kept getting worse and worse. What a night and morning it has been! Sue's affliction began with a cough and settled into a cold. Her illnesses always seem to begin with a cough. Sickness always seems to hit me in the throat first, but like Sue, my symptoms have also settled into a major cold while my throat continues to Hirt me greatly. 

It was the MacGyver thing more than the health report that roused me from my sick bed to share this with you, but I can’t describe one without the other. 

Meanwhile, I don’t quite know what the weather is doing out there at the moment, for my window has been iced over since 10 o’clock or earlier last night, and I can’t see out. I do know that it is supposed to transition to regular rain about now, which is 7am. Then, the precipitation will turn into snow this afternoon and evening. What a winter we’re having! On days like this, I worry about Shauna’s rural drive to work. However, I am able to not worry about Danica’s transportation for another week.