Delia is a sad panda

because her iPod classic, which we gave to her for Christmas 2007, fell out of her pocket as she was running after the bus yesterday. At the Metrodome light rail stop, one of the busiest transit places in the twin cities. She realized it almost immediately when she got on the bus, but she couldn't exit, because of the route she was taking over highways. She called me frantically on her cell phone, but by the time she reached me and I raced back to where I dropped her off, the iPod was gone. I looked for it for almost a half hour. No luck.

She apologized, but it was absolutely clear that it wasn't carelessness on her part, but just a rotten bit of bad luck. The girls have been SO good and careful about keeping track of their iPods and phones. They use them every day.

Damn. This sucks.

Asthma

Besides the fact that I've been barely sleeping lately (due to going off a medication I've been on for years), I've been tormented for the past month and a half or so by a non-productive cough. I went into work today, but I only managed about four hours of sleep last night, which made me feel nauseous, and when I started coughing, I almost put my head down on my desk and cried. Instead I went home. I didn't dare sleep, for fear of not being able to sleep tonight, but I did get in to my clinic and saw a doctor. The verdict: a flare up of asthma. I've had this intermittently. I know what caused it this time, too: they were doing construction in my office a couple of months ago, and I'm sure that my respiratory system got inflamed by all the dust hanging in the air.

I have to pay full price on my medications until I reach my deductible. The inhalers she prescribed cost me $200.00 at the drug store. Ouch.