Ants

Christmas Eve was when the house was invaded.  I guess they had quietly been around for some period of time but when the invasion came - OMG!  Of course no one works it seems through the holiday season!

So, at the start of the year I scheduled an extermination - but, it seems if you have had major surgery ... you can not be exposed to the poisons they use!  Argh!  For six months I have battled the waves of millions of ants which have swept through the house!  It is just amazing these creatures belief they belong here - and I need to be one of their food sources!  And, I can't poison them ...

But, with the final sealing of the leg wound - I scheduled the extermination.  All was well, stay out of the house for 4 hours, they said, and then it will have dried.  Reality was a bit different though.

After four hours, it was still impossible to breathe in the house!  It was so bad that after 15 minutes I took off to book a hotel room.  But, there was only one room in all of the south end of King County!  And the greasy swine managers had upped their room rate to $399 for the night!  OMG!  A $130 room for only $399!  And now my heart failed ...

I had scootered too far
I was too tired
My lungs were shutting down
I needed my Albuterol
But I could not reach mine n the house!
And like a sledge hammer, I was overcome with pain.

It took me 1.5 hours to drive the 6 miles to an acquaintances house.
They made me a bed
And I slept like the dead!

And I have been coasting ever since!
Monday I am in for further testing.
Who knows, maybe they can figure out why this happens so often ....

Nothing like fine Hapsburg generics .....
And father was far worse than me ... sigh ...