I need to apologize to Brooklyn.  I should be at her school program, but I am getting ready to go to bed and try for a drug-induced nights sleep.  Sheila did venture up there and I am thankful for her doing that.  I haven't felt this bad since the painful days of my bursitis.  I am so sick (pun intended) of being sick.  Its got to end some time, but this is ridiculous. It has affected my work, it has affected my eating, it has affected my thinking and it affects my sleep as well.  My mouth is so sore that it is a constant bother now.  That is why I am going to take some pain pills in just a little while and hope that I can sleep well.  Sometimes I feel so close to being over this and then it jumps up and grabs me hard and I feel really badly.  I hope to be sound asleep when Sheila gets home, but I'm not sure that that is possible.  I won't be whole until she gets back.  So it is a big night for me.  Richard and Kathy just left and now I know what to expect for tomorrow.  Sick or not I have to do my work.  I'm fortunate that I can do it while I'm sick.  Anyway, its 8:11 p.m. and I am ready to call it a day. Sorry Brooklyn.  I'll make it to the next one.