So I'm back on the Cymbalta, and my pain level has decreased quite a lot. Unfortunately, the drug does nothing for the crushing fatigue, but at least the pain is manageable now.
I'm still in the process of purging. I have delivered many loads to our local thrift store, and have another thrift store lined up to come and cart away the old furniture from the storage room. Then Jesse will be able to get the soiled carpet out of that room, and I can line up someone to put down a new floor covering. Things happen slowly at The Yellow House these days, but that's the way it is. I'm learning to accept it.
What I've Been Reading
A couple of winters ago, I got on a kick of reading Sharyn McCrumb novels. I read all her "ballad novels" and a couple others, I believe. But for some reason, I never got around to The Ballad of Tom Dooley. This week, I read it, and I believe it to be her best book so far.
Although technically a work of fiction, McCrumb did a tremendous amount of meticulous research to come up with a retelling of this infamous tale that is probably as true to life as it is possible to get to a story that lives on mostly through legend and in various versions. This book tells of the murder of young Laura Foster in 1866 in Wilkes County, North Carolina. Tom Dula (Dooley) was eventually hanged as Laura's murderer, but McCrumb, though her research, comes up with a different version in which Dooley bears only a part of the guilt for the crime.
I love Appalachian stories, and I loved Sharyn McCrumb's book about this famous murder. And I believe that her conclusion makes the most sense of any telling of it I have heard or read.
Photo above: Laura Foster's final resting place.
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On 08/13/2015, Barbara Anne said ...
I'm glad to hear that Cymbalta helps your pain so much. Please do sing out if you find anything helps the deep fatigue as I need that, too.
Be sure to take another look at the furniture you intend to donate as a coat of paint might make one or more furniture pieces ideal for your porch, as a side table somewhere, a coffee table, or more useful storage. I'd love to clear out something to store all of Christmas inside (but out of sight) so I didn't have to schelp boxes downstairs and across the yard.
Thanks for the book review, too. Sounds interesting!
Hugs!
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