This is what my husband teacher-bear said in my comments: "Saturday Morning Update:K will post later as when we got home from the hospital at 9:45 last night we found we were in the middle of a tornado warning which was coming right through our town. There was a doozy of a storm going on so we turned the computers off ( Read more... )

Bear with me as I type out this day's events. I've had shaky hands ever since I got the news. I'm a wreck ( Read more... )

Well, my home care provider called and said my aide won't be back until at LEAST the 23rd (my birthday, by the way). That is really awful news. HOwever, they said that they are training someone from my area and that she can start helping me in place of my aide, at least doing some of the house work involved. It takes me a long time to feel ( Read more... )

Because our heat pump is still frozen up, the heat/cooling man said to put it on emergency heat to let it thaw, so he can come work on it Friday (tomorrow). Well, that doesn't provide much heat at all, and yesterday I was in 61 degree cold all day. This, along with having no aide and no motorized chair, has put undue stress on my muscles and joints ( Read more... )

I truly thank you all who have prayed and sent positive thoughts or whatever you did to help. I am so very grateful. I am feeling much better now. I think the crisis is over, or nearly over, and I am going to be able to avoid the hospital. My blood sugar (fasting) yesterday was 259 but today was 208. Still way too high, but at least it is coming ( Read more... )

When I woke up, Bear told me that they had called off school because of the ice and snow we got overnight. I opened the front door and this is what I saw (blurry because there was fog on the storm door).

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I woke up feeling great, despite having a fasting blood sugar of 229. Then after taking a shower, I was absolutely exhausted, as if I'd been up all night and then some. Took my temperature just before breakfast and it was 100.0 degrees. SOMETHING is definitely wrong! I ate my breakfast and as soon as Ellen, my aide, left, the narcolepsy hit with a ( Read more... )

I thought I was getting better, and in some ways, I have done. I no longer have the bronchitis I was fighting with. However, it is clear by the (sorry) discharge I have from my throat/lungs and nose that all is not well. It is pea soup colored, and I've been on strong antibiotics (4 of them, the last one being Levaquin) for so long. I've been on ( Read more... )

you know what? I'm absolutely SICK of talking about my health! I want to write about other things, but the health issues always creep in ( Read more... )

First of all, thank you for all the encouraging and loving comments in my previous post. You all help me get through the day, and I mean that.

Secondly, I had a rough night last night. I couldn't fall asleep until about 2:00 AM or so, and woke back up at 5:00 in a muck sweat (as my hubby would say). I had a bad dream, and felt just ill. I turned ( Read more... )