Been working both outside and inside because the weather fluctuates between too wet, too hot, or just right for working outside. On the inside days, I started to reach and pull out my blazers & jackets from the back end of the one closet, only to discover that the cats (one small black one in particular, I’m sure) have been pulling the jackets down ( Read more... )

I didn't write about my visit to the orthopedist yesterday because we went to work after I got home, and then when we got home from that I was flattened ( Read more... )

Well, the follow up mammogram showed that it was just the usual stuff- dense tissue, in a hard to get to place- where boob tissue wraps around the side of the rib cage. Yes, I have side boobs. It was the most painful mammogram I've ever had. She really had to tighten it up hard and one of the shots she said "now hold your breath!" I was thinking "I ( Read more... )

Made a list of things I need to do today or tomorrow. Have been busy ever since, but have not done one damn thing on the list. And the list is long. It's not like it would be hard to find something on it that I might feel like doing; it's just that other things get in the way. Like going outside and working for two hours, weeding one bed for the * ( Read more... )

I feel funny posting this. I had a mammogram the other day- Thursday afternoon- and they have requested I come in for more images and an ultrasound. I feel funny because a friend also had one on Thursday- morning- and is now going to have to go back, too. Except I'm lucky- I'm not having pain other than the usual after-mammo-soreness. This isn't my ( Read more... )

The Angina Monologues: Surgery for Broken Hearts, by Samer Nashef. Scribe Publications, 2019 Nashef’s memoir starts with some truly awful cardiac situations. An older man needing two different operations, in which everything must be done in a certain order; a pregnant woman with cardiac artery ready to explode, so that the babies must be delivered ( Read more... )

Well, I've done it to myself again. I waited to refill my gabapentin prescription until I was sure the insurance would allow it, and didn't notice that it was out of refills. Of course, the doctor's office is closed on Fridays, so the earliest it can get a renewal is Monday. And I won't be in town until Wednesday. So, you guessed it, I have to ( Read more... )

Went to the doctor on Thursday. Had a long wait (in a place where normally 10 minutes is considered a long wait) because some poor soul cut loose and talked for 45 minutes straight and our doctor won't shut someone down when they need to talk. This was fine for me- I was in the comfortable waiting room, reading, but I'd dropped Tim off at the ( Read more... )

Identity Theft: Rediscovering Ourselves After Stroke, by Debra Meyerson, PhD, and Danny Zuckerman. Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2019‘Identity Theft’ refers to the way that a stroke takes away from who you are- or who you think you are. Suddenly a fit, quick witted person cannot walk, or remember names, or may even lose the ability to talk at all (and ( Read more... )

Neuro Fitness: The Real Science of Peak Performance From a College Dropout Turned Brain Surgeon, by Rahul Jandial, MD, Phd. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2019Dr. Jandial is a brain surgeon who was originally a drop-out. But he is no Nick Riviera; he is a highly esteemed doctor with a PhD in neurobiology, with 20 years of post-high school education. So ( Read more... )