Yikes! It's been nearly two weeks since I posted here, perhaps because those were two weeks when I stayed self-quarantined and not much happened until the weekend, a weekend almost like old times, thanks to two of my sons ( Read more... )

This past Saturday, John and Pam picked me up, and we went to Alan and Olga's for a picnic. Alan and Olga have an above ground swimming pool, but I didn't wear or take my bathing suit. John and Pam did.

For me, this was the first time I'd been further from my apartment than the grounds of my apartment complex, Park Towne Place.

( Mostly unflattering pictures of the participants. )

COVID-19 changed the way my family celebrated Mother's Day...no picking me up and taking me home for a barbeque with the family...we never went to a restaurant on Mother's Day...they're overcrowded and both the food and the service aren't up to par...but it was still very satisfactory ( Read more... )

As we've done every Monday since September 23rd, John and I drove the 66 miles to Reading, PA. David is once more in Reading Hospital, thank heavens ( Read more... )

I tried twice during the day yesterday to talk to my son, David, calling him on both his cell phone and the phone in his room in Manor Care Rehab. Then I called the nurse's station at Manor Care and was told that he seemed confused and was sleeping a lot. He finally picked up on my third call at 7:30 p.m. I could hear other people's voices in his ( Read more... )

Every so often, my son Alan will call me and say, "Olga and I are on our way to Philly...would you like to go to dinner with us?" The answer is, "Yes, I would, but I am about to eat dinner/am in the middle of eating dinner/have just finished my dinner." Don't wait until 5:30, 6:00 or even 6:30 to call me. I'll have committed to a meal by then. Very ( Read more... )

In general, my weekends are quieter than my week days: many fewer appointments. This weekend should be different ( Read more... )

I broke three metatarsals in my left foot on 27 February, a Wednesday. They are little breaks in little bones, so the Physician's Assistant I saw last Monday said the only treatment necessary is to stay off my feet as much as possible, with the foot elevated, and nature will take care of the problem in two or three months ( Read more... )

Both my sister, Debbie, and I spent all day yesterday and last night separately fretting about whether the plans for her 74th birthday would work out. How much snow would we get? As it turned out, zero inches. Next the forecast was for lots of rain with flooding in low lying areas? Yep, it rained, and I can look out my window and see ponding in ( Read more... )

I woke up this morning feeling miserable. That how my mornings usually start; I am not a morning person. Today is different. It's almost 2:00 p.m., and I still feel morning-miserable. There is nothing particularly wrong with me except for a few seconds of vertigo. It must be nearly a year since I last experienced vertigo, and this one was much ( Read more... )