I got sick Monday evening with some sort of intestinal problem, and it hasn't gone away. After a few days, I went to the doctor (and my BP was 75/57, explaining why I feel so weak and tired all the time). The doc seems pretty convinced that I've "got" something, though she doesn't know if its viral or bacterial. She ordered a bunch of lab tests and ( Read more... )

My stomach has been doing okay since last Tuesday, but walking to CWC on Friday totally wiped me out, so apparently I'm still tiring easily, still recovering from that flu. As a result, I took it easy yesterday and basically did nothing but rest (and my various PT exercises). Today I'm going to walk downtown, less than 2 miles round-trip, and ( Read more... )

I visited the One Word website this morning for the first time in 2 1/2 months & wrote on today's prompt. (It's a 60-second writing exercise.) Wow. I was all over the place, even just within a 60-second time period, my thinking all fragmented and fractured. Kind of scary ( Read more... )

You know how doctors always ask you to rate your pain on a scale of 1-10? My headache tonight is a 9. Even my coloring book is not really distracting me. It's just excruciating, and there isn't really anything I can do about it. I've taken my max number of Tylenol #4 pills, and I'm reluctant to go for any caffeine at this hour of the night: if I ( Read more... )

So so nauseated again tonight. Just terrible. Could it be related to how much I'm doing? I've been trying to get more exercise lately -- walking places instead of taking the bus, as I'd been doing for weeks -- and Sunday I did a lot, but that's days and days ago ( Read more... )

I tripped (over nothing that I could afterward perceive) on Friday, just walking with Crystal and Susan (Susan being a companion of the border collie variety), and took a rather violent flight directly into the sidewalk. My knee hit the cement first, followed fairly quickly by my hands. My head missed a decorative brick lining a little flower bed ( Read more... )

I started reading The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society today, and I'm really enjoying it thus far. It's an epistolary novel set in Britain immediately after WWII, focusing on an English writer (journalist/columnist) and her unlikely, unexpected, long-distance friendship with some folks in a very rural town in Guernsey, "a British Crown ( Read more... )

Just in the last couple days, I've started using OverDrive to download and play audiobooks on my iPhone, and I am so so so impressed! I can easily download quite a few recent and classic novels from our library, though many of them are sadly only available in a file format that only works on a PC ( Read more... )

My left wrist has been hurting a lot the past few days, so I haven't been typing much. But my journal-writing addiction is such that I can't stay away long. I'll write this journal entry in bits and pieces over the course of the afternoon/evening.

Halloween:

1. My reading (of my comedic Halloween story) at CWC went fabulously well. Everyone was ( Read more... )

I was randomly thinking today about some of my favorite possessions ( Read more... )