After the warm weather last week, this morning is an unpleasant surprise. Last Thursday's high was far too warm (80's), last night's low was far too cold (10's). In addition, I did not sleep well last night. I finally got around to turning the mattresses (spring equinox, turn over side to side) and while I was about it, I switched back to the ( Read more... )

Last night in a chat with a friend, I mentioned that I take antihistimines to deal with low-level allergies. She wanted to know what it was - exactly - being as she's in England and not the States. When I went checking, I also found a listing of side effects. The ones that struck me as pertinent are fuzzy vision at times, ringing in the ears ( ( Read more... )

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A year ago this month, my husband was in the hospital undergoing heart procedures - they were inserting stents int the arteries feeding his heart muscle in order to force these vessels to remain open. One major artery was completely blocked, the other was about 80% blocked. Miraculously enough, he had not experienced a heart attack of any sort ( ( Read more... )

actually started last night around midnight. My husband called out to me, saying that he was feeling chest pains. We called 911. (I scrambled into some clothes ( Read more... )