5/12/22

Tomorrow is Friday the 13th.  It was my sister, Phyllis', birthday.  She would have been 75, but she died when she was 67.  They found cancer at age 65.  Same as me.  It doesn't seem like it, but it's been just over 7 years.  I sure do miss her.  She was my best friend and I'm sad today.  Can't seem to get her out of my mind.

I need to perk up, though, because I have a card party to attend tomorrow evening and then I leave home at 5:00 a.m. Saturday morning for the airport.  I'm going to Eagle, Idaho, to see my brother.  It's a suburb of Boise and they're having a cold snap.  They had snow just a couple of days ago and the water temperature of my pool is 88 degrees.  It's hot here.  I'll be jumping in the pool pretty soon, as a matter of fact.  I'll be home on the 21st, and will be available to receive guests/visitors if you want to put that date on your social calendar.

I have lots of doctor visits and scans coming up when i get home, so maybe I'll have a real update for ya'll.  My cough is annoying.  Alcohol doesn't help at all, unfortunately.  I've tried that.  Perhaps I just didn't try enough, tho.  I'll test it tomorrow evening at the card party and let you know the result.

My hip joints complain a lot after I sit for awhile and sometimes I feel like they're going to give out, but I haven't fallen.  It's not old age.  It's worse.  I cannot walk very far, but I can ride my recumbent bike at least 10 miles at a go.  I've been getting up early and riding before David gets up.  After that, I put my pressure suit on for an hour, and then I'm ready for my day.  I wear my suit an hour in the evenings now, too.  Seems like the swelling/pain are getting a bit worse and I've even resorted to pain pills a little lately.  I hardly ever take them, but some days lately it's been necessary to function.  My new meds make me very tired a few hours after I take them and then I seem to perk up again.  Other than the tiredness and the joint pain, my symptoms are relatively small.  I think I will be able to handle these pills for an extended time.

When I go back to my oncologist in June, I will be back on the crappy stuff, so I'm enjoying my 'free' time. 

I'm on two diets now.  I wasn't getting enough food on just one.

Speaking of food....  I went grocery shopping this week all by myself.  It's been a long time since I've done that.  I've done curbside, but haven't gone inside all alone.  I did OK walking and my back held out because I had a relatively short list.  I had to buy produce, too, so I saved it for last.  I remember being in the produce department during the pandemic and we were required to wear masks.  Do ya'll remember how hard it was to open those produce bags?!?  You couldn't lick your fingers to rub it back and forth to open them!!  I couldn't stand there long enough to do that, so I'd just pull my mask down and lick my fingers.  I didn't care if anyone saw me, either.  I did it right out there in public.  Yessir, I'd just pull down and lick and not give a rat's ass who saw me.


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