Posts Tagged With: health stuff
Not Looking Good
Got a call from L’s daughter on Friday. She was admitted to the hospital in CA. Apparently lost approx. 2 L of blood. Very weak. G finally talked to her today, still inpatient. It’s evident she won’t be going anywhere for a while–if ever, which is G’s strong feeling. We have the dogs here, G [...]
Vision
Finally broke down and went to the eye doc this week to get myself some glasses just for the computer. I love my eye doc. She’s an OD, but she gives a really thorough exam. She checked me for cataracts, glaucoma, retinal detachments, and everything in between. In the meantime we laughed and joked around. [...]
Going Back
In just a little while, I’ll be leaving to head back to the lake to test my arm. I swam in the pool Wednesday for about 25-30 minutes, pretty much flat out the whole way. Felt good. No pain, but then, I never actually had pain while I was swimming, but before and definitely after. [...]
Don’t Faint
I’m on the phone with the health clinic, trying to make an appointment for my shoulder. When it hurts during t’ai chi, I need to pay attention. It will be difficult to swim with a bum arm. Hopefully I can get an appointment before September 15 when we leave for SF. Wish me luck! The [...]
Health Guilt
When you live with someone who has a lot of health problems, and you don’t, it can be uncomfortable. It sounds strange, but true. Especially when you realize that there are subtle and not-so-subtle messages all over the place encouraging you not to be (or at least not to feel) particularly healthy. The messages are [...]
Bodily Functions
Yeah, it’s one of “those” posts, so if you don’t want to read, I’ll give you a couple of spaces and you can move on to the next blog and come back later. But it’s my blog and I can write about what I want to write about. ♣♥♦ I guess it’s safe now. In [...]
From the Heart
Friday night, I watched the Barbara Walters’ special that she did on heart disease and open heart surgery. She interviewed David Letterman, Regis Philbin, Robin Williams, Charlie Rose and President Clinton, all of whom, along with Barbara herself, have undergone open heart surgery for various reasons. This was particularly pertinent to me that evening because [...]
30 DOTB – Day 20 – My Views on Drugs/Alcohol
And here’s another vast subject wanting to be summarized in a single blog post. First of all, I’d like to point out that alcohol, more specifically ethyl alcohol or ETOH as the medical folk like to call it, IS a drug. According to the online Merriam-Webster, a drug is (in part): “a substance other than [...]
30 DOTB – Something I Can’t Live Without
I think a better title for this entry is something I wouldn’t WANT to live without. When you’ve walked out your door and left everything you own behind you in order to save your life and your soul, you learn quickly that you can live without just about anything as long as you’ve got your [...]
Sidetracked
My 30 days is off track again due to a medical scare with G yesterday. We had a great morning, went to breakfast, wandered around in the mall a little but just to check out the Christmas stuff, did some grocery shopping, etc. Came home, got unpacked, she was working on her sewing (making bookmarks [...]
Winner – week of 04/30/12!
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