Wisconsin Sunrise
Friday, July 11, 2025
Writing From My Phone
Friday, June 27, 2025
Odds and Ends
It's been awhile, so I'll try to catch up.
I'm feeling fine, no more problems. I finished the antibiotics today, no bad effects.
We are having lovely weather, since the oppressive heat moved out. We had three days of tortuous heat and humidity. Streets were buckling and cars blowing tires. Insane! We stayed home. My annuals did not like the heat. My Johnny-Jump-Ups have gone to seed.
We have 5 months to decide where to move. Our lease ends the last day of December, so we will need to have a new apartment rented before then.
We have a new favorite place, Waupaca Chain O' Lakes, about an hour west of us. It was a sunny, breezy day when we arrived at Hartman Creek State Park. The pines were fragrant in the warm sunshine. The water sparkled, and I wanted to deep breathe all of it in and never leave. We took a walk around the lake and thankfully did not catch any ticks.
Thursday, June 19, 2025
Well That Was Weird
I woke up in the middle of the night feeling nauseous. I got up to pee and thought, should I go back to bed? I felt weak. No, I should go to the living room and tell hubby, who was up watching TV. I grabbed my meters, glucose and ketone, and sat down at the table, or rather collapsed. Numbers were fine.
"Get my blood pressure cuff," I told hubby, who was already hovering over me with concern.
By now my head was on the table.
48 over 35, pulse 57.
"I'm calling an ambulance," hubby said. He lifted me to couch and got me dressed (a shirt and loose pants over my jammies, and socks.
The ambulance guys came. Hubby said the police came, too. Gotta call the whole gang!
They took my vitals, and by then my blood pressure was high. Go figure.
They transported me to the hospital, through town, on bumpy roads. Well, the highway is closed at night for construction. Hubby followed.
IV, blood tests, EKG, Cat scan of lower abdomen, urine sample.
I have a UTI infection. The hospital concocted a mix of antibiotics to shoot into my IV and called in a script of antibiotics to my pharmacy. After the doctor checked in with us I was discharged and we went home. I think we were there about 3 hours.
My tests at the hospital were in range. Cat scan showed all is good in there, yay! I'm not sure if I was dehydrated, but they gave me two IV bags of saline.
I don't know why my blood pressure drops so low, but it's rare, only maybe once a year. It happened in Hartford, but I waited for hubby to come home from work. I was told not to do that, just call an ambulance. That time I was dehydrated and had a UTI.
I have a follow-up on June 30th at the clinic. I plan to discuss all this with my provider.
Anyway, I'm feeling good, antibiotics are working, and surprisingly easy to take.
Friday, May 30, 2025
Some Better News
My SIL got a better cast for his wrist/arm. The one he had went up over his elbow and caused pain and stress in his shoulder and neck. They took that cast off. My daughter said he had a nasty looking sore on his wrist where the break is, maybe because it was swollen under the cast. Now he has a shorter removable cast, which I suppose is better and more comfortable.
I searched for some other way to find cabins for rent. I found an app that shows locations and prices plus pictures and info. Campgrounds that also have cabins seem to have better prices.
I did some potting today.
Thursday, May 29, 2025
Updates
Catching up.
Hubby took a mini vacation. He was hoping to go to Kosovo this summer and asked for extra time (unpaid). His request was never approved, so he took half his vacation to de-stress a little.
We drove down to Indiana Saturday the 17th and stayed until Tuesday morning, the 20th. It was nice to see my daughter and her hubby (with the broken wrist). We wished him to get well soon. We also had the chance to say hi and congratulations to his son who had his high school graduation this last Sunday.
While we were there we went to a Fur-Trade Era reenactment.
That was fun. We also went to dinner and enjoyed time with family.
Thursday, May 15, 2025
New PCP and Other Stuff
I saw my new primary care provider today. Her name is Sally and she sat down and talked quite a bit to get to know me. It was a pleasant visit. The drive to downtown Greenville was easy. She put in an order for me to have my annual mammogram, but I will need to go to a hospital that is all the way across town. Two issues....I don't drive expressways and I don't have transportation except for a short time in the morning. It's for the end of July. Maybe I can figure it out before then.
My test results are in, A1C 6.6 (better than I expected after all the stress), thyroid looks ok. Blood pressure 124/80 (no meds), weight 134, height 5'7" (still, after all these years!! No shrinking!) It's interesting that they consider me underweight. I'm not starving myself!
Next in news...my son-in-law broke his wrist. First X-ray seemed to show a hairline crack, but the next X-ray revealed a complete break at the wrist of the larger arm bone on the pinky side. He now has a cast to above his elbow and a hard time sleeping with it.
The air conditioners got cleaned and the sliding screen door fairly fixed.
My hubby's work sucks. Stress and back biting.
My daughter suggested a UV blocking semi-sheer curtain for that hot west window. She uses them on her west windows and they help a lot to block the heat. Here is what I ordered from Amazon:
Thursday, May 8, 2025
Delete and Start Again
Something the bumble bee loves