I can't help it. I don't function well in hot weather anyway, and have had problems ever since I had my thyroid out, but the menopause makes it worse. When I get too warm I get light-headed, and all but one time that I had palpitations it did it when I was very warm (the other time was my fault; I had a jamoca shake at Arby's—I know I can't have caffiene).

Mom's eye is still seeping fluid and blood; we had the hospice nurses here yesterday afternoon and they seemed to take it in stride, so I am assuming this is a natural progression of the cancer. Unless she is bleeding heavily there's no reason to go to the emergency room; we will just sit there all afternoon and they don't understand what's going on. Tomorrow morning I will call Dr. Koness' office to confirm; if not we can go in.

She is eating, on and off: she ate all the watermelon I gave her last night and half of the spaghetti she picked out (we had macaroni and some quick spaghetti sauce I whipped up by taking half a jar of Classico no-sugar-added tomato and basil and simmering the leftover pork chops in it for about three hours) and also a bowl of cereal this morning. The eye hurts. If I ask her to take the pain medication, she says "Not now, the pain's not so bad," and then ten minutes later I hear her crying out in pain. Sigh.

I've washed another load of clothes but now I'll have to fold them on my bed. Skippy came over late yesterday afternoon and had my old bed apart in a trice and it's all down cellar. Unfortunately, he came over too late; the guys had already tried to deliver the hospital bed. They will set up but not knock down, so I had to send them away; they are supposed to be back tomorrow morning. Drives me crazy.

(Gah. No wonder I could never sleep well on that bed; you should have seen the mattress when Skippy was manuevering downstairs—it kept getting stuck because it was folding up on itself, which was how little support it had.)

To keep entertained I am depending heavily on PBS, but it's "begathon" and hard to watch. WGBH has endless showings of Ask This Old House, which I at least like. I learned how to fix a scald-guard shower handle this morning. [wry grin] Channel 38 also had a cool special called Discoverers this afternoon. They talked about the discovery of the Altamira cave paintings, showed dolphins being taught to recognize sentence structure, and had a report with a guy who is studying the aurora borealis. It's still "Borg-ized," but WSBK is still pulling me out of the fire, since stupid WXIA in Atlanta has stuck Jeopardy in the afternoon because they have to show an extra half hour of news for the poor slobs caught in traffic. James and I watch Jeopardy on WSBK instead, which gives me a chance to see my favorite commercial: the horde of little leprechauns invading the Foxwoods Casino in Connecticut.

I'm keeping an eye on the sky. It's supposed to rain and—please God!—get cooler.

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