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Sunday, October 20, 2024

Infections and Outings

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  This week's high even had a disappointing low. On Sunday we went to the Apple Festival and, while it was nice to walk the fairgrounds...
Monday, October 14, 2024

"Woz"

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I never have been an Apple fangirl, don't want an iPhone, but have been having serious envy of people using iPads for art. We have stylu...
Sunday, October 13, 2024

The Roller Coaster is Exhausting

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  Well, what to do about the faucet problem. Despite the fact that I was washing dishes in the bathroom and filling pitchers of water there...
Sunday, October 06, 2024

October at Last...and Off to a Bad Start

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  I look forward to October every year. It's my favorite month except for December, although the leaves here don't really turn unti...
Sunday, September 29, 2024

A Week So Busy...

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  ...that we may have to break it into parts. Might as well get the nastiness out of the way first. Hurricane Helene was in the news a lot ...
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Sunday, September 22, 2024

Medical Mutterings and Spending Money

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  It was another doctory week, but not overwhelmingly so, like the "day of three doctors' appointments." James had dialysis t...
Sunday, September 15, 2024

Surgery Week

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  James had his fistula surgery this week, on the 10th. The week itself did not start auspiciously; James Earl Jones died. "The Voice,...
Thursday, September 12, 2024

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  FOR TODAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2024 Outside my window... ...there are clouds; it was raining earlier. The trees are still heavy with green le...
Sunday, September 08, 2024

Some Farewells are Harder Than Others

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  Emotionally, it's been a bummer of a week. The saddest part was finding out a friend had died. I met Rose Marie Badgett on my first t...
Sunday, September 01, 2024

Breathing Rarefied Air

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As the kids today say, I "did a thing."   I was deathly in fear of doing this "thing" because it involved leaving James ...
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Saturday, August 31, 2024

And Even More Medical Stuff

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  Went to Kroger this afternoon as has become my habit since James started dialysis to find the dairy cases completely rearranged and my fa...
Sunday, August 25, 2024

Things Done

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  I mentioned James got new glasses earlier this year. Well, he's been a bit discontented with them. The transitional glasses he ordere...
Sunday, August 18, 2024

More Medical Muddles

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  This week we had a new wrinkle: James' pulse has been slow. We called up Kaiser and they got us an appointment on Tuesday with a Dr. ...
Sunday, August 11, 2024

A Week of On and Off

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  It was an okay week, although we are worried that James' lungs may be accumulated fluid again. When we saw Dr. Salazar on Friday we a...
Sunday, August 04, 2024

Three Strikes: Everything, Sadly, Normal

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Empty. The house is empty, even though Ollie didn't chirp all that much in the beginning and didn't make many noises even when he w...
Thursday, August 01, 2024

Oliver

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By this week, Oliver had turned into Beth March. He seemed sometimes to gain ground—once, for instance, we uncovered him and found him up on...
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Sunday, July 28, 2024

Bells and Budgies and Books

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  Well, now I know I'm depressed between James' medical troubles and Oliver being sick: I took about an hour to myself on Monday, s...
Sunday, July 21, 2024

Three Appointments in One Day? Never Again!

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  We are getting into the rhythm of the three-times-a-week dialysis, but still had a horrendous Wednesday. It looks like Monday will be my ...
Sunday, July 14, 2024

Medical Drama--And Two Big BANGS

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  This has been an eventful week in many aspects. Our own particular hell started on Monday evening. At two-thirty, I dropped James off at ...
Sunday, July 07, 2024

The Dialysis Dance With a Glad Press'n'Seal Chaser

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  James had his first week of dialysis. It was ultimately frustrating, at least for me; as I ended up in Kroger every single time (DaVita a...