3 Positive Things:
Finished reading a book
Spent some time outside and did a bit of yardwork before the heat of the day set in.
Worked on a project – didn’t finish, but did get it started.

My Journey Notes:
The daily list of to-do’s is absolutely needed. I’m finding I get distracted easily and lose my focus. Not sure if that’s due to still not having the thyroid levels where they need to be, the “d” or just the added stress of two family situations we have no control over but that are directly impacting us. UGH!

3 Positives:
We have water for the garden again and I was able to reset the timers without help.
Made time for a little extra reading — and finished two short stories.
Got a sincere thank you from a friend.

My Journey Notes:
New dosage is helping to relieve some of the issues I went to the doctor for this past week. The weather has settled a bit so no need for the new migraine med yet, though headaches are still a part of the daily scene. Had a crazy bp reading yesterday. Hoping for a better one this afternoon. Time to start tackling the daily list. 😉

My Journey Notes:
Still healing — but the scabs are starting to fall off. Seeing a bit more skin/scar in the incision area, but not quite ready to go out into public. It’s definitely looking much better than it has the last two weeks. Next week I go in for labs to make sure the hormone levels are where they should be. Results should be in and reviewed before my appointment the following week with the surgeon.

Accomplished a lot on my “list” yesterday and since I’ve been up since the wee hours this morning, I’ve knocked off a few things on today’s list as well. So back to it!

My Journey Notes:
Home again after having to spend a post surgery overnighter at the surgery facility. Grateful for no complications and excellent care at every step there and no big problems when I got home. No pain meds since Thursday pm other than a 500 mg plain ol’ Tylenol as needed since coming home. I will be glad when the drain comes out on Monday, but it’s working as it should. New med on board and that will take a little adjustment since I can’t just lump it in with the rest of the morning bunch. Oh well. At least there’s a way to replace the hormone easily.

My Journey Notes:
It’s been a sort of crazy week as we prep things for my surgery next week. 1st of the month bills paid, and there’s a bit of info for T and A to have just in case they need more details on things since I generally take care of the financial stuff for our household.

Grocery shopping is done and I think we’re pretty well stocked up on soft foods for a few days and stuff that is easy to fix for everyone else. Though, we’re still waiting for delivery of some fresh handmade tamales from a local source. Hoping they’ll get here today. I’d love to have tamales for dinner this evening!

I think the scariest thing about this upcoming surgery is how the anesthesia might impact things. I watched Dad deteriorate so quickly after his hip surgery last year and that’s really scary to me.

I’ve noticed that I’ve slowed down a lot in being able to get things done. It’s bugging me. I used to be able to put a whole stack of cards together in a few hours and now, it may take me a couple of days to finish that task. I figure close to 3 days now to get 20 cards made and in envelopes and that’s a card that doesn’t have lots of layers or fiddly details. I’m not sure I can attribute is solely to age, but getting distracted or forgetting where I was in the process seems to be more the culprit. We’ll see how this next card/project unfolds itself and all.

My Journey Notes:
I’m guessing that it’s time to add my email accounts to the phone. I missed a couple of important messages and couldn’t respond because it was after office hours by the time I saw them. I’ll send a message back tomorrow evening so they’ll have my answer Monday morning.

The sleep chair arrived yesterday — It’s comfortable enough to sit in and recline, but not something I’ll want to spend a lot of nights on. Hoping recovery will be quick and I won’t need to isolate post surgery. But we’ll cross that bridge when we come to it.

My Journey Notes:
I did like meeting my new PCP yesterday. He was nice and had reviewed my chart and read the previous notes; made a few more during the appointment. We had a good visit before getting down to the brass tacks of why I was there.

Funny thing they’re in the same space that our previous dr was and the new dr has the same nurse. They’ve updated the rooms a little bit, but according to the nurse, no new clinic in the works at this time. I really hope they don’t move even though building is a little dated — it’s within walking distance (20 minutes) from the house and I like that it’s so close by car as well.

Ocular migraines suck! My eyes are still a little “off” this morning. Let’s hope this thing subsides quickly.

here’s a link to the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfJWqjoekow