Early morning thoughts

It is early here and the house has settled down. Turns out all the things that have been happening to Mom is the result of her having Shingles. Yep, good 'ol chicken pox virus. Seems both the local hospital and ER missed the huge a$$ rash on her back. Treated her for other things and not the root cause. Gave her Dilaudid for pain. Medicine was WAY too strong for her, causing her to get totally confused and disoriented.  Our local family practice doctor saw the rash and KNEW it was Shingles. I got to put Calamine lotion all over her (kinda like payback from when I was a kid). They now have Mom on Neurotin for the nerve pain. Tonight, around 1 am, she rolled over in bed and rolled off the side onto the floor. She did not have the strength to lift herself, so I had to call 911 and they got her up. They are gone and she is slowly relaxing and trying to go back to sleep.

Me, I am wide awake wondering if I should stitch or go back to bed. Smart thing says bed, as we have a busy day planned for tomorrow. You know, house cleaning, laundry and yard work, the usual stuff.

Leg wise, the calf is healing nicely and there is only a little left over knee pain. I see the orthopaedic doctor this coming Wednesday and I will ask him to send me over to PT to get exercises for calf strengthening.

Have a great weekend;
Joanne

Mending

Last Friday, while stepping off a curb, my leg gave out, searing pain happened. Went to see an orthopaedic doctor this past Tuesday and I have torn the calf muscle and strained my hamstring. On prescription anti-inflammatories and told to rest. Yeah, right. Thursday morning woke up to Mom telling me she had been having chest pains for 1 hour. ER visit went to a hospital admit. Final result.... pleurisy. She is now home. Me, I am beyond tired. too tired to stitch, too tired to work on photos, too tired to even shoot photos. Right now all I can do is sleep and go to work.

Here's to a better week...

Joanne

Gee, had to reset my passwword

because it had been SO long since I have written.

Yep, I am still here. Still working 6 days a week. Still not stitching, but the weather is beginning to cool off (well, this weekend anyway). I did however, add to my stitching stash. Even bought a Daylight stitching lamp. It is set up by the stitching chair and table and I am going to try it out this weekend.... even if it is just to get colors organized.

Have a safe and happy Holiday weekend.

Saturday night

Mom, my brother, his wife and I went to dinner last night at Red Lobster and partook of the crabfest menu. We were all SO full. We decided to take a nice drive and go look for deer in the Cuyahoga National Forest. So did everyone else. Roads were so crowded that the deer stayed away. We did, however, see the train that runs thru the forest. We stopped and took so pictures. My brother, a HUGE train buff, was so happy.

My brother and went over to a trestle bridge and her is one shot from the bridge.

Oh yeah, the new job is insanely busy, a challenge, but I am having so much fun. Stitching mojo is coming back. Going to set up the frame tomorrow night. NO clue what I am going to stitch, but I want to stitch again.

Off to the peach orchard to gather some fresh fruit. Enjoy the rest of your weekend.

Update

Mom came home from the hospital a week tomorrow. Only new meds is a pill to help arrhythmia. She is still tired but gaining strength everyday.

My new job is going great! A few more issues than I thought but all have solutions. Time is needed to get things straight.

Absolutely no stitching or photography has been done since before the new job started. Trying to figure out a way to get it all done.

Hope you are having a great week.

Heart

Yesterday evening around 6:30 pm, Mom said that she could not get the indigestion to stop and that she had a numbness in her throat and in her collarbone area. Off to the ER we went. We went in thinking they were going to give her strong antacids, boy, were we wrong! Called the CCU this morning and Mom's enzyme is still going up, but she is in no classic heart attack pain. Seems with women the symptoms can be so vague that women brush it off.

So lady's do not brush off any symptoms that could indicate a heart issue. Just go to the ER and let them decided.

HOT HOT HOT

Oh my, who turned up the heat!?! Been in the 90's for the past week. Shot 2 races during this heat and wind up spending all day Saturday in bed with a 101.9 degree fever for 24 hours. Not the way I envisioned my Holiday weekend. Was back out at the races on Sunday, but could not make it the entire day due to the heat. Did not go out on Monday and now I am glad. There was an unfortunate life ending accident when 3 cars decided to go for the same space and one car hit a concrete barrier. The driver was not wearing a HANS device to protect his head and sadly he passed away. 55 years old and his son was there to witness the event. My heart has been heavy for the past days. May he rest in peace. Prayers to his wife and son.

Sunday, July 4th

To help lift my spirits, I spent some time doing flower photography. Pictures came out great and I made a photo book that should be here by Saturday. I like making these books instead of albums. So nice to take along. So nice to look at during the cold winter days of January.

While I was out there, I noticed the lavender was just right for harvesting. The photo below is from one Provence plant. The fragrance was so heavenly. 

The bee was mad that I took his flowers away.

In the laundry room drying.

Enjoy the rest of your week;

Joanne