Feeling Better Friday

I felt much better this morning when I woke up. I still was up and out of bed before 0630, but I was feeling much better than I had in the last couple of days. I could not eat breakfast this morning as I had to have a fasting blood draw at 0840 this morning, so I read the paper. It was a good thing that it was Friday and the paper was the second largest next to Sunday’s paper.

I finished just about the time I needed to leave for the doctor's office, so that worked out pretty well. When I got there I had to wait quite a while to see the nurse so that she could draw my blood. Once in the room it took quite a while again for her to find a vein to draw the blood from.

I took a couple tries, but she finally was able to draw the blood that she needed. Then she mentioned that I needed to make another appointment for the second week in July to do another blood test to check on my potassium levels. So I am beginning to think that I will become a pin cushion, as I seem to be getting stuck a lot lately.

I finally made it back home just before 1000, and was slightly hungry, Kathleen had used up the rest of the eggs and I used the last of the shredded wheat earlier in the week, so Kathleen suggested Chex cereal. We had a Costco size box that contained a bag of wheat, rice and corn Chex so I used a little of each and that seemed to do the trick.

Shortly after I finished eating the mail came, so I went out and got it, there was not much of anything there, probably the only thing that needed any attention was a Visa bill, that we have on a no interest deal until January 2008, so I have been paying $40.00 a month on it for the last year or so.

Kathleen decided that she would go over to the other side of town and exchange her breathing machine and mask, so she asked if I wanted to go for a ride. Since it had been drizzling all morning and I could not mow, I said sure. So after a while we took off, traffic was getting worse as we got closer to town and the radio said that it was really slow going out of town. We could see that as we were driving that there was a lot of traffic.

She exchanged her machine and mask and we were off again, we took the back roads and went north to Marine Drive and then home from there. I use to drive Marine Drive just about everyday for a couple years. It is usually a very pretty drive and a lot less congested than the major roads.

Once we got home Kathleen cut up a cantaloupe and asked if I wanted some, I did but I wanted to mow the back lawn before it started raining again. So I mowed our back yard and the neighbor's front yard and called it good enough.

As I was mowing the back yard, I noticed that even though it had drizzled a little yesterday and this morning that the plants that I planted last week were looking pretty dried out, so I decided to go ahead and water them. That way if it really did rain they would be more ready to accept more water and if it did not rain then at least they would have had a little moisture.

Then I went into the house and read a couple magazines that have been collecting over the last couple of days. For dinner tonight Kathleen heated up the dinner from last night and sliced up a cantaloupe and some strawberries for dessert. I love having fresh fruit so readily available!


Well, Kathleen is back upstairs working on her computer, and I have pretty much run out of things to say for tonight, so I will just say good night.