Tuesday, April 10, 2007

Tuesday's Tiredness

This is really getting old, I got about 8.5 - 9.0 hours sleep last night and I am still really tired. After getting up a bout 0700 I went downstairs and made myself some breakfast, and then I went into the living room and read the paper and mail.


After recycling the mail and the paper, I called my surgeon's office, and told them what my concern was. They said that the doctor would only be in this morning as he had surgery this afternoon, so I sat around and waited for the call back.

Then about 1100 I decided to go outside and mow the back yard as it had gotten pretty high. After doing that I cut some dead branches out of the cherry trees and the mountain ash. Speaking of the cherry trees, they are all out in pink flowers and the ground under them is getting pink from the flowers as they fall off.

The apple tree is in bloom also and the other day in the wind it looked like it was snowing as the flowers were falling. The apple tree will need to have the dead branches cut out of it one of these days, but I just did not even have the energy to even start on that project.

After filling up the recycling garbage can I decided to go inside and rest for a while. After catching my breath I decided to make myself a roast beef sandwich, so I got out the dark rye bread, and sliced some cheese and put it on the bread, than I sliced a tomato and an onion and put them on the bread. Next I put them into the toaster oven and toasted them, when they were done; I put a slice of roast beef on then and than sat down to eat.

Still being tired, I went back into the living room and sat down for a while. As I was sitting down I realized that the doctor's office had not called back yet, so I recalled then and they told me that the doctor's physician's assistant would call me a little later.

After dozing for a while I decided to go out and mow the front yard, before it got to the point where I would have to use the power mower. By the time I finished it I was really tired, so I went back inside to sit down for a while. One of the nurses finally called me and said that the doctor would like to see me tomorrow and asked if I could come in about 0900.

I told them that I do not do mornings very well, so they looked to see what other appointments were available. It turns out that I would have to wait a couple weeks, so I said that I would give the 0900 appointment a try. I want to see what options are available to me, and I figured the sooner I find out the sooner I can start what-ever process is next for me.

I have not felt very well all week, so I hope that I can make tomorrow's appointment. Even though I have gotten a fair amount of sleep lately, it has not been really good sleep, and most of the time I wake up almost as tired as when I went to bed the night before.

About 1630 Kathleen came down and started the corned beef for tonight’s dinner, she was pressure cooking it. We ate round 1645 and she made some potatoes and opened up a can of three bean salad for dinner. She also heated up the yellow waxed beans from last night. Kathleen had the three bean salad and I had the waxed beans. The way my stomach has been feeling lately, I did not think that the three beans would be advisable.

Well, I am really tired, you are probably all tired of me saying that, but I have been really tired for several months and it is getting old for me too. With that said, I think that I will just say good night.