One day last week, we sent my Dad to the ER with some kind of odd heart occurrence. He was describing heart palpitations and did have a low blood pressure. He was not describing a heart attack and they did not think that was the case at the hospital. They kept him over night and took good care of him. There was no real diagnosis for this event. It was suggested that dehydration can cause palpitations (but then so can a good many other things!) As far as the blood pressure, he seems to have a lot of fluctuation with that anyway. We are glad that nothing appeared to be more serious.
Today Dad went for his “shot”. This one is to elevate the blood count. He suffers from anemia and this shot helps bring his blood levels back up.
Poor Mom is stove up with gout and about sick of it. I am not sure why she gets these bouts of gout in the winter like this but it has occurred now several years in a row. She does have some small flair ups during the rest of the year but these in the winter months always seem to be worse.
Today is firewood day. Hubby has been given a rather large old oak and he got the first load of it the other day. With a new wave of bitter cold coming our way, he has been splitting and we have been stacking. Work feels good. One can get a bit sedentary during the winter months. Too much work makes one exhausted for days. I imagine he will not be too peppy tomorrow. The following picture shows pretty much after the day was done. The trailer had been full. We filled up the basement and we filled up a section in our wood pile area...I should have gotten a picture of that but I wasn't going back out in the cold. You will have to just guess how much split wood a 17 foot trailer can hold. And yes he is holding the axe on the trailer and no, he was not splitting it on the trailer with the axe. He has that wonderful log splitter.
I am feeling a bit better than I did three months ago. I still have issues that I believe that are related to Lyme and its co-infections but I do seem to be managing a bit better with life in general. I am trying to refocus my life. Working daily on things that need to be done and also trying to not have anxiety over the things that need doing. (The list from last year is still long and the list for the New Year is growing.) I took a walk outside today in the cold and almost panicked over the thought of what the spring months will bring for me. I quickly become Scarlett and said to myself, “I won’t think about that now…I will think about it tomorrow.” Lyme is like that. It brings you to a reality of “tomorrow’s”. I suppose that makes no sense but it does to me.
Today was cold but I looked out the window this evening and the sun, clouds, and ice were beautiful. Unfortunately the camera did not catch the beauty of it but you can at least pretend for my sake.