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| LIKE EATING A HUGE SALAD AND DRINKING WATER FOR A LIVING |
AFTER A TWO HOUR NAP, I feel as if I had none. This is a sign of exhaustion. Over the last fews days, I got so worked up about my yearly physical that it affected me with exhaustion plus when I actually went for THE appointment, the temps outside were 106 degrees. 106 in the shade. The combination of the two did a number on me flowing over to the next day. I'm zonked.
Blood pressure is higher than it should be and my feet are swollen. Edema. Doc is placing me on some different BP meds. We talked about my blood work. With water retention, I had gained 6.6 pounds from being there 4 days earlier. Makes me very uncomfortable. Retaining fluid. What's causing it?
I don't always understand me when I go to a medical appointment and forget what I want to talk to the doctor about even with notes in hand. The Zombie in me comes to the surface. After I leave and go to my car, the oh no I didn't ask about thus and so. It's as if I go into some kind of dumb mode and stop functioning. Not sure why that happens as I have been with my Primary Care Physician 25 years! This makes my head spin.
My Thyroid meds will be tweaked again and checked in two months along with a new diuretic pill and BP Rx.
As for the edema, I have got to try soaking my feet in Epsom salts for twenty minutes and see if this helps in any way. Also making sure that I am not magnesium deficient or lacking Vitamin B6.
Daughter came over with homemade cherry scones that she had made. Lil 2 year old grandson hand picked the cherries himself from their tree. She gave me a homemade card he had made and one that Lil Miss made. Lovely. I received a belated phone call from my St. Louis son. Good to hear his voice. Also received an awesome book from Oklahoma son and daughter-in-law! So nice to be thought of by my sweet children. Truly.
I have a week to get much done before my Mom comes to visit. I should get loads done, but shall see. The laundry is going right now. I managed to empty 6 cardboard moving boxes full of my Blue Garland China.
I so remember how I coveted Grandma's Sideboard. My Mom and Dad had inherited an old Victrola from Grandma and Dad's brother had the sideboard. They swopped pieces where Dad received the sideboard and it went into a storage building he had. This old oak piece sat in this building for umpteen years. Every time I saw it, I drooled. I offered to buy it. Nope. No deal. I tried and tried, but to no avail it remained in a storage building that my folks owned getting covered with Kansas dust.
Finally upon a move we were making where I no longer desired the Dining room set that had been in storage for three years. The Dining table with six chairs and a china cabinet that we had paid close to a thousand dollars for back in the 1980's was offered as a swop for Grandma's sideboard. I think I had been trying to get my hands on Grandma's piece for about 8 years. My Mom finally said yes, she'd swop. She knows a great deal when she sees it. I was so happy to get it. I have since had the piece for 29 years. Unbelievable. Seems impossible that so many years have passed.
I LOVE GRANDMA's HUTCH. This is what I call it instead of a sideboard. Love her. She was refinished when we had the 2016 house fire and when she came back better than new I was enthralled how pretty this old piece was. Grandma Helmer had it for many years. This was piece my Grandpa had dug out of the trash dump. The metal hardware was missing so Grandpa put glass pulls on it instead. Grandma didn't have very many pieces of furniture as they were dirt poor. I remember loving this piece as young child when we'd go to visit Grandma in Marion. I loved it. The ANTIQUE BUG bit me back then. I haven't been the same. It's for the best.
When we dug this piece out of the storage building to take with us to Oklahoma giving Mom our Dining room set, I was the proud owner of my GRANDMA's piece. I think she would have approved. This piece now sits in my Dining room. I received my Mom's china cabinet that has the same dark stain on it as Grandma's piece. I have an old oak table that has a golden hue to it that I will be stripping it down and staining it to a dark hue like the other two pieces have. I'd call it Ebony. Dark oak stain color. The four antique chairs that we bought from the Paxico Antique store will remain the color they are for now. I'm so glad to have them. My Dining room furniture is a hodge lodge collection of LOVELIES.
I need to get over to Grandma's Hutch and empty it making room for the china. Getting it off the table will be another goal accomplished.
LIFE ON THE PRAIRIE. LIFE GOES ON as best as I believe it can. When I drive the countryside, my heart aches a bit as I think the scenery is so pretty. I imagine what it would be like to have a place snuggled in a valley somewhere where all I could see is rolling hills with the color green spread across the horizon. Something to dream about.
No walking my mile on Monday as we were out of town for medical appointments and some shopping in the heat. Evening came and it was ungodly HOT. SO I stayed inside. Tuesday morning we were having a downpour, so no walking either. Wednesday, I plan to get up early as the temps will be in the high 60s. I can walk in this kind of weather.
I pray that the Lord will help me get some walking in that has a positive affect with me. PTL and away I go.
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