Our high today was 62 degrees...or so they say. Our outside thermometer never got higher than 56 degrees. It was nice and sunny out but a bit on the breezy side. That lasted until around 3pm. Then it got overcast and kind of dark and stormy looking but we didn't get any rain around this area. Tomorrow we are supposed to get up into the lower 70's. ???? What in the world is going on with the weather these days? Is this what global warming is all about? I went to bed early so I missed the local news but my Weatherbug gives me the forecast for the next 10 days. As if...!
I woke up a bit ago to use the bathroom and decided I should get this blog done. I ended up having most of the day without the Beast around. He went to church this morning and stayed out with a few of the people from his church. They had lunch together and, later on, dinner. They made a few calls to shut-ins and to cheer up some people that have been sick. I had heard that the hospitals were all full (the three that are within a 25 mile area) so I guess the weather (and, possibly, the flu) has hit a lot of people badly.
It's so crazy how the temperatures have varied so greatly. You just never know what the day is going to be like....or even how cold the night will end up. The Beast didn't get home until almost 6pm. The dog was mad at him but, when he decided he had ignored him long enough, was driving him nuts with how *needy* he was for attention.
I wish you could see how Dennis *talks* to us. It's hysterical to see. You know he's trying to tell you something...maybe about his day or what he liked or didn't like about his dinner...but he will keep it up for the longest time. It makes you laugh to watch him. Our neighbor, Dennis (we didn't name the dog, don't forget!), said we should try to teach him to say words like some dogs you see in videos on either TV or the internet. Oh sure! Like that's something anyone can do!
I enjoyed making myself breakfast and had a light lunch and then made myself some chicken wings for my dinner, along with some cole slaw. I knew the Beast would be eating out since he's been doing it on the days that he makes those calls with his fellow church-goers. He's discovered a couple of neat small restaurants in the area that he didn't even know were around, including a couple very good Mexican ones.
I did find out one thing that surprised me. Diane told me that the Beast was really upset over how ill I was when I was in the hospital. She said he hadn't thought about the fact that *I* could die before he did and, when he found out how much blood I had lost, he was really freaked out. She had never seen him so upset in all the years we've known her and Dennis. That was a real shock to me.
He has accepted the fact that he will probably die before I do and, faced with the possibility that I might die, he was beside himself. He told Diane that he felt I was better prepared to take care of the things that would need doing than he was so he hadn't even thought about life without me around. He said he wouldn't even know what to do first. Diane told him that was what friends were for....to help you get through the bad times we all face from time-to-time. She's right and I'm glad she said it to him.
I am definitely feeling more and more like myself although I still don't have a whole lot of endurance. Yesterday I ended up putting on my back brace for several hours because I really didn't want to take more pain pills and it DOES help...for a while. But it becomes uncomfortable after a while. It got me through, however, and that's all that counts. I took it off when I went to bed and it was a relief....LOL. How can something be so helpful and yet so uncomfortable at the same time?
Well, I am heading back to bed now so I will bid you good night. Love you all. Take care of yourselves. Pay attention to your health. It's important, trust me on that. I sure found out even though I don't know how I could have prevented what happened to me. How can you tell when you are bleeding internally? I know some of the signs NOW but it was the last thing I had on my mind since I suffer so when I have a bad bout of IBS-D. That's what it seemed like I was having at the time. But the extreme weakness was a definite difference that should have told me it was more serious. Oh well. Hindsight is always 20/20. ***Hugs***
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