Thanks for putting up with the whine

1 bag Aldi frozen ravoli, 1 pint of homemade freezer salsa that I need to use up, 1 small can tomato sauce, 1/2 pound Aldi Mild Italian Sausage. Spray pan bake covered per ravoli directions.
Sprinkle cheese and bake until melted. 

Thank you all for putting up with my whiney posts and all the sympathy. I promise to start being more optimistic! 

I am committed to wearing the new glasses for 7 days to see if I can "train my eyes".  The eye office are trained professionals and maybe they are right.  Otherwise I will go back to the readers I bought on Amazon midway between my reading prescriptions that are bifocal with a clear top.  I wasn't doing too bad with those and that may be the answer.  

My daughter is finished in her classroom and today I slept in until 10:30 am and feel much better.  Tonight our commuity begins free concerts in the park and the band opening the season is the sisters from last year who sing acustic soft rock. The temperatures are in the 70's and it should be fabulous! 

Tomorrow I am back in the church office and Friday my middle school grandson has invited me to take him to the amusement park if he doesn't have to work.  He was gathering golf balls out of the creek by his house (his dad's house and my house are both near a golf course), washing them and selling them along the course. The owner stopped by one of the holes and bought some, interviewed him and hired him to wash and gas up the golf carts, fill divets, pick up trash and empty trash cans.  Not only is he getting paid by the hour, he has a free golf pass for the season! Not bad for a twelve year old. 

The weather has been nice enough to walk in my neighborhood this week although I think I will be back at the gym when we hit the 80's. 

I'm sorry for not visiting as much, it is hard to read my screen right now, but I am comitted to these glasses for a week.  I will be back.

Hope everyone is enjoying the pre-summer. 

No Memory Monday Today

 No Memory Monday today.  

School is out and the grandparents are busy! Today we had children arrive at 6:50 a.m., ready for breakfast.  

The six year old had tennis camp at 9 am and we had to leave early because the major street in my town is under construction this summer.  We were also lending rackets to some cousins.  

We then went to the eye doctor to pick up my new glasses.  Unfortunately I can barely see close up. My readers from Dollar Tree are better. They told me I will need to retrain my eyes and that I need to wear them every day for a week.  

Side note:  I deeply regret cataract surgery.

By then it was time to pick up the six year old at tennis camp and drop off the ten year old.  We all went grocery shopping, brought groceries home and went back to pick her up. 

Today is the Burger King's birthday and we went there for lunch. A few weeks ago a gentleman in a big pickup hit the gas instead of the brake and drove through one wall. It is braced but not repaired yet. 

We came home and grampa put them to work setting up the fairy garden while I went to my church meeting.  

I came home and quickly made some hot dogs and macaroni and cheese for the ten year old so she could eat before her softball game. Step dad picked her up. 

I am now feeding the six year old the same thing before his little league game.  Mom had a mandatory teacher day (and again tomorrow and Wednesday) and has a teacher retirement party this evening.  We will take him to warm up soon and hopefully mom will meet us before the end of the game.  

Tomorrow we add the ten year old's basketball camp in the afternoon. 

Then we need to go walk our two miles since we missed yesterday. 

Whew!

AND my daughter called last night and volunteered me to be the assistant 3 year old Vacation Bible School teacher at her church. She is the teacher and told them she knows I will say yes.  That is in two weeks. 

Quick Update

I guess I am not over my last post. 

1. I forgot to mention my family has not mentioned any weight loss. 

2. One of my co-grammas actually sent me a message this morning comparing a photo of us at a kindergarten graduation last year and a fifth grade graduation yesterday and said "look how much thinner you look lady!"  

Okay. I feel better now.

Frustrating

This is another one of those medical posts I might leave up or I might delete.  I don't need anyone to comment.  I think I am just letting out my frustrations and getting over it. 

I am still mad that I got sick. Is that rational? No it is not. But facts don't make it less frustrating.  I am tired of doctors and drugs and appointments and insurance compainies and pharmacies. 

After a brief break, I started again. The hospital called out of the blue and wanted to schedule a CT Scan. I scheduled it and never asked who ordered it.  It was pulmonary.  I read the results and printed them. 

I had a follow up with my primary. He didn't want to give an opinion and said to wait for pulmonary to follow up. They haven't.  

Today I had an appointment with cardiology. He did not mention anything, but when I read the clinical notes on line, he found decreased lung sounds. Should someone be worried about this? Or the "numerous" nodules grouped in my lungs? Or am I being a big nervous baby? 

The cardiologist has ordered a test I have never heard of that will see how I am doing on the medication. It did not sound like a big deal. I looked it up. I will have IVs and the test itself will take 90 minutes. So a bigger deal than a CT Scan.  But it sounds like I will get some good answers (whether I want them or not).  And he did schedule an appointment to talk about these results. 

And here is what I am really mad about.  I have been doing everything right. I started walking at the gym and am up to 2 miles a day.  I completely changed my eating habits, cut out sodium and caffiene. I have lost over 24 pounds since the heart incident in January all on my own.  And none of these doctors noticed. Why do they even weigh you? What is the point?  

Today the cardiologist asked if I had noticed a weight gain. I know it is because we are worried about retaining fluid.  But good grief. I said NO, actually I have lost almost 25 pounds.  He said, gosh, how did you do that?  

I'm petty. I am mad.  Shouldn't they compare numbers from your last visit? Jeesh. I feel like their first words should be, oh, you have lost weight.   

And because I am me, I don't mention this.  The cardiologist actually described me in the clinical notes as a "pleasant woman of 69".   And then he doubled my medication. 

I would also like to add that my family has not mentioned anything about my weight loss - like "mom, have you lost weight?"  or "mom, you look really good" or any acknowledgement.  Do they not notice?