Today's prompt is "Today you made _____." Well yesterday, I made a crockpot meal with round bottom roast, collard greens, cabbage, kale, yellow onions, rainbow colored bell peppers, and seasonings. I mostly used chili powder. It turned out good.
Today is Thursday and it is 6:58 am here now. I have been up for awhile because I was getting too hot and thirsty. Yesterday I did not wake up with alot of energy or motivation to get things done. Caleb kept waking me up throughout the night because he could not sleep and wanted screen time on his phone. So, I woke up tired.
The plan was to wake up around 8:30, have my breakfast of 3 hard boiled eggs, and take my medications. Then give Caleb his medications and drive to the Wilmington VA clinic so I could have my labs done. I was dragging ass all morning, and got a call around 10:00 from my 12:15 pm appointment. She was running early, and wanted to know if it would be ok for her to come over at 10:45, instead of 12:15. I said that would be ok. She was a nurse working for a company that works with USAA life insurance. I applied for a life insurance policy with USAA last week, and having labs done is part of the process.
The nurse arrived and I quickly asked if I could relieve my bladder first. She needed a urine sample so I had been drinking my water drink and holding my bladder. She weighed me and measured my height. She took blood samples. Finally she went through and documented my prescription medications. It took only about 10 minutes or so, and we were done.
I had the bottom round roast in the crock pot before she came over. I wanted it to cook longer than the vegetables so that it would fall apart, and not be tough.
When she left, I was ready to go to the Wilmington VA to have my other labs taken. I told Caleb to get ready and we left. My primary care physician did not tell me what labs needed to be done, so I did not know if I needed to drink more fluids, but I did anyway because I was thirsty.
I did not have to wait long for my labs to be done there, and then I went to get my flu shot. I was done pretty quickly, and drove back home.
I forgot that before we went to the VA clinic, Caleb told me he was hungry, so we stopped at Arby's for lunch. We went through the drive thru, and he ordered his usual. I tried to order a roast chicken salad, ,but they did not have any made, so I bought a rib sandwich and a brisket sandwich. I did not eat the bread because I am still on the Virta diet, strict keto. It tasted good though.
I handed 2 diet Mountain Dews from my stash to an older black man standing at the traffic light with a small sign. He seemed thankful, even though that is all I had to give him. I did not think about it until it was too late, but I could have given him my sandwich bread. I don't know if he would have wanted it without the actual sandwich meats.
When I got back home, I was tired, but needed to add the vegetables to the crock pot before I took a nap.
I took a short nap and got back up in time for dinner. Everybody who tried the food, liked it. It was not overly spiced, like some of my creations have been. I got to hang out with Christinia and Harlee for a little while before going back to lay down.
I was on fire practically all day. I woke up hot. I had the air conditioner on high while I was driving and it barely made a difference to me. I think it's either because I am going through an early menopause, or my fibromyalgia, or both.
I got a nauseous feeling when I turned onto Oak Island drive at the light by the fire department. It was kinda woozy feeling, like a bad omen might feel. I don't know what that was about.
I found out that my scale has been lying to me. When the nurse came over and weighed me, she did so on an analog scale. My scale is a digital scale. My scale told me I weighed 284 lbs, yesterday morning. Her scale said 310 lbs!!
I got a call from my dad the night before last, and he left a voice mail. He was his normal self on the voice mail, and not being hateful at all.
Yesterday my dad called me while the nurse was taking my blood, so I did not answer the phone. I called him back and it seemed like everything was back to normal. Maybe the topic of discussion the other day was what brought out his demons.
I started reading The Energy Codes book again. I only made it through the introduction so far. It seems promising. I want to read more, especially when I wake up so early and there is nothing much to do but wait.
My dad called last night and we talked about how our days went. He went to the same eye doctor's office in Southern Pines that Dona Sharon went to for her surgery to have an appointment. It is unclear if an eye surgery will help him see because of his complications. It is not just cataracts that he has. Also, he has to be cleared through other doctors about his diabetes and his heart to be able to go through with the eye surgeries.
He is trying to get Aid & Attendance from the VA since he needs 24 hour help, but is running into problems with getting his VA doctor to fill out the application appropriately. I don't know what the problem is, but it is frustrating.
I am going to do some school work with Caleb this morning, and we are going to go to the pool so I can do my physical therapy this afternoon. I have not been back to the pool since my last appointment with the physical therapist. I have not had extra money to put towards a pool membership, but I mentioned that to my dad, and he is going to pay for our membership cost.
Caleb just woke up. It is now 7:39 am here.
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