Much To Do in Meeting Mr. Jesus Christ

I need to get to sleep soon so I can be up early. I'm taking my Dad out to lunch for his birthday tomorrow. Not wanting to miss any time I can steal away with him because there are never any guarantees, at seventy-nine years of age there are less.

Briefly talked with Blue this morning. He's having a rough time. Rapidly began retaining fluid yesterday while he was at therapy. Said his leg was swelling so fast he could actually see it happen. He was returned to his room right away, got back in bed. Only ten minutes had passed when the leg that a vein was taken from split wide open, fluid spilling out. He's getting injections to take the fluid down but he even sound very wet when he talks. And weak. He had just been given embolism stockings, too. Though this is a fairly normal complication from open heart surgery it is disturbing none the less. Please, say a prayer for his recovery process and emotional comfort.

Finally got the rest of the monthly bills paid. I pay online and was locked out of two accounts after trying too many user names and passwords. That because I changed my browser and lost all my passwords and login names. Frustrating. A few phone calls and a number of transfers later it's resolved and I'm up to date.

More time spent on the phone juggling doctor appointments. Got a call from my primary with the results of blood work. My blood sugar has gone mega wonky low and I have no idea why. Had one of the three month sugar tests done because I was having a lot of unpleasant symptoms. Doctor said it sounded like I have diabetes which I've heard over and over since I was 14 years old but this is the first time ever my sugar number was anything less than perfect. So she wants me to come in to talk, as do I.

Not having a car is taxing me right now. I have two scheduled and one needed doctor appointment in the next week plus I am supposed to have an MRI on my foot/ankle and more blood work that needs doing at a lab. Rides for doctors are difficult to ask for and harder to get. Everyone knows you have to wait forever and few are the willing to do so.

I got another room fairly well dug out today, using the phone call times to take breaks. I'm starting to feel able to function with the mess slowly subsiding, plus I'm feeling good looking at my house looking like a home instead of a dump.

While cleaning today I listened (three times) to an excellent sermon by Michael Bruce, a pastor from Scotland, on Mark 9:43-49. Very thought provoking and I had hoped to write some thoughts on it tonight but time has gotten away from me.

Fighting the onset of a bug. Sore throat and runny nose. Been hitting the home remedies all day but tonight I feel it pushing it's way deeper. Maybe getting out in the cold, fresh air tomorrow will help kill the germs. We're in for another cold snap tonight, -6 right now. I'm so tired of having the furnace on and forced hot air circulating, it is not good for the body at all. My skin is so dried out I look like an alligator and there isn't enough lotion or boiled kettles of water to help. I'm beginning to sound tired of winter, which I really am not.

It's been a good day, got a lot accomplished, feel stable emotionally. That, in light of the past three months, is worth it's weight in gold to me.