Sunday, Dec 7
CPAP report. Reported figures: 7 hrs 4 min with AHI = 0.14
Worked on data gathering for too long and now I have to start writing my summary report to present to my sleep doctor of my collection of data synchronized between my CPAP machine and the newly acquired Oximeter.
I changed my CPAP filters.
I spent an hour figuring out Yakima Memorial Hospital’s new Physician Portal and what is a royal PITA is that the Yakima Heart Center is different from the Yakima Sleep Center and in the same building next door to the Yakima Memorial Hospital. After all that I wrote a note to my cardiologist’s nurse through normal email, and she said that was the way to communicate because the new system was not working.
I spent more time going through my medical records for my cardiologist after finding some discrepancies in his report transcribed Nov 14 when I was last in and many changes were made to my medications. His notes say my magnesium was low, and I should increase to 400 mg BID. I was taking 500 mg once a day. Therefore, I will ask his nurse for advice. He went over all the changes with her present and she sent in the meds, but Magnesium is OTC and he should have written on his little sheet of instructions to me. Now I have addressed all those and written emails with attachments. First, I will send to his nurse before I send directly to him. (Now I know I cannot do that)
Good dinner and going to bed.
Monday, Dec 8
CPAP report. Reported figures: 5 hrs 56 min with AHI = 0.34
Get up early and wash feet and leave by 9:25 for school, where I had a nice visit with the final presentations of Jen Lipton’s Air Photo Interpretation Class. I left for the foot doctor’s appt at 11:30, and was seen right away, so I was able to return for the last two presentations, missing only two. I will be missing SAIL today to work on my medical report.
Tuesday, Dec 9
CPAP report. Reported figures: 5 hrs 51 min with AHI = 0.00
Haircut at 2:00 at Celia’s went well. Next one in 8 weeks.
Tonight is Hearthstone (The Connections) for Christmas songs.
I worked more on the sleep doctor report. Happily, reached the technician for my sleep doctor and told her my plans to mail my summary document prior to my appointment. While sooner is better, she also said that being there the day before (Monday) would be sufficient. I’ll get it in the mail no later than Saturday, if all goes well, and as a last minute emergency need for more time, I can go to the EBRG office from 10-noon on Sunday. They are having those two special hours, first time ever.
Raining again. John fixed us a nice brunch: pancake with pecans and blueberries, bacon, & eggs. Excellent.
Sun came out a little after 3:00!
I drove to town in pea soup fog tonight from the end of my driveway almost all the way to town before it lifted. I could only see maybe 25′ in front of my car. Saw the center line and warning for stop signs approaching. It took me 10 minutes to drive a little under 3 miles.
Played music in town but stopped on the way for the reduced price on baked stuff at the grocery store. I grabbed a dozen donuts with about 5 apple fritters for the much lower price. We played and sang all Christmas music tonight.
I am still working on my report to the sleep doctor.
Wednesday, Dec 10
CPAP report. Reported figures: 7 hrs 35 min with AHI = 0.0
Did most of the preliminary, I think, but need to upload Oximetry and capture those after the SpO2-Review software is run on my night’s data. (SpO2 is the blood’s oxygen saturation percentage.)
Today is Mercer Creek Church for music at the relocated Food Bank Soup Kitchen. We played Christmas music and had people singing along on Jingle Bells, and several other songs.
Followed with SAIL class.
I fixed Frosty the Snowman music for about the 3rd time.
Need to correct Santa Claus is Coming to Town.
Nice surprise from Jeri Conklin in CA with a picture of our co-owned Brittany, Cedaridge Kip’s Camelot Shay Tre’ (Daisy), who will be going back to her field trial trainer to prepare for the Western Futurity. She is a pretty gal:
Jeri put this photo out on Facebook (hence the low resolution), and friends all over LIKED it, which sends a message to me directly to my email. (zoomed photos in this week’s blog both will pixelate; sorry)
Thursday, Dec 11
CPAP report. Reported figures: 0 hrs 34 min with AHI = 0.00
Slept without my CPAP last night to see how far my SPO2 went down through the night. Slept better than in many days. Awoke not tired and not yawning. Started my CPAP for 1/2 hour before turning off and only kept on oximeter recording for the night. I was able to merge that data into the SleepyHead software.
Today was our day playing at the Rehab assisted living center. We met two new people Laura and Dale, who came, participated, and joined our group. They sing and play. She plays the guitar, and he plays a washtub bass.
I took a shirt to my car for friend, Sara, to use in a quilt — delivered half way across town to the wrong house of another female graduate student I know. A senior moment?
Helped John make two pecan pies. We double-read and followed the directions because we left out white sugar last year (they were a bit thin but tasted fine).
Friday, Dec 12
CPAP report. Reported figures: 7 hrs 26 min with AHI = 0.00
I recorded a bunch more data from my two devices to have for my report to the sleep doctor. Now I need to summarize the entries into a table.
We took a break to go to the scholarship luncheon at CWU, and it turned out quite well. Based on a tortellini package soup mix with added ingredients, including sausage. [The term seems to mean ring-shaped but folks apparently find that a bit bland, so others call it ombelico (belly button).] Also served was much other food pot-luck style (my favorite was an appetizer made with mushrooms and shrimp) and our our pecan pies. A couple of people cannot eat such sweets and there was another dessert so we have pie left. I took one photo of Ruth Harrington by the food. She is the one who started this program of donations for CWU student scholarships, in 1973. Now the balance is over $900,000. Ruth left early (with a piece of pie; as usual) for another such gathering off campus. I asked her how many groups currently meet. This was a much higher number than I expected — 65, combined among lunches on campus, brunches, some lunches, and dinners out in the community. Not all groups meet monthly, but most do.
Tonight we went back to campus for another Christmas party, at the Dean’s Office of the College of the Sciences. Geography is a department in that college. It was a lot of fun, and I saw many people I have not seen in several years, and met some new ones. Lots of special food for dinner. Some had too much garlic, but I ate fruit, cheese, meatballs, some shrimp, and a little smoked salmon delicacy. Mostly we visited with people.
Saturday, Dec 13
CPAP report. Reported figures: 5 hrs 16 min with AHI = 0.38
I slept until 5:38 a.m. and turned off the machine, and slept another 3 hrs with the oximeter still in place. This morning was work on my summary medical report, good progress, but unfinished. Must get in the mail before noon tomorrow. John had to move a young buck and 8 does from our orchard before taking the dogs for their morning exercise, and feeding the horses. He has the brush cleared away from a few trees that he will now cut down, and cut up. A couple are nearly horizontal, others going up at 45 degree angles.
Today was our Christmas party at Briarwood Commons, retirement center. They went all out and had a lot of people there in our group, Kittitas Valley Fiddlers and Friends. We have two new additions as of last Thursday. We had Megan (Bass Fiddle), Benj (violin), Dale (Washtub bass), Nancy (fiddle), Roberta (guitar, bells, and tambourine, Tim (Mandolin), Charlie (12-string guitar), Gerald (guitar), and Laura (guitar, bells, & tambourine). We played 19 Christmas songs, and 3 others at the beginning, non-Christmas, but fun sing-alongs. Everyone (including us) enjoyed our afternoon.
A beautiful table of food, seen below with the main cook (Lee on the right, and another resident, Diedra, who helps with the potlucked food and preparation. Not showing on the table was a pot of beef/ vegetable soup made by the SOUPER cook, Lee, who honchos several dishes for all our play dates there. Lee is 82.
In the kitchen with the soup were fresh rolls to go with it and homemade seasoned oyster crackers donated by a 94 year old resident named Bernice.
Western Washington (also OR & CA) has experienced a significant wind and rain storm this week. As mentioned earlier we have had some rain and fog but not much wind. There is a place along WA’s coast that 150 years ago stuck out into the Pacific Ocean sufficiently far as to be called a cape, namely Cape Shoalwater. All sorts of things were built there during WA’s settlement period and after – WWII defense bunkers, for one. Sometime in the past something happened over that way and the coast began to move eastward. No one seems to know why but the “cape” is no more and the area is now called Washaway Beach. Over many years dozens of houses either were moved or fell into the Ocean. This week, as of Friday, 3 houses fell. Here is a photo taken from a Seattle TV station; thanks KOMO.
Below are a couple of links we found of interest. If the first gets updated you may have to work through some of the headings to find the previous week’s photos. From the index page, note on the right side ‘Recent Posts’ and then ‘Trust’. That is last week’s story – the one we found first. Also, there are ‘sequences’ of older photos worth looking at – follow the Gallery link – then to the bottom right side.
Washaway Beach – Stories and photos
Next link has a simple line-drawing animation showing how Cape Shoalwater became Washaway Beach.
Here is another house – zoom in on these coordinates
via Google Earth
46.740851, -124.087840
The north end has corrugated metal sheeting on the roof, the main roof part is sort of green and then there is a red rectangle overhang on the west side. The overhang is (was) over a doorway.
Here is a picture of that house a week ago Losing-the-Battle.
People question why folks would live in such a place. One person was quoted as saying he had married into it. Seems her folks had been there for a very long time. When it was settled first would be interesting. I doubt the places have much sale value and likely haven’t had for many years. This is mentioned by the woman that takes all the photos (1st link).
Hope your week was fine.
Nancy and John
Still on the Naneum Fan