Sunday, Sept 11
For Sept 10 CPAP. Reported figures. Time on 4 hrs 15 min with AHI=0.24. Events: 1 H, 7 RERA. No mask leaks (max= 22 L/min). Oximetry: SpO2 one blip to low 89, all rest above, with avg 93.2% and that’s marred by a spurious 80, caused when taking the oximeter off.
I saw John off at 6:00 a.m. and stayed up to do things. Before feeding two kitties who arrived at the front door for their morning food, I saw the two fawns (now without spots) in the front with their mom, so I grabbed my camera.
Mom out front (on the right of both photos) with twin fawns, no longer with spots.
Been finishing chores around the house, washed a huge load of dishes, spent time on the phone with my neighbor, Louaine, time on email, and time on music.
I finally sent all the pictures from Clare’s 90th birthday party to her email. I called Monday morning to alert her and that I would see her tomorrow night at Hearthstone. 🙂
Bridge near the Middle Fork trail head.
We had a late supper, after John made it back safely from his day’s work on the trail, at the Middle Fork of the Snoqualmie River.
Monday, Sept 12
For Sept 11. Reported figures. Time on 8 hrs 24 min with AHI=0.36. Events: 3 H, 10 RERA. No mask leaks (max= 22 L/min). Oximetry: Good night.
I fed the cats their morning vittles. We both were working early on our computers, and John finally just went back out for yard chores. I get to work on house chores. He came in and fixed Nachos for lunch.
Worked up the song, On the Sunny Side of the Street; one of the hardest songs I have ever entered into our repertoire. Ended up putting in different chords for the key of C, and then changing to G, and lowering an octave. I hope this works. It is going to be difficult for some of our chord players, I’m afraid, but at least I think most people know the song.
John is back out moving rocks, this time, from out where the logs came through the fence. He is slowly digging a shallow trench around the house, filling with rocks, and covering with gravel (recycled concrete). This will pack hard and be a wheel-chair route to the den and eating area. He hopes this will be a selling point at some future date. It consumes a lot of rocks too, of which we have many, being situated on an alluvial fan.
I cleaned more dishes, did some bill paperwork, called about subscriptions at a savings through the College Publishing sales, and finished more music corrections.
Tuesday, Sept 13
For Sept 12 CPAP. Reported figures. Time on 6 hrs 16 min with AHI=0.00. Events: 1 CSR, 0 H, 8 RERA. Small acceptable leaks. Off at 5:30, another 2 hrs sleep. Oximetry: SpO2 one blip to low 89, all rest above 90, with avg 92.8% all night.
I had to take my morning pills at 9:15 before leaving for a physical therapy appointment.
I missed the retired geographers’ meeting to get to my morning appointment, earlier than usual in my day. Then on to other Tuesday stops: Jeanne at Rehab with flowers for her 87th birthday (yesterday), Bi-Mart to check number, Hospice Friends to sign paperwork for a friend, by Carole’s for cat food, on up Water to home for a fast lunch, and back on my second trip to town for Jazzercise.
I went back in for music at Hearthstone and took a 3-ring binder to a gal on the Buy Nothing site who requested it, and she met me there. We did not have a lot of people there – just our pianist, me on fiddle, and 3 other singers. I sing and play. The group is The Connections, and the type of music is religious (old church anthems) and the audience has the lyrics. I came home by way of Dominoes and brought home for dinner a large 3-topping (all meat) pizza, and called John to have him cook mushrooms to put on it. He also had grated Cheddar cheese and Parmesan ready, and I added little tomatoes from our garden to my plate with one large piece of pizza. He freezes the leftovers by piece, and takes one for his lunch on his WTA work trips.
Wednesday, Sept 14
For Sept 13 CPAP. Reported figures. Time on 8 hrs 12 min with AHI=0.37. Events: 1 CSR, 3 H, 1 PP, 18 RERA. No mask leaks (max= 18 L/min). Oximetry: SpO2 had 2 blips below 88, all rest above, with 92.1% all night, affected by a spurious 79 from a finger change.
I stopped by to pick up Gloria to go to the Food Bank and to SAIL. I have to set up chairs because Bob will not be there. Thankfully, one of our singers, Richard, helped. We had a good bunch of appreciative audience members, and 6 regular members joined by Roger McCune in his retirement from directing the F.I.S.H. Food Bank for many years. It was nice to have him join our music group.
Gloria and I went to the Senior Center to our SAIL exercise class, and Evelyn (our banjo player) continued there as our leader for exercise. We had several new members and good attendance. After dropping off Gloria, I came home. We did stop at my bank to deposit and to cash some checks I had recently received.
I finally got out the count for tomorrow’s music players, and I will call and report the total chairs needed, in the morning.
I also succeeded in getting my PT appointments scheduled for the month of October. All on Tuesdays and Fridays, at 3:15, with Natalie, the owner.
Thursday, Sept 15
For Sept 14 CPAP. Reported figures. Time on 7 hrs 23 min with AHI=0.54. Events: 1 CSR, 4 H, 2 PP, 15 RERA. Acceptable amt of leakage. Oximetry: I was unable to removed the oximetry with either program. I hope my oximeter is not broken. Update: it is working again, after restarting my computer and uploading the required updates.
Morning brunch was nice.
I picked up Gerald from RV Canopy Country on Dolarway just after 1:00 p.m., where he left his “new” truck to have its canopy installed. Fortunately, his son came and picked him up to take him back, because I had to go directly from music to a PT appointment on my shoulder.
We had only a few of us there: 2 guitars, a baritone mandolin, 2 fiddlers, and a flute (with her dancing little 3-year-old daughter. The room temperature was too warm and I had on a tank top under my blouse (for my PT follow-up), and the outside temperature was 86.
When I got to my appointment, I was too warm.
I made it there just at 3:15 p.m. and was happy to have a circulating fan blowing on me during my “warm-up” exercise. I had taken some pain pills prior to playing fiddle, but they didn’t seem to help either with the playing and certainly not with the 10-minute arm “cycle” workout, where I keep my feet stationary and use dual-moving handlebars for warming up my arm and shoulder muscles. Every movement hurt today, including the stretching sessions by my therapist.
Afterwards, I stopped by to water plants and pick up my friend’s mail.
Friday, Sept 16
For Sept 15 CPAP. Reported figures. Time on 6 hrs 33 min with AHI=0.31. Events: 2 H, 13 RERA. No mask leaks (max= 22 L/min). I slept another 3 hrs w/o CPAP, but with oximeter. Oximetry: Cannot get SpO2 Review to work; via SleepyHead software, I could see the SpO2 dipped to the high 80s but most were above 90. I had no way to calculate avg % all night, without the SpO2 Review Report.
Haircut for me around the rural block at 1:00 p.m. (the round trip is not bad at 4.3 miles). I actually made it twice because as I was leaving, Celia gave me two jars of jelly, one blackberry & and the other mixed fruit. I have to eat blackberry jelly, because the seeds stick in my teeth. We have several cups of berries in the frig. I came home and John and I picked the rest of the ripe berries from our plants, and added those from our fridge. John also cut her some limbs of green cherry tomatoes at her request. She also gave me 3 ripe tomatoes from her sister’s garden, after hearing all we had were green ones.
John’s hair I hoped to do tonight, long overdue, but it will have to wait until another day. He’s out working on yard chores before the expected rain tomorrow after 11:00. The front moved in already, within sight. This will help slow a couple of fires in the mountains.
Checked on Annie’s meds for seizure. Ordered 90 tablets from Rite Aid. I’ll pick up soon.
I had a double pear, plum, peach, Ensure, protein, yogurt shake for lunch. For dinner, John fixed a hamburger with fried cauliflower, yellow squash, mushrooms, with Parmesan cheese and spices, served with 3 types of tomatoes.
Saturday, Sept 17
For Sept 9 CPAP. Reported figures. Time on 5 hrs 29 min with AHI=0.18. Events: 1 CSR, 1 H, 11 RERA. No mask leaks (max= 10 L/min). Oximetry: SpO2 one blip to low 89, all rest fine all night. A move to a different finger caused a spurious low, which affected the avg. % all night.
1:00 start: Big outside music session at Briarwood. Several of our group joined another group, called Heather & Sage. They have a bass fiddler, a banjo/guitar/Irish drum player, and two fiddlers. Our group had two guitars, two fiddlers, a mandolin, and a flute/penny whistle player. We made some pretty music for 2.5 hours with a break for lunch. (I had a half a Polish hotdog), but we missed getting a root beer float.
John and I went to a 90th birthday party for the father of friends, now living west of Yakima. I actually knew the parents before I met the kids through CWU. In the 1990s shortly after arriving in town, I was playing with our music group, Kittitas Valley Fiddlers & Friends, at the Senior Center for a Friday afternoon dance group. These folks were regular dancers there. Tonight was the 90th birthday bash for Grandpa Orcutt. Dinner was slow-roasted & smokey tender Tri-tip roast with side dishes and a big birthday cake with 90 candles, homemade ice cream, served with frozen fruit punch, if desired. Fruit was raspberries & blackberries in orange juice and something else.
Birthday cake celebration.
Connections are through two parts of the family we have been included in for many years, since the 1990s. You might guess there are lots of Orcutt family in the County. He worked on the big dams here in the West and then moved to a farm about 10 miles east of EBRG.
Suzy Orcutt West and Bob West and her dad and mom on the right. They had a large family of 12. Suzy we knew because Bob was my student in the 1990s (graduating from CWU Geography in 1997).
We joined the celebration.
The large party was held in a barn at one of their children’s homes, on the other side of the valley. We enjoyed the Harvest Moon on the way home, but I was unable to capture it on my camera. John said I would find a better rendition on the web. I would have loved to have had what we saw surrounded by clouds.
This is the closest I can come to the moon tonight in clouds. This is from the web from Dennis Doucet, taken in Japan. The only difference is that the clouds we saw our view through were rather spectacularly layered, horizontally. I thought too late I should have taken it with the video part of my camera rather than the still shot, which adjusts for darkness.
Sunday, Sept 18
For Sept 17 CPAP. Reported figures. Time on 7 hrs 44 min with AHI=0.78. Events: 3 CSR, 5 H, 1OA, 2 PP, 11 RERA. No mask leaks (max= 10 L/min). Nothing to report on Oximetry as it was only on a couple hours, and nothing unusual happened.
Sad tale here: Until last fall Jerry and Janis Anderson lived down-ditch from us. She was one of the original “Rodeo Grandmas” of local, state, and even a bit of national fame.
Newspaper story prior to Rodeo
They moved a year ago. After being inducted into the Rodeo’s Hall of Fame this year, and speaking briefly, she was in a car with the one other surviving member of the group, Chloe Weidenbach, whom Nancy knows from her volunteering at the Food Bank. Janis complained of a severe headache and died shortly after at the local hospital from an aneurysm.
Janis Anderson’s celebration of life was today at the Kittitas County Events Center (aka Rodeo/Fairgrounds) with lunch and a beautiful program put together and presented by the family and friends. The large room (Teanaway) was packed. I arrived about 11:40 and left 3 hours later. The family served lunch with Janis’s Rodeo Beans recipe as the main course, along with Coleslaw, and a roll.
I made two more stops in town and came home.
Hope your week was fine.
Nancy and John
Still on the Naneum Fan