Slept in again, but won\u2019t get to tomorrow a.m. because I have an appointment in Cle Elum at 10:45 to see my regular doctor, or as current jargon has it \u2013 my primary care physician.\u00a0 John and I both go to Cle Elum because when I first arrived in Ellensburg the office being touted as the place to go wanted $25 just to have me complete a survey and still would not commit to seeing me.\u00a0 We like our doctor and so have never thought of switching.\u00a0 We keep telling him not to retire.<\/p>\n
Today, I played the fiddle at a skilled care facility called Royal Vista with the Kittitas Valley Fiddlers and Friends.\u00a0 We had a lot of people there:\u00a0\u00a0 guitars, violins, accordion, flute, clarinet, bass fiddle, and banjo.\u00a0 One of our group works at Royal Vista and she joined us with both a flute and a guitar but not at the same time. \u00a0We interspersed Irish music as we are practicing a few tunes we are not familiar with.\u00a0 In a prior post I mentioned we have been asked to play at Briarwood, four days before the \u201cwearing of the Green.\u201d\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0[For fun:\u00a0 http:\/\/www.history.com\/topics\/st-patricks-day-symbols-and-traditions<\/a> ] We actually worked on Danny Boy twice because of a resident\u2019s request.\u00a0 It\u2019s a favorite of many, but seems sad nonetheless, although the meaning and history are somewhat muddled: http:\/\/www.karlsenfineart.com\/article-Ireland-song.htm<\/a><\/p>\n Afterwards I had to go to the Kittitas Valley Community Hospital for a blood draw (supposed to be a standing order) to check my INR for Coumadin dosage.\u00a0 Of course, when I walked to the laboratory, they had no record of a request, so my wait time increased while they contacted my doctor.\u00a0 Now I know what to say the next time.<\/p>\n Came on home and never took a nap, but we caught up on emails.\u00a0 Also had a phone call from my doctor reporting on the blood draw showing an INR of 2.4 which is in the good range of 2.0 to 3.0 for a person taking an anticoagulant and so I continue the dosage of 2.5 mg of Coumadin.<\/p>\n [ This link explains about the test and INR:<\/p>\n http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Prothrombin_time<\/a><\/p>\n the next one explains about rat poison, er.,\u00a0 Warfarin, and Coumadin:<\/p>\n http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Warfarin<\/a><\/p>\n and the history section in this is interesting.\u00a0\u00a0 JFH ]<\/p>\n John\u2019s cooking supper (meat loaf) as I write this.<\/p>\n So for me, each day shows some improvement.\u00a0 Hope you all are well.<\/p>\n Nancy<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Slept in again, but won\u2019t get to tomorrow a.m. because I have an appointment in Cle Elum at 10:45 to see my regular doctor, or as current jargon has it \u2013 my primary care physician.\u00a0 John and I both go to Cle Elum because when I first arrived in Ellensburg the office being touted as … Continue reading “THURSDAY — in the range”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recovery-stage"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p72iNf-6q","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=398"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":402,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398\/revisions\/402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}