We made a trip to Cle Elum to our family physician, Monday, our anniversary.\u00a0 I got a clean bill of health and he changed a few meds.\u00a0 Went over my labs and had positive feedback from my doctor about my concern that I wasn\u2019t gaining stamina as much as I desired.\u00a0 He was nice and said I\u2019m still in the healing process and I just have to be patient.\u00a0 Get my rest and do what I can.\u00a0 I told him about my cardiologist wanting to put a heart monitor on me for an entire week to keep an eye on how my heart and body is responding to my normal week\u2019s activity.\u00a0 That\u2019s in the future for August.\u00a0 He encouraged me to participate in the experiment.<\/p>\n
Oh, we also started me back on another medication to see if it would control the \u201cacid reflux\u201d — that seems to be occurring occasionally.\u00a0 The last 3 nights I have eaten away from home, so I have restarted taking that medication before dinner.\u00a0 So far; so good.\u00a0 (John was with me Thursday and Friday but I was by myself Saturday night.)<\/p>\n
That\u2019s all I have to report (thankfully) on my health, so will end with a few stories of the other things in our life right now:\u00a0 puppies, jam sessions & potlucks, etc., and music events, and John\u2019s horse training.<\/p>\n
Happily, we went for a healthy \u201cSammie\u201d\u00a0 sandwich as Quiznos after the doctor\u2019s appointment.\u00a0 The appointment started around 1:30, so it was time for lunch when I was through.\u00a0 Funny thing is how much doctors depend on computers in treatments now.\u00a0 When we got there the computers were down, which affected getting some of my lab work out in a timely fashion.\u00a0 Oh, well.<\/p>\n
Puppies.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 (turned 7 weeks old on Monday this week)<\/p>\n
We sent two puppies to their new homes on Wed. and on Thursday.\u00a0 The little \u201crunt\u201d, Trouper, went to a home with two boys, 4 and 2, and the older one was totally smitten by the puppy.\u00a0 He is doing fine, and I am very impressed how good the little boys are with the puppy.\u00a0 This morning, we received 5 great pictures of his new life with them and their 12 year old dog.\u00a0 The next day, a liver\/white female went to her new home here in the valley with a family who had a dog from us for 14 years and loved her lots.\u00a0 She just died this spring.<\/p>\n
We have one more puppy to transfer this coming Tuesday, and then we have 3 who need new homes and for which we do not know yet for sure who will be their new owners.\u00a0 If anyone is reading this within a decent driving distance of Ellensburg, who might be interested in adding a wonderful Brittany puppy to your family, please let us know.\u00a0 They are so smart. \u00a0We keep introducing to them to new things to keep them learning and adapting to human handling and interaction.<\/p>\n
Finally, the other events \u2013 in our life:\u00a0 music keeps me busy, as Saturday night, when our \u201cgroup\u201d, the Kittitas Valley Fiddlers and Friends, went to the upper county to play for an antique car rally at the Cle Elum Senior Center.\u00a0 They treated us to a catered dinner that was very nice, including chicken and rice, green beans, tomatoes, salad and a great (rich) dessert.\u00a0 It was yummy, and we played during the \u201ccocktail hour\u201d before dinner, and they had a program afterwards so we didn\u2019t play our normal hour of music.\u00a0 They seemed happy with what we did.<\/p>\n
John is making progress with the new horses.\u00a0 They are slow in trusting him, but they are learning well.\u00a0 They had never worked with but one person, so gaining their confidence has been a chore.\u00a0 John is patient with them, and it is paying off.\u00a0 Our weather could have cooperated a little better \u2013 earlier cold and rain, and now hot sunny and windy days.\u00a0 [John \u2013 Horses are difficult when it is windy.\u00a0 Things move in the wind and make noise.\u00a0 As a prey animal, their attention goes to the things \u201cout there\u201d that might be sneaking up on them.<\/em>]\u00a0 These guys never had treats (carrots & apples), but now they will walk up to us in the pasture (to John for sure), to get treats.\u00a0 The youngest will take a carrot from me, but the older ones do not really know me yet.<\/p>\n That should be enough for this week.\u00a0\u00a0 We wish you all well and we are happy I\u2019m getting better, even though my stamina has not yet returned to allow me to do more than a couple hours.\u00a0 And then I have to take naps through the day (probably to make up for no sleep from the puppies), to get through the day.<\/p>\n Love and thanks for all the good wishes you keep sending by email or phone, or cards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We made a trip to Cle Elum to our family physician, Monday, our anniversary.\u00a0 I got a clean bill of health and he changed a few meds.\u00a0 Went over my labs and had positive feedback from my doctor about my concern that I wasn\u2019t gaining stamina as much as I desired.\u00a0 He was nice and … Continue reading “SUNDAY — Is no news good news?”<\/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-555","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-8X","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555","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=555"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":557,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555\/revisions\/557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}