I think John got carried away with the header last Sunday.\u00a0 I went downhill as I was unable (at 1:00 a.m. Mon.) to keep food down from a late supper.\u00a0 It was sort of a long week, with a sick puppy too.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve been trying to gear my mental state to be positive, but my healing process is still not as fast as I would like.\u00a0 I spend too much time reclining in the recliner, but am thankful for it.\u00a0 John says I just have to realize that the damage done is not easily recovered.<\/p>\n
My meds have to continually be checked with blood work every two weeks to be sure my potassium level and INR (clotting range) is all right.\u00a0 This week it was not, so the meds had to be readjusted.\u00a0 Whether that played a part in my feeling down, is unknown. \u00a0\u00a0My stamina just is not there as I figure it should be and was told it would be.<\/p>\n
[John says: Health issues are not translatable from person to person.\u00a0 For example, an otherwise healthy person that has by-pass surgery may feel much better within weeks \u2013 if that surgery was preceded by a heart attack, recovery to a former medically-free healthful state will not occur and the actual recovery may be slow.\u00a0 Nancy, following a heart attack, had a complete system-wide collapse involving multiple organs.\u00a0 Issues from congestive heart deterioration remain even though a malfunctioning heart valve has been replaced.\u00a0 Comparisons with others don\u2019t make much sense.\u00a0 We have to acknowledge the individuality of this existence and with medicines, exercise, activities, and diet encourage the best possible outcome.]<\/em><\/p>\n I\u2019m continuing to try to get better.\u00a0 Sleeping throughout the night with uninterrupted sleep is impossible with food issues (see above) and puppies, and particularly sick ones.\u00a0 That obviously is playing a part in the process.<\/p>\n Nothing else on my health this week so I\u2019ll switch to the puppies and other events that keep us going and busy.<\/p>\n John tries to work every day with the horses, and some days are better than others, with associated wind or heat. \u00a0\u00a0He does most of his work in the morning cooler hours.\u00a0 \u00a0He also takes out time to help our neighbors \u00a0(ages 87 & 84) with things around their farm.<\/p>\n Tuesday we drove to Ritzville (a little over 100 miles away) to meet a family from Lewiston, ID who got a nice female puppy for their family.\u00a0 They have named her Lucy.\u00a0 She made the trip well, with John holding and my driving, until Moses Lake when she got antsy.\u00a0 She had to \u201cpee\u201d so we found an empty field and John took her for relief.\u00a0 She settled down for the next 40 miles and we met the folks at their aunt\u2019s place a little after 1:00 p.m.\u00a0 The area near Ritzville includes dry-land farming and there were thousands of acres of fields with multiple whirlwinds lifting columns of fine soil into the air.\u00a0 These \u201cdust devils\u201d were numerous and varied greatly in height, width, color, and lifespan.\u00a0 Very interesting but we failed to take a picture.\u00a0 Otherwise, it was an okay trip, and the temperatures were not that hot here in Ellensburg, where we left her 3 siblings, and our adult dogs.\u00a0 We got home about 4:15, checked, and everyone seemed fine.<\/p>\n It wasn\u2019t till later that we realized the one puppy was not acting right and she was very uncomfortable sleeping and miserable all night just as if she had a bad stomach.\u00a0 \u00a0She was crying in her sleep and shivering in pain (we guessed).<\/p>\n Wednesday morning was filled with more sick puppy and finally taking her to the vet.\u00a0 She was treated for a seizure and there are only guesses to the cause (bump on the head, heatstroke, ate something wrong, was bitten by an insect, who knows).\u00a0 She spent the night in the vets and came home the next morning back to being a puppy again.\u00a0 She has been fine since, so I doubt we will ever know what happened.<\/p>\n We heard good news from puppy owners with new ones in their homes.\u00a0 Those stories are always welcomed.<\/p>\n John picked blueberries (24 pounds) at a location just west of Yakima on Saturday and got them in the \u2018fridge\u2019 before we left late in the afternoon for a music gig for a local church.\u00a0 (Sunday now and he is freezing and bagging them.)<\/p>\n Finally, besides exercise class for me, I played music at a nursing home on Thursday afternoon.\u00a0 Then Saturday evening we played again at a church picnic and had a great dinner as well.\u00a0 The temperature was not nice, sitting at 96, but they provided shade for us, and it cooled off to 90 by the time we left.\u00a0 The church is of one of the members of our music group, and we have done this for about the past five years.\u00a0 The interest of the young kids in music and our instruments was most fascinating.\u00a0 We found ourselves playing songs we don\u2019t normally do in nursing homes, because the kids requested them:\u00a0 Old McDonald Had a Farm; Mary Had a Little Lamb; Pop! Goes the Weasel, and one about popcorn on a apricot tree I\u2019d never heard. \u00a0It was actually fun to see them keeping time to the music and participating.\u00a0 There were a few old timers as well who came over and joined us.<\/p>\n I\u2019d better stop and when John comes back in from watering the raspberries and giving the puppies a big dish to use as a pool, and after lunch, he will put this out on this blog.\u00a0 We will also bring in the puppies to share the a\/c in the house so they don\u2019t overheat. Our afternoon temps are topping out at just under 100 degrees F., but Monday may get that high.\u00a0 By Wednesday we will only be in the high 80s and low 90s.\u00a0 We are without clouds so at night the temps drop to near 50 degrees (our elevation is 2,240 feet).<\/p>\n Thanks for staying tuned. \u00a0Nancy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I think John got carried away with the header last Sunday.\u00a0 I went downhill as I was unable (at 1:00 a.m. Mon.) to keep food down from a late supper.\u00a0 It was sort of a long week, with a sick puppy too. 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