Some stuff gets in the way of other stuff, so some stuff is ignored, some is started but not finished, and wonder of wonders, occasionally one of the stuffs gets done.<\/p>\n
Monday, Nov 20 <\/strong><\/p>\n No CPAP \u2013 Oximetry for Nov 19: SpO2 low 82, 10 events <88% with overall avg., 90.2%. Avg. low SpO2, 86.7%. Pulse avg. 54.0, low 50. Slept 6 hrs 40 min. <\/p>\n Changed email addresses several places. Kaiser Permanente was the toughest. Also tried to get through to MedicAlert, but failed. Got to Pend Oreille Shores.<\/p>\n I\u2019m spending incredible hours and not seeing much get accomplished as quickly as needed.<\/p>\n Tuesday, Nov 21 <\/strong><\/p>\n No CPAP \u2013 Oximetry for Nov 21: SpO2 low 82, 9 events <88% with overall avg., 91.1%. Avg. low SpO2, 89.3%. Pulse avg. 55.4, low 50. Slept 8 hrs 27 min.<\/p>\n We left for Cle Elum at 9:40 a.m. We took some White Heron wine along with us for our friends there. We decided to take the freeway up and Hwy 10 back. Our trip both ways was fine, with rain and intermittent fog (mostly on the tops of hills, not in our driving path). We arrived on time, but were not admitted until 11:00. We handed over our stool samples. We had our vitals taken by the nurse, and she handed us a copy of our labs. We compared notes and formed questions for our doctor, who soon arrived.<\/p>\n We revisited and heard about our lab findings. Considering we were born during the 2nd World War, overall, everything is fine, and we are healthy. John was put on a thyroid pill, Levothyroxine, because the tests indicated a slight thyroid hormone deficiency (age related?). For a similar issue, I\u2019m being rechecked because the standard test is for FT4 and the Doc is curious about FT3. These are hormones and one gets converted, or not, into the other in the body. So, more blood drawn from Nancy and in two weeks we\u2019ll go back. John\u2019s prescription was sent to the pharmacy in EBRG. Mine did not make it. I\u2019ll call first thing Monday morning and try to figure what\u2019s up. <\/p>\n Our med-tech phlebotomist there in Cle Elum is a friend of many years (we took her a bottle of Syrah Ros\u00e9; learned she really likes Malbec; so in 2 weeks we\u2019ll carry one of those). <\/p>\n Wednesday, November 22 <\/strong> <\/p>\n No CPAP \u2013 Oximetry for Nov 20: SpO2 low 82, 11 events <88% with overall avg., 91.3%. Avg. low SpO2, 88.7%. Pulse avg. 56.7, low 51. Slept 8 hrs 4 min. (done)<\/p>\n Called nurse Diane about the prescription for me from Dr. Wood for Hydrocodone (aka Vicodin). That\u2019s his suggested substitute for Oxycodone. I\u2019ve still got some, but almost never use, Oxycodone but WA State is pushing hard to restrict it, and the clinics are where the State enforcement starts. Shoulder pain is a pain that requires it when playing fiddle for over an hour or for extreme exertion during exercising such as Jazzercise.<\/p>\n I was going to ask about my Thyroid prescription, but nurse Diane never returned the call. So, I will try again Monday, early. Never good to be needing medical attention on weekends or before or during a holiday.<\/p>\n We played music (last time for Oct\/Nov), at Hearthstone today (a day early, because of Thanksgiving. Thanks to Charlie, Laura, Manord, Maury, Dean, Anne, Evie, and our guest Katie from Bend, OR for entertaining the residents, and guests. Thanks to Katie\u2019s hubby, Chuck for coming along to sing, and her mom Barb, who enjoyed and sang the music too. <\/p>\n After the music, Gloria and I went to Community Thanksgiving Dinner. We had a nice time, greeting folks and eating. The plate was full of food: tender sliced turkey meat (dark and white), mashed potatoes, dressing, corn & green beans, grandma roll, cranberry sauce, pumpkin pie, & lemonade (or hot drink). <\/p>\n I came home and have been working some on dishes, but mostly on changing email addresses. This is turning into a monumental task.<\/p>\n Thursday, Nov 23 <\/strong> Happy Thanksgiving!<\/p>\n No CPAP \u2013 Oximetry for Nov 22: SpO2 low 80, 17 events <88% with overall avg., 91.9%. Avg. low SpO2, 88.5%. Pulse avg. 55.0, low 50. Slept 7 hrs 47 min. <\/p>\n John now has a runny nose and is sneezing, so we are happy we don\u2019t have any Thanksgiving commitments. We can\u2019t think of an obvious source, perhaps an unfriendly spirit. We are spending time in the house because it\u2019s still raining. A slight opening in the weather allowed John to go feed this morning and now we can just stay put. We\u2019ve only fed one of the outside cats, Salazar, who must sleep nearby in our car shed. He\u2019s ready early and back during the day to be a companion cat with John on his chores around the property. Czar\u2019s the first in for dinner too. Woody sleeps farther away in a hay shed. Her momma, Sue, goes back across Naneum Road \u2013 to someplace on Swedberg\u2019s old dairy buildings, where she originated. <\/p>\n We have to be careful not to expose me to germs, although I probably have built up immunity with my recent infection, or not. Because of the music and Senior Center activities, I\u2019m around more folks than John. Maybe I brought germs home to him. <\/p>\n I\u2019m multi-tasking. I spent a lot of time last night working on the changes in email, and unleashed a ton more changes required I need to tackle today and this weekend. I had primarily been concentrating on email address notification, but I realized there is a ton of information in the \u2018messages-received\u2019 from places all over, contacting us about something. So, I have to follow through changing those too, because the sender is identified in the message but not entered into our address book. We just finished a non-conventional Thanksgiving brunch, with John\u2019s special efforts. We had home fries with his onions, 2 eggs over easy, bacon, and a piece of English Muffin toast with Marionberry jam for me and a wheat English Muffin for him. It was all quite good. We\u2019ve been adding smoked turkey to salads, so not having lots of left-overs from a big roast is not an issue.<\/p>\n Now back to putting the music for Let it Snow! Let it Snow! Let it Snow! into my SongWriter 2012 software. I need to share it with a piano player (19 yrs old) for a special performance Dec 15 at our senior center. He played fiddle with our group for the Veterans Day music this year, and his brother played Home on the Range on his viola (my switched over \u00be size violin from 4th grade days). I plan to add it to the end of our December music, but may decide not to. And might carry it through to the Jan-February music, if I decide against putting it with the December stuff (cause I don\u2019t have time to make copies for the audiences). They may know the song so I don\u2019t have to worry. It was written in 1945, and many singers have sung it through the years. <\/p>\n To any Facebook friends, check this video, from Bobbie (Roberta) Pearce, my violin teacher from Nampa, ID. Bobbie came up to WA for 22 years \u2013 the WOTFA summer workshops. <\/p>\n
\nI am trying to switch tasks every so often, because that way, everything gets a little attention. Yet still today I haven\u2019t made it back to email changes yet.<\/p>\n