Feel Like Complaining

Tony finally got his Cpap set up and since his oxygen drops too low at night, he needs added oxygen to the line. His little friend sits in the living room and the line runs to the bedroom. Boy, it sure brings back memories of Mom.  He's doing good and has adapted well with it. He had to do an overnight oximetry study on Friday to make sure he's getting enough oxygen, then we can turn it up if needed.  I had something really weird go on with my eye a few weeks ago. It felt like I had an eyelash it, just slightly irritated. Then I started seeing flashing lights, floaters and black dots, as well as blurred vision. I was able to get in to my doctor quickly and she said it was a vitreous detachment. The vitreous membrane just separates from the retina and floats away; just poof and it's gone! The symptoms are supposed to go away in 3 months or so. She said it was an age related and it would probably happen to the other eye too. I can deal with the floaters but the blurred vision...

Some ideas that I get in my head can be let go when it doesn't seem feasible, but my most recent one stayed with me. I was lying in bed one night and decided I need a new one, a bigger one than a twin. It's been fine for maybe 10 years but was never comfortable. Then my brain said "If you get a bigger bed, you need a bigger room." Hence, the brainstorm of switching my bedroom to the family room and bring all of my painting stuff into the smaller bedroom. So the cleaning, moving, and more cleaning began. I gave away my grandma's old Singer sewing machine to a woman who once used one like it and now wants to teach her daughter how to sew. I love a good story when I'm giving something away for free. It was so dang heavy but Faith and I managed to get it upstairs and out the door.  Tony went with me to a mattress store that works by appt. only and she has all 5* ratings, so that's why I picked it. I hate mattress shopping; they remind me of used car salesmen. ...

I joined a couple of groups about a month ago to learn more about Restless Leg Syndrome. One is HealthUnlocked out of the UK. It's a website which is the worlds largest social network for health, with over 250 topics of health related issues. The other is Reddit, which is interesting in itself, but there are 20K members in the RLS group. I've learned a lot but am still very confused about where to go; and I am not alone. My GP had given me Pramipexol, which is a dopamine agonist. I didn't know that was a bad thing until my symptoms got worse and I realized that I was in augmentation. That means a drug no longer works even with an increase of dosage, so then you have to wean yourself off of it before you can move on to another. With newer studies, dopamine agonists are not the first line of attack for that reason. They are highly addictive, meaning they can take months to get off of it and the RLS symptoms come back with a vengeance.  It worked great for about a year before ...

I'm either too busy to blog or not doing enough to blog about. Maybe I'm right in the middle this week. I've been dropping in for Julie since Oct 20 and still have to go till the 10 of November. Faith stayed at Margie's with Teddy for a week so wasn't able to help me much. She still MIGHT to get to come home for a week, but will still pay me because as she said "You're amazing"! Ok, I'll take it. I stayed over on Halloween because I thought it would be fun for a change from our no kid house. They only got 26 kids so it was kind of boring. All the cats would scatter but then come back, that was amusing.  These 3 are the most willing to sit on a lap or close by; Tino, Nutmeg and Fuzzball (he is drunk on love). We did some fun experimenting in the kitchen Saturday. Someone had given me a bag of coffee beans but they were too light for our liking, so we roasted them in our Whirlypop popcorn maker. We didn't know how far to take it because we didn...