Two weeks to go

It was a busy week, have neglected the blog. I don’t like to post in the wee hours like this, but fell asleep earlier in the evening, got up and now can’t seem to get back to sleep. It sounds odd, but when I get too tired, I have trouble sleeping. This is the first time I have been online when my cron job to back up databases has run.

Last Monday I visited Suzanne. Hadn’t taken the bus to Shorewood for a while.

Tuesday I continued packing, had lunch with a friend, and spent some time looking over some external SCSI hard drives. Had another spectacular sunset.
Sunset
It looked like flames and smoke from the Hyatt on Old World Third Street. I fell asleep early and got up through the night.

Wednesday morning was my neurology exam for the SSA disability application I made in May. Not taking any “crash days” for a week was part of my strategy so that the doctor would see me with very moderate activity, doing one major thing per day. There is some history, while I was still working full time, I had a 3:30 pm appointment with my regular neurologist. I went to work in the morning, then took to bus to the medical center on the west side of town. By the time I got there I was so tired that I ended up weeping most of the time and had difficulty remembering what the doctor said the next day. After that, I tried to keep appointments earlier in the day and sack out a day or two before to make sure I had energy enough to participate.

Wednesday evening One Drum was playing at River Rhythms. Several of the members perform with Suzanne, so I put the link on Suzanne’s site quite a while ago. I had not been to one of their performances before. Percussion++

The other reason I went, besides that it was a beautiful evening to be outdoors, was that I wanted to try to stay awake to avoid what happened the night before. It didn’t work though, so did some serious crashing on Thursday.

Friday I resumed sorting and started to post usable things I didn’t want to move or that might not survive the move on Freecycle. I met some friends in Cathedral Square for a picnic lunch and stayed there most of the afternoon. It is dry, the sparrows had made dust baths where the grass died back.

I had been assuming that the reason bugs didn’t seem to bother me was from taking thiamin (vitamin B1). When we got ready to leave the park, I discovered that some kind of gnats were chewing on my ankles. The neuropathy has gotten so that I don’t have much sensation left there.

By Sunday afternoon, I was ready to pack winter clothing and bedding into boxes. Had yet another spectacular sunset.
Yet another sunset
Watching reports of Katrina hitting the Gulf coast has seemed surreal. Difficult to grasp that people are losing lives and homes while the weather is so beautiful here.

The packing continues…

About Kathy

Perl, MySQL, CGI scripting, web design, graphics following careers as an analytical chemist and educator, then in IT as a database administrator (DBA), programmer, and server administrator. Diagnosed with Mitochondrial Myopathy in 1997.
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1 Response to Two weeks to go

  1. marc says:

    i saw the reports too , and bush still not sign the “kyoto protocol”

    http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/0,5538,10955,00.html

    cheers

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