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Yay, oral prednisone prescription to fight the asthma. The weather has been so mild and i have been so lethargic. I have a mild cranky for a might-have-been if i'd had the steroids two weeks ago. Whatever.
It's been 13 hours since the first dose, and Christine notices the cough is decreasing. I had a brief fling with feeling energized and optimistic earlier today -- oh, please, bring on the side effect of "inappropriate happiness"! It has waned.
Lessons learned from this asthma bout: go to the rescue inhaler ASAP and see about beating back the lung irritation early. Also, double dose of inhaled steroid ASAP. I don't want another long bout of coughing and exhaustion again.
Is the CPAP helping? How could i tell? I currently ascribe most of my energy and aspect to the asthma flare. Is grief mixed in? Maybe?
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My mind passes to my parents 50th wedding anniversary and the challenge of drafting a message that was honest but also sounded positive. I'm happy to have resolved the anger and pain years ago. I can find the pain if i look for it, but -- especially with a frame of understanding of her struggling with ADHD -- i have more compassion for her. Christine even says she has found more compassion for Mom.
I think of the person my mother has been with the dementia, the change before the stroke had already eroded so much. Yet seeing Mom stripped by the stroke and dementia of the anxiety and anger and bitterness and laughing and smiling was a gift.
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We fiddled with our land line today [Wednesday]. It turns out the digital phone + answering machine gadget was misbehaving on the line, preventing us from successfully answering calls (resulting in incessant ringing) and killing the dial tone. I was happy we did figure out it was our issue before engaging to much with CenturyLink. So, do we get a new phone? Are landlines silly? My sister has gotten StarLink and has incredible speeds. I don't think we have a clear enough sky view, and i don't want to cut down trees, necessarily. There's an app that has you scan the sky with your smart phone camera, and it wasn't happy with the sky views i had. Doing the check from the roof would be the next step, but i do have mixed feelings about starlink. Will our roadside ever be ripped up to deliver fiber?
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After experiments with smashed cucumber, i tried English cucumber unsmashed, and unsmashed and drained. Then unsmashed and drained was with a scant handful of blueberries and chiffonade of spearmint and anise hyssop. Draining cucumbers does make a difference, i think: dressing them with a little salt (and perhaps sugar) and letting that pull liquid out leaves a slightly more cucumbery cucumber. I'm not sure the smashing does anything for me, but i didn't try the cubes with dressing.
It's been 13 hours since the first dose, and Christine notices the cough is decreasing. I had a brief fling with feeling energized and optimistic earlier today -- oh, please, bring on the side effect of "inappropriate happiness"! It has waned.
Lessons learned from this asthma bout: go to the rescue inhaler ASAP and see about beating back the lung irritation early. Also, double dose of inhaled steroid ASAP. I don't want another long bout of coughing and exhaustion again.
Is the CPAP helping? How could i tell? I currently ascribe most of my energy and aspect to the asthma flare. Is grief mixed in? Maybe?
--== ∞ ==--
My mind passes to my parents 50th wedding anniversary and the challenge of drafting a message that was honest but also sounded positive. I'm happy to have resolved the anger and pain years ago. I can find the pain if i look for it, but -- especially with a frame of understanding of her struggling with ADHD -- i have more compassion for her. Christine even says she has found more compassion for Mom.
I think of the person my mother has been with the dementia, the change before the stroke had already eroded so much. Yet seeing Mom stripped by the stroke and dementia of the anxiety and anger and bitterness and laughing and smiling was a gift.
--== ∞ ==--
We fiddled with our land line today [Wednesday]. It turns out the digital phone + answering machine gadget was misbehaving on the line, preventing us from successfully answering calls (resulting in incessant ringing) and killing the dial tone. I was happy we did figure out it was our issue before engaging to much with CenturyLink. So, do we get a new phone? Are landlines silly? My sister has gotten StarLink and has incredible speeds. I don't think we have a clear enough sky view, and i don't want to cut down trees, necessarily. There's an app that has you scan the sky with your smart phone camera, and it wasn't happy with the sky views i had. Doing the check from the roof would be the next step, but i do have mixed feelings about starlink. Will our roadside ever be ripped up to deliver fiber?
--== ∞ ==--
After experiments with smashed cucumber, i tried English cucumber unsmashed, and unsmashed and drained. Then unsmashed and drained was with a scant handful of blueberries and chiffonade of spearmint and anise hyssop. Draining cucumbers does make a difference, i think: dressing them with a little salt (and perhaps sugar) and letting that pull liquid out leaves a slightly more cucumbery cucumber. I'm not sure the smashing does anything for me, but i didn't try the cubes with dressing.
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