Managing the stress, finding the cures

It feels like an eternity since I've written, only a few days ago.

We are working out the details fo rour kitchen, dining room and living room upgrade. Tonight we picked out the stone tile flooring, ordered the microwave and kitchen faucet. We picked out the pendant lights last night and will pick them up this weekend or next.

We will have to buy 8 new chairs for around our island in the dining room and then just all the little things like a new deep fryer, a new coffee maker, toaster, etc. Ooh, this is so fun!

It's been interesting cooking meals in the basement kitchen area. It's a little old fashioned. For instance, I have to manually fill up ice trays with water and stack them in the freezer. I giggle doing it because it's been years since I've had to think about that. It feels like camping out.

Our kittens are confined to the basement for now but it's only temporary. They are handling the stress quite well. We are too for that matter.

However, I am making very simple meals...hot dogs, hamburgers, chicken breast sandwiches, fish tacos, tuna melts, egg and bacon sandwiches and, of course, we are ordering food to be delivered on Fridays, going out to Johnny's Chop House on Saturdays, and I'm cooking a healthy family meal on Sundays.

Tonight I had such a taste for a Greek salad, that I stopped at Panera on the way home and purchased one to share with Aaron. We loved it and will do it more often. Got to eat our greens!

I took Baby outside tonight and put him on Dolores's flower box. He had fun sniffing everything and then decided to jump into the middle of it and sniff the rosemary and geraniums. He's such a little brat! He's had an allergy to the plaster dust in our house due to the remodeling, so his eye is a little goopy and he's got the sniffles. I've given him an antihistimine last night and tonight and he's made remarkable recovery since then. I think he's 99.9% healed! Thank Goodness!

I went to see Dr. Clark last week for a follow up blood test...hemoglobin, INR, etc. He called and said my hemoglobin is improving so he doesn't need to see me until November. That's also good news. He is suspecting uterine fibroids, which is causing my iron deficiency anemia, which is causing my orthostatis (which I still have). I will know more when I get my pap smear and pelvic exam September 1st. If nothing is found on exam, then I'll most likely have an ultrasound. We have to find the cause of the bleeding to make my hemoglobin low that causes everything else. If it's not gyne related, then we have to see how my colin is doing. Oh Great!

FOOD FOR THOUGHT:

"It's hell to get old!"