Pragmatist
Pragmatist

Do you get tired of hearing about my aches and pains?  Well, I get tired of dealing with them.  But I suppose there's someone out there who cares what came of my visit to my doctor on Monday.  This is Wednesday, so you see how eager I am to report all?

Anyway.  Since this is the second a-fib, there'll probably be another, and maybe another.  Who knows.  But the order of the day is to prevent blood clots from forming in my heart and going to my brain.  With each occurrence of irregular heartbeat, there's an ever-growing chance of a clot forming.

So I'm on warfarin (coumadin) now.  Small dose for now, and I'll get a blood test each Friday until my doctor decides we can go for a month.  I'll have to be careful around knives and cat scratches, I guess, as the blood will flow more freely than before.  

Oh, and you should see the bruises I acquired in the hospital!! A huge one on the back of my left arm.  Took an anti-coagulant there instead of the abdomen.  Should have listened to the nurse when she advised the ab, but it kind of grossed me out.  So what's a little gross compared to a bruise on the arm that measures 4.5"x3.75" as opposed to the 1.5"x.5" on the llqab?

And the Atenolol for regulating the heartbeat has been increased to twice a day.

OK, enough of that.

Back to picking up my girls from school.  Caitlin, the older girl, did something she shouldn't have (I declined to hear the details) and got no-swimming-for-a-week punishment.  Turns out the younger one, Nicole, has decided it isn't any fun swimming alone, so I guess you would say she's sharing the punishment.  We went to the pool, anyway, yesterday because Mom said Caitlin could dangle her feet in the water.  But we came back earlier than usual because dangling isn't as much fun as swimming.

Both girls are picky eaters, and keeping healthy snacks that they will actually eat is a challenge.  Don't care for raw veggies, and very few of them cooked.  Don't like oatmeal, so the cookies are getting the bye.  And apples are like eh.  Pringles chips are another thing, though.  Bananas are good.  Tuna is ok with one but not the other.  Cheese is good with both.  So I need to go to the store and stock up on the Pringles and bananas.

The girls are really no problem for a couple hours, but I don't know how I'm going to handle all day when school is out and Mom still has to go to the office.

Stay tuned.

Another hot day, but a cooling trend is in the offing.  And not a day too soon.  The sky is sullen with smoke from the fires in the next county.  The air quality is way up there in the "Unhealthy for sensitive groups."  Just ooch it up another notch, and it'll be unhealthy for everybody.  One thing to say for winter: the chance for wildfires is very low.

OK, that's the babble for today.

Shalom