Veteran’s Days

I’ve had an interesting couple of days.

Yesterday started with a text from my new doctor’s office canceling my first appointment with her that I made months ago. Not the best way to start a day, but I got to sleep late so that felt really good.

When I got up out of the bed I was greeted with this:

Tennessee was so sweet! She insisted that I enjoy my day off and do whatever I wanted. I had no idea what to do and I was feeling weird so I did a little bit of a lot of things but couldn’t settle on anything.

Today I got to sleep late too, but the day started like this instead:

Nothing like rolling over in bed to a dog butt in your face to start your day!

I did finish Michelle Obama’s latest book and I loved it! Not only do I like listening to what she has to say I like listening to her say it.

Unfortunately, one of the drawbacks of listening to an audiobook is that I rarely just fully listen. I almost always multitask when I listen to a book–playing a game or making a hat. I don’t absorb the content fully when I do that though and so it was with this book. I think maybe I’ll check it out again only this time as an eBook so that I can give it my full attention.

I want to go to the section where she talks about her family motto of “When they go low, we go high”. She talks about how much we’ve lost and why it’s so important to her and who she is. I think I need to absorb that.

My next audible listen is not a book but a class. Included in my Audible subscription are a collection of classes called The Great Courses. I had access to the original video versions through my cable back home, but I can’t access the videos here. I can get many of the audio versions through Audible though.

The class I’ve started is called “The Mayo Clinic Guide to Pain Relief”. I still have another two weeks before I get to see my doctor (I was able to get a new appointment a few days later than the original date) and I’m hoping this class will give me some good questions to ask.

I have been doing a bit better in general. I’m moving more and stretching. And it seems to be working, which is good because living in a house when both partners are having bad pain days is not fun.

I think dealing, or not dealing, with the pain might be messing with my memory and cognitive abilities. I’ve made two really big errors when ordering stuff from Amazon in the past couple of days.  Tennessee pokes fun and it is funny in a totally ridiculous way. I have tried to be good-natured about it, but it really is starting to upset me. Not her teasing so much but the fact that I keep making such bizarre errors.

Worse, I’ve had some issues with the quality of my work lately. Anyone who knows me, knows how rare this is. Those mistakes more than the Amazon screw-ups really are starting to make me worry.

It might not be the pain, or just the pain. It could be menopause. Both memory problems and stiff and achy joints and muscles are common symptoms of menopause. I definitely need to have the doc check out my hormone levels.

I was supposed to be watching the Tennessee-Mizzou game today, but when mom called to say the item I was expecting here arrived there instead, my relaxing, eating Domino’s in bed watching the game moments were over.

So I’m here finalizing this blog and working on laundry instead. Hopefully, tomorrow will be an error-free day. That would be nice.

Take care my friends and enjoy the rest of your weekend.