WEDNESDAY HODGEPODGE #595

Thank you Joyce.

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1. Spring has officially sprung (in the northern hemisphere anyway)...did she roll in more like a lion or more like a lamb in your neck of the woods? What needs more of your attention in terms of a good spring clean this year-your house or your garden/yard? 

She moved in like a lamb. Some very nice weather in the high seventies. Going to hit 90 next week. 

Well Mark is working on the garden and the house definitely needs a spring cleaning but I can only do so much right now. 

2. What's put a spring in your step lately? 

Well there is a wedding we are going to at the end of April and I haven't seen my Florida family since before the pandemic. Adam, James and Gabby are going too. I can't wait for them to meet James. 

However, there is a lot more to be worked out before I can go so please pray for my health to be back on track. Will mention more in the random. 

3. When you were a kid, what was the best snack to find in your lunchbox? If you didn't do the lunchbox thing, tell us what was your favorite after school snack. 

I would go home for lunch and I don't have any memories of what my mom would make for us. We were just a block away from school. My mom was an alcoholic. But I remember watching Bozo! 

4. In what area of your life are you planting seeds ? 

Can't think of anything other than hopefully planning a trip in June to see Amber and Dylan's very first house. They just closed on Friday. 

5. Why do you live where you do? Would you consider living somewhere else? Why or why not? 

Well we live in Southern California because of something that happened years ago. Mark left me for a woman he worked with when the kids were very, very young. Then he moved to California because she went there in hopes that he would follow. 

Then he wanted us back in his life and he had a job in California so we moved out here to be with him. I know it sounds like a very sad situation and it was very difficult for me to leave my family in Illinois. However, in the long run, our children have found the loves of their loves here and I consider that a blessing for them. 

Well, California isn't the best state to live in. Lovely but costly. Obviously we are here because of  James and of course Adam and Gabby. However, it is very hard not to be with Amber and Dylan too who live in Great Falls Montana.

6. Insert your own random thought here. 

Well here is some more news that isn't happy or exciting. Not to mention that I don't need another health issue going on in my life. Enough is enough!

I woke up early on Thursday morning with chest pain. Something I have never experienced before in my life. Ended up going to the ER at 2 am. As you may know, things in the ER take forever to get worked out. I'll try to make this short. 

I was put in a room in the ER. I was taken for a photo of my heart. Then an hour after that they did a chemical induced stress test with and EKG. I got a thumbs up for that. Then I was sent for a second photo of the heart. I was also moved to a room which was patient observation. If the test were all okay they would send me home. 

They decided that they wanted to do an angiogram or angioplasty for further testing. However, I have to be off my blood thinner for three days so they sent me home around 9:30 pm. I got a prescription for a pill for possible angina. 

I have to say that with everything that is going on I have been nothing but completely stressed all the time and could have been caused by stress. I am feeling okay now and haven't had any chest pain at all. 

I have my left eye cataract being done next Thursday. Because of different testings it may not be possible to schedule something soon after another procedure. So it is possible I will not be able to have the ango tests done immediately. However, like I've been told, if it was an emergency they would have done it without me being off my blood thinners. 

The one thing I know is that I am not missing that wedding!!!!