WEDNESDAY HODGEPODGE #447

Thank you Joyce.

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1. What do you wish you'd done more of last year? Less of? 

Here is what I dislike about last year or even many years before. I haven't accomplished things in years and I got even worse during the pandemic. I hate the time I have wasted. 

I wish I did less TV. For some reason the Hallmark movies got me through these times but that's pretty sad, isn't it? I'm still struggling to let go of the movies each day. 

2. What's the tallest building you've ever been in? Do you have a fear of heights? 

I don't seem to have a fear of heights in buildings. Now standing outside on a mountain top near the edge I would feel a fear of heights. I guess it would be the Empire State Building New York. Next would be John Hancock building in Chicago. 

3. Do you have a word for word for this year? Elaborate if you'd like to elaborate. 

Persevere and you can read about it HERE. 

4. January 11 is National Milk Day...are you a milk drinker? What kind? Your favorite recipe that calls for milk (cereal doesn't count)? 

I don't mind milk but I don't drink it often at all. I do use Almond milk with oatmeal or Cheerios. I have a recipe that I make that calls for milk. Easy Provolone Chicken. Of course my Bohemian Hoska that I make each year has milk in it too. I usually keep a few of these in the cabinet. 

5. What excites you most about the future? What do you miss about the past? 

Watching James grow up excites me. Here he is showing off his new jacket from Aunt Amber and Uncle Dylan. 

I miss so much from the past, especially family members and I have to say the America I grew up in. 

6. Insert your own random thought here. 

I did share this on Facebook so some of you have seen this. I started with a lung infections on New Year's Eve. It happens every year because I wear myself down being busy each day and then it happens. Stress doesn't help. I will try to make this short. 

Started on my 5 day plan of steroids and antibiotics. Yes I am allowed to have them on hand because the soon you start the better. After the 5 days I wasn't really feeling much better. Two days after that I had a pre-scheduled appointment so I waited to see my pulmonary doctor. Sadly the woman that I see, who I love, had traded places with her father in law. 

As it turned out he was awesome too! We decided to go with another 5 days of steroids and 10 days of antibiotics. The reason for my original appointment was to try a new drug which was a combination of two of the drugs I have been taking for years. 

We were waiting until January for the price to go down because I go into the donut hole each year! So we went ahead with that plan which now I realize that we probably should have waited until my lung infection was gone. 

Three days in on the new inhaler and I just kept feeling worse. I had two doctor's appointments on Monday and my BP was up into the 170's. Now I am not a person who looks up side effects on medications unless I'm feeling strange on something new. Very first side effect listed is High Blood Pressure. 

Something else that happened to me the first morning after I started the new medication was that I woke up at 5 am feeling parched. I had to drink several glasses of water and had to put Refresh Tears eye drops in my eyes 3 times. I only use that a handful of times during the years. Yep, another side effect which I would have never thought of. 

So I made the choice on Monday to go back to my old medications and maybe try again at a later date. By Tuesday morning I was feeling so much better and I think I'm just going to stay with the original medications for now. The delivery systems are way different and it works for me. These two particular medications are in a capsule inhaled powder form. The new ones are combined in an aerosol form and just didn't work for me. 

So hopefully by this weekend I can get Christmas packed up.

Looking forward to seeing James on Friday night too! I never feel bad when I'm around him.