Life goes on

After dealing with it for nearly 4 years, I finally decided to see the doctor about this intermittent numbness that I have been having in my left anterior thigh. It is precipitated by standing at least 10-15 minutes. Gets better with rest. It got bad over Thanksgiving when I stood for hours on Wednesday and Thursday making the feast. I think it may be from my hip, but I don't know. Dr. Collins had me take a hip and lumbar spine x-ray, and I am scheduled for an open MRI this Friday.

My hands are especially stiff and sore this morning, and they definitely are swollen. I think that I am retaining a lot of fluid. I drank a huge glass of water of last night, and don't feel like I had the urine that I should have had. I will be monitoring this. I may be asking to come off the Femara and go to the tamoxifen if these side effects continue. I feel like an old lady.

Wayne is sick this week. I came home Monday from a 12 hour shift and he was running a fever. Had a sore throat, but that is better. His lungs sounded clear. Maybe just a virus. But if this continues I am gonna take him in to convenient care and get a chest x-ray. Saturday we had very icy streets. Wayne insisted that he eat lunch at the big house. I didn't want to, so I stayed at home. Wayne should have also. He fell in front of the big house, and as no body saw him, he had to crawl to a curb under the canopy where he could finally hoist himself up. His knees have been bothering him, as well as his back. I asked if he wanted me to make an appointment to have someone check them, but he declined.

I am feeling like such a slug. I am simply not motivated to get anything done. On my days off, I am taking a 2-3 hour nap. I need to get the binding on a quilt for Laurie. I am making potholders and could be working on them. I am reading a book, but can't get motivated to read. Hopefully, this is just the Christmas blues, and will get better. I think Laurie and her family are coming down for Christmas. I have to work the Sunday before Christmas, off Christmas Eve, and work 9-2 on Christmas Day.

I did get registered for Paducah. Signed up for 5 classes, 3 of them my cyberfriend Sarah is teaching. I am so looking forward to going!

I visited the other day with neighbor Albert. He had told us he needed pipe filters, but as they are new to town, his wife didn't know where to buy them. I went to a tobacco shop and bought him two packages, as well as a big tin of Prince Albert. When I took them over there, Clara was out. Albert was so pleased with his little gift. He told me how much it meant to him when I held his hand when he was feeling bad several months ago. You never know how much the little things can brighten someone's day. We often think that because we don't do grand things that get everyone's attention that we are not doing all that we can. But it is the little small things that people truly appreciate.