• Aging Parents,  Health,  Work

    MRI Scheduled, Mom’s Stuff, and Weird Work

    The MRI’s have been booked for this coming Monday morning for brain, neck/spine, and cervix. As far as the bloodwork, and me being able to tell what is what, it looked like the inflammatory marker numbers were above normal. Sugar was just barely over but better. Cholesterol about the same (higher than it should be). My vitamin D was a little over b/c I have doubled up on those. But I’ll go back to one a day now. I’ll add in an extra one every other day when the days get shorter. I have felt better this week. This morning even after a good night’s sleep I woke up tired.…

  • Dogs,  Family,  Weather,  Work

    Hurricane Strength Storms, Quarter End, Mom’s Birthday, and Mechanical Dogs

    Much to my surprise, we had not just the summer thunderstorms but a full on extreme weather event with hurricane 1 winds of 90+ miles per hour. I think we had 30+ trees down in our own immediate neighborhood of 4 streets or so. Just complete trees blown over from the roots. You can barely see it but here is a base of a tree in our neighborhood toward the middle right of the photo here . The wind gust was caught on camera but it doesn’t seem to be so bad in the video. It was behind us in the streets behind ours that was so bad. However, as…