Mountain Highs and Valley Lows

 I need to do better at posting to the Blog. I have been busy with work and taking care of my mother. On top of the I have been struggling with depression as well. My biggest issue is just not having the self-motivation to do the things I need to do when I am off from work. I will plan to do things on my time off and then I will just lay around because I just do not have the energy to do anything. I have been waiting to hear some good news. I go some with my doctor's appointment today.  Last year, when I was in the hospital with Covid, my blood test showed my A1C Level was high. My doctor has been checking on it since I got out of the hospital. My last doctor's appointment my A1C was on the line for prediabetes. I have been watching my diet but not totally avoiding sugar and sodium. My A1C seen was 5.5, which is in normal levels but still could use some improvement. So that was good news. No need for medication. My doctor told me to continue with my diet and do more exercise. 

 There are a lot of things that cause me to say I am glad that 2022 is over. I am looking forward to the thing coming in 2023. Mom is recovering good from her four hospital stays during 2023. Her Cardiologist appointment last week went well. She is off one of her heart medicines and cut back on the other one. She was discharged for her home physical therapy  Tuesday afternoon.   She will be discharged from her home nurse next week.  She still has a lot to do to get back to the point she wants but she is working hard every day to get there. She has some exercises that she does to build her strength back up. She is hoping to reach a point where she can go back to work. I had my own hospital stay due to Covid. I am taking medicine every day for the first time since high school. I have made some adjustments to my diet that I needed to make. I have a couple of things medically I will need to check on and work on this year. I was turned down for a promotion at work and a couple other things

 With the failed try of the garage bin compost, I have gone back to my old compost pile. I brought home three pallets from the trash at work to help contain the compost pile. This afternoon, I put the three pallets together and worked on getting the compost in the compost stall. I just used some common nails and a hammer to make the backstop for my compost pile. It was a pain to get the first nails in on each side being I was working on the project by myself but, I got it together. I managed to get the pallet back stop together and placed around the compost pile in the rain today. I will need to get out on the next day when there is no rain and work on getting the backstop setup better around the compost pile.  When the rain stops, I will need to shift through the compost and get the good dirt out and use it in my garden beds throughout my yard. Then clean up all the leaves and other organic material in the yard and put it on the compost. I am hoping with the wood around the compost pi

For the last couple of weeks, mom has been in a clinical care hospital in Greenville, SC. They finished her medicine regiment and her oxygen levels have stabilized. The social worker at the hospital called me Thursday saying that this week they are going to move mom to a Rehabilitation Center to finish with her PT. They are working on getting her a bed at one close to home. I am hoping it will not be long for her there. Both mom and I are ready for her to be back home.  If I had the resources, I would have a home nurse for her so she could come home now. Even with wanting her home, I want to be sure she is good enough to be home where I will not have to take her right back to the hospital. I am glad we are getting there. So far Medicare and the insurance supplement have covered everything so far. 

 I have been selling books on eBay for years now. I currently have 256 books or other items listed in my store. I have not listed anything new in a long time. Since I have recently been turned down for a promotion at work, I decided I really need to work on getting my bookstore back to making aa profit. I also need to get my blogs and YouTube Channel monetized too. I need to be the one who decides if I am doing a good job and how much money I make.  I will need to work hard to get things rolling. I know I can do it. I want to be able to be with my family and friends as I work. Have it setup up when I am not in the mood to deal with people, I can go into my office and work on the things I enjoy doing.  My bookstore will be the first thing I focus on getting to making profit. The first thing I am working on is getting the bookshelf that fell apart a couple month a replaced. I already put one set of shelves together but the set of shelves is not as wide so I will need to purchase a set of

 This has been a year for me. I got Covid in June and my mom got Covid right after me. Mom is currently on her fourth hospital stay. Friday, she was transferred down to a Critical Care Hospital in Greenville, SC. She has been in the local hospital here in town for three weeks. It has been one thing after another. They are to make her oxygen levels stable and help her be able to move around on her own more than she is now. She has not started her physical therapy, but they have cut the amount of oxygen she is taken cut over half already.  I am hoping she will be off the oxygen completely by the time she comes home. The hardest part of her being in the hospital in Greenville is that I will not be able to visit her before work.  There have been a lot of changes at work. The lead on the dock passed away in May. I have been filling the position until they offically give the position to someone. I was put in for the position but was turned down for the position. The reasons for why I was tur