Mountain Highs and Valley Lows

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 pur...

 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...

 For over a year, I have been trying composting in trash cans. While I did end up with some dark dirt, II am not happy with the results I got. The dirt I got was a wet soggy mess. I poured the dirt in the trash can in the front yard out into the raised garden bed I have in the front yard to let it dry out. I hope after it dries out I while have usable compost. I will let it dry for the rest of the week and check on it this weekend. Since the trash can compost has not worked, I will go back to having a post compost pile behind the shed in the backyard. Over the years, I have had better results from the compost pile in the backyard and it is less work to maintain.  I hope to get a garden started in my front yard next year. I got sick with Covid while I was working on getting it set up this year. I will continue to work on things for the rest of this year to get going with things in the garden next year.  My plan is to eventually have my whole yard outside as a garden as a p...

 I have been doing good with my recovering from my heart issues caused by Covid. I have a good chance of not needing to take medication. My blood test and EKGs have come back looking good. Even though I am going in the right direction with my recovery, I have days when I am full of energy and can work on things all day. Then there are days, that I do one thing and I and beat for the rest of the day.  This summer has been a rough one for my mom and me. I was in the hospital for Covid for a week and a half. My mom has been in the hospital three times this summer. First time for Covid and the other two times for things related to Covid aftereffects. Many of our plans for this summer have been cancelled, rescheduled, and put off for now.  I am hoping to hear soon if I get a promotion that I put in for at work. I have been working in the position since the person who had the position passed away. We have been short staffed at work. There are a few people including me that are ...

I have been enjoying the past few days with friends and family. I got out of the hospital on Wednesday. I got Covid and it affected my heart. I survived the flight with Covid.  With Covid affecting my heart, I must make some changes to my life. I have been looking at making the changes for a while. I have been craving different foods that are recommended for a heart healthy lifestyle. The biggest change will be having to take medication daily. I have only been taking multivitamins and Vitamin C daily. I have been healthy my whole life. I rarely get sick and when I do get sick, it is for a day or two and then right back to life. I will be talking with my new team of doctors; about an exercise program I can do. I have been looking at getting back into the gym. I just wish I had a 24-hour gym that had a pool so I could get a good swim routine going. I always did better in the gym with Aqua part in my workout. I love swimming a lot and when I go swimming laps, it helps me clear my mind...

I am in the middle of a huge project of cleaning and organizing my whole house. I am going to go through each room of my house and clean and organize everything. I plan on replacing some furniture to help with better organization of my house. Some of the furniture is not serving the propose I need it for. I hope that when I am done with my cleaning and organizing project, I will be able to locate thing better and keep everything cleaned better. I am currently, working on cleaning and organizing the kitchen. This is not the first time, I have cleaned and organized the kitchen since I moved in the house but this is the first time I doing a full kitchen cleaning and organizing of it. I have pulled out everything out of the cabinets, wiped the cabinets out and then put the cans and boxes of food back in the cabinets. Even with a lot more to done, I am happy with what I have gotten done already.  One thing I am waiting on, my sister to come and get her stuff that she is storing at my ho...