(My) Daily News
Thu., April 23, 08:47 AM
This is a “journal day,” as opposed to a “soapbox day.” (Even if it takes me four days to do it.) We’re on the way, I guess. I went for a scheduled physical exam on Monday, and the exam doubled as pre-op for my surgery next month. The surgery will, I hope, repair some of the difficulties I have had with HHT, as I discussed several weeks ago.
In any case, I was pleased with the results. According to the last blood work they did, my cholesterol is excellent, my A1c (blood glucose average) is good, my liver is fine. I’m still anemic, but not as bad as before. From yesterday, the blood pressure is right on target and the EKG is good. My weight is right where it has been since I decided to lose a few pounds three years ago — about twenty pounds less than I had maintained for seven or eight years before that.
Sure, my knee is apt to hurt if I shop too long; but I was writing about a sore knee three years ago. Sure, I often need an afternoon nap. But for a person of my age and hair color? You know what I say, “pretty good shape for the shape I’m in.” I shall go into this procedure in a good state of mind, and you know that’s half the battle.
Since I will be in no shape to care for Husband and U.D. will be concentrating on me, we have made arrangements for him to stay in “respite care” for a couple of nights. I have to admit, that adds to my positive state of mind too. Ahem.
I suppose I can bring you up to date on my lovely granddaughter. I can call Lila beautiful, as I could my own children, because, y’know, none of them look like me. In part Lila resembles her other grandmother, Ms. L, who is a very cute lady. And her little mouth and chin are like her daddy, my son, who gets his looks from his father. The only part I can take credit for is choosing a man with nice bone structure. At six months, Lila is the handful I predicted. She generally sleeps through the night — because she has been so busy all day. She crawls backwards, ’cause it gets her where she wants to go. When she figures out walking, she really is going to be fun.
Her parents have asked that we not publish her picture in an open post, and I have promised to respect their wishes. (Personal e-mails, on the other hand, are safe.)
On an entirely different subject, I have been happy to be finished with working for Bosslawyer. There is, of course, some good side about most not so good issues. If I had not had cataracts, I would probably still be struggling with my own attitudes about his business.
Nevertheless, I am still curious enough to wonder what is going on in general, not to mention with clients that I know. So I read the legal notices, among other things, looking at all the foreclosures and wondering how come he isn’t working any of these. Acting as “committee” for foreclosures is a fairly easy legal task (he was always looking for easy). It was even easier because I had made templates of all the necessary paperwork, so that all he had to say was “open a file,” and his work was half done. It looks as if a lot of other attorneys suddenly got into this business.
What got to me this morning, however, was news of a young woman who had been a client about five years ago. She was a good college student with a brilliant career ahead of her when she was hit by a pickup truck while jogging. She sustained head injuries that left her with pain and dizziness to the point of not being able to study; part of the eventual settlement was that an aide be provided to help her study as long as she needed it.
I have no idea what she had done since then, although I knew when she lost her father — an additional trauma she didn’t need. Now I read that she has died suddenly. She was working on her master’s. Without information on cause of death, I can only mourn what might have been.
It just hasn’t been a good month for young people in our area.
As the weather improves — even rain is better than snow! — I have been shopping with miminal success. Just before Passover I began looking for some kitchen stuff, and I am still looking. Am I the only one left in this area who does dishes by hand? I know I could get the items on line, but I would kind of like to handle them first…
