Blog II on 12-19-2024

Hello (again, if applicable) dear Reader, and welcome! 

Well, I ended up going to the emergency room after about eight breathing treatments (as needing so many was my sign). The attending doctor ordered an EKG (due to the 2021 cardiac event, and she told me that breathing problems can cause or exacerbate cardiac issues as well). The EKG took moments and provided good (clear) results, so yay. Then they put a huge syringe of some corticosteroid into my IV, and gave me one oral benzonatate while I was there. The doctor sent the typical prescriptions to the pharmacy (Prednisone, benzonatate, and Azithromycin) which we went and picked up before heading home; we got back in about thirty minutes ago and I've even had another breathing treatment. The bag of medication that I just picked up from the pharmacy was in a big-ole grocery sack, y'all! 😂 

The girl who helped me at the pharmacy laughed when I told her: When they ask me what medicines I take, I answer "all of them" 😂
The people at the pharmacy there at the WalMart in Douglas are all great, too! We're fortunate in this regard. 
Anyway, just based on what I saw in that syringe, it looked like a lot of steroid that she gave me; in fact, I don't think I've ever been given that much at once in my life (that I'm aware of, at least). 😳 It was bad enough this time, though, that I did wonder if I'd get a Brethine shot (but I didn't). 

The ER there in town in Douglas is great, from the front desk to the doctors and everyone in between (the only imperfection today is that they never let Terry come into the room with me). 

The air quality today was just pretty bad (based on breathing); enough so that my husband, who doesn't suffer from asthma or COPD, complained of difficult breathing himself. I'm now praying for God to please send a good, soaking rain to settle the dust from the air to the ground, or maybe a good day or two of some hard-driving winds? However He chooses to answer, it's just a prayer for relief. I know the air is always sparkling and easy to breathe after a good gully-washer (rain) though, so that's what I asked for first. 

Even though I've decided to stop spending so much time on the perfume website, it's all good. A peaceful choice, by me for me; I've just got to put my time to better use, that's all (translation: I desperately need to make money).
I've been playing and wasting time for far too long now (years, more than a decade, in fact, that's how dense I am!)
Change is often a good thing and I feel no need to disparage anyone (so I won't). 😎 Though, it will be nice when the menopausal mood swings subside or go away, man, because it's bad enough being bipolar without medication (since all the current medical options suck). Don't even let me get started on so-called 'mental health care' in this nation! What a pathetic JOKE.
Suffice it to say: 😡

We made a friend and gave her a ride home which was far more perilous than it should have been due to horrific, terrible roads that were very nerve-wracking to traverse (imagine a wash-boarded gravel road about ten miles long, y'all - so, yeah!) I'm still glad we gave her the ride because who knows how she would have gotten home from the hospital otherwise? I mean, we are pretty remote here. It's not exactly a sprawling metropolis. 

Anyway, thanks for stopping in again, Reader; take care and be well.