I been hitting some hard traveling

I got up later than usual on Sunday morning. It was gray and cold looking outside as it was most of Saturday (although, the sun came out briefly around 7:00 PM on Saturday, now that I think about it). I remember having bad dreams through most of the night, though I don’t know why...

I took care of my infusions and all my tests, but couldn’t take my morning meds until I refilled the pill holder. I put on a pot of coffee and drank two cups composing and typing the Blog entry. I finally started sorting out next week’s meds just before 10:00 AM.

I am still slowly cutting back on the morphine (from 90 MG (one 60 caplet and one 30 tablet) twice a day down to 60 MG and 60 MG, then to 60 MG in the morning and 30 MG at night, to this week: just 30 MG twice a day). But I have a lot of 60 MG caplets left, along with my 30 MG tablets.

Now, a long time before all this spinal crap, I had been taking 1000 MG of Metformin twice a day for something or other. My blood work was so good in regards to that something or other, my doctor cut it back to 500 MG twice a day and gave me a new prescription. I asked her what to do with the remaining 1000 MG tablets (I had just refilled them) and she said to cut them in half. So, I did that, with a sharp knife and my wood cutting board. But, the results were so-so. A lot of times, one or both halves went flying and I’d have to find them on the counter or (worse yet) on the floor.

So this time, I had bought a small, rather inexpensive pill cutter from CVS that uses a razor blade and keeps the pills inside it. It’s a little more difficult to line the caplets up than, say, a pill but it does work like a charm and I would highly recommend it for anyone who needs to cut their pills. [End of commercial]

So, I refilled my pill container for the week and cut the remaining 60 MG morphine caplets in half. Then I scrambled some eggs, ate my brunch and took my morning pills.

I stripped the bed and started the three loads of the weekend wash. While that was going on, I cut a new non-tapered white candle I had in the drawer in half to get two 4 1/2 inches long candles. After some difficulty getting the wax melted enough to ignite the wicks, I dripped wax into the Orion candle holders (this after I spent a lot of time carefully digging out the old wax yesterday) and stuck them in each holder. Why the wax? The old holders are made for one-inch candles and mine are the now-standard 3/4 inch ones. I’ll have to go to a candle shop and see if they still make and sell the fatter, shorter candles, I suppose.

I moved the humidifier (knowing I won’t need it all that much longer anyway) to another corner of my bedroom to make room for the air purifier. I had it in the kitchen (the most central part of the house) but it couldn’t stay there forever. So, since I spend the most time in the bedroom, I put it in there. I will move it out to the kitchen whenever I fry anything and possibly downstairs to address the kitty litter odor once a week or something.

I took some pictures of my work and posted them (although I was aghast to see the dust on the bottom shelf of the TV stand that showed up in the one photo – I really need to hire a crew to do Spring Cleaning or something).

My work clothes were clean and dried by then, so I got cleaned up and started housecleaning. I remade the bed and started getting up the cat hair and dust in all the rooms. I pulled the rubber ring off the bottom of one of the stainless steel cat water dishes and stuck it in the dishwasher (I try and remember to do one anytime I run the dishwasher so I can sanitize it). Then I turned the dishwasher on for this week’s load.

I washed the downstairs bathroom floor and the kitchen, confining me to the bedroom, office, hall, main bath and the living room. I did what I could there (washing glass tops, dusting tall things, etc. I finished about 5:10 PM (I was shooting for 5:00, but kept getting text messages, lol!)

Then I put in Disc 1 of a documentary Jake and Carla had sent me called No Direction Home – Bob Dylan (a Martin Scorsese picture). I was immediately mesmerized by it. His life growing up in a small town in the 50’s mimicked my own! And the songs! I remember all those songs! And the folk singers! I knew almost everyone they mentioned! Hell, I used to play and sing Woody Guthrie songs, especially "Hard Traveling"!

When Disc 1 finished (after two hours) I took a break from the movie and my own nostalgia to make a quick dinner. I had thought to make a real dinner this morning, but now I didn’t want to take the time. I originally planned to just watch the first disc tonight, but I was hooked. So, I microwaved another Boston Market entrée “Beef Steak & Noodles.” When it finished cooking, I ate it watching another Holmes on Homes show, not wanting to watch the movie and eat at the same time. BTW, the entrée was delicious! I took my evening meds and put in Disc 2.

I was still awake when it ended at 10:10 PM! Thanks, guys. You were right, it was a great movie! I took out the disc, put it away and went to bed.