Scattered Thoughts . . .

W e have another rainy day here so I'm staying indoors today but I'm feeling better than I have in a couple of weeks.  It seems to be exceedingly rare when my health is in sync with the weather and today, although my health is cooperating, the weather is not.   I have a lot to do outside but between poor health lately, rain and snow, I haven't gotten outside to get anything accomplished.  As I get older, I have absolutely no desire to be outdoors if I'm going to be wet or uncomfortable.  Getting quite sick for a month or two last spring due to a tick bite does not make me want to run outside either!  I'd much rather sit comfortably and safely indoors now. I have a new grill for our outdoor kitchen sitting out there in pieces in a big box waiting to be assembled and installed.  Our old grill was completely rotted out so I have already removed that from the kitchen cabinets and mostly disassembled it so there is now a gaping hole where the grill belongs....

T his is just a short blog entry, mostly, to document my health.   I skim through my blog entries before each of my medical appointments to remind me of things that should be discussed so I try to document these things here.  In this case, I'm slowly recovering from my latest bout of rather poor health so there isn't much to discuss about the recovery but discussing another unexplained illness with fever is notable.   First, the title of this blog entry is "Health Improving" but this does not mean that my overall health is improving with few signs of my primary illness.  It simply is referring to my health improving after a couple of weeks of poor health.  My overall health still is what I would call "poor" so I didn't want to imply I'm miraculously getting better.  A "normal" day or "good" day still means a day that sees lousy health but not lousy enough to put me down on the couch.   My fever was gone yesterday so that was some ...

I 've been struggling with typical mast cell issues over the past week or so but things worsened significantly this past weekend.  I've had increased breathing difficulties, more nausea than usual, and increased bone and joint pain.  Generally, I feel quite lousy and I'm having more trouble than usual with my breathing. I started wondering if I had food poisoning of some sort on Sunday because I spent quite a bit of time in the bathroom and was nauseated most of the past couple of days.  That being said, this could also be my mast cells being over-active, as usual.   This evening, however, I realized that some of what I'm feeling feels a bit like a fever too so I checked my temperature...  the thermometer was showing 99.0°...  then, since I felt that I'm feeling worse than just a 99.0° fever, I quickly wiped off the thermometer's sensor with one of my cleaning cloths for my eyeglasses...  I was then registering at 99.6° consistently.  Now, t...