Scattered Thoughts . . .

I 'm still recovering from my hospital visit a week ago and I'm still feeling lousy but I am feeling just barely well enough to also be a bit bored.   This morning, I decided to pull out a small telescope, a few eyepieces and a camera to shoot a few photos through our living room window.  I needed something different to do that wouldn't wear me down completely.  I would have preferred to look at something in the sky but we very rarely see anything but clouds in the sky here between November and March so I'm stuck viewing terrestial objects rather than astronomical objects.  _________________________________________________________________ First, an update on my health...  On the positive side, I am feeling slightly better with each passing day since starting on the steroid therapy so that is good.  I am still feeling lousy though.  I'm still seesawing toward anaphylaxis with breathing difficulties occasionally and then recovering an hour or so later.  This seesawing

Overall, since Christmas, my health has been quite lousy to put it mildly. I used up too many "spoons" in the month of December leading up to Christmas. (For those who don't know, a "spoon" is a unit of energy... see  Gift of an Extra Spoon .) As a result of using far too many spoons in December, I am still trying to recover in February. Unfortunately, the end of this recovery period is nowhere in sight at the moment.  I am so exhausted and experiencing such consistently poor health that I'm having great difficulty even thinking clearly. Just writing this short blog entry is taking about four hours of frustrating work. My thoughts jump from topic to topic in just a few short seconds... yes, a few short  seconds.   I am having great difficulty trying to accurately explain... uggg... about five minutes have passed while I struggled to finish that sentence. I suppose that might explain my difficulties fairly accurately. I don't know whether to scream or