Scattered Thoughts . . .

The past week has been quite a week. My week was so lousy that I would have sworn that just this past week was really three weeks long! First, the grandkids started puking last Sunday... unfortunately, I had been with them on Saturday so I was probably exposed to the same bug.  By Monday, the stomach virus had hit me as well. Fortunately for the grandkids, they shook off the bug within 24 hours. Unfortunately for me, bugs like this tend to linger and negatively impact my Systemic Mastocytosis with problems that linger even longer. This bug was no exception. Some of the days over the past week were absolutely miserable... from morning to bedtime... but some of the days varied between waves of nausea and feeling like the bug was finally moving behind me. Then another wave would hit and I knew that I was only experiencing some wishful thinking.  Some days, my fatigue was actually brutal... I'd get up and immediately take my morning dose of medications... then, after my medicat

After cutting Christmas trees for the family, we headed to our annual Christmas lunch. This year, Sheila and I chose to go to 'The Whip' in 'The Green Mountain Inn' for lunch. We knew this would be a lunch everyone would enjoy! (And, everyone did!  More about that in another blog entry though.) While we were waiting for the waitstaff to get our table ready for our group, Lukey and I were wandering around the halls of 'The Green Mountain Inn' looking at all the historic photos on the walls. Lukey loves trains and there are a lot of photos of trains and streetcars from more than a hundred years ago. I was pointing out old buildings in old photos and telling Lukey which building it is while pointing out the windows. Some of these old buildings were related to trains... and this definitely interested Lukey. There is an old photo of the same building where Lukey and Kenzie currently live... I pointed to the old building... no other buildings surrounding it... h