Scattered Thoughts . . .

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 '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 lat...

Sheila and I are still quarantined at home as Sheila continues to work from home and the numbers of people infected around us multiplies.   Even before this virus, we very rarely wandered from the house for social things anyway so this new quarantine and 'shelter in place' order hasn't changed our daily life much at all.  By early to mid-January, it became abundantly clear to us that the virus was gaining a foothold in the US so we immediately stopped visiting restaurants, canceled all future travel plans for the foreseeable future and began cutting out our weekly shopping trips.  (This is when the Federal government should have began a serious attempt at containing and minimizing the effects of this virus.  We knew it was coming at this point so we immediately changed our behavior...   the White House, well, this White House only helps the wealthy so it would have been silly for anyone to seriously believe they would come up with an effective plan t...