Tuesday, November 4, 2025

118.4 - still unchanged. Like Paula I have felt snacky this week, but I am just going to stick with my usual eating routine and hopefully it will stay flat.

Yesterday went well except we went to a golf rules seminar at the clubhouse at 3. Within an hour my eyes were rolling back in my head and all the rules were mixed up with the too excruciating detail provided on them. Thank goodness I don't ever plan to compete. What was worse is that 2 hours in, at about 5, he asked if we wanted a break and said we had another hour worth of material. More than 2/3rds of the participants left (including me). We all looked completely overwhelmed. DH stayed, but it ended 1/2 hour later when a friend of ours fainted, fell to the floor, and they had to call an ambulance. DH said he looked ok by the time the EMTs arrived so hopefully it was dehydration which he passed out from once before. But he did just have some major surgery a couple of weeks ago so very concerning.

Today we are driving down to Fort Lauderdale to see DSS and DIL who are here from Poland for a week. We are going to stop in Jensen Beach along the way and poke around as I have never been there. I need to get packed! It is a challenge because we have a very brisk North wind which makes it feel much cooler than usual. So I have to pick clothing that will work with warm or cool temperatures. What a pain.

But first a Justice walk before we drop him off at his doggy boarding/daycare place for a day. have a talkative Tuesday!

Good grief!!! They droned on about their rules to the point of causing someone to collapse?! That's so crazy.

My Mom did decide after all to stay in the hospital a few more days. My brother said now that my Dad is more rested, he is backtracking on the promises to hire help. He still is going to allow my SIL to set up my Mom's meds, so I guess that's a win. Anyhow, I'm going to go to the hospital with DH when he gets home in a few minutes.

Last night my friend said "When DH dies we will..." and talked about how strange to think of herself as a widow. They have a lovely marriage/partnership and it makes it so hard to hear she will be a widow. They have 4 awesome kids, and a slew of grandchildren to support her later, but of course it's not the same. She looked so tired. I hope we gave her the space to talk about what she needed to say, and to distract her for a bit also. One of the other roomies is pondering retirement (she just turned 65) and of course the roomie who is losing her DH said, Do it. Do it now. I am sitting on a pile of money set aside to buy a cabin up north. I should have bought it years ago. Just do it. Once again the sad lesson that we don't know how much time we have. If not now, then when?

When we got home, BFF said, It's time for you to have your house back. I am going to go stay with my niece now, until I leave for Boston on the 20th. Her niece and her niece's partner live in a two bedroom apartment, so it's not a place to stay for the long haul, but it will do for now. I appreciate her making these plans before we had to ask her to leave. She will be back a few days before we leave for Brazil and will housesit while we are gone.

I finally got to go work put this morning after a crazy week last week and it felt so good! And it is 60 degrees and sunny today, so I am savoring the serotonin that is flooding my system right now. Snow predicted this weekend, but that's for another day. Today, I will enjoy the sunshine and warmth.