Cate's Diary

Thanks, M. I really do think it's pain from gluten. I'm going to be more careful from now on as this has lasted 6 days this time. My right eyesight is heaps better. I just took my glasses off to check. With my right eye shut I can't read anything on my laptop, but with my left eye shut I can. I am looking forward to having my left eye done.
I'm having a bit of a weird day today. I have felt tired & cranky.
 
:grouphug: Sorry to hear about the tired, cranky day but glad the dizziness has subsided. Eye surgery is almost magical, if you ask me.
 
Thank you, LaMa :grouphug: I am no longer tired & cranky, or dizzy. Eye surgery is quite magical!

I'm not sure why I was so cranky yesterday. I have been feeling really tired & have been sleeping more. It's really starting to chill off & the days are getting much shorter. That can be enough for me I think. I'll adjust. I need to get some waterproof hiking shoes & some more winter clothes & I am not going to keep baulking at the prices.
Yesterday I did very little & hardly moved. I did some gardening, but not much. G saw another snake & when I checked it out I think it looked about the same size as the last one I had seen near the house in a drain. Arch had spotted it, otherwise, I wouldn't have. You could hear it rustling along on the dead leaves. It occasionally peeked up for a look. Yesterday I started looking at real estate again. I had sent D a message again letting him know we had another snake near the house, not expecting him to come, but he messaged to say he would call in. We kept an eye on the snake & he disappeared & reappeared a few times. When D arrived he had him caught & in the bag within 5 minutes. I messaged him last night to thank him & said that I thought it would be snakes that had me moving from the house & he said he didn't want that to happen & to let him know every time we see a snake.
I have been spending too much time at home on my own lately. G has been playing a lot of golf. I'm ok to drive now & I will try to get out to visit the women on Wednesday afternoon as G is playing golf again then. There are a few I dislike, but there are some I really miss & it's hard to catch up individually with them. I know when I'm retreating & I know it's not good for me.
It's time to get into the next phase of my weight loss. I haven't been tracking properly the last week, but am holding on to the 7 kg loss.
 
That's wonderful your eyesight improved so much! Do you know when they will operate on the other one? I bet you are pooped out from the stress of an operation like that, and I 'm glad you took it easy. I am always amazed how your son can catch the snakes so quickly and whisk them away. Nice he offers to keep moving them so you stay there longer. What made you look at real estate again? Are you seeing any interesting properties? I sometimes like to just look to see how people fix up their houses and make their yards nice or to see how the market is doing generally. Here there are severe shortages of houses because no one can find a house to move to in order to put their house on the market. We are so lucky to have a shoe box to transition to.

Glad you are getting out with friends you enjoy at the club, and sorry you have to put up with the stinkers to do that. I hope they behave!
 
Marsia said:
That's wonderful your eyesight improved so much! Do you know when they will operate on the other one?
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I will find out next Wednesday, the 23rd. It should be April some time, either the 5th or the 19th.
Marsia said:
I bet you are pooped out from the stress of an operation like that, and I 'm glad you took it easy. I am always amazed how your son can catch the snakes so quickly and whisk them away. Nice he offers to keep moving them so you stay there longer. What made you look at real estate again?
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Mainly the snakes made me start looking, but if he will come & relocate them I will stop looking straight away.
Marsia said:
Glad you are getting out with friends you enjoy at the club, and sorry you have to put up with the stinkers to do that. I hope they behave!
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I'll try to get out there. I enjoyed our trip into town this morning.
 
Woke up this morning feeling really tired again. I do think it's the change in seasons that's doing it. I was awake for ages during the early morning as I thought G hadn't set an alarm & he was meant to leave early as he was picking up a much older guy to take him to golf to save him driving. I often suggest kind things he could do & then he takes all of the credit. I think he even thinks he comes up with the idea quite often. It turns out he did set an alarm so I shouldn't have worried.
I think I'll have a nap during the day today. It's very overcast & looks quite stormy.
BF was oats soaked overnight in oat milk with some dried fruit & nuts & a dollop of Greek yoghurt.
Lunch will be crackers, cheese & salad probably & dinner will be roast beef, gravy & veg.
I'm going to finish reading Louise Penny's A Great Reckoning." Armand Gamache is the main character. I really like the characters in the book & have read a couple of others.
It is so still & quiet here this morning. It feels like the calm before a storm.
 
Hi Cate. Please look after yourself and don't retreat from the world. I really think if you are spending too much time at home, you start to overthink. (Not you, just everybody.) Could you look into doing some of the martial arts classes you were doing before? Meeting people is so important. Even if some of them are annoying!
 
I wish we could teleport and all take walks together! I hope you and G can do some nice things together that are relaxing soon. Glad you are enjoying your book, and you end up feeling all comfy cozy tucked in at home!
 
Emilyrose said:
Hi Cate. Please look after yourself and don't retreat from the world. I really think if you are spending too much time at home, you start to overthink. (Not you, just everybody.) Could you look into doing some of the martial arts classes you were doing before? Meeting people is so important. Even if some of them are annoying!
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Thanks, Em. I know that's what I need to do & I am overthinking everything again. I also think all of my appointments are getting on top of me. It's 120 km return every time & we live too far away from everything medical. I stayed home today & I can't say I enjoyed the day. I'm going into town tomorrow & will catch up with at least one friend.
Marsia said:
I wish we could teleport and all take walks together! I hope you and G can do some nice things together that are relaxing soon. Glad you are enjoying your book, and you end up feeling all comfy cozy tucked in at home!
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Thanks, Marsia. I wish that too. I feel out of sorts again. My SIL rang this morning to say she has bought a townhouse. She is madly packing & has 3 months to clear her house & get it sold. I think one of her daughters has probably organised the finances for her. She is one smart cookie. She & her husband are owner/builders. We don't have the same option, unless we win the lotto.
I miss my little car that I could park anywhere. I hope R really enjoys driving it. I didn't realise I was so attached to it.
 
Llama said:
:grouphug: I don't currently have anything smart to say so I'll just leave you a hug.
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Thank you so much, LaMa. I felt too emotional to post yesterday. That hug went down well. I felt so unsettled yesterday. I think a lot of this is having too many appointments at once. Too much driving to town & not enough socialising. I'll get this month's ap'ts over & done with & stretch the rest out if I can.
 
It must be hard to have such a long drive to get to your appointments, Cate. I understand that there's a trade-off between living in your beautiful home with the wonderful natural surroundings and the realities of needing a doctor's appointment or whatever else. I think trying to either get a few done in the one trip or leaving a break for a few weeks between them might help. I hope you figure it out.
 
I feel for you guys. I’m like a goat I can eat anything and everything.

live been naming my cars since I got my very first one. The day I got it my friend jumps in the passenger seat and he says “did you name it yet?” And I was like “um…no”. Then he got real serious and put his hands on the dash and after a couple seconds of silence he said “Betty”. And I laughed. And that car was Betty and Ive named every one after her.
 
Emilyrose said:
It must be hard to have such a long drive to get to your appointments, Cate. I understand that there's a trade-off between living in your beautiful home with the wonderful natural surroundings and the realities of needing a doctor's appointment or whatever else. I think trying to either get a few done in the one trip or leaving a break for a few weeks between them might help. I hope you figure it out.
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Thanks, Em. This is a real trade-off, but I think I'm mentally getting ready to move in closer to everything. I do need to stretch out my appointments somehow. I have 2 I can put off, but I hope I get a different receptionist for one.
Skurgeon said:
I feel for you guys. I’m like a goat I can eat anything and everything.
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I wish! But you exercise your's off. My metabolism is shot.
Skurgeon said:
I've been naming my cars since I got my very first one. The day I got it my friend jumps in the passenger seat and he says “did you name it yet?” And I was like “um…no”. Then he got real serious and put his hands on the dash and after a couple seconds of silence he said “Betty”. And I laughed. And that car was Betty and Ive named every one after her.
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That's funny. My Mum was called Betty. I haven't always named my cars.
 
I have felt better this evening. I shed a few quiet tears during the day. I went into town today & went for the lovely walk around the river, did some shopping & will try to get used to the bigger car. R loves being able to get around easily in mine. I’ll let him know sometime that when he decides to get something else to ask me first before he sells it.
I’m having a CT scan tomorrow of my enlarged ascending aorta. That sounds much better than an aneurysm 😊
🤞it hasn’t grown much!
We have a list for tomorrow but I’m leaving some things for next week as I have 2 more appointments next week.
Hopefully my appointments are keeping me well. I messaged one of our golfing friends yesterday for his birthday & just heard back while I have been posting this that he has spent yesterday & today in hospital with what may have been a stroke! He hasn’t looked well the last couple of times we have seen him.
 
Fingers crossed for your ct scan, my friend, and for your golfing buddy having caught whatever happened early enough to keep symptoms to a minimum.
 
Thanks, LaMa :grouphug: My heart feels OK. The aorta was 4.2 at the last scan & had grown .3 over about 5 years. My BP has been kept down since with a total of 3 meds & it's the most stable it has been for about 20 years so fingers crossed.
I hope our golfing buddy will be OK. He has had a warning now so I hope he takes notice. He's a few years younger than me, but I don't think he looks after himself that well.
The last few days I have felt stressed out & have had 1.5 or 2 glasses of wine. The scales were up 1.5 kg this morning so am nipping that in the bud quick smart. Wine doesn't help anyway.
I'll be heading shortly. I have to drink a litre of water in the hour before my scan & it's a fasting one. G made a frittata yesterday & I have a piece to have after the scan. He had some for breakfast.
 
I understand the stress of getting prodded and poked and scanned, but I'm happy that your health is being monitored and you'll know what changes you must do or what habits serve your long term health well. Don't worry too much about dabbling in wine, I think it's understandable in such a stressful situation, and you'll get things back in control. Much love and respect in your direction.
 
Thanks, Floater. Today was a biggie. I don't like having a CT scan, but I have a lot of respect for our health care workers. It's a scary thing & I hope that my aneurysm hasn't grown. I feel it hasn't. I have ticked off half my March appointments. I need to knuckle down again if I want to go to Queensland in June, weighing a few kilos than I do now. I think I'll set Monday as my start date.
G & I got a few things done today. We didn't get to see G's sister & her new place, but will try to do that on Wednesday as my Wed ap't will be short & sweet (ticking off cataract surgery, booking in the next). As much as I would like a break from all of these appointments I think I want my left eye done now so that I am done with it. I'll see if I can book in for the 19th of April.
 
Hi, everyone. I woke feeling good this morning after a very sound night's sleep. I won't go anywhere today as I'm a bit croaky after perfume exposure yesterday. I have some Autumn cleaning & gardening to do & I won't start another book. I have been reading too much.
BF this morning was a lentil/veggie stew with a hard-boiled egg on one piece of toast.
Lunch will be a salad. (not sure what protein)
Dinner will be rabbit curry with veggies.
No wine!
Will walk Archie twice. I might get G to drop me off soon along the road & I'll walk back home (steep uphill) & ring me when he's about to leave golf & I'll walk back down the steep hill & he'll pick me up.
 
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