I don't mean an electrical spike.
And I don't mean a spike in volleyball.
Or what they do to the football in an end-zone celebration.
Instead my "Spike" ended me up in the emergency room. Not fun!
The very next day we ended up going back there again to see if we needed to change a medication because it was creeping back up again in the 165 range.
I am following up this Friday with my doc.
This happened once two and a half years ago, on the day I planned my dad's funeral after a horrible battle with cancer, and dealing with my stepfathers soon to happen demise also from cancer.
This time, it happens to also coincide with a dosage change on my hormone replacement therapy patches, which may be a contributing factor. But, I feel there's enough crazy family stress happening in my life from all angles that is contributing to the spike again.
In the meantime, I am monitoring my blood pressure and it's been in pretty good zone since --- so I hope this is not going to reoccur again.
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The ER doc prescribed me one hour of peaceful sewing or weaving or knitting if I feel my blood pressure going up. Now that is a good prescription to hand out!!
I managed to put together these 20 blocks into the main section of this quilt that I started while on vacation a few weeks ago. Now all I have to do is work on the borders.
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I've been waiting to spread my pretty black mulch around in my flower beds until these crazy things are done falling. Otherwise they look so messy on top of the black mulch. The last few times Steve has mown the lawn, he uses the bagger device and sucks them all up. Then he deposits them in the city garage mulch piles for yard waste so they are no longer in our yard.
As it is, we still get seedlings
popping up on our lawn,
in my flower beds,
and among my tomatoes. GRRRRR
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It's a beautiful week of weather here in Wisconsin with low humidity and in the low 70s. Right now I'm dictating this blog while sitting outside in the shade on a lounge chair. I'm watching Steve work on his newest project.Steve has decided to run a 50 amp line from our updated electrical panel in the garage out to our motorhome where it is parked in the back yard. He has acquired the heavy electrical cable, the underground conduit to run it through and a post with the 50 amp outlet and breaker, just like what you see in a campground.
Now if we have guests stay in our motorhome, we can safely run both roof air conditioners, the refrigerator, or an electric heater if need be without worrying about overstressing the power cord from the garage.
With our updated service in the garage now we can run a full 50 amp power line instead of extension cords. The old service was only 15 amp off the house, and we could pop breakers just running a vacuum cleaner out there or trying to cool the rig down before loading for a trip with the fridge on.
We had already called Diggers Hotline last year to do the fence and knew there were no power or gas lines or water service in this area of our yard. Safety first!
He measured out and marked the line with paint across the grass and now has commenced digging where the post is going to be set in cement by the fence.
He rented a trenching tool from the local hardware store. For 30 bucks for 2 hours it's well worth it rather than having to dig this distance all by hand. PS he has on his safety work prescription glasses and steel toe sport shoes from work. Even in retirement, he finds use for them.
It's about 35 ft long and 14 inches deep.
Once he was done, he took the time to clean the machine all off. Being returned a much cleaner condition than when he rented it. That's my guy!
Whew.. that is enough work for the afternoon. He said we should relax now and take a nap. I am up for that!!!
I never before did see, a Currier and Ives rain barrel! Very nice!
ReplyDeleteGlad your blood pressure is a temporary thing. Those rain barrels are pretty.
ReplyDeleteWow, that blood pressure can sure take a toll. I'm so glad you are feeling better and hope you can control it in the future if it wants to spike again.
ReplyDeleteI love seeing all of the work you do around your house, and even though I am not a quilter myself, and probably never will be, I enjoy following along on all of your sewing projects as well.
Take care!