Sleep A Blessed Thing

I only had 4 hours sleep last night, But I had some naps which were great.  I can't believe my good fortune in having the help I have. I can actually just rest.  It's like I am Katherine Wentworth when she has rest after many years of exhaustion.  I am physically still very tired, coughing a lot, and such.  

I pray that I can sleep tonight.

This song is beautiful, no words but the music speaks of wonder, beauty. 

This song is also lovely.

I am very tired but thankful. 

May God have mercy on us.

no pneumonia only bronchitis 🥳🥳🥳🥳

Good news. I don't have pneumonia, only bronchitis!!!

Today was a good day but long. The person who had advised me to do the lung x-ray failed to give me a script and I didn't realize the problem. So I was able to solve it but it added over an hour time at the X-ray place trying to sort it out with my virtual medical team.  I swear I had to sort them out 🤣🧐😳🤔

I had a good talk with my doctor about various ways to heal and gain strength. It was obvious to me that while I was in a month of much better health or over a month, I still got too depleted. Trying to figure all this out is really a process! 

I got this lovely pad of paper and oil pastels that I look forward to using. Today. I had to be up a lot and I'm definitely needing rest. So I'm so glad the rest of the week should God willing. Have a lot more rest in it. When I was at the place for the X-ray I was literally falling asleep in my chair waiting! 

I have so many blessings in my life and I'm so very grateful! 

May God have mercy on us. 

will try for x-ray again

I wrote (to my Romanian BF in Romania) about 4:30 AM the following (since she is in Bucharest time zone) ~ I am getting worse. I think the lady who is coming needs to take me for an x-ray. I get like post nasal drip and then it's like I am gasping for air and coughing. I have a video consult with my GP at 2:30. I can get the x-ray in the morning.  ~ just woke up and wrote ~ I slept more 🥰 Will do X-Ray. (Husband) filled my water bottle 1/3 full so not too heavy. I kept it on my chest like a compress, kept me warm too 🩷

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We met with a lovely lady who we hired to help me.  We are very blessed to have this option.  

Please pray that I can get an x-ray with not too much trouble or wait.  I will call FIRST to be sure they have tech. 🙏🩷🕯️

I SLEPT which is huge other than that times I coughed like that.  I am really grateful.

This SONG is my wakeup alarm and it's very GOOD!

May God have mercy on us!

prayer cards

I love the prayer cards addition 🩷🥰🙏🕯️

Sunday finally my coffee table is organized

Well, I have a video appointment with my GP tomorrow afternoon.  My cough is not as bad but it's not great.   I am struggling with some worries about it.  I think I am overtired, which is indeed the case.  

I got some oil pastels and paper. 

I am really glad for the song "it's OK" because it's so deeply mothering and comforting. 

As you see I finally managed to get my cloth bin out.  I had this on the bed when I had my 2017 foot fracture.  It's so helpful because it keeps everything neat.  I feel so much better because things are not so messy.

I got a card from my local church which was really nice.  My Husband went around with the card at church ☺️☺️☺️

I really hope I sleep ok.  That would be great.  

I hope God comforts your heart and blesses you!

May God have mercy on us!

a beautiful perspective on being an artist

Did you know I go on "kicks" where I have fun deeply looking into something or someone?

So I can't do much right now, obviously.  So I watched this ~ 

"NBC4 interview with Nightbirde in June 2021" on YouTube HERE and her words about artists giving to the world instead of receiving really struck me.  She did a great interview.  Reminded me of a classmate I knew growing up who was always very kind to everyone.

I love her music.  I am also very eclectic in my music.  God started giving me music to listen to when I was very ill, I am so grateful.

May God have mercy on us all 🩷🙏

A lovely pizza Christmas party

By God's mercy we had a LOVELY time with god-family ☺️🍕

My biggest prayer request is just that I can sleep at night.  

They gave me a tin of tea 🫖 that I really love! I can't have any caffeine until my lungs and sleep are better.  So this is going to be my celebration tea for when I have recovered 🥰

I am so glad that I can walk around the house! It's super cold now, 6° f!  So it's not safe for me to be out at all with my illnesses. My husband however is at vesper's and I'm very glad for that. 

My goddaughter's daughter said that our house is fancy which was really cute! I think it's because we can have breakable things and because I love color! That's what one of my future. Soon to be God willing baptized God's sons said about our house that it has so much color.  

I am so grateful for all the blessings! 

I am on a nightbirde swing and this one, it's so beautiful and such a blessing, do listen!

May God have mercy on us! 

God's ways

We went to the x-ray place as we were told they would be able to help.  Nope.  No tech there.  

I don't mind.  

I don't fit what other people think I should do but I already know antibiotics and steroids are not happening.

So I will rest a lot and do simple things like ginger tea.

I FINALLY slept.  I hope I can continue to sleep. Then my body has a chance to heal.  

next up: lung x-ray

Tomorrow I will have a lung x-ray to rule out pneumonia.  Yeah 😳🤣🤣🤣🤣

And I am allergic to antibiotics and steroids.

This is going to be an awesome LENT 🤣😳🧐🤔☺️☺️☺️☺️

Greta told me about this amazing tribute to the singer nightbirde.  I was listening to it on repeat as I waited to talk to a health professional.

Who was gently advising that I get a lung x-ray.  Ok FINE.

Prayers welcome!  May God have mercy on us all!

Circadian rhythms and one BEAUTIFUL song

This song, I just discovered today, was so beautiful I cried.  (Above pictures are 2 screenshots of it). 

Ok so my Circadian rhythms are totally confused.  I have slept during day or early evening but not at night.  So today I kept myself awake in hopes of sleeping tonight. Last night I took some cough syrup that was new to me.  It works great for most people but I am NOT most people!  

So not taking that tonight.

I am so happy to be walking, drinking tea, lighting candles and doing research again.  

I have a bad cough and am finally coughing up yellow (not red brown or green which are signs of infection).  I had honestly no choice but to limit my fluids because I found the crutches really hard and I didn't know what kind of fracture it was.  Just that I thought it was fractured but I didn't think it was a compound fracture.

I know what to do about this level of cold and I have had bad insomnia before so I understand it a bit better.  

Google explains that Circadian rhythms control lots of things including body temperature.  That explains why I have gotten chills or really hot (please don't tell me it's related to women my age 😳🤣 because this didn't start until after my fracture and huge insomnia.  No offense meant to anyone but it is easy to try to medically diagnose others who are comfortable writing certain things about them self!)

Meanwhile I am going to read up on the beautiful singer nightbirde who God clearly used in beautiful ways because of her honesty (2% survival rate for her kind of cancer) and incredibly loving heart.  She died February 19, 2022.  God remember her in His Kingdom! May she rest in peace and in the comfort of the Lord.

So what are you waiting for? Go listen to the song!!! 

May God have mercy on us.

Another Happy Thing

These are my favorite jelly roll pens! I actually have them already so I will keep them for when my pens run out! I have a space for them in a box under my writing table.  I needed the arnica gel and it was free shipping only with 25$ so I found something that I am sure to use! 

I thought I would need a knee scooter again but now that I know it's not a worse fracture, I have a walking boot and was told to walk, so I successfully cancelled the order on that.  I am so glad I don't need it!! 

May God have mercy on us!

Lit my lampada again!

I want to remember this:

Daily Reflections

Feb 4

“You have not yet acquired perfect love if your regard for people is still swayed by their character.”

-St. Maximus the Confessor

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My doctor told me that with my walking boot on I can walk.  And I can!  

I still have a bad cold cough and I slept very little last night (but kept falling asleep during the day).  So my body and rhythms are all mixed up.

It's such a relief to have the walking boot, it fits, does not hurt and I can slowly regain strength.

I have lost a lot of strength actually even before this and need to try to work on it.

table

I ordered this the night that I hurt my ankle.  It's been a real blessing! I already have a table for over you on the bed but this side table with wheels has been so helpful! 

hairline ankle fracture

Thank you everyone for praying! We got there and back safely! I have a hairline fracture on my right ankle. It will be 6 to 8 weeks of wearing a boot, a walking boot and resting.  Because of my cold I don't have the strength to leave the house again and do those three flights of stairs. So I will not be able to go to church. Thank you again for praying.

Pictures show Mr Husband constant care for me 🥰

May God have mercy on us.

tonight day 1

 

Yesterday afternoon.

tonight: new table with wheels and hot chocolate courtesy of my Mr Husband.

May God have mercy on us.

seeing a doctor tomorrow morning

I have an appointment for 10:30 AM tomorrow.  I am greatful.  It's hard to get appointments here. They have X-ray machine.  The person told me there's no reason to get an x-ray today when I will have it tomorrow.  I have been in this situation before so I understand it. I'm very grateful that I have an appointment so soon.  

I've done this all before and I know what I need to do.  It won't be easy but God can use it.  

My main prayer now is that I can see my future godson be baptized right before Holy week in our local church.  

so I am pretty sure I need an orthopedic doctor, for sure an X-ray

By the time our medical people actually talk to me, it was 8:00 p.m.  for various reasons that I'm not going to talk about, I did not at all want to go to the ER locally. One reason I can tell you about is years ago they almost killed my friend at that hospital. But I won't talk about that anymore.   I called and they were full and it would have been hours and I just couldn't take the idea of having to leave my home when I was actually comfortable with my foot carefully elevated.  I probably should have just gone directly to the hospital but that didn't happen.  We're trying to figure out how to make me warm enough so I can sleep. Unfortunately I can't have a lot of anything near my injured foot.  In other words, my foot is cold which really actually impacts if I sleep.

I already have a list of doctors who I'm going to call in the morning. I'm hoping to go to an orthopedic doctor and have the X-ray and probably have a cast and have it done. I can't remember if they do a cast right away or not. 

I would love if this is only a bad sprain but I don't know. If I broke my foot. I broke it.  It would only be a fracture, though it's not that bad. The hot water bottles are already helping!!  I have a really good husband.  

I had my candles blessed today this morning! I actually had gone back to church for a memorial service at 4:00 and then I went and got a few groceries. I was really tired but I really wanted to walk more. Maybe that was a mistake but I also trust God's will.

May God have mercy on us.