It's been a strange few days. First, it's been too hot to be inside on the computer, so I'm behind in alot of what I wanted to do. It's too hot outside for me to expend much energy on those tasks either. I do not like being so hot I'm dripping sweat into my eyes. My heart starts pounding, my blood pressure goes up (yes, I CAN tell that it does, since I feel it in my head!) & it gets hard for me to breathe. Being in direct sunlight for more than a few minutes does that to me as well.
It's awfully dry here, much like it was the first winter we lived in this house. Not a good sign. The meteorologists say we have a high pressure cell hanging over the entire state which shows no sign of moving soon. There's a low pressure cell hanging to the east, seemingly working as a block keeping the high pressure cell from moving away. Yesterday morning, we had a bit of a reprieve with some good clouds, helping to block the blazing sun, so it didn't get too bad until later in the day than previously. Unfortunately, when the clouds moved away, my son & I were in Hilo for his weekly visit to the orthopaedic surgeon & my car's AC on full blast couldn't cool my little car (too much glass) when not going very fast or far.
I think the worst thing about the current weather we're having is that the breeze, what there is of it, comes from the south, southeast. This means it drags the vog with it. This is the smoke from the volcanic activity that's been going almost non-stop for nearly 20 years. There are chemicals in the vog that are horrible to those with asthma & even those who don't sometimes deal with coughing, congestion, runny nose & burning eyes. It's extended my cold, so that I'm still coughing up phlegm & sneezing occasionally.
My kitties are suffering the worst of it. The littlest ones have gunky eyes & noses. Some of the older ones are coughing. One of my adult cats has chronic pneumonia. About the time she's about to recover from it, we get these south, southeast winds & she's back to barely being able to breathe. I end up having to thump her chest to help dislodge the phlegm so she can cough it up. It amazes me that she's been able to survive with this pneumonia! Her lookalike half-brother is the orange kitty at the top in my left module, who was very healthy, neutered, but hit by a car in front of my house. Come on, Trades!!!!
The doc finally told my son what I tried to get him to understand about the surgery. He told him absolutely NO skateboarding for at least 4 months after the surgery, because he has to give the graft time to heal. Even though he told my son that he's ready for surgery now, that made my son rethink his plans. Since the surgeon will be away for part of the summer, it makes the plans a bit strained. He'll be away from mid-July to mid-August to conventions & vacation. He told him that the surgery isn't mandatory, but could mean further, uncorrectable damage to his knee, especially with the activities my son enjoys.
My son chose to put surgery off until the end of June, so he will have some time to enjoy skateboarding for awhile. It's hard to have a kid lose his entire summer's dreams. But now that his knee is a bit stronger, I'm hoping to get him to help me out around here some, like using the weed-whacker & some with what I'm doing in my tropical garden. Hope is the key word with this, since my son hasn't been much on helping me in some time, rebelling at the one task I give him every day & balking at anything else I ask of him.
On Wednesday, after picking my son up from school, I stayed outside where it was a bit cooler. When the temp cooled more, I got up the energy to trim dead & dying fronds off my hapuu (Hawaiian tree fern) as well as a few other plants in my garden area. Then I started in on the sarcopia, which I & my son had tackled about a year ago. Since we didn't remove the stumps, they're regrowing. I was able to push/break most of the new growth off the ones beside my garden. One required a bit more, so I took out my camp hatchet. The limb fell against the house (they're not heavy, so do little if any damage), wedged in the top of a hapuu.
On my way down a little hill toward the fern, I stepped on an uneven spot, turning my ankle & falling forward. I put out my hands to catch myself, but since I was headed downhill, the inertia carried me on past my arms. I literally did a nose dive into the dirt/cinder, hearing crunching in my head. I rolled onto my side, sat up &, checked my face & my glasses, which now have a few nasty scratches on one lens. I got up, chopped the limb I felled & pulled it out of my fern, throwing it aside onto the pile of stuff from the last time. Obviously, that was the end of my yardwork for the day! I fully expected to experience symptoms of a concussion, but didn't. I don't know what crunched, since there isn't much pain on my face, other than from a few scratches on my nose. I know that there was alot of weight-force behind what my nose took, but somehow, I managed not to do any real damage! Not even a headache! Oh, but the next day, I felt odd pains in one shoulder, my ankle, my butt & lower back, probably from strain. The few scratches on my nose didn't bleed much & their scabs are already falling off.
My son said I probably didn't hurt myself very badly, because I wasn't experiencing much pain. I reminded him that I deal with pain every day, because of the fibromyalgia. I still wonder what went 'crunch' in my head.
Today is the TRADITIONALLY celebrated Memorial Day. Please take a few minutes in silent remembrance of our fallen military & Veterans.
‘'LIES, LIES, LIES’ "No chemical or biological weapons have been found in Iraq despite repeated assertions by Blair and Bush before the March 20 invasion that the threat posed by Saddam's stocks warranted a war to eliminate them.
'“The time has come when the British government needs to concede that we did not go to war because Saddam was a threat to our national interests,” Cook wrote in The Independent newspaper.
“We went to war for reasons of U.S. foreign policy and Republican domestic politics.”
Too bad the truth is coming out to the general public too late to save those killed in that 'war.' It's also too bad that the general public is so gullible as to believe our elected officials in their self-profitting goals. Where were these officials who are now questioning the Coalition's actions when they could have done something to stop the lies & prevent the tragedy?
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:) hi ... is it tgif, yet?! :( it seems this week wasn't too good for you ... it was a short work week but loads to do ... ;) there's a surf meet here that my employer, t&c is sponsoring ... saturday and sunday ... i can't even go see it ... we've got graduation on saturday and tonite we have intermediate school band concert ...
:worried: i don't envy the kids or those who stay at places w/no a/c during the day ... it's so damn hot! i hope the weekend gets breezy .. fat chance!
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