A Rough Few Weeks-

Hi All;
I am just soooooo tired.
You know me. I get migraines, and have broken an untold # of vertebrae. Rarely do I get truly "sick". (Yeah well, so much for that record).  
I am not sure what kind of bug I have picked up, but it has been unrelenting this week... Fever- chills, 100 times over- and back again. I do believe that with all the barfing I have done my back will never ever feel better or heal properly.
About the only thing that stays down is the Zofran- (and that melts under my tongue for Gods sake).  When I asked for a refill on the Zofran, I told the gal at the dr.s office that if I felt no better by today I will be making an appointment to come in. I will sleep some more and see how I feel when/(if?) I wake.

Past myself... Casey's surgery is scheduled for the 19th. I swear to God that i would have her out her to take care of me, or even to help me out if she wasn't in so much pain herself. (She is also on antibiotics for infection).
Additionally, she is one Lantus once more- as her blood sugars have been soaring...

Besides wanting my mom back to take care of me for a few days, (yes, really), I received news of a childhood/teenage friend of ours (neighbor kids n me). Scott passed away on Wednesday, very unexpectedly.
Scott's a doctor- His wife found him on the couch, passed, apparently of a heart attack.

It is a godawful awakening that people I know and care for, (and my age) are dying unexpectedly.
It is just so wrong. And very sad too.
Hard to be adjusting, esp. given the fact that many of us, (me included), are just now accepting and still adjusting to the fact that we are the mom/dad generation, since our parents have gone and the generational torch has been handed to us.

The news, when Koreen had called on Wednesday afternoon- Odd though,  given the content of the phone call, it was still nice to hear her voice. I ran into her a while back at Wally World, introducing her to Brad (my grandson Isaiah's father). She lives quite near to Casey and Greg. I will make a note to stop one day if I do not see her on Saturday. (If I am up to going that is).

My sister Barbara wrote and will be up in Sault Ste Marie- Wish I could go and see her, but only in my dreams.

Another of my sisters has just been diagnosed with COPD.  She has never ever smoked!

Life is not fair.

My title above does not give this entry the justice it deserves.
This has been sheer hell all the way around.

Time for me now to lie down and try to sleep once more. I guess you could say I lied earlier, not that I meant to, but clearly my Zofran is NOT working.
 
Maybe later to call the doctor. This really is quite awful.

More importantly, please keep Casey and my sister in your thoughts...

XOXO
me

PS
Gritter~Baby!!!
Your deer called.
They would like you to come and get their apples when you can... While the pears are dimpled and weird this year, I told them there were lots of Macintosh, and they are very pleased and excited. hehehe
Love you guys!

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Spirometric       Classification
           The       normal lung function, when measured with Spirometry, diminishes       approximately 5% every 10 years after age 35 years old.  Therefore, it is       rare for a person over 35 to have a “100%”   In addition, the normal       values for the FVC and FEV (2 of the measurements in a pulmonary function       test) vary depending on age, height, sex and race.  The numbers are higher       for:

     

       

         

           

             
• 35 years old vs 65 years old
             
• Taller than shorter builds
             
• Men than women
             
• Caucasian than most other races.
           

         

       

     

     

 The number used (FEV1) is a percent of the average       expected of someone of your height, age, sex and race.   It is       expressed       as a percent of predicted.  Any number over 80% is considered normal

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

STAGE		Symptoms	Pulmonary Function Tests             (PFT) with an FEV1 result of:
STAGE I	mild	Often minimal shortness of             breath with or without cough and/or sputum. Usually goes             unrecognized that lung function is abnormal	>  80% of predicted
STAGE II	moderate	Often moderate or severe             shortness of breath on exertion, with or without cough, sputum or dyspnea.              Often the first stage at which medical attention is sought due to             chronic respiratory symptoms or an exacerbation	50-80% of predicted
STAGE III	severe	more severe             shortness of breath,  with or without cough, sputum or dyspnea             - often with repeated exacerbations which usually impact quality of             life,  reduced exercise capacity, fatigue	30 – 50% of predicted
STAGE IV	very severe	appreciably impaired quality             of life due to shortness of breath - possible exacerbations which may even be             life threatening at times	Less than 30% of predicted              --                          or less than 50% with chronic   respiratory failure

                               

The above chart is       based in part on the Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung       Disease.