Good Grief

It's January 7th and I haven't written a single blog post this year. Yikes. Not the way I intended to start out the year in the blogging world. I blame it on a headache. A headache that started on New Year's Eve with sharp pains in the back of my head and on the left side of my face. New Year's Day I woke up with a splitting headache -- the kind that makes you just want to crawl back in to bed. But that day I couldn't. Hubby and I were out of town for the long weekend and were checking out of the hotel that morning and going to a basketball game at the college we went to. Hubby had really been looking forward to going to the game, that even though he offered to skip the game and just drive home, I just couldn't let him miss the game. I sat through the first half with him and then spent the second half in the bathroom away from the noise. Pathetic, I know.

Sorry, I don't mean to make this a health report, but now my readers know why I haven't been writing.

I had that headache for two more days. Friday was the first day all week that I felt (mostly) okay. Then I had all that laundry to catch up on. And a new quilt to start. And Season 2 of Downton Abbey to watch. And the first show of Season 3 of Downton Abbey to watch.

I will write tomorrow about our New Year's weekend. It was just the two of us, but we enjoyed it.

Blogging

I've been under the weather for the past week. A long ways under.

 Being sick means not feeling very creative about writing on this here blog. Being sick means lots of naps, not uploading pictures, not writing my usual captivating (**cough, cough**) posts. (I have been literally coughing way too much.)

I'm slowly getting better each day, rather than feeling worse each day. So there is hope for a new blog post out there!

Now that all my tens of readers feel sufficiently bad for me (you do, don't you?), I will sign off, take some cough medicine, and crawl into bed.

An Army in the Flood and Fire

 We got one of those phone calls yesterday evening that makes it hard to be so far from our family. Our son called to say he was heading to the hospital with his wife. She had been vomiting quite severely and they just knew something wasn't right. Turns out she has a not-very-serious (but serious enough to be admitted to the hospital) infection in her blood (sepsis). She's been getting antibiotics and is doing much better. She has an Army praying for her. (I'd appreciate prayers from my Internet friends, too!)

Our son is a music junkie. He says he turned on his iTunes this afternoon to random and this is the first song that played:



(It is basically the 23rd Psalm.)

His comment on his Facebook page was "Random song, huh God?"

God is so awesome in His tender care of His people.

This verse came to mind:

When you pass through the waters,
   I will be with you;
and when you pass through the rivers,
   they will not sweep over you.
When you walk through the fire,
   you will not be burned;
   the flames will not set you ablaze. 

Isaiah 43:2

Hopefully our daughter-in-law will be able to go home tomorrow morning.

Daily Photo Journal - January 8

About 2 1/2 years ago I had some issues with my heart. I was having very noticeable irregular heartbeats and some other hard to put into words sensations. I went through lots of testing at a great heart hospital in Minneapolis, saw a Cardiac Electrophysiologist, wore a couple of different monitors. It was kind of a scary time for me and for my husband. The short of it is I have a heart arrhythmia. I tried a few different kinds of medications, none seemed to make a big difference, so I don't take any of them now. I have the same symptoms, but the doctor didn't think it was anything life-threatening.

All that to show you my picture of the day:

My sweet hubby saw this awesome piece of exercise equipment somewhere and we investigated it. It is a Seated Elliptical. Since those heart issues I have had, I have been reluctant to exercise. And my lower back pain has gotten worse. (My back hurts after walking for about 10 minutes,)(Yes, I am getting old and the body is feeling it...) I have been working on building up my endurance on it. (Up to 15 minutes now!) The best part is My back doesn't hurt one bit.  We have it set up in the basement so I can watch TV.