Venting...

Why do I even have a blog? It's not like I post regularly...or at all. But I'm sitting here tonight, listening to the neighborhood fireworks, feeling a little isolated.

Hubby is off backpacking in the mountains of New Mexico. I'm sitting here in a very warm house, because we've just started week #3 without air conditioning. Hopefully that will be fixed this week, because it's wearing me down. My husband will be upset to find out that we still don't have A/C...he needs to remember that it is not my fault.

And my dear little 77-year old mother had a TIA early Friday morning. TIA=transient ischemic attack. Think "mini-stroke", because you have the same symptoms, but they are only temporary. The nursing home called 911 on Friday morning because they though she was having a stroke--unresponsive, not talking, right-sided facial droop. The ambulance took her to Denton Regional Hospital. She had an MRI done. She was admitted to the hospital, and got a room about 1430 Friday afternoon. Discharged late Saturday afternoon. She's back at her nursing home and seems to be fine. She's back to her baseline--oriented to self and sometimes to place; lousy short-term memory; sleeps most of the time. Her blood pressure was quite high--200s/100s at one point. Anyway, I got out to the hospital about 1030 on Friday, and stayed with her through the night. I worked my usual 7p-7a shift on Thursday night. I was up for 38 hours before I got to sleep, and I'm still feeling it.

That's probably enough venting for right now. Have to work Monday and Tuesday nights, then I'm off on Wednesday and Thursday. Hubby's birthday is Wednesday, so I need to come up with a cake--if the A/C is still out, I'm not baking. It's too damn hot. It's too hot to do much of anything. Can't knit--too hot! I need to find a place (air-conditioned!) to hang out tomorrow. Library will probably be closed. Maybe Jupiter House or Starbucks?

Later.