Take your blood pressure medication!

Spent most of yesterday in the hospital, where my mother was admitted. Her doctor had changed her blood pressure medication a couple of weeks ago, it wasn't doing the job. Unfortunately her doctor was out of town and a home therapist said we should take her to the Emergency Room.

Bad idea, as far as I'm concerned. Put her back on her old medication which was working, just causing her to cough.

Instead we brought her to the emergency room, and since she's old and deaf, this got her more stressed out and scared than ever, because they were all gathered around her shouting questions and wanting to run tests and I'm sure she thought she was dying or something, which sent her blood pressure even higher.

She spent the night there, and is still in today for more tests, which I don't think she needs but I guess since they've got her in there they want to get their money's worth out of our insurance...  she's in a private room which must be costing a fortune....

The reason for my headline... she was about 40 when she was first diagnosed with high blood pressure...took pills for a couple of days but didn't like how they made her feel....so she stopped taking them and tried to do the "natural remedy" thing.

Result, 20 years later she had congestive heart failure, and now instead of taking 1 pill a day she has to take 4. And has to go into the hospital periodically on occasions like these.

Moral of the story - go get your blood pressure checked, and if you have high blood pressure make sure you take your meds, otherwise believe me you'll wish you had, when it is too late...

Never get involved in a land war with Asia

and never agree to transcribe 20 hours of meetings from an Australian business meeting.

That's what I've been doing for the last 4 days...utter nightmare. Could NOT understand their accents. Making it worse were the bad audio levels and the fact that a lot of the people preesnt insisted on talking over each other from all around the room except in front of the microphone... I will never transcribe ANYTHING every again.

Anyway, so sorry to be MIA from my blogs.

Busy busy busy

I've been running around like a chicken with my head cut off...metaphorically speaking.

Actually I've been sitting around buy my brain has been spinning - 2 clients, lots of writing, deadlines.

Working hard on my Scrabble tourney coming up in April. Will post more details of that shortly.

National Scrabble Day Tourney in Cheyenne, April 13

April 13 was the birthday of the guy who invented Scrabble, so in 2009 the media - not the folks who actually sell the game! - decided to claim April 13 as National Scrabble Day.

The first annual National Scrabble Day tournament will take place on this day in the Cheyenne Depot.

I'm still finalizing ideas for how it is to be run, since it's only a one day event.

All proceeds will go to the Alzheimer's Association.

OMG!

Never realized I hadn't posted in over 2 weeks!

Sorry, folks

Things have just gotten away from me the last week and a half...posting should be back on schedule starting this weekend.

Posting resumes Thursday

I know I've been saying this periodically but this will be the last time I say it...I'm visiting relatives and although they have Wi fi I don't have a private room to work.

I'll be home Thursaday and will get back into the swing of things then.

New Year's Resolution

Things have been so hectic lately that I haven't been able to do any work on my Spelling Bee studying. Nor have I been able to do any Scrabble word studying (the two are actually different - spelling bee words are typically over 9 letters long, while Scrabble words can't be)

I have been playing Scrabble online of course and writing down all the words I've been using, but even there I've had to miss several days.

Well, I've got plans to have very much more structured days come January 1, and then, watch my smoke!.