Day Ninety-nine

Today has not begun well! I'll not go into details now. Thus far by 9:30 AM the following has happened:

• I awakened at 6:AM to find Little Girl sitting outside my bedroom door and that the last of my oxygen tubing had been ripped open to the point that duct tape can't repair it. I am using bottled oxygen and the portable oxygen converter with a short hose until the oxygen folks arrive later today with replacements.
• My back hurts to the point that I can't stand or walk without great pain...
• so I'm sitting at my desk because the portable oxygen isn't compatible with my lift chair and it hurts too much to stand and make it compatible.
• For some unknown reason, last night Alex decided to defecate on the rung below his window perch.
• I'm into another fit of sneezing that the saline solution and blowing my nose doesn't stop.
• My agenda includes a couple of must-do items that are urgent, but I must be able to walk/drive to do them.

The good news is:

• the oxygen tubing is promised to be here by noon.
• my MD2U doc is to visit me at 1:00 PM.

Meanwhile, I have been able to feed the kitty kids and myself (a banana and my morning meds). The kids now eat regularly out of each other's food dishes, which make my feeding them much easier. Alex, however, still wants me to go to his dish and point out his food before he'll jump on his table and eat it. (Silly cat!)

After their breakfast, Sugar jumped on top of the printer, which sits beside my desk, and stared at me until I noticed her and placed on kitty treats on the printer top. Before she could eat them, Little Girl showed up and proceeded to eat Sugar's treats:

Sugar requested more treats. I gave her some more after Little Girl went exploring for some more trouble to get into.

Good news! I have ten replacement nose hoses, which is twice what I am allotted each month. Now if I can just keep the cats from chewing and clawing them.

A substitute MD2U PA visited me this afternoon. My regular PA had a baby two weeks ago and will be away another four or so weeks. I went over all of the medical stuff that has been bothering me the past several weeks and he said he'll call in two prescriptions, one antibiotic to deal with the infection in my lower left leg and one muscle relaxant for the pulled muscles in my lower back. 

He also confirmed that the nail on the big toe of my right leg in ingrown and needs attention. He can have someone visit me at my apartment, but it would cost me $35.00, which I don't have. I do have an appointment at the VA hospital in late December to have my toenails trimmed, so I telephoned and requested an earlier appointment. I've yet to receive a response from the VA.

As tomorrow's election draws near, I feel frightened and very anxious. If the GOP gains control of the federal government, I know I shall no longer have VA medical treatment and, in time, no Social Security income. The radical right-wing of the GOP has vowed to do away with both Social Security and the Veterans' Administration plus anything else that aids the poor, the elderly, and the infirm.

I am so sick of the deceit, deception, disinformation, and defamation of the GOP dirty tricks factory that thrown me into a deep depression, so deep that I can't watch TV and may even skip tonight's Monday Night Football. 

Day Ninety-eight

Thus far, today has been a mishmash of events. The kitty Kids awakened me at 5:00 a.m. because they didn't look at the clock and see that D.S.T. is over and it wasn't 6:00 a.m., when they normally get their breakfast.

An hour later I needed to pick up some non-prescription medications, so I drove to Walmart, going through a McDonald's drive-through and breakfasting in the car in the Walmart parking lot. Four metro police cars were gathered in front of the far entrance of the store; I think the officers were also breakfasting. My paranoia had me avoid them: I don't like being around people carrying guns, especially when society has licensed them to kill. 

By the time I returned from my adventure, I was exhausted. I napped from about 9:00 to 11:00 a.m. Then I tried to do some  housework, but found I was having trouble breathing. I did what I could and then played with Alex a bit, followed my Little Girl, and finally Sugar.

In the early afternoon I tried watching pro football, but even the Colts and Giants respective games could not interest me. I felt the need to studying and pray. So I did.

Then I realized that I'd not posted the Peace Globe I created and today is Blogblast for Peace. So I wrote a new blog-post to follow the one I'd posted early this morning before I went to sleep which contains videos expressing my view on Tuesday's election.

Now I need to make my daily call to my mother and then rest a bit.

I ended the day watch pro-football and completing tomorrow's Nick's Bytes post. Now I am reading to retire for the night. (The kitty kids are already sleeping).

Day Ninety-seven

Things are changing among the kitty kids. Alex is no longer hiding from Little Girl; in fact, last night they were playing together. I love it when the kitty kids are at peace with one another!

I just awakened for the 2nd time today. My adventures on Thursday wore me out and I slept most of Friday. This more is I was again awakened by Little Girl licking my face around 4:00 a.m., but went back to bed after feeding the kitty kids and slept until after 11:00. I'm still quite weary, but must find the means of waking up and having some energy!

Sugar and Little Girl have been chasing each other and playing together much to the morning. I love it when the kitty kids are at peace with one another!

My tiredness that began after Thursday's adventures finally departed this afternoon with some help of  5 Hour Energy . I receive a 12-pack from Amazon.com once a month; however, this month's will not arrive until next week so I purchased two bottles when I went grocery shopping this afternoon. 

With the energy I have had I've gotten quite a bit done today. Besides filling my cupboard with food for the month, I have also gotten ride of all remaining garbage bags and rearranged the kitty kids' feeding stations.

Alex, as I wrote above, is no longer hiding out and has been communing and playing with Sugar. Little Girl still avoids Alex (normal, since my old buddy bops the kitten on her head whenever she is within range), but she hops on Sugar and me, licking us until we push her off.

I watched my alma maters in two football game at the same time this afternoon: the University of Louisville (M.S.S.W.) defeated Temple University in a 45-17 win to extend its undefeated season to nine games. 

Unfortunately, the University  of Kentucky (B.A.Ed.) was humiliated by Vanderbilt by a score of 40 to O.

Day Ninety-six

I have been looking forward to today for a very long time! Adding a third of my pension check to the money I received from selling my Schwinn Airdyne exercise bike, I am departing in a few minutes to retrieve my guitar from the grasp of the pawnshop. I'll write more after I return. 

My guitar is home after 4 months in the pawn shop! I’ll never pawn anything again: it cost me $550 to borrow $250.

Now I plan to replace the strings and slowly (my finger tips have lost the calluses developed from playing) get back into the routine of pickin’ and singin’.