For those of you in the bleakness of a more prolonged winter we may get snow this week after everything is starting to bud and even bloom, (some daffodils are blooming) so I feel you.
There is this intense virus going around and I thought a few days ago I might be succumbing and so even though I did all the things. I did not do the other things like go to the gym and even one day I only got 4,000 steps while I rested. Pretty unheard of here in activity land. Ask Carlo.
He was so happy he got to sprawl across me most of the day. Resting seems to have done the trick. I am feeling okay physically but I am irritable. I am hoping that going back to the gym today will help with that.
The news is just so plain awful. And then hearing that Illya Malinin missed out on his individual figure skating gold medal saddened me as I realized that his story was something I was holding onto as a positive distraction from the literal insanity going on in this country.
I had a long chat with Mrs. Sherlock last weekend on Zoom, (the weather was inhospitable for walking) and she is on a new drug for her irregular heartbeat and started on Zepbound and lost 10 lbs. her first two weeks. I could see it in her face.
She has medical issues that make having an ablation more of a risk for her and so she is choosing the medication route but is still experiencing shortness of breath when she walks up even a fairly modest hill. What was so sad to me was her saying that she was getting used to being chronically ill.
Because she is not a candidate for surgery unless it is life threatening, she won’t be able to have any of the skin fold surgery that so many folks are having with the weight loss drugs. And also, strength training is not happening as she is losing muscle mass as well as fat.
We talked about the mental challenges involved. She has been overweight but healthy and very active her whole life. Now she is a recent widow, lost her dog, has moved out of her home for almost 50 years, has activity limitations and is rapidly losing weight and not eating the same way with less appetite.
We won’t even mention that the country she was born into and believed to be a certain way, a country she served as a Navy nurse during an unfortunate war, (she was on a ship off the coast of Vietnam) is showing a very unpleasant underbelly to the rest of the world. These people are crazy.
How does one cope with so much change so fast?
Especially when things around one are kind of sort of acting the same. We are shopping at the same stores and hanging out with the same friends and celebrating birthdays and all the things.
Yesterday we had our big annual Media Luncheon put on by our local League of Women Voters. I have been involved peripherally in preparations for this for months and the main organizer is someone I am in contact with pretty much daily. We had 100 people. The panelists were folks running small local media outlets with loads of experience as seasoned journalists.
It was a lot of work. I think it was a success. The one bright spot for me was that I met a lovely recently retired literature professor who had just moved here from California. I enjoyed chatting with her. We attract such smart and accomplished people.
The panelists were a little more into self-promotion than I was comfortable with. We fed them lunch, but they didn’t get paid. I don’t know, it seems to be this influencer thing, but it was weird. We had glimpses of this in the prep but were hoping for the best. Still… there was some good information shared in spite of all that, but I found it exhausting. I guess everyone is trying to scale. Bleh.
I am glad it is over.
It is getting light and I need to get on with my day. I hope I can do things that improve my mood and help take the edge off my irritability.
Gratitude helps but it is not quite enough… a little good news wouldn’t hurt. I am just sayin’.
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