As the day wore on yesterday, the pain in my ankle got worse and worse, and the prescription painkillers the doctor had sent home with me weren’t touching the pain. I finally asked Mark to take me back to the ER.
Continue readingThere are a lot of LDS churches around here, as you might guess, and a handful of mainstream churches. I have looked at all of them online and wasn’t feeling very hopeful, but I was drawn to check out the Greek Orthodox Church here in Price, Hellenic Orthodox Church of the Assumption. I had once visited an Orthodox church in Los Gatos, CA, when we were Workamping there, and was intrigued.
Continue readingThis morning, there were some highs and lows. Mark was able to fix our plumbing situation, so we have water now. Yay! Then we planned to go out and look around some more, but when Mark turned the key in the car, nothing happened, not even a sound. Mark tested the battery, and it was fine, so he got out and rocked the car, and it started right up.
Continue readingMark and I have been watching Zillow for close to a year, so we sat down at lunchtime with a list of some houses here in Price that we thought we might be interested in. We were just going to drive past them and see what we thought of the neighborhoods. All the houses we looked at in downtown Price were disappointing. They looked small and crowded, and the neighborhoods weren’t very nice. We were about to decide we’d better look in other towns, but we decided to finish the list.
Continue readingMy church shares our building with another church called Trinity Reformed Church. Mark woke me up this morning and told me that Trinity was having an Ash Wednesday service. I jumped out of bed and got dressed and went in.
Continue readingYesterday, Mark went to the VA first thing in the morning to get his free hearing aids for tinnitus. Then he took me up to Hearing & Brain Centers of America in Paradise Valley to have mine adjusted. I have a new doctor who will be working with me now and he took my hearing aids to the second level. Wow!
Continue readingLast month, Mark learned about a place that could help with tinnitus. The place’s name is Hearing and Brain Centers of America and it’s up north of Phoenix. He’s had tinnitus constantly for many years, so he went in and got tested and found he has Stage 2 hearing loss. They said that tinnitus comes from the brain, not from your hearing, and that it can also lead to Alzheimer’s and dementia. He was given something that is kind of like a hearing aid, only not. They set it at the lowest setting and told him to return in a week for an adjustment.
Continue readingMy bad for not writing this sooner. We actually got to Tucson on Sunday afternoon, but we’ve been so busy that I haven’t had time to write. Some of you have been asking where we are, so that has prompted me to write the final chapter on this trip.
Continue readingThere is an annual event at the Liberty Grove Historical Society in Ellison Bay that I vend at. I have a booth for The Longest Day, the fundraising branch of the Alzheimer’s Association. The was the weekend for the event and I was there all weekend.
Continue readingI had COVID-19 and was off work all last week, so I was a little bit weak when I started back to work at the Welcome Center yesterday. Today was my day to work at the Noble House and it was raining, so there were two possibilities for how my day might go. It could either be quiet because no one was out in the rain, or it could be busy because everyone wanted to do something indoors. I was hoping it would be quiet.
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