2021 Diary: Mind Like a Summer Sieve

6/8/2021: Prayers. Nothing very different all day. Continue to read “Phineas Finn”. Bed about 9:30 PM.

 

6/9/2021: Woke up about 4 AM: worried about whether or not I did the Dr. Melendez follow-up.

 

6/10/2021: Andy ran me over to the Family Medical Center at 8 AM. I saw that their covid precautions were still in place, so I went and sat at the outdoor tables at Subway till about 8:30 AM. Then I called in, and they asked me in to get my Medicare and Medicaid numbers in, and then I waited inside. Though my appointment was for 9:30 I was called in to a room earlier. I read a bit of PF, and then Dan came in. He put me on a strict diet for a month to get my blood sugar down. Ran a prescription he gave me over to HEB and caught the bus home. Wade was driving, and he brought me right to 513 without even my asking.  In the evening I made an order to HEB reflecting my new diet. Today was Kameron’s last day at school.

 

6/11/2021: Awaiting a delivery at 9 AM. Got it. Made Kam bacon and eggs. Had a good talk with Susan while finishing making supper. Finished reading PF late in the evening.

 

6/12/2021: A pretty dull day. Started reading “Phineas Redux”. Kenny called about 8 PM and we had a good talk while he drove home from work. Continue with the “keto” diet.

 

6/13/2021: Up at 6 AM, prayers, shower, and dress. Catch up diary. Ready to leave at 6:50 AM.

Got to church.  Fr. Stan elsewhere. Went to Family Dollar on the way home. Very tiring, but I was out of diet soda. Got home, took medicine and insulin. Ate Earl Campbell’s sausages and watched Young Frankenstein. The day continued. Found out that tomorrow they will start constructing a slab for the roll-back at the end of the driveway; I’ll probably have to delay getting any deliveries for a couple of days.

 

6/14/2021: Up at 5:30 AM. Prayers and Bible. Washed dishes, swept house, made bed. Watched cartoons. At 9 AM I started wash, boiled eggs, made egg salad, made cucumber salad. Changed wash at 10 AM. Made Kam bacon and eggs. Changed wash again. Was done with wash about 11:15 AM, by which time S&A came home. Laid down for a bit at noon, listened to Gilbert Gottfried’s Amazing Colossal Podcast.

Read PR, played DQ8. At 4 PM went in and fed pets, made supper. No couscous for me. Done by 5 PM. Between 7 and 8 there was a brief but intense rain with some thunder. Went in at 8 PM and washed up.  Afterwards checked BS (196 - under 200 at last!) then took insulin. Finally pooped [first time after the gall bladder operation]. Debated whether to order HEB or not what with the slab construction. Woke up at 12 midnight and finally decided to give it a go. Caught up diary.

Notes

Quite a number of anniversaries. Gall bladder surgery recovery. Kameron's last day of school. The slab being poured. I would totally have no idea of my surgeon's name without the Diary, and I'd forgotten how long it took after surgery for me to go to the bathroom again. Althogh I remember enjoying the Phineas books (by Anthony Trollope), I have only the vaguest notions of what happened in them. But then I am undergoing the Summer Memory Seive, wherein memories take a backseat to simply living. Which explains why this post has been delayed a few days.