Still Kicking!

I hope everybody is doing well… AND, had a wonderful week last week doing the holiday thing.

I am sorry, but I can’t really find the funny. My mood, contemplative to be positive, but mostly… I am extremely … I don’t know if I like the word angry… maybe confused? I have been having deeper thoughts… thinking about life… next steps… trying to find meaning. I can’t describe it.

I will be blunt. I spent the holiday in the hospital, in Wisconsin (nice people). It wasn’t the first summer holiday spent in the hospital (Labor Day at one time). AND, oddly enough, it was for almost the same thing. I starting feeling a sharp back pain the Sunday before the Fourth… I figured it was a result of me over working (I was yard cleaning around the summer home), or slept on it badly… or both. It escalated as the week went on to encompass most of my chest and back. I was only semi-comfortable sitting. I was lucky, the severe symptoms didn’t begin until my sister’s were present. When I coughed up blood, my oldest sister took me to the ER…. What the doctor thought might be the beginning of asthma turned out to be three… THREE Pulmonary Embolisms (blood clots in the lungs)… and life threatening… Turns out I have a condition… my blood likes to clot. I have to be on blood thinners the rest of my life. Yee ha… I don’t know what this all means yet.. I’ve been trying to just function. And, function I am.

I have been lost in thought, and don’t feel much like conversing with folks. Yes, I know… Yee ha… I am alive! WOO HOO! However, I am not at that point yet.

I wish everybody well…. I promise not to juggle knives or run into any sharp objects as my blood thins.

I am functioning… Returned to Chicago from Wisconsin momentarily ago.

Be good… Be safe…

Prost!