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A metaphor for my take on life and how it affects me. |
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| I've spent the last few days trying to match up my Microsoft Calendar to Alexa. I did what the program called for and I kept getting "nothing is showing for a particular day". I consulted YouTube and the help section with no avail. I contacted Alexa and worked with a person using chat, and I even spoke to a person on the phone and he could no get it to work, so he hung up. I gave it a rest and let it sit for the night, but the next morning I was back at it. Would you believe me if I said the "light" came on. I was looking at the Alexa app and it shows the Microsoft Calendar. It dawned on me that I had been using the Family Sharing portion so my wife would see my appointments. I then began to change all of my events and appointments to MicroSoft calendar, and low and behold Alexa started giving me my appointments. I'm like a dog looking for a bone, I don't give up and I'm not to proud to ask for help. I've tried to keep up with most of the new fangled gadgets but some are out of my reach. The old proverb "keep it simple stupid" rings true today! That's part of my problem, I make things hard when it should be simple, one would think that after all these years I would have learned that by now. Life Is Good - God Is Great |
| I'm Starting Over Again. I've put the past 5 months behind me and I'm ready to begin again. Not sure what avenues I'll go down but there are so many things to write about. The View From MY Back Porch has changed and I'm hoping it will be better than before. Only time will tell. I turned 75 Today and I've seen a lot happen in those years. So many things have changed during that time. I'm looking forward to the coming months ahead. Hopefully I'll put the past behind me and I'll move forward with GUSTO! Life is Good - God is Great |
| My days are spent wondering what the final results will be on the PET scan I had done on Monday. Waiting is something I should be used to since I've been doing it all my life. "Hurry up and wait" is how the saying goes and boy have I been waiting! Patience is not something I seem to have a lot of, but some how I've survived like a lot of other people. Once I get the results I'll be able to move on, and I'm ready for that. It takes time for the medicine to get out of my body, but by waking my dog and trying to exercise to strengthen my body I should be well on my way! Next post will be on Monday 5/23/2022, and it may be my last post. I'm thinking about giving up bloging. My View From My Back Porch has been hazy at best and somewhat dull since I've been going through this stuff, but I've used it to get things off my chest, like issues bothering me during my ordeal. I don't know if I will get my clarity back, but time will tell. Life is Good - God is Great |
| One more check mark to put down as completed. Now I wait for Monday and the final Doctors Appointment to find out the results. Hopefully it's a all clear sign and I can go out and have A Wild and Fun Celebration - (yea right - sorry but I'm not a wild and funny guy) and my partying is more low key just who I am. While I was in the middle of the Chemo treatments, my wife and I had a discussion about the tools I have in the shed. We decided it was time to get rid of all the saws and things that could hurt me if I wasn't paying attention. Just before we left our home in the foothills I cut my thumb almost off with a table saw and it required 22 stitches and I can't bend my thumb anymore. I sold most of my tools and my welding machine, That brought a tear to my eye, I'm a hobby welder not an artist, and I enjoyed working with steel. I agreed to let it go and I sold most of tools to a friend who was going to have a yard sell and we gave him quite a few other items including the recumbent bike, mention in a few blogs about dusting it off and which room we moved it to, but it's no more. Along the lines of the last paragraph, I also shared with my wife concerns I had about my driving. In the past few weeks I've made a couple questionable decisions at a couple stops and the possibility of accidents that could have happened. I turn 75 in a couple of days and I felt it only right that she be made aware of my concerns. From now on my wife will be taking me to appointments and church. It's my intentions to look into what is available to seniors (since I am one). Getting old is for the birds! Life is Good - God is Great |
| Well I decided to try taking the dog for a walk using the walker we have. I don't think it went like I imagined. The problem was not with the dog but me, I found I was stepping on the wheels, and walking on the blacktop was not that easy. I will continue walking the dog without the walker and take my chances. If I go down while walking I'll revisit the issue. This is a new game for me, and it's hard for me wrap my head around. I've come back from Prostate Cancer, and Triple By-Pass surgery and I bounced back with minimal problems. There was pain during recovery but I survived and this is different. There are days when my mental capacity seems empty which makes you feel like you're worthless. My wife is a constant who does not let me wallow in my pity. She is what makes me look forward to everyday I get up! Each day is a challenge and if I keep my head up and watch where I place my feet, I will survive! I know God walks with me everyday and he has a plan for me, and I look forward to what that will be. Life is Good - God is Great |
| This Humpty Dumpty didn't fall off a wall, he just fell to the floor and it was the third time in week. No bones broken fortunately just sore wrist and bottom where I it the ground. I seem to loose my balance and down I go. Age and all the medication I've taken have had an affect on my body. I thought I was doing better but I'm looking at this more like a set back. I'm sure I will be using a walker pretty soon. Life is Good - God is Great |
| I consider myself lucky cause all my medical issues didn't start until 2016 when I was 68. Up until that time my health was good I had one episode prior to that in 2001 I had 2 stints put in, due to a mild heart attach. In 2016 I was diagnosed with Prostate Cancer had the Brachytherapy where radio active isotopes inserted into the rectum. Open Heart Surgery in April 2018, Ablation Surgery Nov 2018, Pace maker put in Mar 2019, colonoscopy/endoscopy June 2019, Lower GI Aug 2019, Kidney Stones Lithotripsy, throw in a couple more colonoscopy and then Cancer Surgery stage 4 Sept 2021 and then Chemotherapy from Jan 2022 to April 18 2022. The worst thing I've gone through has been the Chemo. The first week and 5 days I would sleep all the time. It was a real struggle to get up and move around. The side effects have been a problem, first you can't drink anything cold, it crystallizes in you mouth. When you go to eat a piece food no matter what size, my mouth would lock up, and the pain was intense, eventually it would release. My hands are cold all the time, there are more but these were the worst. Needles to say my body (and my wife's) have been through a lot. There is no spring in my step, getting up and down can sometime be an issue, I continue to take my dog out on a walk not near a far as it used to be but we manage. I've quit taking the 6 pills required for the Chemo, I'm still taking 15 other pills a couple over the counter but the rest are prescribed. As my friend used to tell me better living through Pharmaceutical products. The Golden Years have not been my friend so Far but I'm hoping for another 6 years at least so here's hopping! Well I think I've covered more than I needed but that's my life Life is Good God is Great |
| Sometimes I feel like I have nothing to write about then I know I've gone through an ordeal and I have plenty to put down on paper. I don't want just write about my trails and tribulations. Yesterday we had guys come out from American Vision Windows and change out all our windows. We set this up in February and it has taken this long waiting on material then scheduling the installation. All I can say is they did a wonderful job and they were very professional. This company comes from down the hill, and the first person arrived at 8:30 and they others showed up 15 or 20 min later. They were done by 12 noon and all 9 windows and sliding glass door were retrofitted. Any concerns my wife had were blown out of the water. They did an excellent job! After we committed to the windows we had a heating and air company come check our both the heater and air. Our house was built in the 90's and the heater went bad shortly after we moved in. During the inspection we were told the air ducts didn't meet code and there were several things missing from the heater. When they were checking the air conditioner it went belly up. Needles to say we had to take care of this issue and we bit the bullet and went for a new ducting system and air conditioner. We could have paid cash for a car with what it cost us but it least we are ready for summer. Life is Good and God is Great |
| I'm in the final stretch of my Chemo. Last Monday I had my final infusion and I'm now taking 6 pills a day 3 in the morning and 3 in the evening for 2 weeks. Then I'm all done except for scheduling a PET scan to make sure all the Cancer is gone. I would like to say it was a walk in the park but that wouldn't be true and life is never is a walk in the park. I haven't felt like sitting down and writing about my experience. For most of the time I have't felt like doing much of anything. My wife has been doing everything that needs to be done around the house. There is no way I'll ever be able to repay her for all that she does. She's a Saint it's as simple as that. I hope that I can start putting words down on paper on a regular basis and get to know some of the other people who blog. I looked back over some of my old posts and there are few people who responded to my writing and I hope I can once again correspond with them and become a better writer and a better person. Life is Good and God is Great |
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