September 29, 2007
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Up and Down
Yesterday was my best since the current pneumonia crisis hit me. I was still getting out of breath with any activity, including talking, but I had more lung capacity and wasn’t seeing darkness closing in on me whenever I moved, the way I had been for a week or so. Anoxia is something I don’t think I’ll ever learn to enjoy. Greyfox has joked a few times, when I’ve described my symptoms, that he used to pay good money for drugs to get similar effects.
I got out of the house briefly, riding along when Doug and his dad took our chainsaw into the shop for an overhaul so that Charley can cut down the big spruce tree that is infested with bark beetles and carpenter ants. That’s one of the jobs that needs to be done before snowfall, so we have some control over which way the tree falls. It had been on hold, waiting for me to recover sufficiently to get the chainsaw fixed. Charley walked over here and drove my car up to the repair shop, and I rode along so we could drop him at his place and not make him walk home.
It was tiring, and I got out of breath going to and from the car, but the effects of the trip weren’t as hard on me as my four hours of sleep this morning. I woke coughing, and until I got my blood sugar back up today, I was back to gasping and laboring for breath. Even so, I think I needed the sleep.
Before I slept last night, I stepped out into the yard and got a picture of the moon and clouds through the trees.
Comments (4)
That is a beautiful picture, but I certainly hope you kick that pneumonia’s butt!
Geeze this is really knockin you for six hey? I sure hope you get better soon! I wish I had some ancient Chinese secret for ya…. but mine is the same as most… lots of fluids and tons of rest.
Be well and get well. Pneumonia sucks. I had it twice in six months in ’85… not something I’d wish to repeat!
pneumonia…. absolutely yuck.. I was hospitolized for pneumonia when I was going through chemotherapy– I hope you get well soon~