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I woke late. My mother had already called. I heard the phone but my graphical interface and geometric structure recognition subroutines were down so the ringing was just a displaced if recognizable noise. When I woke I then found out who had called. Still a bit fuzzy in the gray matter region, I waited to wake a bit. Finally, the call. She just enjoyed the call, and with my brother having called earlier, she knew her cubs are fine and still care. All good.

We talked for a goodly bit. She had a nice meal earlier, if too she cooked it. Of course, she prefers to cook and tend these things, mostly. She was with friends and family there and shared the day. That was good to know. You would know though, that I woke her from a nap. She seemed pleased to hear from me anyway.

Sleep, again. A long deep sleep was had last night, or actually through the morning. Days and nights are messed up again, which will make getting to the appointment tomorrow a bit of a challenge. Two nights of good solid sleep have been super, but I am still a bit behind in the sleep department from weeks of intermittent nap type sleeping. My lungs were a bit fuller this morning than yesterday morning, but still better than they have been for weeks. I took the last antibiotic today. If not better by Wednesday, another treatment will be requested. Sleep is so delicious. I dreamed too, but I don't remember a thing.

I am hoping to have the energy to finally get to laundry and dishes today. It has been tough with a few ongoing projects and when breathing can become complicated by simply getting out of a chair or off the couch. As out of shape as I am, and have been for decades, I have never had a breath problem. Nearly jogging around the V.A. hospital in SLC, going up four flights (I don't use the elevator if I can find the steps and now I know where those are in that place), going up and down flights to different appointments, even walking the half a mile to the diner they have and at my usual double pace, has never caused me so much as a flush or more than a quick pant when I finished my excursion. So this bit about being constantly out of breath is a pain.

I found some cases that I know were mine. I checked them closely. While there are some minor nicks, or scrapes in about a fifth of them, they weren't heavily damage. I also rechecked the cases I was going to toss and found many which I seem to have tossed as much out of frustration and in anger from my initial inspection. I have more cases than what I initially thought from that first run. Still, I am missing... 600 cases (much more actually). In the end, I have about 400 cases, perhaps 250 of those are useful. Without proof of theft, however, I think it is better to just stop answering my friend's calls and disappear. Anything else leaves room for debate and there is no room. That is just the way it goes, I guess. I wonder if anything else is missing though. I am sure I will find out soon enough.

Tomorrow they will be checking potassium and who knows what else. The last time I was in my new doctor at the clinic threatened to stop seeing me if I refused to take his version of high blood pressure medicines. At which point I grabbed my coat and headed for the door. He got a stunned, shocked, look on his face. He then stopped me and... restarted the conversation about the infection. I suppose, after the infection is taken care of, I will have to use the ER for medical care as I will not have a doctor and none will take my case (or for long). Yeah, I didn't tell you that then. Fine, as long as I can breath, I don't really care.

A bit of blog reading, a little goofing, and perhaps I can get busy on some of the things I am hoping to do. It is cool and raining. Turning the furnace up might help a bit. Maybe a shower and some fresh clean clothes too! A month without a washing machine and a stubborn refusal to spend another dime at laundromats has left me with... piles of dirty clothes, towels, and linens of all sorts, and few clean clothes. So nice to have a machine again, and a fine one! On sale, mind you, and with a rebate as well. I ought to get right on that mail-in rebate thing.

Have a great day. Happy Mother's day out there to all you ladies. I hope you have a wonderful one, fine memories, and children who have come to their senses should they have lost them and remehttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifmber to call you and thank you. As mothers, you are what binds young and old. I doubt if you can understand, nor anyone. But... Thank you!