wellness

 

Are you ready? Today my topic is current assessment of my Wellness. I consider myself to be esentially healthy. There are a few glitches along the way. But for the most part, my health is great for somebody 87 years old. I'm doing just fine, thank you. I do wear glasses. I have a hearing loss. Which may be my ears. Or maybe my sinus is keeping me from hearing as well as I'd like and I do not like missing conversations. Yesterday in church I felt that I missed a lot of the sermon because. Mother Sarah has a soft voice, and when she wasn't being an emphatic, I did miss some of her words. But she blessed me my she blessed my birthday and that was just fine for me. I often have oh. Have headaches? I wake up in the morning with one in the back of my head. That worries me. Because that's where the pain came from. The day I collapsed on the hill back in August of 1920. Nineteen. 2019. I know that it could be a precursor to a stroke. And that's probably my biggest. Health issue is wondering. Exactly the nature of the. Disorder in my brain. My blood pressure is nice and quiet. Usually between 120 a 130. I do take two blood pressure medications when I'm going to bed at night. Plus, I take my eye vitamins and I have eye drops. For the glaucoma in my right eye, aside from that, I do take Simonette, which is supposed to help. With the help with the. Tremor. I don't think it has helped at all, but I'm gonna continue to take the pills for another week or two. She did tell the PA did tell me that it was the lowest dose and that I might need more in order to understand and feel the effects. My walking isn't as much fun as it used to be. I do use my wonderful Walker it gives me. Some freedom. Because I know if I get wobbly or uncomfortable, I could sit down. That's a good thing. Better than falling down. Yesterday. Chuck took the lights down, out off the rafters and took off all the dust and webs. And I feel like my house is much cleaner without him. What's true is I can't see those webs way up at the top of my barn roof. It's a tall ceiling and it's old wood, so I can't see if it's webs and dust, but he was very concerned about it. And with very wonderful about climbing up the ladder and getting all those dust things down. Absolute long things of dust. I do notice that I my stamina is very low. I can't stay at anything very long and I know that's up to me to fix that with some weights and some significant walking, I get a lot of my steps on my rebounder, which are good for cardio. Good for circulation, good for joints, but it's not weight bearing, so it doesn't help my bones. But when it's raining or cold, I'm not gonna go out and freeze my butt off. It's not. It's just not comfortable to get cold anymore. I sleep well. I like my bed. It works just fine for me, it's just takes about four minutes to make it about four minutes to put it away. The dog sleeps with me. Juju sleeps with me. And she makes me very comfortable at night. She is a comfort. She curls up against my back and I can feel her. Breathing. Sometimes I put my hand on or just to feel a warm body next to me. Jake sleeps on the floor, he doesn't sleep in the bed. I hear him at night. He snores. I think the best part of my health is the connection with Holly and Chuck. With Megan and Ben keeping the family close. Understanding each other, communicating as well as we ever have in our whole lives. Supporting each other. Working together, enjoying each other. All of that has been so important to my well being. I don't really miss having a whole house. Actually I was getting pretty tired of keeping house in the and this house is so much easier. 'cause it's one room I plug the vacuum cleaner in in one place and I can vacuum the entire house, including the closet. Then that's also contributes to my Wellness because I don't stress out about having a dirty house. I don't know what else to say about my health. I wish it was. I wish I was stronger and I wish I would. Increase my use. Of my core muscles because I know when your core strong your back is better. It just works. Everything works better if your car muscles are tight. And I know how to do core exercises. Lord knows I've been to physical therapy and halftimes. Enough times. Sometimes my dictation comes out a little bit different than what I said, but I'm not gonna change it. It's gonna be what it's gonna be. I'm giving up things like word counts and correcting English. And adding commas. I'm through with that. What I say is what's gonna happen. let me just take a minute here and think of what else i need to about my I'm very nutrition minded. I eat very well. I eat a lot of vegetables. Protein and vegetables are my basic diet. I like knowing that I eat well. My weight stays pretty much between 1:40 and 1:45, which is just fine. I particularly like vegetables. I like to add meat protein as a more like a garnish than a meal, so one piece of chicken can make three meals for me, one pound of hamburger can make four or five meals for me. A lot of things I cook start out to be one thing and end up being soup, and that's OK too 'cause. I like soup. So I think I'm doing well with nutrition. I take vitamins, I take calcium. On Sundays, I take a 50,000 IU. D2 pill. That's supposed to help with. My bones. I do miss eating potato chips, but I'm going without until I get. My blood pressure gets down and stays down. Then I'll know for sure that the salt was the problem. I stay away from candy and cookies. I don't crave them at all. I had walked by a cake to get a handful of potato chips. Right now I'm feeling the need to move. This is about as long as I consider to spell. Spell. It's been about as long as I can sit in a spell. I need to move a lot. That's the good thing about being an Episcopalian 'cause, if we do Episcopal calisthenics. Stand up. Sit down, kneel down and stand up. Sit down. Kneel down. So by the time that service is over, I'm still serviceable. Yesterday. Janine made me a birthday cake. She had asked Holly for my favorite flavor, and Holly told her lemon. So there it was. A lemon pound cake and it was so sweet and so good to have people think about me and want to have something that. They knew I'd like. So it's a new year. I'm into my 87th year now with positive thoughts about how I can do better. I think mentally is the biggest thing I do, sit too much with dumb old TV. I don't read much. I need to get a little bit of discipline with how I spend a lot of my time. I don't know. Maybe I'll find some puzzles. Maybe I'll find some solitaire games on the computer, or try to work on my crossword puzzles again, but I need something mentally stimulating. Socially, I visit with search. I visit at church. I visit with. Michelle with Rosalie. And Alan? I text with several people. That's Ellen. Thank you. Yeah, I don't know. And Alan? I know that right now, socializing makes me very tired. When I came home from church, although I'd had a lovely time and sang a lot. I needed to curl up for a little bit. I didn't actually nap, but I certainly did appreciate just some quiet. Cover up time. I think that's end my. Talk about my Wellness. Today I'm gonna say I am well, I'm going to do the best I can with what I've got to work with for as long as I can. and i think that's the best anybody can say so thank you listening