It’s been a while…And we’ve been sick. Emphasis on we.
So you’re going to get a bit of a verbal mishmash, and I apologize for that, but it’s necessary to explain the situation.
Both Aunt Annie and I are dealing with persistent health issues which have taken me away from the blog, and kept me away from the blog over the last couple of months.
Those issues have been complicated by the fact that Aunt Annie took a rough fall a couple of weeks ago.
She’s required in-home nursing care to treat her wounds (though I’ve learned my share of wound care over the last three years), and give her some physical therapy, and that’s made things more complicated for me, because I’ve been shepherding her through four or five nursing visits a week.
That’s a lot of time, energy and effort to be dedicating to caregiving, so even if I was healthy enough to blog full-time, right now, I’m kind of stuck doing the caregiving job, and hoping that she doesn’t fall again.
Even though she’s using a walker, and is making sure that I supervise her locomotion right now, she’s been really shaky over the past couple of months, and she’s had a very rough week this week…So we’re just hoping for a full recovery over time.
The “long story long” about me is pretty simple: nobody knows why I’m still physically ill and dealing with low energy levels so regularly. I’ve seen my primary care physician several times about this issue, I’ve seen an ENT/otolaryngologist to address the issue, but we just don’t know why some days, I can get out of bed and work and be a caregiver at the same time…
And other days, I can barely function for more than a couple of hours in the morning and a couple of hours at night. I’ve tried very hard to pop up on Twitter and do the full “game call” thing over the past couple of months, and that’s been life-giving in terms of interacting with like-minded hockey fans, but just doing a couple hours’ worth of Twitter interaction can exhaust me for a day or more.
Continue reading Life update: Regarding mental and physical health issues, plus a wobbly aunt