I went to Emporia this morning to go to a funeral. It was the mother of a friend that was our babysitter for a summer way back when we lived in Naperville, IL. Her mother worked with my mother during that time frame. It was a lovely service and I got to hug my friend.
After the funeral I had an appointment with my Cardiologist. For some reason my blood pressure was sky high today 210/120. Yikes! It earned me another pill to take each day. I have to take my blood pressure two times a day and track it. If it doesn’t settle down within a week I am to call the doctor’s office and report in.
The Cardiologist has no idea why my heart rate jumped the first part of August and hasn’t settled back down. They did the full cardiac work up and it didn’t show anything. They have no idea if this is my new norm or if things will eventually settle back down again. The PA I saw today said I am a mystery to them.
Nicole mentioned jumping timelines this afternoon and I wonder if that affects your heart rate. Makes as much sense as anything else!
Got my bedroom closet put back together again. Found some things I can get rid of. A friend came over and got the weighted blanket I had but I won’t use again. Still have a couple other things to give away or donate. I will try to get that taken care of this weekend.
Have a stretch of empty space for the next couple of weeks. I have absolutely nothing on my calendar until the second week of January.
Have some things with Love in Action to wrap up to finalize the nonprofit paperwork. Once that gets done I need to get a Venmo account open as well as a checking account. Still need to come up with additional services we can offer to the Detainees and figure out the transportation project.
Now that I have all that I am going to store on the back room I want to go back through it all and organize it. One of the racks only has three shelves and I think I want to replace it with one that has more racks. I also need to get some more transparent storage containers to put like items in so they take up less space and are easier to find. I still want to find more things to get rid of.
One of the people I follow on Facebook that is an expert in Narcissistic behavior made a post today. She has been very vocal lately about Trump and his narcissistic actions. She posted today that she realized she had gotten sucked in and needs to back up and stop reacting to what he says and does. Narcissistic people thrive on reactions from others. They don’t care if it is positive or negative. They just want the attention. Her post helped me understand why I decided a while back to no longer post anything about Trump on my page. I didn’t fully know why at the time other than it didn’t feel good. Wonder what would happen if we all quit posting about him and ignored him completely. I will continue to focus my political energy on Love in Action and create something positive out of this mess.
Grateful for friendships that span years and years, grateful for blood pressure medication, and grateful to have gotten rid of one more thing out of my closet.