Heat Advisory

 This summer has been brutal! I feel like the air conditioning has been on forever, with no end in sight. 

My crepe myrtle loves it, and the butterflies love the crepe myrtle! The top pic is my biggest canna, taken from leaning out the living room window.

This cutie had her freshman orientation day. She likes school, which is a plus.

Another page done!

Silly camera turned it sideways! 

We made a library run! The mask mandate is back in effect for the library. 

Philadelphia Provisions Company makes fantastic smoothies! 

August is halfway over!

 I used to dread August ending when I worked in a school. While I was ready to start getting paid again, I wasn't ready to go back to the work routine. Now I'm looking forward to cooler weather.

We went to Sunday Brunch at Cinder Bar. I got bananas foster French toast, and Ralph got cheesesteak eggrolls and country skillet. It was a nice change.

Ben and Joey's temperature snakes are up to date! Almost 2/3's done! 

I decided to go for a tropical look! The sheets match.

Two different versions of what may be my next cross stitch project! I haven't done anything autumn-y yet, so the colors will be a change. I have to check the stitch counts to decide which version to do. I have plenty of time, since I figure another year on my current project. The autumn pic is from Artecy. 

Another pic for inspiration!

Another heat wave!

 It's been in the 90's all week! On the West Coast, Steph and Dan had some 100+ degree days! It should cool down a bit tomorrow and for the next several days. For the first time since May, sunset was before 8 PM last night. I don't like the heat, but I like the long evenings.

August! Garrett saw this and told Ben he wanted a delicious cupcake!

Hospital food has improved a thousand percent!

A page finish! And I had to move the Q snap, so I took a pic of the progress over the last year.

Last week we went out to lunch and Ralph got a buffalo chicken wedge salad. He got 3 full meals out of it! I had chicken strips.

Vertigo

 Monday I woke up, and the room was spinning. I took a clariton, which did not help. By mid afternoon I was tired of the intermittent spinning, so Ralph took me to the Urgent Care. The doc did a neuro exam, and agreed that it was probably an inner ear issue, but said I should go to the ER and get a CT scan, due to my age. We stopped at home to get a few things, and headed for the ER. I checked in, and sat down. A nurse came rushing in with a wheelchair for me. When you check in with dizziness and nausea, and say the Urgent Care doc said you should rule out TIA, it triggers a whole stroke protocol. We were in the hallway and the ER doc was doing a neuro check while a nurse was doing a blood sugar check. They put me in an ER room, and drew blood and started an IV, and because of my cardiac history, put me on a monitor. 

I had a CT with and without contrast, which came out fine, and they also did a CT of my neck vessels. Because of my age, they decided to admit me overnight for observation. Tuesday morning I was cleared by Neuro, PT, and Speech, and saw a med student, a resident and finally an attending, and was discharged mid afternoon. Diagnosis Vertigo. 

Wednesday I saw my family doc, who prescribed meclizine (anti vert) and gave me a couple of exercises to do. The ear has three canals, and sometimes crystals migrate to the "wrong" canal and cause the vertigo. Thursday I was dizzy in the morning, but fine later. I added a pillow, as per an article I read, and I've been fine since. 

That was my adventure this week.