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It was a weekend of getting back to things.   I could resume my walks, so I’m back on that and it was nice to have J and Kiddo along for the walk.   We have a loop we do and I’ve been exploring, so I found a bigger loop on a similar, but slightly different route.   It was nice to get in a 2 mile walk.   We got produce and fruit and lunch on the way as well, so it was a good walk and knocked out some errands as well. The real fun from the weekend was J and Kiddo going out to the sandpit on Sunday afternoon.   We started the day doing a Costco run, which was nice, since J could help with the heavy lifting, since I’m still on a lift and weight restriction, not more than 4kg.   The docs want to make sure the artery heals completely before putting too much stress on the area.   I get it, as I don’t want an arterial bleed… especially on blood thinners.   One bummer on that, but I’ll get there.   Anyways, the ladies went to the sandpit and I was at ...
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Where do meds live?

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The angioplasty and stent placement was successful and I’ve spent the last couple of days resting and healing.   Not that much healing is needed, but I’ve been taking it easy with my wrist and hand, letting that heal up and just listening to the doctors.   I’ve been researching some new diet plans and I’ve had a few people reach out to me with personal stories from themselves or family members who have had similar to my situation.   Lot of encouragement and I am thankful to all those that reached out, just I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention my Obi Wan and send the biggest thanks to J Ernst for his messages.   For all of this, I gotta say, it was the waiting that was the hard part.   I had the procedure at 1600h (4pm), even though it was scheduled for 1500h (3pm).   However, my check in was at 0900h (9am) so they could do some timed blood tests (09:30, 11:30, and 13:30) before procedure.   Also, to ensure I was fasting.   So, it was a hungry day as ...
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It’s been a while since I’ve written about myself and what’s going on with me and not focusing on Kiddo, but today I’m here to catch y’all up on a few things. In the last few months, I’ve been struggling with my health.   I broke a toe in Vietnam and then after that I strained a shoulder muscle.   This lead to a breakout of shingles and let me tell you; that is NOT fun.   Come early September I can get the vax for that and believe you me, I can’t wait for that day, because anything to lower the chances of that happening again.   Ugggg.   The muscle weakness and nerve pain were much. That, however, lead to the doctors wondering why I had such high blood pressure.   It was a trend.   In the last 6 months, my low had been 140/90, but I had seen the doc for illnesses and the like.   I, and the doctor I saw for my flu vax, wrote it off to anxiety for seeing a Chinese doctor.   In BKK, I needed to go in about every 75 days to get my ADHD meds and t...
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A long climb up a mountain

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May kicked off with a long weekend for the girls and, as part of Kiddo’s birthday present/celebration, we took a family trip.   We asked Kiddo what she wanted to do for her birthday this year, would she want a party with friends or something like that and she said that she wanted to “take a trip with mumma and dada and just a family getaway.”   Can do! We headed to Moganshan and the bamboo mountains there.   We also got to Xinshi and the ancient town there.   It was a cool trip. The downside of it was that it was a holiday weekend in China, so a LOT of people were on the road.   Normally it would be about a 2.5 hour drive to cover the 160km, but with traffic it took 5 hrs.   UGGGG!   Thankfully we were on a bus as part of a tour group, so we could all just chill and read and not worry about traffic.   Kiddo had a blast and there were a number of other families and kids as part of the group, so she had peers to play with and pal around with while t...
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