Friday April 26, 2013

Friday April 26, 2013  update #434

I managed to get drugs last night and they began to have immediate effect.  I was able to lay down and breathe properly but did not get any sleep at all even though I stayed in bed until 10am.

I thought maybe Bella had left for her crochet charity group but was surprised to see her still in bed.   Later she was up and retching and not having a fun time of it.  The rest of the time she was in bed with the lights off until 5pm.  

I had spent almost all day sitting on the terrace, getting some morning sun, then being chased in by a most unusual cold wind.   I read later on GringoTree that we are having weird weather contributing to drought conditions that are coming from a jetstream from Peru.  They claim our daytime temperatures soar while the nighttime temps have plummeted to +2C, but I don’t believe it got anywhere near that cold in our area.

As suppertime neared I almost dreaded eating because I feel like I have swallowed a tennis ball that has lodged at the base of my ribcage.  That is not doing much for my appetite but I did carefully ingest a chicken sandwich and time will tell if that will stay down.  Maybe it is tiredness plus maybe just soreness from sitting in the deck chair all afternoon but I am also getting awfully achy    If things don’t improve quickly I imagine we will be forced to cancel our trip to Joe’s tomorrow.   Bummer.

I did spend part of the day getting together the necessary documents I will need to make my trip to Canada and Reno starting May 21.  Time is rushing by very quickly.

Bella got formal notification that her own separate Residency Visa has now been approved and there is a procedure, onerous like usual, to cancel the old one where she was a dependent on mine.  Government bureaucracy reigns in Ecuador and they never make anything easy or comprehensible.

That was today’s excitement.   Hugs to all.  Sorry, no photos today.