Got my COVID booster yesterday. Sort of rushed in between all kinds of other things. Picked up my box lunch and took it home to eat. Good rice, fish (maybe with parmesan on it - couldn't taste it.) Jello (orange!)
Hey yesterday was Gun Violence Awareness day, wear orange - I didn't have anything orange. Wore red (which used to be the color to wear.)
After tossing the lunch foam box into the bear-proof garbage bin outside, drove to CVS and as I arrived they sent a text canceling my COVID appointment. I asked the pharmacist if it was because I was 2 minutes late. No, he said, it was that a my insurance wouldn't cover it...did I have my Medicare card? I gave it to him, and the shot was covered that way. It was a Pfizer shot this time. I had had my last booster last fall, so was due for one. I just hope the one this fall will be including the latest strain.
I did as a nurse had shown me (being in line before me one time for a booster) and swung my arm around a bunch, hoping it would disperse the drug more. It was still sore that night and the next morning. Oh well. I didn't have to take a pain reliever at least.
I had a $4 coupon, and received another $2 coupon when I got there. So I had to find something to buy (that I might use!) I started with a folding camp chair (priced at $29.) By the time I paid for it somehow it was $14...less than half price with tax! I like to go up on the Blue Ridge Parkway and sit at one of the overlooks and just absorb the beauty - when they are open again, and when weather is ok too. Some of Parkway will be closed for a year I've heard.
Pain now is in my right hip, running on the outside of my hip down my leg. So walking activities have been canceled for today. I continue to do my early stretch each morning. After all, if cats do it... Some back stretches and some hamstring stretches. Yesterday I was proud of myself for doing 8 minutes of Qigong breathing exercises. Didn't help that much. Lots of coughing by evening, and even woke me up a few times.
I skipped the evening nebulizer treatment, just huffed a couple of times on the albuterol inhaler.
Do Not Skip Nebulizer, Barb!
That's not my inner mother talking (I hope) but maybe the cheerleader or coach who wants me (really wants me) to win. Another day, another night.
So today add that 20 minutes before doing anything, and again before going to bed. My inner child really rebels at discipline. I do have a good book to read, so will give myself that reward.
My friends don't use behavioral modification to give themselves incentives.
I do, but don't know if it really works. But it's fun to look at chores and figure out a reward.
I didn't like the last person who cleaned for me. She would be a good "organizer" and take everything apart and put it together the way she likes, if I would let her.
So now when I mop the kitchen floor (which I did, seriously, all by myself) I call myself her name. And do I pay myself? You betcha! That's how I got the new book to read. I maybe mentioned it on another blog,
Visual Learning by Temple Grandin. I am pretty sure I learn with visual cues - by my age I should know what works and what doesn't. But I'm not sure I think with pictures. I process a lot about verbalization but not by listening (particularly by writing so many thoughts down.) So I definitely do have a verbalization methodology. But I have an innate sense of my place in the world...in relation to where I'm standing, which way is north, how close I am to other people, and how noisy it is before I'm really uncomfortable.
I have an inner map, and can usually find my way back to where I started on most new trips...give me visual cues - not turn left, right 3 blocks etc. directions. These are visual thinker's methods.
It's playing with raining outside today. Perhaps some severe wind. We shall see. It rained quite a bit last night, waking me up a couple of times with it hitting against the window. I've finally dried out the air inside so I'm able to move about comfortably.
Off I go to nebulize saline solution and then inhale more albuterol!
I hope whoever reads this can add their own opinions. Thanks to one person who does comment! I wonder if anyone else even reads here.
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