If I can Make it to September...

ENT TO TOWN EARLY...
So I could get back before it got too hot but honestly when it's 91% humidity it's already hot! The temp was 79 but you sure couldn't tell..I had this idea...What if we put a whole bunch of Fans off shore in the Gulf, they face OUT toward the ocean and they turn that Gulf Stream around so it does not come into the southern states...push the humidity outta here...
Yes it's like I don't have enough things to bother my brain I want to find a solution to humidity! Duh.  So I found the 15/16 socket hope that is the correct size I watched a youtube about how to do this project of changing out the blades on my 42 inch riding mower...hope it will be easy to do and I will make a video for my DIY Youtube...it's supposed to be a DIY channel to encourage women to tackle projects and not be intimidated by it, but I don't really play up that part, I'm no actress! And when I don't have a project I do some nature, travel, or bird videos. 

Honestly there's not many projects I tackle in this type heat you can easily pass out in this humidity. I've been over the whole heatstroke thing before.
I should have been doing a video of when I refurbished this HOUSE...I blogged about it,  I think I could have grown a following with that 3 year long reno project!!

And then building the shed, my sis and I did, I was 63 and she was 69 when we built it (?)...there is not too many channels about older women and what we are capable of doing if we wish to. But I try to tackle a lot of jobs, now I'm noticing it's more of a challenge, I will have a birthday in a month!
Another trip around the sun. 

At tractor supply I got the socket JUST the one so that was nice didn't have to buy a whole set, I have all kinds of sockets, but that one I just didn't have. It was $5.98 about what I found online  this  way no shipping. 

I got the "girls" flea drops while I was there I don't like putting chemicals on them but the ticks here are BAD and fleas too if you don't treat them...in the summer I put it on every month, in winter I normally do it every 45 days or so...even in winter you can find ticks here! I generally mark the calendar when I treat them so I know when it's due again...it's not cheap 3 treatments $34.  And got some dental chew sticks for them too...and then for the first time since MARCH I went into  Walmart! WOW  I only got a few pieces of fruit and a pack of gel click pens...the place was nearly deserted but it was Monday morning so...everyone had on a mask and it was okay. 

HAS it ever changed! They widened the aisles, they cut back on stock...they changed the entrance and exit, they moved walls and they closed the Medical clinic...which I knew was happening, since I got a letter.  I normally go there to get my thyroid check each year...now I will either go to Dr's Care or I will have to get a primary physician and that is what I've been wanting to avoid...why?

Because when you go there on the way out they give you an NEXT appointment date..It's like you're signing up for a Subscription, it's every 3 or every 6 months, depending on how much MONEY they want to BILL.
My advice is if you're pretty much healthy tell them..."don't call me, I'll call you."
I have to take thyroid meds till the day I die...so why can't they just test once a year some doctors, want to test every 3 months but they also want to charge you a Dr's Exam Price...if nothing is wrong and you just need your script...why can't they just do the one test and call in the script?? This is partly why our medical is so expensive...all the unnecessary testing and cost.  

About 5 yrs ago I had some chest pain...I should have known better but I decided to have it checked...so I went to this cardiologists..they did all the regular testing and I even consented for  the cardiac cath where they put dye in your veins and then they x rays to look for narrowing...

Many years ago, I was told when I went for my physical in order to get my EMT certificate that I had a heart murmur.  She wanted me to get an echocardiogram to confirm...so I reluctantly agreed, then I called her back and asked, 
"if I have a heart murmur then what," she said, "you will have to have open heart surgery and have your heart valve replaced." SO I said cancel the test!! 
No way...
So I had the cath, he said I had one tiny narrowing in one of the not even main arteries, so it was a waste of money and time.  He said and I agree that I needed to have my thyroid meds adjusted probably why I had the chest pains...OMG why didn't he tell me that in the first place??? All I got for my $15,000 was this crude drawing of the blood flow diagram of a heart, on as piece of zerox paper, with a little tiny ink line to show where the narrowing was in my heart...I should of framed it but I tossed it out! 
Can't you see it now...
"And here is the most expensive piece in my art collection...only $15,000" Yes I should of done that!!

 WTH...did'nt give me a written report..nothing.  
So I did go for a 6 weeks after check...they did nothing, asked me a bunch of questions, did't even do an EKG!! They suggested I take Lipitor, I said NO...I won't take it....Dr said it's up to you...yes it is, So on my way out she said, "I  have May the 24th or any day that week for your next check up." I told her I would be in Colorado in May, and If I needed any further appointments I'd call them...
I did not because I felt fine, so why would I?

Then when I got back  home from CO in early July I got a bill from them..."MISSED APT no call no show...May 24th $25.00 fee."
OMH,..so I called and I said "I did not schedule an apt I told her NOT to put me down cause I was going to be out of State for 60 days...and if I needed to make one I'd call you"...so she said sorry and took that off my "account" see we are NOT patients we are accounts.

They want that blood work, those yearly physicals, and that 6 month appointment they call it Wellness checks...But if you go looking you just may find something...did you know most cancers will disappear on their own? Most of the time it is the chemo, or the radiation that kills the cancer patient not the cancer. IF it's a tumor that can be removed you have  a pretty good chance..but if not, MOST breast cancer patients live 5 yrs with cancer. My aunt died of breast cancer, she and my father were step bro & sis...She went thru 3 rounds of chemo, had double mastectomy, and radiation and died in 6 yrs..She probably could have lived longer or at least the same without treatment.
Actually if I die of a heart attack what a great way to go! Just drop dead fast, and fairly painless...it is the perfect death actually.
I am not advocating people don't go to the dr, Im saying it should be up to you as long as you are of sound mind and making your own decisions, I normally ask myself what is the  "treatment" and will I want that treatment.  If the treatment for a blocked artery is a stent, then I may go for it, but many people get a ruptured artery during heart cath and some die right then and there some live but have to undergo very invasive surgery...so there is a lot of risk. 

Life is full of risk. It's all around us. We all want to live as long as we can and as long as we have some quality of life...we don't know what we will do until we are faced with making that decision...so we can plan ahead a little bit, but in the moment we may change our minds.

My fruit trees look pretty good today no deer attacks last night and I watered all of them.  The bird is a free bird I don't normally mark them in any way I have never felt it's necessary because life is never guaranteed...that bird could slam into the window tomorrow do I really want to know it was that bird?...no I really don't.  

I got clothes laying in the dryer that need to be folded, it does no good to put wet clothes on the "line" this time of year here, it could hang there till it mildews and never dry...Winter is when I use the clothes line..and spring before the humidity arrives...

Well I did good didn't mention one single political thing!! Good for me. This post was all over the place that's how scattered my brain is today...But tomorrow is another day!
*and it's September*