Very frustrated. Since seeing Dr N on Friday, all of this week has been devoted to tests, arranging tests, going to tests. I really dislike this medical business. Each test event removes me from the comfort zone of my normal routine and I find that I quickly encounter problems. Today I went for X-Rays, the service being provided by a private clinic in an area of Gatineau foreign to me. I spent time in planning route navigation, using Google maps to locate possible parking spaces and the best way to get there and back.
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Monthly Archives: February 2014
The Day Is Bright
The sun is out this morning. The day is bright, the sky clear, the snow blinding. For the past two months there has been no sun, the entire city imprisoned within an austere cave of winter dark. On scattered afternoons narrow beams slipped through the shifting clouds, burnishing the earth with scant seconds of light before the clouds cemented out the sky and the snow thickened once again.
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How I Became a Zombie
With this post I am going to institute a new rule. When I enter a post about feeling down I must also make an attempt to identify the triggers for that depressed emotional state. If I am able to identify these triggers then I can try to avoid such events in future. That is the theory.
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