So ... update. Apparently I will live. Today is my last day of antibiotics and my PICC line gets removed tomorrow. Still have issues with my hands. Feels like I'm wearing gloves -can't really feel anything with detail, and anything more than lukewarm water burns. The surface skin on my quads is still numb and my feet also have numb spots.My skin still is still mottled and I look like an [old wrinkled] alien - Zindi comes to mind [Star Trek Enterprise ref]. And I am still losing my hair. [My sister is not sympathetic].
OtherGoose
Tuesday 7 November 2023
Thursday 5 October 2023
So it kills me to say this but we cannot go south this winter. I was prescribed a drug by my doctor that I am severely allergic to ... Terbinafine. It has reduced me to complete skin breakdown. My hands and feet are so swollen I cannot walk . I was hospitalized in Trenton; sent to Toronto for assessment; moved to London for hospitalization. again.
Doctors have no idea how to leach the 'poison' out of my system. This is a horribly painful condition and so many variables to what is happening to my body, and no guarantee t will get better or not have permanent liver damage.
The boat is put up in Collins Bay for the winter.Luckily we had friends in Ottawa come down to help Rick move the boat from Trenton - 11 hours to Collins Bay. He has to go down on the 8th of October to strip the boat and get it winterized. Unfortunately, I can't help him.
Monday 25 September 2023
So not sure what day this is literally, but we are in Trenton. Today is a blustery and we were waiting for tomorrow to move out to False Duck Island to do the crossing but I have developed this excrutiating rash and blisters all over my body. After spending a day at the hospital 3 doctors are of the opinion that they have no clue what it is so they are sending me to Toronto to a dermatologist. How?? "Well don't you have a car?" What part of travelling on a boat don't you understand? MY mouth is dry; water feels like oil; I have no appetite; its too hard to fold clothes bcuz I have no strength. I took a Benadryl yesterday morning and its still coursing through my system. Haven't felt that that stoned in decades!! And I don't like it
Monday 28 August 2023
Getting ready again!
August 28 2023. Who knew it would take this long? In 3 days we move onto the boat and 10 days after that we leave for the sunny south. Sadly we will be leaving family and new friends here. Thats the problem with standing still to long.
You saw the pics of the new galley [again] . I will post pics of the new rigging when the mast goes up in Castleton, NY. Until then we're a really awkward power boat.
I was actually amazed that the blog is still active [cuz I wasn't!]. So stay tuned ! Stuff always happens to us!
Monday 23 December 2019
2019 beginning to end
For the last few of you who actually read my posts...of which there Have been pathetically few this year, here is an update.
January, we had a fairly cold month and not much going on. I was doing some general research for a company out of Tobermory...mostly at home - reading and scanning documents. In the spring we decided that we were not going back up to Tobermory...Rick's boss had decided to hire his daughter instead, so there was no point in me going back if he wasn't working.
We found what we thought would be ideal jobs...a boat tour company closer to home on the Sauble River...was not to be...the hours were few and far between and it was not a very lucrative venture for the owners. Rick enjoyed driving the tour boat, and I was in the ticket booth but it just didn't give us enough. In the fall we found other jobs. I am currently working in a nursing home as a resident services worker...LOVE IT! And Rick is installing for Shaw...he hates it...piece work covering hundreds of miles a day and no pay for driving. He will be looking for something else.
Last February, Rick had bladder surgery to remove some small tumours. We didn't say anything because we didn't want to alarm those who were far away. He will be having the same surgery in January ...two more small ones, but the doctor assured him that these ones are not cancerous, but it means he will be off work for about 5 weeks.
I am having cataract surgery on January 16..yay! which means I will be able to see better and hopefully be able to enjoy picking up my paint brushes again. I can still see to sew and write but its just too frustrating to focus on colour and detail. Luckily for my job, eagle-eye vision is not a requirement.
So the most excitement ...fun...we had this year was going to the Robbie Burns dinner last February; Rick trying to learn the bagpipes and going to the Fergus Festival for the 2nd time and meeting new Erwins/Irwins. My sister and her husband moved back to Ontario and we became great- again. Rick's nephew in BC had beautiful twins and my nephew in Ontario had a gorgeous little girl.
Also the completion of the new galley in the boat!! It is truly an awesome piece of carpentry and he did a fantastic job! This winter project is building the fridge and installing it this summer.
spare room in the apartment |
So here are some pics from the year... and have a Merry Christmas and a safe and peaceful New Year!!
Great drawers for all the dishes and drop downs at the bottom for tray lids etc |
New sink from Ikea [restore actually] and new counter tops |
New flooring- vinyl that looks wood grain - everybody has this stuff now! |
I'm in my Erwin tartan and he's in his Wilson tartan [paternal grandmother] |
Quentin's new [old]car 2005 Honda Civic |
our apartment living room...uh oh..I'm really liking this |
Saturday 26 January 2019
January 2019
Good morning! I haven't been posting lately for several reasons...