Hey, Miss J!

Tonight, I feel tired… even though I don’t feel like I did much at all. However, I’m still trying to come to terms with my new limits… I don’t like them at all.

What I am happy about though is that I finally have new medication to treat my lungs. I’ve been using medication that expired in April – all while feeling like I was going to expire at some point. The coughing at night was awful. The kind that steals your breath away.

I actually blew out one of the valves on my CPAP through a nasty coughing fit.

I couldn’t get a full breath in either. My pulmonary system has been taking a beating lately. With only a current rescue inhaler (and no ‘in date’ maintenance medication) to rely on, I’ve had to soldier on through days of ridiculous amounts of pollen and overwhelming humidity.

We also have been hit with smoke coming from the fires in Canada.

The air quality here has been absolute garbage most of the time – and I think what has kept me alive has been my air purifiers.

That’s not a joke or exaggeration. The purifiers are why I’m still alive. My neighbors were suffering from all of the smoke, and it scared me because outside… it looked like thick fog everywhere. The type you see at night.

In the daytime.

I’ve completed nearly no chores aside from the dishes today.

After the errands I had, I wanted to just lay down and sleep once I got in. I felt very sick too, with some stomach cramping. The heat was relentless this afternoon. I had the worse headache… and I’m starting to notice that now the heat is decreasing, so is the severity of my pain.

Granted, I live with pain on a regular basis… primarily pain in my mouth from my front teeth in the bottom. I was supposed to visit an oral surgeon years ago… but it wasn’t at the top of my ‘important’ chart.

I’m really regretting what I didn’t do when I could afford to do it.

Ah well… live and learn, I suppose. While I normally would want to scramble and do a bunch of chores tonight or get a jump start on my lessons, I’m just going to go to bed early so I can get outside in the wee hours.

No meds tonight, unfortunately.

Pretty sure the cat will be clamoring for my head in the morning.

I forgot to order her Fancy Feast. Wups.

~J. Lyst