Oct 29, 2016

Dealing with Details

Written last night:

Dear Friends, 

Beginning this morning — oh, it seems so long ago — I began working on wrapping things up. Wrapping my life up. Oooh, sounds like a shroud. I don’t mean that. Just that there are so many, many details that I took for granted and now I have to reinvent them in California. I want to figure it all out soon.

Like how much calcium? how much vitamin D? 
I spent an hour this morning trying to answer. After my GP appointment in Tallahassee in the spring I was told something about these bone-builders. I was faithful with whatever it was. But when Clark died everything went blank and I stopped taking care of myself, eating frozen dinners and ice cream, sleeping whenever I could, quitting the exercise habits of decades. I didn’t decide to stop; I just stopped.

Now I’m in the dark about that new bone-building recommendation. I called Dr. Perry’s office today, but they don’t know, since they've closed my records. I Googled it: take more calcium; calcium causes problems; eat sardines. 

This is just one venture into normalcy; I spent an hour on it this morning. I decided to take some pills and deal with the numbers later.

More issues are what to eat for dinner when you’re cooking for yourself;  how to exercise with/without a dog; do condos get as dusty as houses? 

In a way it’s exciting -- to be making things up as I go along. To be thinking what would Clark recommend? To be asking what do I want?


Leslie called me out of the blue today. It was morning for me and noon for her.What a lovely surprise!

Love,
k


3 comments:

Unknown said...

Never stop taking care of you! You are so worth it!

Cindy said...

Your willingness to explore, experiment and express yourself always inspire me!

Kathleen said...

Thank you both for your encouragement!

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