I sort of read all your entries in one go. Hi- glad to see you found my excuses scattered about. But I'm right here on DreamWidth. My condolences on your grandfather - he seems to have been an amazing man, and I'm sorry I won't have a chance to meet him.
I have friends in Melbourne, whom I visited in 1998. One of them now lives in one of the suburbs, and the other lives somewhere near the Victoria Market (the hotel I was staying in was right on Swanston Street, and so is her flat, so I just took the tram and got off at the market and went down a side street. She's bedridden with a chronic illness (they still don't know what it is, although it was originally diagnosed as "chronic fatigue syndrome". So I visited her at her home, and we had a long afternoon talking, until she got tired and I had to leave. I'd love to go to Melbourne again, but my husband's job (driving an airport limousine) went away during the pandemic, and we have no money, so unless I win the lottery I'm not going to travel until December when I spend the holidays with my daughter-in-law's family up near Niagara Falls.
I have been vaccinated against Covid - two main shots and a booster. See, I have congestive heart failure and some level of kidney disease and also diabetes, and I was considered "at risk". My doctor has told me not to bother getting another booster yet. I seem to be getting stronger as time passes - last October I had "cardiac ablation", where they administer electrical shocks to one of the nerve centers in the heart, to prevent it from going into "atrial fibrillation", a form of arrhythmia that causes it to pump inefficiently. And one of the drugs I'm on can help the heart muscle rebuilt itself. I had to change a lot of my behavior, including diet (I still have to avoid most sweets, and I can't drink alcohol because it interacts with one of my other meds and makes me sick), and I need to sleep more than is socially acceptable (I wouldn't be able to hold a job). But I'm still here!<https://youtu.be/3xz1tugdg6a>
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Date: 2022-05-12 02:23 am (UTC)I have friends in Melbourne, whom I visited in 1998. One of them now lives in one of the suburbs, and the other lives somewhere near the Victoria Market (the hotel I was staying in was right on Swanston Street, and so is her flat, so I just took the tram and got off at the market and went down a side street. She's bedridden with a chronic illness (they still don't know what it is, although it was originally diagnosed as "chronic fatigue syndrome". So I visited her at her home, and we had a long afternoon talking, until she got tired and I had to leave. I'd love to go to Melbourne again, but my husband's job (driving an airport limousine) went away during the pandemic, and we have no money, so unless I win the lottery I'm not going to travel until December when I spend the holidays with my daughter-in-law's family up near Niagara Falls.
I have been vaccinated against Covid - two main shots and a booster. See, I have congestive heart failure and some level of kidney disease and also diabetes, and I was considered "at risk". My doctor has told me not to bother getting another booster yet. I seem to be getting stronger as time passes - last October I had "cardiac ablation", where they administer electrical shocks to one of the nerve centers in the heart, to prevent it from going into "atrial fibrillation", a form of arrhythmia that causes it to pump inefficiently. And one of the drugs I'm on can help the heart muscle rebuilt itself. I had to change a lot of my behavior, including diet (I still have to avoid most sweets, and I can't drink alcohol because it interacts with one of my other meds and makes me sick), and I need to sleep more than is socially acceptable (I wouldn't be able to hold a job). But I'm still here!<https://youtu.be/3xz1tugdg6a>