Slumpiness

I have not blogged since October and every time I approach doing some writing, I cannot figure out what to say. All I wanted for my birthday on November 6th was the election or likely election of Kamala Harris. It then became of weeks long exercise in sorting through the stages of grief and the many shades of depression.

Craig and I have arrived at the need to check in on our feelings about our microenvironment (us), environment (family and friends) and the macroenvironment (country and global concerns) separately.

We traveled for Thanksgiving and stayed local for Christmas. We did the best we could. I am between my first and second cataract surgery. All is going fine but the 4 weeks in between is strange with respect to vision. I have remove my corrective lens from the right side of the glasses that was done first. My vision is off in both eyes but in different ways. Hopefully when both eyes are done and my brain has adjusted to the trifocal lenses, I will have great vision without glasses.

I have had significant heel pain for about 8 weeks now. It preceded the election or I would say it was psychosomatic. I have purchased more shoe inserts, shoes, night splints for plantar fasciitis with no help. I have tried to stay off of it and tried to walk through pain. I am taking dicolfenac pills and tried the topical which made it tolerable. I then remembered a dear friend told me about arnica several years back so I got some of that about 10 days ago. If I apply it every few hours, I can periodically forget about the pain. I have an appointment with a podiatrist next week.

If I were to do a validated questionnaire about depression, I would not have depression so I have come up with a term for how I feel – slumpy.

I am alive, well and about midway on the slumpiness scale.