Well, my Dad is doing pretty well all things considered. He had a stroke, and when my mom took him to the ER in the next town over about an hour drive., they said they couldn’t find anything and maybe he had an infection and sent him home with antibiotics. Even though his right side wasn’t working he couldn’t walk, it was very swollen. When he hadn’t improved any my mom took him to Tucson, where yes, he had a stroke. He was admitted and went to rehab for a couple of weeks and is now home. It didn’t really affect his speech, mostly his right side is a bit weaker. He can walk short distances without any help, and his very beautiful penmanship is not as nice, but still better than most in my family. One of the drawbacks in living in a very rural area is access to healthcare.
One thing I find fun running in summer is how often my Garmin changes my VO2. The weather here is still a bit all over the place, some days sunny and hot and others cool in the morning, it greatly affects my numbers. It changes daily.
We have been pretty lucky really, in terms of heat. Just barely getting into the 90s and still in the 50s at night. And because AZ doesn’t do daylight saving the sun comes up really early so I have to get used to a very early wakeup call shortly.
My weight loss has completely stalled, I think I was doing a bit of stress eating and as my miles increase so does my appetite, and when I don’t plan I eat way too many snacks that are available at work, which is mostly stuff like goldfish, and fruit snacks, which don’t really fill me up.
I finally found some stuff- I found a cinch and strap that the semi’s use to tie down stuff, a pair of sunglasses, a door stop and a key chain. But my best find in a while is this camping chair- A Timber ridge in really good shape. (my parents have the same kind- they bought it at Costco)
I haven’t seen that many snakes this year, but tons of lizards. Not very many rabbits either. But I did see a horny toad(which is actually a horned lizard...,.He was alive, though I wasn’t sure at first.
Early morning clouds, it is nice to run when every once in a while, the clouds block the direct heat of the sun!