Blood and batteries

Thursday was one of those days.  Exhausted at the end, but having accomplished what you began.

In preparation for surgery, I went in for an "autologous" (Wikipedia – In biology, autologous refers to cells, tissues or even proteins that are reimplanted in the same individual as they come from.)  Basically I donated blood for myself!  I have another donation planned for January 14th, and then surgery on January 21.  Hopefully I won’t need the blood, but you never know.

On the same day, we hit a heart pacemaker clinic.  By wife’s battery is running down, probably within the next three months it will wear out and her pacemaker will quit functioning.  By that time, we would like to have replaced the battery.  Looks like the surgery will fall in February.  I expect to be hobbling around at that time.  We ought to make a great pair — two invalids in one house!!

Oh, at the same time I was looking for a Kodak camera battery.  Not an item most stores carry (in fact we hit well over a dozen before we found one!).  The price may not have been "rock bottom COSTCO" price, but sometimes when you’ve found the pearl, you pay the price.

Now, I’m recovering from blood loss and what feels like either a dry throat or a cold.  A touch of a headache, but I had a good sleep.  Life is good . . . if you can just get past the blood and the batteries!

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