I was waiting for Doctor appointments!! For those of you who may check my blog and don't know, I have to have the cataracts removed from both my eyes before I am allowed to drive the car again. Not driving has made me crazy...not that I go many places and Lewis can drive me wherever I need to go...but it is the perceived loss of independence that makes me nuts!!
So the good news is that I have an appt. with the eye specialist this Tuesday, Mar. 1st, and will hopefully get my surgery schedule at that appt. This is such a common procedure, I have discovered, but for those of you who don't know, like me, they only do one eye at a time. After the first one is done, I will hopefully have the other eye done in about 2 weeks. As cataracts only affect distance vision I have still been able to craft...Thank God!! If I couldn't craft I would be even more cranky than I already am (just ask Lewis!!)
I also have sleep apnea (diagnosed about 12 years ago) and I need a CPAP (new machine). I have been trying to get an appt with the sleep specialist for a new prescription for a new machine. This has been going on since the 2nd week of January, and I just found out Wednesday that I mave an appt for May 12th. In the meantime I have been renting a machine. Our health care system is so wasteful...I should have been able to replace my existing machine with one that worked properly and met the ON government standards right in January. But no. I had to get my family doc to refer me to the specialist and wait 5 months. However, there was no problem in me renting a newer machine. Wasteful bureaucracy!!
So now that I have these things on the schedule, I can work towards having everything all looked after before summer, if all goes well! That is freeing!! At least until the next issue comes up, and it will!!!
The other thing I have been doing that is bringing me a lot of JOY is researching my family tree. Ancestry.ca has amazing resources (just wish there was more recent census than 1911) and I have traced some of my ancesters back to Germany in the 1800's. I still have more searching to do to complete some of the newer records, like my grandparents, so I will let you know when I have everything all done. Researching family history is not only fun, it is very addictive! (The TV show "Who do you think you are?" on Friday evenings has really inspired me to find out where I came from.) ( I don't have to do Lewis' as his Dad traced back many generations (as many as 8) when he was alive so we have all that info!)
I have a pretty card to show you that I made for my daughter-in-law's birthday on Feb 13th. Brenda loves orange so I used Poppy Parade for the flower with a vintage brad in the center. The leaves were done with Old Olive. My card is almost a duplicate of the card Mary Fish (my design hero) made!
Hope you like it!
I will be back soon with more creations,
So long for now,
Chrissie
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