Ho Snow...

Sorry for not writing for a week or so. I have been on a new Beta Blocker med and haven't had a good nights sleep since my last post... I started out on a 50mg daily dose and then went down to a 25mg and then down to a 12.5mg and today I quit it all together. You can only have sooooo much fun... It can cause weird dreams and poor sleep and it sure did with me.

This Beta Blocker was to lower my blood pressure and general strain on my vascular system as we monitor my newly discovered aortic aneurysm. Its a bulge in the main blood artery that comes from the heart, down the adbomen, just before it splits out to the legs. This is what was discovered during my ultrasound scan I had a couple of months ago. Anyway, we don't know if this is a new thing or something that has been around for years. I am suppose to go back in 4 months to get it rescanned and the med was to be sure it didn't rupture during this time, so it wasn't something that was 'needed' - just a safeguard. Anyway, hopefully, I will be sleeping again real soon - enough of all that...

As a result of my sleep issues, I sucked at pool last Tuesday. I did win 3 of 5 games, but that was lucky. I hadn't slept at all and just couldn't play well. Then, on Thursday, I was able to sleep some and did win all 6 of my 9-ball games. We will see how it goes tonight...

O, yeah, Snow. When I finally got up this morning, it was snowing pretty hard. There is about 3" on the ground and it has been coming down all day. Its been about 34 deg so the snow is still here, but getting pretty sloppy. Its suppose to get cold tonight so it should all get icy and nasty out there pretty soon.

I just learned something new about dealing with snow. I had to wait about an hour before I could type because of this new 'experience'. I had purchased some Ice Melt stuff in a bag. I was spreading some out on the driveway top so it wouldn't get all slick and icy. Well, I ended up spilling a pile of it on the snow. I took off my new glove so I wouldn't get it all messy, and picked up handfuls of this Ice Melt and was throwing it all around on the snow. All of a sudden, my finger tips got very cold and turned white. It got worse quickly and they were completely numb and white. I went inside and put them under warm water and they really started stinging. Anyway, it took about an hour to get them feeling and looking 'normal' again. Nasty stuff on skin...