Yesterday the clouds rolled by and left the gift of life, rain. It wasn’t a lot, about 20 minutes of rainfall altogether. The plant life reacted immediately, green tinges began to appear everywhere.
Not only did it rain, the temperature dropped. The long, very long, hot weather seems to have left us alone at last. It is a pleasure to be out of doors once more. We went for a late walk last night, savouring the breeze, enjoying ourselves.
Yesterday we did some sorting in the basement. A trip to donate these items to the local charity shop was undertaken. They weren’t taking donations yesterday, but the shop was open. We came home with our to-be-donated items, and a whole big bag full of jigsaw puzzles and movies on DVD. So instead of downsizing, we found ourselves, once again, upsizing. The plan is to return today and make the original intended donation.
A month or so ago we took items to donate to the same charity shop. All of those items had sold by the time we returned yesterday, none were evident on the shelves.
I got a call from the GP’s office yesterday. Apparently the specialist referral for my increasingly uncomfortable, sometimes painful, ever worsening condition, has a THREE YEAR wait list. I was asked if I was willing to travel to other locations for care. The answer was a resounding yes. Three years does not seem humane, particularly since this is the first step in diagnosing the issue.
We got a message from my sister that she and her hubby were passing by, were we up for a quick visit. Of course we were! We had a lovely visit!! Always glad to see them, and their canine buddy.
Our plans for the day are to make pork sausage patties for the freezer. Attila began thawing the meat last night, in coolers. I hope to take a quick run up to the charity shop with the donations that we wanted to give them yesterday, those items are still in the car.
Worldly
Weather
Mostly Cloudy
12°C
Date: 7:00 AM EDT Tuesday 26 August 2025
Condition: Mostly Cloudy
Pressure: 101.4 kPa
Tendency: Rising
Temperature: 12°C
Dew point: 11.5°C
Humidity: 82%
Wind: W 9 km/h
Visibility: 24 km
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“When we are angry or depressed in our creativity, we have misplaced our power. We have allowed someone else to determine our worth, and then we are angry at being undervalued.”
Julia Cameron
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Hooray for the rain! and hang in there with the medical stuff. I hope you get good care soon.
Thank you SP! The phrase “into every life a little rain must fall” generally refers to the difficulties of life, but it hadn’t occurred to me until this past drought that it might also represent a blessing.
Even Yuma had rain yesterday! A LOT of it, by Yuma standards. I hope you can see a specialist very soon. I’m glad you had a good visit with your sister.
Joan, congratulations on your rainfall!
Interestingly after posting this entry, I read a Canadian news article (New Brunswick focused) that lamented to deplorable lack of research and services for women’s issues in Canada, boldly calling it out as medical sexism. It is deplorable. If I manage to get a consultation by the end of 2026 it will be due to the diligence of my new GP and his staff.
Hi, Maggie. Waiting on referrals is no fun. My DH has been waiting for an eye surgeon for a cataract referral. It was supposed to take about a year but they had a new doctor coming in. We’re at 10 months now and DH’s first appointment is next Friday.
We’ve been very busy with our dog Skye, after she had surgery to remove a tumor on her front elbow. The elbow is a finicky thing and getting this last bit of wound to close has taken a while. We’ve now combined w methods we’d tried and it looks like we may finally have some skin forming over the wound! When we started, all we had were bone and muscle, so we had to go through fatty tissue growing and then the inner skin layers. I hope we’ve finally gotten the outer skin layer growing!
Hi Teri. I agree, waiting on referrals is definitely no fun. Wishing DH the best with his upcoming appointment, hopefully treatment will move quickly after the first consult.
My GP’s office has been very active trying to get me the treatment I need. They called to say they have found someone for me to see, and told me their name which information I neglected to write down so I don’t remember who it is. I was not told what the estimated wait time would be, and am hoping that it isn’t too long, as the symptoms are slowly getting worse.
Sky’s issues sound really challenging, she is so lucky to have you and DH to care for her. I hope she wasn’t in a lot of pain with the wound!
Thanks, Maggie.
Skye was doing fine with the wound for quite a while but she recently developed an abcess which burst the other day and that has caused pain. Fortunately, we have a pain med the vet gave us but it’s conflicting with allergy meds we want to give her. She’s allergic to ragweed we think and she has days she wants to just about gnaw her foot off. And this week I have to stop the herbal supplement I’ve been giving her because it’s 2 weeks on, one week off. I wanted to give her benadryl but it conflicts with any drowsiness from the pain med.
Teri, poor Skye! I hope her health issues resolve, lots of figuring and caring for you, lucky Skye.