The Quilty Catholic

 But I have a new/used desktop computer now - and I thought blogging might be fun to do on it. A lot has happened since I last posted - even *I* couldn't re-read that last post - but I know it's about my stroke and the follow up events.  So it's good that I have that info "put" somewhere. I don't feel the need to rehash it all, as I'm pretty much feeling back to normal.  Except for my right knee, which has a torn meniscus and I have to have surgery to get that repaired.  Because of my stroke, however, I have to be "cleared" by my neurologist before I'm allowed to undergo anesthesia.  I see his this coming Thursday. I found an old "header" I'd made that I'm going to try putting on this blog design...

  So - my husband and I went home and spent 7 more days still trying to recover, figuring we both had "long Covid".  I continued to feel dizzy and off balance and had lower blood pressure than was normal for me.  In the meantime, our dear friend in Indiana passed away on the 2nd of February from complications of Covid - he was 71 and had emphysema.  That saddened us to no end!  He was such a gooooood man.   We'd barely caught our breath when I received news of my late-husband's 98 year old Dad passing away on the 4th.  And then, my own father passed away on the 7th. Our sons' birthdays were February 2nd and 15th too.  And they weren't at home with us for those events, of course.  One's a grown man in Canada and the other is away at college - Senior year. Just sad, sad times on top of us feeling lousy from Covid. Then, on Valentine's Day, the 14th, that night I took a bath (as I do every night) and when I got out of the tub, I got so dizzy and lighthea

  Barely a week went by.  I continued feeling extreme fatigue, continued coughing and continued feeling really dizzy.  I was always hungry too - which was weird. Friday afternoon 2/4/22, since my windpipe was still sore and the prednisone hadn't helped...;  I quit taking it because of  a vision issue I thought it was causing. I was seeing double! (I'd googled "prednisone side effects".) I first noticed it when I tried to drive to the grocery store and I almost hit/got hit by a truck.  The TV screen was blurry. So I decided to take "a hit" off my Symbicort inhaler that day, which I'd done a few times before.  It wasn't really helping, but decided to try again anyway.  This time, however, when I held my breath after sucking the dose in, I fainted - catching myself on the towel rack.  At least I thought I'd fainted. Maybe I had a stroke.  I heard ringing in my ears and everything went black and I fumbled around against the wall, grabbing the towel b

 Welp, my mind is kind of full of fuzz these days.  I just know that from the 17th - until about hmmm...the 30th - my symptoms went from a sore windpipe, and a cough to extreme fatigue, dizziness and shockingly low blood pressure.   Saturday, the 29th, My hubs and I were just chatting about memories of our kids and I got very emotional.  I suddenly felt chest pains and tightness.   I asked my husband to fetch the BP monitor cuff.  I thought it was going to be high. (I'd been treated for high blood pressure about five months earlier and after one month on Losartan, I managed to lose 10# and my blood pressure went down to normal. I got off the Losartan in October.) So I took my BP and it was very low!  I took it several times for the rest of the night and it stayed in the 90's/60's.  Very low for me!  Lowest was 92/61 that night. In the morning it was low still, but went up to what most people would consider "normal" 120/70 - but that was still lower than my BP had

  Wow - I'm just starting this blog now, but I kind of wish I'd started it January 10th - because that's the day my husband tested positive at work with Covid.  Seven days later, on January 17th, I tested positive on a "home test kit". Actually, I knew I was going to get it because my husband had it.  And, of course, we kind of hang around together, right?  Well, on the night of the 16th I woke up feeling as though I'd been beaten all over my body with a baseball bat.  I tested positive in the morning. My husband had what he described as flu like symptoms.  Achy, cough, congestion, sinuses clogged, etc.  Me - I started out with the soreness, as mentioned, but I also had a slight fever that one night.  No fever after that.  I'd had a bit of a "sore windpipe" - it felt irritated or red inside a few days before the 17th and, of course afterwards as well - that sore windpipe and a cough was about the extent of my problems until around the end of Janu