Friday, August 15, 2025

The things I CAN do

It's easy, isn't it, to notice things gone wrong in your life?  If you begin to think too much about happenings you don't like, it gets overwhelming.  For instance, my tomatoes this year are even worse than they have ever been, and if you have followed me on all this drivel, you know how I love tomatoes.  Oh yes, and the cantaloupe:  I had a photo of myself holding the first one, the one that almost made it but didn't, because it was partly rotted from the mud after a rain.  The rest have been much worse than that, and I have had to buy cantaloupe if I want some.

But lately I've decided to think about the things in my garden that do go well, and I realize most of the foods I grow get along just fine.  Green beans, corn, spinach in it's early season, peas, sweet potatoes, turnips, eggplant, zucchini, radishes, even carrots sometimes.

My husband is having frequent dizzy spells again, and he's so tired of fighting it; that makes it easy for me to give in to depression because he doesn't deserve it.  He'll have a week or so of being able to do a few things, then the next morning he can hardly walk without falling.  The only thing the medical community has given him is some exercises, which do nothing for him.  So all he can do is sit on the couch.  

I don't drive, and every time we go shopping I pray we make it; I am now a Walmart Plus member, so even here, I can get anything we need, although we are 15 miles from the nearest store.  There's no charge for that, as long as I buy more than $35 dollars' worth... plus a small tip for the person bringing it.  To see my husband have to go through this upsets me, but all I can do is just try to be nice to him, because I can't even imagine how he stands it.  I do thank God that I have my husband beside me still.  Even with his trials, he is always trying to take good care of me, as he has done for fifty-eight years.    

I try to do my 10,000 steps each day.  I'll be glad when the days aren't in the nineties so I can actually enjoy the outside again.  We get some laughs watching E.R., because the doctors and nurses do things in that show that no hospital would allow.  For instance, one of the doctors sneaked around to heal a horse outside of the hospital in a horse trailer because his little girl wanted him to.  Yeah, that would happen.

We have always made jokes about everything and everybody, when it's just us here, and that is probably much of the reason we are still together.

Never lose your sense of humor.

Through any trials, I always remember this old poem I've put on my blog before:  

The optimist fell ten stories.
And at each window bar
He shouted to his friend below:
“I'm all right so far!”

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8 comments:

  1. Donna, first a nice big (((((((hug))))))) for you. <3 <3 <3 Secondly, as a retired RN, I'm here to tell you that there are medications for vertigo. Your husband needs to get another opinion from another doctor & find out what his options are. No one should have to just "sit on the couch" because of dizzyness!! Most of my friends around here have had rotten garden yields this year. I wonder if it had something to do with the heat? Or maybe the air quality? Or both! Much love, Andrea xoxo

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    1. The medications? He's had them. They make him sick and really don't help much.

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  2. I'm so sorry about Cliff's dizziness. I had that for three days or so and was losing my mind. I was NOT cheerful and was totally depressed. I wish they could do something for him. I too love garden tomatoes, but it sounds like you have an excellent crop of other things. Some years aren't good for certain veggies.

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  3. I've had a good run on tomatoes including up until this past week. For some reason, when we returned from our vacation we found all our tomato vines practically dead and not producing anymore fruit. I suspect it was late blight, something I have never had that I can remember. Fortunately they produced so much the last two months that I have all that I want to can so the only thing we will miss is some for eating fresh when the last of the green ones ripen.

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    1. We have had quite a few BLTs, so it's all good.

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  4. Donna, sorry you're going through all of that. As another retired RN, I ditto the first RNs advice. Please go to a different doc, (cardiac?) and get a better work=up with a different med to try. The dizzy symptoms are dangerous, for driving, and for causing horrid falls. You two are the bosses: go to a different doc. You have that right! Good luck. Keep drinking water! Linda in Kansas

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    1. He sees his cardiologist twice a year, but I'm sure he wouldn't ask him for something about dizziness.

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  5. In my opinion the cooler weather can't come soon enough.

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