Hello WikiTreers!
Not my best week, but not my worst either...
Pip, thanks for hosting. Appreciate you so much, cuz! I'm sorry about the tummy bug. Mine started last Saturday. By Monday I was feeling somewhat human again. I like your closing sentence, "Life is short; love one another." The world would be a much nice place if everyone abided by that creed.
So, Monday I had to return to my sleep specialist with my CPAP so it could be checked for defects. I didn't expect any so I was surprised when I was told it was not producing the pressure it should be. It seems it was supposed to get up to 7.5 cmH2O and the tech could only get it up to 6.1. Since my machine is, therefore, defective my insurance should help pay for a new one. The catch is that they are in short supply. I was told it could be weeks or more before I get a replacement. In the meantime, I am to continue using the one I have as it is better than not having one at all.
Had a hassle regarding my routine medications on Monday. I had no refills on one of them so I went by my pharmacy wondering why, since I'm enrolled in the "automatic refill" program, my doctor had not already been contacted for a new prescription. Apparently someone or something had un-enrolled me from the program. They gave me an emergency supply of three pills and sent an electronic refill request to my doctor. Later in the afternoon I got a text from the pharmacy saying my doctor had refused to refill. So, I called the doctor and left a message for clinical staff wanting to know why. Thirty minutes later I got a notification from the pharmacy saying my refill was ready. Not sure what happened there, but I also received a voice mail from the doctor's office saying they had never rejected the refill request. Anyway, it's all straightened out now, I hope.
Also on Monday, my beloved husband asked me where Penni was. Penni, our dog, died on March 4. When I told my husband she had died, he was visibly confused and upset. He truly did not remember. He asked me the same question on Tuesday, but, thankfully, not since then. His dementia is progressing and it is such a hard thing to watch this happening to him.
I had gotten some bad news re members of my husband's family on Sunday. On Monday I learned even more of the story about the situation. I certainly cannot go into details here, but this has been very hard to learn and know how devastated my step-family are. Because of his cognitive issues, I did not see a point in telling my husband. I got a phone call early yesterday from one of the family with an update and my husband wanted to know about the call. I told him there was a problem but I didn't go into detail. I hope I am doing the right thing by sheltering him. He has a simple phone he can use and he calls his children every day, sometimes multiple times a day because he can't remember he called them already, to tell them he loves them. The children are all aware of his decline.
WikiTree, which is usually my refuge from real life when I get a chance, was a bit challenging this week. I will get used to the changes, I am sure. The thing which threw me the most was that the Auto WikiTree Tables app and the WikiTree changes did not play well together so I had to disable the app until Ian Beacall was able to figure out how to get it to work correctly again. Ian is such a wonderful person and, in my opinion, we are blessed to have him as part of WikiTree. I did not get much done on WikiTree this week.
One thing we've begun doing in the late afternoon is feeding a small herd of deer. We usually have six visitors--four does and two fawns. I spread a special deer feeding mix on our front yard, then we sit quietly and watch while they graze. Very peaceful and relaxing way to wind down the day. Just in the past few weeks, the does are losing their lighter summer coats and become darker as the thicker, longer, darker, better insulating fur grows out. The fawns have gotten taller but still have their spots. They still try to nurse occasionally, but their mama (they are fraternal twins) is trying to wean them.
I hope everyone has a good weekend. We have no major plans but will probably meet friends for lunch tomorrow. Since our usual place to meet here is closed for dine-in, as are so many places, we've begun to drive down to a Culver's in a neighboring town.
Edit...I forgot to mention one other thing. Ancestry just updated my ethnicity estimates...I am now, according to them, 48% Scottish, up from my previous 41%. My Irish also went up from 21% to 27%. But my English estimate dropped. My Norwegian ethnicity estimate disappeared completely (surprising, considering I found Norwegian ancestors via WikiTree relationship finder.) But I picked up a Germanic estimate of 4%. Germanic?! I have no idea where that could have come from at all.