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Sunday Weigh In - April 17, 2022

Good morning.  How is everyone this morning.  I hope you're having a good Easter, if you celebrate; it not, have a good Sunday.  

Everything is going well here and it's been a pretty good week, though quiet, which is good sometimes.  

I'm pretty happy with the way my eyes have turned out.  They're healing nicely - mostly just a bit of itching left, which is a normal part of healing.  I can't believe how much my eyelids were affecting my sight.  Even the sun seems brighter without the "shade" of my eyelids.  I had asked my doctor if my eyelids could be contributing to my tiredness and he said they could... well, they were!!  I sat down yesterday and fully expected to doze off like I always have and believe it or not, I was unable to fall asleep.  The doctor had said the heaviness could feel like tiredness.  I'm hoping I continue to feel this way.

In addition, I've been doing well with my weight.  I took it upon myself to increase my thyroid medication by taking just one extra pill/week.  I've lost about 5 pounds over a couple of weeks.  If I continue losing, I'll tell my doctor what I did and hope he'll increase my dose permanently.  We'll see how that works out.  Anyway, we did eat out yesterday and it was a pretty salty meal, so I've got some fluid retention this morning, which means I'm up by a few tenths of a pound from earlier in the week, but I'm okay with that.  My doctor had told me I could take an extra fluid pill if I had days on which I swelled a lot.  With summer almost here, I tend to have more swelling with the heat, so I'm sure I'll be doing that periodically.  

Anyway, I'm up just a little bit from last week, but I'm okay with that because, overall, I seem to be trending down.

I hope you've had a good week and met all the goals you set for yourself.

~~Wishing everyone a wonderful, successful week~~

**Stay safe and wash your hands**
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I'm down about .4 of a pound today. Though a small amount, it's good news since in the past three weeks I lost weight and was hoping it wasn't going to jump back up. Mostly the loss has been due to activity and not eating as much, especially at dinnertime. That sounds pretty basic, but the activity has been a bit more difficult to accomplish because of having Covid. It's only been a mild case, but by 6 pm I'm as tired as usual at 9 pm, limiting how active I've been since I usually do a lot in the evenings. All in all, knocking off another half pound after losses in prior weeks is great!

Barb, that is so nice to hear about your eyes. When my mother-in-law had lens-replacement surgery, she said she hadn't realized how gradually her vision had changed, but then it was like she had been looking through a dirty car windshield and suddenly it was clean again. Amazing what a difference it can make to be able to see more clearly, or in your case, with more brightness. I hope you have really good sunglasses! The day I got a pair that had a 1.50 correction (instead of regular sunglasses off the rack at the pharmacy) was a big deal for me, I could see much more clearly overall when driving.

Neither my husband nor son tested positive for Covid, despite being in the same house with me. Husband has two shots and two boosters, maybe that's why. My son had a persistent sore throat three weeks ago, now we think it might have been Covid because it was a couple of weeks after they lifted the mask mandates at his school. If so, he's not in danger now of getting it from me. He has had two vaccinations and he got his booster this weekend.

We're hustling now on all fronts to accomplish our moving schedule. The houses on both sides of us recently sold, and both came in with bids higher than expected (we think the most recent one sold for $50,000 over the asking price). So it's not going to be sad to say goodbye, we're delighted to be selling it now. The carpeting is goes in at the new house on April 28, a date that had to be pushed back a couple of times because the sheetrockers were slow. I'm going to see if the movers can take us the following Monday. We're all tired of being in limbo.

Have a happy Easter, and I hope everyone is doing well this week!
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