Good morning, everyone. How is everyone doing this morning? I hope you're doing well. We were gone most of this past week, so didn't do a lot.
I did have a doctor's appointment on Monday and as I suspected, he pronounced me "doing fine" because all my blood work was "normal", except my PTH levels, which are still high and he's diagnosed secondary hyperparathyroidism, but says my levels aren't "high enough to matter". Everything I know about parathyroids is that if levels aren't right, it's a problem. I have to do more research into that. It's possible that when I get my vitamin D levels higher, my PTH will come down some more as well. We'll see about that. Most of the time, I'm not feeling "horrible", so we'll see how things progress. I think the increase in thyroid medication has done a lot of good, as did the change in my neuropathy medication.
Anyway, since we were gone most of the week (3 days), it was pretty unexciting - well, other than the fact of being away. The weather was nice and it was good to get away. Not so good to come back to yard work, etc, but that's life.
Yesterday, the Cultural Arts Center in the largest city near me had a first ever "chalk walk". They had chalk artists doing sidewalk art, along with vendors selling their wares. Our calligraphy doesn't sell anything, but we used chalk markers to write names on black poster board (resembled blackboard) and we had posterboard taped to the table so the kids could write with chalk while they waited for their names to be written in calligraphy. It was a different experience. They planned the event to run from 10 AM to 6 PM, which was a very long time. Of course, most everyone had gone home by 5 PM, so they starting shutting down by 5:15. I suspect if they have it again next year, they might have it run for less hours. IMO, 10 am - 4 pm would have been sufficient!!
Having been gone for 3 days of the week, I didn't stick to my usual diet, plus the swelling/edema in my feet was pretty bad so I thought I'd gain weight; however, when we got home, I discovered that not only did I not gain, I actually lost almost a pound - 0.6 lb to be exact. A pound would have been nice, but considering I'd expected to gain, I'll take that. Since my on-going goal is to lose a pound a week, I'm hoping to drop a full pound this week.
So that's my story. How was your week? I hope it's been good and that you were able to meet you goals. I look forward to hearing about it.
~~ Wishing everyone a wonderful, successful week~~