Good morning - and yes, it's actually, still morning!! How's everyone doing this morning? It's been a pretty quiet week here. I'm still dealing with the stent from the Laser Lithotripsy for my kidney stone, which is becoming quite uncomfortable as time passes, so I'm less inclined to do a whole lot.
I will be going this coming week to get the kidney x-ray (KUB) that's been ordered to check for further kidney stones in preparation for seeing my doctor on April 24th. Of course, my hope is to get the stent removed shortly after that visit, but that remains to be seen.
I did get a call back from my cardiologist's office regarding ultrasound I had on the arteries of my legs a couple of weeks ago. They said the ultrasound showed mild blockage, but nothing to worry about at this time. I simply need to make sure I do a lot of walking to keep the blood flowing. I said I try to walk ~ a mile/day and they said that was great and to keep it up, so that will be my goal - enough steps to cover ~ a mile/day. Those steps can be done in any form - whether a formal "walk" around the neighborhood, mowing the lawn, gardening, housework or whatever - as long as I'm "stepping" a mile/day. I can do this!!
I did explain that since I had the kidney stone blasted and have the stent, I haven't been walking "as much", but that I'm still trying to do some every day. That was fine. My neighbor and I have been sticking to the street in front of my house because it's close to home since I still have the stent and have no idea how things will go each time we go out for a walk. It's about 1/4 mile from my driveway to the end of the street, so if we go down and back twice, we've done pretty close to a mile. Our route, through our small town is pretty close to the same distance, just different scenery and takes us further from home.
Right now, I'm staying pretty close to the same weight. I'm having some "tummy issues", which isn't helping matters, so once I get things moving normally again, I'm hoping I'll be able to get the weight moving on a downward trend again. I did actually remember to weigh this morning before I started drinking coffee and I'm down, exactly, 0.4 lb from last week. Being so close, it's probably changed by now!!
So that's my story - how's your week been? Tomorrow is income tax day and I hope everyone is ready for it. We file ours back in Feb, so I kind of forget about April 15, but my neighbor reminded me yesterday because they just got theirs done.
~~Wishing everyone a wonderful, successful week~~