Photographs, Alex and Me

This is sort of an update of what’s been happening at my house:

Pet Photo Contest

Again I thank all of you who provided me with input regarding the best photograph of Alex to submit to the pet photo contest. I reviewed and calculated all of your suggestions and Sunday night emailed the photograph labeled Alex F to the contest. That’s the same photo of Alex that’s on my sidebar.

This contest is a local on, sponsored by one of the newspapers. However, during the process of selecting a photo, I discovered there are numerous pet photographs on the Internet. With such a variety of Alex photos available to me, I plan to enter more contests. I’ll share with you the results.

Mystery of the Old Photograph Solved!

My Uncle John responded to my email requesting the identity of the couple in the turn-of-the-century wedding photograph that I found in house. As I suspected, it is my maternal grandparents, Anna and Adam Hertle. More on their unique story, at least what I know of it, in a future post.

Strange Malady

As I shared earlier, I have been suffering from an unknown malady since Friday. I don’t know what to call it. It evinces itself by my being extremely tired, as if I am exhausted, whenever I am out of bed and not connected to my CPAP and oxygen compressor. The result is that I am up for no more than two to three hours before I must return to the oxygen. Even the various aerosols I have been prescribed do not help me. Saturday I came close to telephoning EMS because of my breathing difficulties. I didn’t and after a few hours under the oxygen, I could breathe better.

I have attempted to make an appointment with my VA primary physician; however, she is on maternity leave until September. I’ve had no response yet to my request a couple of weeks ago to be seen by another VA physician.

I apologize for not getting around and reading blogs as I normally have done. Perhaps in the near future I’ll be able to be up and about enough to do so.