It Was a Very Good Day

Sunshine on My Shoulders ~ John Denver

Some sort of fog lifted from my brain this morning! Things were suddenly clear before my eyes and my brain was working, sort of like I was in a groove; truly focused!

When Alex and I left our bedroom this morning, the furball turned right down the hallway to the back door that opens onto our deck rather than his usual left toward the kitchen and his breakfast. Of course, I following him and opened the door for him. Alex stepped right outside onto deck without his usual sitting and looking around and waving his tail. And I followed him out on the deck into marvelous (compared to the past few weeks) 50 degree F weather.

Alex didn’t stop on the deck, not even to give himself a good grooming. He actually bounded across the deck and down the steps and began rolling around on the backyard sidewalk. I wanted to watch him play, so I was headed toward the deck steps for a better view when I was stopped short. My 57 feet of nosehose were completely stretched out and I could go no further.

As I began to curse the nose for bringing me to a halt, my groovy brain offered me an immediate solution. Because I can’t attach more hose without jeopardizing the amount of oxygen I receive, I had felt limited. However, my brain flashed the solution: move the oxygen concentrator.

The oxygen concentrator has been housed in my second bedroom, which opens into my library/study:

Yeah, that hole in the door was the result of one of my earliest “guests,” a 20-year-old guy named Jason who I evicted one Saturday night when I came home from a church function to find him and a few other guys partying with some 14-year-old girls. [I drove the young ladies to their homes and told Jason that he was not to be in my house when I returned]. He was gone when I returned. However, the next morning Jason came back—why did I not think to demand the key to my house from him?—put that hole in my bedroom door and appropriated without my permission some of my CDs, DVDs, clothing, and about $50.00 in coins that collected by emptying my pockets each night of whatever change I had in them. My brain was really in a fog back in those days!

Back to yesterday. To solve my nosehose problem I simply moved (it has great wheels) the oxygen concentrator from the spare bedroom into the library/study! 

I do not know why I never thought of that before! Now I have enough nosehose to walk everyplace on my deck and even across my (very small) front lawn.

Some other neat things happened today, too! As you know, my 63^rd birthday is next Saturday-February 14^th. Today I received via Federal Express and UPS two birthday presents, both from folks who I have met through blogging:

I am so excited! It has been many years since I have received such neat birthday gifts!

And, I also received a telephone call from the medical supply company informing me that my electric lift chair will be delivered tomorrow!

It was a grand day for both Alex and me!