Heat Update & a Few Other Quickies

Last night I slept in my bed rather than the living room chair for the first time since Saturday night. The stormy weather (at the moment it is 58 F) has cooled off my bedroom. 

I still have no information of the repair of my air conditioner, but I should be cool in the house at least another day; the weather is forecast to remain cool until Saturday, when the high is forecast as 88 F.

For the past few days my glucose level  has been the lowest (lower than what is healthy)  it has ever been since I began testing about a month ago. I wondered if that was because I have been too hot to eat?.

When I told that to Dan-el, the nurse who now visits me weekly, this morning , she went over the symptoms of Low Blood Sugar. Yep! Exactly how I've been feeling and  the result of me not eating. 

It sadden me to hear of the death of David Carradine.  I appreciated him as a human being, full of life and a roll model for many. When will the media talking head stop using the phrase this president and speak his name? That phrase was developed during the last administration to distinguish the then president from his daddy. I believe it is time to bury it.
I am still applauding President Obama’s Cairo speech. I wonder how the Muslim world is responding?

In Memory of Our Blogger Friend: Carmen San Diego

Mike, Carmen’s husband, has announced that Carmen, whose blog, Good Times and Boxed Whine, brought her friends from around the world, died peacefully at 7:08 in the morning on October 30^th, 2007. She was not in any pain and was asleep with medications. She was 34 years old.

Memorial services will be held for her at the chapel on Naval Submarine Base Point Loma at 10:00 AM on Saturday, November 10th, 2007. A reception will be held at the Harbor Inn (also on the submarine base) from 11:00 AM to 3:00 PM for the family and closest friends of Carmen.

Mike also writes:

Carmen had requested that that in the event of her death, instead of sending flowers to her funeral, that you donate to the Sceroderma Foundation in her name. Website can be found at:

http://www.scleroderma.org/development/donate.shtm

or phone number at 800-722-4673.

She thought that if you donate, and someday they can find a cure, then one day family and friends won't have to endure these hardships like we all did with Carmen. If you knew Carmen then you know this to be true.

A few days after the funeral, Carmen's ashes will be interned at Roscrans National Cemetary high on the hill overlooking the ocean in San Diego.

Thank you for all your support. The love and support you've shown during this difficult time has been amazing. She has touched many lives, and Dominic and I are awed and grateful to all the support given.

My prayer:

Gracious and faithful God, with faith in your great mercy and wisdom, we entrust Carmen to your eternal care.

We thank you for your steadfast love for her and for all that she was to those who loved her.

We thank you that for Carmen all sickness and sorrow are ended, and death itself is past, and that she has entered the home where all of your people gather in peace.

Be with her husband, Mike, and her son, Dominic, and all of her family in this time of sorrow. Amen