I’ve been feeling really cruddy over the last month. I’ve had to lay down for a few hours every day because I’ve been so weak, fatigued and with a pretty bad headache. I had blood work done on Monday and it shows my red blood cell count is down. Since getting the results, I’ve upped my iron dosage (I was taking very little before) as well as my B12. Hopefully things will start to improve soon, because I’m getting a wee sick of this silliness!
I was feeling well enough last Sunday morning and took up a passenger for an aerobatic flight. He had been in a small plane once before (and subsequently jumped out of it), but never did aerobatics. As always, I get my victim used to the plane and flight by first heading over Niagara Falls to see the spectacular view. We then went back over the Niagara District Airport at 4000′ and did some maneuvers. He did very well with everything – didn’t get too queasy. He really enjoyed the flight, as did I! I love being able to give people such an awesome experience.
I thought I posted this in a previous blog, but apparently I didn’t. When at the airport for a flight the other week, the jet carrying Adam Sandler, Rob Schneider and David Spade took off:
The were performing at Casino Niagara.
The last few weeks have been a bit of a blur with how lousy I’ve been feeling, and I don’t even remember where Mike and I flew that day. I did find these pics from either that one or the next one we did though:
This is either Crystal Beach or Sherkston:
While we were approaching Lake Erie, we saw a large plane which looked like it was flying low and slow over our side of the lake. Turns out, it was the Good Year Blimp on the American side. Pretty neat that we could see it so clearly that far away. I had Mike look it up on his flight radar app. It’s the red plane symbol and we were directly across from it.
It’s been so therapeutic to be doing these flights during the short periods of time I’ve felt decent over the last month. I can’t wait for things to start improving. Yea!
Mike brought me some small York peppermint patties the other day. When he left, I tried to give him one, but he kept throwing it back to me. I asked Sarge to run over to his place with one:
I texted Mike that he had a visitor:
I haven’t seen Sarge since:
At least he seems happy.
Had some really cruddy news the other week. My mother’s very good friend became ill and has been in the hospital for two weeks now. We’ve been to visit a few times. While in the emergency department with him, I made him his first Mr. Handy:
Unfortunately, Mr. Handy was left downstairs when he was moved to ICU so I had to make him another one:
So glad that he’s improving and we hope to head there for another visit very soon. I would have liked to have gone today, but had a neurologist appointment in Hamilton. Blah.
Today’s symptoms: Felt a bit better today than the average day over the last month. Yesterday was awful though – had to lay down for one to two hours three times! Yuck! Hopefully the increased doses of iron and B12 kick my cute and squishy bone marrow into popping out more red blood cells. Always nice to have a little extra oxygen transported to the important things, like organs and brain! Since I’m a little behind on my blogage, I’ll post another one within the next couple of days. Stay tuned!
Lizzy McFly 