January 25, 2026 Sunday

Greetings!

Much the same here.  Not much to tell.  Eye still about the same.  Hard to type or write.  I did really well on not watching much news at all until Saturday.  I have family and friends who live in the Twin Cities.  Leah's youngest sister and her family live in Minneapolis.  This has been a horrendous last couple months watching what is being done to my hometown.  I thought it was bad enough watching it before happening around the United States.  I am so proud of the Minnesotans out protesting every day--helping their neighbors get their kids to school or getting groceries for them...whatever they need.  We are the community of man.  We are the human family.  Why can't so many people not know that?  I am humbled by the protesters all over this country who gather to protect fellow human beings...who blow whistles...reach out to help when they can...and record it all!!  

Crying does not make it any easier to type...but I can't help it.

I do love seeing the wind sculptures in the window well.  I wish I could have the blind open like this all day...   

...but it is mostly only open a little because the light hurts my eye and makes it water and hurt even more.

Miss Allie fell on Tuesday on her last jump up on the cat tree to get to the dresser.  She didn't seem to be hurt badly, thank goodness.  But she didn't go near the cat tree for days.  I told her how much I totally understood about being leery after a fall.  

She finally got up her nerve again about three days later.

Happy girl again.  (The fall wasn't from this top bed but the step below that.)

Me.  I'm still not feeling steady.  A bit wobbly due to whole head feeling weird (eye, ear, tooth) and always having a headache and no depth perception.  Hopefully it will all get better over time.  I am beginning to think my eye may not improve much with its inflammation until I get the molar removed on the 4th.  I suppose that is possible.  

Endurance.  

Pain endurance seems to have been the name of the game for me for the last 25 years--lol!  But it is an inconsequential problem in the big picture of life. 

The wind still creates beautiful sculptures with the snow.   

It's -9F (-23C) this sunny afternoon.  Nature is doing her best to freeze ICE.   

Monday I check in with the eye doctor again to see how I am healing.  I haven't noticed much change yet.  Probably need another bottle of the steroid eye drops.

Wednesday I see my oncologist, Dr. Failing.  I already got my results online from the CTscans and know I am cancer free still--whoohoo!  Am hoping I can go a year now instead of six months between checkups.

Friday I am going with Leah to the DMV.  With the move and all I totally forgot to renew my driver's license last year.  Didn't even realize it until after I moved...and, as you know, been practically sick ever since--lol!  Says online that you have a year to renew it.  We'll see if that's true.  Will they renew a license if you fail the eye test?  Another question I will find the answer to--lol!  I haven't been driving in years anyways.  Leah needs to go in to get her real ID so she can fly, so I figured I'd get mine taken care of at the same time.  You can make appointments these days online.  If I can't get mine renewed due to the eye or whatever, I can probably just get a North Dakota non-driver's ID.  Just as long as that is a legal identification for voting and such federal and official things.  I think it is.  

Going to be a busy week.  

Well, been working on this all day so far.  I think I caught most of the mistakes...thanks to spell check--lol!  Will just post early again when I am done.  Bless you all!  Till next week.....