The crazy lady strikes again

My husband and daughter went to Taste of Chicago today. (I wonder if they'll run into Garfield and her fictive pals at Grant Park?) This means that I have the apartment to myself all day, and that usually gets me talking to myself. One of the things I was talking about - more accurately, I was thinking out loud about these things - was one of my perennial favorite topics, religion. I've made no secret in this blog of my Catholicism, and I've also made no secret of the fact that I'm a convert... Sign in to see full entry.

This morning, I saw an infectious-disease specialist to apprise him of my recent history of frequent infections. (I'd say that having two life-threatening infections over the past four months "a history of frequent infections.") This particular infectious-disease specialist (I don't know what this specialist is called in medispeak) practices at the teaching hospital where I receive post-transplant care, and is willing to work with the transplant team. I had originally set up today's appointment... Sign in to see full entry.

I admit it - this is yet another time when I had a hard time coming up with a title for this blog. I talked to the transplant team's advanced-practice nurse this afternoon. I had to have her call my pharmacy to get a new prescription for one of my transplant drugs, anyway, so I thought this was an appropriate time to bring up the topic of my A1c result. It turned out to be exactly 6% - the upper limit of the ideal range for A1c. I'm probably just having a reaction to the prednisone I take to... Sign in to see full entry.

In recent days, I've become increasingly concerned over references to Rainbow Bridge on one of my email lists. For those of you unfamiliar with the concept, Rainbow Bridge is the legendary place where our pets wait for us after they die. When humans die, they, too, go to Rainbow Bridge, there to meet up with pets eager to meet now-deceased owners, and go on to an eternity in heaven. At least that is how the legend goes. I can understand the appeal that the concept of Rainbow Bridge has for some... Sign in to see full entry.

I went to transplant clinic today at my local teaching hospital. The doctor ordered something called a hemoglobin A1c test, in addition to all the transplant-related blood work I normally have done. Unlike a regular hemoglobin measurement - which is normally done as a part of a CBC, or complete blood count, to determine whether or not you're anemic or have an infection - the hemoglobin A1c test is designed specifically to measure blood sugar control over a period of three months. No, I don't... Sign in to see full entry.

I mentioned recently, in this blog, that I'd been in touch via email with Constance Cumbey. I forgot to mention in my last post that I've heard from her again, after I'd written yesterday. She'd wanted to know if I were the person with the same name that she'd corresponded with via email approximately ten or so years ago. I emailed back, confirming my identity and reminding her of my former email address (which address is no longer valid, as the account associated with that email addy was... Sign in to see full entry.

As Garfield said in The Secret Life of Cats (accessible through my member profile) today, I'm in a very grouchy mood. Perhaps my mood is being changed by some minor aches and pains I've been having. They're not severe enough for me to seek medical attention for them, but the aches and pains are there (albeit at a low level). But then, there is also the chronic financial stress we have been experiencing. It's as if some attitudes were contagious; whenever I talk to professionals specifically... Sign in to see full entry.

Today, I heard from Constance Cumbey herself, who replied to an email I'd sent her. The subject of this rather lengthy email was the anti-Catholicism I'd seen on some of the sites she links to on her Blogspot account. You see, most fundamentalist Protestants feel strongly that Catholics aren't Christian. We Catholics believe, for example, that it is possible to be judged unworthy even of purgatory based on our behavior; after all, St. James says in his epistle - at least I believe it's St. James... Sign in to see full entry.

I've been on the computer, off and on, since 6:44 this morning (Central Daylight Time). I didn't necessarily want to be on the computer that early, but took advantage of the opportunity to do some research. I went over the archives on Constance Cumbey's Blogspot site. I'd lost about four months due to the various infections with which I'd been hospitalized recently, and I wanted to catch up with her writing. I also went over some of her older posts, in order to catch up on her older writing.... Sign in to see full entry.

I haven't posted to this blog in a few days because I haven't had much to say that was relevant for this blog. Today, I've spent a great deal of time going through the Blogspot blog of one of my favorite authors, Constance Cumbey. I've been an admirer of her work ever since I first saw her on a Chicago Christian television program in 1982. At that time, she was promoting her first book, The Hidden Dangers of the Rainbow, one of the first books to offer a fundamentalist Protestant analysis of the... Sign in to see full entry.