Me and my Hoe

Saturday today. Gardening needs to be done and fortunately a friend of mine "Johnny" will be coming by to help with that, or should I say as it turned out do all the veggie garden maintenance.

I'm not feelin so good today. Though I had a noon appointment at the health centre for a dressing change. I'm feeling so crappy but I've been wanting to get into my infrared sauna to sweat out some toxins. My U.S. Doc said I should be able to do that, so knowing that I'll have a dressing change done today off to the sauna I went even though I was not well. Wrapped a towel around my arm, sat in the heat for almost 30 minutes got out, bagged my arm, showered and off I went to the health centre. Seemed to be a bit of a rash there "on my arm", which I had noticed before the sauna but now it was a bit more. Anyways, got it all cleaned up dressed and I headed home. Stopped at a lab for a weekly bloodwork lab test and saw across the street an old German deli I used to go to with Mom when I was a kid. Always run by big husky old German women. This time when I walked in, I just about tripped over my Jaw that was hitting the floor when I saw an over 6 foot tall young Russian lady working the deli counter. Oh my, anyways I'm realizing that I'm pretty much the old man here and she's a tad young for me, so my attention turned to her very good looking mother. I reminisced about my childhood visits, talked of the old country and I headed of with some German Ham and yeast free German rye bread.

Got home and started prepping my IV stuff. Johnny shows up to witness me shooting up saline and hooking up my IV. I told him that I was feelin a bit rough and would likely have to be laying down in short order. We chatted for a bit, he went outside with garden hoe in hand and started tidying up the veggie garden. I finished my IV and went to bed. Got up, wandered around to yard to supervise, bring him a cold beer and go back inside and back to bed. Just felt like a wreck, flueish in a way. Later Johnny went on his way and I went back to bed, no olympics on TV tonight just a bit of Olympic news and video on the web from my laptop.

Garden looks great and I really appreciated having him come over and help with that...