Check out my new TESTING page where I hope to continue testing new features. Also, be sure to have a look at my new HIKES site and especially some of the “highlighted” hikes that are listed in bold there.
Note that HIKES used to be a “section” here, but there are a lot of them so I made a site just for them.
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Not much has changed with Mackenzie since the last update a couple of hours ago, but we did receive word that she will be admitted to rehabilitative care at a Mercy intensive therapy facility in Cedar Rapids, probably early next week.
Mackenzie’s uncle had therapy there after his stroke 4 years ago and that went well. The facility is probably the most convenient for family members given the other choices we had as well.
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Mackenzie is still resting comfortably in the ICU and they are looking for a bed for her so we hope to be out of there in the next few hours. She still has her feeding tube but she’s eating a little better so they think that might come out today.
She continues to make slow progress and has been up and walking a little, but still has some difficulty with her right hand and speech.
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She had a restful day in ICU, is sitting up a little more, eating a little soft food, and is speaking just a little. Her left/right functions are nearly back to normal. Speech therapy was here and pleased that she can swallow again. Feeding tube is still in but she is clearly looking forward to getting that out later.
She just took the TV remote from me and is channel surfing again!
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Lots of people asking how Mackenzie is doing so here is this morning’s update…
I was working from home yesterday, Wednesday, November 13, and took a break at about 1:30 following a meeting so I could check on Mackenzie. She was in bed and sitting up so I asked her how she was feeling and she said she was tired and hungry. I asked her what she would like for lunch and she did not answer. Another question went unanswered so I called 911. At that time, I asked her to lay flat in the bed and she understood and did that, but her right side was almost completely non-functional. We had a policeman at the door within about two minutes and the ambulance was there in about 10 minutes. She was taken to Marshalltown ER and directly in for a CT scan.
For as long as I can remember I’ve been looking for, or building and using, a workflow that would let me create quick and simple microposts for this blog using my iPhone. I want that workflow to automatically record my location (in the form of a city/town reference) and date/time. With the help of my daughter, Mackenzie, I’ve had workflows that used Working Copy and iOS Shortcuts to get this done, but I never really understood the entire process and over time it broke down and I was unable to repair it. It’s time to revisit those pieces and I’m going to follow, and document here, the steps and components presented in Post to Eleventy from iOS with Drafts, Shortcuts and Working Copy. The only change I anticipate will be pointing the workflow at this Hugo blog rather than an Eleventy one, and those differences should be minimal and manageable.
Camping and riding my new e-scooter at Caching and Camping event(s) around Lake Wapello State Park this weekend. Hit my 10,000th cache found on Friday in Ottumwa. Starting a new GLP-1 regimen with 2.5 mg of Mounjaro (at a reasonable price) injected Sunday in the right side of my stomach.
Where has the last year gone? While life (metaphorically the stream in the hero image) rolls on, this blog (any of the moss covered rocks in the image) has not.
This blog was born of good intentions, but frankly it’s too hard for an old fart like me to remember how to maintain it and make contributions. Having not posted here in many months, I had to consult my “documentation”, and ultimately my retired password manager, to get back in and post this. That’s unacceptable, and it won’t happen again.
Today is Saturday, January 13, 2024, and I won’t be able to watch the KC Chief’s wildcard playoff game vs. the Miami Dolphins tonight because it is streaming ONLY on Peacock, and I refuse to pay them for the “privilege” to watch it live. So, I’m going to do something productive instead. Let’s see if I can spin up an instance of StaticCMS to provide an OPEN CMS for the content editor(s) behind the Wieting Theatre website.