Yesterday was lovely here. The sun was shining and the temp went up to 50 degrees. All of the snow, except for those horribly filthy black mountains in the Walmart parking lot, is gone. The best part of the day for me, however, was stepping outside to hear flocks of sandhill cranes flying northward overhead--waves and waves of them. Yet another sign that spring is on the way! I used to think that those flocks were geese, but one of my friends set me straight. The sounds they make during migration is a trilling noise--definitely not the honking of geese! (They are too high up in order to identify them by sight.) In any case, the cranes and the weather did much to contribute to my good mood!
I delivered myself to the hospital lab in the afternoon to have an ultrasound on my carotid arteries. No pain involved--just having to lie still for awhile. I'm sure glad the technicians know what they are doing because the things on the monitor just looked like gray lines to me! The main technician was training a student. She scanned the right side of my neck, then let the student do the left side, which she then repeated just to check on him. At the end of the session, she asked if I would mind letting the student do one more quick scan, just to show him my "beautiful" vertebral artery. Apparently vertebral arteries are hard to find, but mine was quite visible and she wanted him to find it for himself. I got to see it. Good for me and my beautiful vertebral artery!
Today is my birthday. My Facebook "friends"--mostly former students--have all wished me a happy day. Any day that I can wake up to sunshine (or simply wake up) is a good one. I will be having dinner at my friends' house--Judy and Phil--and generally trying to accept being 64 years old. How did this happen?????
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