I am still coughing from this crazy illness, but I do feel better. I am taking medication to make the coughing not so bad. Mucinex is what I have been taking. Great stuff. I still get tired from activities, but it is probably from the combination of recovering from my radiation treatments, this chest thing and cough, and my back pain. Pain really is tiring.

I went to physical therapy, and they had me do some more stuff which I hope will strengthen me quickly. Maybe I am not patient in this realm. The therapist did some manipulating of my muscles and whatever it was he was doing and we talked about dogs. I love people’s dog stories. I think I am going to start a separate blog site for dog stories. They are absolutely endless in entertainment.

I went to see the dachshunds, Callie and Niki, and they are so cute. I have Bert with me while his owner is gone to her mother’s memorial. So I have my doggie fix.

After my physical therapy, Pete came home and we went back into town to go through the proceedings to apply for my business license. I had full intent to do it last year at the beginning of the year, but I got diagnosed with my breast cancer and then it all took a turn around in my plans. Quite the distraction I must say. I now have my business license, and I am viewing this as my big step forward in life again. It actually went fairly quickly. We had to go back and forth a couple of times, but it is a short walk downtown and a lovely day at that. I wanted to do some other errands in town while we were there, but I was really fatigued by the late afternoon, so we can do those things tomorrow. I still had one more errand that was business related to do first before we went home. We went to a bank and opened up a business account, so now we are very official with a license and a business account at a bank.

It is good to have fun things to look forward to, and to actually see progress towards the positive. Everything goes very quickly when you wave your checkbook around; people like your money. Ha. One fun thing: At the court a lady was doing my paperwork, and she was very interested in my business and took a business card. She said there are several people in the court building that have pets and a couple are involved with animal rescue projects. She said she would post my card in their break room! I was very happy with that. This business has been very fun for me and when I was ill with chemotherapy, the dogs ended up being my therapy dogs.

Working in nursing never was this fun! I enjoyed nursing most of the time, but I have to be honest. It wasn’t fun a lot of the time in many seasons. Sometimes it was absolutely awful and I hated it. The stress was over the top all the time even in the best of times. I still have my RN license active, because I had worked so hard to achieve that and I worked at it for so long. I may never use it again, but if something ever comes up that God wants me to do, I will be ready for anything. I was thinking there may be a day that Pete and I do a short mission trip and I could be utilized as a health aid somewhere. I could certainly give immunizations or do teaching of good health habits like washing hands and such. I don’t want to close that door if we had an opportunity like that in the future.