Friday

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9:00 AM weight: (WYZE scale)
115.1 lbs
34.2% Body Fat
71.0 lb Muscle Mass
21.2 BMI

Fit app: afternoon walk
25 Heart Points
2.38 miles
6,337 steps
These points on the fit app don't always make sense to me but I think I have to be in vigorous constant motion to get a higher score.

What I ate today:
Rosuvastatin 5mg
Letrozole 2.5mg
1 L-Arginine L-Citrulline complex 1000 mg supplement
2 cups coffee with oatmilk
2 slices of sourdough bread with Nutella (450 calories)
7.3 oz hot bar plate - broccoli, sesame chicken, carrots (510 calories)
2 pieces Naan bread (300 calories)

Thursday
Fit app: afternoon walk
32 Heart Points
45 minutes
4179 steps
I also went to the 45-minute Cardio Dance class at the gym on Thursday.

wednesday

No plans today.

9:00 AM weight: (WYZE scale)
114.9 lbs
34.1% Body Fat
71.0 lb Muscle Mass
21.1 BMI

Fit app: afternoon walk
Heart Points
miles

What I ate today:
Rosuvastatin 5mg
Letrozole 2.5mg
2 cups coffee + oatmilk

tuesday

No plans. Not feeling well today.

9:00 AM weight: (WYZE scale)
115.1 lbs
34.2% Body Fat
71.0 lb Muscle Mass
21.2 BMI

What I ate today:
Rosuvastatin 5mg
Letrozole 2.5mg
2 cups coffee + oatmilk
Amy’s Palak Paneer (340 calories) (14g protein)
Bolthouse Protein Plus (290 calories) (30g protein)

Wednesday

We went to IKEA today to see what is in the current Summer collection and to shop for solar lights.
Jennifer met us at the store and we spent a couple of hours checking out the current inventory and looking for
1. a light fixture for the bathroom (no luck)
2. solar lights (we bought a single string of regular indoor-outdoor lights.)
3. Swedish meatballs (brought home two kinds in the cooler)

There were thunderstorms forecast for the late afternoon but the rain never materialized today.

7:30 AM weight: (WYZE scale)
113.3 lbs
33.8% Body Fat
70.3 lb Muscle Mass
20.8 BMI

What I ate today:
Rosuvastatin 5mg
Letrozole 2.5mg
2 cups coffee + oatmilk
leftover 0.6 lb Hot Bar plate - mushrooms + broccoli
Ocuvite Adult 50+ multivitamin
600mg Calcium + D3 10 mcg (400 IU) supplement
Bolthouse Protein Plus (290 calories) (30g protein)
Stockholm salad - Mixed Greens with Marinated Salmon (470 calories)
1 glass red wine
2 servings herb popcorn
1 slice of Sweetgrass Thomasville Tomme cheese

sunday

Another cool, moist morning.

9:00 AM weight: (WYZE scale)
114.0 lbs
33.9% Body Fat
70.5 lb Muscle Mass
21.0 BMI

What I ate today:
Rosuvastatin 5mg
Letrozole 2.5mg
2 cups coffee with Half+Half
Ocuvite Adult 50+ multivitamin
600mg Calcium + D3 10 mcg (400 IU) supplement
0.68 lb Hot Bar plate - kale + chicken + sweet potato

cool, wet friday

It is raining and a lot cooler today. Very nice.

MonsterMustDie is having a lot more memory problems than usual today. We had an appointment for an estimate on new windows for the house that I told him verbally about this morning and when he got home from work. I wrote it on the wall calendar as well and he still forgot about it entirely and would not even speak to the salesman when he arrived at the house this afternoon. Then he asked if he was told about this beforehand.

He's also been reacting emotionally to everything today. He thinks everyone is mad at him for no reason again and I can't do or say anything to make him feel otherwise. He's also being very needy for affirmation and I have been trying to do that for him but I am starting to get really tired of it today. He is like a four-year-old constantly seeking my approval and I have to tell him that he is right about everything and that everything he has ever made or done is wonderful, which is what I am trying to do today. If I am not enthusiastic enough, he gets angry.
I have no place to escape to. I know he can't help himself.

9:00 AM weight: (WYZE scale)
115.3 lbs
34.1% Body Fat
71.2 lb Muscle Mass
21.2 BMI

What I ate today:
Rosuvastatin 5mg
Letrozole 2.5mg
2 cups coffee - 1 with Half+Half, 1 with Oatmilk
2 oz rotisserie chicken (94 calories) (16g protein)
1 Chobani key lime Greek yogurt (140 calories) (11g protein)
Momo Fuku soy + scallion noodles (320 calories) (10g protein)
+ 1 cup fresh mixed greens

thursday

I made it back to the gym for Cardio Dance class today. I also worked out on the machines a little after the cardio.
I haven't heard from Karen this week. I think she "butt-dialed" me from her watch, as she does often, on Tuesday while we were at the restaurant with MonsterMustDie's cousin but she hasn't answered my texts that I sent afterwards. I'll take that as a sign that she is having a very good, busy first visit with her biological sisters in Florida.

9:04 AM weight: (WYZE scale)
114.4 lbs
33.9% Body Fat
70.8 lb Muscle Mass
21.0 BMI

I am giving up on walking this week, temporarily, for two reasons:
1. the temperatures are in the 90's, followed by heavy rain, this week.
2. there is a poor air quality - high ozone alert for outdoor activities this week.

What I ate today:
Rosuvastatin 5mg
Letrozole 2.5mg
2 cups coffee - 1 with Half+Half, 1 with Oatmilk
2 boiled eggs (which didn't sit well on my stomach. maybe too old.)
one 600mg Calcium + D3 10 mcg (400 IU) supplement
one D3 1000 IU supplement
1 cup green tea
1 Chobani key lime Greek yogurt (140 calories) (11g protein)
1 glass red wine

Wednesday

Yesterday evening, we had dinner and a visit with MonsterMustDie's cousin, Brian, and his wife, Chantelle. They were on their way to vacation at Virginia Beach. We ended up eating at BlueRock Pizza.
His cousin, Brian, had a serious mortality check with nearly dying in the most random way. He had a very bad reaction to a drug they used during his eye surgery, Fentanyl. He said that he was apparently he is allergic to it. They almost lost him... from a routine surgery most of us get at a certain age.
They also discussed the condition of other cousins who he saw at the recent funeral of MonsterMustDie's uncle. One brother is in fantastic, age-defying shape. The other is swollen, mentally fading, and nearly gone.
We came back to our house. MonsterMustDie showed them around a bit and discussed his garden.
Chantelle is delightful. I talked with her about books we have read and want to read.
It was a very good visit.

9:00 AM weight: (WYZE scale)
114.6 lbs
34.0% Body Fat
70.8 lb Muscle Mass
21.1 BMI

What I ate today:
Rosuvastatin 5mg
Letrozole 2.5mg
2 cups coffee - 1 with Half+Half, 1 with Oatmilk
3 Macaron cookies (130 calories)
1 gimme seaweed snack pack (25 calories)(1 g protein)
Amy's Indian Palak Paneer (340 calories)(14g protein)(170mg calcium)
one 600mg Calcium + D3 10 mcg (400 IU) supplement
Ocuvite Adult 50+ multivitamin
1 Dumle chocolate caramel
2 slices Hawiian pizza
1 glass red wine

Tuesday

New day. No plans, other than going to the gym.
Slept ok last night after going to bed a few minutes before 9PM. I didn't have too many body aches last night but my Restless Legs kept waking me up. That's the price I pay for spending too much time in the car yesterday. That's still a lot better than my absolute inability to travel in a car when my back/muscle injury experience started April 13, 2024, The morning I woke up unable to move enough to even put on my shoes. I think I can handle travel now as long as I am allowed to make frequent stops to stretch and move my body.

I am still concerned about my Lab Results and Notes From Care Team yesterday.
In the first document from yesterday, it says
“No significant change in mucus plugging/nodularity in the anterior right lower lobe within bronchiectatic airways. No concerning nodule identified.”

In the Notes From Care Team yesterday, it says
IMPRESSION:
...
"2. Slight increase in clustered and branching nodular opacities at the right lung base consistent with an inflammatory process or minimal infection. "

It is the words "Slight increase" that worries me.
That, it turns out, is a note from Comparison: 5/13/2025.
I sent a message to my Thoracic care team and the PA who saw me last phoned me back this afternoon.
My PA says it is just mucus. The lower right and middle right lobe of the lung is the most common area for mucus from aspiration, like the sort I have often when saliva goes down the wrong way, to settle.

9:00 AM weight: (WYZE scale)
115.5 lbs
34.2% Body Fat
71.2 lb Muscle Mass
21.2 BMI

What I ate today:
Rosuvastatin 5mg
Letrozole 2.5mg
2 cups coffee with Half+Half
a bit of leftover hot plate meal from yesterday
B12 supplement 1000 MCG
1 Airborne immune support tablet (zesty orange)
one 600mg Calcium + D3 10 mcg (400 IU) supplement
D3 1000 IU supplement
Bolthouse Protein Plus (290 calories) (30g protein)
1 gimme seaweed snack pack (25 calories) (1 g protein)
1 small Ceasar salad

Monday

Good news! The results of my chest CT scan this afternoon were great.
I was still a bit confused because the NP said the spot in my right lung had resolved itself.
However, the report says

"Slight increase in clustered and branching nodular opacities at the right lung base consistent with an inflammatory process or minimal infection."

I asked the PA who saw me yesterday and she assured me that comment was from the original CT scan back in February.

FINDINGS:
Lower Neck: Stable nodular thyroid.
Mediastinum/Heart/Esophagus: Normal size heart and great vessels. No pericardial effusion. No coronary artery calcification is identified. . No adenopathy. Small hiatal hernia.
Upper Abdomen: No significant change in a hypodensity in the right hepatic lobe which presumably represents benign hemangioma when correlating with a contrast CT May 13, 2025. Stable simple cystic hypodensities in the tail the pancreas.
Chest Wall: Prior bilateral lumpectomies. Left axillary surgical clips. No adenopathy.
Bones: No suspicious osseous lesion.
Lungs/Pleura: No pleural effusion or pneumothorax. Postoperative changes of left upper lobe wedge resection, stable bandlike scarring along the suture margin. No significant change in mucus plugging/nodularity in the anterior right lower lobe within bronchiectatic airways. No concerning nodule identified.
IMPRESSION:
Prior left upper lobe wedge resection. No evidence for recurrence or metastatic disease in the chest.

from the medical exam today:
Blood Pressure: 112/69
Temperature: 97.9
BMI: 20.96
Pulse: 60
Weight: 114 lb 10.2 oz
Respiration: 16
Height: 5'2.01"
Oxygen Saturation: 98%

9:30 AM weight: (WYZE scale)
115.3 lbs
34.2% Body Fat
71.0 lb Muscle Mass
21.2 BMI

What I ate today:
Rosuvastatin 5mg
Letrozole 2.5mg
2 cups coffee with Half+Half
1 Orgain 30g chocolate protein shake (160 calories) (650 mg calcium)
Kind breakfast protein bars (220 calories)(8g protein)
14 oz Hot Bar food plate
Ardens Garden juice (130 calories) (2g protein)
600mg Calcium + D3 10 mcg (400 IU) supplement

I was incredibly tired the rest of the day, probably from the sun in the car. The sun tends to make me very sleepy. I ended up going to bed a bit earlier.

Sunday

Karen is flying to Florida this morning to spend a week meeting her biological sisters for the first time.
Brian and Laura are on a two-week trip with family to Italy.
The weather forecast is 90 degrees today.

9:00 AM weight: (WYZE scale)
114.6 lbs
34.2% Body Fat
70.5 lb Muscle Mass
21.1 BMI

What I ate today:
Rosuvastatin 5mg
Letrozole 2.5mg
2 cups coffee with Half+Half
Ocuvite Adult 50+ multivitamin
1 serving Naan bread (140 calories)
small Greek salad (150 calories)

Saturday

We went to the ribbon-cutting celebration and walked a bit on the Greensboro downtown greenway today with Karen and Bob.
We got together with Karen and Bob at their house and went in one car together there. By the time the ribbon-cutting speeches and ceremony were over, it was getting pretty warm outside. We walked a short distance and had lunch at the food truck park.

9:30 AM weight: (WYZE scale)
115.5 lbs
34.4% Body Fat
71.0 lb Muscle Mass
21.2 BMI

Somehow, the fitness app didn't get any of this. Maybe there were too many stops and starts.

What I ate today:
Rosuvastatin 5mg
Letrozole 2.5mg
2 cups coffee with Half+Half
Ocuvite Adult 50+ multivitamin
one 600mg Calcium + D3 10 mcg (400 IU) supplement
1 serving Oatmeal (150 calories) + 0.50oz dried cinnamon apples
Ocuvite Adult 50+ multivitamin
one 600mg Calcium + D3 10 mcg (400 IU) supplement
Vegetarian plate from Morocan food truck
Ardens Garden Green Energy Machine juice (130 calories) (2g protein)

Friday

Yesterday was fairly active. I started the day taking the car in to have a brake light replaced and my emmissions inspection was done while I was there.
I saw a weird thing in my next door neighbor's front yard in the morning as I was leaving home at 8:35 AM. It was a brief rain shower that only covered a small area in the middle of her yard - like a giant watering can was in the sky.
I went to Cardio Dance at the gym in the afternoon.
Later that night, I met up with K and B at CharBar7 for live music and snacks. I really need to remember to only order one appetiser or small plate that I can share with someone else. The portions are too generous for me to eat alone.
MonsterMustDie was drinking at home and not good company for anyone, including me.
I started to have a bit of nasal drainage yesterday evening as well, starting right at the time I showed up to the restaurant.

This evening, the plan is to join K and B for dinner at their house.

9:00 AM weight: (WYZE scale)
115.5 lbs
34.4% Body Fat
71.0 lb Muscle Mass
21.2 BMI

What I ate today:
Rosuvastatin 5mg
Letrozole 2.5mg
Ocuvite Adult 50+ multivitamin
one 600mg Calcium + D3 10 mcg (400 IU) supplement
2 cups coffee with oatmilk
1 serving Oatmeal (150 calories) + dried cinnamon apples
3 Macaron cookies (130 calories)
3 oz rotisserie chicken (210 calories)(20g protein)
1 piece Dubai chocolate (124 calories)

Dinner with Karen & Bob:
roast lamb, roasted fingerling potatoes, fresh tomatoes
toss salad with candied pecans and pumpkin seeds

wednesday

Still not driving until I get my brake light fixed tomorrow.
Should have taken an Aleve last night because I'm aching a bit this morning.

9:00 AM weight: (WYZE scale)
114.9 lbs
34.3% Body Fat
70.8 lb Muscle Mass
21.1 BMI

Fit app: evening walk
Heart Points
miles

What I ate today:
Rosuvastatin 5mg
Letrozole 2.5mg
2 cups coffee with Half+Half
1 Aleve 220mg
.505 lb Kale+Apple+Walnut salad (450 calories)
1/2 bag Hot & Spicy potato chips (160 calories)
10.10oz black beans and brown rice
1 gimme seaweed snack pack (25 calories) (1 g protein)