Oregon Living 2026 – Blog #8 – Dealing With Stomach Bug, Seeing a Movie, & Working on Blueberries

 

Sunday, February 22^nd., 2026…… We slept in today. We had nothing on the agenda until class late this afternoon. Penny called to let us know that we could go over to her friend’s house today to look at a couch she’s selling. This will be an estate sale and the couch is listed so we can’t just go and buy it from the owner. But, that’s ok. If we like it, and if it gets priced right, we can go early and buy it first thing. But that won’t happen until mid-March. We picked up Penny and drove out to her place. We liked the couch and recliner so we will try to get it – again, if the price is right!  Later, Cathye stayed home to relax while I went off to class. I wasn’t treated exactly warmly by that one person I mentioned who had to stay last night to close up!  Oh well! So, I stayed until almost the end and then left too!  If she wasn’t talking to me then, wait until next time I see her!  But all is well because they had a ton of folks to clean the tables and chairs and sweep the floors. I came home and we watched the closing ceremonies that we had taped earlier.   

Monday, February 23^rd., 2026…… Cathye had Penny duty this morning, so we decided to skip the gym, go to breakfast in two cars so Cat could just go pick her up for her Drs. appointment. I came back home and worked on my blog and paid some bills. Nothing else on the list today so I was able to catch up on my races from the weekend while Cat relaxed with the pups. We had some more Club members drop off items for the yard sale in April. I think we're getting there!

Later in the afternoon, I wasn’t feeling all that well. I wasn’t sure if it was breakfast or something else, but it didn’t get any better! I ended up going to bed in the late afternoon. I felt sick to my stomach but didn’t throw up. It was a tough night! Next morning I felt a bit better. I knew I needed to drink a lot of water because my urine was really dark.  But I was ok to be home by myself, so Cat left with Mo & Toni to go to her Plus class tonight. She got back as soon as she could and saw I was doing ok, so we watched a little tv.  But I was pretty sure I needed more rest so I decided to go to bed early again.  

Tuesday, February 24^th., 2026……   Another open day. We would like to do stuff but the weather is still damp and dreary. We’ve had rains for the past week but the forecast is rain but just for today and tomorrow, then it’s supposed to clear up and warm up a bit for the rest of the week. We still need to get the netting up around the blueberries as well as clean up some of the flower beds. But for now, we wait. Besides, I am still trying to get over this bug whatever it is.

Wednesday, February 25^th., 2026…… This morning I was up and going early. I still didn’t feel 100% but I needed to make my 8:15am appointment for my CT scan. Cathye slept in then took care of walking and feeding the dogs. After the 10-minute check-in process, the scan only took three minutes and I was back home in another 10. Later, we left to go get our haircuts. Then, I was done for the day and was able to rest and try to get over whatever I had. So far, Cathye is feeling fine. But, she didn’t eat the same thing I did on Monday!  Later, she left with her girlfriends to go see I Can Only Imagine 2.

I had no desire to see it and when she got home, she said I wouldn’t have liked it. She said she cried throughout the whole movie!

Thursday, February 26^th., 2026…… I’m feeling much better today! I still have darkened urine though. I left to go get Sis to take her to her shoulder surgeon follow-up appointment  in Corvallis. While she was in there, I drove down to the Corvallis Verizon store to look into the cost of upgrading our 6-yr old phones. I had already talked to the satellite store here in town but wanted to see what the mother store could do. Same deal. Anyway, I headed back to the hospital and picked Penny up. We went to Pastini’s for Italian, then back home.  I rested for a while, then we decided to take advantage of the sunny weather expected for the next few days  Cathye has a guy coming over to give us a bid on resurfacing the bartop. Remember back when I tried to epoxy coat it? Yeah, that was a while back and I’m still not comfortable with trying it again. Anyway, she called a pro and he came out to look at it and gave us a $1700.bid. He wants one of the floor radios so that will knock off $300. So that’s good. He can’t get to it until May timeframe though. We walked the blueberry cage area and looked into what we will need to get that border installed. I think we can do it I an hour or so, and now a time is as good as any, so I went and gathered up my tools and we set out to install those boards. We got it 90% done and came in for the day.

Friday, February 27^th., 2026……  Another sunny day!  We were only walking Rylee down the driveway but this morning both she and Jama kept going!  We ended up doing the normal walk and Rylee did really well. After that, I went out and finished the rest of the wood border. I think it will work for us now when we mow out there.

All that remains is to reinstall the netting. Maybe tomorrow.

Saturday, February 28^th., 2026…… Still have darkened pee and this could be a result of the stomach issues, but I’m pretty sure that this will be found to be a side effect of the bladder cancer. But, of course we are still waiting for the biopsy to confirm (my) suspicions. I do labs on Monday, including a urine analysis. Cathye had to get up early because she volunteered to go help a couple other Club members cut up several flats of strawberries one of the members found yesterday. She would tell me later that they got them from a produce truck that had come up from somewhere in California and set up here in town. They were priced really well so they bought a bunch of them. Cathye even came back with two flats – one for Cheryl. Meanwhile, I headed over at 10:00am to Sis’s house to help her change out a tv in her bedroom. Believe it or not, she wants a smaller tv in there! Go figure!  I guess it’s a guy thing! Cathye met us there and we also had help from a past neighbor who came by. We got it done and came back and we were done for the day. We had thought about going over to Corvallis for their dance tonight but decided to just stay home and relax. Tv, spa, then bed.