I had an ultrasound done on September 16th at my gynecologist's office. The technician (nice lady) started off with the internal ultrasound (I really hate those), but it was very uncomfortable so she decided to stop and do the external instead. "I don't want to torture you." Those are also uncomfortable (I'm very sensitive in my lower abdomen because of my two C-sections), but not as bad as the internal ultrasound.
After she was done, I was brought to an exam room to talk with my gynecologist. The ultrasound showed one cyst on my left ovary (which would explain my more painful than normal ovulation this last time) and two fibroids in my uterus. The cyst and the fibroids were not concerning in their size, but they want to do an ultrasound every year to keep an eye on things.
I have PCOS and at one time had many cysts in my ovaries. So one cyst isn't bad.
I still need to schedule an appointment with a regular doctor and an appointment for a mammogram. Mammograms also hurt, so I'm dreading that.
Oh, and I found two gold stars on the floor of the bathroom I changed in and brought them home to Kelly.
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September 18th was our dog Milo's birthday. He's 11 now.
Speaking of Milo, he has an appointment on Wednesday so they can do blood work. They have to check to see how his lyme disease is looking and if the medicine he was taking for it has helped him.
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I've really been into boots lately. I've bought five pairs over the past couple months. Four from sellers on thrift sites. Cheaper than they would cost brand new, but in good shape. One pair I ordered from DSW. Cute red boots - Remonte Erin sweater boots. I've been wanting red boots for a long time.
I only have pictures of two of the pairs of boots - a brown Timberland Savin Hill pair I bought from someone on Poshmark and the red pair of Remonte from DSW.
The other boots are a black pair of Bare Traps Shimmer (they don't actually shimmer lol) boots I bought from someone at Mercari (for less than $27 after shipping and tax), an olive green pair of L. L. Bean Park Ridge ones that I bought from someone also at Mercari (less than $46 after shipping and tax), and a black pair of North Face Bridgeton lace-up ones, also from someone on Mercari ($51 and change after shipping and tax). The latter should arrive today or tomorrow.
I'll usually check Mercari or eBay if I see something I like on Poshmark because I can usually find an item cheaper at those two sites (if it's there) and sometimes with cheaper shipping.
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I've been reading a zombie series lately. The Surviving the Evacuation series by Frank Tayell. I'm on book 3 - Family. It's an 18 book series, but each book is pretty short - around 200 pages. As I finish them, I give them to Ashley. She said she's going to read them when she's finished with the series she's reading now - Throne of Glass , I think it's called.
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I haven't posted covid numbers in awhile. Basically, because I got sick of hearing about it a long time ago. lol Looking through my blog, the last time I posted numbers was August 24th of last year. North Carolina's active cases at that time was 27,364. Currently hospitalized was 898. My county had 6,377 positive cases (I think in total from March to August of 2020) and 163 deaths total.
I couldn't find current active cases in NC, but new cases as of September 29th was 4,789. Currently hospitalized - 3,010 as of the 28th. Daily percent positive is 9.7%.
My county (population over 500,000) has had 615 cases over the past two weeks, 47 new cases on the 28th.
North Carolina has 100 counties. Of those counties, the ones with the most cases right now per 100,000 people (hot spots) are Cherokee (82), Graham (85), Macon (84), McDowell (93), Burke (82), Cleveland (90), Lincoln (89), Gaston (88), Alleghany (82), Stanly (85), Lenoir (79), Chowan (90), and Pasquotank (77).
Orange (21) and Durham (25) counties have the lowest number of cases per 100,000.
My county (50) is among the 31 counties doing a little worse than Orange and Durham. That leaves 54 counties doing a little worse than those 31, but better than the hot spot counties.
Total number of cases in North Carolina since the start of the pandemic is 1,390,489, out of a population of almost 10,500,000.
Total number of deaths is 16,444 - a little less than 1.2%.
Recovered - 1,297,563.
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