Chapter 119 - A Week of Gadgets

I think I have mentioned that she often complains that her glasses fog when she gets the sweats. I bought a digital thermometer for her to stick in her ear whenever that happens. Twice this last week she reported that her core temperature was 36.5C at times when her glasses fogged, that is quite normal, so I don't understand why her skin produces such an amount of moisture to cause condensation or why her glasses become cool enough to cause condensation. Perhaps variations in air currents have an effect; I just realise that I don't know whether the condensation forms on the inner or outer surfaces of the glass. I must ask; she sleeps now.

She mail ordered a long handled device to assist with personal hygiene when away from home. I sometimes wonder out loud if she has tested it yet; seems not yet.

A visit to Hot Air City saw us return with a collapsible 12 kg wheel chair. Another piece of hardware not tested yet, although this is in preparation for our proposed cruise around the Long White Cloud at the end of the year; but also for crowded public gatherings should we have the misfortune to find one. A seat belt is attached for her confidence that she won't be tipped out, for she believes I am a reckless wheel chair driver from the time she fell in the bathroom & damaged the tendon in her left leg a couple of years ago. We joke that perhaps roll bars should have been attached as well. With my eye sight problems, one day soon I may provide motive power for the chair while she provides navigational instructions. Someone jokes about signs attached front & back. Who needs a seeing-eye dog?

I am proud & relieved that she has completed our post-Xmas letter task. She spent several sessions over the past fortnight updating our mailing list, editing small details in the letters and printing the lot. A large pile of envelopes grew on the floor beside her desk and she blames bending to retrieve envelopes & letters for her needing a session from the TENS machine yesterday morning. I'm hoping her success with this task may give her the courage to attempt some embroidery.

I am preparing an embroidery tutorial using a particular photographic technique I have devised using a commercial software product. The image is a portrait on a 35mm colour slide I shot more than a few years ago, on 31st January 1960 when she was a little more than 17. A labour of love more than a project.