Sitting in the dark breathing

[susandennis]

I have LED's in my ceiling pot lights. Actually every light in my living room is an LED now that I think about it. So really no actual heat comes from the lights but it feels cooler to have them off so I do. And the shades are insulating shades. They are down so they can do their insulating. The air conditioner is going full blast but having trouble keeping up.

Every night FitBit tracks my breathing rate, my heart rate variability, my skin temperature, my oxygen saturation and my resting heart rate and every morning I check FitBit to see if I'm alive. Today I am but my breathing rate was way higher than normal last night. Everyone starts getting twitchy when it gets over 24. Last night I hit 20. One issue with COPD is shallow breathing - you can't really get a good deep breath so you take lots of shallow breaths instead which is not good. I changed my inhaler for one month (using an old one before expires from a previous prescription). It's likely that or maybe the heat or maybe I'm dying. Or maybe (and this is THE mostly likely) FitBit is just wrong.

So I'm just sitting here in the dark breathing. Tomorrow it will be cooler and all will be fine.

No one needs me to do anything today. I have food. I have entertainment.

I do need to lube up the treadmill plus a couple of other non-sweaty chores. I think I'll get those done and then take a shower and then sit and breathe.

Comments

[bill_schubert]

I read in your entry that your shades we're insulting. The Don Rickles of shades. Weird, I thought, but it is your place.

Keep breathing.

[susandennis]

I do that all the time. Read one word as another and then ponder on how my reading of it would actually work. My shades are giving me shade?? Now there's a thot.

The cams will be a little less thrilling today. Oh I see the condo cams are down. Hopefully, the dude will reboot his router this morning.

[halfmoon_mollie1]

keep breathing, please.

[vysila]

Breathing is good, whether in the dark or otherwise!

[desdemonaspace]

Not fond of hot weather here, either. Yay for staying in, staying cool, and food and entertainment!

[mdlbear]

from the song "Get Up and Go" by Pete Seeger:

I get up each morning and dust off my wits
Open the paper and read the obits
And if I'm not there, I know I'm not dead,
So I eat a good breakfast and go back to bed.

[susandennis]

I remember that but I did not know it was Pete Seeger.

I really do... often.. hum/sing from Spamalot: I feel happy. I feel happy.
I am not dead yet

[sherlockishere]

I used to have really severe asthma. It felt just like that. Ugh. I hope you feel better soon!

[kaishin108]

We only have a few LED lights and I wish we could switch out the Halogen in the kitchen, they heat up like crazy! (And it is scorching hot this week).