It all started around November, 2023, after visit to the ER to find out why I had fainted for no reason. (Spoiler…it is still unknown.) After a head CT scan it was recommended that I visit an ENT which I did, and after another head scan, was sent to the Oregon Health and Science University in Portland to be seen by the head Rhinologist.
Memory Lane
Back in Seattle Again
It was kind of fun being in Seattle for those six weeks. It would have been more fun if I had kept up my strength. I was afraid to walk four blocks to the Safeway by the third week. I just didn’t have the stamina or the muscles. I was very surprised at myself actually.
Recovering at Laelie’s
I didn’t go home right away. After “graduation day” at Proton, Laelie and Chris picked me up with all my stuff and took me to her house where I spent a few weeks. It might have been two weeks. I tried out online exercises, picking out the ones on my iPad that only lasted 10 minutes. When I felt a little better I went for the 20 minute ones. Spent most of the time knitting.
Tippy in 14 years of photos…
There are image galleries linked to each of these squares. All the images in the galleries are linked to large-sized slide shows if you have a lot of time on your hands.
Leaving The Ferry Behind
Even though I had already “retired” once back in 2008, I retired again (unofficially) right before the Pandemic of Cancellations started in 2020, I spent my last day working at my job for the Washington State Ferries at the Port Townsend dock, and wrote this the next day.
Driving to Maine in 2017
Wide open spaces and views. These are just a few of the many photos I took that year. I drove out in 2015 and 2017. I think that means I need to go again in 2019.
Hurricane Ridge and Eclipse Viewing
I had wanted to be in Oregon for the eclipse. It would have been a visit to see Boo, since she lives right in the totality line. But it was rather far to go for a 15-minute viewing. So this Hurricane Ridge viewing area was spectacular. There were hundreds of people there. A little local ad hoc eclipse community forming around a 15-minute event.
Seeing double
So far the double exposure idea has ended up having sheep in all of them. The idea was to combine my former life (olden days) with my current one, to kind of mirror my thoughts every day as I walk down the street or go to work. The images are all of sheep. Sheep on the ferry or in place of the ferry, sheep on the blank alley wall, sheep in the water and sheep on the road.