Goals for Health

There are differences between goals and wishes. Goals should be something the setter can influence, cause, or do on ones own. Wishes are something that one hopes will be granted, but has little to no chance of causing it to happen.

When setting goals for my health, this distinction is especially important.

Health-

Physical

Short term:

• Survive the summer by avoiding the heat as much as possible
• Get in the pulmonary rehab when the heat ends
• Stick to low sodium diet
• Get new glasses
• Get new birth control
• Make more effort to drink 64 oz of water a day

Long term:

• Create a survival plan for global warming
• Stick to health courses of action to keep me alive to 70 or 75

Mental

Short term:

• Journal (love to Jackman T)
• Get a living will written
• Update my emergency contact information
• Don't let depression win this summer
• Remind myself that winter will come, so don't let depression win
• Keep telling myself that it will pass, and it will get better, because hot days will end
• Allow myself to not cry for more than 15 minutes a day this summer when mourning my former self
• Keep filling out my year color chart from Katie
• Hang with writer friends weekly (as weather/ etc permits) 

Long term:

• Have enough passive income to pay for regular psych therapy
• Create a "Retirement"/ Older Living plan
• Plan for after-death
• Keep advocating for my elected representatives to give me better healthcare
• Keep doing Luminosity game to retain mental acuteness  

Wishes

• Get my handicapped placard (applied with application from my doctor)
• Not needing any new medications
• Be able to afford any new medications I end up needing
• Lungs all healed/ fixed
• Get back to weighing 130 lbs
• Be able to lift 50 lbs overhead again
• Be able to bench/lift 250 lbs with my legs again
• Be able to walk for six hours outside in a summer day again
• Not be terrified of doing most things because it could be hard to breathe

This is one post in a series.

Goal Setting Template

First, a short personal recount:

I was just working on a character sheet for a fictional story character. I have a premade template. Just pop down the list, boom boom boom. Get the the short and long term goal section (of my character, not yet of the story or whatever). Twenty minutes later, she's got ten of each. No problem. Rolled right off my fingertips.

Mini rant:

Why was it so easy to give my fictional character a pile of goals but I currently have next to none for myself??? "Don't die yet." That's pretty much it, and some subset goals that directly relate to that goal or clarify it better.

I'm going to attempt to set some goals for myself. 

Step one is creating this template.

Step two is publishing this post, which will encourage me to come back to fill out the template (later post). 

Credit: James Doyle of Jamso

Health-

Physical

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Mental

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Relationships-

Friends

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Love

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Family

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Animals

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Wealth-

In the next 10 weeks

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By January 2025

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By January 2050

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Hobbies-

Interests

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Arts

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Time Passing

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Education -

Learning

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Study/ Career- 

Sharing

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Contribution

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Community- 

Local

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Regional

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National

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Global

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Purpose-

Philosophy

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Religion

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Political

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The HTML of the template I used:
<h2> Health-</h2> <h2> Physical</h2> <b>Short term</b>:<br /> <b><br /></b> <b>Long term</b>:<br /> <br /> <h2> Mental</h2> <b>Short term</b>:<br /> <br /> <b>Long term</b>:<br /> <br /> <br /> <h2> Relationships-</h2> <h2> Friends</h2> <b>Short term</b>:<br /> <br /> <b>Long term</b>:<br /> <br /> <h2> Love</h2> <b>Short term</b>:<br /> <br /> <b>Long term</b>:<br /> <br /> <h2> Family</h2> <b>Short term</b>:<br /> <br /> <b>Long term</b>:<br /> <br /> <h2> Animals</h2> <b>Short term</b>:<br /> <br /> <b>Long term</b>:<br /> <br /> <br /> <h2> Wealth-</h2> <h2> In the next 10 weeks</h2> <div> <ul> <li><br /></li> </ul> </div> <h2> By January 2025</h2> <div> <ul> <li><br /></li> </ul> </div> <h2> By January 2050</h2> <div> <ul> <li><br /></li> </ul> </div> <br /> <h2> Hobbies-</h2> <h2> Interests</h2> <b>Short term</b>:<br /> <br /> <b>Long term</b>:<br /> <br /> <br /> <h2> Arts</h2> <b>Short term</b>:<br /> <br /> <b>Long term</b>:<br /> <br /> <br /> <h2> Time Passing</h2> <b>Short term</b>:<br /> <br /> <b>Long term</b>:<br /> <br /> <br /> <h2> Education -</h2> <h2> Learning</h2> <b>Short term</b>:<br /> <br /> <b>Long term</b>:<br /> <br /> <br /> <h2> Study/ Career- </h2> <h2> Sharing</h2> <b>Short term</b>:<br /> <br /> <b>Long term</b>:<br /> <br /> <h2> Contribution</h2> <b>Short term</b>:<br /> <br /> <b>Long term</b>:<br /> <br /> <h2> Community- </h2> <h2> Local</h2> <b>Short term</b>:<br /> <br /> <b>Long term</b>:<br /> <br /> <h2> Regional</h2> <b>Short term</b>:<br /> <br /> <b>Long term</b>:<br /> <br /> <h2> National</h2> <b>Short term</b>:<br /> <br /> <b>Long term</b>:<br /> <br /> <h2> Global</h2> <b>Short term</b>:<br /> <br /> <b>Long term</b>:<br /> <br /> <br /> <h2> Purpose-</h2> <h2> Philosophy</h2> <b>Short term</b>:<br /> <br /> <b>Long term</b>:<br /> <br /> <h2> Religion</h2> <b>Short term</b>:<br /> <br /> <b>Long term</b>:<br /> <br /> <h2> Political</h2> <b>Short term</b>:<br /> <br /> <b>Long term</b>:<br /> <br /> <br /> Well, that's a start at least.

Economic Terrorism

For those of you who haven't seen the ink stamp going around certain circles of America, or more accurately- MERICA, you may want to look that up before reading onward. https://www.chron.com/national/article/This-is-why-you-might-be-seeing-Donald-Trump-12773173.php

If someone is using this stamp and stipulating that any bill they put it on (the suggested 20, or the hilarious 5 from the meme that mocks this hardest) is BURNED with them when they die, okay. Not buried, because a grave robber could dig it up. As long as the bill will never go back into circulation again, then it's fine. Break that little law. http://checkyourfact.com/2018/01/17/fact-check-moveon-says-its-totally-legal-to-stamp-money-with-political-messages/

HOWEVER, anyone who is going to put the bill into circulation, here's why that's not patriotic and IS ECONOMIC TERRORISM. Every bill printed by the US Treasury has a predicted lifespan. Bills in circulation eventually make it back to the bank. If it is defaced, such as with that stamp, the bank cannot recirculate it. They have to turn it over to the Treasury Department, who has to destroy it and then have another printed to replace it. The predicted lifespan of bills determines how much of our tax dollars are needed for the creation of new bills and destruction of old or defaced bills. Exponentially increasing the amount of bills that need to be destroyed will increase the cost in tax dollars to US taxpayers. Therefore, it becomes economic terrorism. And terrorism isn't patriotic.

When you hate someone or some group (Obama, anyone who isn't "white") that you're willing to tank your own economy, to cost yourself and others an increase in taxes, you have a problem.

Which could easily lead me to another rant about Net Neutrality. The only people in favor of killing it are the ones who will make a ton of money off the deal (a VERY tiny percent of the One-Percenters), and the people who think that paying more money for Internet services is worth it because it defeats something Obama did.

Do We Need Diverse Bakeries

Maybe someone will open a bakery with a, "no racists, Supremacists, Klan members, Nazi's, or their supporters served here." I mean, really, are we going to have to start booking wedding services with, "hello, do you support all people or only certain ones?" Do #WeNeedDiverseBakeries 🤔 NBC news story

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Peace.

Society is not ready to discuss the fate of the unborn or their parents

This is a political post.

I'm not really on either side of the "pro" argument. I don't think my country is ready to have such a discussion. Anywhere and anyone that is unable to address the majority of causes of a problem is NOT ready to discuss the only current make-shift bandage that exists. Also, medical decisions are between medical providers and their patients  (or authorized representative); not government officials and protestors.

Clean up the REASONS before discussing it. Yes, some women may still make the decision. Outlawing it won't change that. But solving the worries that often lead to such a choice will SIGNIFICANTLY REDUCE the number of times a certain medical procedure is needed.

Reflection on #AtoZchallenge 2018

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View from my hospital room

Mirror selfie from hospital

This post might be a bit depressing. The challenge ended, and I managed all the posts. HOWEVER, I landed in the hospital by May 3, and was there for a few days. Yeah, I had a great view (once they found me a room... I spent the first night in the Emergency Room because there were no beds -- in a hospital with four wings and nine floors, there wasn't a telemetry bed). I am home now.

After the hospital stay, I was put on meds with "beta blockers." I've looked this up on the Internet, as well as discussing it with one of my doctors, and apparently I'm not alone in feeling depressed when taking these. Like I can't ignite my fire, can't find my passion, feel dead inside.

Which is why I hadn't written my reflection post.

Or done more commenting, as I had intended to do. (I wasn't doing so well before I went to the hospital, so that also put a kink in things.)

I feel like I'm behind on my goals. But hey, I'm writing this post now. And I took the survey. So one day at a time, right? First step in a journey or some quote for motivation and inspiration. I also can't keep a damn thought in my freaking head.

Only A to Z could use this word for me. Okay, I guess technically the hospital could too, since my blood pressure might have been above a lethal number. (Might, because I recently learned that the automatic cuffs tend to be off by 60 to 90 points on my top number, and that's what they used.) But I managed all of my posts, so that's something.

I spent the month of April writing about coffee, comparing different ones based on my flavor profile. The doctors now say I'm limited to ONE cup of caffeine a day. "It could be worse."

Yeah, it could. But add in the drugs that make me feel like a Dementor has moved into my body, plus less caffeine, and I'm not doing so great. Sorry. 

I can't think anymore thoughts, so I'm going to stop typing now.