Resting, and bird helping

 Ratbag Ninja, Smokey, and Total, keep me company while I rest.

 I have been catching up on my handsewing, as I can have my feet up, and feel like I am doing something useful at the same time.

Illumination at the City Centre.

 Representing the neurons in the brain, the light exhibition was hands on.

When you touched the ball, the lights changed colour, represent how the brain works.

Red and Blue eggs

 Cook the egg for 2 minutes in water coloured with food colouring.  Gently crush the shell, so that there are cracks.  Cook the egg for anothe 2-3 minutes.  Enjoy on toast.

 I like the red veins on the egg.

Debbie and Cook - Cyclone Season

The Lake Front after Cyclone Debbie 7/4/17

The Australian Cyclone Debbie rained down on us last week, and this week we have the Pacific Cook Cyclone.  Everything is wet.  Paradise Valley Road is blocked due to slips, and the stream cutting driveways away.

The Lake front during Cyclone Cook. Photo by James Rakena Robinson

 The lake front after Cyclone Cook, we wandered down the next day.

 This is the driveway near Paradise Valley Springs, it got washed away by the stream.  In the distance you can see the bank beside the roadside.

The ancient art of doing nothing.

 I am surprised how tired I get, and how fatigued my body feels.

 The birds and cats jostle for position on my lap.

I get tired very easily and 8pm is a late night for me.

Happy Birthday Oscar

 Oscar and his mates went to Motion Entertainment to celebrate his 11th birthday.

 Somersaulting on the trampolines was lots of fun for Luke, Josh, and Oscar.

 Once they had exhausted themselves, there was Mini Golf.

 After golf, Lazertag, the boys favourite.

 The Vincents were also at Motion entertainment, so the boys challenged them to a game or two.

 Erik invented a new party trick.  It's called, put the candles upside down, so they cannot be lit.

 Happy Birthday Oscar.  I hope this year is full of fun and adventures.

Anuth and Ollie joined the other boys for a "sleep over". They played xbox all night.

The matter of the Heart

The pain in my chest woke me in the night. There was a truck parked on my chest. I had difficulty breathing.  As I lay there, I ticked off a mental checklist. I was under 50, I wasn't over weight, I didn't smoke, I didn't over indulge in too much alcohol, I was active, but the truck parked on my chest was still there.
I decided to ring 111, and talk to the staff, and let them decide if it was a heart attack.  Within 15 minutes, the paramedics were in the house. In the comfort of my armchair, I was hooked up to an ECG machine, and I had a abnormal reading for the left side of my heart. My blood pressure was 148 / 110, which is super high for me.
Erik packed my bag and I went for an ambulance ride in the middle of the night, with oxygen, to the hospital. The paramedics told me what to expect when we got to the hospital. They explained the time it would take between blood tests, and what the blood tests were for.  I also got a chest x-ray as well. The waiting went on forever, and I just watched my blood pressure come down to 92/60, and my heartbeat drop down to 65 bpm. I knew the episode was over.
Just after 8am in the morning, I got the all clear to go home, it wasn't a heart attack, just a viral infection of the heart. The truck parked on my chest was now a bowling ball.  However, the ECG showed up a LBBB, I have an abnormal heart rthymn on my left side.  I was born with it.  This is what has caused my lifetime of light headedness, my near fainting episodes, and I suspect my winter chilblains, my migraines, and extremely cold hands and feet.
Update - Recent cardio exams now show I have Wolffe, Parkinson, and White syndrome. This is was causes heart palpatations.  I was born with it.