The 100+ year-old cedar lost one branch!

Believe it or not, that's our mailbox in the center and the side of our garage over to the left. Just ONE branch snapped off the cedar, but it is a very large, very old tree, and it has branches that are more like good-sized trees! I used "Russell's loppers" to lop two very small branches off this limb just before my body got my attention with severe nausea and dizzyness, and I high-tailed it to the house where I threw myself onto the floor and discovered my heart was beating out of control. I didn't even get a chance to shovel any snow!

The GREAT news -- after all of the tests, an x-ray, and two EKGS, my heart is doing super! My blood pressure was excellent, my oxygen content was high, etc. , etc., and (not surprising) my thyroid was low.... As I quickly write this, my heart is beating at a very nice steady pace of 80 beats per minute (I just got up from the downstairs couch and walked up the stairs) -- and if I keep very quiet, the doctor believes I will not go back into the fibrillation...

Oh, it's called, Atrial Fibrillation...and no amount of calm breathing can calm the heart down, but for me one small dose of the medicine worked, so I got to come home instead of check in to the hospital...I have already done a dozen crossword puzzles and logic puzzles. I need stationery!

Thanks for the calls and well wishes! Bye for now.