IOS 8 app fails

I updated my iPhone 5 to iOS 8.0 and have been pretty happy so far with the new features. However, it feels like I dodged a bullet, after hearing my friends complain about their difficulties with the 8.0.1 and 8.0.2 updates. I also am noticing more and more problems with apps that are being updated for iOS 8. One of my heavily used apps, Quip, no longer supports the paste function -- it's a really bad Fail, to have cut without paste. And now Facebook pops the keyboard up over the text that I'm typing.

Way too early

One of the problems with early-morning dialysis, is when a caregiver gets sick, like today, I need to get up at 4 AM (win!), get K out of the house by 5 AM (fail!), and get her to dialysis by 5:15 AM (also fail), so she can go on dialysis by 5:30 AM (fail but not by much). And I had an opportunity to get to work really early (win), without being lasered by police (fail), and getting a speeding ticket (win), and even stop for one of those expensive cups of coffee (win) along the way. Uh, oh, here comes that vehicle with the red and blue flashing lights on it, following someone who was actually speeding… whew, glad my natural inclination is to do the speed limit these days.

The good with the bad

The word from Kristan's wound appointment yesterday, is that her leg wounds are healed. Yay. They don't want her to use her prosthetics yet. 

However, she still has a stage 3 pressure sore that they are working on. Boo. 

New dialysis schedule

Big changes at the K&S household. Kristan changed her dialysis schedule to early-morning (5am!) on Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday. Started last weekend. We're still struggling to adapt. There are definitely pros and cons to this. Every night could be "Date Night!", but then, every Tue-Thu-Sat morning is becoming a bleary-eyed, up-too-soon affair.

Interesting development

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos wants to develop new American made rocket engines. This could be a hugely good thing for ULA. NY Times article here

Short but fun walk with K

Kristan came on our walk tonight! She's using her Jazzy J6 Power Chair, while her smaller more maneuverable scooter is being repaired. Runkeeper says we went a whopping 0.5 mi. ;-) walk. We had fun, though.

Numb arm

When I woke up this morning, my right arm was numb, all the way down to the ends of my fingers. Not fun. :-( I'm pretty sure I just slept on it wrong. But it went on for so long (I was so tired it didn't wake me up), it's recovering very slowly...

Sunday update: Finally, all better! When I woke up in the middle of last night, the other arm was numb, but as soon as I moved, it went away in a few minutes. Much better! I could probably avoid this phenomena, if only I could sleep flat on my back without snoring.

Bad start to the week

We're sure starting off the week the wrong way, albeit with a good twist or two. K missed dialysis tonight, feeling beyond rotten and couldn't get going. Naturally, with today being Labor Day, there were no makeup slots available tomorrow. But, when I called back an hour later to confirm we weren't coming, an 8:30am slot had opened up, yay, a bright spot in the darkness. And her caregiver agreed to come two hours early, to help get her there on time, yay, another bright spot.