Update 5 Nov 2025
My health continues to deteriorate. I have not driven my car for several months. My upstairs neighbor does not have a car, so she drives mine. She does occasionally take me places that I need to go. The Toledo (Ohio) Regional Transit Authority (TARTA) also has a service that will pick me up at the apartment and take me back. I have been riding to church and back with an elderly couple. They are only a couple of years older than I am. Sometimes I need the church wheelchair to get in and out of the building. I can still navigate the eight stair steps up to the second-floor apartment. The first floor is below grade, lower than the parking lot. Going down there to the laundry room is a challenge, but I can still make the trip *most* of the time. Sometimes I have asked neighbors to help carry the basket up the steps. I get it down the steps by attaching a dog leash to one handle and sliding it down slowly.
I gave the last of the wardrobe to a local church for their rummage sale. I still have Feodora {Anatomical Doll}, but I am not using her for photography. She is just too heavy to move, and all of her clothes are gone except for the dress and shoes that she is wearing. I no longer shop for groceries, but use WalMart's home delivery service. I get most of my non-food items from Amazon.
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Feodora 1 Dec 2020
More photos on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/noquiexis/) and in Feodora's album (https://dollbarandgrill.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=4)
My grandson (my elder daughter's son) graduates from high school next year. I am wondering if I will even be able to attend the event. Both of my daughters and their families live in Nebraska. I will be 75 in January. My spirits remain high and hopeful, and besides, I know where I am going! :) ;)
:) 8) :)
Update 14 Jan 2026
I just finished my 75th trip around the sun! :oldman:
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From AI Google: "A 75th anniversary is called the Diamond Anniversary, symbolizing the brilliance, strength, and rarity of such a long-lasting milestone, though it's also known as the Diamond Jubilee, a term historically used for monarchs but now applied to major anniversaries, often paired with gold for the 75th year."
I stopped driving my car last July. The woman who lives in the apartment above me could not afford to keep her car, so I kept mine so that she could drive it. She was given a car by the sister of my next-door neighbor, so I sold mine. I get all of my groceries and prescriptions through the Wal Mart+ home delivery service.
I am still dizzy all the time, like I drank too much. I still get the massive dizzy spells that knock me off my feet entirely, but I don't get them as often. Not much else has changed.
:coffee: 8) :coffee: