Day 48 - A great Day

BC (Before Cancer) I seldom slept more than 7 hours a night. But now the day after chemo I sleep about 18 hours, and it gets less each day/night until I sleep 7 hours the night before chemo. I think I will start a log and see how much of my life is spent sleeping because of chemo.

This morning I felt great, and was zooming all around most of the day.
First was onto the roof to change my solar panel mount to accept another panel.
Beetle started up perfect.

Then to do a blood test, to know what needs to change with the chemo tomorrow. I am getting poked with needles twice a week, every week. I hope my veins hold up.

Then I went to get one of my suspect solar batteries checked at a battery store. The battery checked out fine, but getting old. The battery store turned out to do solar installations. They use very good equipment, and therefore are very expensive. Of course they only do off grid installations because they ARE a battery shop. :-)
They have a super great big box. (Note: birthday is in April) It is a 5KW pure sign wave inverter, and an MPPT solar charge controller, and a power grid UPS, and a 15 amp battery charger, and it chooses between solar or the power grid depending on the amount of sunlight. Only R18,000. Shriek. But, very nice.
They also have some very good batteries for solar systems. I use cheap car batteries, that don't last long. Most car batteries are good for a year. The best solar deep cycle AGM batteries last 6 - 10 years. The good batteries they sell are about R3300. Shriek again. My cheap car batteries are R700 each.
Then to the drove Chinese mall. Last year I shopped lots for the best buy in solar panels, and ended up with a 150 watt from the Chinese mall. I bought another one today. With my new modification to my solar panel mounts, it took me 15 minutes to mount the new panel. The wiring hook up still needs to be done.

Then to the local fresh food place. I bought everything for my health salads.  I drove home, and made a HUGE salad, and packed up 3 Tupperware for the next few days. After chemo I don't eat very well. Now all is prepared in advance.


 Tomorrow morning before chemo,  I want to go buy an amp meter to tell the current from the panels, then hook up the new panel.
 I will take a taxi to the chemo, and my friend will collect me after and take me home.

A good day. :-)
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