Lester Losing Speed

Hurricane Lester has diminished to a Tropical Storm and has also moved to a path further north of the islands. All the hurricane watches have been cancelled. There was no extra wind today, in fact Lester is blocking the tradewinds so it has been still and muggy. Yuck!

Channel 2 had updates on Lester every hour, starting at 6 am. Mom was very focused on the updates. I think it helped make her less anxious as they talked about it moving farther away and losing speed. (She stopped asking me whether we had enough food and water!) Not sure how she would have handled it if Lester maintained the previous predicted path or veered towards O'ahu.

Mom is still having problems with her blood pressure. I put all the measurements I have taken in to a chart and color coded it to get a clearer idea of what's happening. I made 9 blood pressure measurements today. All except one diastolic measurement was still low; 5 systolic were prehypertension and each of those had a hypotension diastolic measurement. Not sure what it means when the systolic is prehypertension and the diastolic is hypotension, but she had no dizzy spells like yesterday.

Shiro doesn't like to be bothered when he's sleeping!