Thursday, January 8, 2009

Weird or peculiar is how it seemed today, and oh so ironic

You know what I was referring to is that the President Elect Obama had a press conference today at 11:15 A.M. hosted by a college in Fairfax Virginia, and as he went on and on about how bad things were getting and reiterated how they will be getting so much worse before they get any better the house across the street, just slightly earlier in the morning, had appeared to be receiving a formal notice, a deputy had stepped out of her patrol car with what appeared to be official looking papers of eviction, for the pending foreclosure. (The other neighbors had told us.)
Next the water company came and shut off the water while the renters in the home left with their first load of possessions that they had removed from the home.
Trips went on like that pretty much most of the day.

Sadly this has been going on more than likely all over the country, but it was our first visual so close, in your face experience, and oddly the sensation was numbing, almost like a shocking experience or injury would cause; therefore by the grace of God go I.
There was no feeling of joy for the sorrows of these others that we don’t even know, but in the family of humanity it was heartbreaking; not unlike a death or some other loss.
Unfortunately, when you hear about it on TV or see it in a movie it is not as real.
So to all those people in that horrible predicament please know that no one in their right heart or mind wishes them ill, and my own prayers are with them and hope that the so-called inevitable will not occur.

New topic I finally got through to the health department to set up a financial report that they do every six months to see proportionately how you can afford to pay for their services; it’s percentages of whatever your ability is.
They also allowed me to make an appointment to be seen for something that has concerned me for a week.
You see both my parents and my older brother all died from strokes.
And I already have high blood pressure and high cholesterol that are fine now as long as I take my medicine.
So when I broke out into a cold sweat and nearly passed out last week while shopping my film archive in my mind of my Mom’s TIA’s was accessed from the deep caverns of my brain and it played in Technicolor, since I had been there for nearly each one.
She had, had at least a half a dozen in the two years prior to her major stroke that she died from in only eleven and half hours.
TIA’s for those of you who are not familiar with the term are Transient ischemic attacks.
Still don’t know, then here is a text book definition by Wikipedia: A transient ischemic attack (TIA, often colloquially referred to as “mini stroke”) is caused by the changes in the blood supply to a particular area of the brain, resulting in brief neurologic dysfunction that persists, by definition, for less than 24 hours; if symptoms persist then it is categorized as a stroke.

A TIA can be a warning or a precursor to an impending stroke.

When my parents died way back in the 1980’s they weren’t able to check the carotid arteries like they can today; as simple as listening at the neck with the stethoscope for a sound change for clots I presume. If the bad noise is heard then they can surgically strip the problem out extending your life.

Anyway, tomorrow in the late morning they will do our bi-yearly financial assessment, and after lunch they will be giving me my check up.

Good night to all and to all stay healthy!

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