Monday, November 22, 2010

Hullabaloo

An interesting word that I am sure not many of this latest generation has heard of in recent years.
But to us ‘Baby Boomers’ it meant a TV show that was our MTV of the 1960’s along with Dick Clark’s American Bandstand and Shindig.
For more info copy and paste: wikipedia.org/wiki/Hullabaloo_(TV_series) -

But oddly enough those above reasons are not why I chose that word for tonight’s title.
It was its actual meaning of: ‘a din also uproar’.
I will allow the English majors to diagnose what type of word form it is, since me knowing its distinctive unusual connotation is enough for me to see its versatility.
And so I dusted it off and decided it was about time it came out of the basement or attic or perhaps just our closets of wherever unused words lie dormant and send it into my vocabulary web of controversy.
That’s a mouthful!
But I am more than sure you are intrigued to know where I am going from here, huh?

Last night I had a bit of bad luck health wise again I seemed to have acquired swollen glands but mostly on my left side of my neck and jaw.
And so this woman of needing to know persona logically ‘wanted to know’ what remedies one could find to fix the problem and if this might be another symptom of my MS?
And so I Googled 'Swollen Glands and MS', and ended up in one of those forums online discussions with others who also experienced this.
Many said it was due to their administering of the injections of Copaxone and others were tested for everything from the common flu to Lymphoma, scary!
Of course there is always that thought in anyone’s mind with this problem but I tried to go the sedate cautious route and so I contacted my support people, Shared Solutions, for my Copaxone, but it was Sunday night and so I didn’t get a hold of them until this morning and they said to call my Neuro and I did.
And she got back to me much sooner than I thought with her busy schedule.
We were grocery shopping for Thanksgiving when she called me on my cell in the store.
She disputed the comments of the forum but I said that the support people said that in the adverse reactions section of their PDF file said on page three that 7% reported Lymphadenopathy, swollen glands. She said that she felt that it would be according to what she read swollen glands on the side of the body like under my arm from where I was most recently injected, not in the neck or jaw.
I mentioned I had no fever and that I had, had my flu shot in September.
She said if it still is not better to come in tomorrow for a check up but to continue with the injections.
I said I hope it would be better since I was using aspirin, warm compresses and hot tea, and even hot chicken bouillon for my choices to contend with it.
Although, aspirin and me don’t get along too well since I have a sensitive stomach, but it did help me sleep last night with my warm compress too!
My Doc then said just call one way or another and I thought that was so nice of her.
Of course I agreed. Was this my uproar?

Pleasantly surprised was my other interesting happening of the day.
Around four thirty this afternoon I received a phone call.
But to my astonishment it was from the other side of the world!
One of my Facebook friends from all places called me from New Zealand! (11:30 A.M tomorrow there, when she called if you were wondering)
Why in the world would someone with a life and so far away from my one boring one contact me from a landline?
Apparently, she just had gotten a new international phone line and was contacting a few of us, her Facebook friends.
That was so nice to be included in that, but also totally unexpected, she did tell me how much she enjoys these Blogs, which I did of course appreciate, just sooo amazingly decent and kind of her. Still incredulous I do believe that is the farthest long distance call I have ever received!

This was my DIN!

On that tidbit of wow I will wish you all a very happy good night and to all count those blessings and be sure to share those overages and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, OK?

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