Saturday, June 25, 2011

Ideas, incidentals, and insignificant...

To have any ideas about anything is to have thoughts or dreams, simple enough.
But incidentals are only something ‘minor’, secondary, a subsidiary, supplementary, accompanying or an attendant.
While anything insignificant is unimportant, irrelevant, not important, of no consequence, immaterial, inconsequential, not worth mentioning, trivial and here we go again ‘minor’ would you believe?
Overlaps in our English word meanings; no wonder anyone trying to learn what we know about in our American English vocabulary would or could throw in the towel during that process, and fast in all the confusion!

How many of you enjoyed your weekend so far?
I do know that we are only halfway through it, that’s why I asked, so far?
Mine has been an up down sort of happening with my neck and head not behaving much at all.

Last night, or I should say in the wee hours of the morning Hubby said it was around three A.M.; I let out a horrible shriek of pain!
Between my neck and my head I truly thought that something horrendous was happening.
I had tried those iced packs again and it was a no go for that help, and then I tried just cool moist washcloths with a dip of alcohol, rubbing that is, on them across my far-head and neck, my netty-pot was next, since I thought that my sinuses too were acting up, and all this was done before I had tried to get back to sleep and let out that chilling screech from the bathroom.
Since I have high blood pressure medications there are no sinus medications that I found that would help me or that wouldn’t interact with all my other medications and so non invasive ways to help myself is what I try diligently to do.
But no it was not my sinuses it is my neck and my head which had that definitely worrisome headache that wakes you from a deep, deep sleep and you know in your heart and soul that this is not at all normal. The reasoning is that it puts me into a numbing situation that scares the heck out of me!
Trying to lie down I do have a cervical pillow that my orthopedic physician recommended years ago when first diagnosed from one of my many MRI’s with the cervical stenosis on it, but I have been using it as a lumbar pillow and so I did switch and put my normal pillows for that use and took back the neck one for my neck, got that?
I also have a soft collar that they told me to wear when I was diagnosed, that doc said to wear it whenever it acted up, but wouldn’t you just know it that I have gotten so damn fat it is too small now!
Hubby was great and wanted to know how to help me, but I really had no idea what either of us could do. And I told him that I already tried everything I could think of short of going to the hospital on a weekend emergency room. Honestly I thought it was overkill anyway, but it has been in my recent history when I have called those 24/7 ‘ask-a nurse’ medical personnel with the local hospitals that is usually their response to my questions or call my doctor, now I ask you is that helpful, really?
I know they can’t prescribe but gosh they know more medical stuff than I do and should have some other ideas up their sleeves to try, wouldn’t you think?
Any-who, the day was not a total waste since Hubby and I did get that curbside chair find finished, and yes he did end up painting it with a new product from Rust-oleum a spray for wood, done in the garage, they have come out with an amazing array of new products you should check them out and yes I did do the actual cutting of the fabric and stapling of it onto the wood and so I was helpful too! And although we bought a new foam pad we both agreed that the original wasn’t that bad after all and so Hubby threw into the slop sink in the garage in Lysol and after two days it was good to go and is under the new fabric.

So would you like to see it? I can’t hear you and so I will take that as a yes…here it is from its humble beginnings to finis!




On this little happier note of not totally wasting the weekend and a feeling of accomplishment… let me be the first to wish you all a very happy good night and to ask you to kindly to count your blessings and to share all those overages and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear?

PS I suppose you might be wondering what my mysterious secret I hinted at from last night was, hmm? Crazy gal that I am… I had my anniversary date mixed up, actually tonight is the third anniversary of this blog, how embarrassing! Another BIG OOPS from the gal who’s middle name is that!

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