Monday, September 30, 2013

Here I sit with my cooling vest on in my home...




The room I am in, the thermostat is stating that it is 86 degrees Fahrenheit, slightly warmer than the pool temperature I mentioned was just right for me, days ago. As I mentioned I put my cooling vest on about an hour ago after I told Hubby that the house felt rather warm to me, the thermostat at the time read 84 degrees on the inside read, outside it is ninety!



I had thought the central air unit was making funny noises just yesterday, and had mentioned it to Hubby, but he did not hear what I was hearing and dismissed it… hmm.

Even earlier he couldn’t hear the discord I heard, but I suggested he check the outside unit just the same.

He came in and said that I should put my cooling vest on that one of the blades was broken in the unit, but he felt he could fix it!

All these years it has been a rare occasion when we have had to call a repairman/person.



And so here I sit at this techno marvel writing with my vest on, iced club soda within reach, and the ceiling fan in two rooms plugging away and my ice packs for my neck and head nearby, hard to hold while writing and I am surprisingly able to manage knowing that all should be better sooner rather than later…

Although, I already, after Hubby got the model number and serial number off of the unit I did Google the company, Ruud, to see if they have a parts department and had our part if Hubby could not repair it.

They do and since it is over their cut-off price of $150 it would be free shipping, a good and bad thing I suppose, all in the way you look at it, hmm?



Fortunately, I had been saving these last two months for our eventual new car and have the money set aside, but here goes that emergency again!



I just put my squishy/soft iced pack on my neck, it is in a towel, and yes, I do have those silly scarves that swell when wet, but foolishly I put the two that I have in the freezer and they are as hard as a rock or more like frozen sausages! My thought was then they would be ready for the next time; little did I know that they don’t work like that. Each time you have to soak them in icy cold water.



Moving on to more important stuff… our world!



Hey folks the shut down looks imminent and damn it I am really sorry for that!

I wish there was more we could all do, any ideas?

Besides not voting in those goons for another term!  http://www.gop.gov/republicans



This just in: Hubby has replaced the damaged part that he has repaired and he is starting up the air-conditioner as I write; it will be moments till we know if it is working… hold onto your seats folks! 

Did you know that Hubby worked as an apprentice plumber while going to the Academy of Aeronautics at La Guardia? Well he did; could be why we haven’t had to call for help, barely ever.


IT APPEARS TO HAVE WORKED, YAY!!!!!



Well, I suppose I need to disrobe, get your minds out of the gutter, that is from my vest and put its cold packs back in the freezer with my neck and head cold packs, issue resolved! Maybe Hubby would be willing to go to Washington D.C. to resolve that broken issue too?



Too bad it doesn’t work that way!



On that note of how we handle our own personal issues, allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night, and pray that they in congress get their acts together before midnight, and kindly count all your blessings and share those overages with you know who and we will too!



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



Remember this is how we let them know what we think: http://www.gop.gov/republicans

Sunday, September 29, 2013

It's not over till the fat lady sings!



We are facing the eleventh hour with a government shutdown looming large!
Although, it may not be as absolute as we may all think…?
Okay, it is pretty much definite, but not for as long as we may think, is a better way to state it.

The fifth most significant question and answer is in this article that I read earlier today:

“5. Will you notice a government shutdown?

Yes, particularly if it lasts a few days or more. If you're one of the 800,000 federal workers who are deemed as non-essential, you will be directly affected immediately and not report to work. But the implications go well beyond Washington. If you're applying for a passport or visa, you will likely be out of luck. First-time home buyers looking for a mortgage will be delayed because the Federal Housing Administration will be closed. And the 401 national parks will be off-limits starting Tuesday morning. The biggest fear for hundreds of thousands of federal workers - and members of the military - will be if they receive back pay. In the last shutdown nearly two decades ago, workers received lost wages. That's not guaranteed this time. And why everyone should care: a shutdown will cost, not save, taxpayers' money. A study from the Office of Management and Budget puts the overall economic price tag for a shutdown around $2 billion.”   

 From ABC News

The title reference is my reasoning for everything and I have not been singing too much these days! I guess a blessing in its own right.
I know no time to make light of this very important subject that is as of right now and no one seems to be able to stop this run away train!
No harm in trying to notify the parties responsible for all our worries and fears: http://www.gop.gov/republicans

I did, as you all know.

A lot of good that did, but at least I tried.

But I still believe all us national constituents of these fine United States of America we must be heard!

United we stand divided we fall… “The phrase has been attributed to Aesop, both directly in his fable The Four Oxen and the Lion and indirectly in The Bundle of Sticks.
The first attributed use in modern times is to John Dickinson in his revolutionary war song The Liberty Song. In the song, first published in the Boston Gazette in July 1768, he wrote: “Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all! By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall!””
Thanks to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_we_stand,_divided_we_fall

Something's never get old...

 My conclusion is that somehow ‘we’ Americans will once again rise above this adversity and be able to move on within days of this horrible dilemma put upon us again and we will survive as we have before with so many other things in life, repeat after me, “USA STRONG, USA STRONG, USA STRONG!”
  
http://www.gop.gov/republicans NOW CONTACT THESE A--HOLES and let them know that they have no right to do this to us!

Anyone here, watch Meet the Press today, and see the Senator from Texas, Ted Cruz, also fan of Dr. Seuss, but who isn't really.... anyway, argue with David Gregory about the poll taken that stated that 56% of all Americans are in favor of the Affordable Care Act, and Cruz insisted he was wrong? Am I the only one who knows this guy is not quite right in his thinking, and that is putting it nicely…? Your silence tells me that once again I am not alone in this thought.

Any-who…

On that note of not just standing/sitting here, but doing something mode… allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night and ask you to kindly count all your blessings and share those overages with you know who and we will too!

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

Saturday, September 28, 2013

Oh puleez....




The argument/debate for affordable medical care insurance, Obamacare, goes on… and on, the Republicans are trying hard to prevent it from going forward with a not too dissimilar form of blackmail, in my opinion, with not allowing the federal government to continue business as usual, by shutting it down if the President won’t stop the plan for the affordable care act from going forward!

 The stalemate is causing losses for many different agencies if they end up not being able to work or collect paychecks, due to delays, including military etc… even federal buildings will have to be shutdown due to the furlough of their employees. It’s an enormous frightening MESS!

I sent the below message earlier today to Tom Rooney our GOP representative for our 17th district in Florida, ours, on his Facebook page.

“Sent 9/28/13
Please stop being so heartless and think about your constituents who are average people who need you to be working for us! We need appropriately priced health insurance and this information reliably today has made me realize, we need you on all our sides to get us what we need not to harm us!


My reaction to this being a respite from having to pay so much is for just having the bad judgment of getting Multiple Sclerosis!

 I pay more now for my pre-existing insurance premiums with ridiculous deductibles and since by the time this goes into effect, for me in January, since my now federal insurance will be defunct on 12-31-13. I will be only a year and half from Medicare, which my husband has had for years, which is a wonderful coverage and bargain in comparison! He is an injured deputy. Especially, with us falling into their criteria nicely with all those tax breaks and subsidies! I should be saving a couple of hundred a month in premiums I hope anyway! Perhaps we could replace our 18 year old washer and dryer the next time they break or replace our gas guzzling car that is over 12 years old, get it? Could use a break really! Please honestly help us! No matter what, you will have insurance, but we won't!
And I would hate to be someone who has to decide to pay for my medication or eat or anything like paying to stay in our home, etc.... can't you relate? It seems as if you cannot!”

And the debate goes on all over the Facebook pages about the cost to us consumers of healthcare, being ridiculously high, but no one as of yet that I read has any other solutions just reasons why it won’t work!

Frustration, life is hard enough, but we should all try to unite and come up with ideas and compromise GUYS!

This day has been exhausting with this conversation going around and around but not really anywhere!

Moving on…

Our pool is sparkling once again, but sadly it was too cold for me to go into today! 24 degrees Celsius or approximately 75 degrees Fahrenheit, which is about ten degrees too spas-mastic for my delicate built in thermostat.

And so it was a no go… who knows what tomorrow will bring?

 On these so many notes of all emotions, allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night and ask all of you to kindly count your blessings and share all your overages with you know who and we will too!

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

Friday, September 27, 2013

Old dog new trick, comfort kiddy food and minor ill health turn around...



Dear sweet Skipper was nine years old last March.

And years ago he had been taken as a pup to puppy training classes.

That he and I attended up until Hurricane Charley destroyed our county, our home as well as the building used for his classes.

It was a fun one, not discipline, just puppies playing with puppies and going through an agility course and learning little fun things, happy puppy things.

Skipper showed quite a bit of potential on the agility track, he walked through fencing, climbed up ramps and slid down, jumped, tunneled through a tube all with a happy go lucky air about him and no fear at all!

His intelligence was quite impressive to me.

That was then and this is now.

Fast forward nine years and not doing more than loving, feeding him and caring for him as all doggy parents do and him not doing too many tricks anymore, although, he loves us back unconditionally too. And when I have been bed ridden he always takes his sentinel lay down position on the bed right next to me.

He understands when I say go get Daddy/Hubby and the word 'no', when barking more than necessary and stay and sit, you know the usual, he used to dance with me, but since I no longer do he doesn’t either.

And when he instinctively hears the backyard birds make their fearful chirps he seems to know that a predator is out there and jumps on the back door to chase the usual one, a hawk away!



One trick we both, Hubby and I have been trying to teach him recently is to bring us his bowls when they are empty to be refilled, they are both made of tough material that is unbreakable and fairly light enough for him to carry.

A couple of times I caught him in the act of playing with the empty bowl and would say pick it up and bring it to Daddy. And he would pick it up and not go direct to Hubby but bring it on to the couch. I suppose he knows Hubby has a bad back and bending is not that easy for him and so we say thank you and have felt that was a very nice little trick for him to do that way when asked.

Well, two days ago his bowl was empty again, by the way, he only eats dry dog food and unbeknownst to both of us, Hubby and I, Skipper’s bowl was empty, until he picked it up, without being told and just brought it right onto the couch! How do you like those apples, hmm? He is nine now, an old dog by many standards, but has learned that trick we just tried a few times before; he’s brilliant in our book!



We never talked down to any of our kids of either variety, two footed or four…we always talk to them like we would anybody else, maybe, just maybe that’s why some times things just work or not? Who knows…?



Moving on…


Today I almost didn’t go to the gym/rehab due to a really sore throat and a low grade fever, but I got ready anyway and showered as always before, warms the muscles. Any-who, I sat for a while thinking I feel horrid and I did. I was on my second throat lozenge and my temp’s last reading was just short of 100 degrees. Relaxed a while and said oh well, even posted my feelings, which I did delete later, since within a half an hour I was fine again? How odd, but nice.

I was also thrilled with my glucose fasting reading of just 79 this morning! I take a test about once or twice a week since I was diagnosed with type 2 Diabetes although not put on meds just told to watch my diet and the fact that I am exercising is a plus too! My glucose on all other previous occasions had been over 100, which is not good for fasting.



After the gym/rehab we again had lunch at the Cultural Center and today I had black bean soup that was scrumptious and a small salad but Hubby went for the meal of roast pork with two sides, with both our own beverages, his water of the tap variety and mine, club soda of the generic one, ha!



And so when it was time for dinner we for some reason, in my case that is, were not that hungry and Hubby suggested something we had not had for quite some time, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches!

The peanut butter we had was lower fat but not flavor and the crunchy variety, and the grape jelly was no sugar added variety, but I jazzed mine up with banana too! A tall glass of skim milk and I was in nostalgia heaven!

Hubby had coffee, how dare he! LOL!



On that note of some notes of high and the low kind, allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night and ask you to kindly count all your blessings and share those overages with you know who and we will too!



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

Thursday, September 26, 2013

"Good fences make good neighbors." Robert Frost



Being not the gorgeous thing that I used to be, well there was a small window with that… really! Periodically, I was something of a person who was not that hard on the eyes or so I was told, … and I did model for stores from the age of seven year’s old till I was twenty-one for Sterns, Ohrbach’s and Lord and Taylor’s, stopping only due to being married and expecting our first son, and then again was somewhat a spoke’s model in my early forties while working in promotion during bike week in Daytona, all decked out in my black leather mini skirt and jacket, and me a mother of teenagers by then… Any-who… I do understand what beauty is in the eye of the beholder and I also understand what is considered not quite so lovely to too many too, ya know?


UNFAIR!

Appearance means so darn much in life and sadly it determines people’s opinions of you, before they really know who you are, that is the inner you!



And so in these last several years as my body has grown enormous, even in spite of my efforts to change it, and really needing all the good exercise one should have… and us with our own pool in our own backyard.

Besides having to fight with the heat taking our swimming pools temperature to an unhealthy height for me with my MS heat sensitivity I was also threatened with exposure on the one side of our yard where we still have a chain link fence, albeit with Allamandas and Mexican Petunias, not to mention Cape honeysuckle and our grapevine jutting out into the yard from its arbor…but still…

You see, the other side of our yard has a white stockade six foot fence along the front and on the far side, although down to the water on the side still has the old chain link with Bougainvillea intertwined on it with other vegetation on its other side due to that being an empty lot on that side. The home that was there for decades was destroyed by Hurricane Charley and it was its roof that had gone through our guest-room window and caused all our damage.

And so no neighbors there.

We do have neighbors on the one with yellow Allamandas and purple Mexican Petunias, not to mention red Cape honeysuckle and our grapevine and I almost forgot the Plumbagos (bluish) too all on that chain link fence and of course the canal side has none at all.

We do have bamboo planted at the end of the pool flanked with white Mandevillas for more privacy.

And so I was paranoid in this shape and condition to utilize the pool and me a certified Aquacize instructor; shame on me!

But now with the cooling rains and the terrific privacy fence that Hubby has made to preserve my dignity until I am not such a BIG sight for sore eyes or is that eyesore? Now that gives that expression a whole new spin, hmm?

I may be able to try to stick my tootsies in by the weekend!

Pool needs a good cleaning due to the torrential rains and but the chlorine has been amped up as I speak/write here, and according to all weather reports it will be still very warm here and finally sunny too, but the pool water is rain cooled…and so perhaps… 



Here’s Hubby’s handy work from cedar scraps:
  


It is four feet tall, the side ones are six and this one should protect me from scrutiny, since I am only five foot one and will be lower than the fence anyway…rolling around...

If for any spectacular reason I grow smaller, width –wise that is than I suggested  that the sections could be used to replace the chain link sections, although, with all the vegetation growing around or through it, it could prove difficult to do… oh well…



On that note of why good fences make good neighbors, allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night and ask you to kindly count all your blessings and share all your overages with you know who and we will too!



And next time please be here or be square.



PS and yes, I will still be going to the gym/rehab on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays…too! The pool is for when I can have all the necessary components just in the right alignment…!


Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Assumptions and caring too much...



When we have compassion, at times, it can be misconstrued as interfering; because the truly compassionate person always wants to intervene when they see something wrong.

Is that caring too much?
Is there such a thing?
Many people are too afraid of getting involved and that seems to be, at times, to me, sadly the majority.
And so when someone honestly wants to help why should they be told to think about it?
It is a real conundrum in life that has the possibilities of going either way?
I am talking about ordinary people who do extraordinary things out of concern, not police or fire fighters or EMS… in this state we do have the law protecting people who act in the best interest of others, the Good Samaritan Law, and I do believe it to be a national law: 

Question: Do all states have "Good Samaritan" laws?
Answer: Basically, the answer is yes. However, it's not that simple.
Good Samaritan laws protect caregivers from prosecution for medical mistakes, as long as the caregivers are acting in a voluntary manner without any expectation of reward (like the good Samaritan from the Bible story). Caregivers can't make gross medical errors, but instead are protected from liability for "reasonable" mistakes. Of course, defining "reasonable" is difficult. Victims tend to believe all medical mistakes are unreasonable.”
For more information: http://firstaid.about.com/od/medicallegal/f/07_good_sam_law.htm
And so we all have to be cautioned in giving and taking and receiving information and specific help from people without credentials in the field, no matter how well intentioned they are; although, at times we have no choice.

With all these informational highways we can BING or GOOGLE or ASK or whatever all day long to get as many opinions/answers on topics as we like and the dissemination of what is true or right for us can also be infinite in all its value. So what is one to do? Find trusted sites with reputations in the field of interest, the Mayo Clinic, Cleveland Clinic, etc. for medical inquiries, for nutrition Joy Bauer’s site, who is a noted nutritionist and a contributor to the Today show has a site available and so do many other legitimate illness sites.
Just for starters being helpful and an interested party in life is a very wonderful thing.
And I say that with the utmost love of all who do that sort of thing, help without being asked.
Why to me, these days, with Hubby pushing my wheelchair the smallest thing as of someone opening a door for us is just a tremendous gift of generosity, since so many doors are not automatic these days. I thank each and everyone who does this kind adaptation of good manners of what we were all taught as children. I used to do it for people too; even being a woman it is NOT just for men to be polite. You see someone with packages, elderly, pregnant, men or women, not only the disabled I used to do the door opening thingy. Now I call men/boys ‘gentlemen’ and women/girls, ‘gentlewomen’. And that usually brings a smile to their faces and of course I also give out a righteous “thank you”! Or say “it is nice to see chivalry is not dead” and smile with my “thank you”.
Little things mean more than you know and appreciation should be said then and there.

Moving on…
Today we did go back to the gym/rehab and I did complete all my routines/reps on all of the equipment.
Although, when we came in, my level, perhaps my hydration or glucose levels were low and so I hydrated. I also keep a Clementine in my purse just in case.  I was dizzier than I had been and a bit nauseated.
It was cool enough outside to not wear my cooling vest in, it had been rain cooled outside into the seventies… but I brought the vest in for the exercising and it did help.

From there we went to Sonny’s for lunch with a 10% off coupon and then to Bed, Bath and Beyond for a battery powered, ‘As seen on TV’ floor sweeper with our 20% off coupon that every one gets from them. Hubby wanted something lightweight like the old Dust buster, our vacuum is so cumbersome, although this new one has a stick component, so there is no need to bend for quick clean ups on our tile floors, only the one bedroom, the guest-room, still has carpet and this thing works on that too.

On that note of a bit of normalcy, allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night and ask you to kindly count all your blessings and share all your overages with you know who and we have too!

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

Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Rain, flooding, fruit trees, flowers and such...



Weather!

Sadly when we get rain, we get more than our normal share; inches fall hourly.

People are shut into their homes in our county, of Charlotte, while in Punta Gorda due to being surrounded by water and not having waterfront property! But we have not had that problem fortunately, here in Port Charlotte, where we live on our saltwater canal, on the Elkam waterway, five minutes from Charlotte Harbor by our boat, ironically.

You see, we have city sewer systems and drains that are maintained as long as lawn grass clippings don’t clog them up; our street is free and clear of rain flow!



And yes, fresh rain water merges with our saltwater in those canals, but what else can it do?

I know those who are upset with the fresh water being sent down the Caloosehatchee River in Fort Myers to prevent the overflow of Lake Okeechobee drowning out the residents and residences, more than 35K strong…with flooding there, seem not to recall all these heavy rain storms that we have, in this our rainy season, from June first until November 30th, each and every year! Barring hurricanes we get this type of rain without realizing it half the time, when spread out over the many months, that is unless it causes havoc like it is in some of the further south counties here in southwest Florida!  
 And in Punta Gorda, but sadly it always floods there with heavy rain due to the runoff drains not being right for years!

The problem though, I must admit is the more than usual rain, inches more, in some areas more than twenty inches than usual, nothing to make light of…

But at least no HURRICANES; so far! Shush self, the turmoil gods may be reading/listening to this…

The question is what difference does it make with heavy rain causing the turmoil in the Gulf or the release of fresh water from Lake O?

It always seems to recover.

Maybe I’m just not getting it; I suppose it is the magnitude and force of the streaming of the fresh water?



This just in: east of I75 the flooding is going into homes in Charlotte and Lee counties!

(The news is on in the other room)

That’s farm country, and what happens is too much rain for crops is just as bad as too little, for veggies including fruit trees, even flowers, it drowns them; got that?

And the farm animals have no dry land to stand on and are in danger of drowning or being harmed by water moccasins, fish, alive and dead, and floating garbage and sewage from those who still have septic tanks, yep friends, not a pretty picture!

Children have to be kept out of the filthy water, no wading in puddles, too dangerous!

I understand they can’t even flush their toilets due to the high water levels backing up their septic tanks.



We are under a flood warning; have been all day… but thankfully even with a very low elevation, of nine feet, unless there is a Tsunami or storm surge warning, we stay, the water does recede according to the tides. After all, it has the entire harbor and Gulf of Mexico to empty into. Of course we have always have had to and still do have flood insurance to go along with hurricane and fire and theft and sinkhole. And so if we see it is coming up to our home due to too much rain it will be more than likely in the front of our home and due to clogged drains! But nothing so far!



Sorry for the nasty picture I am painting of our beautiful paradise, hmm?

Well, thankfully all this rain will be gone by the weekend, we are told, slightly diminishing each day, as it heads towards Saturday and it sure keeps our lawns green!

Odd, unless the water is moving swiftly, the lawns only do better with the extra wetness and grow very fast, much to Hubby’s chagrin.



An interesting fact, a localism that I heard years ago here… “The best part of the weather in Florida is that if you’re not happy with it now, wait a while and it will turn into something you like better!” On that snippet of a glance into our day’s weather, allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night and ask you to kindly count all your blessings and share all those overages with you know who and we will too!



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



My personal update: I am doing better with pain twinges further apart, a part of what I don’t know! Bud, dump bum!

Monday, September 23, 2013

True confession...



The need to come clean, fess up; tell it as it is, being honest… is one thing that is in my character makeup.

Today I sat out, not literally, since the sitting thingy is why I sat it out…no can do for too long, any-who, I did NOT go to the gym/rehab for my exercise program today.

It was like this… if I did try to sit in the wheelchair I would have been definitely uncomfortable and in a lot of pain and so lying down was the position of the day.



I must admit that I am a wee bit better than I was, but every time I try a move, like a zig or a zag in either direction I have the cringe factor of toothache pain or sharpness as if a two by four is smashing against my lower back, with that awful sensation on my lower extremities, moving has been difficult, and certain motions starts it all once again, and today it wasn’t just emanating from my lower back and right leg, oh no, it was from my waste down on both sides, even to my toes, mostly on the right sided toes. Some may think a slipped or herniated disc, which in my case is possible since I do have Spondylosis too, but it comes and goes and I don’t think that would.



Guilt plays a big part in my explaining myself, like a kid, doing something wrong, ya know?

Of course I know that I did nothing wrong, but I so want to do the exercise program and I will Wednesday and Friday on my other two days of the week that is if I am all better with this particular issue… Even my neuro said I should take a week off if I have this situation and to always protect my neck and back, rather vague instructions when you are pushing and pulling on equipment, hmm?



And of course my other reason for feeling guilty is because I promised to not go here again, but heck this is my daily life!



My limit has been reached, sadly, again for this upright positioning and so I will have to close for tonight and get back into my comfy position and I just want to thank you all for being there/here…



On that TMI once again, allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night and ask you to kindly count all your blessings and share all those overages with you know who and we will too!



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



PS The rain is here for the next few days, many inches are predicted to be added to the already many we have had and roads are flooding, but not right here. I hope that our near neighbors don’t have too much damage!


PSS Do you know something? MS SUCKS! Well it does, so there! (I am sticking my adult tongue out at all of you once again!) Ah to be so childlike! HA!

Sunday, September 22, 2013

ENOUGH ALREADY!



Things can be redundant, superfluous, outmoded, disused, surplus, unneeded, unnecessary, uncalled-for…

And so I will not continue to tell my tale of woes of how ms sucks, tonight anyway!

Since by now most of you who don’t have it or know someone personally with it, have been schooled, and I am sorry for that at times, but not always…ha!



All of our lives go on no matter what our lot in life may be, hmm?

So tonight I will just mention that sitting here is not physically easy, but I want to so badly to do this that I am gritting my teeth in pain, as I write, okay?



ENOUGH ALREADY!



You think I can’t hear you, but YES I can! In my way too sensitive brain, ha, mind?



No one likes a cry-baby, when not an actual crying baby, got that? Sure you do.

Besides babies are quieted easier than most adults who don’t know when to stop are…



During this blue period in my life, not Picasso’s, meaning painfully ill therefore blue/sad time, in my case, although I did hear that ‘blue’ is now the BIG Color for this year, personally my favorite, with emerald being last year’s choice, can't take the fashion mindset out of the fashion gal...Any-who, I have had time to think, yep the gal with too much time on her hands has had more time to think, who woulda thunk it, hmm?



And now I have come to an interesting conclusion on remedies for pain… what does one do, when exercise that should kick in those endorphins and meditation and Lamaze and all non-medicated ideas don’t work? And the only tricks doctors have up their sleeves are heavy duty narcotics and IV steroids etc.?



A light bulb goes up, i.e above your/my head, like in a cartoon?

Now I am a gal that was pretty worldly, having traveled quite a bit, even to Europe without Mom and Dad and college in the BIG city, New York, no parents there either, ha that is and I had been offered Weed, Dope, Grass, ganja, giggle weed, Aunt Mary, Mary Jane, chronic, rego, wacky tobacky, bud, grass, pot, herb, trees, indo ... to name a few, PS Hubby was a cop…ya hear things, ya know?



My go to cop-out for not being one of the many during the 1960’s was, sticking to my minority righteous thinking, ha, I would say to any offerings, “no thank you I smoke cigarettes that is bad enough!”

And to this day I have NOT had a joint of the smoking variety, ya know?

Even with today twenty of our United States are allowing it for medical use and a few for even just for the heck of it… http://medicalmarijuana.procon.org/view.resource.php?resourceID=000881



I even quit smoking cigarettes on July 11. 2006, and for that I am very proud…

But anyone who has stopped that nasty disgusting unhealthy addictive habit will be the first to tell you that they still get that urge occasionally to take a puff… Even in the early days I did too… but not lately.



You see marijuana can be cooked into brownies, nothing new there, or smoked, as in a joint, and I am sure they even might be working on it in a pill form too… and it has been said that it helps with Chemo’s bad side effects, and the eye pressure from Glaucoma, and for the pain with Multiple Sclerosis and has proven to be helpful in so many other ailments in controlled at home settings…ha!



There is a law firm in Orlando, Florida, Morgan and Morgan, their motto is FOR THE PEOPLE that has started a petition, http://www.unitedforcare.org/petition to have it put on the ballot to be voted on here to help all of us who have this painful issue or other medical issues, and well, I have signed the petition and so did Hubby, the retired cop, and me the goody, goody two shoes…since I have never ever been a sheep before, so it does feel odd now that I have committed to this for my own personal use eventually… it is a form of hope for some of us who need help, really.



So please don’t judge us unless you have walked in our shoes… or rolled in our wheelchairs etc…

We must not be made to feel BAD a choice is a choice that sometimes IS for the greater good…


With all the killings all over the world, just this weekend alone, there are much more important things to think about and we are, with this issue, just a blip in the time continuum and so I do believe that should be understood in the processes of how this world has changed in so many horrific, and some very wonderful ways too… and perhaps some day I will dedicate an entire blog to the good in the world as well, because we all know it is there, but not publicized as often as it should be.



See I have not been too concise with my medical issues, albeit grazing over; okay specifically discussing the necessity to have alternatives for care?



That was my reasoning for all my blatant postings on Facebook today and the need to be heard once again on this venue.



I know that you all understand and that none of you are too judgmental, correct?



On that note of too much note, allow me to be the very first to wish all of you northern hemisphere people a very happy first day of FALL, for here in Paradise we don’t have that season… oh and also allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night and ask you to kindly count all your blessings and share all your overages with you know who and we will too!



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



PS Hopefully I will be able to wrap my head around something different topic-wise by tomorrow… seriously, I will try!

Saturday, September 21, 2013

MS SUCKS 3



And that says it all!

Talk at you tomorrow; I hope.

Hubby is posting this due to my body malfunctioning.

Love to all.

Good night.

Friday, September 20, 2013

MS SUCKS 2 or So it's like this...



I have Multiple sclerosis and it sure does SUCK, but what else is one to do?
Nothing?
Nah, I have a life that; should be WE have a life… that is Hubby and I.
And so I got ready within the usual time allotment to go to the gym/rehab for what’s good for me, exercise… and I am able to complete all of that stuff, totaling fifteen minutes on the arm cycle, seven and half in each direction, on the total gym, my two sets of fifty, and last but not least pulling down of the weight bar, thirty in each direction and done!…

Why not…We grab a small bite at the Cultural Center, Hubby has the Haddock with two sides, for would you believe only $5.95, and me with a half of a seafood salad sandwich and a cup of New England clam chowder, for a mere $4.95 with our own beverages…In a normal, well not so ‘normal’ going about our business day, checking the place out, their trash or treasure shops etc… and just before we were about to leave, now remember
Hubby was pushing me around in my wheelchair the whole time, when my right leg starts doing it again! 

Achy tooth like pain, within the form of a limb, with electrical impulses, numbies, and not in just one location the whole miserable leg, you name it, an enormous OUCH!  

Which is an understatement…due to it still being with me, the pain, all the way home and the only cure is lying nearly flat in bed with a pillow under it or the same in a recliner, but sitting here is not good, at all! It starts at the top of it and goes down the front and around. You see if it was in just the back of the leg I would tend to think my true sciatica was acting up, but no this is parathesia, since it encompasses the whole damn leg!
YES, MS SUCKS!

The nice thing was that number one called when we got home and was quite, I imagine, animated but definitely talky, but I had plopped into a living-room chair, the recliner actually, but I was very uncomfortable, and Hubby was busy putting things away like my ice packs from my cooling vest and it was difficult in the position like now to talk to him… Hubby took the phone, thank heavens!

I have been in and out of bed ever since, but did help start supper; Hubby again had to finish it!
That is why MS SUCKS!

And so that is where I stand now, make that sit in agony and that is why I am cutting this short and I will talk at you tomorrow night, allow me than to wish all of you a very happy good night and ask you to kindly count all your blessings and share all those overages with you know who and we will too!

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

Thursday, September 19, 2013

MS SUCKS!



Gosh, I never thought I would be relaying that lament of my Multiple sclerosis community on here, MS SUCKS!
But sadly and surely it does! MS SUCKS!
Symptoms are so varied with this thing, many don’t get it, oh that’s the ones who don’t have it or aren’t related to someone or married to someone, or hasn’t a child or a parent that has to deal with it every single day! Yes, MS SUCKS!

Take today, I had had a bad night due to my right leg having those electrical shocks and burning sensation, all night long and numbing all going on at the same time, parathesia. MS SUCKS!
The info on this particular symptom is to sleep in a cooler room and of course we lower the thermostat nightly on the already air-conditioning setting and then I get cold! The other part is not to overdo things; like what getting out of bed, moving around the house, breathing, sitting up or lying down, watching TV, using the keyboard for this techno marvel?

YEP, MS SUCKS!

Let’s see what that word ‘SUCKS’, means to the commoner, in the U.K. it is used to express disappointment, contempt, or derision… See that is why, MS SUCKS!

Many of us think of the term ‘SUCKS’ as a bad day, a vacuum, an infant, but life can when it is marbled without health filled days and so that is why … MS SUCKS!

You know that denial thingy, it doesn’t work for MS, since just when you think that you’re going to have a free for all day, meaning less of all symptoms and they are laundry list long and as diverse as anyone may think they could be, too hot, need a cooling vest on, than off…from seeing double, harder, to not at all… to jaw pain, to dropping things constantly, from falling over to not being able to stand up at all, to balance that is so off that you appear drunk, to itchy, to lack of bladder control, some without the other end control, to numbness so severe that you think your limb is gone and when you try to use it,  it acts like it isn’t there at all, or stiff as a board, headaches that give migraines a run for their money, to spasms that make you look like you have Epilepsy in severity and on, on, on, etc, MS SUCKS!

Geez, I am so happy for Jack Osborne doing so well, he does have one of the four types and his is Relapsing Remitting, and he appears to be remitting right now. He has available to him also the best of everything and rumor has it that he did have stem cell surgery on a trip to Germany? Still we in the community are all pulling for him to do well on, ‘Dancing With the Stars’!  But people have to realize there are some of us, not as many as I would like, to know that also have benign MS or a one time symptom of it and then never get it again, did you know that? Sure you did, since you all are brilliant!
But just the same MS SUCKS!

The worst part is when Hubby feels the need to take care of me with every aspect of the things we used to share to do or I did for us or for myself, but now more days than not…he has found himself doing all of it! And YES that is why MS SUCKS!

Pity party is done for now, boy that can feel so good to just tell it as it is and why… a rant, a vent, a complaint, an education? I hope that I can provide in some small way all of those to all of us who need to know its OKAY, since MS SUCKS!

On that note of misery does love company, (not always), allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night and ask you to kindly count all of your blessings and share all your overages with you know who and we will too!

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

PLEASE HEAR; SINCE MS SUCKS!

Wednesday, September 18, 2013

Posts, posts and more posts...



Just a few minutes ago a person wanted to know how to get to her own post to send to a friend?????

PS she is not on my friend’s list; she accessed my message area to ask her question. According to her, I and another person are monopolizing the site with our postings and in order for her friend to find her posts he has to scroll down, a lot?

I thought that’s what we all do? I suggested that she copy and paste her post to her friend directly, easier that way.


That happens especially whenever I comment on those news stories that are on Yahoo, good luck with finding that again, hmm?

If someone comments on my comment then I will hear back and I am able to find it, otherwise, forget it!

You see the ones that I post are on mutual friendly topic sites available to those who are interested in similar relevant concepts.


The site that I utilize as well as my own and is my friends, individual ones, the world and another available one open to positive thinkers, which is one that is for all sorts of things, it is quite diverse in its capacity of interests to the general public from art to medical findings to healthy eating habits to newsworthy items and the list is infinite with topics and quite enjoyable to read.

So when you gain access to such sites to post your own found articles or ideas or interests or blogs etc. than I say go for it, as I do with all those and I do have the site person's permission and you should too, i.e. acquire that.



In the end I thought at first that she thought my blog was all the same one over and over again and that she did not realize that I write it daily and that perhaps she thought it was duplicated all those times… But she just didn’t know how to maneuver through all the posts and send a forward to her friend and so I do believe my suggestion might have helped since it has been at least a half an hour since I have heard back from her and I did offer my help if she needed it for anything else with a mini smiley to boot, why not?



People and I include myself in that all encompassing terminology, we panic sometimes without good reason when things get a bit difficult.



But this woman was smart in that fact that she asked and I was happy to give her a solution.

Some people don’t do that, ask that is?

We all need assistance at times, don’t we?

I have been learning over these last several years to not be shy about asking for help.

It’s hard for most type ‘A’ people, like myself and males whether they are type 'A' or not, hmm?

That is not a dig; it is just my many years of observation; and living in a household with two sons and a husband, not to mention growing up with a whole bunch of male cousins.



In conclusion, at first I thought she was annoyed by my postings, which she did admit she has read them and likes them… and then she explained, and so now I do feel the issue has been resolved, but I could be wrong, I have been wrong before…



In the long-run I will continue to write and post for it is my daily diary for my family of a life that is sometimes fascinating, funny, weird, annoying, happy, scary, interesting, crafty, boring, you get the idea and never ever the same! So I guess it cannot be boring after all, scratch that one!



On that note of trying to set it right with the world and person one day at a time, allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night and ask you kindly count all your blessings and share all those overages with you know who and we will too!



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



Oops I am going to do it again…POST! BEWARE!

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