Now one might ask what that has to do with anything.
Our day away from the devastating reminders of horrors that
bombard our brain etchings for evermore…
Finally, I spoke with another regular human who years ago I
would have considered a cold S.O.B., but times change and so must I.
She, when asked a few weeks ago about the bombing in Boston
and I found myself updating her on the latest, she cut me off, saying she shuts
the TV off when the repetition of the horrendous incident replays over and
over…
At first I thought, how could she not care to know?
But then, with yesterdays, horrific tornado touching down in
Moore OK, I thought as the news played the footage over and over, not unlike
the explosions in Boston or the trajectory of the shots that hit President
Kennedy that I as a child of thirteen had watched, and of the planes hitting
the Twin Towers over and over and us staring at our neighborhood with the news
showing the flattening swathe of Hurricane Charley… and the people wandering
lost in the aftermath of Katrina and on and on… we all care too much and we
have to do something!
If it is healthy or not to see all this over and over again
is a very good question, we today protect the children from it, but what makes
any adult believe that the affects of seeing it too doesn’t affect us too?
It does!
That is what Post Traumatic Stress Disorder could be based
on, seeing horrendous events or being within them over and over again…
After our home was destroyed with us in it after our
Hurricane Charley in 2004, I too was diagnosed with a case of PTSD and treated
when it took a year to kick in after watching the news footage of Katrina 2005
and having that helpless feeling once again.
Of course being bombarded with films coming out of Hurricane
Andrew 1992, we were novices with natural disasters and it was only five and
half hours from where we were in Ormond Beach Florida at that time, it was in Homestead Florida
and so we were pulled by our emotion to help and we did…and went home after…
But when you have your own hurricane that we couldn’t go
home from that is oh so different, since you are home, and so you get it!
And that understanding makes each one after that much more
personal and so today we left after having a media information overload…
although, the TV is back on in the living-room while I am here in the sun-room
not that far away…listening to the discussion on shelters and basements, and
hindsight always hindsight, like blaming the victims in so many other things we
as humans don’t get, but think that we do…
Any-who, we went out today after I increased my at home
weights to three pound ones from the twos that I was doing just last week on my
off from the gym days, reps are the same twenty one direction than switch to
the other.
The three stops were, Walmart for Hubby to get the bicycle
handlebar extenders for the wheelchair which until yesterday I did not realize
that it was harming his already bad, bad, back problem since it was too low,
that is my wheelchair and very poor body mechanics for him to push me all this
time… He brought the correct tool and fixed the extensions in the parking lot
and then we went to Beall’s to spend some of my Mother’s Day gift card, since
today was 15% off for over fifty year olds and then even on sale items and my
blouse was 50% off plus the 15% off, my lovely turquoise one to go with my Kaki
slacks for gym, a new lettuce spinner 25% off plus 15% off, sadly I am on my
third, the spinner mechanisms keeping breaking!
Lastly we went to Chili’s for lunch, soup and salad for
$6.49, Hubby’s was more and not so healthy, anyway we were both happy with our
choices…oddly enough we arrived home and usual programming was back on, and not
until we put the news on ourselves, since even though I speak a pretty game, I
still have to know how all those people are and if they found some more in the
rubble alive and I thought it was better knowing that the original death toll
was wrong and only nearly half as many as first thought…24, still too many!
On that truism of how we all feel about this… allow me to be
the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night and ask you to all
count 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?!