Cute!
But very helpful too with trying hard to make
it evident, in every way that you can think of that lightening can KILL you!
“Summertime, and the livin′ is easy,” so the George Gershwin song goes. True, it is a time for picnics in the park, dips in the pool, golf outings, and hikes in the mountains.
But summer weather isn’t all fun in the sun.
Violent summer storms can form quickly and stretch for hundreds of miles. Thunderstorms can produce deadly lightning capable of striking up to 10 miles away — so, even if you don't see rain you could be in harm’s way.
“When planning outdoor activities, we want you to remember that lightning is extremely dangerous,” says John Jensenius, National Weather Service lightning safety expert. “Lightning can kill — and even those who survive a lightning strike are often left with permanent and serious disabilities. The best advice is ‘when thunder roars, go indoors’.”
Thanks to: http://www.noaa.gov/features/monitoring_0609/lightning.html
Many articles verify that Florida is the lightening capital of the world. To be honest though all places have lightening that I am aware of and the same reasoning to not be cavalier when you know it is in the vicinity is mostly the logical way to handle the danger by heeding the words composing my tonight's title, and please do!
“Summertime, and the livin′ is easy,” so the George Gershwin song goes. True, it is a time for picnics in the park, dips in the pool, golf outings, and hikes in the mountains.
But summer weather isn’t all fun in the sun.
Violent summer storms can form quickly and stretch for hundreds of miles. Thunderstorms can produce deadly lightning capable of striking up to 10 miles away — so, even if you don't see rain you could be in harm’s way.
“When planning outdoor activities, we want you to remember that lightning is extremely dangerous,” says John Jensenius, National Weather Service lightning safety expert. “Lightning can kill — and even those who survive a lightning strike are often left with permanent and serious disabilities. The best advice is ‘when thunder roars, go indoors’.”
Many articles verify that Florida is the lightening capital of the world. To be honest though all places have lightening that I am aware of and the same reasoning to not be cavalier when you know it is in the vicinity is mostly the logical way to handle the danger by heeding the words composing my tonight's title, and please do!
So when I tell you some
things to protect you it is for all our own good to know what to do in many
situations.
Moving on…
One of my old and dear
Facebook friends put up a sign, as a joke I truly believe, but it did hit home
yesterday having to do with our aging bodies and feeling a commonality there.
The gist of it was “if you
woke up tomorrow without any pain would you think you were dead?”
Now she does have a bit of a
black humor in her I do believe.
And lumps sadly too many ills
in the same boat, but sadly, and oddly enough with many of my days with the MS,
Multiple Sclerosis, I have found that due to numbness, parathesia, in so many
locations, even when I give myself my Copaxone shots I no longer feel them, or
my legs on occasion, or arms or hands or feet… you get the idea.
So pain would be nice in that
sense; of course I would prefer not having numbness or pain, but pain does make
you know whether to do this or that, and numbness, just keeps quiet, ya know?
Black
Humor defined, thanks to:
“noun
1.
a form
of humor that regards human suffering as absurd rather than pitiable, or that
considers human
existence as ironic and pointless but somehow comic.
1965-1970
“Contemporary definitions
for black humor
noun
in literature and drama, combining the morbid
and grotesque with humor and farce to give a disturbing effect and convey the
absurdity and cruelty of life”
So many things in life make
you stop and think about what ifs.
As of today I have been
pushing myself to try to walk more with my walker, which an upgrade will be
arriving within the next few weeks, and in the interim, today I surprised myself.
I did another hour in the
pool this time with my water weights!
I walked into the eye doctor’s
office with my older model walker and his office is quite a distance from the
parking lot; even from the handicap spots and previously I had to use my
scooter, and from there we went to Sam’s Club, but Hubby just went in for our extra
virgin olive oil and coffee, next I walked, via my walker, into Bed Bath and
Beyond to purchase a new hair dryer my twenty year old finally decided to die
this morning while getting ready to go out!
I had been using my scooter previously
in there too, ha!
Then we tried the Firehouse
Subs locally, we had been to the one in Sarasota
years ago, and they have even healthy low cal choices too, and so I ordered
their hook and ladder choice for 370 calories, but it was so large we took
about half of it home! Hubby had a sub,
a NY steamer, he had water, believe or not they don’t have coffee! Hubby being a former Fire Chief was surprised.
I had iced unsweet tea with
lemon. The owner, Russ, was very friendly and chatted with me while I waited for Hubby to
place our orders. He was a former police officer in Maryland,
and I mentioned that Hubby had been a deputy here in Florida too.
He and his wife own the
franchise here for the last four and half years. Wonder why we had not stopped
in before; it’s in the same shopping center as BB and B and Best Buy, Marshall’s
etc where we have gone to all before at one time or another, as today for my
new hair dryer. I had a five dollar off coupon, which worked out better than the 20%
off one we also had; a dollar more off!
Last stop before my last
visit for PT, yep all done unless I feel I need it, was Walgreen’s and guess
what I walked, ala walker, in there too!
Then I had my last forty-five
minutes of physical therapy unless I need to, or the doctors think I need to go
back.I see the PA next week.
On the vertigo test, when I
went in I was a 7 on their chart and normal is 28, Monday I was all the way up
to 19, still a falling risk but better!
I don’t think that they can
really help too much more really, with the Ataxia; the vertigo is just a newer
problem that at home exercises I have and will be given a couple more for each
plane to deal with my BPPV and that is all that can be done.
I am helping myself more with
more vitamin D as per smiley doc.
And of course even with the
sailcloth outside and my skim milk consumption D is coming from the sun… B complex is taken too and is quite high
according to what suits my needs… And the next time my nutritionist calls we
will discuss them again. The new walker will have the ability to transform in
to a transporter too if need be, if I should happen to fizzle. It is now ordered
from the manufacturer once delivered to California
and then distributed to me via a Georgia warehouse and FedEx after
September 11, 2014. Sure hope that date doesn’t have a negative affect on the
whole shebang? My insurance company has sent a letter stating that I have met
my deductible and they will be paying for it entirely 100%!
YAY!
On that more positive note of
much desire to change things even if only temporarily… allow me to be the very
first to wish all of you a very happy good night and ask you to kindly count
all you blessings and share all your overages and we will too!
And next time please be here
or be square, ya hear!