Wednesday, August 27, 2014

When thunder roars, go indoors!

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!
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!


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