Tuesday, June 30, 2015

Hubby had a minor car accident!

Amazingly he was not injured and our seven and half month old car was not harmed badly either, but being a retired deputy he dialed 911 when the guy who rear ended him while stopped at a light tried to pay him off begging him not to call the cops, which is a proper procedure to do, report it to law enforcement that is, either way you do that, we are a no fault state.
And as we all know that when people act more guilty than they should there is usually a reason. There sure was; it turns out this guy was driving without a license although he did have insurance. His license was suspended nine years ago due too many DUIs and so today he was taken off to jail!
Why does this seem to happen with us, our new pickup truck was hit while parked at our local park by another guy without a license and that was two cars ago. We were with the Explorer Scouts at a picnic table when we all saw him back into it!All of us ran towards him before he got away! I suppose that scared him enough to stop.
That truck was also hit while parked at the grocery, but then the woman who hit it called the police and felt awful and it was taken care of so perfectly. I kept looking to see if I perhaps was parked badly, but it was well within the lines, even the deputy noted that. They were waiting for me when I came out of Winn Dixie that time, back in the last century.
Our other new mini van back in 1987 was dinged badly by a shopping cart let go of in a Walmart parking lot in Ormond Beach by an employee it was full of heavy soil and other garden supplies!
All of these incidents were taken care of by the people's insurances including Walmart's.
This one is so minor but Hubby was stopped at the red arrow on route #41/Tamiami Trail, (named for the first route from Tampa to Miami, runs parallel to I75), waiting for it to turn green to make the left to the street that eventually takes him to our street. He had groceries in the car he had made our bi-monthly run to Publix for out out of everything, there were two hundred dollars worth (plus a surprise mini ice cream birthday cake for my tomorrow's birthday, he was upset he couldn't hide it in the outside freezer since I was trying to help so he could get back to the scene), when he was hit and after he touched base with the deputy who he knew vaguely from years ago the deputy took his info and said that he could drop off the groceries and come back, and so he did. Hubby was only about two blocks from home.
 The picture below has to be explained, it is our rear bumper, see not too bad, and that is Gus's Nyla bone showing that the clips were knocked out. He has already called the guys insurance but they are one of those 9-5 companies, unlike ours that is 24/7 in claims, hope they take care of it.






On that note of it could have been much worse, but thankfully wasn't so much relief, allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night and ask you all to kindly count all your blessings with you know whom and we will too!
And next time please be here or be square, ya hear!PS this fellow had alcohol on his breath and so I do believe it was for his and the rest of the communities benefit that he will be safe from himself and others.

Monday, June 29, 2015

Had my mini skin cancer surgery today

Mohs is that layering surgery that shears the layers of skin and tests as it goes along to prevent severe scarring, but removing any cancer cells.
I do have stitches and they will be removed next week.
My cancer of the scary squamous cell carcinoma type but in situ, meaning the very earliest, in fact mine just needed a surface removal the doctor stated as he did it to my very numb face that did not feel a thing! (Needles to accomplish this effect did burn at first.)
All those worries of being told it is done while awake and no special precautions have to be taken baffled me, that is the me used to the kind of surgeries they hook you up to monitors and knock you out type, ya know?
This was amazing, no pain and done entirely within less than an hour, due to the cells being checked right there and apparently I had clear perimeters and shallow enough disease that mine was a breeze!
The doctor spoke to me about current events and as we can all well imagine was plenty to discuss, all this while CNN was even on the TV in the room, as he worked on my face!
I did admit to the receptionist I was nervous before, about the surgery, since it was, fortunately, one I had not had before.
Apparently, she passed it on to him and he was upbeat and the time went quickly.
At least from my experience.
There are no special after instructions except to keep the bandage on until tomorrow and that is when I can with only a band aid go back into the pool! I still must keep the stitches dry until they come out and only Vaseline on it to keep it clean and that is all she wrote. I do have Mederma in the house for after to lessen the scar, I hope.
I met an older woman, yes older than me, who had had a few similar to mine surgeries around her nose and her scars were barely noticeable. She was waiting for her husband who was having the same surgery on his nose.
When I go back to remove my stitches I asked if the PA could check my bumps over my right eye that also look ominous, sort of similar to the ones she froze on my nose and lip.
Might as well while there, those two frozen ones were precancerous basal cells. I have been zapped with lasers and frozen a few times, maybe a dozen by now, boy that sunshine is hot stuff!
I was wearing zinc oxide but now 50 SPF and of course a hat and sunglasses and you should too. I have not yet gotten into long sleeve blouses and slacks treated for SPF protection but who knows, I might someday. Right now they are not too prevalent or cost effective while slathering 50  SPF is.

On that note of hope all of you enjoy your summer safely with that quiet deadly beast at bay, just take the proper precautions and all will be well and if not there is always Mohs...
Doc and I discussed Melanoma the deadliest of the skin cancers and he said they ARE making progress with that too. I had compared it to pancreatic cancer that we had lost a friend from in less than two years.

On that note of caring to inform from personal experience ... 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 all your blessings and share all your overages with you know whom and we will too!

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

PS I had the surgery just after nine A.M. and I still have no pain, a little might be creeping in now, slightly though, it's six thirty.

Sunday, June 28, 2015

Lightening or lightning?



I do know the difference, lightening is to make something lighter,  a load or color of fabric or hair or such, cheer up, refresh, alleviate etc.
While “lightning is a sudden electrostatic discharge during an electrical storm between electrically charged regions of a cloud (called intra-cloud or IC)”; thanks Wikipedia + my own brain, ha.

So what possesses me to be so grammatically incorrect on a too regular basis?
There is no grammatical word correct on my blogger page where I have been writing when on my notebook, only abc for spelling, which we all know that does not pick up on similar words used improperly, in other words just spelling counts.

And here’s the rub, as long as I spell words correctly it gives me a pass.
Sure at this point in my life and writings so voraciously I should know better than I do.
It does appear that I do, but at times way too late, months or weeks later, even one time years later I did go back and correct a BIG mistake!
Sadly, if I do not appear to know when I publish of course it is mine, and only my responsibility.
Let’s face the “hack” name for my type of writing is right on target!
Although, if I was a pro getting paid I might have an editor, so many writer’s, that are or were famous have been on occasion grammatically challenged so many you would be shocked there are some that are Dyslexic or have other learning difficulties, imagine how much fun his/her word program or editor had with his/her endeavors, and they were/are so successfully published!
Agatha Christie and Stephen J. Cannell just to name two; twenty-five are listed at the site/link above.

I’m not making excuses, and don’t think for one minute I believe that I am in either of those incredible people’s league, but since I am no where near them, cut me some slack please and I will try and be more careful, okay?

And no I have never been diagnosed with any learning disorders, except perhaps admitting I goofed sooner or maybe no one noticed I had one? I do know that MS has an affect on cognitive issues.

On that note of once again not happy with my own writing and thankful none of you outright say anything, how polite of all of you really, allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night and ask you all to kindly count all your blessings and share all your overages with you know whom and we will too!

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

PS This was for all you grammar Nazis out there! Be kind to the lesser than you.

Saturday, June 27, 2015

Weekend writings

I seem to be in a different time zone, figuratively, on the weekends.
The writings that come forthwith are always rather later than earlier, although...
Weather, yes weather does have an affect on when this gets done, mostly in the summertime, what we call June through to May.
I do know that is not what most call summertime in our Northern Hemisphere, but this is Florida friends!

Any-who, the weather glitch causing my production to be late might very well be caused due to power outages that have been responsible for lines down or for transformers hit by lightning, ya know?
Sure you do. 
What gets me is why we haven't put all our lines underground yet?
Hubby thinks it's the cost, but I believe in the long run it would save money. Since the power companies have to pay all that over time whenever there is a problem.
And yes, the underground lines can have issues too I am more than sure.

Now that the reasoning has been expressed I also have other whys for my lateness on weekends as I am either busy doing something else or enjoying TV programs, okay!
So that is settled, not that any of you actually were wondering, but we all know I feel the need to tell all.
Tonight is the latter of the two.

 Since we have not had cable for over twenty years, no applause or weird jesters please, we depend on local network programming for our news as well as our national out of New York that comes on after in the evening. Although, between the two throughout the morning we have five hours then from both, and an hour at lunch, and three in the evening, and another half hour to forty minutes at eleven.
So we stay well informed, and of course if anything major happens our airwaves are taken over, every network channel, CBS, NBC, ABC, FOX, or what-have you, the 16 remaining channels are not affected with emergency programming it appears.
The only reason I mentioned this is because, besides being online and also having access to that with CNN and all other major news stations and papers I do realize we have quite enough!

And overkill can happen even with what some might find minimalistic compared to you who pay for 200 + stations.
Or and by the way... sports, well ESPN takes over 
every channel during weekends and weeknights at times too! But tonight my excuse was watching the end of Bluebloods, repeats, Tom Selleck never gets old in my book, and take that any way you want, bud dump bum!
Tomorrow I will be watching Castle repeats same time both on the CW here.
Some shows are like new again when you are older, ya know?

On that note of shame on me, hehe, allow me to be the very first to wish you a very happy good night and ask you all to kindly count all your blessings and to share all your overages with you know whom and we will too!

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

 

Friday, June 26, 2015

Embarrassing

Cryptic explanation to what my title is vaguely expressing below...
Have you ever had a body part, let's say above the waist but below the neck that had one protrusion on one side, since we all have two of these and had what looked like mosquito bites on the other, let's say its twin was swollen towards its middle protrusion too and proportionately looking different in size? Now there is a certain type of cancer that does not show up on atypical screenings which most of us after forty, for me since thirty-five have each year. Joan Lunden's:  http://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/246083-joan-lunden-takes-breast-cancer-battle-to-capitol-hill did not and she was told all was well, but still felt it wasn't and so said something and got additional testing and was found to have one of the most aggressive forms of cancers in that location! And so I am now having an ultrasound of those twin locations just to be sure they are okay! Here's hoping for mosquito bites!  http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/inflammatory-breast-cancer/basics/definition/con-20035052


Geez folks I published by accident, wasn't done yet, boy this screen (touch) is too sensitive, meant in a usually a good way!   

Now I will continue...
Apparently, me having "cancer" although not too serious squamous cell carcinoma in situ on cheek, has me questioning all other body parts with slight fear.
But I do something to face those fears don't I?
Below is the ability via a very good link to see just how Mohs surgery works for anyone who might want to know. 

http://www.skincancer.org/skin-cancer-information/mohs-surgery/mohs-surgery-saving-face#panel1-1

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

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


PS TO ALL AMERICANS IN LOVE THIS IS GREAT SINCE LOVE IS ALL AROUND US AND GOSH NOW IT'S LEGAL TO MAKE IT LEGAL TO MARRY ANYONE THAT IS IN LOVE, HIP HIP HOORAY IT'S A GREAT DAY FOR THE GAYS AND ADD A VERY HAPPY YAY! It's seriously about time! Congrats to all!

Thursday, June 25, 2015

Anniversary!

Today is my seventh!
Actually, could I call it my birthday?
I did notice that some businesses call their years in business birthdays not anniversaries.
Why is that?
Oh I get it, it was the year from when they were born with the idea of the production of their company physically starting; makes sense I guess.
Although, an anniversary is a remembrance of the beginning of a mutual joint or individual of an occasion, happy or sad.
I think that is right.
Okay, what I am getting from my rehashing of those terms here is that either would be right.

So today is my birthday/ anniversary of my issuance of my first germ of an idea and the remembrance of its beginning that appears to be continuing on of my BLOG! Sounds right, I think.

Any-who, there will be no cringe worthy expressing tonight.

Moving on...

Now what would you do if you were having minor cancer surgery next week? (Sorry!)
I know what I did I went out and got a haircut! Hubby drove.
Okay, more than one, hairs that is... bud dump bum...

And so now my reasoning is to be heard...!
My hair was growing quite lovely longer but my hair over my eyes was getting way too long, difficult to see y'all.
And although originally I thought my ear was the one going under the knife and the longer hair would hide my scar nicely, alas it is not and I would look even worse with the concept of trying to cover my right cheek via hairstyling!
The damage to it is too central and so I would not be able to do a Veronica Lake look, check out her hairstyle: https://search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=Ap2PAatLPPjaY9z2wbvFbwGbvZx4?fr=yfp-t-321-s&toggle=1&fp=1&cop=mss&ei=UTF-8&p=veronica%20lake%20hairstyle
An actress from the olden days, studio days of Hollywood:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veronica_Lake
Anyway, the look although attractive is not for my age group or even for this century really! 
So I went with a trimming of my newest bob style that got rave reviews and compliments from whomever I did let see it previously.
And who knows who will see it this time with my hangups on how I look.
KIDDING!
I shall go out into the world, but it is still too darn hot!
My trips for doctors and testing and of course surgery are fortunately all indoors in pleasant air-conditioned locales.
There must be other places having fun things to do inside, but where?

On that provocative question left unanswered, allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night and ask you all to kindly count all your blessings and share all your overages with you know whom and we will too!

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

Wednesday, June 24, 2015

The call came in this morning

I suppose I am no different than most who say okay and find themselves finally listening intently to the bearer of the news that was not at all what they had expected.
Over these last nearly sixty-five years I have considered myself lucky having had more than a half dozen biopsies of my innards and surfaces and them all coming back benign.
Oh it's not too bad actually, my left ear although still painful came back with a benign answer to its biopsy, but oddly enough my after thought of asking the PA to check my left facial cheek too was a good idea, and no it doesn't hurt at all, but it does have squamous cell carcinoma albeit in situ, the earliest catch for this type of skin cancer, okay. 
Mohs surgery is going to be a go for the earlier part of next week my already scheduled day and the RN who called me said that it is so early in the disease process that it will be only one layer's worth being tested and I will have stitches that will have to come out in a week's time, okay.
This should be a piece of cake and boy would that be nice right now; a piece of cake i.e...

Scars, so many on my punim and to think I quit smoking nine years ago to stop any possibility, nah to prevent a stroke, although this is mostly sun related, yes all sun caused, wear that sunscreen folks, all of us! Oy vey, I live for sunshine in this state, in fact it's Florida's nickname!

Maybe we should move to a darker drearier state?
Nah.
Solution is more gobs of sunscreen and hats and covered up clothing with high SPF ratings!

Or... if my scar is too awful perhaps I will become more of a hermit than I already am?
Who would want to be responsible for scaring small children?
Or maybe I could be oh so brave like the young woman that wears her bear scar on her own face like a badge of pride stating that she is a survivor.
Let us not forget all those soldiers that lost limbs, children who survived cancer even adults and Boston Strong people...and on and on...
Now I feel so very ridiculous to be so small minded I will be fine, okay.
Life surely does go on and so shall I; If I am lucky!
  
On that note of so what on me, 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 all your blessings and share all your overages with you know whom and we will too!

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

PS waiting on still what to do about my sore ear, oh so weird.
While my cheek doesn't hurt at all.


Tuesday, June 23, 2015

MRI done!

Today I can scratch one more thing off my to do list, the MRI with and without contrast; I call it the glow stuff.
Mine is a yearly event with this thing we call MS, Multiple sclerosis requiring it for some reason.
The first couple of years I would joke it was to verify to my family and friends that I do have a brain, now it is to see if the disease process has progressed, but works as validation of also proof that I DO HAVE A BRAIN! HA! Fortunately, I have been stable for years, my lesions that is.
No one said anything different, it, my brain, still shows up in the dark and enlightened PICS, so I am good. (There is my no news is good news theory.)
Many people hate MRI machines due to their noisiness, or claustrophobia because of the close quarters or both. I do believe mine is an open one, odd how I forget with all the ones that I have had over the years, three just last year alone, and every year prior to that at different places, not to mention prior to my MS history needs a few more for other problems; concussions I seem to recall, ha.(That alone explains a lot, since I did have a couple of those.)
Hubby asked me since he does drop me off if it was an open or closed one, and I said I don't know, weird, since I really should.Why I am practically connoisseur of the machines.
And this newer place I goto these last two years has the higher tesla:  
http://www.3teslamri.net/
More vivid PICS I do believe.
I don't know if it's just me or not but they truly believe music playing into it makes the noise better?
To me it just seems like the percussion section is off the beat, ya know?  But who am I to judge, I am definitely not a professional musician or technician in the MRI field.

Any-who, I went into the pool early, at 9 A.M., the air temperature was already 85 degrees and so I accomplished my exercises with time to spare, since my test was scheduled for 12:45 P.M. and its only ten minutes from here so I relaxed before we had to leave.
Even so we were early, and I was out of there by 1:21 P.M., now I am good till next year!
During the test I had a personal glitch that I really thought was going to mean a do over. I had a spasm, but Dave the tech said he didn't know it or see it. 
Whew, I would hate to have to do it over for not holding still, which they repeat over and over...but I always smile.
I do know that it doesn't show up on the final films but what the heck, it's the spirit of making the whole thing a wee bit more fun than it is, ya know?
The techs play along when you tell them that you smiled and ask them if they liked it and ask for wallets. (size photos)

So on that note of whatever floats your boat, allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night and ask you all to kindly count all your blessings and share all your overages with you know whom and we will too!

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

 



Monday, June 22, 2015

Too Darn Hot!

Many might be wondering why we have not been gallivanting hither and yon out into the world to do all there is to do here on any given day.
Well, the title says it all with the outdoor venues and the heat index in the triple digits and also, unfortunately, my current social life is back to going either to doctors' offices or for tests for them.

It is rather annoying since we have been trying to redo face time with Number One Son, and each time I have been scheduled for this or that! Oh pooh!

MRI this week, possible cancer surgery next week if I get a bad report this week; remember they schedule you upfront before the biopsy results, scary!
There are still days left until they let me know my fate one way or the other, but I am of the ilk, at least I try to think that no news is usually good news. So we did make that day a date with Number One Son.
The two locations biopsied have not yet healed from the day the specimens were taken on June 11, but if I read correctly it can take over two weeks to do so; telling myself again no worries.

Oddly lately my tummy is back misbehaving after dinner and here I lie once again in bed with the notebook on my rather ample chest.
Sitting is too painful.
I did take my stomach medications though, sometimes it takes time to kick in. Gosh I don't have time for a tummy doc too!

On the brighter side mornings have been perfect for my swimming/ range of motion exercises so I have been doing them daily.

Even so lying writing from this angle my neck and back are not comfortable and hurt ever so slightly. (Waa, waa, cry baby me!)

On that note of so what allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night and ask you all to kindly count all your blessings and share all your overages with you know whom and we will too!

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

Sunday, June 21, 2015

Summer Soltice! Fathers' Day too!

Today is the longest day of the year in the western hemisphere!
Hooray that this year it just so happens to fall on Father's Day too!

Interesting for most all of my other Americans who celebrate both, but in Florida we really only herald the one, Father's Day.

Why, one may ask?
Sure some Bohemian types may still enjoy welcoming the numerical date of summer's beginning here in Florida, who am I to say no one does, and the fact it is nationally in our lower forty-eight the longest day of the year, okey dokey truly!
But in truth in Florida we don't have seasons per se, in the sense of most states in our union. We might have two, seasons sort of, that is, occasionally for a week or two, but mostly we have summer year round temperature-wise, with maybe a bit of spring thrown in.

Although, our days are shorter, daylight-wise, and you do realize that it is daylight that we mean when we say long and short of it all, since all days still have twenty-four hours in them...ha, but ours are shortest in the months of December through May, like yours too, but the seasons stays pretty much the same, got that?

Gosh, it evens sounds complicated when I explain it and I know what I mean or that I am trying hard to express most days... whew this is harder, hope you get me.

Any-who, days come and days go and I sure hope that all of you have found a great way to spend today, make that everyday!

We did.
Relaxing and barbecuing.
Our Number One Son was to come down tomorrow but his recall problems with his vehicle are needing to be taken care of and tomorrow he is off from work and it wasn't safe to drive all the way down here today. Of course we are disappointed but we want him to be safe and so we totally understand.His girlfriend is working full-time and going to school too and so her only time to study is weekends when she is off.
Yes, we miss him and of course we understand it is what it is and so that's that.

On that note of knowing things cannot always be perfect, allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night and ask you all to kindly count all your blessings and share all of your overages with you know whom and we will too!
  
And next time please be here or be square, ya hear!

Saturday, June 20, 2015

Noisy

Boy, is it ever!
What one might ask, music, fireworks, traffic or loud voices?
Well, no to any of those it's the weather, thunder without doing anything else, no lightening or rain or any of the expected reasoning for such a racket.
These higher temperatures that have been consistently in the low to nearly mid nineties with heat indices of over one hundred have been the cause I suspect.
It is as if a popcorn bag was put into a microwave and was about to explode, but fizzles instead.
Sure heat is not uncommon to Southwest Florida or Florida as a whole state but this still is June and even though we are in hurricane season, rain of course would be preferable than vacant threats in the form of noise.
Although, this is not to say that we haven't received our due of dew, we surely have had inches!
But I so miss those clockwork timely afternoon showers that one could nearly set their watch by that seemed to be a thing of the past these last few years!

Gus, our rescue Havanese pup, has an issue with noise, pots and pans scare him, motors excite him and thunder causes him to want us to comfort him which we do. He jumps on our laps to be cuddled and reassured.  
The odd thing is that I too have a fear of that rumbling sounds of thunder, but I do hug him and take deep breaths with him... mine cropped up after Hurricane Charley directly hit our home way back on August 13.2004, a Friday.
Waiting in that hallway with Skipper our Bichon Frise, on a lead, he was five and half months old and our Charlie the cockatiel was twenty-five in his cage and our Casey the cat our domestic long haired orange tabby he was about seven then I placed him in his crate, it was very scary waiting those three hours for it to all stop!
The news report had said we were in direct line with the last minute turn it had decided to take a right hand one instead of going one hundred miles north to Tampa. Hubby was at work getting people to be safe as a deputy doing his job, he fortunately came home before the oak tree fell across our front door blocking his entry to our home, but our arches surrounding our front window prevented it from breaking our nine foot picture window!

I was treated for a few years for nerves that were not that dissimilar to Post Traumatic Stress Disorder via medication and a doctor for such things.
The timidity and slight panic with all thunder still seems to be risidual with me with my lasting symptoms, significantly better than other ones I suspect.
Not too long ago a health TV reporter locally had wanted me to be interviewed about this malady, but compared to what the soldiers go through I felt silly to be even in that classification, although people that deal with major disasters have been diagnosed with the same PTSD, not that unusual, mine was classified "like" PTSD.

Still I have been doing better, although many of my loss of social ability and anger at people can be attributed to it. Patience was never ever my strong suite but my sabotaging friendships and relationships has proved that mentally the social flower of "love" to be with all people in itself is hypocritical of how I end up behaving.
No one can become so ridiculously self destructive in the real world, narrowing her once wide arena of family, friends and activities without having some deep seeded mental problems.

And so now I am out about my lack of ability to be with people in the real world with doing/saying something that will cause me to be misunderstood and therefor disliked. I also have a tendency to talk people to death for fear of letting them talk? Who knows why that is, but definitely NOT socially acceptable.
This venue is oh so one sided and since it suits my current personality flaws and all I hide here, albeit I do tell all.

TA DA!
Foot in mouth disease I kid, but it is a serious non-helpful socially unacceptable worldwide decrepency in me that can be almost traced back to that date 8-13-04, although I did have bits of that flaw starting earlier though it absolutely surfaced then a nasty catalyst...so I know and try harder thats all any of us can do, really.

On that note of hope even for me, 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 all your blessings and share all the overages with you know whom and we will too!

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

Friday, June 19, 2015

To post or not to post that is the question...

Or is it, truly?
Next week marks my seven year anniversary, on the twenty-fifth, of doing this drivel for at times small audiences, very small nightly ones, some nights only eight or ten, but to my surprise, on occasion there are nights that I do get ten times or more even over ones, which is extremely amazing to me, hundreds in one evening, really. And this has happened dozens of times over the years without any logical rhyme or reason...strangely wonderful and exciting, to me only, I imagine.
My original concept, as anyone knows who has been following me over these years, to me this was for whomever else was to be somewhat of an online diary/verbal written down legacy for any generation of our family who might find boring hack-style writing to possibly have some significance of interest or perhaps even some modicum of historic value, to us, only to us.
Sure over the years I have touched on social issues that affect all of us, as well as the mundane evenings of crafts, not to mention my too often opinionated pieces on politics, religion, and race.
Not so dull after all? 
I have shared health problems and resolves as well as consumer products, and companies that are truly people friendly and want your business as well as some that could care less.

All in all, I suppose taking inventory as I just did, and there is so much more I have ranted about here, but as I grow older I find that I would have to read what I wrote to refresh my memories, and its like most things at this age its just like my first time all over again! Take that whatever way you wish...
Pleasant, not a chore, a joy, a feeling of tangible evidence I still have a brain, although many of you might still wonder, but that's okay.
I made you think too!
Ha!
And so I just talked myself into continuing when I wasn't sure if I should. 
As Jon Stewart stated about the horrendous massacre in Charleston South Carolina these are things that make you want to cry and feel as if this lunacy might never stop with no joy in making any jokes about any of it, and he is so right and if we ever stop feeling how disgraceful these acts are we cannot in our hearts stop them and we will be no better than them. He is a truly good man and his presence will be missed when he retires.
Its like all those true accounting stories of the holocaust during WW 11, or all those murders of people all over the world in Europe and Africa and here at home during the Civil War and Civil Rights Movement that continues today that should have been resolved with no hate, but...due to hatred rampant being only because of people who had the misfortune of being born in the race or religion that the hate mongers have decided did not deserve to exist in their skewed brains.They have no hearts or emotion.

We must speak up and let them know we must love everyone since this is the only earth we have and we are all members of the same race, the human race!
REDUNDANT FROM ME BUT LET'S FACE IT OH SO TRUE!

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

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


Thursday, June 18, 2015

Having one of those days...

Hubby took me back up for VEP testing in Sarasota then picked up lunch at Chipolte there, two chicken burritos built with brown rice and black beans and sour cream, very tasty and eaten in the parking lot at Turtle Beach.
I did not get out of the car Hubby took this beautiful pic of their turquoise water all the way on Siesta Key that has been voted #1 beach in the USA!
Unfortunately, we could not get a good view of Siesta Beach due to all the buildings, condos. I swear it seems to be a shame for that to me.
Years ago we did get there by our boat and it was great!
Here is a pic from our moving car today, that is mine.
Most of the island appears to be for sale and under construction too, what a dichotomy truly.

For some reason the less I do the worse I feel, but not always, sometimes the more I do the worse I feel it is a precarious balance that I am still working on after all these years and so I too have that issue. So due to the fact we had to leave for my test early I did not get my pool time in and boy does my body definitely miss it!

I almost did not write tonight due to my exhaustion and frustration of needing Hubby to upload my pics once again and find their location once done.See too tired to remember.
Any-who many more pics were taken but I will have to go through them before I decide when to post them...on that note allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night and ask you all to kindly count all your blessings and share all your overages with you know whom and we will too!


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

PS thanks to a smart gentleman who reminded me about Gov Bush sticking his two cents into places where he shouldn't have one case in point that had national critical acclaim was the Terri Schiavo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terri_Schiavo_case , "right to live or die case" parents and spouse fighting over her fate, during his term I did recall that he was not that great after all, how soon we do forget, hmm?

Wednesday, June 17, 2015

Normalcy

Interesting little known fact or perhaps well known one is that the meaning of normalcy is the act of being normal, odd?
I thought I was the queen of redundancy I suppose dictionaries can be kings and queens of that descriptive form of explanation as well, deje vu too!
Who'd have thunk it?

Where was I, oh trying to give some credence to how my day went today, my redundancy is showing, oops... any-who moving on...
My day was as uneventful as one can get in that I did accomplish all my usual from food prep, doing laundry, waiting on my monthly delivery of my Copaxone by UPS and they did get it right this month we did receive it not a neighbor on another block...to swimming with ROM exercises, relaxing with a few games of Solitaire as well as my hour of General Hospital, complete normalcy for me, yours may have been way different, but then that is YOUR normalcy.

Last night I decided to forgo the filler rerun of Hawaii 5-0 holding Stephen Cobert space on CBS for this fall from Letterman's retirement a few months ago, they keep running TV shows that I have seen, they started with the Mentalist finale ones then CSI the original and this week Hawaii 5-0. The other two were cancelled I sure hope the last wont be... anyway instead I tuned into Jimmy Fallon on NBC, always did enjoy him on SNL, but I had a weird loyalty to Letterman since Johnny retired and he moved into that opposite time slot from Jay.
So he had our old Gov on who is now running for pres, one of the many. He was not that cool a dude as his predecessors from his opposing party of the office he wishes to attain that his bro and pops have had. I will be one of the first to come out though and say, as I am nearly a flagrant Democrat but non-committal registration party-wise I did like him as our Governor he was actually pretty good for a Republican, ya know?
Nothing like his dad or his brother in so many ways, so I do believe it would be unfair to for anyone to compare him to them or think he was like them. He is very bright and honest to own up to mistakes but also capable.
Although, I am pretty sure I will be voting for his opponent on the other side and of the female persuasion, experience is my reasoning and being flawed but able to attain results especially with a spouse whispering in her ear what to do, maybe. Kidding, or maybe not??

The most ridiculous running candidate and sadly an enormous joke and embarrassment to his family is Donald Trump in my opinion. His announcement speech was ludicrous and I sure hope that someone taped it for him so he can scrutinize it while playing it back and if he is truly serious in running he aught to re-evaluate his plan of attack on every socially concerning topic that he thinks he will be changing and helping this country! He is so off on his thinking it actually scares me!
     
I think so therefor I am, and on that note of not much 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 whom and we will too!

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

Tuesday, June 16, 2015

FINALLY! AND A BIG YEAH!

The first three pics were my first taken with my new smarter phone; not too shabby, hmm?Gus relaxing on one of our sun-room sofas, actually posing so sweetly!

 The one above is our backyard fish pond well protected by greenery from predators translation: herons. They love eating our fish!The last of my first three phone camera pics is a view from our pool area down to our dock that as most know Hubby reconfigured not too long ago and with spare boards made that table.
 The below pics are of Hubby and Gus on the board walkway there to Lido beach, as you can see he has, Gus, has his vest on declaring that he is a "service dog". Although, he is still being trained for that and has quite a ways to go. 
 The only reason I had taken a picture of this Holiday Inn Hotel was due to my pleasant surprise, since it is the same one we had stayed in about twenty-five years ago with our then teenage sons, it was right across from the beach, Lido beach. And it was within a favorable distance from the Ringling Museum that we also went to at that time when living across the state in Ormond Beach.

This was all taken last Wednesday on our way home from my neurologists office in Sarasota, we also ate lunch in St. Armand's Circle, a shopping district not unlike Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills California very lovely and only a few blocks from my doctor's office. Fortunately, the prices for lunch are not as dear as the shops are for clothing, accessories, art work etc., but always fun to look, ya know? It was raining while there and so I apparently forgot to take pictures, but we will be going back again since it is so close to my doctor's.

I hope now I will be able to share more pictorial blogs as the year progresses and we hopefully get out more into the world...meanwhile please 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 all your blessings and share all those overages with you know whom and we will too!

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

Monday, June 15, 2015

Where do I begin

Hubby took the A-SUS back to the Geek Squad at Best Buy and a man around his age showed him that the wire we had that did fit but was not bought for this phone it was bought for our old ones why it did not fit...and he plugged in a different one and it worked with uploading everything from the phone while Hubby was there.
And so this magical cord that did work Hubby was told that is what he needed for ours to work here at home too and so he spent fifteen more bucks, at this point if it works why not, but when he got home it didn't!
CRAZY!
Any-who, I said call them back, and he said the man said he normally would have to charge him for this beneficial help; I think NOT!
Now is a very good time to either return this thing and its wire or make them show us what to do without a charge...the damn thing is four days old!

So tomorrow I do believe after speaking just now with Hubby that they can have the...
Oh wait just spoke withe the Operations Manager Patrick he could not be nicer in trying to resolve the situation.
The outcome is the Geek Manager Penny will call us tomorrow to try get all problems fixed.
All this with our local Port Charlotte Florida Best Buy store.
Oddly enough we chose them so we could get help if need be, and at four days old they continually stated that all help was a charge, on the phone and in the store, but alas OM Patrick stated that is not policy!

So we will see what we will see, and now due to the lateness I will be closing tonight and asking all of you to please have a good night and count all your blessings and share all those overages with you know whom and we will too!

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

PS if the store keeps its promise that would change our personal feelings tremendously, one can only hope so.

Sunday, June 14, 2015

Now pray with me...

Gotcha! Not needing your prayers, wishes or hopes for right now, but keep 'em handy if you would kindly... no one knows when there might be an actual call for such a wonderful gift of love and concern, truly.

My worries, no worries really but silly, just a teensy weensy bit of concern is aimed directly at my newest techno product that Hubby added into our arsenal of such devices that it appears we have acquired most recently, this is a direct hit at our newest the notebook.

Asus pronounced, A- SUS, is now downloading, would you believe 80 updates?
And the message said it will be started up automatically within the next day?
Now we did register today, making us legal, after we also installed with Geek Squad assistance our new anti-virus called WEBROOT, new to me, but perhaps not to you? 
We have a six month introductory subscription to it from them.
Odd that the computer comes with McAfee built in, but they said it was no good or perhaps not as good?

Any-who, thank heaven for small favors and that this oldie but temperamental PC with combo parts that have been replaced over these last nearly eleven years that it has been in our home as a replacement after our previous one's tower was drowned from Hurricane Charley, August 13.2004, a Friday.

This just in: Hubby reported that it has accomplished 42 out of the 80!

So as I was saying I am using this one more days than I thought I would.
If any recall the reasoning of buying a more portable unit was due to my herniated lumbar disk making sitting up in a regular chair most uncomfortable.
And yes, at times that issue is still in my realm of adding into my other pain oriented ills.

But for short spurts this one can be not too bad after all and for times when my adrenalin has become full blown due to my techno frustrations with all this stuff the pain seems to lessen or at times enhance!
Reclining in a comfortable chair made for such things or my bed when it really gets bad are my M.O.'s for those times of needing the more portable unit.

Yesterday, a representative from the company who makes this new medication that the neuro doctor wants to put me on had called to discuss it with me and she did say that she would email me the particulars, but I have not received it yet. Apparently the blood work I had had said my kidneys were in good enough shape to put them to the test with this Ampyra for helping me walk faster!

That would be so cool!
To walk like I used to?
Okay, maybe not that fast where my tall drink of water thin Hubby had to nearly run to catch up to me...us shorties do have a habit of doing that someone told me once.
Like my voice loudness, and I don't mean yelling I mean just speaking due to wanting to be heard, sure enough! LOL!
Sometimes even when well and thin myself and young and not too bad looking people occasionally would overlook me while I tried my darnedest to be listened to.

So speaking loud had the appropriate affect and people would pay attention.
Later on in life it served me well when I became an Aquatics teacher for the elderly, since they had to take out their hearing aids in the pool, most said they could still hear me!

Just checked with Hubby, apparently #42 update is a long one, since it is still being installed.

Moving on...

Again the pool was delightful again, and I did do my shoulder exercises with all the rest, which seem to be helping since once again I slept till that ungodly hour of after eight A.M. till 8:15, but without an interruption of a headache in the night causing me to stay awake for a couple of hours, I slept right straight through, another shocker!

Not having pain is a godsend and I do suspect that was most of the reason, although my ear still creates a need to find a careful positioning even with my foam hole to place my ear through, everything has to be just right, and I guess it was!

On that note of no prayers yet policy, put them on hold for me or whomever needs them in the interim anyway, and allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night and ask you all to kindly count all your blessings and share all your overages with you know whom and we will too!

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

PS Last night's movie was " The Book Thief", 2013. there was a hint of The Diary of Anne Frank's, but much different in the sense from the other side of what some thought were all our enemies...a movie to see for yourself if you haven't yet; another vantage point of World War 2's people's story. All in all it was worth the two plus hours of viewing time. Come to think of it it has a better ending and the same concept, but you decide.

Saturday, June 13, 2015

Writing to you with another...

Night that was a somewhat sleepless one.
I was again up in the wee hours drinking coffee all due to a headache and that lasted for a couple of hours.
Drinking caffeine in the usual common form of coffee does truly seem to help and it's less narcotic than my too many medications.   
The method of java consumption, at least, has seemed to get me back asleep in not too long a time from its ingestion.
This time I did not look at the clock so much that I can remember the time span.
I used to be more accurate due to Hubby wondering and politely asking.
But to me it sounded like a bit of a memory quiz, which I am sure it wasn't.
And in that condition why bother really.
He has since taken my inaccuracy into a privacy respect.
Now that sounded slightly convoluted, hmm?
Any-who, I get up, I drink some warm liquid that has nearly mystical powers regarding its ability to not only to start one's day but to close it as well; whenever that need might arise. 
Even when I finally did get up for that second time at that shocking of 8:30 A.M. that I did make note of due to its lateness and not my M.O. these days; make that decades.

I have been an early riser since the late 1970s due one particular job I had then and tried to walk for exercise prior to showering and dressing for work. It took my early awake time from being a new Mom during the earlier seventies to kick in but it did; of course I awoke with my babies but tiredly. The waking up early with a leap came later as I stated above. (Any new Mom who won't admit to being always tired is lying!In my personal opinion of one who suffered from people pleasing syndrome BIG TIME!)

Walking or dancing, bicycling, and swimming were always my preferences for exercising; the gym rat in me was definitely a 21st Century thing and advantageous being in a climate that's heated made indoors preferable at times as well as when swimming was out of the question due to storms.

So I was back in our pool today, due to perfection of water and air temperature. When those two things come together who can stop me? No one!
Even with precautions needing to be taken with my surgeries of open skin still from the two biopsies, ear and cheek. I was given the okay by using waterproof band aids and keeping my head out of the water and I did do my best. I splashed my left ear slightly but after my shower and during the reapplying of the Neosporin and bandage it looked none the worse for wear. The stinging has been consistent there, my cheek is healing very nicely too and has not been at all painful.

That I suppose is it for today, all on this newfangled notebook that believe it or not had the nerve to request a registration while writing this tonight as a pop up! But isnt that the times we live in...oh well... on that note allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night and ask you all to kindly count all your blessings and share all those overages with you know whom and we will too!

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

Friday, June 12, 2015

Here I sit with a new...

Notebook on my chest, since all logical tries of accomplishing saving my laptop were for naught.
Last try from Hubby was using his air compressor to dry it out, but alas when it looked as if it might be reviving the keys were no longer capable of functioning, they lost their will to survive...since its life's force, its battery would not hold a charge, he knew it was pretty much sadly a goner.

But rejoice! Tis the season for sales with Father's Day just around the corner and so Hubby took it upon himself to first search the online highways and byways via his new phone as well as comparison shop then venture out into the world to see for himself and called me and said he felt he found just the right one and returned happily a few hours ago in time for this blog's posting, WOW what a guy!

So I gleefully reiterate here I sit with this brand new double my previous capacity memory with a slightly larger screen of an Asus X200 model techno machine hawked by Best Buy to be one of their finest for the price; it does have a full year warranty but don't they all? The additional insurance coverage was silly for its price was nearly the same price as the notebook itself. 

I am learning this new one, and for some reason it accidentally just published this before I was all done.
I thought I just hit enter to write my next sentence and next I see that it sent it to publish, oops!
Too bad too, since someone read it incomplete.

Moving on...

A storm is coming in, so what else is new, we are in rainy/hurricane season, June 1 to November 30th every year.
Don't get me wrong rain is fine it's the lightening and thunder that I don't care for that can become very dangerous the lightening not the thunder, which as we all know is just a warning.

On this note of hoping this will last a very long time, allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night and ask you all to kindly count all your blessings and share all those overages with you know whom and we will too!

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

Thursday, June 11, 2015

Running here running there, but did get it all done!

Today I had my followup left ear appointment.
The scratch that would not heal.
Two months later I did have it biopsied today as well as a funny looking discoloration on my left cheek, on my face folks, on my face, bud dump bum...
Interestingly enough is the fact that I had had that cheek biopsied due to a large bump on it years ago, a lump that was rounded in shape, removed and a stitch added into my face to add to the decor...I was upset by the scar it left, a pinching/hemming stitch, but not as severe as the 40 tiny ones, of a dog bite from around the year 2000, our collie/Shepard rescue from Hurricane Andrew circa 1992, all due to me accidentally rolling over his tail with my computer table chair and then bending down to check on him when he let out a chilling yelp, oops my bad!
GRRRRR GROWL OWE SNAP BITE!

Any-who, I now have two band-aids, one on my ear and one on my cheek due to today's dissolution of my too pretty, never a money maker face, but I exaggerate, don't I wish.

Well, the truth is it will take 12-14 business days to get the results of the biopsies back, and they will call me and I have been told not to call them, although I have been scheduled for surgery in two and half weeks that I was told can be cancelled if all is well!
Scary just the same, ya know.

It is the Mohs type of surgery that they do there for skimming the skin sliver,  layer by layer, while they test each as they go until they get clear perimeters.
Interesting and one I have not had before and hope I do not need to have it ever...!
  Vincent van Gogh has never been my imagery for myself, his talent would have been nice but not his symmetry of facial balance, if you know what I mean. Don't get me wrong he was a wonderful artist but not exactly someone I would want to emulate in his physical composition.(His was his right; ear that is.)
For more info on Mohs:http://www.skincancer.org/skin-cancer-information/mohs-surgery
And more info on van Gogh: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_van_Gogh

After the dermatologist's office I showed my new cards to my internist's office, my insurance cards a trifecta of sorts, Medicare, Colonial Penn supplemental and RX part D coverage to them, since they wanted them on file; although my latest prescription had been ordered on Tuesday from my new mail order company Humana Rx. A three months supply is now "0", zilch co-pay, when it was thirty dollars previously, imagine I have seven prescriptions, so it does add up! All are "0", now, hip hip hooray!

And they also have a lab so I had my blood work for the neuro done there.
Can you imagine how adorable I looked when going into to make my MRI appointment at that office after. A ear band-aid here and a facial cheek band aid there and a large PURPLE bandage around my left arm where the gauze was being kept in place from my blood being drawn, absolutely a cutie! How about that all on my left side, odd, when I am a rightie, who knows what that could possibly mean, huh?

On that questionable note left better to the answer gods wherever they reside, allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night and ask you all to kindly count all your blessings and share all your overages with you know whom and we will too!

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

PS: How not to start one's day spilling your coffee on your laptop. How soon that savings is disappearing from my couple hundred a month of being on Medicare now! No new laptop as of yet, Hubby appears to be determined to fix it even after I did try first by cleaning it with alcohol and Qtips after dumping the brown liquid from its keys, and it did go back on but many keys did not work at all, so I shut it down and removed the "A" from where it was thinking to clean and dry it out like we have done with this older PC and it had worked, but I could not put the key back no matter how I tried. Hubby did successfully finally get it back and he is still working on it before we try to find out if it's worth the cost of fixing by some Geek Squad or trading it in for a newer model, less vulnerable to this woman's butterfingers! If things happen in threes, then we are DONE! First our recliners, then our phones now this? I sure hope so anyway. Not to mention my health stuff, but that's in a class all its own, ya gotta know that...priorities and all!

Wednesday, June 10, 2015

Darn I thought I had it but Eureka I sure sadly don't


Now those pics even when trying to copy and paste are corrupted so they will not go here, sorry!

Moving on...
Today was a bit of a busy day anyway.
We, Hubby, Gus and me all went up to my neuro's office in Sarasota for my scheduled appointment this morning at eleven thirty.
Hubby walked Gus outside while I went up to his seventh floor office by elevator, of course, overlooking the water.
Sarasota is truly a lovely city with many medical facilities as well as waterways. We made an afternoon of it with picking up eats from St. Armands Circle at the Columbia Restaurant there, we ate in the car, it was raining:http://www.starmandscircleassoc.com/  
Then off to Lido Beach where we had stayed when we had lived on the other coast of Florida in Ormond Beach and had come there to visit the Ringling Museum when the boys were still young. The same Holiday Inn is still there, what a surprise; the only one, at the time that allowed us to stay with our first Yorkie, Benji, 1984-1998.

That was after my office visit that I was basically examined for my strengths of hands and legs and shoulders and ability to walk and hearing and sight, and I had all my questions on the ready from my end.
And the doctor had more tests necessary to get many answers on his end; from another VEP test for my eyes Visual Evoked Potential; it's been nine years since my last, for more info: http://www.webmd.com/multiple-sclerosis/evoked-potential-test-for-multiple-sclerosis

My walking test apparently I flunk and so now the doc wants to try me on Ampyra:  http://www.nationalmssociety.org/Treating-MS/Medications/Ampyra a new medication that can help you walk faster, wow!

Although it does have a few negative side effects and so I will be having some blood work done checking my kidneys and such.




Tuesday, June 9, 2015

"To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have."

Here we go again, a few night's ago we ordered, are you ready, sure you are ...from China City and we again must have looked like we were ordering for more than just us since we received for that order FOUR fortune cookies, although they know us for so long it could be they're just being generous?

Tonight I have an unusual problem for some reason I cannot recall which of us got which ones.
Old, you betcha and proud of it!
The older you get...well, let's face it you all know the alternative to NOT getting older, true? (For any of you youngins that might be scratching your heads the answer is DEAD!)
And yes I will be getting as old as I can that is if I am lucky!

The titled one is quite self explanatory I do believe, so I will let you just read it and agree.

Any-who, another one states, " What great things would you attempt if you knew you could not fail." This one is a little scary to me, you see if you never fail you never learn, in my opinion.

"Time heals most everything. Give it time, time."
Yes, with love loss or horrible days and some other non-lasting ills...In my opinion this is a wee bit cavalier, but you are entitled to yours of course!

"You have only begun to scratch the surface of your real potential."
Sure thing to all my friends and family we are all evolving no matter how old, so potential your potential!

1 : existing in possibility : capable of development into actuality <potential benefits> 2 : expressing possibility; specifically :.... of, relating to, or constituting a verb phrase expressing possibility, liberty, or power by the use of an auxiliary with the infinitive of the verb (as in it may rain


Thanks to: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/potential


Storm coming in gotta go, see ya!

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