Monday, August 31, 2015

The time has come to try...

...to think clearly in spite of my so-called adversity.

ad·ver·si·ty

/ədˈvərsədē/

noun

Yep, I seem to vaguely fit into that word's confines.

 Any-who, I shall go on...

Today was another day, not unlike many before its arrival.
Why is that?
Many might ask, but no not you, I think I know you all well enough to know you would not ask, since you have very logical reasoning and the ability to rationalize why something occurs or not, true?

But in spite of that I will tell the tale of why most days are similar to one another...You see, the days have so many hours allotted to them and that would also include minutes as well as seconds that are nearly identical, got that?
Now in order for a day to be even the slightest bit different from its neighbor prior to or after of its moments in the time space phenomenon or continuum it must be interjected with happenings unrelated to its previous or future selves, understand?

Happenings are influxes of actions contributed by patrons or users of these said days.
When no actions occur these days become identical and therefore not different so as one could tell unless extremely acute in differentiating skills.  
Thus, many of ill will become stagnant and assume they are in a black hole type situation where duplicity or constant duplications of their days are relentlessly continued and then dispersed. Not dissimilar or alike to the movie, Groundhog Day, circa 1993:https://en.wikipedia.org
/wiki/Groundhog_Day_%28film%29 

But in my case not as exciting, horifically.
Geez that word, "horrifically", does give an image of more exciting than what I stated...let your mind go wild with that!

In closing, no matter how one's day goes, it usually always does, and that is the same for each and everyone of us, so in order to change yours into something more interesting DO SOMETHING!
Ordinary is better used in your .......wait NOTHING, it is a very blah word, so make your own happenings daily and don't look back, we all get the same amount of hours, minutes and seconds daily so use them to their fullest! 

On that note of much thought and rethought using a lot of huhs 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, August 30, 2015

Anticipation

 Of rain?
Erika called it quits yesterday.
Dark clouds are now just arriving here.
We had been told that we are under a flood watch for the last few days in spite of Erika diminishing. 
The sky does have an ominous look to it, forboding. 
Yes, but so far we are lacking in moisture.
Now the thought of being careful of what you wish for, no I am not wishing for rain or a storm, just wondering about all the hullabalou. 
Hurricane and storm possibilities were cancelled, and you would think you could cut the disappoint factor with the meteorologists and news anchors with a knife, sooooo thick and sooooo sad, no chatter of being careful to us their public.
Normal afternoon rain is so ordinary.
Their excitement with the possibility of a major weather story is palatable, but has fizzled with our ordinary weather.
Fred is now in the north Atlantic but has nothing to do with us...yet!
Male then female and then male and female names for these systems and yes we are already up to "F", Fred, a tropical storm but far, far away...
As I write now/tonight the rain has finally arrived after all, thunder and all, lightning too.

We will have more rain in the morning too!
Scary!
Not really.
Apathetic to the rain.
Gus is not, he is frightened, and it is true that actually I am too!
Not the rain, nor the thunder (Gus thunder too), but the lightning, as we all know that is the bad stuff.
Although, being waterfront and only at a nine foot elevation above the waterline I suppose with the threat of flooding it should be concerning, but we are saltwater waterfront not fresh land locked water front, and so no storm surge without an actual storm, true?
So I will stick with my fear of lightning, only.
It can go through water pipes, electrical lines, windows etc...
So being inside is better, but not totally safe either!
Our electrical items are hooked up to special surge protectors, but we are not! Someone should invent that!
Yep, that is my reasoning and no one can talk me out of it!

On that note of whatever...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!
 

Saturday, August 29, 2015

Trying hard to be...

...something that I am not!
And that is someone who doesn't say anything about their pain.
So sorry people I am in horrible pain and this from a woman who had two four and half month miss-carriages!
And labor for one of our full-term sons for twenty-nine and half hours!
But that was worth it, due to having a beautiful healthy baby after! (The other one was only four and half hours of labor, much quicker.)
So when I say that I am in a lot of pain I do have a reference.
This is also from a woman who walked on a broken leg for two days! 
Please understand I am only explaining due to people making light of pain.
The hard part is that I am also well medicated and still have continuous pain.
Burning, twisting, gnawing, pain as if my skin is being ripped off of me, my legs that is. My right shoulder and wrist and hand make this very difficult, but for some crazy reason 
And I am not alone with this, many people suffer from this, and are told to buck up and basically to shut up.
Or go to pain centers that fill you full of more injectable high test drugs. 
Doing the simplest task calls for icing.
I still have that mysterious low grade fever even after ten days of antibiotics, daily in the afternoon.
I am waiting to hear back from my neuro's office that I called
yesterday.
I have spoken to the pharmacist with Ampyra my newest medication to see if that could be causing this or stress from all the surgeries and infection creating another exacerbation of my M S, both are possibles so that is why the call to the that doctor.
I even heard back from the Copaxone people who have been supporting me these last five years, but so far no doctor.

Frustrating, don't want to lose another one. 

This is more a spilling of feelings than anything else.
Thanks for listening.
 
Good night.

Friday, August 28, 2015

I hate when...

...people that I hardly know call me sweetie, honey, dearie or whatever instead of asking me my name, and let's not forget the ones who add a "Y" to the end of your name, in another effort of familiarity and cutseyness, which is not or ever will be your name and not even your parents or siblings still address you as such if at anytime in your history had actually been.
I have a tendency to call them that condescending nickname back at them or other term of inappropriate endearment too to get even or just state my name and their given name with no funny business since most of the people I am referring to are wearing a name tag with their preferred  moniker to be called by.
Come on people if you are in business of any kind act professionally!
I'm not your family, or personal new best buddy, we just met, and I am either a client, customer or patient, but many separations of knowing you at all too .
Intimacy is for spouses and family and true friends for years and years, perhaps twenty or more.
Oh I don't know ... I just cringe when people I hardly know do that! 
Since I do not!
And I was a business woman for over thirty years, and never ever called my employees or my customers/clients, words of inappropriateness.

Moving on...

Yes, I call Hubby by his given name in the shortened form he prefers, but we have known each since 1967 and have been married since 1971, which more than meets my criteria two times over and he is related, although just  by marriage, ours, ha! When we were young and dating I did add that "Y" to his name, but we became very close very fast truly! 

Moving on once more...
Again we  are in a wait and see mode with the threat of a tropical storm Erika heading right at us or perhaps not; it first was thought to be a category one hurricane when it entered our cone of uncertainty, but has been down graded to tropical storm maybe... if it goes more westerly it may be gone from us and into the Gulf of Mexico, or wind sheared by the mountainous islands south of here. So as with all these things it is best to prepare for the worst and hope for the best.

So we will...that is Hubby will, gas tank is full,we are waterfront property so we are the first to be evacuated with our nine foot elevation. And we upped our insurances from the last direct hit in 2004, and of course we still have wind and flood, fire, theft, sink hole etc.insurances.
Even our boat and car are appropriately insured, so we can evacuate with all that info and pictures too, the befores.
Food and water for three to five days, for us and Gus, medications
clothes, and bedding, doggy toys and his bed too!
Board games, books, radios, with cell towers possibly down; old school entertainment will be a welcome distraction.
Don't forget to waterproof priceless family pictures or take with as well as other important documentations. 

Medical update: I am still numb, leg and arm wise and eyes are in  and out. Numbness great for my Copaxone shots but scary just the same, pain is a constant, so I am taking another Gabapentin and extra strength Tylenol by instructions.

Weather update: storm surge for us is possible! Monday.

On these notes 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! 

 PS: My dad is probably rolling over in his grave saying I told you not to say  "HATE", about anything, instead say that you "don't like." (Or better yet find something that you do like in any given situation.)
Okay "I don't like when..." My subtitle, a compromise, okay Dad?

Wednesday, August 26, 2015

Harborwalk Scoops and Bites, best in U.S. ice cream right here in River City AKA Punta Gorda Florida!

A five year in existence family run business run with love and old fashioned flair and product quality and customer care friendliness is the same as in the olden days. No wonder they were named No.1 ice cream parlor in America and they are right here in our local Charlotte County Florida backyard in Laishley Park on the beautiful Peace River, in Punta Gorda, which pays credence to their expression of uniqueness saying, "Where you can enjoy the view with your ice cream!" Come on down!
Full story link below:


Menu below:

Here is a list of their homemade flavors:

Black Cherry 
Black Raspberry
Butter Pecan
Captain Rum Raisin
Cherry Vanilla
Chocolaty Chocolate Chip
Chocolate Chip vs. Cookie Dough 
Chocolate Hapiness
Coffee
Coffee Chip
Cookies and Cream
Kit Kat Crunch
Mapple Walnut
Mint Chocolate Chip
Moo Tracks
Simply Caramel
StrawberryToasted Coconut
Turtelicious
Vanilla
Vanilla Chip

And our Big Olaf Creamery Flavors*:
Birthday Cake
Chocolate Deluge
Chocolate Peanut Butter
Cotton Candy
Mocha Almond Fudge
Pistachio
Rocky Road
Superman
No-Sugar Added Butter Pecan
No-Sugar Added Vanilla Caramel

*Big Olaf in case you are not familiar with them, is a small creamery in Sarasota. We have carried their products for the past 5 years and will continue to do so, until we have created all of our own flavors. 

VINTAGE SODAS
We have a large variety of these "back to the past" bottles, come and enjoy a taste that WILL bring back memories!!! With REAL sugar! The make awesome "Vintage Floats" 

Ale8
A&W Root Beer
Americana Black Cherry
Bubble Up
Cheerwine
Coca Cola
Coco Fizz
Dad's Root Beer
Doug n' Suds
Dr.Pepper
Foxon Park White Birch
Frostie Blue Cream Soda
Frostie Root Beer
Mountain Dew
Moxie
Nehi Grape
Nehi Orange
Nehi Peach
Old Brooklin Cream Soda
Sioux City Orange Cream
Sioux City Sarsparilla
Vernors


And here is our menu with prices:

We are the home of the 50 cents bottled water - 16.9 

oz - NO, it's not a misprint!
(941) 505-8880
An Oasis from the heat! Inside is as cool and amazing with an incredible windowed view too! (The above view PIC was taken just his morning by Hubby!)


Ice Cream Products

Single scoop - $2.80
Double scoop - $3.70
Kiddie size - $2.40
Single Waffle bowl or cone - $3.40
Double Waffle bowl or cone - $4.15
Get it chocolate dipped! $0.30
Milkshake - $4.20
Malt - $4.50
Float - $4.20
Vintage Float - $4.80
Hot Fudge Sundae - $4.60
Banana Split - $5.75

Brazilian products

Cafe Pilao - 500 gr - $8.88
Cafe Pilao - 250 gr - $4.88

Drinks
Brazilian Iced Coffee - $1.75 - 20 oz
Guarana Antartica can - $1.25
Passion Fruit Sparkling Juice can - $1.25
Passion Fruit Sparkling Juice bottle -$1.25
Vintage Sodas - $2.00 glass bottle
Arizona Green Tea - $1.25
Gatorade - $1.50 - 20 oz
Coke, Diet Coke, Pepsi, Diet Pepsi, Dr.Pepper, Mountain Dew, and
Canada Dry can - $.93
Hot Coffee - $1.50 - 12 oz
Hot Chocolate - $1.50 - 12 oz

Harborwalk Scoops & Bites Ice Cream in Punta Gorda, FL.

Tuesday, August 25, 2015

A little bit...

...More awake, that is to say since I did get a better night's sleep last night, with my nose not running too much, only when I use the recommended saline spray, every two hours during the day.
Legs still numb, make that my thighs, twins.
Shoulder pain and wrist and hand on right side all being iced periodically; works better than moist heat for this type of pain.
Oh I almost forgot this reaction that I had all weekend is normal for this type of surgery; I Googled it again!

...Did make homemade chicken soup from leftover rotisserie chicken carcass, (we had quite a few meals from the rest, including chicken salad), thyme, kosher salt and black pepper, two sodium free chicken bouillon packets, frozen mixed veggies, mushrooms, fresh 1/2 of medium onion and four garlic cloves, water, no wide noodles in the house so added brown rice instead.
MMMMMMMmmmmmm good, mmmmmmmmmm, good and hopefully healing.    

Moving on...

Heard from Number One Son these last couple of days, and he lets me babble, what a great son.I suppose he has my listening skills; because I certainly don't.

 Had my new mail-order RX, Humana, send me two emails over the last week so I took inventory and found out that out the five medications that they wanted to send of those I only needed two after taking my own inventory. So I called and ordered my ninety day supply of the two, my thyroid one and one of the two antispasmodics that I take.
Hopefully the order will be here within the five to seven days that they state it takes to arrive.
The only reason I seem speculative is because they robo called me only a couple hours later asking if I would like to order my medications and then read the list, and I said no to all, thinking I had just ordered two of the five on their robo call list.
I over thought again and decided to call them to make sure that now they did not cancel the ones I had just ordered earlier, since I said no to the robo call same ones...oh boy does this seem like dejevu and a bit confusing.

 In a few more days I will be hopefully discussing other things than my ills...I do have a place of distinction I would like to give the additional publicity it deserves. So stay tuned!

Upward and onward eventually, and on that higher 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 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, August 24, 2015

And the beat goes on...

...Yep, no better yet, dang!
Today and yesterday my both legs are doing the non-gyration of burning twisting dance of silence, not to mention my shoulder pain and numbness so much so in those thighs that it was my Copaxone day and I did not even feel the shot at all in my right thigh; make any sense to you?
Not me either.
The best I can tell is that according to my Googling again that ridiculously it could be another exacerbation of the MS due to stress culminating from the surgery itself! Oh joy, here we go again.

And I have been taking all my medication except for the no no fish pill and aspirin, it said no blood thinners for two to four weeks after surgery. I have been taking the Tylenol, even though my temperature does go up with or without it; this is so confusing.
I did ask the hospital about the muscle relaxer in the IV and I was told not that particular one that I had mentioned two blogs ago, and so once again I was WRONG, but nothing new there, hmm?   

I do have an ENT appointment in the middle of the week, and I did speak with the doctor and he feels that it is the MS causing all this.
His wife also has MS, so I tend to believe him.
Although, I do not want to go on the IVs again, perhaps this will dissipate on its own?
Who am I kidding I am never ever am that lucky that is not needing medical intervention...so yes DANG!

On that note of what to do, what to do, maybe nothing is the answer, less is more and all that, 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 those overages with you know whom and we will too!

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

Sunday, August 23, 2015

Latest development

Last night I continued to have that nasty sinus headache, not unlike a migraine that caused me to vomit up dinner, and today my low grade fever is back in spite of being on an antibiotic since last Tuesday, along with continuing myalgia from the risidual affects of the anesthesia, methinks.
Lest us not forget the antibiotic via my IV during this surgery too, hmm I am definitely baffled.
I did try extra strength Tylenol today again due to the fever going up to 99.8F and my aches and pains, it has come down slightly, but still above 99.3 and it has been two and half hours since I had taken the Tylenol?
I even verified that a low grade fever is one between 99 and 100, and it is a negative in overall health. And this one has been hanging around for months in the afternoon.   
The problem is that my doctors have addressed any of the possible causes, between my skin cancer biopsies and then surgery, optic neuritis with IV steroids, and my chronic sinus issues with antibiotics and surgery, even that bout with food poisoning a few months ago more antibiotics and a  colonoscopy due to occult blood and clots, mystifying actually and a bit crazy. 

What more can one do?
I suppose if it doesn't stop soon we  do  have both the Cleveland clinic and the Mayo clinic in state, at either end, oh well... 

On this note of gals just want to be well, a quality of life issue, truly, allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night and ask you all to count 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!

Saturday, August 22, 2015

What an interesting feeling that I am feeling...

BAD!
 Below is the link to the info I gleaned while trying hard not to give in and fill the hard drug script of medication the doctor gave to me, with an all telling smile of knowing what was going to happen. I did not fill it yet, instead I tried extra strength Tylenol and another Gabapentin that was upped during my herniated disc time and then it worked, but not this time. Tried both and they failed, so moist heat and icing, again.
And it's sort of my fault that when asked my the anesthesiology team about how difficult with my cervical stenosis for me to be intubated, all I said was I usually have a sore throat after.
Little did I know that there was a way for them to do it easier for them but not for the patient later dealing with the after affects. 
 What they do these days, although when I was also had a general anesthesia for my colonoscopy a couple of months ago they apparently did not do it since I did not have this problem... 

Achy like I was working out, doing a few hundred sits ups after not exercising all these years in the stomach region; so much so that it is difficult to get out of bed. My right shoulder that does have bursitis with a tear in the muscle causing the type of injury that would end a pro pitchers career I was told when found on a MRI years ago and perhaps rotator cuff damage by now, and yep nasty pain there too. And that sore throat too! Surgery a nasty business that should be avoided at all costs, but sometimes you have no choice like I was told I hadn't. So far my nose has calmed with the amount of blood coming out, no more clots just teensy weensy drips and mucous that I have dab not blow out no sneezing through it or coughing either only through the mouth, not easy I tell you!
Very congested today even with the vaporizer running, using saline, and the polysporin. Sleeping sitting up with pillows and that bed thingy you use for reading and TV viewing. I cannot let Gus our Havanese kiss me, bacteria and all, I miss his sweet loving licks; sadly he thinks I am angry with him, since when I tried to bend down to talk to him yesterday my nose started to hemorrhage with clots and everything,scary. They even put another antibiotic in my IV even with the pill one I am taking since last Tuesday!Staying in bed for that reason etc.
 Below it tells everything!  Thanks to Net Wellness:
The link is the same as it allowed me to copy and paste entirely below, shocker!
http://www.netwellness.org/healthtopics/anesthesiology/musclepain.cfm

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Anesthesia

Anesthesia and Muscle Pain

After surgery the incision is sometimes not the only area of discomfort. Discomfort can occur in relation to nausea and vomiting, sore throat, or muscle pains. You may experience an everyday sort of discomfort in the neck, shoulders, back, or chest that comes from lying for a prolonged time on an operating table designed not for comfort but for stability, durability and access. Perhaps surprisingly, muscle pain can also be a result of a particular drug used during anesthesia.

Postoperative Muscle Pain (Myalgia)

Severe muscle and joint discomfort that may be experienced after surgery is known as postoperative muscle pain (myalgia). This is a fairly common, quite distressing, but rather interesting condition. It usually appears on the first day after surgery, is often described as feeling similar to the pain one might suffer after unaccustomed physical exercise, and is usually located in the neck, shoulder and upper abdominal muscles.
There are a few theories about the cause of postoperative myalgia, but it is usually attributed to the use of a muscle relaxant drug called succinylcholine. Hence this is sometimes referred to as "scoline pain".

Succinylcholine and Scoline

If the muscle relaxant succinylcholine, also known as scoline, has been used during anesthesia, this may in some patients cause generalized aches and pains in the muscles for two to three days. This drug is sometimes used routinely, though less so now than years ago, and also has a special place in situations when the anesthesiologist needs to place a breathing tube in the patient's throat (intubate) very quickly. These pains, often referred to as scoline pains, are more prevalent in very muscular and fit patients.

What Causes the Pain?

Although the problem of postoperative myalgia has been recognized for many years, the exact way in which succinylcholine causes this muscle pain is not fully understood. Most believe that it is due to uncoordinated contraction of muscles that occurs a few seconds before the muscle relaxation that is the desired effect of the drug.

Prevention of the Pain

It is also not clear how best to prevent scoline pain, short of avoiding the use of this drug altogether. It is natural to ask then why we continue to use this medication, and the reason is that succinylcholine, despite a few significant side-effects, is a very reliable and quick-acting muscle relaxant that helps the anesthesiologist "secure" the airway (place a breathing tube).

Who is at Risk?

Muscle pain from succinylcholine is most common in young female patients, especially those undergoing ambulatory surgery (going home the same day as the surgery). The incidence of myalgia with succinylcholine ranges widely - in some reports it's as low as 1.5% but can be as high as 80 - 90%. To add to the mystery, some patients experience myalgia even when they are not given succinylcholine at all, and other patients, such as those given succinylcholine in the course of electroconvulsive (shock) therapy do not seem to complain of myalgia at all!

How long to the effects last?

Postoperative myalgia does not normally go on for a long time and usually it is symmetrical and affects muscles throughout the body Typically the pain lasts 2 or 3 days and it can be quite severe. Fortunately it does go away without specific treatment. Standard pain medicines, such as acetaminophen can be prescribed.

What You Can Do

Talk to Your Anesthesiologist

If you've experienced muscle pain after previous anesthesia, you or your anesthesiologist may be able to obtain the records of your previous anesthetic and hospital stay. This will supply clues about what happened to you during your last surgery. Be sure to discuss your concerns with your anesthesiologist, whose job is to evaluate you thoroughly and come up with a plan to provide you with a safe anesthetic, with minimum side-effects.

Alternative Drugs

The good news is that there are other muscle relaxant drugs than can almost always be used instead of succinylcholine. This will not guarantee that you do not have the myalgia again but probably makes it much less likely.
If the use of succinylcholine cannot be avoided, (this is rare), there are methods for decreasing the incidence and severity of the muscle pain, such as giving a very small dose of another muscle relaxant before the succinylcholine, or by giving a local anesthetic medication called lidocaine.

General Information on Succinylcholine or Scoline

SUCCINYLCHOLINE (Anectine®) is a muscle relaxant. It relaxes muscles during surgery or before investigational procedures. Generic succinylcholine injections are available. Succinylcholine is for injection into a vein, or infusion into a vein. It is given by a health-care professional in a hospital or clinic setting.

How much is given?

Your doctor or anesthesiologist will decide what dose of Scoline you will receive. This depends on factors such as your weight, age, the type of operation and the degree of muscle relaxation required.

How it is given?

Scoline is given as a slow injection or infusion into a vein (intravenous). It is only used after the anaesthetic has made you fully 'asleep'.

Could I overdose?

As Scoline is given to you only by trained professional, it is very unlikely that you will receive too much.

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Last Reviewed: Oct 05, 2010

Gareth S Kantor, MD Gareth S Kantor, MD
Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology
School of Medicine
Case Western Reserve University

Friday, August 21, 2015

Today was...

...My surgery and it went well. (Anyone wondering what surgery read last night's blog please)

I guess I am tired due to every time I get up my nosy drips bright red blood from its surgery, supposed normal.

Tomorrow I will say more...sore and in a bit of pain too...gotta go... thanks for listening.

Thursday, August 20, 2015

I dont know about you but...

As a kid to me surprises were wonderful, that is as long as they were good ones, not bad ones, sorry for that; I know duh.
Any-who, call me curious odd or just plain weird (but not to my face please) but I did Google my surgery for my septoplasty, sinus, deviated septum, that will be done in my near future, actually I am being vague due to safety reasoning's. 
And it was as simple as Googling it and then going over and watching the specific one from an ENT, ear nose and throat guy/doc in Seattle, fascinating!
Definitely not for the faint of heart or squeamish souls, but very interesting, truly. Although, I gave you the link below if you dare to go there:
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xn4a80_deviated-septum-before-and-after-septoplasty-seattle-septoplasty-surgeon_lifestyle

I am one of those weirdos that did even enjoy watching all those orthopedic surgeries too, on that medical channel we had way back when we did have cable. Knee and hip replacements I found quite interesting, but thankfully to date I have not needed either of them. Perhaps it was helpful though when I became immersed in the Arthritis Foundation years later from being a board member to a fundraiser to a co-president of our local support group and a certified Aquatics instructor, besides dealing with eight of the more than one hundred different types of arthritis that I do have myself.  

Geez with all these accesses we are so fortunate, and makes learning as a daily process oh so that much easier.
Oh, I did have another rough sleeping night, even with the vaporizer running, icing my head, and having my middle of the night coffee break thus my choice of viewing pleasure, well not really pleasure more like curiosity, and was once again thrilled I will be out, under, as in general anesthesia.
Yep no fish pill or aspirin, again due to their blood thinning capabilities. In fact before, and on the day of surgery I will be allowed only five of my must have medications of my nearly twenty pills I take daily, including vitamins, which are not on the list.
I was surprised that my two anti-spasmodics, Baclofen and Gabapentin were not included; maybe a mistake, meanwhile I called the hospital and the person that wrote this up in the pretest department was gone for the day and a nurse in surgery told me to call the doctor so now I am embarrassed and concerned I am bothering him so close to surgery, oh well... but if I spasm on the table Hubby joked, not that funny, that I could end up with a third nostril!

So now I wait and pray that I did not anger another doctor, especially one with a scalpel.

On that note of I suppose whatever will be will be, 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 with Hurricane Danny heading towards the Caribbean south of here... we will be watching him closely all weekend if he doesn't fizzle sooner. One can only hope, can't one?

PSS this just in: Dr. Moss, my ENT just called back and he laughed at Hubby's joke and said, no we wouldn't want that and that I should take the Baclofen and Gabapentin, yeah!

Wednesday, August 19, 2015

Male spoiler alert!

Brings me to the interesting fact of proof of what women have been saying forever that women think with their brains, thus a pink pill that its affects go directly to their brain, for increasing libido, as I just did say, and men on the other hand, stop giggling, think with their, dare I say, yep I will... not with their brains; thus their blue pill used for ED, erectile dysfunction, in case you missed their last provocative commercial on the topic...hmm I do find that validation for us gals.

I also find it interesting that pharmaceutical companies went the way too cutesy route by color coding the male pill-blue and female pill-pink in all their possible decisions. To them I say even Target is ahead of the curve with gender-specific color and mentioning boy or girl being removed from their toys' signage departments from their stores, that-a-way, go Tar-jay! 

Just thinking again, or not.

Moving on...

Today was eye doc follow up day and he has made an appointment for me with a neurological ophthalmologist to find out what is still going on after he once again checked my eye pressure, but in spite of it being within the normal range I am showing some edema in, would you believe, lefty? And my sight stinks with both.
After being on the IV Solu Medrol for three days, which is now nearly two weeks ago, but Geez of course can take longer to work and has for me previously, and having this nasty infection and being on a very strong  antibiotic, called Levofloxacin 500 mg. once a day for ten, second one taken tonight. I am not too fine.
So as you can well imagine I am waiting for its miraculous powers to kick in, probably in a few more doses, I suspect.
This icing your head thingy is annoying and is getting old, but now I also have a vaporizer running, as per future post surgery suggestion via ENT doc.
Weird how we use our central air-conditioner to remove the humidity and now we are putting some back in...
We had to buy one at he drug store; hadn't had one since our sons were little.
And no,  I haven't had the surgery yet but will be having it very soon.

On that once again proof note that I do still have a brain and can think, I think, I suppose its still a matter of opinion... allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night and ask you all kindly to 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, August 18, 2015

Surgery!

This time on my nosy nose.
Many might feel it is about time.
But in reality they would definitely be absolutely correct!
Although, my proboscis has never ever been considered large, it has had many other issues that have culminated in this final outcome calling for surgical intervention.
Breathing problems and sinusitis, might prevent sleep apnea, a symptom causing snoring, could have been as well as an old injury from being hit in it by either a ball or some other item of pain causing material, perhaps an elbow, who remembers, really, all at one time or another, causing my septum to now be deviated, sounds sort of dirty, but not really, it means crooked!
More runny than dirty truly. 
And this latest causal effect of infection, headache, face-ache, and low grade fevers, etc. all in that region; could even be my eyeball pain, but that is for the eye doc to determine who I will be seeing too. 
ENT doc has me going in for pre-testing this week with surgery the day after.
Fast and furious, nothing like taking the bull by the horns to finally SOLVING THE PROBLEM, I do hope so.
Going into the hospital as an outpatient that is good, whole shebang will take about five hours I have been told for this very common surgery.
No blowing the nose or sneezing out of it for days after, since it will be on nose rest, really!
 My eyes should not be black, but my nose will be possibly packed with gauze or not and may appear bruised.
So many possibilities...
I will be under anesthesia, and had to give up baby aspirin and fish pill due to their bleeding problems as blood thinners, all the rest my legal drugs are fine.
On an anti-biotic now and after too.

So that's what up and my head is being iced as I write this evening and so as many may guess I am anxious to feel better real soon, and allow me now to wish all of you a very 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 all this is being done after steroid spray and over the counter sinus medication and saline sprays for over a year, and after two MRIs showed the problem significantly on them.

Monday, August 17, 2015

Back from neuro's office

The most recent blood-work shows an infection that they, neuro's pa feels caused the exacerbation, quite high white blood cell count, now I at least know why the low grade fever all this time, hmm?
Probably my sinuses, and now have another ENT appointment.

Spoke with eye doc too and since my eyes are still not good I will be seeing, odd chose of word, although appropriate, again. 
 Feeling pooped... TTYL
 

Sunday, August 16, 2015

So I was thinking that...

As Americans we enjoy speaking our thoughts out loud, and that's a given; true?
Caution in expression when you have one or more on here, hmm?
Everything is copacetic, meaning, very satisfactory; but when it comes to the world it sadly is not.
The tendency is to check our words, since they are so powerful and can make you and who you use them on happy, sad, mad, etc.

So watch out! (Especially me.)

Moving on...

Next thought and odd to many; I am bruised from the IVs like I had not been before, two locations on that side, my left arm where the nurse, who just so happened to be older than me and suffers from  retinitis pigmentosa, so it took her three tries the first time and two on the second. And the first was not installing an IV, just going the direct vein route, but Hubby thought that is why there was a problem and said something to her so the next day she installed the IV like all the previous nurses had and with the equipment sent to handle the medication. So she had only to put in the Solu Medrol medication for the second and third days.
Here's where it gets curious, my right arm is also bruised and no IV was installed there, and there is also a flaky white colored pearlized bump. My concern is that when I was in the pool Monday and Tuesday I did on my short break weed the planters at the far end of the pool deck, heavily laden with grass from all the rain we have been having, due most likely from seeds spreading in the wind or from birds. I do realize that was way too long ago to be responsible for a spider bite, but that is the only thing I can up with, other than a couple of daddy-long leg spiders we have in the house that I reach down and kill in tissue and flush.
I do see my neuro this week and Hubby suggested I ask while there.
You do know that I was not being unkind about the nurse, but she seemed to have sour grapes saying that she will never be able to retire and that sadly her husband was in a wheel chair due to a freak falling accident crushing his vertebrae in his neck, my heart goes out to her and her family. She also mentioned that she was a breast cancer survivor, brava lady well done.
Every time I hear these things I feel a bit of guilt, but happy too that somehow we had scaled down in time to know that what we had would be enough to live on without too much concern. 
We are truly very lucky.
I only wish that others were too.
On that note of my thoughts out loud, 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 whom and we will too!

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

Saturday, August 15, 2015

Thinking, again

Welcome Cuba!And thank you for welcoming us.
Or not.
Repressing your people is still not cool.
We have many of your past residents enjoying their freedom free will and their ability to be financially rewarded for their positive effects on our country by what they chose to do.
Our opening of relations with you is a bit like perestroika, just like it actually if you take advantage of it: for those of you whom may have forgotten:

"pe·re·stroi·ka

/ˌperəˈstroikə/

noun
  • 1. (in the former Soviet Union) the policy or practice of restructuring or reforming the economic and political system. First proposed by Leonid Brezhnev in 1979 and actively promoted by Mikhail Gorbachev, perestroika originally referred to increased automation and labor efficiency, but came to entail greater awareness of economic markets and the ending of central planning"
  • "glas·nost

    /ˈɡlazˌnōst/

    noun
    • 1. (in the former Soviet Union) the policy or practice of more open consultative government and wider dissemination of information, initiated by leader Mikhail Gorbachev from 1985
    And hopefully glasnost.
  • And wall came tumbling down in 1989; did you know?
  • "The Walls Came Tumbling Down! - Russian Life

    www.russianlife.com/blog/walls-tumbling-down
    Anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the beginning of Russia's transformation to democracy. ... On November 9, 1989, the wall came down."
  •  So much news that is now history; I thought you might want to know, ya know.
  • Over the years our country has become, in many places bi-lingual and welcoming to most all who come to change their lives legally.
  • Others have been discussed often and our government has been trying hard to solve the volume by which so many wish to become members of our country and might I add not all from yours, but other Spanish speaking places are in that majority.
  • Your culture in particular has blended well with most parts of Florida and we have two cities in particular where Cuban people have acclimated so well, Tampa and Miami and cultural-wise have brought wonderful things to share.
  • Many have continued in their professions, but here get compensated appropriately. 
  • I am an older woman, but still just a child in 1961, eleven years of age, and remember much from the news at that time what had transpired.
  • Please dear men in charge of your country help your people to be their best and prosper or this idea of opening up to the US will be sadly more difficult to all family and friends who did come here and miss your country for to them they felt no choice in leaving their homes there and would love to be able to return, if only for a visit, yes a visit.
  • I do believe they feel our country is theirs too now after all this time, fifty-four years; after all it is a lifetime for many.
  • Be able to put yourself in their place and become understanding.
  • That's all for this to truly work much change is needed and you have that power to change and that would be your legacy to your people.
  • Good night to all and to all be fair and honest to ones true heart, in life that is what counts in the end.
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