Saturday, October 31, 2015

SCARY! BUT TRUE! MUMMY HAND EXPOSED!

 A mysterious bloody cover-up!

Then exposed!


Guess not so mysterious...waterproofing for submerging!
Once all clean and ready to go MUMMY HAND GONE AND WHAT REMAINED CREATED AN ORANGE SUBSTANCE< CLAIMING TO BE BUTTERNUT SQUASH SOUP FOR DINNER!INGESTED BY ALL AND STILL ALIVE! BUT ALAS THE EFFORT CAUSED MINUSCULE HEMORRHAGES! MUST BE AN OMEN...OH NO!
So the limb has retired for this night, oh wait, not yet but soon...Now seems right so good night!
 
Reality check below:
PS: A course of ten days of Amoxicillin/clavulanic acid 875-125 mg 2X a day is being given to waylay any possible infection, begun last night on all Hallow's Eve!
Ha,ha,ha,ha,ha, ha,and scene!

Friday, October 30, 2015

Thursday, October 29, 2015

Hot stuff no more!


 I have always been a spicy kind of gal.
In the sense that I love jalapenos,hot sauces,curry powder, hot mustard ect. I have even been known to put jalapenos on my tuna salad sandwich and had eaten most all of them most of my adult life.
Now all of a sudden I can't eat any of them without tremendous tummy pain!
And we have plans to go to New Orleans very soon.
Boy, I was so looking forward to gumbo and all their other spicy renown dishes! And of course listening to their great music will still be fine!
What's a girl to do about the food thingy though?  

Well, maybe that's not totally true about certain foods.
Tonight's dinner consisted of tame tastes of tilapia, sweet potato and cauliflower, and here I lie with also too much stomach distress.
Consequently, I am still playing detective on what might be the cause.
You see, I am on stomach medication for GERD but over the counter prescribed by my gastroenterologist years ago the equivalent of Prilosec but generic and double the dose, taken after dinner nightly. I was also told that I should take Pepcid Complete twice a day, but most days I haven't had to take it and that is a generic too, but lately...
All I can think of is how my tummy kept my figure in check as a young woman; I had chronic gastritis and ulcers in those days and stayed thin due to that, a ninety pound frame.
Maybe my tummy is doing that again?
Heaven knows I have had most all tests for anything serious, and all is good. So I will accept the omen as an adjustment in my body, since we like fashion are on seven year cycles.
Skin and organs too if I recall.
Who knows, but if so this could be just the thing I need to change my portions and speed in the way I eat, mostly all healthy choices.
Sadly though, spicy foods are supposed to increase metabolism and ward off stomach cancer and now will be no longer eaten on my personal menu.
Hopefully I have ingested enough to help with those positive effects to last...

On that note of she said what, 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 yor overages with you know whom and we will too!

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

Wednesday, October 28, 2015

Oh memories of days of olde...

Oh wait, this was today!

Sadly though with many good things in life there is also a downside!
And that is for any of us that now take Social Security income from our long years of working that had been taken out of our paychecks for our old/older age, "older" was for some who are age phobic... this year due to the above lower gasoline prices our brilliant government has come to the conclusion that we should not get our usual COLA, acronym for cost of living increases. Which in reality is NOT that usual, due to another couple of years we did not have any either, and last year's it was a whopping 1.7%, not such a BIG/GOOD DEAL!

Albeit, the fact that most all people collecting social security no longer work and so with their concept of the why is that we should all be happy and grateful but in truth we barely drive compared to working folks, and therefore the lower prices are not that great a help to them/us on social security!

WHAT?????? 
My sentiments exactly!
Sure it is like old times again, gas price wise, but and this a BIG but, groceries, clothing, medicine, health care, housing, utilities, insurances and on and on and on have all increased in their prices, in some cases twofold, threefold and on and on! That is even with Medicare, supplements picking up the remaining 20% for some couples is as much as $400 a month adding onto the $104.90 automatically taken out of each individuals monies also monthly, so that adds up to approximately $610 a month for many couples on social security.
Many are not lucky enough to have pensions too or savings to tap into, so this issue can be HUGE for many seniors!
And a very difficult problem.
But so long as gas prices keep going down according to the powers that be we may never see a rightful COLA for us to catch up to the world.
And this is from the richest country in the world!
Yep, those one percenters again!
They get free healthcare and access to less expensive anything, NOT FAIR!

Okay, I am not wanting for gas prices to go back up to nearly four dollars a gallon although that's what Europe and many other countries pay, oh no, all I am saying is their figuring on what constitutes good decisions for adjusting COLAS and what does not has to change in respect to social security!

That's all for tonight.
On this absurd note, but true tone, 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! 

Tuesday, October 27, 2015

Politically Correct!

Okay folks I will eventually be chiming in but at this point the field of contenders is a bit too vast for my liking's, and so I will wait till the herd is thinned a bit.
Who in my cache of friends doesn't love a great jousting of creatively written opinionated pieces from anyone with half a brain, and I like to think that I more than qualified for that tango/tangle.
Front runners change daily in spite of what non-toupee man has to say about the polls.
That is unless they favor him, how odd?
Not really, many a male/female whom has had an unrealistic belief in their abilities to impress more people than is truly the case do exist, all over the world if the truth be told.
And as long as we are not fooled by these fools we are safe from their fluffy brain washing.

So here is what we are going to do, oh I meant just me I am willing to wait, although you may join in if you care to too, until the last two are left from either side and then decide once they wash away the blowhards and insecure and low poll numbers and ones numbers nonexistent, except in their brains/minds, used loosely. Their fighting is nearly tangible, but not yet illegal.
Their battle of wills and bills and monetary tills has begun soon enough for all us in their somewhat nasty minds their who are proclaimed under-breath's their so-called shills, but no never or not ever.
We must go to those polls when then open and prove that we care and hope they do too for when they are only two and that is all anyone of us can do... but we must vote and hope the ones left are truly the best! For the alternative of not voting is just plain horrifically wrong and way too sad a song.

So opinions flow and everybody knows that we all have that right to speak once we get better informed; for knowledge is power and we all want that, the ability to truly make a difference and an informed decision and when we vote that we do.

On that note of where I will be standing in the next year here and if I must sit to learn so be it, but I shall try hard to, and so now 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!

Monday, October 26, 2015

So as we all know trying again is all anyone can do...

Last night my computer misbehaved and erased/deleted two completed blogs that I was writing for your consumption.
And as anyone who knows me and this blog is that I love to maintain my daily diary here and that extreme disappointment was upsetting for me to accept.
I am nothing if not resilient though and also guilty of having too much time on my hands is helpful to consider that attitude to try try again as we had told our children."If at once you don't succeed, try, try again!"

So tonight's blog although it is a continuation of my life's daily experiences and perceptions I will go on beyond last night's upset.
Why rehash anything annoying, true?
I am writing again with faith in the probability that I will not have that same problem again.

I think it may have occurred when I went over to Yahoo to search and retrieve a definition, and copied and pasted it here. My theory is that the sites are now stopping you by doing what happened. Now it is only a paranoid theory, but logical in so many ways.

Any-who, that fact is if I took the time and wrote what it said free hand instead I do not believe it would not have happened. 

Oh dear! Do you all realize what I just did? I did what I did not want to do, I did rehash the whole thing, and I even stated that I would not above! Ha!

Moving on...

My ear has been healing very nicely with using the salve this last week and since I completed the week of the antibiotic the week before. Only problem is that my ear hurts terribly when applying the salve still and if I accidentally lie on it in my sleep when it pops out of my Styrofoam cushion Hubby had cut out for me like a doughnut hole.
So I called the dermatologist's office and I will be going back in this week to see what's going on?

My chronic care plan person and I spoke today and found the plan may need some tweaking and so we will discuss it again this week.

On these notes of what is going on in my tiny world, 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 here!

PS: October 26, 1955 my niece Arlene was born and sadly she passed away October 13, 2006 from colon cancer. She was just five years younger than me. My half brother Dan was 19 years older than me and was 24 when she had been born.My kindergarten teacher called my Mom when I announced that I was an Aunt; she seemed to not have believed me.

Next: today is also my one time favorite boy cousin Joel's 66 birthday, we sadly lost contact years ago, he was more like a brother for many of my growing up years and it makes me very sad that we lost touch. Happy Birthday!

Lastly: To Hilary Clinton today also has a birthday and she is 68 and looks good for that; Happy Birthday to you our possibly next and first woman president of these United States!
  

Sunday, October 25, 2015

Unbelievable!

Done for tonight, someone has been deleting my blog!
I have written twice tonight.
That says 4.106!
Perhaps that is why????????????????????

Saturday, October 24, 2015

Open enrollment paid off

Originally I was quoted a  $220 a month for the "F" plan, from my current insurance Colonial Penn agent, I have the "N" plan right now for $169.15 a month. Of course with the everyone's deduction of $104.90 a month that Medicare takes out from your social security monies and additionally my Humana RX $15.70 a month too for medications. I was told that this so far seems to be the best plan for me for RX, but he is checking into it with his person who does that.

The "F' plan is the absolute one that does pick up the 20% that Medicare doesn't, while "N" picks up that 20% for hospitals but not office visits,as I found out the hard way.
So I have been paying co-pays, but according to my new agent that has gotten me the "F" plan with United Healthcare that is with AARP for a monthly payment of $183 and change, just fourteen bucks more a month and no more co-pays, better than more than thirty dollars a month; my now agent quoted me. So as of January first I will be covered entirely with United Healthcare! For me going so often to doctors it does work out to being a better deal.
Hubby went with their United Healthcare Advantage plan which is free that is it is covered by that automatic $104.90 withdrawal monthly for otherwise what is usually Medicare that he pays anyway. He has more out of pocket for some things but is still not having too many co-pays, quite a few are 0, and this is what he wanted, also his coverage begins the first of the year. It is a relief that he will no longer be with that Florida makes US oh so Blue Cross and Shield insurance company anymore, YAY!

The fellow was quickly in and out as Hubby prefers these agents to be in just a little over an hour, on his, Hubby's terms.

The man had called last night trying to kick back the appointment an hour and Hubby told him no, since it would cut into his lunch time at twelve for his appointment that was first scheduled at eleven. I answered the phone and was willing to let it go, but this time Hubby stuck to his guns, which surprised me. But he was right, we have too many times let people walk all over us with us accepting the slightest exceptions to please their schedules, so this relationship as Hubby said that he works for us and so it is on our terms up front.
Alrighty now...

On that note of hope we finally have an agent truly working on our behalf, allow us 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!

PS: He arrived at 10:45 A.M. early, which was preferable, such a small thing, but I suppose the guy must have thought I played good cop and Hubby played bad? HA!
 

Friday, October 23, 2015

A promise kept by one and not by another

Aaron from the medical department of Pfizer did call me back.
And what he told me is confidential and private, but now I do believe I know the source; mission accomplished, enough said.
No other information will change hands and that is all I want to say...although... this is America, nah, that's enough, none of you really want to know anyway?
Nope, probably not.
But I do feel an obligation to just tell all of you to trust no one; yep that's good.   

Moving on...

Hundreds of innocent living creatures will be legally killed this weekend! Three hundred bears have been designated as undesirables. But why?
People have received licenses to kill them in our state for the first time in twenty years.  
The irrevocable problem to me is that the invasive ones in
neighborhoods will not be targeted. Oh why?
Since gunfire is not allowed near homes.
Besides aren't we actually the ones that invaded their space?  
Not me, but builders out there, where they are and weren't they there first?
Just a thought.
So the ones who don't knock over garbage cans, swim in backyard pools, ripping screening are still going to be more than likely killed just because they had no good sense to be born a domestic pet and were born bears instead?
The whole thing is confusing in so many ways.
Of course pets and children should be protected from the bears, but how is killing bears miles away going to solve the problem?
They have been capturing tranquilizing them and moving them and not euthanizing them too often due to concern of no fear of people. No one euthanizes people due to our non fears or fears, see confusing.
Any-who, it makes so very little sense if truly thought about, I think.

Moving on again...

The other promise that had not been kept was my insurance agent who left a message that she would call me this morning and she did not. I had called due to my problems with my co -pays. Hubby felt that is why we have an agent. I paid the small bill online this morning with my reasoning of just changing companies, since we are having another insurance agent coming tomorrow with the fact that we are in open enrollment now for Medicare that happens yearly. We will be able to pick and choose, this agent says that he handles many different companies! 

On that note of trying to be more practical, 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!     

Thursday, October 22, 2015

Nothing new

As days go I really haven't learned as much as one should during a day of being awake and in this fine world of ours.
Sad sure, but what can one do?
Everyday is a gift so we are told.
And anyone should know that, but "they" say especially "us" the people with chronic ills and not too clear life expectancy.
No one knows that... that is their own life expectancy; oh and what "one" might ask?

I do believe that "one" and "they" do conspire on the same team, where there is never any "i's" in as anyone who can spell knows, ha! 

Any-who, in reality I did learn that corporations in America have deep seeded communications with their public issues.
Humana RX uses robo calls for their reorder on prescriptions and have incorrect information embedded in their messages.
Days ago I called in a refill on my generic cholesterol medication and when I ordered it I was told it was 0 co-pay and 0 charge for delivery, it comes USPS.
But today it arrived earlier than expected with a small charge, after being told there would be none.
When I say early, but not as early as their charge for early, in four days, not the five to seven, but not next day that they charge for; the others are free. Then today they robo called me about a prescription that states no more refills, for my generic thyroid medication that I have been on also for a few years. I counted my pills and I have fifty three pills left, not counting the ones in my daily pill holder I just filled for the week. They made it sound so urgent that I called them as I was beginning the count. I felt they were quite premature and created a scare tactic and that any medication a patient has been on for years is quite easily refilled by their physician, as all of mine are and this particular one had a lot of time left from refilling.
So I called and told them that while being annoyed; consequently I did not learn their reasoning for such things.
(Note: received letter today suggesting a reevaluation of my medications perhaps I should examine more cost effective ones. But all of them are already generic, except Copaxone that there isn't one for. Dumb?)

The other thing I think I learned is that Pfizer has people who do work for them that know obligation, but seem to have speech impediments when they return phone calls and leave messages with their callback numbers.
I had mixed emotions when we arrived home from my neuro-eye doc appointment and I pressed the glowing button on our voice mail on our landline that is attached to our kitchen wall, cordless, but old school, and found that Pfizer had kept their promise to call back, four days after my first request! But their garbled message with a contact phone number made it quite impossible for me to return their call!
Irony? Mal equipment on our end? No,all other calls are clear and able to be understood. Perhaps done on purpose on their end? I could make out that they would try and call again and that it was a masculine voice, but so in reality there I did not learn anything importantly new.

AHHHHHHHH life, and so we go on in spite of its slight lunacy daily. And as long as we do not become a loon, we shall continue on, and remember that we should never ever allow the stupidity of others make us as stupid as "they" can act sound or behave. Hard to sometimes, but we must soldier on and keep a clear head.
On the brighter side I love my new neuro eye doc who is younger than my sons but brilliant and caring, and he wants to keep seeing me in spite of my frankness! So we have an appointment in six months.
And no he did not give me an eyeglass prescription he doesn't do that and said frankly he hasn't done it for ten years and said that it probably would not be accurate, how honest; not verbatim but close.  
He said I could go back to my other eye doc or just since I need new glasses try an optician's.
Admittedly my eyes with MS will be fluctuating, as well as with pre-diabetes and thyroid issues thus his availability for my future and current needs.  
The only problem is how often my sight changes with these problems and the additional cost of buying new glasses so often.

On that note of another no answer, along with again my 99.7 fever as I write, still as of yet unexplained, 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!

Wednesday, October 21, 2015

Calmness looms large


Not panicking or doing a thing, although I am still waiting but not to the point of calling "them", i.e. Pfizer back, because a BIG company like that will eventually do what they said they would do, right?
Deep breaths, in out, in out, no BIG DEAL, really? Really.

Moving on...

I passed the day getting quite a few things done.
Sheets' day on Wednesdays and so they are washed in hot  water in the machine and dried in the dryer(hard stuff, no rock beating for me) and put back on clean; still looking for another set of king sized that I like. Our twenty plus washer/dryer stackable combo needed its own cleaning on the top of the basin, done too. It is a narrow one that we actually had in our fifth wheel camper and so when we made our laundry room an indoor one here in this tiny home Hubby built cabinets around it and the short chunky elevated on a shelf water heater that is, believe it or not is a thirty gallon even so, was enclosed too. Fine for two bathrooms with only two people, even with occasional guests. The white colored washer/dryer that still works well, except that the dryers dial goes backwards, other than that they are fine, it's a Kenmore. I do keep up with the price on it if need be it has to be replaced and I always make sure those funds are available. Only that size and brand will fit without cutting into the cabinets and that is my reasoning.
After Hurricane Charley I had additional monies to replace the cabinets that were moldy and the new monies were part of the settlement like the rest of our home's, so we had one of the closet companies come in and make it even more custom with a broom/vacuum cleaner closet addition too. The cabinets match our kitchen's white raised panel ones but have brass handles, the kitchen has white spoon-shaped styled ones, more nautical for the laundry, and that is the decorated theme in there.

After all we do live on the water. 
I made lunch today and Hubby and I made dinner together. 
I made arrangements for my Copaxone delivery, and was able to cancel my dermatologist appointment for Friday.
You see, the antibiotic, that I finished last night seemed to help, and now I have started the salve for the next two weeks, and if my ear is all better no BIOPSY, YAY!
I sure hope so.
I do have my follow-up neuro ophthalmologist appointment though, at this point I just want an eyeglasses prescription, mine is long overdue.
My eyesight has fluctuated so much over these last few months that they really couldn't give me an accurate one.
But Gus, our little love, Havanese dog rescue, has made some nasty scratches in my ones I do wear, he jumps on my lap to kiss me and I take them off to use the laptop. Sometimes I beat him in moving them off my lap, but too many times I haven't.  
I hate to discourage his lovable tendencies.

Any-who, my internist's office accidentally gave me not only their requested blood work papers but the eye doctor's too that I had done at their lab. And from what I saw it said all my tests were NEGATIVE! That is GOOD! I presume.
So I hope now I can move on to just new eyeglasses.

On that note of wishful positive thinking 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!






 

Tuesday, October 20, 2015

Phone aches?

Me too.
Tedium, day two.
Trying hard to keep an open mind, but...
And this is a very big BUT, but why would anyone NOT call the FDA themselves: http://www.fda.gov/ (for my international friends) if they wanted to?
Some people do call to report a nasty side-effect of a medication that they are taking and that is definitely one of the many reasons they are there for that purpose.
Also to test medications prior to releasing them to the public, our governmental agencies working on our behalf, and thank you mostly, but sometimes their approval of a drug...is a BIG mistake with medications that prove they were not ready for public consumption or use and the FDA regrets that their decisions to release a med before fully vetted and checked entirely causes ill effects by too quickly allowing its use, and does recall those.
And that brings me back to then why does Pfizer Inc. Drug Safety Unit feel the need to do that for you, yes, that is let them, the FDA, know when you have side-effects from any drug, not just theirs? 
One word I was told, "RESPONSIBILITY", their legal one.
Oh so righteous a company! 
On your behalf, I might add.
Nice, but what if... let's just say you did not ask for them to do that, hmm? 
What is your right?
And that is where I stand/sit right now.
Without an answer of who took it upon themselves to report my dissolution of using one medication due to nasty side-effects and an off handed remark of another causing weight gain that is also written on its insert with the percentages of that happening.

WHY?????????   

A simple question or so I thought. 
Apparently not so, since for the last two days I have spoken to India, New York, North Carolina and heaven knows where-else... is not quite clear, all part of Pfizer's telephone numbers.
All I know all these lovely co-operative people have insisted that they would find out and get that person to contact me; I am still waiting.
Foolishly today I was put on hold too long, for twenty minutes before I had the good sense to hang up and then I called one of the other three numbers I have for the company back and told them NOT to put me on hold!
Even with a coded number on the letterhead that I received that they all asked for no one has been able to answer the riddle who gave them all my personal info and why?

As I played my own detective today with contacting two doctors and my support team for one medication who all said they do not do that, but I do need all of these people in my future, and like me are curious to find out when I know. They were all great about my individual inquisitions. I did try hard not to be accusatory, since with me its been a bit iffy how I state things so I thought it out a little more carefully than I usually do, which for me is hard at times especially when it becomes an emotional situation. This being a privacy issue.
Ha! Me how oddly ironic with my "open book" policy.
Well, sometimes I am the same as everyone else, private.
Sure, hard to believe... 

Any-who on this note of amazement, 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!
 

Monday, October 19, 2015

A drug company

Today I received two surveys via the snail mail.
One is from the company that has to do with the nurse who came to our home to give me the 1000mg. IV Solu Medrol infusion in August for three days.
That was annoying since I tossed the first one away. I was not happy with the way the nurse put the first infusion in and bruised the heck out of my arm. It was done so differently than any of the previously done ones, four other times I might add, so I tossed the first survey out not wanting to get the elderly vision impaired woman, yep with an eye disorder that causes blindness eventually, no I did not want to throw the  woman under the bus.(After Hubby mentioned the problem she did it the usual way of the others.) At first I felt ashamed that someone so senior to me, about ten years, was still vibrant and working,unlike myself, a bum, I thought, but sadly she was sub-par at this point in her job and so perhaps she should have retired before that happened?
The dilemma was should I rat her out or let it go and so I went the coward/nicer route and threw the damn thing away, never thinking they would send another. This is a no brainer for this one too will be a goner.

The drug company Pfizer sent me one also with way too much personal info, asking about my problems with Gabapentin and Ampyra; in actuality only Ampyra was discontinued due to it being a problem, I am still taking Gabapentin and it does work as it should.

I am still waiting for that company whose person that answered admitted he was in New Delhi India, when I conversationalist wise asked,"is it as hot in India as it is here in Florida?" That's when he said, "yes it is very hot here in New Delhi India," gotcha!   
Who cares really he's working, and now he has my phone number to add to all the other personal stuff, since he said someone would call me back!
Hope this wasn't a con, I hate cons...
So far no one has, called back that is.
All I wanted to know was who ask for this and how did they get all the information, and yes it was more than I reveal here nightly! Then I would toss after I make sure they delete what they have...if only.


On that note of sometimes things do come back to bite you, but in this case I thought HIPAA: http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/privacy/ was there to protect me, any-who, allow me to be the very first to wish you all 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, October 18, 2015

So far I have not tried all the bells and whistles

Of what????
Some might ask...
Sure you would, wouldn't you?
Oh, or not?
Come on let me tell you anyway...WINDOWS 10, but of course.
Sure its no i6 or even close to that with its gadgetry, but it does have its own personality that I was too busy using it as I did its predecessor, 8.1 for the day to try it all out, but they are in there/here.

I have been wondering why the skip in numeric naming?
Anyone know?

Any-who, the times they are a changing... I bet I installed this newer version just before another will probably be on the cusp/forefront of evolution, hmm?
It's always that way, isn't it? 
Who cares truly, we, that is Hubby and I, seem to stay too long with the older models as long as they still work, ya know, why not?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gu6vmNz-PhE

Free upgrade:  http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/windows-10-upgrade

So if any of you are slower, like myself, with heading towards new fangled items available now/today/ actually yesterday and before that you have no excuse! The link above will get you fully loaded, that is with WINDOWS 10!

See I look out for you too.
We all need to be more aware of these little treats in life, especially when they truly are free.
Enjoy the freedom to try something new.

On that note of whatever could float your new boat, well not really float your new or old boat, since it doesn't promise doing that, but allow me to anyway 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!

Saturday, October 17, 2015

All day long...

Talk about tedium.
The easiest thing for most anyone to do is download a program, true?
And that is also true for me this technologically challenged gal.
Receiving a long awaited email telling me that I could have an updated program for free, Windows 10, was a no brainer and this time legit.
Not to say others weren't, but I suppose a few weren't, law of averages and all, ya know?
The only thing is I had no idea that it would be doing it all day long, and still is now!
First all the updates and for the last hour or more the installation process.
Number One Son called so I asked his much more techno savvy self why it was taking so long?
He logically said because I am still using the computer for other things, not verbatim but close.  
With me not wanting or caring to stop using my compu- machine friend for the day. I said I understood and that I realized that I wasn't doing much else so what was my problem I actually thought. I did not say that to him, I think. 
Doesn't matter, none of this does.
In the bigger picture of the world it is just a minuscule blip in the space time continuum, really?
All of this is.

My fever is not gone, and I really don't see it leaving in the near future it is quite dependable for several months now; unlike few things in life.
The thing is now that I get the why I have got to try harder to pace myself, that is all.   

Just checked the download again, and its on that thingy still preparing for installation, and that has been way over an hour now.
Gosh even with me not having to do much ya gotta wonder why so very, very, very long? 

Where's Hubby one might ask, not really, but perhaps?
He's on a mission in our backyard to tame our island fish pond garden and he has.
He has been consistent in pulling too many of certain vegetation out, Severina, Mother-in-law's tongue,wandering Jew plants that seem to be multiply without any encouragement what-so-ever, as well as trees that have grown into each other by intertwining, not good then, but now good!
We can even see the canal through the mini forest of trees et al; out of the sun-room windows!
So he was busy, only taking a This Old House/Ask This Old House break on PBS for an hour that we have both enjoyed for years.

To be fair I did make dinner and have completed one white load of laundry all done and put away.

I suppose this is quite a lot of chit chat after last night's not much.
So on this note of having to think better how to accomplish life's as usual, 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! 

Thursday, October 15, 2015

Neighborhood cleanup?

Gone seem to be the days of people truly caring about their neighborhoods.

Too many people who move into homes act as if it is all a temporary situation without true concern for the concept of what being a neighbor means.

On the one side of our home that house has seen at least seven or eight different groups of people in it in the whole seventeen years that we have been living in our home.
I said it that way since not all were families, many were roommates or non-married groups with not necessarily family biological legal connections, which is fine. One group of guys were roofers; serendipity-wise for us they were there when our roof was taken off by the hurricane, they came over and helped tarp us during the storm's wrath. Once even a lovely retired couple rented it one winter, but they used to rent our home for years before we purchased it in 1998, ours had been a rental, we were told for eight years. 

The people who owned it that we purchased it from lived in Minnesota.
It had been overgrown and was basically a fixer upper on a saltwater canal, five minutes from the harbor by boat and we both saw its potential.
Any-who, we had begun the renovations before 2004 when Hurricane Charley hit and had to start all over after, and since have been maintaining it the way we ended up having it and nearly done. Eventually, we will need to make more modifications due to my physical needs but for now we are managing well and I love our little castle of just over one thousand square feet! It is cheerful and inviting inside and out.
So it disheartens me so very much when we leave to go anywhere and see how our neighborhood has changed.
Trash not picked up on front lawns and lawns and bushes so tall houses are disappearing behind them. Vehicles, tractor trailers parked on our narrow streets or too many in driveways or on lawns as if they are in the country where many are hidden by just being out there, spread out far from other neighbors, not as in suburbia where we are all on quarter acre lots sized apart and so it makes it look sloppy.   

Hubby was on the phone again this morning with building code enforcement and the sheriff's office and even has a call into our areas county commissioner. He worked with code years ago when he worked as a community policing officer and so it is doubly hard for him to accept the attitudes that so many seem to have of it not being enforced without jumping through more bureaucratic hoops, the laws are there, they just have to enforce them.
A deputy came out today after the head of code said he has told the tractor trailer driver over and over again, but there's a loophole of a ten day issue. This same tractor trailer fellow lives in a broken down trailer behind his brother-in-laws house that is a rented one; just on the other-side of the empty lot from us, and there are also about three extra cars parked there that don't move, and as far as we know there are only three people living there, we think. The deputy had him move the tractor trailer into the driveway, not good or according to the law!
Our better neighbor, who also has been renting for quite a few years, next door, has a two story everglades type buggy that he keeps in his backyard with his gate wide open, which is legal,Hubby says, but it is seen, and now he has put a wooden trailer stacked with junk on his front lawn for the last week! (Update: Hubby just spoke with him, it's from another home of his wife's that had to be gutted from bad renters not reporting a leaky roof and just moving out, he's moving it in the backyard tonight, see even renters have bad renters.)   

The disappearing house is across the street and the other  lawn garbage is next door to it.

I have checked on occasion our homes value on Zillo, and was pleasantly surprised to see it had risen thirty thousand dollars since we had refinanced with HARP two and half years ago, but recently, within the last month it has gone down five thousand.

So even if we wanted to move, we probably could not sell with these non-caring neighbors!
This is called being between a rock and a hard place, but I love my little jewel no-longer a stone in the rough, but in a very tough neighborhood that is not that far from becoming crime ridden with all this mess!

Ironically, we had chosen this to be our last home due to its proximity to so many good things, if we could only jump over the messes on our way in and out...

 Why can't people care?
It makes me so very sad.
I do understand it is a matter of priorities and everyone's different.

On that note with just trying to change the world from our small part of it, 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!
 

Wednesday, October 14, 2015

Abnormal normal; 357 down to 87?

Who am I?
Two different people?

So yesterday I went back to have my creatine kinase rechecked/tested blood work, it is truly wonderfully down to 87, with the norms still at 30-223 and I am very normal from that ridiculous number of 357 when fasting that was taken on the fifth of the month, yesterday's was non-fasting! (*lesson learned)

My ERG test showed the neurological ophthalmologist that my left retina was abnormal a few weeks ago, but when examined by the retina specialist and dilated and tested and photographed again today it was normal! (*still baffling)

If you think you are confused can you imagine how I feel, besides relieved of course and very thankful!

So two concerns alleviated, resolved, all in the good column and yay to both of them for that!

Whew!

So very happy now, probably should celebrate, we'll have to think about that one on the when and how.

That's it for tonight 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 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, October 13, 2015

Medications are bears

Ordering that is!
Today was the day my ear medication was supposed to be ready for pick up, but instead I was told they did not get the request that had been called in last night, huh?
Not the case when all was said and done, but now my so-called great insurance company refused to pay for it.
And so instead they approved the ointment instead, and I might add of the same chemical composition stuff in the spray!
I am now also on an antibiotic again for that same ear issue, since it is oozing clear stuff and I have a periodic pain like an earache in that ear.
Talk about annoyances/aggravation...
Any-who, when all was finally said and done, the two prescriptions are home and cost a whopping whole five bucks and change!
What was all the fuss about, really?
The deal is the oral stuff is to be taken twice a day for a week, three hours before or after my calcium+D; it seems the medication and the vitamins if taken together makes the medication not work right;
it will be more complicated than most would think, but I think I can try to figure it out somehow.
The vitamins that are doctor recommended too due to us MS people having low D in our systems for our muscles extra is definitely needed and that is taken three times a day. 
Not so easy, hmm?
Three hours apart, why that's nine hours right there, isn't it?
I'm not up too many hours; so this will be a little tricky.

So after all was said and done Hubby butt dialed Number One Son with his cell and hung up but Number One Son called back and I accidentally dialed our insurance agent, or did I?
Subliminally and not so subliminally I feel she needs a call.
This all was supposed to be easier not harder getting medicine that is.

On that note of a bit of ire, 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 we both had a nice chat with our Number One Son.
As far as my agent goes I thought I hung up before she answered and I was busy calling someone else at the time, although I think she called back later and left a message that I have not heard as of yet, oh well...

Monday, October 12, 2015

Another day another doctor?

Seems that way to me.
Today was the internist's turn, my three month blood work check up day.
My cholesterol was 199, norms 20-180 and triglycerides was 264, norms 30-150 had a wonderful vacation with us and my food choices, since they both are up to no good again in spite of my medication for them, (both up about thirty points from last time)...which might be discontinued after nine years, but only if my creatine kinase triples over the highest limit, right now the norms are 30-223 and mine was only a mere 357, yep a magnum, ha!
I will be retested tomorrow non-fasting to verify it wasn't caused by dehydration when taken during my last week's fasting blood work? I was told I could have non-sugary beverages, but I always seem to forget, oops!
Doc says it has to do with my heart, only a mistake I hope, anyway the rule of thumb is not to discontinue my statin medication unless its number is triple the high range, so I guess I am still okey dokey!
My A1c did go up slightly to 6.0 from 5.8, norms 4.3-5.4, which is considerably less than I had thought it would be with being on the IV Solumedrol again and since I did need to use insulin with that stuff causing a 309 glucose, norm 100 or less, way back in August. Previously it has taken about six months to fully get it out of my system.  

All in all I'm not too bad, for someone around ninety who was fatally ill, I suspect, kidding, but then I would be considered great or not?
Any-who, I was asked if I would be interested in having a team for me to access for all these darn chronic ailments to take control of them that is. So I signed a form to have the ability to talk to a knowledgeable person 24/7; are they kidding and do they know what/who they are getting into, the keys to the money bin?

Some of you might be aware of this coalition of good deeders called "the chronic care management program" through our Medicare it is mostly covered 80% except the last 20% that is a charge of $8.34 a month or should be covered by most supplementals, like ours,  the idea is to help with understanding and managing your chronic diseases to decrease exacerbation that could potentially result in hospitalizations.
Home visits are monthly or more often if needed.
There are so many other things it can do, I only hope all who need it also have it available.
Hubby could use a break from all this, ya know?
I agreed to it due to so many spouses getting listening fatigue, my term not his and some days I get it he's there already.
He's wonderful truly though and the last one to admit he could use a break from all this wonderment I portray daily and that's why I said yes.

On this note of another day another doc, 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 year!

PS I did get my flu shot today, and you should too if you haven't already, later than previous years for me, but necessary even if only a fifty percent coverage better than nothing!
Oh and my blood pressure was good!
 

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