Wednesday, March 30, 2016

Falling!

Embarrassment!
Went to a fine lunch at the Thai Café; it's been ages since we were there and they are not that far, less than two miles away.
Had curry duck and Hubby had the crispy duck; lunch time prices are fair there, prices nearly double for dinner.
After Hubby saw a Jazzy motorized wheelchair dealer's van in the parking lot enroute to the restaurant and spoke with the man as he exited his van, before we parked for lunch.
Hoveround we had already spoken to on the phone at home after getting info online.
They had a lot of stipulations with regard to Medicare and yet when I spoke to Medicare they actually made it sound so much less complicated, glad I called there.
All this for my eventual motorized wheelchair being approved.
I did have my OT, occupational therapy, evaluation today and he asked if we had chosen a chair vendor since he works with them.
Apparently the letter with all my necessary needs for the assistive device was expressed appropriately by my neuro's PA Daniel.
So it was full steam ahead with what was next to do and a questionnaire that Keith the OT asked me all about as Hubby and I sat before him at his table.
Now the incident that caused us to postpone finishing up the process happened while I was listening to Keith ask his questions and ironically he had just asked me about having additional falling episodes, and I leaned forward on his table and the walker that had been transformed into a transporter felt as if it was dumping me out!
And it did right on to the floor!
But Hubby had tried to intervene and I saw his face as he did something not right to his own back, as I fell hard on my plentiful well padded butt although the pain was instantaneous rippling up my thought to be protected vast form, but that proved to be one hell of a lie! OUCH! Was an understatement!
It subsided for a time being and all injured parties were taking inventory on their personal bodily damage; Hubby somehow cut a finger on what we still do not know.
He insisted he was fine and was irritated that I was sure that he had reinjured his delicate vertebrae that had been injured years ago with many torn ligaments and discs. His expression made me think it had happened again!
After we recouped with some decorum and having being now me being surrounded by about a half dozen of the PT, physical therapy, staff people trying to get me into a wheel chair, in actuality two did the deed of recovering my dignity. I smiled before they made the attempt and as I quipped it takes a village, in reference to my size these days for the lifting.
Trying to lighten my failure to remind Hubby to lock my brakes!
He took the blame but we were both at fault, oops!
I did try to continue the evaluation with Keith but he looked at me and knew I was not able to, since I was in quite a bit of pain.
And yes the rehab was right there offering for me to have EMS take me to the hospital to be checked and Hubby too, but we both declined.
They took care of Hubby's bloody finger with a Band-Aid after he washed up in their sink, they probably put some ointment on it too, but I did not see that.
We chose to get me in bed at home with ice packs throughout my sore body, three ice packs wrapped in hand towels helped with me moving them wherever else I felt the need, my right foot is still numb longer than usual, and my right hip is sore as well as my lower back left shoulder and my neck feels like whiplash! Other than that I am fine, ha!
Hubby went out after dropping me off, stopping at Publix grocery for some odds and ends and also by the Jazzy dealer who happens to be right in the Publix shopping center. He stopped at PCs for lobster bisque again, love that stuff!
They, the Jazzy people, need to meet with me they told him basically, and come out to our home to determine maneuverability of their product in our home and sizing/measuring me up for the right fit and also go back to the rehab to meet with the OT for specifically suiting my needs according to testing results.
Who knew?
So we are currently on hold due to me... and I ended up taking more Baclofen 20mg. and one more Gabapentin 300mg.! Up to 900mg. now, but it worked along with the ice!

On my simple not so boring life after all note, ha, allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy healthy safe and peaceful good night and to 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, March 29, 2016

Good medicine news!

My medication is fine for me, it was explained that it is a bronchodilator inhaler of longer lasting capacity, so I am good and for my lung problem of asthma, it is okay! Anoro Ellipta inhaler is the medication, an "off use" situation.
And I was happily informed that he does not believe that I have emphysema! Well, now I feel exonerated about quitting smoking nearly ten years ago; I had been angry that I was told that I had it, now I am relived that I don't.

Ya know, I was wondering about the inhaler, because I had been using it for all those weeks and had no adverse issues and it was helping, but darn those warning inserts!
Mostly they are put there for their own CYA!
I did speak with the doctor's nurse, Erica, and my approach I suppose was not off putting, since she was very helpful in finding out about it all and got back to me much sooner than I thought she would.
First we had put my ninety day order on hold until she could speak to the doctor and then when she got back to me with the above info and so I was able to call Humana RX right back to remove the hold and send the medicine.
It takes seven to ten days via mail, but I had been given two more weeks of samples, in total they gave me five whole weeks, wow! Very nice too.

Moving on...

We again had nasty storms move through here, but thankfully we were very lucky, south of us in Cape Coral an addition to a Sam's Club under construction had cement blocks torn off the new construction, powerful wind to do that!
Trees also were reported down, all around us.
My fear is how long can we continue to be lucky! It has been twelve years since a direct hit.
Sadly, I am that person who is always waiting for the other shoe to drop.
But we are prepared for any situation.
Hubby even started up our two generators; all ready to go if need be.
They are there for long term power outages.

Any-who, it is still a while till we actually will be into hurricane season; as most know it is from June first to November thirtieth on a yearly basis.
We are ready!

On that note I hope that you all are too due to El Nino, allow me now to wish all of you a very happy healthy safe and peaceful 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, March 28, 2016

Ahhhhhhhhh Asthma!

Confused in the respect that the medication, inhaler that I was given for COPD is fine for that but not for Asthma which I have now also been diagnosed with; in fact the same medication that helps COPD is lethal for asthma and yes I tried calling the doctor's office but they are gone for the day,
oops.
I have been on samples on and off for the last month, the off was for a week to see if it was truly helping and yes it seemed to be. They called my Humana RX for a ninety day supply and its on its way, as well as my Copaxone, from their Humana specialty department had called to tell me its on its way, yep all fixed with no co-pay, as usual.
Disturbing, is what I read about the new medication the inhaler that is not to be used if you have asthma, since you will have an increased risk of death from asthma problems!
So far I am still here.
I will call first thing tomorrow morning, but what do you say without sounding accusatory? Precarious situation, hmmm?
Are you trying to kill me? (Not going to break the ice with that one, only a hang up most likely.)
I think that you might have made a mistake? (Well, here's where we separate the truly smart people from the ones who always have to be right no matter what, a crap shoot, and a very possible loss of any communication.)
He's another specialist, a pulmonologist, most of these people are not willing to admit they could be wrong.
The man is a brilliant handsome youngish, (not anything to do with his credentials the handsome part, sorry about that and shame on me, and no I have no energy to be a cougar, really, and Hubby frowns on that anyway!) with an extremely pleasant personality, again no barring's on his capabilities as a medical doctor in his field who drives a Fisker:http://www.fisker-automotive.be/  Again nothing to do with his chosen profession.
Although, many of his kind have been known to be arrogant, so far he has not displayed any of those inclinations. So whew to that.
Still have no idea on how to approach the doctor appropriately with the actual safety information listed online as well as on their insert from the pharmaceutical company on their very own product!

Hubby made a comment and that made me think of a way to explore an opening line, maybe he, the doctor had said I have only COPD, not asthma?
Playing dumb, hard of hearing or just confused might work and stating I need to understand which is it that I have?
After all the medication did say it was to be used only for COPD.
Geez that could work.
Getting older has its benefits, makes us oldies more believable when questioning these youngsters in charge of our health and less accusatory and gets me and him off the hook, ya think?
I think we got a winner!

Moving on...

I did receive the two letters from the PA Daniel and my doctor explaining my inabilities but allowing the medical people know the reason why I definitely need an assistive device.
It sort of upset me reading how far downhill my condition has evolved.
I guess it is what it is, we all realize that at times we must adjust and accept.
Although, as I keep saying I am still here and as long as I am I will make noise, as much as I can, whether you like it or not!
So there! (I am sticking my adult tongue out at all of you!)

I keep plugging away and find more ways to get out and get going!
New ways to arrive there via transport with great mileage!
In other words a motorized wheelchair.

On that note of such is life, Que sera sera, allow me now to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy healthy safe and peaceful good night and kindly ask you all 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!
  




Sunday, March 27, 2016

Happy Easter!


Christians celebrating this Easter Sunday with care:

http://www.voanews.com/content/christians-celebrate-easter/325665supposed to do that0.html

I tried to gain a synopsis of this international biblical holiday shared by millions of Christians worldwide to post, but I know for a fact that anyone who celebrates most any religious holiday does already know all about it!
I am assuming, uh oh!
Darn, not supposed to do that...

Any-who, the link above is enormously interesting so I would advise clicking on it, it is a news clip from today.

Our safety is a major concern worldwide.

But most of all enjoy your holiday and make sure the children do too.

Moving on...

We are nothing if we live in fear.
The expression that we chant in many difficult situations is sometimes mistaken as being flippant, life goes on...although not a bad way to continue on in spite of horrible life's trial and tribulations.
And not that much different from Que sera sera, sung in a song from the nineteen fifties, meaning whatever will be will be.
I think that unless interpreted properly it might be also mistaken for being too cavalier, but no it doesn't make light of problems; what it really means is to go on no matter what adversity you might have to face!
Often when I go to my neurologist's as well as other doctors they ask me if I am suffering from depression, because most with chronic illness do have and rightfully so they have depression.
But I will say to them when asked, yes I do get depressed but I snap out of it by distraction.
And they react very nicely to that answer.
You know why I try hard to snap myself out of my depression due to my illness and so many other things in life, it is due to being practical I don't want anymore medications, I have enough already!
That is the pat medical answer, ya know?
This blog helps too.
Looking directly at each problem written down does help in solving or just understanding the reasons better.
It's sort of like talking to G-d, sometimes we truly believe that he/she answers by what happens next, and sometimes nothing happens since there is no answer, got that?
Faith is a powerful thing, that is believing in anything does seem to help handle things better in life, but that is just my interpretation these days.
As I get older my beliefs seem to get stronger.
Although, I just know that it is a very individual thing.

On that note of let us all just hope that what we wish for comes to us, and gives us the solace to go on even if not, allow me now to wish all of you a very happy healthy safe and peaceful 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 be here or be square, ya hear!

Saturday, March 26, 2016

Namesake

I know this is a topic I covered before, but have you researched your own name to see if anything embarrassing or good, bad or indifferent was out there in ether-land, out in the Internet floating around, with or without your knowledge, or that you may have forgotten about?
Any-who, each time I delve into my first titled portion of my identity, not a common name, I usually find very nice new info on mine.
Such as?
I hear ya! Well, not really but let me elaborate anyway; see I knew you were waiting for that, hmm?

Well, there are now more than one actress and an artist and a model/actress also using my moniker, but now also would you believe...even a band in Canada, all guys I might add, with a new song just coming out! Just try putting my non-pseudonym in, and you too will be pleasantly surprised, or not.
So cool! (To me, anyway, you maybe not so much.)

And this from a gal who was not loving her name while growing up in suburbia, USA; it has made me reconsider that feeling of dislike. My distaste for my name that was so much so I made sure our sons had very well liked names and to this day they have always liked them. I even did for a while check periodically. Take that Apple, North, and so many other names that I truly wonder what were those parents thinking? Hope they too will find solace eventually after all they will be going through while reaching maturity.
Hopefully at this ripe old age that I too have finally made peace with those feelings.

That is of having an unusual name and so while growing up it unfortunately used to be a reason for being teased from my peer group; but now that bullying has gone way too far in so many directions of "hate" with absolute horrid meanness what I used to endure is so very minor in comparison to what children go through these days it is at times extremely frightening! Especially when the anger manifests itself in physical harm to the victims.
Domestic terrorism is in the classrooms sadly!
Many campaigns have been forged to spread the word to stop it! So please do!

Moving on...

Yesterday, I had forgotten to tell you that Hubby had taken my concern for our safety during storms to heart and when I asked if there were a way to make my smaller bathroom in the older block and plaster on all four sides portion of our home safe, make that five since that ceiling too is original plaster, and did not need replacing, only one, after we had been hit by the hurricane, enough inner part of the original home except for the one rather small window in the shower/tub area to be our goto safe room? I suggested putting up our hurricane shutter on the tiny window, but in a power failure there would be no light at all in that room, making it daily be a dark gloomy space when not in use. Hubby went to our two main home improvement stores with the mission of acquiring those rippled clear hurricane shutter material to cut to cover that one smaller window.
They were completely out of them right now and had them back ordered for the season. He found though, that they did have a shatter proof 1/4" Plexiglas that was also considered able to do the same job, although too large and would have to be cut to size and costing $65 for the one piece, but a lot less in price than the other that needed tracks @ fifty bucks apiece for upper and lower ones, as well as additionally the cost of the corrugated clear insert, but since the window is the same as our bedroom ones, not size, but in it also being recessed the hurricane clips could be used that we already had, the whole price was just then for the Plexiglas, so he took it!
And installed it and now the bathroom is well lit daily as if nothing is on it at all, but that room can now be considered a safe room, yay!
Our RUN to place if we receive short notice about a tornado!(with creature comforts including: toilet, tub, sink and two seats (toilet, and my bath chair, a better safe place.).

Anyway on this note of making concessions on different things, allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy healthy safe and peaceful 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!


   

Friday, March 25, 2016

Nerve wracking day

Most people are better than me in handling things that directly affect me.
Sure because its not them, ha!
The last couple of days I have been trying to arrange for my OT, occupational therapist, evaluation to acquire an assistive device, in other words a motorized wheelchair, and today I heard back from my neuro's office in Sarasota, Jennifer, who told me even though my order has their local OT on it, it can be used down here at my local rehabilitation center that I have taught Aquacise at, have done independent exercise at, and also have been through their occupational, physical and neuromuscular therapy seventeen times previously over nearly twenty years. And that she has also sent those other letters explaining my MS needs to the Multiple sclerosis Foundation to have our/Hubby's bathroom changed into ADA, accessible, it's already larger than the one I have called mine.
So I called the local place and spoke to them and they said they need more than the order they need a signed form from my doctor! This is my first doctor from out of county with them. But alas Trish said when I come in next week that she will fax them and take care of it that way, yay!
Next, during dinner we got one of those prescription robo calls that tells you to hold on the line that they want to speak with you saying your name, but then they ask you your ID Number, but they called you and you are eating dinner and don't have your insurance card or pocket book at the table in your home, hold on! Hubby got it.
They want to set a delivery date of my specialty medication my injectable Copaxone, it comes once a month refrigerated and needing to be signed for, especially since they delivered it once to the wrong house!
Once we established they had received the new prescription, due to me seeing the neuro on Monday they tried seeing which day would be the best for delivery.
And stated that the co-pay would be $175 for the 5K a month medication, but I said I do not have a co-pay and that it is covered by the Assistance Fund, and they said we do not have that information here. I said this is my April delivery and I have been with them for the last few years and you sent me the last three months with them paying the co-pay. Hold again, she said, I asked if they would call me back after they straighten this out, okay...she finally agreed.
Meanwhile I called the Assistance Fund and this time, a rare occasion, it was on their end.
Apparently, Vivien there said they had forgotten to put my yearly application through, all fixed now, no problem, anymore that is, all set till December 31st, again, and they are thorough for you to meet their criteria yearly, proof of income etc.!
Oh well, it is now all taken care of once again and she called Humana Specialty RX and they will be calling me soon to set up my delivery day again!
My life and welcome to it.
Oh and yesterday I received a seventy-seven and change bill as a co-pay from last year's MRI in June, odd since I had Medicare with Colonial Penn then as my supplemental, and I thought I figured out the mistake they had not billed my secondary! I called and they apologized that their computer was at fault this time, since the bill had been paid a while ago and I actually owed nothing!
But how many would have gone ahead and paid it without questioning, hmmm?
I always ask.
Still aggravating.

Oh well.
I have survived another week in my life and the beat goes on...

So on this note of whatever floats your boat, allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy healthy safe and peaceful 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, March 24, 2016

Your Momma!

That is what it sounds like between the two top runners of the GOP; Tweeting about their wives.
Both women have fascinating histories, one Frothy Orange Haired Guy's stunning wife was nude in a national, make that international magazine, GQ, for shame, ha!
And the Texas Senator's wife, also an attractive woman, had an insidious depressive illness that needed treatment, OMG, no logical understanding for an illness!
Both women happen to also be quite intelligent and well educated, which is why neither of them have lowered themselves to their husbands' level apparently, and have not said a word about this another ridiculous feud, interesting, hmmm?
Come on folks!

Next, many have been accusing our President Obama of fiddling while Rome burned!
He was accused due to the Brussels hideous murderous attacks by ISIS, while on a well planned in advance trip, even though he had stated his horror at the horrible incident adding into that our nation's willingness to help in any way, but not to let the attackers get the best of any of us with fear, and asked that our flag be set at half staff in memory of the dead there.
All this when he was attending many sightseeing events as well as an international historic baseball game in Cuba while there negotiating peaceful relations with that country.
His next scheduled stop was to Argentina to also continue his goodwill, and so he was doing the tango quite well, and our Governor Scott put his two cents in stating that the president should come home, specifically to Florida to quell our states concern over being attacked!
He, our governor's reasoning is that we are the number one state for tourism in our country!
WHAT?????
How dare he speak out of turn for us his constituents!
Paranoia, much?
Since he endorsed the Frothy Orange Haired Guy he has gotten much, much worse in my opinion!
I DID NOT VOTE FOR HIM!

People's opinions are great, but even a statesman cannot assume, incorrectly I might add that we as Americans are anymore concerned with being attacked than on the day after 9-11, and that includes our entire country, not just Florida as well as the world!
See something, say something, has been ingrained into all our brains for time in memorial!
And with that we have been able to not feel as if we are sitting ducks.
Sadly we must face the truth though, worrying all of the time is not healthy and does nothing to prevent the possibilities at all times.
That is not to say we shouldn't be diligent in respecting and being aware of our environment, of course we always should be; whether dealing with domestic or foreign terrorists!
But fear is NOT attractive on any continent, and that is seen by them as a weakness.
As all nations now have been touched with hate from these groups we need to unite and find a commonality in the best way to handle these life altering situations.
Someday!
The world is so much smaller now.
We know so much so much sooner now.
And that alone should be the how in the how to stop it!

On that note of never forget or stop being concerned but NOT fearful, and be of the mindset to help not hurt any of us more, allow me now to wish all of you a very happy healthy safe and peaceful good night and ask you all to 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!

Wednesday, March 23, 2016

Sometimes a mole is just a mole...

...And for that I am VERY thankful!
Yep, the biopsy was negative for cancer cells, benign!
Got the call a couple hours after playing dumb about not recalling how many days till they were going to call me with the results and I had called them this morning, today it was twelve days, wasn't sure if they had said ten or twelve really, any-who, the young woman who answered said two weeks. At this point I felt it was important to mention that my very sore back that I had initially called them about the same day they did the biopsy was more than likely due to a herniated disc back there in that same location.
And not due to the biopsy itself, very possibly due to raising myself onto the exam table. I told them not to let me do that again. The worst of it was that they all wanted to help me, that is the two young women as well as Hubby and I had refused.
Oops, that'll teach me!

Moving on..

Last night I did not sleep well.
So I finally got out of bed, supposedly okay to do, new theory.
I went into the living room and turned the TV on and saw a familiar face on the CBS Overnight News cast, a young woman that worked out of the NBC affiliate here out of Fort Myers Florida news anchor Jamie Yuccas, also a Facebook friend for years, a pretty, always well dressed young woman, NYC is a great place for someone like her who appreciates fashion as well everything else that amazing city has to offer. Last I knew she had gone back to Minnesota, but apparently had made the BIG Time, not far from where I grew up in New Jersey, fifteen minutes from the George Washington Bridge in Paramus and Emerson NJ, as well as where I went to college at LIM in NYC right on 12 East 53rd Street, between Fifth and Madison across from Paley Park, right nearby famous Fifth Avenue, many a day being a New Yorker and all that entailed, walking, restaurants, museums, biggest library on the planet, parks, shopping, taxis, subways, transit system, you name it, etc.
Congrats to her, I also noticed she has been doing hard hitting war correspondent news, in all those scary locations, WOW!
Stay safe!

On that note of that's the latest from this gal, allow me now to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy healthy safe and peaceful good night and to ask all of you to kindly count all your blessings and to share all those overages with you know whom and we will too!

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

Tuesday, March 22, 2016

ESR and CRP Blood Tests

The visit yesterday to my neuro's office was also to let them know I needed refills on the three medications they take care of Copaxone, Gabapentin and Baclofen, all done.
And I was handed a form/prescription for those above blood tests.
I have had so many these last several weeks that I wasn't too sure those hadn't been done recently, so I asked when I arrived at my usual lab and according to them nothing for these two in the last two years at the very least there.
So I let the Vampira extract my ruby gelatinous fluid from my interior right elbow, my left one had had a Copaxone shot just yesterday in its upper arm.
I prefer to spread the holes evenly, ya know, I'm all about the symmetry, ha.
Both of those simple blood tests above usually done in tandem have great medical diagnostic capabilities in the fact they can somewhat determine where my inflammation is coming from and  what could be causing it, Ta DA!
Well, almost.
Multiple sclerosis is the culprit, but why am I feeling worse and could other mysterious interlopers be in the mix, heart, cancer, who knows what might lurk within these overly stuffed plush innards?
Any-who, I did it now so the die is cast, hmm? Poor choice of words, ya think?

Moving on...

Yesterday while out my good ole reliable Timex quit, it had a battery breakdown that seemed to last a very long time.
Today, while out we stopped by the Watch Doctor, yup he is, and since we have lived here we have followed him to this his third location that we know of, and he did replace the battery and was impressed with the inner workings that are now made by, would you believe Seiko?
Battery cost almost as much as what I paid for the watch, he claims it had to be only two or three years ago, but to be honest I forgot. I think it was like twenty-five bucks then at JCs, Penney's that is,  and the new battery was fifteen!
Still a bargain for a Seiko, hmm, wink, wink?

I had a coupon for the Honey Baked Ham store, at the end of the same shopping center where the Watch Doctors shop is, odd for a Jew one might say, well my Hubby is a Catholic and Sunday is his holiday although with no one but us here... I do enjoy celebrating all of the holidays anyway! So dinner I thought ham for Easter. My coupon was for $3 off, but the boneless spiral glazed ham was $10.99 a pound and it is nearly four pounds, no quick math for me, foolishly, we took it, over thirty-eight dollars worth! I thought about bronzing it, but then they gave us samples, and we thought lunch with Swiss cheese on sandwiches smeared with sweet honey mustard, breakfast with eggs and yes also Sunday Easter dinner and more then whatever was left to into the freezer.

On that note of hmmm mmmm good, allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy healthy safe and peaceful 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, March 21, 2016

Neuro today!

Actually, his PA Daniel who was quite upbeat and cheerful today, considering we were late, no fault of our own.
Would you believe that an interstate highway like I75 would have stop and go traffic and even when flowing maintained speeds of just 20-30 MPH for a half an hour of our trip, half of our whole trip there, with a 70 MPH posted speed limit?
Oh no accidents, just construction, and no slow down signs for that, although construction trucks moved back and forth through the traffic as if no one was there!
Let's see our appointment was for 11 A.M., for the approximate fifty mile trip, and so even though MapQuest said it would take only an hour and two minutes, but I begged Hubby to leave around nine thirty! I was worried about all the Snowbird traffic still here until after Easter many. Our winter visitors from cold snowy climates thus the name.
We actually left at nine forty, give or take a couple of minutes, still plenty of time according to the ever popular mapping app.
And it was a good thing too.
The exit number from here is #207 Bee Ridge Road, mile markers are the same as exits now, but for some reason on that road it too was under construction and even though the posted speed limit was 45 MPH, people were driving about 20-25 MPH.
I do believe there is an app. for that, all about construction and how to avoid it,but I did not realize we would need it!
We were going so slow on Bee Ridge and it was a quarter to eleven by then and so I felt the need to call the doctor's office to tell them we might be as much as fifteen minutes late!
And they told me that if we were more than fifteen minutes late they would have to reschedule us!
I said that is not right, but fortunately we got there just nine minutes after our scheduled time, slight relief!
But still rather annoyed with their fifteen minute late rescheduling policy, and us with a one hundred mile round trip! The nurse, Colleen, took my blood pressure and it was rather high for me at 160/98, actually the highest it has been in years since on blood pressure medication, I had let the situation get the best of me, shame on me.
Odd too that I felt as if I were burning up when we arrived home and I had not had that mysterious low grade fever for a couple of weeks now, but all of sudden I am back up again, weird.
The PA gave me another neurological assessment test, and agreed that I needed our bath conversion that the ADA volunteer that came last Tuesday told Hubby what was needed to convert the shower for wheel chair use and a sink also to be able to get too with the proper toilet, a roll in and out shower a pedestal sink minus the pedestal and a raised toilet, door hinges that flattened the door to the wall.
.Hoveround or Jazzy too at this point he would write the recommendations for as well
.
OT was suggested if backup was needed to represent additional proof for Medicare.

For some reason the words that I am writing are being underlined in red, but hopefully it will disappear on posting as well as the lining up of paragraphing is all screwed up too.

Let's see, on that note of what else now, allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy healthy safe and peaceful 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 Good luck with tonight's offering it has seemed to taken on a life of its own! LOL!



Sunday, March 20, 2016

Is there such a thing as slightly racist?

Case in point a person that I admire for their intellect and political passion posted what at first I even shared to my timeline showing a picture of the Frothy Orange Haired Guy whose skin even appeared orange split screen next to our President Obama saying "this is not what we meant when we said that orange was the new black." In other words, choosing Frothy Orange Haired/skin Guy for the job of pres. NO WAY JOSE!
Geez, I got swept up into that too and at first thought it was really hysterical, but after I thought again I thought no it's not, it is off quite a bit, too racist.
If anyone makes anti-Semitic jokes I cringe with hurt and pain and leave. I used to say something, but it got me nowhere with most narrow-minded people.
So I consequently took the "share" down.
Oh one more thing...I took back my hahaha emoji on his original post too.
And no there is no such thing as being just slightly racist, you either are or you aren't, and I sure do not ever want to be mistaken for being one, too hurtful being on the negative end of any of that from all those anti-Semitic jokes I have run from and nasty anti Jew comments from too many folks, even these days!
Sometimes, us Caucasian folks get it all wrong though.
In our efforts to not be racists we are too far a field in that effort.

Diversity is easier for our sons to understand due to me wanting for them something that Hubby and I had not experienced until college, people of all races. Fortunately, they did in their schools upon moving to Florida at ten and fourteen years of age.
I think that helps.
Without learning from each other early on then we have no idea of how to act, which is the same as with any other friends, no matter of what ethnicity, race or religion.
I did have the good sense to enjoy Sesame Street children's TV with our sons when they were small, and that show was quite good at teaching our children to respect everyone, and that people are like flowers in the fact they come in all different sizes shapes and colors and are beautiful each in their own way, and I reminded them of that most all of their growing up time, and they proved that it worked by their choice of friends as teens and adults!
They as adults have proven to be quite open minded on all topics and I couldn't be more happy for that.

Moving on...

Snowing up north and I just flaunted our seventy-five degrees sunny weather at this hour to my old neighbor from up there!
Mean.
Yep, shame on me.

On that note of me being bad, allow me to be the very first to wish you all a very happy healthy safe and peaceful 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!  

Saturday, March 19, 2016

Weird

Sure I am, but so are you.? Only the best people I know are...
Any-who, this back thingy, is lingering way too long, ya know?
Where I had a mole removed on my lower back just a week ago Friday, I bet you all remember?
Extra Gabapentin for the last week, since extra strength Tylenol did not work and the nightly news confirmed that, knowing that it is not an anti-inflammatory anyway.
I think I now have figured out why my back needs to be iced with the medicinal doping of me the dope.
When the ARNP who did the deed of the shave removal of my mole for biopsy she had asked me if I could get up on the examination table for the minor procedure, smarty pants said okay.
Mind you that I can barely make it onto my own bed, which appears to have gotten way too high over these last few years. And so I locked my walker and used it along with the pull out step to raise myself onto the table, curbs on the street are mountainous these days.
Now if I do have any major cancer which the chances are not likely, with the pain I am displaying it would have to be the stage four type, God forbid!
So this is what I surmised that actually went down is that I more than likely herniated another disc.
Now before all of you go that's impossible, let me tell you a sneeze has been known to do it, one doc said, another doctor told me he had a patient that bent over to move a tray table and it happened, and the last time I did it I was using the hand held portion of the vacuum to clean the louvres on the linen closet, okay?
Case closed.
Feels identical to that more recent cause.
Years ago I herniated one when I was trying to get one of our cats into the cat carrier I had to bend down and maneuver myself twisting to get him from the hiding spot under an end table, to go to the vet and I fell through the front window, horrible! (Fortunately, we still had jalousies in the windows so in actuality I only broke a few bottom glass slats on the other side of the screen, way back in 2002 before we replaced all the windows with wind protective hurricane windows in 2003, with Hurricane Charley in 2004 we only had one broken window due to our neighbor's roof hitting it, no time to put up shutters since it was supposed to go 100 miles to our north and made that right hand turn the last minute!)
The only reason I didn't get cut is we had drapes at the time that protected me from the broken glass, along with the screening.
I got the cat to the vet and home again and then collapsed in excruciating pain!

Each time the process to feel better has taken a little while longer.
And I did have physical therapy the last time, at home and eventually I felt better.
This time is just too weird and embarrassing and do you believe a medical professional would actually believe me to verify it with yet again another MRI?
I never forget the one DO that said to me you can't be in that much pain when I can't find anything wrong with you, circa 1987 or there about; at that time I had not yet been diagnosed with Fibromyalgia.
After I had been I sent that doctor all the information I could find on that malady, way back in 1994 when I was first diagnosed, oh so annoying!
There are some doctors even today that still don't know about it or won't accept it as a real medical condition, would you believe?
Sometimes a godsend and other times an interference, it took that much longer to be diagnosed with Multiple sclerosis too many would not look further due to the dx of Fibro.
Finally in 2006 with MRIs and distinctive lesions I was found to have MS.
But it was still a while to be treated properly for this insidious disease, with a case of optic neuritis in 2010, by then second dosing of 1000 IV SoluMedrol added into my Baclofen from 2006 and Copaxone started too in 2010.
And so I think I have the reason for this aggravating pain, and the fact they kept me seated and twisted and turned me all around for my mammogram on Monday, more aggravation, and then the endoscopy yesterday I am not feeling too well all day and at night either, so I have been using ice packs on and off, but I still am only taking two 300 mg. of the Gabapentin one in the morning, one at night, last time I went up another 600Mg. if I recall.
I slept restlessly again last night, all week really, some nights no sleep at all, frustrating.

On this note once again of me, me, me, allow me to wish all of you a very happy healthy safe and peaceful very good night and ask you all to 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!

PS I write about my pain and causes to keep it straight that is what causes what and when, catalogue.

Friday, March 18, 2016

Comeuppance! Karma! What comes around goes around!

Getting one's just desserts is the meaning of comeuppance.
Karma, good or bad, but what you put out there usually comes back to you...Hear that Frothy Orange Haired guy?
What comes around goes around; yep the world is round, so they, meaning the whole damn world will find ya!
Are you listening, and you know who I am speaking about, yes that Frothy Orange Haired Guy!
Whew!
Now I feel that I can relax.
No worries.
No reasons to be concerned.
Higher powers are in the wind and are going to make it all better, once and for all.
Or...are they?
I suppose complaining couldn't hurt.
That is in a positive way.
WHAT?
There is no such way?
i.e. To complain nicely...
Nope.
Oh well.
Some believe that bloggers and others have gone too far with our characterization of the above mentioned guy.
Geez!
Here comes another one of those questionable remarks, he seems to be asking for angered responses when he says the things that he does, but isn't that what he really wants from all of us? So we have.
Okay, he claims most Americans are angry, and he has proven that perhaps.
But who gave him the right to make them more so?
This isn't a sporting event, and he is definitely not a coach trying to fire up a team for the big win?
Or is that just what he thinks that he is doing and is his reasoning?
Huh?
NO!
Maybe it is in his mindset.
Only way to rationalize why so many believe him.
People are you not listening to what he says or just the way he says it?
He might not use foul language all of the time, but four letter words are not the only bad things he spews, content is what I am talking about, bigotry in the form of hate mongering, bullying, threats for violence in the form of planting the seed of riots if the GOP stops him, and saying he will help people if arrested for violence on protesters via he taking care of their legal fees; that is once he checks into it, how nice of him, hmm?
So many things that have been said are instigative in the sense of fanning the flames of anger without initiating smart ways to resolve any of the issues that his people have.
No logic or answers just creative emotional havoc.

I know many might wonder why I don't just shut up at times.
Well like all of you I have a right to say what I feel, but I do not have the right to hurt anyone with words or physical contact, none of us should think that we do.
And if I have please forgive my words, not able to hurt anyone physically at this point even if I were very angry.

Vague it is! On this note of please allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy healthy safe and peaceful good night and ask you all to kindly to count all of 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, March 17, 2016

Latest tummy test results says nothing serious, just...

...a very small hiatal hernia, no need for surgery......GREAT!
Okay, than why does my tummy still hurt and my throat have burning in it?
I have been using the Pepcid Complete, in fact had some since I got home due to that burning not stopping.
Yes, it is true since I hadn't eaten since last night, and was allowed only liquids till seven thirty this morning before my test scheduled at twelve forty five P.M., by the time I was done at two ten P.M. for Hubby to get me I was getting hungry.
The surgery center was not far from Cracker Barrels' restaurant.
I love their broiled rainbow trout with a sweet potato and carrots and that is what I had, also Cole slaw that I only had a teensy weensy bit of, yep that too could be considered a no, no.
So I had that and Hubby had the turkey dinner, both of us had water.
Aha! Now I think I know what happened, I had ice water with lemon!
I must remember NOT to have lemons anymore, coffee is a no, no too, as well as onions and garlic, chocolate, my dear sweet ever loving CHOCOLATE and forget about jalapeños that I did sadly give up months ago!
Oh and there is more, the avoidance list contains certain cheeses, tomatoes and their sauces, many things I gave little thought to as possible culprits causing stomach issues with spiciness, not that much in many things I create myself.
Yep, I have to stop too many ordinary things that set me off, and eat slower.
That is sort of hereditary, eating too fast, my Dad ate too fast too, due to business, eating in between while working, and I did it when I was a district manager driving in the car three thousand miles a month to my five locations, and before that when the kids were little feeding everyone and trying to catch up.
Yep, it is a behavior I must control.
Thankfully nothing seriously was wrong tummy wise.
Probably paying more attention to all that I could lose a few, pounds that is too.
Although, I eat the same way that I ate when I was skinny, how odd is that?
I do understand that now metabolically I am a sloth, and between age and illness, and the inability to exercise or walk/move, being heat sensitive, and sun fearful all can be attributed to my bulbous body formation.
And when I was skinny I could do everything, walk, bike, swim, and not thinking to exercise, just because I enjoyed it; how much we all take for granted until it's all gone.
And of course those courses of IV 1000 mg. steroids, several times, for days did not help or the Gabapentin, both cause weight gain, which only due to my back I had to increase another 300mg. again and that is why I had tried to wean myself off of it, and I had gotten down from 1800 mg. to only 300 mg., but now back up to 600 mg.!

Any-who, I had a call in to the nurse in the gastro's office to ask him what I should do, in the interim I did Google it and sure enough, avoidance of those items above and others is what will more than likely be beneficial to protect me.
Oy Vey!

Anyway, on this note of again me mine, allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy healthy safe and peaceful good night and let me ask 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, March 16, 2016

We are all bombarding each other with posts of how we believe, or our

...interests in everything from hobbies to relationships to jokes to tests, nearly anything just about!
And I must admit with my wealth of Facebook friends, over forty-eight hundred and counting when I post hopefully the multitudes read it, I really do want you to really why else would I do that?
Or you either?
What fascinates me is who might actually let you know they read something that you posted, sometimes it's is the last person you would expect.
I can only imagine more than "like" something do read it even if they choose to keep it to themselves, law of averages and all, ya know?
Recently the post that I put on my time and shared with friends and public, I know sometimes an overlap, but it was a political post.
A very negative about our USA GOP leading candidate.
Out of the four people thus far who have liked it one male is from the UK, a female from Australia, another female from south New Jersey USA, and a male from north New Jersey USA.
I did not write the article a real pro did, but that is not the point it is the content that hit home with me, thus my posting. I agree so whole-heartedly with this author's logic and information that I am once again going to post it here for not only the whole world but more importantly voting America will read before casting their vote for the wrong person. Please read:http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/nicole-hemmer/articles/2016-03-15/donald-trump-is-conning-america-with-his-lies
I truly beg of you!

Moving on...

 I have been not having a good day or night of last, I was up most of it due to pain.
My spot/ location where my mole was removed for biopsy looks worse( via Hubby taking PICS so I can see it) in spite of the antibiotic and hurts more like a herniated disc than a small surgical procedure and even the band aid, ice pack, extra strength Tylenol use have not helped.
My head and neck also are once again misbehaving, and are all inclusive in the way that I have been feeling adding that additional 3, 4 punch to the other 1 and 2, got that?
Right now I can barely keep my head up without neck pain causing headache.
And guess what, more torture tomorrow, endoscopy.
I need it to get to the bottom, not a pun, since my endoscopy is the one from mouth to gullet, but my GERD and other stomach pains have seemed to not be helped anymore by the medications that I have been on for these last few years.
Many answers to too many questions over the next month or so.

I will bid you all a very safe, peaceful, happy and healthy good night, an I do believe you all know the rest...gotta go.

Tuesday, March 15, 2016

It is with a heavy heart and much sadness that we have decided to...

...DUMP OUR RAIN BARRELS! One hundred and ten gallons of clean rain water in our gardens that now has been used on them and turned over to never be filled again! Unless...read on, the below described problem is resolved that is...
And no, no standing water police came out to shout at us.
Besides the fact that we have had vegetable oil floating on the surface to prevent eggs being laid as the environmental department at the university had taught us when our concerns years ago were just, but not as dangerous to maintain or heaven forbid to forget.
ZIKA has made us all VERY concerned, which in many cases can be blamed on the mosquito of the Aedes aegypti name, about seventy cases have been recorded throughout our state.
Although, most can be attributed to acquirement by people who had travelled to countries where the infestations are at dangerous levels.
Our own state of Florida has not claimed of having been any cause of the origins yet for these cases; albeit I think that now a couple have been proven to have been transmitted via sexual contact of previously infected people elsewhere.
I truly believe this article is beneficial to people all over the world! Please read the link below.
http://www.accuweather.com/en/features/trend/risk_of_zika_infection_is_low/56047273

In the above CDC, Center for Disease Control in Atlanta Georgia United States of America, article it appears that the mosquito and therefore the virus is most prevalent in elevations of less than 6,500 feet.

The main reasoning for our concern is the young couple living next door to us, they have one small youngster and are both of that age of possibly conceiving another one, and no we have not told them anything, but I did ask Hubby to do it thinking of the horrid possibilities if anything happened.

In truth due to feral cats for the last couple of years we have not had a veggie garden, and our other gardens of flowers and trees are not water deprived this year due to historically unusual rains in our dry season.
Also ironically our sticky humidity has arrived most recently with our higher temperatures that are also not our usual yet for this time of year!
Thus creating the possibility being ripe for a breeding ground for those nasty insects!
Thankfully our pond, although most recently a fine feeding ground for one lone green heron appearing like clockwork daily, and oh so cute, who does enjoy munching on our plentiful amount of mosquito eater fish that multiply faster than rabbits!
The remaining ones, mosquito eating fish, do a fine job of eating any eggs that mosquitoes might lay!

Moving on...

Today is the Florida primary good luck Florida!
Vote for the RIGHT PERSON, PLEASE PEOPLE I am depending on you! I really hope that Florida FEELS THE BERN and does Vote for BERNIE!

On this note to vote allow me to be the very first one to wish all of you a very happy healthy safe and peaceful good night and ask 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, March 14, 2016

3D, no special glasses needed, but I did smile!

I went for that squeezer boobie process that all women dread, but is for our own good, we are told.
I suppose as much as men with their unmentionables/testicles checked similarly by medical professionals grasping them
.
Back to my girls, I guess that is what a few still call their breasts these days, hmm?
Any-who, mam, mammography, day, takes on a whole new meaning now that our female chest protuberances can be photographed, that is that their insides can be in 3D no less!
Yes, they can do slices of layers and layers in film of meaty muscle and fat and see what is there or if anything is not supposed to be there, and personally I find this amazing!
And a good chance for no more false positives!
If only...
Truly a wonderful concept and totally covered by Medicare!
Much better than what I have been through over the years...
I have been mutilated, cut up, tortured three different times!
First in 1992 my left one had a surgical lumpectomy biopsy and was found to have hyperplasia ductal, benign, but possibly pre cancerous, nothing did happen, thankfully. Done by a plastic surgeon classy, nearly no scar.
Second time 2002, bi-lateral, yep both, surgical lumpectomies biopsies, and both benign!
But right one dissected and put back together after removal of a specimen under the nipple that also had been removed and replaced, horribly!
Third time 2012, right one done stereotactic lumpectomy biopsy, benign! Very slightly noticeable.
First two were done surgically due to my breasts being too tiny for stereotactic, which is much less invasive.
Sure I am thrilled NO CANCER was found in any of them, at any time!
But still a frightening experience each and every time.
The being told something wasn't right after the mam.
Any of you who have been through that wait knows how long it seems, like forever, actually days.
Oddly enough even way back when a negative/benign result was what you eventually got, it didn't  mean you were notified any sooner than if heaven forbid it was cancer. Yes, cancer is now told to us much sooner, although with my skin cancer it did not come any sooner than if it wasn't, about ten days, even with it needing surgical intervention, MOHS.
The wait seems to take forever as if weeks/years/decades, what-have-you, it does seem that way!
Of course finding out all is well is absolutely the best!
Nothing can make that feeling any better than most all other elations in life, marriage, birth or such!

Anyway, the reading of the additional layers takes longer, but worth the wait, and thankfully all was GREAT!
Until next year, I am good, on this test that I did pass completely, YAY!

So on this happy, healthier note boobie wise that is allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy, healthy safe and peaceful 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 who would have thunk it that I would become a 3D X rated movie star at this age, ha!


Sunday, March 13, 2016

Acting non presidential should be discussed seriously

We have been accepting bad behavior from a man who wants to be in charge of our country and is running for the highest most respected job in this land that I love.
I have watched this Orange Frothy Haired guy not own up to statements he has made that are on record and film.
Americans see him as the words spew forth from his mouth and yet defend him.
How can so many be following him so blindly?

Our current president Obama has done a fine job of getting us back on track these last nearly eight years in my opinion. But due to racist people in government was unable to accomplish all that he set out to do.
Many of his desires to help the middle class and less fortunate have been begun.
In spite of being nixed on so many projects.
Even the health care program, which I believe definitely does need some tweaking was a start, but many who never had coverage can now afford health insurance.
He has gotten unemployment down to historic single digit lows and the economy has gone up, shown by the stock market prices at all time highs as well as people feeling secure/good enough to buy cars, homes and so many other big ticket items, while gas prices have come down to prices that we can all manage to live with.
Defaults of loans have lessened and are much more of a rare occurrence.
Salaries in many companies have increased for more buying power.
The surge to give even the lower hourly wage earners of employment a living wage has increased exponentially! Also enabling all people to buy things they desire.
All good.
You sir will be sorely missed if... that is especially if... one person ends up taking over.
You sir are a dignified intelligent fine gentleman who has well represented our country to the world.
Not an embarrassment! 

We as a nation need a leader who will be for us not for themselves only. 
Not a dictator.
Not a King.
Not a narcissistic.
Not a male out to line his pockets with our monies as a nation.
Not a liar.
Not someone who incites to riot.
Not someone who feels our tax monies are his Monopoly salary.
Never a scary hateful, bigoted, lying, bully who will embarrass us all over this world!

My fellow Floridians please do not vote for that man described above, he will be your worse nightmare I can feel it in the depths of my soul!

I beg of you to vote for the representative that we will never ever have to apologize for a decent man who is for all Americans, a mensch Bernie Sanders!

On this note allow me to wish all of you a very happy healthy safe and peaceful 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, March 12, 2016

Violence! Unnecessary roughness! Use your inside voices please.

People, people, people, your voices will be heard without the need to turn your opinions into fisticuffs; try the tamer way by using your vote! When I worked in management I was taught that when someone yelled at you if you spoke softly they would have to stop yelling to hear you, it does work. It also works in parenting with teenagers.
Decency is proven by civilized behavior.
I would hate to think that any one of the candidates would consider unruly actions appropriate for this time in our history, and all bad, whatever happens will be recorded forever and they will be blamed.
As most who have caused the erratic reactions to protestors have been witnessed to the news media has a way of playing and replaying anything that transpires negatively, since many consider that prime news and in reality it is.
Be aware!
For all eternity you will be caught on camera.
Become a wee bit more paranoid and then and only then we might see people act once again like human beings, or menschen.
Come on America be people that we can be proud of and not the ones the rest of the world points at and calls IDIOTS!
Please folks, you do know the whole world is watching, really.

Decades ago I was part of the Peace Revolution; I know an oxymoron sounding name.
We protested with sit ins, marches, candle light vigils, carrying signs expounding our opinions, signing of petitions, most of all we tried hard to be heard without using any violence.
And most of the time it did work!
We need to readjust our ways of getting things done America so our world image is no longer tarnished by this craziness and that means we must unite and agree that CRAZY is not a good look for any country.

On that note of love and hope allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy healthy safe good night and ask you 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!

















































































Friday, March 11, 2016

End of the week, FINALLY!

That is going to the doctor week for me.
Today I went with Hubby to the dermatologist to check my ear again and my mole on my back that I have had for years but it felt/looked different.
My ear once again seems to be in transition with either getting better or worse.
So the topical steroid is to be used 2x a day and if that doesn't work another biopsy will be in order.
My lower back mole was sliced off for biopsy.
Local anesthesia was used.
But due to my daily aspirin of only 81 mg. apparently it became a bloody mess.
The band aid came off and my blouse and undies were quite saturated.
And the pain ensued as well, and when extra strength Tylenol did not do the job I called the dermatologists office.
My appointment had been at 10:15 A.M. and this was at two thirty, a quarter to three-ish P.M..
Enough time for me to have been feeling one way or the other and, since I did not recall feeling badly or in pain after my previous skin biopsy I Googled it and the answer was to call back the doctor and so I did.
They said all they could do was tell me to take extra strength Tylenol, which I had.
The next solution was to use ice, which at the time I was having chills although I did not have a fever, so I said no. Next idea was to go to a walk in clinic or ER, and so far I am still here, or call my GP for some more ideas.
I guess having pain emanating from the lower back down my legs and having achy flu like symptoms without the flu is something I have to deal with and so like so many things in my painful life I found works was to distract myself thus writing in bed again.
And yes I am lying on my small surgical spot, a mole removed, and compressing the new band aid squelching the blood flow and realizing that every time I try to get up I cannot without pain!
So I have decided to stay put, again.
Hubby has gone to pick up dinner from PCs Fish House.
And I guess I will be eating in bed, again.
Gosh if I were rich and famous this idea would be decadent in the respect of being a truly spoiled celebrity!
But alas, I am not.
Just a sick old gal with a great guy taking care of me.

On that note of yes there should always be hope and geez I am lucky, allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy healthy safe 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 The results of the biopsy will be in 12 to 14 days good or bad.


 

Thursday, March 10, 2016

Good News, I Can Breathe!

Okay, no big deal, you say. I can't hear you, but I know you did.
Then why do they test you for that, breathing?
Actually, I am in that possibly knowing position due to it only being a supposition since Hubby was sitting on the same side as the tech who was doing the test, and Doc Hubby said it looked good to him from what he could see with my breathing in and out, and holdings and blowing quickly and sighing slowly that were all in the green portion on the screen's chart apparently. I don't know about the other colors that I could have been in, because it wasn't in my line of sight any of it.
But I thought "green screens" were for special effects? It's nice to be special, although not like this.
And Geez, it must have sounded like a make out session with me in a room with two men and all that heavy breathing going on, I.............wish, nah, kidding, way too tired for any of that, ha! The door was left open, now I know why, CYA, double ha!

The reason for the test was the follow-up to my initial appointment with the respiratory doctor.
I have been on that breathing medication now for eight days.
And during the test they give you another medication and test you some more after, I will be getting the results in eighteen days.
There was another test the doctor had wanted to do, me to run up and down steps but I cannot do run, or steps or up and down, so he, we nixed it.
Just like when I had the wiggling legs over the edge of the exam table instead of a tread mill for my heart nuclear test; could not do the other.
We all make concessions in life to get to where we have to go some times. I raised my hand, to say me too!

Hubby and I had lunch at Panera's, we both enjoy their delish food and healthy choices.

We first checked at Lowe's for the Mandevilla vine needing to be replaced, but they haven't come in yet. Hubby had me look at bathroom parts, fixtures, sinks etc. and tiles for his bathroom that we are considering making into an ADA accessible one for me, his is the larger one and has the ability to become even more expandable into the garage for more square footage.
A person from a non-profit organization will be coming over to give us the necessary specs to do the project in the future.
The man called while we were out and I must call him back.

We also went to Sam's Club for coffee and baking soda, Hubby found pastries he likes.
See, this is part of the problem, he needs to fatten up and I don't!

Any-who, on this note back in bed due to some chest area pains again, endoscopy next week, Mam too, oh what fun!
Allow me to wish all of you a very happy healthy safe good night and ask you all to kindly count all our 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, March 9, 2016

My opinion

Is no better than yours.
Although, I think that I express mine more often and more publically than you do.
But of course that again is just my opinion.
There are times in my life that I knew in my heart of hearts that something was going to happen.
Deja vu is not uncommon with women, ya know? No one knows why that is, except maybe us clairvoyant types, ha.
Some call it intuition.
I suppose men can have it too.
Have you felt as if something bad was going to happen, and then it did?
Or perhaps that something good was about to happen and that happened too?
 
This election really is baffling to me and at times makes me quite uneasy.
Never before have I felt this way with a ridiculous election, could be because never ever has there been anything like this election that is this ridiculous.
Feeling safe usually, but not necessarily this time.
Knowing in the past that my vote if not the one to get my candidate elected at least the opponent was someone although not my choice was still a decent person with their desire to help our country stay safe, productive, healthy have more than half of the country's wants and desires taken seriously and truly wanting to accomplish what they promised, but not this time, I have a fear.

You know that silly expression that people say, vote now and vote often, kiddingly more than once, now I wish if only that were legal.
My gentle candidate, but one who realistically wants to help America, my choice is not getting enough support, and so the campaign for the slot to become president could be filled by an another not as desirable or with all our best interests at the forefront.
Short of pulling out my hair and hoping that others realize this; people you should truly vote for the best candidate, there is not much else one can do or say.
I have previously told all of you who I do not want and why.
But just expressing my good vibes for the right candidate I guess is not enough.
So maybe saying that this person has honesty, integrity, and a problem solving ability with a calming personality that can make important decisions without a hot head and with logic and care.
Think about this at a different angle...
Every illegal person that commits a crime in the United States fuels the Frothy Orange Haired Guy's campaign with people saying, you see we need him to keep them out. Let me ask you how many legal Americans commit crimes? You see, look again, for everyone of those illegal people who make the news for committing a crime, sadly thousands of LEGAL AMERICANS have been doing it right under your nose daily all over this fine land that we all love, shall we deport them too, and if so, to where?
Yep, we do have a problem with crime.
And many believe it all stems from poverty and the need for better education and more jobs, making people truly realize that they have a chance of a slice of the pie to success.
Now think logically who will accomplish that?
An establishment person? (Big business in their pocket.)
A billionaire? (a one percenter)
Or a person who truly has helped people attain there best life in that past? (The person with the history of already doing this.)

Think hard and then think again.
Then FEEL THE BERN!

On that note of if only my vote counted in the millions or I could vote that often, ha, one measly one though can make a change/difference if you vote too, and you and you and you all for the one person who will help America, BERNIE SANDERS!
Now allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy healthy safe 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 Folks make this old gal not feel uneasy I sure could use some peace of mind as we all could, true?
VOTE SMART! VOTE FOR BERNIE!

Tuesday, March 8, 2016

Hubby has been through a few tests lately, and to say we were worried was a vast understatement!

And so far he's passed them all with flying colors!
Bloodwork exemplary, low cholesterol total 128 and triglycerides 64, even his short period of slight anemia was no longer there. He takes cholesterol medication same dose as mine, and blood pressure medication more than mine and we both do take vitamins, me more different types than him.
His chest X-ray was fine, normal.
His CT nuked and barium shake for lighting up of those lower organs was normal too!
He is only seven and half months older than me, and at five foot eleven and half inches tall had always weighed around one fifty-four with a thirty-two inch waist, so thin-ish; and this is since high school!
But recently he had gone down to one hundred and forty, too thin, although we were able to fatten him up to one forty-four point four.
He eats all the more fattening choices and rarely eats vegetables or fruit.
He used to drink too much coffee, thus all those great anti-inflammatory and antioxidant components, so did I, but we both cut back, him three a day, me two a day. Now they say more is better.
He has recently been trying to quite smoking, but has not yet though he cut down considerably, and does do it infrequently outside, since I quit ten years ago.
He has one more test next month.
Although, at this point I believe his weight loss might be my fault, his worrying about me, albeit the fact that he did do a lot of physical labor just before we noticed his significant weight loss.
He painted our white fence nearly the circumference of our quarter acre yard all but the water side where there is none, all three other sides inside and out, and also painted our driveway, walkway, patio and pool decking.
But he had before and never lost so much weight or any if we recall, but that was also years ago!
Age changes everyone.
Some get heavier and others do get thinner.
We are both examples of either end of the spectrum.
Mine though had smoking cessation and medicine assists.

Any-who, he has a month to relax and perhaps put some weight back on, projects caught up.
And perhaps the fact that he gave up the sit on lawn mower for the walk behind could be another factor. Too much chopped up in our yard and a bit of overkill for our smallish space.
So far so good though, and I am trying to come up with a celebratory idea when we find out that all is well after that last test is done.
He hadn't had this one before, actually none before except blood work.
He like me had his flu shots and this year he finally had the pneumonia shot like I have been getting, first in 2009 and then last time in 2014, they last five years.
I had the first when I was not let out of bed that time of my first exacerbation of the Multiple sclerosis with the three days of IV Solu Medrol steroids 1000 mg, being confined to be not even to go to the bathroom I was concerned due to my father.
When he had his brain stem thrombosis in April of 1986, he started to improve, even though that type of stroke most are dead within twenty-four to forty-eight hours.
They even put him in physical therapy, I bought him sneakers, cut his hair they allowed me in the hospital while he was there for all of five and half weeks.
He acquired pneumonia and he was allergic to penicillin, so they tried different antibiotics, nothing worked and he died on May 11th 1986, Mother's Day that year.
So with that horrific memory I asked for the pneumonia shot and had been begging Hubby to get one for years too, thankfully he finally gave in this year.
I do believe his weight loss worried him too, worries him and me.
But that alone can cause weight loss!
So very unproductive!
As usual we must call on diversions, but usually I come up with projects as distractions, and so he is straightening out his work area in his garage and condensing and getting rid of things, and sadly for his sake the temperatures here have risen and our garage is not air-conditioned.
So I must come up with ideas, less activity, indoors, keep me company in my temperature controlled land dear man that I love.




  

Monday, March 7, 2016

Being passionate about certain things is not always acceptable

Of course the above statement is not always true it can depend on your topic of interest.
Loving anything, especially your parents, your spouse, your children, or any family members, artwork, learning, reading, or a hobby or any of those things etc. are usually alright.
But passion can also be shown in negative ways of not loving something, true?
And here is where we can be walking on rough terrain in the opinion game.
Now to be clear many passionate subjects are subjective. The most common that comes to mind is of "beauty being in the eye of the beholder". Not all people see things the same way, and of course that is a given.
People, by enlarge, can be critical of each other even when at times they don't mean to be, but than again when they do.

Which brings me to a major one, topic that is, political reasoning or desires for what we as citizens truly want from the leader of the free world, our United States of America President.

Every time I am reminded that Abraham Lincoln, one of our finest president's ever was he himself a Republican. I cringe now with how horrible the representatives of his party this year have fallen with no integrity at all, they are vulgar, immature, disreputable, disrespecting sad commentaries of what their party once stood for. If I had been alive during Lincoln's time I would have most definitely been a Republican! But now I would never ever consider that possibility! 
These men, make that boys with too much power, and needing to have their mouths washed out with soap, are not by any means worthy of peoples votes!
If they cannot control themselves at these debates or on the trail for trying to gain your votes, how in the world will they be able to accomplish anything with dealing with level headed colleagues in government or the leaders of the world! Truly think about that.
I am not that smart, but even this non genius can tell this isn't right.
Many of you out there please explain to me what you see positive in any of those GOP candidates, and not being Democrats is not a reason to vote for these stooges!
I am definitely confused when I hear nightly on the news that Frothy Orange Haired Guy is winning the nomination????????????????????????????
Please, please, someone out there explain why?????
I know there are so many more intelligent people out there than myself, but why would you vote for this neurotically narcissistically neo-demigod of questionable notoriety most recently notoriously accused of defrauding people who trusted him in businesses??????

I truly wonder.
But that is my right, as it is yours to ruin this country if you vote in my opinion unwisely for him!
DON'T PLEASE!
I BEG OF YOU!
INVESTIGATE!
THEN INVESTIGATE ONCE AGAIN!
Vote for Bernie!
And if for some reason he does not acquire enough delegates, chose Hilary, okay?

Anyone is better than the DON!
All I am trying to say is that be better than me and learn more than me and then if you really, really feel that passion and are absolutely sure he will improve our GREAT COUNTRY not screw us all over, then and only then I will listen to your side.
Passion is a feeling, often a positive one, but sometimes one of frustration and concern, and that is mine now with this election.
So if you are a friend, a knowledgeable one, that I respect, help me to understand your side, your point of view, opposing mine, but please also understand mine too.

On this note of Geez, I cannot get it, allow me to be the very first to wish you all a very happy healthy safe 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, March 6, 2016

For the news media to report on the 2016 Election I thought...

...that they were supposed to be unbiased.
To keep up with what is going on with even the whittled down candidates stable of three maybe four on the GOP side and two absolutely on the Democratic side to update myself and to stay informed I watch on Sundays NBCs Meet the Press's full hour, and CBSs Face the Nation's last half hour since there is an overlap there. As well as PBS shows and network programming an the occasional debate, but truly they are more shouting matches on the GOP side than a learning experience, and Democratic ones are few and far between.

Now the pundits take sides due to who they support or will during the programing or discus either side, but the mediators are the newscasters/anchors and are supposed to not taking sides just there to make sure that every angle is covered and questions answered, true?
Hubby asked out loud today if Chuck Todd, the host of Meet The Press for any of you living under a rock or are foreign born, was a Republican and I said why?
Because he is always defending the GOP front runner, okay, if I must I must, DJ Trump, Hubby said.
You know, I noticed that on the Today Show too, maybe they aren't aware of it but at times it does seem that way, preferential towards the Don.

Gosh can anyone recall anyone running for election getting as much free air time?
All this guy, the Frothy Orange Haired Guy that is, has to do, is say anything, usually outrageous, bigoted, insulting or bullying and he gets FREE AIR TIME thousands of times over. If we behaved that way would we? Okay maybe... yes.
But it does make one wonder, are they all suckers, I can hear that expression, there's a person that can have the wool pulled over their eyes any moment at anytime, paraphrased "a sucker born every minute", isn't that sort of thing the barkers at the circus would say or thought about the naivetĂ© of their audience?
Gosh, he, that above mentioned guy was listening too closely to the con men of his generation and seems to have picked up all their pointers by him trying all their methods of putting one over on his supporters by telling them whatever he wants them to think and them buying it hook line and sinker, why prove him right people, really?
And the thing that bugs me the most when asked, these tried and true supporters of this carnival act man always defend him no matter what, has he hypnotized them into believing him and could his bombastic personality cause them to believe his cult like crap?
No sustenance in any of his words only empty promises.
Fact checkers have proven time and time again that what spews out his mouth is mostly, mainly lies, practically all he does say, in my opinion all.
And he has never been for the little people who want change but only for himself and the almighty dollars he can put in his own pockets!

WISE UP YOU SO-CALLED AMERICANS! He is NOT your FRIEND!
He will kill this country bit by bit.
And the worst of it is all his empty promises to you are just that, EMPTY! 
Empty as your beer bottle after enjoying that game on the TV, empty as that casserole dish after a pot luck dinner, empty as a paper plate after a pig roast! You get my drift...I hope.

Please, please, PLEASE get my point you the salt of the earth, heart of America folks, minus the KKK and Neo Nazis or the like scary ones, he's NOT going to be there for you only HIMSELF!
He will give contracts to his companies from everything from war contracts of wars started by him due to his people pleasing personality angering all of our allies not just our enemies, and for our infrastructure rebuilding of bridges and roadways etc. he will have his logo on them with all of the illegal aliens he hires for a tenth of the going rate to do the hard labor and then he will banish them out of the country if they complain after he uses them up making sure he gets the most for his money provided by him for him by taxing you.
Mark my words and folks there is so much more, think clearly before you cast that vote and try to know as much as you can about this self proclaimed DEMIGOD who will take your souls while he rips your hearts out from you if he ends up in POWER!
History, read it, and remember you have been warned!
Every dictator has begun this way horrifically, all I am asking you all is to think twice and really investigate all my claims and don't turn off your ability to get to the truth think, and then think again!

That's all folks truly, for now.

On this another night of ranting with purpose, allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy healthy safe 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, March 5, 2016

Want to know how to clear out all those loving creatures in no kill shelters and rescues

Soap box time!

Get the veterinarians to stop over charging for their services! Their employees are practically on welfare, at least one I spoke to earlier today had said that she as a single parent that her children are on Medicaid with even her working fifteen hours a day, so it begs the question who is profiting from these higher costs of veterinary care, and my conclusion is either the veterinarians/doctors or the pharmaceutical companies just like with people's medication!  BIG PHARMA! NO!

Well meaning people wanting loving additions to their families/homes would be more than willing to take in two or three pets at a time if the care for them was not going to cost them an arm and a leg! When did it all get out of hand... I sadly don't recall that exact date.

It is more than wonderful that they have discounted spay and neutering, some organizations doing it even for free, over the last few decades, but they're still too many homeless pets being warehoused!
People know the value of having loving creatures in their homes, it helps peoples health, emotional and physical well being as well as that of the adopted pet's, but even when adoption is not that expensive, maintaining the pet still might be.
And then not unlike children with special needs, heaven forbid, your adoptee of the four-footed kind could too have special needs and concessions would have to be met and there are no agencies or organizations for aiding you in that specific care, except for an exorbitant fee.

This all reminds me of the horror stories I recall of senior citizens needing to decide whether to buy groceries or medication due to not being able to afford both just a few decades ago.  
Although, there might be some still in that horrid situation, I truly hope not.
So many issues in human and animal medical needs have to be addressed.
We as the "richest nation" in the world, it is appalling how far behind we are in caring for people and our animals, shocking actually.

Answers from me are not available yet, for I really have none.
But someone out there must have.
In my miniscule brain I feel that if we solve this "money/cost of" problem then and only then will we find the answers to emptying the shelters and rescues by placing all creatures in loving homes that can afford to give them all the care that they need!

And that is not to say that these newer no kill shelters and rescue organizations are not treating them well, 99% are, but they are and should be only a temporary respite for any domestic pet who needs a one on one relationship with a human being.
As Americans I do believe that this is another situation that should not be left to only the wealthiest of Americans in that one percent being the ones to have pets, since that would be again way too unfair for the rest of us.
But alas if this escalating cost/expense isn't stopped then all I can foresee is that it will happen!


STOP THIS MADNESS! PLEASE!AND DO SOMETHING!

On this note of a rant of substance, allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy healthy safe 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 NBC-2 Good job with the Susan B. Komen race for breast cancer funding, hope you met your goal!
PSS Haley W. Chief Meteorologist, your little guy is amazing, he may become a pro baseball player, because he is really something at only five years of age playing the game; thanks so much for all those live action flicks nightly! They are truly enjoyed.


Friday, March 4, 2016

Imagine a place where...

...a tall thinish older man stands online at a Dairy Queen awaiting his turn to order two small Sundaes to take home, and when he finally gets to the front of the line a young punk puts his hand on his chest pushing him back and attempts to cut in line after saying, "My turn old man."
And that "old man" takes the kids arm and twists it around until he falls to his knees, don't mess with a retired cop as his background will always kick in, and this the kid's entourage laughs at his discomfort, while another man intervenes and says "I think you all better leave now", and they did.
Cast of characters: Hubby, as tall thinish older man, a young black fellow, as the fresh punky kid, and a decent adult black man as the good person who intervened.
All true, last week.
Fast forward to my respiration doctor's office parking lot, where a physically challenged older fat woman in her transporter wheeled chair, foot pushing, circling her vehicle to get in, husband already on the other side waiting, woman is verbally accosted by a fellow on speedy bicycle with battery pack behind seat with cord attached to a fancier than her own cell phone; bike man opens with I feel sorry for you my mom had to use one of those then asks her for a hand out due to his wife and two year old living in the woods and that they are very hungry. She offered to put him in touch with a special agency, one being in just the next parking lot over from where they are talking. He takes a call and the older woman escapes to her awaiting open door to her car, and gets in while husband takes her transporter to the rear of the vehicle and puts it in. Once inside Hubby ask me what that was about.

Moving on...

Next imagine taking in your dog for a grooming and initially being told due to he having to be knocked out the cost will be $140, and verified and then arriving early the next day and being told they will now being charging $274! Due to new medications and them wanting to do blood work. This told to the tall thinish man Hubby again he says that Gus doesn't need blood work he just had it when he was in for his shots just a few months ago there, okay minus $80, now =$194, just for a HAIRCUT! Still ridiculous! But asked for payment upfront where we have been going for over a year and always paid after. Oh and get this, I called after he was dropped off after noon he had been dropped off before ten A.M. and asked again about the new bait and switch in my opinion pricing, of course I did not say that to them, wanting it to be better explained and finding out that although he had to be there early they had him scheduled last!
It is now after five (they called at five thirty, Hubby is there now. Home now, and they didn't even wait until he was fully out of the anesthesia, he's wobbly!) and they still have not called, and this is at a vet's combo groomer's office.
Fortunately, after spending most of the day speaking with many animal rescue/rights agencies, including the rescue that we got Gus from, it now appears they were nice enough to understand our dilemma and put us in touch with their groomer that originally did his first haircut and said he had been fine with her without needing to be put under. In fact he may even be having some play dates with her dogs at her home only a few blocks from us and get this she charges $40 for her haircuts done in her home!

PS Although, Gus was adopted in Arcadia Florida from Canine Castaways and the veterinary clinic there gave him his initial shots, without having to put him under either, we feel maybe these others did not have the patience they should have had with him when they took him out of our sight or they did not acknowledge his fears... and so we will go back to where we started, although a distance away. Wish us luck, but his shots are good till November.
Where there is a will there is always a way.

On this note of imagining things that you wish weren't real and so allow me to be the very first to wish you all a very happy healthy safe 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!

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