Wednesday, February 28, 2018

So your son-in-law is not trustworthy to have clearance with the states secrets...

But you allow him to hear your daughter's secrets, hmm?
The nasty word here is "allow", but somehow with all his TWEETS I do believe his womanizing attitude would be how he thinks and talks about women. And his feelings spoken about her are a bit awkward to say the least.
Okay, another issue of reasons to dislike the Orange Frothy Haired Guy, Mr. T, Pres. DJ.

Russia brussia, how can several US states have them in proof that they had interfered with our 2016 election in those particular states, but without anything they can put their finger on causing the election to go the wrong way as it did and Geez I was hoping that they would find that smoking gun!
I am confused, it appears to not be clear, or is it just me?
Let's try this way of saying it...
They found evidence that Russia interfered in our 2016 election in our several US states, Florida included but no proof of the how?
Bad Russia.
So now what?
SOMETHING HAS GOT TO BE DONE WITH THE MID-TERM ELECTIONS COMING UP SO VERY SOON!
But what?
They hacked, so we hack too?
Any ideas?
From those two Russians who read this? Speak up!
Yup, they do.
Why?
I have no idea.
Oh wait, let's try simplicity... "STOP THAT!"
I know way too serious an issue for my silliness.
That is what happens when you have/we have such a free and open nation, they can get into even our most private personal information and change everything in a blink of an eye!
NOT GOOD!
We need to be able to have worry-free, honest, non-tampered with free elections.

Now I will once again have difficulty sleeping... scary, and Russia uses a different alphabet from us, so much harder to learn to speak to them.
Although, this blog is translated into all languages and so maybe we won't have to...nah!

Happy good night to all!

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









Tuesday, February 27, 2018

Did you know?





That the less expensive brand at Home Depot of Glacier Bay bathroom and kitchen fixtures, even vanities are very good products.
All our sinks and shower faucets, including the higher one in the kitchen is theirs.
We did have a slight problem with the new double rain one in the roll in shower completed in 2016, and so I called them about a rust and pitted issue and they offered a one time deal to send us a new one and they did! Just last week. http://www.glacierbayfaucetsreview.com/contact-us/

Farberware knives are warranted for life and we have replaced a few a couple of years back without any problems. I suppose many of their other Farberware products are too.
Just goto their site: http://www.farberware.com/

Sometimes quality is in policy.

Moving on...

Again my personal plumbing system has decided to dessert me, and flu like symptoms have returned, I had to start Imodium again this morning with a Pedialite chaser.
I suppose if nothing changes by tomorrow I will ring the doc up and ask for more suggestions, hmm?
It will be ten days, is that average?
Never counted the two times before, since they were more like bad cold symptoms only, not as volatile.
I appear to not to be able to process food adequately.
The upside, perhaps I will lose a few pounds?

I feel as bad as the unprocessed stuff coming out of me! FEELING CRAPPY!
Oops, did I write that out loud?

As most everyone knows our flush toilets were third generation and were branded by Crapper's named, the inventor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Crapper

So not a BAD word!

Happy good night to all!

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








Monday, February 26, 2018

No more hokey weird stuff, okay?

I sorta promise.
Although..., nah I am feeling better than I did yesterday!

So with that statement I will move on to some more important topics... I'm thinking!
Give me a break, I tend to be a bit self absorbed when ill...bud dump dum...yup so that means that it's all of the time HA!

What frustrates you?
I will tell you even if you could care less of my unsolicited opinion, hmm.
This is my blog so there! I just stuck out my adult tongue at you!

Here's a spur of the moment list I compiled.
I am sure there are many more.

1. Pollyannas! People who smile all of the time no matter how bad things are! Get real!
2. An idiot commander and chief that cannot be gotten rid of and who knows that and he just does more horrid things as if thumbing his nose at the rest of us somewhat clearer more rationale thinkers even on our worst days!
3. People who assume, making an ass of you and me. (u +me)
4. a. Not nice persons who steal handicap parking spots, b. that includes surviving spouses who are healthy and just use the deceased spouses placard or tag, c. and people not getting out of the car, just staying in their car in the last handicap space that you need!
5. People who litter! Look for a trash can or take a bag with you please!
6. People who rent and do not treat the rental as their own home with loving care and concern for the neighbors/neighborhood! ( We had rented a few times, about six years, over the nearly fifty years of marriage and always treated those places as our own; not difficult at all!)
7. People who do not clean up after their pets! We do.
8. Businesses that say they understand and apologize but continue to do the same thing over and over again; the definition of crazy! (Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different outcome.) Although, does that mean them or me, ha?


Ahhhhhhhhh........ enough already!

I am beginning to sound like a very unhappy person, so not true!
Most days I am very happy.
Sad at times, but not more than anyone else I suspect; with me I find at this age having a short attention span is to my advantage.

Depression is caused by the feeling of things never getting any better, not good.
You must self talk or distract yourself when those negative feelings begin, common in chronic diseases, so true, best to try and think happy thoughts... but not so silly thoughts, nah silly is fine, realistically better ideas thoughts!

One FB friend has turned into an Oprah with publishing her daily feelings and reasons of being grateful, sure and absolutely okay, whatever works!

Although, some times ... never mind!
It would be unkind to say anything negative about something so positive, so may I suggest you read my number one frustration or not. Oops did I write that out loud?
Forgive FB friend who I think might read this on occasion.

Some times speaking your mind can have a negative effect on others.
So I must temper my BIG mouth with a bit of kindness? Huh, what?
Then would I be speaking my mind truly?
A RESOUNDING NO!
THIS IS MY SAFE PLACE!

In closing I really do care what you feel and think, and so I will shut up now.

Happy good night to all!

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


Alright, I lied.







Sunday, February 25, 2018

Ya wanna know what isn't right to eat...

When getting over the stomach flu?
Here's the short list: in my opinion do not eat any Subway seafood salad, salad, even divided into three separate meals as I did from just yesterday, one of those still left, with jalapenos (Could have been them, nah) and Publix air popped light buttered popcorn...oops! Hubby was eating his other half of his meatball sub from there, he's fine and satiated, no problem for him, thank goodness!

Everything else is okay to eat, I think or it could be just me that had the problem with having the flu and all and thinking that since I was hungry just eat what I like..., more than likely... ME!
Although, those items above seemed to have given me a set back in the hopes to be able to leave the mini manse in the near future! Nah, ME!

I was leaning toward next weekend, not supposed to be too hot then. Our temps here in Florida are going down to the pleasant seventies from the mid to high eighties of this past week and in some places ninety, would you believe? Breaking many records, even for Florida!

Nope, not even a pleasant day for me indoors tummy wise.

I had made a frittata for breakfast of sauteed spinach, mushroom, onion, garlic and turkey sausage, three eggs scramble with water into our sprayed PAM and olive oiled cast iron frying pan started on top of the stove with slices of Swiss and cheddar cheese, just a little on top then placed into the oven at 400 degrees for ten minutes, and as always it came out perfect. Only half of it eaten by Hubby and I, so the other half could be saved for tomorrow! Yum!

My thought was to give Hubby a BIG BREAK, since I was feeling a bit better! He has been waiting on me and Aussie literally nearly constantly!
Due to Aussie being a three and half month old puppy and about 75% housebroken, the other 25%,  he has managed to use our little throw rugs to relieve himself on, by the front or back door, our home is completely ceramic tiled, and the other rugs are for him to use as beds. (No area rugs due to my wheels)  He is so very fast, nearly stealth like too, not unlike the Flash from the comics. Although, he does go if we ask him if he has to go out too!

It has been fourteen years since we last trained a puppy!
Skipper, our Bichon Frise we had from eight weeks old in 2004, and then Gus was an adult housebroken rescue Havanese mix, so yup, fourteen years since being puppy parents, and WOW!
I remembered it being easier, ha! Like labor not so bad, but of course worth it! We were a whole lot younger and healthier then.
A lot of work and laundry!
But now that Aussie's stomach issue appears to be gone... it is getting a lot easier.
I also helped with accident clean up and laundry today.

I am back on the Pedialite, trying to avoid the Imodium as long as possible.

I seem to go back and forth with this darn thing, tummy and temp!

Flu begone, YOU ARE GETTING REDUNDANT!
My third time this year or last since Nov and Dec, even with the flu shot on September 6, 2017, and all those previous years it worked!
WEIRD, even if just 36% effective, why me so many?
At least I am not dead! Thank GOD! Bite my tongue; all those babies taken this time, just so sad and horrible!
US medicine has got to do better!
HELP!

Try to have a happy good night and we will too!

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



Saturday, February 24, 2018

I've lately been straying...

That is my attention, whatever did ya all think? Really????????? Get your minds out of the gutter!
And you thought I couldn't hear you? Why I have it written right here, "I hear you." And so it is written, by me, not someone who has to tell me to do it or does it for me, actually it is etched temporarily in my brain not on anything tangible that you would want to touch anyway, ha!

Any-who, our embarrassment chief in office was not where this conversation/soliloquy was heading for tonight, forgive; as in my title and first somewhat complete sentence states I seem to be having a problem concentrating.
Could this be the beginning of the end?
Might my mind be in jeopardy and I mean not the fun kind of Jeopardy from the TV the harsh reality that now you've lost it girl kind??????????
I pray not, and these days I find myself praying way too much for my agnostic self, ha! Although, I declare being born Jewish.

You see, I have been slowly losing parts of my abilities physically due to the Multiple Sclerosis, but even though at times I used to ask Hubby after a mini description what word I was talking about was so I could write it here... and since I have actually moved onto bothering my smart phone by describing words, asking for spelling words and using its Thesaurus too, as I pluck this out nightly on my ASUS notebook. I used to multi task, doing five things at one time, was down to two, and until recently I was able to watch the news while writing this, but lately I have had to turn it off altogether, since muting it while alone in the bedroom with Hubby in the living room seemed just silly, if you know what I mean?
Oh where was I, my train of thought, this last paragraph's point was that even with slight cognitive problems, I would consider my thought processes not too disintegrated yet, perhaps just slightly skewed depending on which side of the political realm your leanings are on I suppose, huh?
In closing, while writing this tonight...Geez I have forgotten my entire point of this verbose essay this evening...    never mind, must not be important.

As is so much in life, don't sweat the small stuff... DO YOU WANT TO KNOW WHY?????????
BECAUSE EVENTUALLY THE BIG STUFF WILL COME ALONG AND SNAP YOU OUT OF IT! With the end result of being so much wiser with what is truly important in life.
Ta DA! All said without a net or caring that you all already know these things! I better run they might try to throw one of those nets over me...kidding, or not!

Happy night to all!

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

YOU SEE THIS IS WHAT CABIN FEVER IS LIKE!

Almost all better though.

Friday, February 23, 2018

Who wants a new early presidential election?????????

Oh dear there is now proof of collusion with Russia, by three of Mr.Ts guys during the campaign!
Sure they will not extradite their Russian counterparts here, but just the same the proof should have the proper effect in the end result... removal of the so-called president due to an inaccurate election!
He did not win fairly, honestly or AT ALL!
And not just by the votes, but by dishonesty in acquiring the trust of those who thought he might be doing what they had voted for...I am so happy that he hasn't kept any of his promises!
Let's face it they were bizarre.
I know that a new early election will put this country on hold to move forward, but the results of another, honestly, NOT interfered with one is worth the effort, and really have we been accomplishing anything with this administration anyway?
Just our negative image on the world stage, hmm?
Oh and aggravation, and Orange Frothy Haired Guy showing how he really is a TWIT, did I write that out loud oops... I meant Tweeter of more than a serious thought commentary, out of decent human being that gets things done for all Americans, even in between golf games, huh? He doesn't at all! He, without after thought torments countries to cause nuclear war too!
Security we all pay for wherever he and his enormous family goes, and he doesn't stay put, in the White House, although it has been my very secret thought, now hush don't tell anyone, but the next time he, the Mrs. and the son leave that we should change all the locks, hmm, an idea, ha?
They wouldn't be homeless since they have too many other places to stay, but he wouldn't be where he could sign legislature that helps no one but him and his rich cronies like that one item he did sign!
I know all but the TWEET THINGY from anywhere in the world, that is an issue, someone should close that account and tell him it was a glitch, yep he would get that, maybe?

This could be our answer, one can only hope... I do know that there are plenty of holes in my ideas, but I do mean well for all Americans!
His lack of compassion, understanding, logic, common sense, decency, and sincerity just cuts me to my last nerve, and that's not good with Multiple Sclerosis, really! The fact that he had notes telling himself to say "I am listening", and that "I hear you", while talking to the survivors of the Parkland shooting.

Oh well...

Happy good night all.

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

An additional comment: I definitely do understand that the mentally ill on the whole do not cause or do violent acts ever, 95% do not. That said, though the 5% that do are the ones that might be set off by the least little or bigger thing said or done to them. Think of it as accelerated irrational reaction of anger. And yes, not all overly angry people are mentally ill I do know that too, either way those people are the ones, perhaps with records for lack of control of their actions with legal documentation, such as arrests, should not be allowed to purchase weapons of any type! How about that? And all automatic weapons have no business being sold to civilians, in my opinion!
And that is hard to test for on any sort of test I imagine.


Thursday, February 22, 2018

Hairy moments!

Computer froze up, and it wouldn't even allow me to close it; I know we have all been there, panic of lack of access!
Ahhhhh, how soon I forgot my back up world window of my smart phone!

Last time, I was in the hospital I even wrote this blog on it, not as easy as the notebook, but you do whatever you think you need to do.
After trying for an hour Hubby came in the bedroom and asked to help, an I said sure, nothing to lose.
He considers himself not tech savvy, but his anxiousness was not as much as mine, alright nil, so I of course took him up on the offer and then almost as soon as he took it into the living room he brought it back with saying he thinks he got it!
And he did!
Hmmmmmmmmmm.
I had been running windows defender as my antivirus, since it is free.
And I had the updates and virus check running, to me this was logical with the freeze up, but even that was going way too slow, and consequently nothing was changing!

Oh well... all is fine now, and I do have the windows defender icon sitting nicely on the bottom right of this screen; ready!

This notebook is now a few years old and one never knows with this newer technology how long they are "meant" to last, hmm?

Moving on...

Aussie, barked a little today for the very first time! And I was quite relieved.
I was worried something had been done to his vocal cords; after all he has been with us now for nearly a whole week and he hadn't barked at all, just whimpered!
Now Hubby warned me that the last time I was concerned about a puppy not barking that one never stopped after, not really, although some days...
Aussie just did that one short bark in play, nothing gratuitous there.
You see, miniature Australian Shepards are not BIG barkers according to what I read about them.
He is also doing quite well on his antibiotics, no more tummy issues and eyes look great too, yay!
His housebreaking is doing pretty darn good now!

I on the other hand are mystifying in my continuing symptoms, although my appetite appeared to return, and then I could not eat even half of my dinner of baked Tilapia, peas and mashed potato.
And sitting at the dinette table hurts my stomach, and so I am back in bed with a low grade temperature again! The fact that I am dizzy, even more so than usual Hubby and I both thought because I have hardly eaten and perhaps I am weak and not eating very much since Monday when this all began. On the brighter side...I suppose that it is a good thing due to losing some LBS.!
So between the stomach issue and real dizzy issue I remain in bed, except for showers and needing the bathroom.

Happy good night all!

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



Wednesday, February 21, 2018

Challenging...

To write when you are just lying in bed working on trying to feel better, and yes I am somewhat better.

I rather chime in on the children, the high school children, specifically from Parkland Florida, speaking up and speaking out; they are more than extraordinary!
They are so fired up with ideas, not just lip service, but well thought out really, really good ideas on how to change the situation and not ever going to settle for the status quo!
The adults have dropped this ball way long ago, and these bright freshly devastated teens of Parkland have called them out on it, and so they have incited their sadly brothers and sisters whom have also endured more than anyone should ever to come along on their marches for a definitive peaceful resolve! As well as all students all over the state, and country!

If I didn't know better it to me it seems to be a throwback to the sixties, 1960's.
We were there, and we did make a difference.
Apathy is finally DEAD!

These children have a cause for all of us to believe in; it is times like these that I wish I was part of the legislature to pen all their logical brilliant ideas!
But I am not.
Walk outs have been everywhere where the students leave school to support the cause.
Fear is tangible.
Who wants to worry about a child doing such a mundane thing as going to school, when all schools used to be safe havens, now rightfully so the worry is the right emotion for all parents horrifically.
This should not be.

Domestic terrorism is apparently multiplying violent actions with multi shooter weaponry.
The period of waxing and waning of these crimes against humanity has lessened in time spans.
Like multiple serial killers their acts of violence appear to be growing right in front of our eyes.
Cues are not taken as seriously as they should be. Report anonymously if you see something say something!
Remember when yelling "fire" in a theater was a crime?
We as human beings have all dropped the ball, and are letting our futures down, all of our children.
Feeling safe in this world should be a given, not something that has to be begged for...

My hopes and wishes are for all the children/survivors when they explain from their hearts as they have been that some of these bureaucratic A-holes will stop talking and start listening.
And STOP TAKING MONIES FROM THE NRA!

That is all.  United we stand, divided we fall!

Tuesday, February 20, 2018

Humana Rx, though their specialty division, it is them again, feeling better and Aussie medical update

I received a letter from Humana stating they were trying to reach me several times by phone to let me know my Specialty medication, my injectable Copaxone was ready for delivery and that they were calling to set up the delivery.
The only problem is that we have caller record on our landline when after so many rings it picks up.
I had received only one message, not several, and as soon as I returned their call and set up the delivery date.
You see the delivery date was today and we have it, the same day the letter came.
So I called the number in the letter to complain, treating me as if derelict of my duty to myself for medication that has kept my lesions in check for these last seven years and five months of being on it.
While complying with their robo computerized voice asking me questions that they already know the answer to as soon as I call through our, all of our telephone numbers, I hit zero, several times and yes mine were several times until I got a human!
Sort of, they all apologize and understand my concerns, brainwashed!
But complying with their robot calls questions and requests, such as the one where social security pays for their premium!
Huh!
That is what the robot said.
Anyone already using social security and Medicare for that matter knows all of that was taken out of our paycheck while we were employed!
Social security and Medicare insurances are taken out of what would have been additional to monies that would be paid to us!
All that and my paid by me supplemental causes a few hundred dollars of monies coming to insurances directly from all retirees, you do the math.
And I as others should have that expressed in where the money comes from, not just haphazard or people uninformed as some type of charity!
We paid for it, so it is ours!

Not to mention the ill and infirm that do get Medicaid and Social Security, who need to be taken care of, we are low or non-existent in comparison on the world stage for taking care of our seniors, ill and infirm! And this they call civilized?

And the specialty department was doing so good...oh well.

Moving on...

The Imodium worked, with all else, no Pedialite, with my erratic hand movements I knocked it all over the bedding, sticky red mess, causing an immediate washing, soup not so much, fat free Greek Yogurt with honey seemed good, and was, toast okay!
Tonight, Hubby went all out with roasted chicken and baked potatoes! Couldn't eat most of it.

 This just in: fever returned!

Moving on again...

Crazy me thought, but it was only a coincidence with me and Aussie have the same symptoms, vet reassured Hubby, since I was home being sick.
Aussie has an infection and his nerves with his moving into his new forever home was determined could be the cause, an antibiotic was prescribed.
His eyes also were of concern by me. I had noticed his left pupil to be malformed hiding his blue eye nearly entirely. Blindness is not uncommon to the breed, and sadly Aussie may have it, but it doesn't make us love him any less!

He might not have it though, still we love him! But as Hubby loved me with my eye problems.

His symptom stopped with the chicken and rice we think before he went to the doctor. He did have conjunctivitis and for that he is on antibiotic eye drops too!

I knew that yellow eye discharge; anyone who wears contact lenses has experienced conjunctivitis at least once as many others have in the general population has, and eye/I.

Happy good night to all!

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


101 and stomach flu made me...

Sleep through blog-time, oops and sorry!
Maybe tonight I will feel better?
On Imodium, Pedialite, club soda, toast with orange marmalade, and chicken soup...!
Could happen?

Sunday, February 18, 2018

Our mini hairy four legged puppy dog has been adjusting

Usually when you get a puppy it is not unusual for them to have, on occasion tummy issues.
In every other way Aussie is just perfect, disposition, bright with understanding simple words, like no, yes, sit, come, stay, go get Daddy or Mommy, even knowing the names of most of the myriad of toys he has inherited already. As I mentioned briefly he appears to be not your usual canine companion; he seems to have a very high doggy IQ!
At not even four months old, he even knows instinctively which one of us needs his hugs and sloppy kisses at any particular moment in time by telepathy!
He must have been heaven sent.
I do not know if I mentioned that he was removed from a animal hoarder's home, to have his better future.

They are coincidental things though from little else we do know about him is that when we adopted him this past Friday that was on Hubby's brother's birthday, and the day he had been neutered was on Hubby's Mother's birthday, and if he truly was thirteen weeks old as of this past Friday that would have made his birthday on Hubby's birthday! Getting goosebumps!

Spoiler alert though, the paperwork they gave us actually says that he was born two weeks earlier than that! Oh well... close enough and Hubby and I thought that we would celebrate their birthdays together.

We asked right away when we got him about all his shots etc., and his paperwork confirms he is up to date on all his puppy shots as of last week on our anniversary! He is not yet micro chipped though.
Pet Smart gives coupons for the rescue animals, and one was for a free initial exam that we scheduled when we went inside for his harness, also we had a coupon for that too, and also included there is one free training course.
The short time we did have him on a lead he was not into being tethered, who is really?
Any-who, that will have to be taught.
His socialization is on hold till his tummy ache is better, but oddly enough he is catching onto housebreaking in spite of his queasy squeasies.

 So severe we moved up his doggy doc appointment from this coming Friday to ASAP.
Oddly enough he is very hungry, and when we had bought him, before bringing him home, a twenty pound bag of the puppy food that he had been eating with his foster parents, and he still was having diarrhea using that.
The info says he has had it before in January six days before his neutering, never saying if it had been diagnosed from what? No blood, thankfully so.... possibly just stress? But he is sooooo laid back in all other ways.
Being pet parents forever, we knew to put him on boiled chicken and rice nearly immediately, and so we did, for the last two days now, but the problem still exists, thus the doc appointment.
He is drinking water, playing, sleeping and even attempting BIG BOY relieving himself outside, but understandably there have been a few fails.
GOOD GRIEF! HE IS NOT FEELING WELL!
  
But what a trooper!

He even was playing fetch with balls and a stick and brought them back each time! Even with himself.
Did I mention that all sized Australian Shepards are first cousins to Border Collies? It's good to know even though a mere cousin that he is still very smart too! Ha, as my cousins know not all of us are as smart as them, hee hee! Unless they mean smart-ass! Oops did I write that out loud, here?
Border Collies are considered the smartest dogs alive; unseating the poodles of that title years ago!

Hope that it is just the move into his forever home causing it, meanwhile Hubby did a grocery run for more chicken and rice.

We are hovering too due to too many sick doggies, we are a bit frightened.

Pray for Aussie not having a too serious of a problem, please, we will be doing that and also do what we can to make sure that he feels better real soon. The vet is tomorrow!

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

Good night, we all hope.  


Saturday, February 17, 2018

Immersed in life and play

Ahhhhhhhh babyhood!
And living here in Florida!
The world's worries diminish when you allow nature's beauty to flow in and a four legged fury baby to steal your heart and mind!
 "Hey, Mom and Pops, I'm too young to drive our mini yacht yet at barely just over three months old. Give me a few months please. Sure I am willing to be a play boy, but below is my thingy for now!"
 "Playing is my thing right now, as I readjust the floor decor, yup just me."
Simplicity at its finest!
Good happy night all.

Next time please be here or be square, ya hear!

Signed with love,
Aussie, as per Mom's approval for tonight's brief blog blurb.

Friday, February 16, 2018

There is more to this tale/tail...




Well... it was like this, we went to one of those Pet Smart rescue adoption days, and we now are the proud parents of AUSSIE!
He is a thirteen weeks old miniature Australian Shepard with blue eyes! And the best disposition ever! Brushing and baths is all he needs to keep his do, puppy shampoo was purchased too, no groomers needed! He has already been on board the boat all by himself, he plays ball with us and himself too, very bright. Fully grown he will be between fifteen and thirty pounds. He is a kisser, sloppy doggy kisses! Loves all people and other dogs, as per visit to inside of Pet Smart. And he is currently asleep under the coffee table sans fuzzy throw. He has tried out all of his predecessors toys and has decided his favorites are ... ALL OF THEM! YAY! The beginning...

The rest of the story is that little Aussie was removed from an animal hoarders collection of dogs as well as cats.
And the name of the organization that we adopted him from was is Forever Pets, Inc. http://www.forever-pets.org/ 1-239-839-7011.

So we are going to go out and enjoy him!
Anchors away!

TTYT!


Thursday, February 15, 2018

Cliché,cliché, cliché, cliché, cliché,cliché,cliché,cliché,cliché...

to infinity and back!
Same story, same reactions, same words, and yet...NOTHING NEW!
NOTHING DONE!
1. Mental health issues are still not addressed when purchasing AR 15 rifles or any other types of guns. If they were, this person would have been stopped as so many others would have been too! Come on mental health professionals formulate a legit test to give with people trying to get licensing for weapons, PLEASE! Otherwise stop calling yourselves mental health workers!
2. Why did no one do anything this time and before when these perpetrators say they are going to do these things? This one even posted on youtube that he was going to be a school shooter; hackers can supposedly track any origins of postings, IP addresses? FBI has no hackers? Come on... sure they do! Lame excuses.
3. Stop doing nothing, our so-called congress, stop just meeting and make a damn decision! Your job is to protect all Americans, not just your wayward buddies! We pay your salaries and can vote you out! Start working for us!
4. All persons of all ages if you SEE SOMETHING DO SOMETHING, even if you are wrong that is okay! Better to be safer than sorrier!
Anonymous reporting should be worldwide and encouraged.
5. We can all start teaching our children at home and get rid of schools, but who is really that qualified to teach, and who will be a part of the work force. (Disclaimer, many home schooled children do quite well, but again many parents need two incomes just to survive.)
So in the end that could mean a stupider poorer nation if everyone did decide to stay home and abolish schools, not to mention these idiots winning with our fear factor.

So what to do, what to do?
No one is a soothsayer to predict any of these things, although many like this one tell their intentions upfront, WOW!
We must start believing them when they say that they will do harm to others, signs and symptoms are classic. From mistreating animals, to being a bully victim or bully, language of all types, groups of antisocial organizations that brainwash, etc. We have all heard these things before.
Sounds as if I am suggesting a police state, nope.
An aware community.
Again if you see something wrong, say something to an authority!
Never be embarrassed, better to be more careful than dead, hmm?

 Guns alone do not kill people, people kill people, but certain guns are more likely to kill people and way too many people at one time, and everyone knows that one person killed is way too many!
These military styled weapons would pulverize any so-called animal hunted to eat, so not a hunting gun per se.
What are they used for in civilian life, really? An invasion? Are they survivalist weapons? Then many more problems, no one feels safe anymore... already. We must change that too!
They, AR 15, are responsible for the last several mass murders in this country!
They are overkill weapons!
Declare a moratorium on them, AR 15, people can turn them into the military or law enforcement.
Strong mental health testing can be done for all people purchasing any weapons.       
Sadly, this all seems like I have mentioned these ideas before as so have many others.

No one I knew was involved whether either perpetrator nor victim thank God, but my heart still breaks for all those people... I know more clichés, no words left for these atrocities committed too too often!

Good night America!

All I know is that something more has got to be done without just giving lip service on this horrific incident of human loss... once again, and again, and again!


JUST HORRIBLE WHEN NOTHING IS DONE!

WE MUST DO SOMETHING!!!!!!!!!!







Wednesday, February 14, 2018

Happy Valentine's Day to all who celebrate

For us it was a lunch of steak and lobster tails at Outback Steakhouse to celebrate our anniversary too.
Number forty-seven for us, how fast they go by.
Half of my steak, Caesar salad and most of my baked potato came home, as well as half a loaf of their bread, and a quarter of Hubby's steak.
We made cheesesteak sandwiches for supper, using the half of pumpernickel roll from them and one left of our sub rolls.

We got home just in time for General Hospital, at three it was over and I turned the TV off.

Then...

I read on my Yahoo welcome screen about another high school shooting though this one was right across our state from us in Broward County, Parkland Florida, seventeen are dead, and as many hospitalized!
The information is still coming in.
Will it ever stop????????????????????????????????

I had turned on the TV after four thinking that they would not be carrying the story till then, but to my surprise and concern all the channels were carrying it! Even Lester Holt from the Olympics in South Korea was running the story from there.
This was a horrific story!

Hours now have gone by, the killer/shooter has been identified and caught and is custody now, a nineteen year old former student.

One reporter from our coast with NBC news is there now, she is a graduate of that high school, Risa Morris.

Oddly/ironically enough I was looking up safest cities in Florida to live just yesterday, and Parkland was listed as number one! Where we live was number fourteen of the fifty listed.
How incredibly things change in just one day.

So very, very sad.




Tuesday, February 13, 2018

Bad afternoon.

Stomach, headache, shoulders and hands issues.
So I will be making this perhaps even shorter than last night's.
On the plus side the laundry is caught up!
Meals had been made, taking turns, dinner will be leftovers, so easy.
Just one of those days, I suppose.

Oh well, wasn't going to be too specific, but you know me so here it is anyway:

Stomach: painful and very gassy and noisy, even after OTC proper medications, even Gas-X, Pepcid and Nexium, taken prescribed by gastroenterologist and internist. Nothing is working!

Headache: sore as if bruised in two locations on back of head, caffeine did not take anymore, already had two and half cups of coffee, due to above I stopped.

Shoulders: hurt to raise and have used heat on them today, but still hurt.

Hands: hurt/painful to move them and feel numb as if swollen and they are very slightly.

Mess!
Not flu symptoms, no temperature.
Feels silly to call the doctor yet.

Those symptoms to me seem so unrelated.

So here I lie again in bed.
The angle for my tummy helps more so here.
Nothing helps my shoulders or hands, doing this... definitely not!

Head seems to hurt when I lean back.
Oh well...

My tummy concerto is distracting.

TTYT, okay?







Monday, February 12, 2018

Boating last night was just spectacular!

  Allegiant Airlines Sunseeker Resort is planned to open December 2019 right here on Charlotte Harbor!  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpLXG5yokL0 Youtube has a complete fly over rendition of the resort to be built if interested tap on the hot key I left for you! Below you can see the reddish crane and the turquoise port-o-pot showing the beginnings of the twenty-two acre resort right up to alongside of the forty-one Tamiami Trail bridge! 
 More of the coast line for the project. I was wrong that it was two miles from our home, it is actually nearly three miles away, ha! Close enough, could be good deal bad deal thingy, ya know?
 If you click on the below pic to enlarge and you will see that our main canal had a pod of dolphin fishing in it and that we saw as we went out for our evening cruise thus the spectacular part of the voyage, and of course the pastel sky too! I love seeing all of it, it never gets old.
Short but sweet ride.
Happy good night all.

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

Sunday, February 11, 2018

The local NBC affiliate had an item on why dogs bite the other night

And so I perked up my own ears, ha!
I sort of wondered, since I have been bitten many times since the age of five.
What I heard is that the dogs can tell that you are afraid of them or that they are afraid of you?
Either way my incidences of my trials and tribulations of being the bitten victim wise does not jive with their specialist in whatever field that might have determined their reasoning for such happenings with our pets.
At five, I had bent down to an adorable looking Chihuahua out on the lawn and said as I reached out to pet him what a cute little doggy! He growled and bit at the same time on my finger!
The second time I was twelve, and again it was not due to my fear, perhaps the dogs, since she was on my aunts bed and I said high Count, the Cocker Spaniel's name and again, bitten on my hand!

Third and most major biting was our own Andrew, a collie mix rescue as an eight week old pup from Hurricane Andrew, he was at the time a fully grown adult dog of about seven years old lying behind my rolling computer chair and I accidentally rolled over his tail, my bad, especially since after hearing his loud yelped I bent down to him and said something to the effect, "are you okay sorry", and forty-two stitches later I regret that all these years later still.
He stayed with us for his last couple of years after that until he passed away from of all things liver cancer.

Jump forward fifteen years to 2014, December 27, and the adoption of little Gus/Gaston, a rescue Havanese mix, the first time he bit me he was curled up sleeping at the end of our bed and I bent over to kiss him on the white star on his farhead, he had looked so adorable there, and he awoke to biting my lip, the same one that Andrew had decimated all those years before. This time I had Hubby get the crate out of the car and put him into it in the house, since we again were going to the hospital!

Although, Hubby was one hundred miles away, in Tampa, at a Hurricane Conference for work, when Andrew got me all those years ago and I needed all those stitches and a  plastic surgeon then, so I drove myself, and waited in emergency for five hours by myself, on a Sunday, while the doctor I was waiting for was finishing his barbecue party.
He is a local government official too these days.
And no I did not vote for him, my opposing party.
That doctor had the nerve to play politics with me when he arrived knowing that I was a smoker he told me he would not stitch me up unless I promised him then and there that I would quit smoking right then!
I did not take his threat, and did not lie either so I told him I could not promise that, and of course he did stitch me up with forty-two tiny stitches.
As I said I am nothing if not honest.
This was about seven years before I actually did quit for my other own reasons.
Too upset to quit then.

Gus bit me twice after that first time was once when I was tickling his belly he got my wrist, and another time I was petting him he got my hand!
Must have meant the dog was afraid?
We had him for a year by then though, and never ever did do anything to scare or harm him. Hubby had been bit too.

I wonder if that specialist in animal behavior ever had a dog?
We have had many more over the years that never ever did bite me, with nearly fifty years of marriage and all those years growing up before being married with having pets; you do the math. I am baffled at how they come to these ridiculous conclusions, really!

We must stop listening to all these specialists, some that have never been married or are divorced telling people how to have good relationships. Same with child rearing all the ones who never had any children. Watchers beware!

Or the news scares about medications that have most recently been found to do this or that, when you have been using them for years without any issues!
It is like the warnings on prescriptions for those one percent that have their hair fall out, or teeth or I have no idea what, but then you stop the stuff and die????????????????

The informative news, the real news, the political news, the fluff news and the human interest news and on and on and on can become white noise after a while, hmm?

Well, all I can suggest is that experience in life does seem to teach us somewhat that education is more than books and sometimes common sense should be the one to prevail in life, ya know what I mean?

 So I guess I am just another annoyed consumer of TV news.
I suspect that having been jaded over the years with all the incorrect reporting or better said not quite accurate reporting, makes one turn them off, and that is our right. And someone please give a class on local geography when the newbies arrive from hither and yon, PLEASE!
Sadly, the loop of info continues, on too may slow news days, good though I suppose, but even when there are BIG news stories elsewhere we get minuscule blurbs, elaborate on those PLEASE!
You may be designated local, but we are a microcosm of international people in this state who really NEED TO KNOW!

We had been avid watchers/listeners for hours and hours a day, but I have now found myself cringing and speaking loudly at the TV screen with all the mistakes on air daily and switching the TV off!

I do understand that the business is based on the immediacy of getting the news out there to us, but GEEZ get some more fact checkers on staff PLEASE! Let's get real since we all know what happens when even the highest position held in the land speaks, TWEETS, before he knows what he is saying to be right or true or in his case logical, and decent...!
So many so-called know-it-alls on TV and other media venues have been proven to be WRONG!

Rant done...WHEW!
I feel better now.
That is all.
Most news is very interesting right or wrong, ha.
I suppose it is up to us consumers to check all the facts, exhausting work for free.

Happy good night to all!

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





Saturday, February 10, 2018

I am so sorry, but that thing that I was going to tell you about

I have to put on hold, forgive?

Any-way, today we did leave our mini manse for the outer world that is outside of our homestead and humble locale.
We oddly enough went north again to Englewood Florida on the Sarasota side once again for they had another smaller 16 th Annual Cracker Fair, meant for the cattle drivers cracking their whips in the air for gathering the cows, nothing nefarious there.

Although the thrill was gone when one stall, had too many Confederate flags, it made me wince, sorry to any who think that I am wrong. But to me it is a horrid example of hatred for black people and to me it seems that the ones who enjoy what those flags represent believe that slavery was right, so I cringe, shudder and moved on....and I am not even African American, imagine or we all do know how awful that makes anyone of the African American race feel, and we are in the month of Black History! Every day is Black History! Not very well thought out.

Think people if it were you; try to relate?
So I did not take any pictures, perhaps I should have?

We did eat lunch before seeing that atrocity at the fair; we ate at the Mango Bistro on Dearborn Street:http://mangobistro.com/site/
Our meal took a little longer getting to us, but they were just hit with an entire soccer team coming in for lunch at the same time, and the wait in the end was certainly was worth it! 

We even sat outside, not because of any little four legged hairy ones with us, since we still are childless, and we no longer smoke for years, but it was just so darn beautiful outside today!

We both had iced water with lemons, and Hubby had a roast beef with portabella mushroom on marble rye sandwich, and I had half of a lobster wrap, instead of a roll, with red onion, tomato, and fresh spinach, and a half a cup of lobster bisque, mmmmmm! Half of mine came home and I just finished it for dinner.
Hubby is probably going to snack.

We rode around and noticed how nice everything there was kept in Englewood Florida the Sarasota side.
Our home is sixty years old this year, and some of those neighborhoods are too and similar in style as ours, but somehow they looked neater and more loved.

Hubby thinks they may have less of a transient neighborhood.
After all they escaped the last several hurricanes over the last couple of decades, while our area was either directly hit or harmed slightly in some unfortunate ways.

The only explanation we could come up with, and one does tend to wonder about such things.
You see, that after our home was destroyed by Hurricane Charley 8-13-04, a Friday, ten miles away in most any direction they were unscathed so until they actually got out and drove around they did not even know why so many of us were devastated. Most were in their own little world.

That is the truth about understanding others plights, opening up our eyes and putting ourselves in the other persons place!

Again just ramblings of a woman who has way too much time on her hands, ha!

Happy good night to all and to all share those blessings and we will too!

Next time please be here or be square, ya hear!

Friday, February 9, 2018

Holding our breaths

A project is possibly in the works.
That will either be a go or a no.
Anyone who has been in business understands that.
Still after all these years of making deals... not like our Twitter happy so-called Pres. but little ones that can change things now just for Hubby and I.
Sure I would love to say something, but as usual the jinx factor looms large in my soul, darn it!
Hush, and I will tell you all by tomorrow at the latest which way it went, okay?

Moving on...

Yep, those butterflies are playing havoc with my tummy.
I did ask our new doctor about my continuing stomach issues and he also feels that I should go back to the 20 mg. of Nexium twice a day, as my gastroenterologist told me to too. I blamed the news that said it was a killer medication, and I believed them.

Believe it or not his name is Luis Casanova, yes that same historic name.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giacomo_Casanova https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Casanova
You would have thought that with the way women are telling the horrors of experiences with all those womanizers in all walks of life that his name would have concerned me when on my search for another internist.

But no, oddly enough he is both our doctors, and a geriatric internist and we double tag teamed him in the two times we have seen him, meaning with our one brain, we tease so we listen better, we are both there seeing him at the same time. Not worried at all! Our first time was getting to know each other and getting refills for certain meds, second was for the blood work results, so no hospital gowns or top to bottom exams, excuse the expression. We do have body part doctors for most everything else anyway.

Hubby and I so far feel he is a fine doctor who listens and informs very clearly.
He says he realizes that finding the right personalities that go well enough together is not that different with doctor and patient as with a marriage. Methinks he aced his bedside manner class!
And yet he is only about ten years younger than us, and shares the building that they own with his doctor wife, a pediatrician, see decent docs.
I hope so anyway.

That is all for tonight folks... but stay tuned!

Who knows what lurks in our thought to be ordinary lives, hmm?

Happy good night to all and to all share your blessings and we will too!

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






Thursday, February 8, 2018

Ya know how you do things emotionally...

without really putting much thought into them, and sometimes it works out and sometimes it turns out to be a big mistake...just food for thought, hmm?

Of course Hubby and I are on an emotional roller coaster ride too.

Between Gus's death and our mystical not quite clear cut lab work that has to be watched.
These things can make people do weird things without much thought.

Here's where I am going with this...
Puppy shopping all over the net, yup today, way too soon.

Fortunately, for the puppies sake and our own we had no luck due to the type of doggy (s), ages or prices.
I at one time during the day found out that I do qualify for a legitimate trained service dog. Only thing is that the one agency I contacted that even had hypoallergenic breeds, with my asthma and allergies that is what I would need, so they had standard poodles and Labradoodles, but their closest office is in Clearwater and they said they do not come to our area, over one hundred miles away.
See, not going to happen.
The shelters and rescues of course were high and first on my surveying lists, but this time I thought to look for puppies not older dogs with possible emotional issues.
Sounds cruel to some, but I do not think I want another biting, need to go under for grooming and shots pet again, sorry!

Never had one before this last four legged child, Gus.
Oh we did love him, but with me it was more when he loved me first, I was still wary of him, since he had bitten me three times!
Hubby overlooked that, since he was only bit twice.
No fun in any of that.

All our previous pets were very social and loved the world and what we did too, from swimming to boating, fishing etc. and going everywhere with us and licking people, not attacking them.
Yep, too raw.
Good and not so great memories.
Hubby is going to hate some of what I am writing here.
I did not cry profusely this time at Gus's death, but I did cry sporadically with memories of the not enough good times, yes we were making progress, but it was slow, three plus years had passed.

Confusion and a hole in both our hearts has caused us to collaborate on the concept of taking in more four legged babies, yep two tiny ones this time, Yorkies or Malteses or Morkies, we were searching for... who knows.
We loved and miss Benji and Brandi our Yorkies who lived fourteen and sixteen years and were wonderful and checked all the boxes of our wants and needs. Lovable, smart, hypoallergenic, loved enjoying whatever we did too. They were easily bathed weekly and hair was trimmed by me by using a mere pair of scissors, so no costly groomers!
Since we do know that there are no grandchildren in our near futures, so why not?

Waiting is the grown up thing to do, and smart and prudent and the proper thing.
And due to our circumstances and not exactly agreeing on things, crate, no crate training, free reign, loose in the van or restrained in the van etc. etc. etc., one or two babies, or Yorkie vs Maltese ect. etc. etc.
So until we have a meeting of the minds, oh and of course the prices are CRAZZEE... mostly too high, so don't worry... right now we seem to doomed to be childless.

Cats are wonderful, and we had three long term relationships with them over decades, but now with my asthma?
And Hubby will not touch a litter box, and outside cats are not our style.

So..... I have no idea.
And perhaps that is the best idea yet!
Open, but not rushing.

Happy good night to all and to all share your blessings and we will too!

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




Wednesday, February 7, 2018

Our turns to find out our diagnoses.

Hubby got an excellent in cholesterol, in fact his is so low he can take his cholesterol meds only three times a week instead of seven, glucose perfect and even his heart and lungs are too!
He is slightly anemic, but not too bad for his older self doc said, for him a six month turn around to check his blood work again, iron and B complex.
Me with my higher numbers of liver enzymes, and lower GFR of kidney function I will be getting those tests redone in seven weeks.
We think the culprit could be my medications, especially my statin that I have been on for over a decade!
Oddly enough my cholesterol is not as bad as I thought, about twenty-five points higher than it should be, and my triglycerides are okay too, my LDL isn't that great though.
So I suppose I am between a rock and a hard place for my inherited high cholesterol that got both my parents, not obese or having high blood pressure just the high cholesterol caused their strokes that killed them, my brother too!
Oh well.

This is late and I am tired, TTYT, okay? 


Tuesday, February 6, 2018

Calming cleansing breaths and busy work...

Are coping mechanisms that can work when dealing with stress, that is in lieu of hard drugs and heavy alcohol consumption, ha.
I do neither!
Oh and ice packs.
Although, some of my very legal prescribed medications ones can leave behind some damage.

Moving on...
So my mission was to clean all of Gus's things, toys and bedding and so I did.
Hubby took his larger doggy bed outside and put it in a bucket with laundry detergent and sloshed around and then with the garden hose he washed it down and left it there to dry in our eighty degree weather.

At this point we do not know if we will be donating them or saving them...the food is a whole other issue that we should donate now. We just had bought a year's worth of Heartguard to prevent against heart worms, but that lasts for a while. His Milk Bone treats were in a glass jar saying, Gus's treats, and that was emptied into the rest of the box that might need donating too... so sad, seeing everything.

Hubby and I each chose our favorite pics of Gus and made photographic hard copies to print out on our printer and we framed them. Some though Hubby made full sheets size on regular copy paper.
I still pick up cheap frames at thrift stores, and I had three left.
Only one needed any enhancement, so I did it with my gold acrylic paint in a texturing style dabbing the paint in a flurry of movement, be aware this method calls for extra drying time.
See busy, but thoughtful work.

And oddly enough after also making dinner, both my hands are somewhat swollen and I am running a slight temperature, around one hundred, weird.

That's it for tonight, till tomorrow all.

Monday, February 5, 2018

My feelings are still raw.

Anything that dies at the raw, not ripe, too young age of four plus years it could easily be said that that is a horrible thing to happen to anyone/thing.
Human beings are toddlers/babies then, and animals vary in maturity by type at that same numerical aged number.
A dog or puppy at that age is still a young-in, we can all agree.
And Gus was a mere four plus in years for today was his demise, since being a rescue we never really knew his true age, all we knew was where he came from and that was Naples Florida. He was a vagabond of a year or there about when harshly removed from his wanderlust freedom to becoming a ward of the state and given a home with a rescue agency called Canine Castaways, and then eventually with us.
So it is safe to say no one knows what indignities he may have suffered during his first year of dog-hood-om.

From what we could presume from his behavior flaws of fear of many things from pots and pans to plastic bags to towels we could only let our imaginations fly wild to mostly bad experiences, since Gus, originally Gaston would jump, cringe, bark or violently attack in bite mode!

 He eventually became nearly desensitized to pots and pans noises, even plastic bags became not as scary either, towels he still did not care for, and baths, shots, being lifted up, or kissed while sleeping we never did get him to relax about any of those, but he was making progress!

Fear drove our little guy, but then there were times when he would jump on your lap and hug you, yep with his two front paws around you and slobber luscious kisses all over your face or hands...and use me as a stepping stone to get to his Dad, Hubby to me, and give him some shared smooches too.

Gus loved his stuffed toys of Monkey, Raccoon, Teddy, Bunny, Froggy et al. pull toy ropes, balls and bones, so many had been added in from his predecessors stock.
He had two bed sets, one for the living room and one for our bedroom.
He wasn't the jumper, swimmer or boater that any of his predecessors were either, but he did have his own special charms... he loved to play with the backyard hose and Daddy with any game he could think of, for they were true buddies all the way.

So in the end, today's final decision was his, Daddy's/ Hubby's.
A intelligent decision due to the facts of dear Gus's horrid too quick failing health diagrammed by his doctor!
Today is Monday and just last Thursday he was fine, yes absolutely FINE!
Friday was bit not too good, Saturday a bit more, but then Sunday was no different from Saturday, no better no worse.
Thus the visit to the veterinarian today.
He was not eating, had diarrhea, flopping not really walking, just moving a little then he would melt into a puddle onto the floor, not peeing just melt.

Even when after the doggy doc was called and Hubby tried to get him into the van, Hubby took the crate out for Gus to get into, but he couldn't even do that, and the one step into the garage Gus fell down, horribly missing it!
Hubby was very saddened by this downhill turn, and so was I!
Hubby fastened the lead around Gus and actually slid him into the crate.
Flashes of a replay of Skipper's, our Bichon Frise who died six weeks before we rescued Gus, he was ten and half at his death, also too young, and his was a inoperable stomach cancer also very aggressive, the similarity to Gus's too fast death played chilling déjà vu reruns that ran through both of our brains.

Just like that, in a blink of an eye, Gus was gone...so very very sad.
12-?-13 to 2-5-18. Hemorrhaging internally from in his stomach, pancreas, liver, and spleen cancer causing his wbc of 42000, and a rbc of 1, he would have starved to death. I asked the vet what to do if he was his and he said that he would euthanize him and so with much grief we did. So very young! Too young. He is at peace now somewhere in the hopeful afterlife world we pray is heaven or some such place. Farewell dear loving friend and companion till we meet gain...


 Gus, you are already sorely missed!



  

Sunday, February 4, 2018

Are you ready for some football?

If not, what about those multi million dollar commercials?
I remember a time when a minute went for a mere 500K, or maybe that was thirty seconds, yup way back in the early nineties!
And people were shocked then.
Oh why did I know about the cost?
At that time, twenty-six years ago I was working in promotion and was told by the owner of our company.
You see, her adorable towheaded son had made a commercial with his Pop Warner team way back then, and I think that it was long one a minute and half commercial.
BIG BUCKS THEN!
But now the price then was a bargain in comparison to the inflation of 5.5 M tonight!

My Dad enjoyed all sports so if he were still here, oh dear he would be 111 now, and he would be watching and most likely hoping the New England Patriots and how impressive Tom Brady is and all and that they would be the winning team, since we're north easterners then living in Bergen County NJ... but after Hubby and I married we moved to south Jersey, in fact to less than an hour outside of Philly, Philadelphia, PA and so we would be then and today Philadelphia Eagles fans!

Although, if the NY Jets were playing then that would be a whole other BOWL/BALL GAME, HA!
Sadly the Giants not so much.
But in the day with Broadway Joe Namath on the Jets WOW!
I met him since moving to Florida at a health convention in Ft. Myers of all places!

Any-who, good luck to your team of choice.
I am just glad that we do not have those below zero temps here in Florida, 78 degrees now, and even if their Minnesota Stadium is seventy degrees that's crazy waiting on all those lines outside to go in, brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr  in those minus double digits! And watch yours they could fall off, your finger digits that is! Stay warm all!

Happy good night to all! Have fun!

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

PS Gus is stable right now, no change.



 


Saturday, February 3, 2018

No medical news today, about people that is...

Except Gus, our little love (to us and immediate family) four legged guy, rescue Havanese mix, has been feeling poorly, not eating and sleeping a lot.
Sure we are concerned, but it has happened before and he was fine.
But if it goes on still by Monday we will call his vet.

If any you recall he is not happy with strangers touching him and even for his yearly shots they have to put him under and for his grooming too!
He turns into a very similar canine personality as Cujo, from the Stephen King novel of the same, minus an excuse of rabies! He has always had all those shots.

The first time a vet tech told me that he tried to eat her he was a mere eighteen pounds, and now he has gained ten pounds in the last three that we adopted him since then!
So a little overweight, fasting will not hurt him.

His shots and vet exam were both just in December, his last grooming then too, and all was well once he woke up.

At first we both thought he had the flu too from us?
But the news said dogs do not catch the flu from people, but other dogs and the last time he was out by other dogs was when he went to the vet this past December?
Other than that Hubby takes him in our fenced in yard to relive himself.
Although, we do have wildlife that does come into it, many birds, and mostly an opossum nightly, but they do not get too close to one another.
Hubby is there to protect.

Now we are watching an original Netflix movie, The Open House, we even had snack trays/tables in the multi-purpose living room to eat our picked up at Wally's Barbecue, ribs, baked beans and sweet potatoes!
I started writing when Hubby left to pick up dinner and he just took Gus out so I am nearly done, movie is on hold with only fifteen minutes left!

The scary person has not yet been revealed.

Happy good night to all!

Next time please be here or be square, ya hear!

PS Gus has tummy issues.


Friday, February 2, 2018

Blood work arrived via email with access online

BIG MISTAKE!
That is accessing your own blood work online without a M.D. degree!
Ever since I saw that my cholesterol and LDL are at sky high levels even with all the medicine that I take to make them go down and that had been working...until now! They had been doing just fine previously, what gives I wonder, seriously?

Even my CKD, chronic kidney disease, that had gone from stage three, GFR 53, to stage two, GFR 61, and now back to a lower number stage three, GFR 50! Stage two being considered nearly normal.

My liver enzymes are twice as high as the numbers for their norms!
So I called the pharmacy to ask if the lasix, the only new medication could cause this, and yes it is possible I was told!
But also my statin medication that I have been on for a dozen years too!
I am screwed!

Although, I do not have a medical degree and I could be wrong... and I hope that I am.
Wow!
I am happy to be able to talk it out here.
The doctor that had us go for the fasting blood work, our new internist, we see this coming week.
Hubby's was available too.
But he said he would wait.
He hasn't set up an account, like I did years ago.
He's so nonchalant about these things.
I sure hope he is alright; more worries for me.

Question?
Do you have access to your labs online and what do you do when you access them and see that they are not within the normal ranges?
Call the doctor?
Surf the net for answers?
Call the pharmacist?
Call a nurse?
Or patiently wait for your next medical office visit?
Ultimately, in the end it seems waiting is what I always have to do.
Patience is not my forte.
Oh well.

Too much time on my hands.

Happy night to all.

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




Thursday, February 1, 2018

Brain MRI Finally Result Arrived!

First of all all who might have been wondering again... I DO HAVE A BRAIN!
And there is photographic proof!
So there! (I am sticking out my adult tongue out to all of you! HA!)

I knew in my heart of hearts that it wasn't bad, since all bad ones were flagged by the tech and then examined immediately by the radiologist.
Although, their excuses too were legit at the MRI place that they are short handed for radiologists.
And sadly anxiously waiting patients have only doctors with that ability to tell them if there is anything bad going on.
So when the nurse Angie called I was relieved and I knew that I was stable and that amounts to NO NEW LESIONS!

But apparently my same left nostril/sinus was inflamed and clogged; the one that I had had surgery on a few years ago, odd? My ENT doc retired, the one that did that surgery.

Well, my new internist will have the same report and perhaps have a suggestion when I see him next week about my sinus?

Meanwhile, I suppose I am no different than anyone else with too much screen time causing my blurry vision, albeit the MS causing occasional double vision on my too easily tired eyes... whew!
I bit that bullet! And YAY!

HAPPY!
Why not?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6Sxv-sUYtM

Happy good night and next time please be here or be square, ya hear!





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