Wrong!

Last night I confessed that I checked online to see what was causing my mouth problems and I was wrong.
Yep, I was.
Since today I could no longer wait with all the pain to go until tomorrow to the dental office and so I took the emergency route instead and ended up going today.

You see, I was wrong about the diagnosis of only having ONE abscessed tooth since it turns out that I had TWO! Numerically in the mouth numbers ‘14 and 19’, directly above and below one another on the same left side of my mouth towards the back!
I told you it was one helluva BIG OUCH!

And so oral surgery was performed today, needless to say the Novocain is wearing off and the pain, even though I was given the hard stuff, ‘Hydrocordone 5 500 MG’ (to take every six to eight hours, the first 5 stands for bit/acetaminophen) as well as Penicillin 500 MG (4X a day), which I took both of them nearly two hours ago, but for some unknown reason I am now once again in major OUCH LAND!

Is there no rest for the weary?

Stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid… I was this close (my finger tips, thumb and pointer, are actually touching) to having much more serious issues to deal with learning from the NIH; the National Institute for Health has info on the consequences I just missed developing. And so did the dental tech tell me, brain infection, bone infection and on and on and on…

Any-who, my upper tooth, number 14, was drained for that infection, which will eventually have a root canal, but number 19 the bottom one was beyond salvaging and needed to be extracted as well as its root bone and I had a cadaver bone grafted there for a future stem and implant, whoa, you see what I mean nasty!

I knew that it would be bad but never this bad, when all is said and done we are also talking financially draining of over FOUR THOUSAND DOLLARS!
Just what was done today was $1672 that was paid from my Care Credit account that is a no interest account for eighteen months, paying off $93 a month to keep from paying any interest, not too bad.
But that is the same account that I am still paying off my cataract surgery from, which is nearly half done with that one, darn this is still no fun!
Hopefully, the remainder of work will be done over several months and we will manage somehow…
Anyone want to pay me for this drivel?
I sure could use the money now.

Any-who…
I am so pooped now, as you can well imagine, not sleeping decently for a week, and tonight doesn’t appear to look too good for any dreamland either.

Well, I guess I didn’t keep that promise of more entertaining blogging yet, but we have weeks and months now that I was given the prospect of living once again longer, a reprieve once more!

On that trying so hard to be more positive ending to my day, for I think I will try to hit the hay (go to sleep) for our international peeps (people). Oddly enough my one cousin seemed to not realize that ‘peeps’, was just a slang term for ‘people’; since she accused me of using a dirty word! And this is my wordsmith one, cousin that is, believe it or not a translator by profession?
Oh well, she does deal with ‘proper language’, not this hack stuff!

So curiosity aside on why people do what they do I will like to wish all my fine readership a very happy good night and to all count those blessings and share those overages and we will too!

And next time PLEASE be here or be square, OK?

PS If your glands are swollen and your mouth hurts get to the doctor fast, please don’t be stupid like I was!

Diagnosis

Is it true that only a hypochondriac self diagnoses?
Who cares, let’s put it this way my mouth/tooth/glands/throat thingy is not any better and I took it upon myself to try online how to relieve it.
And sure enough it has been narrowed down to one thing, but I bet many have figured it out before I did.
It appears that I may have a simple case of an abscess tooth!
Now, it’s not that simple when you are going through it and anyone who has will vouch for me including Hubby!
What through me is I still don’t have any fever, but then again I have been taking aspirin for the pain and I suspect that could be why.

There are too many possibilities when one ignores the side affects of not taking care of this problem as soon as possible, and boy are they scary!
But that doctor appointment I have Monday is for a DDS, a dentist!
Why do things seem to happen during the holiday season, I ask you all?
Who needs the added aggravation and additional expense?
Just when I take care of one problem another seems to occur.

Moving on…
Any-who…
Back to our computer…OH NO! I can hear you all saying, now what?
Well, not that much… our computer has been functioning incredibly and I asked Hubby if he would be kind enough to reinstall our printer and scanner while I made terrific turkey soup!
He did the scanner first, we had the re-install discs for both…well he put the printer one in lastly and a horrendous noise emanated from the disc drive not unlike a poor kitty being mauled by some massive predator; and then a strange jingling sound not unlike loose change going in to a metal bowl!
Yep, you got that right the disc drive ate the printer disc and destroyed itself in the process!
Argh……… what can I say?
Another day another issue to handle and Hubby stepped up to the plate and shut down the computer, got the driver open, and took the whole mess out into the garage to try to solder the broken wire, and then called the Geek Squad, and asked about its feasibility of being repaired and they said its better to replace it since it only is about fifty bucks, and even conferred with number one son too.
Meanwhile I had a thought with my concern over not having a printer …what if the manufacturer’s site had free downloads and they did! So Hubby got the whole shebang installed and as soon as the month begins financially we will set aside monies (again) for our newest repair, which is not so immediate anymore.

On that somewhat brighter note I will hope for the rest of your holiday weekend to go better than ours, although, you know it could be worse…this isn’t so bad…gosh I don’t want to verbalize what could make it any nastier since I am slightly superstitious…
So I will move on to where I was going to wishing you all a very happy good night and to all to count those blessings and share those overages and we will too!
So please dear friends and family next time be here or be square, and perhaps I will eventually become more entertaining once again?

OUCH!

You heard that right.
At this very moment I am in quite a bit of pain, and also on hold to have this situation resolved not before Monday morning, my doctor appointment.

Yes, this is another one of those … getting old things.
Sorry about this topic taking over.
But little else has been able to clear my brain to allow other things in.

As you can see we are happily on the net due to the marvelous techs at Microsoft!
For nearly three hours this morning they gave it their all and finally got our IE8 installed.
Now my life on this thing is in super speed literally, things are moving at the blink of an eye…!
So fast so that when I posted something and it went, it was faster than the old brain receiving the concept and so I automatically thought that it had not gone at all… wow industrial strength, I think that ‘Speedy Gonzalez’, has taken over my keyboard et al!

Moving on…
Any-who…

Our Montreal neighbors came by for a visit too, while the procedure of gaining entrée into the realm of motor speedways… and highways of the Internet was still going on.
Sadly, it was not how I wanted to greet these fine neighbors who summer at their other home in the great northern hemisphere and who we hadn’t seen since last spring! I thought when I started at eight thirty A.M. that by our agreed upon visit time of eleven fifteen all would be done, but best laid plans and all once again...
I had to wake Hubby too so I could have him take over the phone just for me to shower and take my medications including doing my Copaxone shot, he was pooped from yesterday since he did most of the work with our turkey on the ‘barbie’ and all and all the festivities not to mention him staying up with me for a few nights of experimentation with other types of meds to fix my problem that proved to only be temporary fixes.
And so I was very rushed to be ready on time...
But I was ready and all done with my bodily necessities by the time they arrived, but not completely done with the computer being adjusted by those Micro pros, at the time they had been taking over the functions of it anyway; basically I was just monitoring it all at the time.


It appears my little joke about this mouth/gland/throat/tooth problem could very well prove to help me lose those unflattering LBS, after all, since whenever I try to eat that is when the pain is enhanced to those scales that the medicos ask you about, you know the ones… on a scale from one to ten how is yours?
Well, the best it has been since Sunday is a four or five and now anywhere from an eight to ten I would say!
And I am the woman who walked on a broken leg for a few days and then drove herself to the hospital!
I also was in labor with one of my pregnancies for nearly thirty hours, so I do know pain personally. And this is one heck of a BIG OW!

Sorry for the day after ‘the big one’ to be such ‘a me’, type of me day… complain, complain, complain…but I think I have created an art form for it, huh? At least a venue you have to admit, right? (Wink LOL! PLEASE!)

On that mixed revue type of blabbering I will wish you all a very pleasant and happy good night and to all count those blessings and share those overages and we will too!

And next time be here or be square, OK?

PS hope you got there first for your run to the stores race!
PSS Our neighbors were here for just a right amount of time and we enjoyed seeing them.
They have the knack for always leaving you wanting more...
PSSS Mr. President please feel better I too have been there with stitches in the lip, only mine was from a dog bite and I had forty tiny ones by a plastic surgeon, hope yours come out as well as mine did, you need that great smile to stay intact since its your money maker, as the saying goes...

Thanksgiving!

The day was one of quiet anticipation and finally joy and then exhaustion.
But to be honest aren’t all holidays pretty much the same?
We all hope for and look so much forward to the day of all the year that we hope something… special will happen, but in reality the waiting and desire does not always match up to our thought processes which are usually a wee bit beyond reality and more so than the actuality?

As you might have noticed from my ghastly words of gibberish, ok over explanation then, I am beyond gloriously tired and very nearly too close to the walking dead of fatigue; how awful a statement is that?
Sorry but weariness in this severe strength does have that affect on me.

Moving on though…
To be most honest, the day was extremely tentative only in the respect that my ills had been so nasty the night before that they almost had me running to the hospital for relief.
And so in turn they did not allow me to sleep and no refreshing respite was forthcoming until I took somewhat drastic measures…
By calling one of those hospital nurse people that answer medical questions all night long, and once I informed her of what exactly was going on with my throat/glands swelling and or abscess tooth or medication causing possibly the problem she insisted that I go to the hospital before I had trouble breathing.
I asked her if ‘Benedryl’, the antihistamine might help if it was an allergic reaction… and she said… that could work!
But if it didn’t I should get to the hospital immediately!
And so I did take two the adult dosage and in within about an hour or so I was pleasantly in dreamland.

So now you all understand why the exhaustion and I tried my hardest not to say anything to number one son with his gal here, but Hubby blew my cover… and the cat was out of the bag before I could stop it and so I had no choice but to ‘fess-up’ (An old slang term for confessing) like they used to say in those really bad ‘B’ movies of the 1940’s.
And my not eating certain food was explained away appropriately!
I even made a joke about if this continues this could be just my way of shedding some of my nasty LBS!
And so all was ‘okey dokey’ (Folksy OKAY) and we continued to chat and number one even helped Hubby get us online at our new address and supersonic transport service called DSL!
And now we are like all you regular folk; no longer the poor relation on dial up!
WE CAN COMMUNICATE WITH THE BEST OF THEM, YEA!

A true Thanksgiving story, NAH!

Onward and upward with silliness to continue for ever I do hope!

I would love to wish all who celebrated today a very happy THANKSGIVING and to ask you all to count those blessings with those loved ones and share those overages with the others and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, OK?

Eve

The night before is the eve of a special day.

And tonight folks it is the United States of America’s night before Thanksgiving!

A holiday that has its origins in a feast shared by colonists and Native Americans at Plymouth Massachusetts in 1621; and so if wish for more info just copy and paste: http://www.allabouthistory.org/thanksgiving-history.htm

But it is not an international holiday.

I was surprised to find that only a few countries celebrate it, Canada being one of them, but theirs is a month earlier than ours.

Live and learn.

Until recently I never thought about it, that is whether other countries felt the desire to party due the abundance of the harvest of crops.

But we have turned it into a being thankful for more than that, since that is the American way of doing things we so enjoy elaborating… and so children and adults alike have a tendency to say while seated at a long table, prior to consuming their bounty, what they are most thankful for.

It has nearly become a religious experience with much thoughtfulness of most comments.

Although of the years many take the time to be a wee bit silly.

Example: Being thankful for having a new alarm clock that is sure to wake them early enough to make it to the malls to be the first in line for ‘Black Friday’, the day after!

(For any international people who don’t know what ‘Black Friday’ is, it is the demarcation for the start of Christmas shopping!)

Or for being on the winning team in a sport or having the winning ticket for the lottery or thankful for not being the shortest in class or the tallest or… you get the idea, silly things.

But some people are thankful for health, love, family, succeeding at a job and the like.

Intriguing turn of events.

We as a nation have always been thankful for what has come our way in spite of devastating odds at times and I suppose if we all come around to realizing, if only once a year, but I am sure for most it occurs to them more, as much as daily.



I am pretty sure though this is just as refreshing to know that we all can find something to be thankful for once a year even if it is just a minute detail but special in its own way to us.



How the day become one of gluttony and football is beyond me… but I'm not that smart.

On that note of well, you know me...

Everyone please whether you celebrate the Thanks or the giving parts of the day... remember to count those blessings and share those overages...HEY WAIT! HOLD THE PRESSES! I ASK YOU TO CELEBRATE THANKS AND GIVING NIGHTLY RIGHT HERE! How about that? LOL!And of course we will too!

And so continue...GOOD JOB PEEPS!

And next time please be here or be square, OK?

Company

Tis the season to have what we all call company and what does that mean really?
And ‘company’ is for the sole purpose of enjoyment of others not of the immediate or perhaps of the immediate family and or friends circle that you do not see daily or regularly to spend some time with in your home or maybe even at theirs, but then you would be their company, got that?
Gotta love the concept and wonder who started it?
Company, I mean being it has so many meanings, visitors, a group of soldiers, a chartered commercial organization.
Gosh if I was not an English speaking person and knew what I meant I could possibly become confused, huh?
Who knows I could think we were going to be attacked by a bunch of soldiers or taken over by another business, ha!

Again I am so happy that I have grown up with this language although I must admit it still has a wondrous ability to confound me when I least expect it.
I know I am not that smart, but neither am I that dumb.

The type of visitors/company that we do love though is any!
That all inclusive family and friends, neighbors too type of Peeps!
It’s just that I wish at times they would not be so ceremonious about their comings and goings, you know what I mean?
Impromptu guests are sometimes the best.
You know the ones without too much fanfare.
But when they arrive the joy exudes from their being, which causes you to not want them to leave.
Gosh, it’s been ages since we felt that…but you all know I bet what I do mean, right?

These are people who are of the ilk of taking you as you are and are welcoming to what is new in your life as you truly are with theirs since the exchange of conversation is mutual to a fault, not really a fault but perhaps longer than either of you care to stop…a longing for that unadulterated love of a fellow human being who gets you and you them!
And tells you that they truly find you interesting and you them as well, simpatico, wow what a feeling!
Lovers feel that, and so do old friends.
But on occasion we have that with even our own family members, what a wonderful concept!
And yes that thing called love without question; in other words ‘acceptance’.

Some days lets face it we might have been at one time or another perhaps a little bit too judgmental of others from critiquing wardrobes, hairstyles, even tattoos or piercings, appearances in general; not to mention behavior or jobs or attitudes or educations. We as humans have a tendency to on occasion believe that we know the tried and true way to do this or wear that.
And so as the euphemistic, ‘they’ say, we all do.
Sadly some are more subtle than others, but lets’ admit it we do, do it!

And with the holiday season upon us I would like to make a suggestion to all of us human beings… to try and not comment on those differences that may irk us and just enjoy what you’ve got…people in your realm or vicinity of your giving loving selfless selves to be rewarded with a good listening ear and loving open heart and with as many hugs as you can stand or sit as in my case!
Those are the truly free welcoming gifts to all and probably the best remembered!

Oh and yes to my friend who sent the little anecdote forward about compassion, yes love is compassion when putting yourself in the other person’s place then you can really understand what they are going through; its as simple as that!

On that note of course of we all knew... I will bid you all a very happy good night and to all count those blessings and ask you to share those overages and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, OK?


PS Update on my swollen glands: this morning they were feeling better so I called my doc and told her that, but they have been hurting on and off all day long since so more aspirin and warm compresses seem to help. Since I have too many things to do for Thanksgiving for time for this additional ailment!

Hullabaloo

An interesting word that I am sure not many of this latest generation has heard of in recent years.
But to us ‘Baby Boomers’ it meant a TV show that was our MTV of the 1960’s along with Dick Clark’s American Bandstand and Shindig.
For more info copy and paste: wikipedia.org/wiki/Hullabaloo_(TV_series) -

But oddly enough those above reasons are not why I chose that word for tonight’s title.
It was its actual meaning of: ‘a din also uproar’.
I will allow the English majors to diagnose what type of word form it is, since me knowing its distinctive unusual connotation is enough for me to see its versatility.
And so I dusted it off and decided it was about time it came out of the basement or attic or perhaps just our closets of wherever unused words lie dormant and send it into my vocabulary web of controversy.
That’s a mouthful!
But I am more than sure you are intrigued to know where I am going from here, huh?

Last night I had a bit of bad luck health wise again I seemed to have acquired swollen glands but mostly on my left side of my neck and jaw.
And so this woman of needing to know persona logically ‘wanted to know’ what remedies one could find to fix the problem and if this might be another symptom of my MS?
And so I Googled 'Swollen Glands and MS', and ended up in one of those forums online discussions with others who also experienced this.
Many said it was due to their administering of the injections of Copaxone and others were tested for everything from the common flu to Lymphoma, scary!
Of course there is always that thought in anyone’s mind with this problem but I tried to go the sedate cautious route and so I contacted my support people, Shared Solutions, for my Copaxone, but it was Sunday night and so I didn’t get a hold of them until this morning and they said to call my Neuro and I did.
And she got back to me much sooner than I thought with her busy schedule.
We were grocery shopping for Thanksgiving when she called me on my cell in the store.
She disputed the comments of the forum but I said that the support people said that in the adverse reactions section of their PDF file said on page three that 7% reported Lymphadenopathy, swollen glands. She said that she felt that it would be according to what she read swollen glands on the side of the body like under my arm from where I was most recently injected, not in the neck or jaw.
I mentioned I had no fever and that I had, had my flu shot in September.
She said if it still is not better to come in tomorrow for a check up but to continue with the injections.
I said I hope it would be better since I was using aspirin, warm compresses and hot tea, and even hot chicken bouillon for my choices to contend with it.
Although, aspirin and me don’t get along too well since I have a sensitive stomach, but it did help me sleep last night with my warm compress too!
My Doc then said just call one way or another and I thought that was so nice of her.
Of course I agreed. Was this my uproar?

Pleasantly surprised was my other interesting happening of the day.
Around four thirty this afternoon I received a phone call.
But to my astonishment it was from the other side of the world!
One of my Facebook friends from all places called me from New Zealand! (11:30 A.M tomorrow there, when she called if you were wondering)
Why in the world would someone with a life and so far away from my one boring one contact me from a landline?
Apparently, she just had gotten a new international phone line and was contacting a few of us, her Facebook friends.
That was so nice to be included in that, but also totally unexpected, she did tell me how much she enjoys these Blogs, which I did of course appreciate, just sooo amazingly decent and kind of her. Still incredulous I do believe that is the farthest long distance call I have ever received!

This was my DIN!

On that tidbit of wow I will wish you all a very happy good night and to all count those blessings and be sure to share those overages and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, OK?