Tomorrow

Most tests I have had from biopsies, blood, MRI's with and without contrasts, ultrasounds for every innards in the human body, as well as for pain... IVP the kidney x-ray with and without contrasts, bone density test, mammography’s, etc…you name it I am more than sure I have had it test wise, but not this one ever before…

So instead of being a bit scarred, may be I should think it is just something new, nu?

“Bone scan Definition - Tests and Procedures - Mayo Clinic

www.mayoclinic.org/.../bone-scan/.../definition/PRC-20020302

 A bone scan is a nuclear imaging test that helps diagnose and track several types of bone disease. Your doctor may order a bone scan if you have unexplained skeletal pain suggesting bone loss, bone infection or a bone injury undetectable on a standard X-ray.... A bone scan is also an important tool for detecting cancer that has spread (metastasized) to the bone from a tumor that started in a different organ, such as the breast or prostate. Similarly, a bone scan can detect some abnormalities related to leukemia and lymphoma.” Why it's done

By Mayo Clinic Staff

If you have unexplained bone pain, a bone scan may help determine the cause. Images from bone scans can reveal bone abnormalities related to these conditions:

• Fractures
• Arthritis
• Paget's disease of bone
• Cancer originating in bone
• Cancer that has spread (metastasized) to bone from a different primary site, such as the prostate, lung or breast
• Infection of the joints, joint replacements or bones (osteomyelitis)
• Fibrous dysplasia
• Impaired blood supply to bones or death of bone tissue (avascular necrosis)”

I guess that chest X-ray I got was not as self explanatory as I thought.

We all know that these less invasive tests, such as bone scans, although they are deemed completely safe we as aware creatures of habit who know from stories on the TV that some of these so-called “safe tests” things can go very wrong, true?

And no, I will not be put to sleep with any anesthesia, but the radioactive chemical injected into my arm sounds a bit ominous you must admit?

Why is it taking three hours to reach its necessary potency and permeate through my bones that would logically take some time to be able to be scanned?

Alright, that does sound plausible; I suppose that it has many locations to reach, since my prescription is for a full body scan...and I do have quite a lot for it to see…!

More than most, I suspect.

Even with knowing all that I am going to need some really big distractions to not over think this whole thing like I sadly have done too many times before…and this gives you the results in 24 to 48 hours, but when does the doctor tell you those results, hmm?

Yes, that is the question, always…

In all my years I have found that doctors don’t call with good news any time soon, but they have with bad…

Geez, don’t they know we also like to know the good?

I hate once again depending on others for my fate, damn!

Cringe factor be DAMNED! Take that four letter word now more than four, no longer a curse? Who cares, this has to be expressed and if some cussing is necessary for that emotion, so it be!

I do think my needing to know how it went as soon as they get it is not that difficult a request or too much to ask; do you?

All patients should be treated with dignity, and yet some medical people forget that. If only they would put themselves in our position, and no I do not mean taking the test for us, unless they really, really want to… That’s utterly ridiculous!

The reason I posted the exact info on the test I think a few of the people I reach with this blog might have thought I was referring to the bone density test given without the above reasonings, just to check for Osteopenia or Osteoporosis. “A bone density test determines if you have osteoporosis — a disease that causes bones to become more fragile and more likely to break.
In the past, osteoporosis could be detected only after you broke a bone. By that time, however, your bones could be quite weak. A bone density test enhances the accuracy of calculating your risk of breaking bones.
A bone density test uses X-rays to measure how many grams of calcium and other bone minerals are packed into a segment of bone. The bones that are most commonly tested are in the spine, hip and forearm.”

• Identify decreases in bone density before you break a bone
• Determine your risk of broken bones (fractures)
• Confirm a diagnosis of osteoporosis
• Monitor osteoporosis treatment”

http://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/bone-density-test/basics/why-its-done/prc-20020254

See, not scary at all!

Just thought I would clarify if some did not click on the links that I had left last time I discussed this...I really don’t blame you.

On that note of trying hard to be understood one day at a time… allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night and ask you kindly to count all your blessings and share all those overages with you who and we will too!

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

WISH ME LUCK!

Another day under my belt!

Each and every day we continue on this life's journey and it is a blessing.
People with extended family members nearby or within reach of their hugs and kisses are extremely lucky...and don't you dare ever think otherwise!
For I am so very jealous of that; is that so wrong?

Many family members are gone, as in dead  ... and others are very far away!
We have no grands, as in grandchildren and so that too makes me wish for if only...
But that could be considered selfish to want those things...After all more family created by offspring is not the same as keeping up with the Joneses and their additions of inanimate objects! These are people making people.

Oh no, no one has control over such things any more of people in their extended immediate families, and demanding such is frowned upon by the closest of your own production numbers, and I am not speaking of Broadway!

You create these beings out of love for your mate and from there you think when they find theirs (spouse) they too will continue the process… But you never ever suggest it; oh, maybe just in passing… give us some granddaughters so we can see pink and ballet classes, boys are great but we already had those, and of course we would love them too, ha!

Nah, no one can ever put in an order of grandchildren we can only hope for them like health and happiness.

Is it something we did differently than others I wonder?

So many of our age friends have tons of fun with their many little skip a generation selfies wandering hither and yon with them at the helm with less stress than the previous parental experience with what their own of theirs caused.

I so wanted to have that ability to be like my own parents who would love and spoil our boys and send them home joyfully; for our sons could never ever do any wrong in their hearts…the way it should be!

Now I fear I will never know that joy of another type of unconditional love that so many show and we would too…if only…

It seems that Sundays are the family days as they were when we were children too that all would somehow fit each other into our so-called busy schedules of life, even way back then, and of course on all the holidays too!

Not unusual to have twenty-five or more for dinner way back then…How I miss that!

Bittersweet with lives marching on; and some families make more and grow bigger and greater and some sadly diminish into less…

Melancholy me these days, so sorry!

I don’t know why…

But you all enjoy your wonderful days of life that seems to get better and more fulfilled daily and for that I am soooo happy for all of you!

On that note of envy being a good thing to share as in to appreciate and realize that happiness should never ever be taken for granted, allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night and ask you to kindly count all your blessings and share all your overages with you know who and we will too!

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

Glorious rain, but oh what a pain and did I say that in...vain?

Sure we need that wet stuff for our watersheds and reservoirs and the like as well as our crops, gardens and oh so much more, but today I am quite rained out!
Not unlike many a sports team knowing that if it doesn't stop soon they will have to reschedule?
I am so done with this not too much more fun wet stuff!
Shall I be bold or quaint and say, “rain, rain go away, come again another day!”?
Shall I?
Is my life so full of that proverbial “too much time on my hands”, that I find in all those wasted instances that I have found that elusive time to complain about something so mundane, and so I suppose it is my shame…
What a lot of hooey I refrain, for life’s got more in it to detain me from this game of calling out annoyances by name…
Or is it with old childhood mindset frames that run through my brain… of laments that are truly very sane…
YES, OH YES, “RAIN GO AWAY AND COME ANOTHER DAY!!!!”
Now some may feel that to complain of such a thing as the rain is not sane at all but quite the opposite…
Oh but how I disagree as for me it is one of those few safe topics to speak of freely and we all do…whether the weather is good or bad or clear or cloudy or cold or hot or dry or wet… everyone has something to say, and we all know that even so nothing we refrain will change the fact that it continues to surprise us daily and we have our different ways to react…
You must admit this is true, but have you or you or you, done one single thing to change it?????
A resounding NO! I hear you! No I don’t… but let’s pretend anyway…
Since in life there are some things, although, we would more than likely wish to change their outcome and sadly we have no ability to do that…!

Such is life we say when we do know that there is no answer for these mysteries in life.

I even contacted the professionals at NOAA years ago, about ten, after Hurricane Charley in 2004 devastated us here in Florida, and since with all the other natural disasters my heart cries whenever I hear or see those areas of the world destroyed by what we still have no ability to change…

If only…

So that is what I am talking about the lack of ability to change certain things, but in life we do have the power to change other things or so we would like to think.

Our fear level is high with truly scary monstrous threats of people, no they act like animals just wanting to kill other human beings and for this too I feel somewhat helpless.

Sadness and so many emotions come over me when we see or hear about all of these daily murders, and they make me, an Agnostic person feel the need to pray and ask the deity to help all of man/womankind to stop this BADNESS!

And again pray that it will stop… but again I have no ability to do anything, and yet the need to do something exists, but what?

Does anyone know?

Frustration and killing continues, to end this...I DO KNOW IT IS THE ONLY WAY TO MAKE IT STOP!

Sadly, if we had a better knowledge of the why people do these things, but in reality we all do know why, there is no reason; they just do…is it like when you pray for something and you get no answer, because there is none that is why…NO!

It is nothing like that!

Then it is that we people of peace do not understand people of violence and now to me that makes some sort of sense, like apples and oranges I suppose…?

On that note of trying to figure out the whys in the world one day at a time, allow me to be the very first to wish a very happy good night and ask all of you to kindly count all your blessings and share all those overages with you know who and we will too!

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

Flamingos!

 You either love 'em or hate them, but they do exist!

http://www.flamingos-world.com/

Whether you think they are tacky or iconic or even just a little bit interesting we personally lived in Florida for over twelve years before we succumbed to the activity of considering them as lawn ornaments in any shape, style or form.

We had purchased the type that many found tacky, four in a pack from Walmart and we chose two that are not too different from some of the above ones. At first we put them out , only two in the front center garden and nastily when we came home one day one was missing, it either blew away or someone felt that stealing one would make us remove them! Little did they know we had six more, seven with the one no longer a pair...
We decided our backyard would be more appropriate and safer for their exhibition and so that is what we did, although I had the brilliant idea to make them reindeer for the holidays and we stretched lights from each one and we had had a slightly less tacky looking metal one that we installed a red nose on from a Styrofoam ball painted red! Santa was found at again Walley World and we had him in major strong wooden board and this display was placed on our back lawn facing the canal for all other boaters to see during the holidays!

We did this for quite a few years, and we received all sorts of comments, mostly positive. After all when you live in Florida you have lighted dolphins, and sharks and palm trees and all sort of tropical sea creatures boldly displayed for the holiday season, especially in our famous boat parades!

These days we only display two of our better quality Flamingos, both oddly enough referred to as PINKIE!
Their colorings have been over the years redone several time due to weather taking its toll on them, and I used to make up a brew of my special acrylic and latex paints, white in latex and red in acrylic that would turn into a Pepto Bismol color, yep that really pink pink!
But this year I was thrilled to see when the coloring of them needed to be done Hubby took it upon himself to do it the smarter not harder brush way but with our spray of rust proof iridescent pink! They are the first two examples of Flamingos, although real ones have been placed into the mix, which I am sure you can easily tell...

Do yourself a favor and read the link I included I bet you thought you knew more than you did about them, yep the iconic tacky always pretty in pink even if it is more peachy keen than true pink...waterfowl that makes most think of Florida when they see one....

On that note of good vibes allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night and ask you to kindly count all your blessings and share all your overages with you know who and we will too!

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

Its here! My convertible has arrived!

Finally the wait is over! As of 11:40 A.M. this morning I am prepared for all outcomes in my fun-filled days! Whether walking pretty with my balance aid or if my body gives out and I need a push, even if I am half and half I can sit while walking and push myself... WOW what a concept!

I know, I know most gals at my age are looking forward to automobiles with convertible tops and not convertible walkers... or may be they are? LOL! I hope not, convertible tops are great... but in my opinion noisy on highways... I'm just saying we had a rag-top on our Jeep Wrangler, not good on I95, very noisy! Around town nice though...

You see how this one converts from a regular walker to a transport with its two sets of handles and drop down foot rest as well as the back rest changing position too...Oh, I almost forgot the really neat thing is that now the handles are up significantly higher than my old one and that adjustment that my other one was at its highest and could not go any higher seems to help me stand straighter which could only be better for me, true? And this one has three more adjustments to go even higher if someone should need that! Being short does not mean for you to stand bent over, I do believe that was harming my thoracic region as much as my knowledge now of having Osteoporosis there, at least I think that's what the demineralization of my thoracic region means. My calcification of my thoracic aorta means, according to what I read means that I more than likely have age related hardening of the arteries...

 The above PIC here is representing the seedlings homes that is right the Marigold's appear to be appearing; we will show you more when there is more to see, alrighty now!

 This above PIC is showing you my yellow exercise band that was really beneficial to use tied on to the railing this morning doing my prescribed exercises; I could keep my shoulders mostly under water or even lie down with resting my heels on the steps. Although, I now feel that exercise or just my normal pain...

This PIC is documenting how fast and furious the Bougainvillea has grown/recovered from its chopping down!

On this note of again pictures worth a thousand words, allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night and ask you all to kindly count all your blessings and share all your overages with you know who and we will too!

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

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Why is it when we have good intentions....

...sometimes there is a glitch in the fulfillment of carrying them out...?

Many of us consider when we decide to do something and something gets in the way of completing what we were intending on doing that that is just a lame excuse.

But at times we do have a legitimate reason for not completing our most simple of our desired tasks with absolute good reasoning!

This morning my intention was to go into our swimming pool for my usual exercise/walking program for two half hour sets…but as any of us know who live in my area the weather did not cooperate, in other words it rained and rained and rained… even now it is still raining!

And a few others of us would ask then why did you still not go in?

After all you were going to get wet anyway.

Or others might inquire if it was lightning?

And my answers would be, the truth, no it was not thundering or lightning and sure getting wet is all part of it and there was no reason for me not to go in if those simplistic reasonings are what it is all about.

Although, I do want the exercise and the pool is the most gentle for that the air temperature was a wee bit too cold for my thin Florida blood and the pool water too had diminished from its perfect temp of eighty-five to probably several degrees below the optimum comfort zone for me to get the exercise with the benefits too.

I am just a week, again, from finishing the steroids that do lower your ability to fight off infections, which I did forget all about that aspect of them when going back to the rehab for physical therapy so soon too…, so far I am okay, I think, don’t say a word!

I did have PT again and this time with Paula I did ask to try some strengthening exercises instead of just using the ultrasound machine.

My belief is that I need to be doing something physical more so than just sitting there as a lump, ya know?

Sure I am trying to push myself a wee bit, but under constant supervision with professionals it is a better way to at least try a little shove.

And so I was given a yellow band with knots on either end to stretch, one arm pulling at a time, alternating, lying down and sitting. I was also given an icepack for my pained area, you know where, for relief, while doing these exercises.

I did become dizzy a few times.
It frustrates me that it happens even when I am already lying down too.

The pain has taken over most of the PT sessions these days, and so I wanted to try to deal with something else, but I suppose I was wrong.

Now I am feeling it and I did nap again when we came home after picking up my prescriptions and having lunch again at Panera's.

This time a lovely couple from the rehab came in after us and sat nearby us and we were able to chat, it was rather nice.

For dinner tonight was our leftovers of my homemade chicken soup and salad for me and for Hubby my homemade chicken pot pie from the same rotisserie chicken that we had bought from the Sam’s Club… Geez, we sure do get a lot of mileage out of them!

On that note of eating well and hoping to feel better in the future, allow me to be the very first to wish you all a very happy good night and ask you all to kindly count all your blessings and share all your overages with you know who and we will too!

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

A bit better today...

If I keep improving during the day with doing things smarter not harder, who knows what might happen?
Last night was difficult with ice packs interchanged most all night long.

Today was an off day from physical therapy and so I spent more time in the pool.

Yesterday, I had an early PT and so Hubby felt that I would not have enough time to go into the pool first, but I did find myself with extra time on my hands before we left...

Any-who, today, I did three half hours in the pool, with five minute breaks in between, to make up for the hour I missed yesterday, no that does not make any sense, does it?

Well, it was quite a bit for me to do, and I had to see what worked and didn’t. 

You all know the drill; if it hurts when you do this, don’t do that!

Anyway, although I was able to maintain my self-imposed decision to go for an hour and half today in our backyard swimming pool, I was mostly only able to walk around in the pool.

Now to some that might seem simple, but even though our pool is not enormous the challenge is that its depth goes from three feet to five feet, and so one must tread water in the deeper end if you are my wee height of five foot one, I used to be five-two, but somewhere over the years I lost an inch, anyone sees it please return it here…so your choices on that deep end is to tread water or swim or float on your front or back or anyone of number of things that someone of my nearly sixty years of swimming and fifty years being once also being lifesaving certified and with Aquatics certification too… someone like me, who can barely lift her legs to kick without pain…walking seemed like the most benign way to go and I have been doing that for the last few weeks with this problem, to keep going, besides my dizziness has less affects on me while being in there, who knows why?

The shaded area under the sailcloth and the eighty-five degree temperature of the water, compared to the very hot air, another ninety-four degree day; it is amazing to me that it still has not heated up, i.e. pool water.

One year the pool got so hot like the surrounding air and our solution was to float several two liter frozen water bottles in it to cool it down from its over one hundred degrees temperature!
And no we are no longer into hot tubs or spas, since most are laden with bacteria, and if not the chemicals are too much to control the bacteria, lose, lose in my opinion.

Back in 1986, in Ormond Beach our first home there, we did install one then, a 4’X6’ attached to our 18’X36’ nine foot deep pool with a diving board for the boys we had installed. The spa became a baby/toddler pool for company and then it was considered a peeing pool for the little visitors, so not a good idea, just my opinion, whatcha gonna do?

Ours today could be staying cooler due to more evening rains that are later than we used to get them, mostly they used to come in the afternoon, around three, like clockwork.

Now our night time temps are down into the seventies only… These days the rain seems to come in after dinner or during the night even, even with daytime temps still too warm; not one day that I can recall these days below ninety, and that is, even for southwest Florida towards the end of September is quite unnatural; eighties would be nice at this point in time and usually is here by now.

Thankfully all possible hurricanes have diminished out in the Atlantic or went where there are no land masses to harm.
I sit again tonight with my embellished bosom, stuffed with an icepack wrapped on a terry hand-towel without its partner, single iced tonight, but still doing what it is meant to do and making me quite the voluptuous blogger gal, if only!

On that horrid picture running in your fertile brilliant minds (good luck with wiping that from your memory banks, ha!) allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night and ask you all to count all your blessings and share all your overages with you know who and we will too!

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