About a pal

My Dad had a great sense of humor.
I say "had", only because he's dead and it's proper grammar.
Oh he lived what used to be considered a long life; that is thirty years ago. He was seventy- nine when he passed away, sounds nicer than dead, and that is what we would say back in 1986! Gosh, it has been thirty years.
People would say how much they enjoyed him due to his easy going fun loving personality.
But as things went while growing up, during my teen years in public I was foolishly embarrassed by his antics.
Dad did sure know how to get me out that too serious teenager mode, by making me laugh at myself.
Gosh, I miss him.
Wish I had his gift.
The reason I  thought about this was due to my Facebook friend who wears many career hats, and one of those is as a stand-up comic. She said to have a sense of humor with handling my MS, and that actually is probably what my Dad would have said.

PS  my Dad was smart funny, not goofy! Okay sometimes.

Love to all, be well, peace, and share all those blessings!

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

Working on a better me daily! Well today anyway; one day at a time, okay!

Late, too late!?

For me!
Okay real quick I had my last PT till after surgery today, rest for a few then went pick up my sleep test equipment in Venice traffic was horrid and a half hour trip nearly an hour, we ate at the Hibachi Grill Buffet, also horrid, took Pepcid in the car on the way home, but have a terrible headache and I am very nauseas, the end, whew!
Was it as good for you as for me, ha?

Computer-less!

Once more, what a bore.
Rhyming is fine if one has the time.
I do, do you?
Bloody Monday, what can I say Vampira gal took my ruby jeweled fluid and won't give it back no matter how much I offered to pay!
Ha, ha, ha they say that they need it whatever I may...to continue to...
Telling, yes telling perhaps why or what is causing my body's swelling?
Oh me, oh my and boo hoo all this silly is just for you! So poo!

Moving on...

Most all of us have had testing done for one reason or another.
Re: medical tests
Nearly done this week more: sleep, blood was done this morning with urine, h pyloric tomorrow morning.
Toughy has to do with you nearly becoming a lab tech with three vials being filled with toxic chemicals and feces specimens going into each one, shake, ha. Seems like a lot of work for a civilian.
Did I say yuck? No? Then YUCK!

All kidding aside we know as frustrating and annoying as all these tests seem to be they are necessary.
For what or why only the docs know and they are not telling, sure they do try to using double speak, hmm? Which causes the need for a translator or at the very least a great medical dictionary, true?

Love to all, be well, peace, and share all those blessings.

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

Three Strikes and I am NOT OUT!

Relatable Mrs. T here... case in point, below.
How many of you out there had to go into a lab for fasting blood work?
For me fairly regularly, at first every three months, now every six all due to types of conditions I have high blood pressure, hypothyroid, high cholesterol and borderline type two diabetes for the medications that I am taking for them being regulated to make sure they are doing what they are supposed to be doing and for the most part for these last ten years they have been,
Last month I had my usual six month blood work for my internist, but when I came home my surgeon's office had sent a script for an elaborate blood work script to be done plus a lot of other things as well.
When I saw my internist to have my lab results told to me when asked about the overlap of blood work with the surgeon's being a bit more complex she, the internist, suggested that I wait until I was due to see the surgeon ten days prior to my office visit.
But wait there's more, you following this, never mind, any-who when the surgeon called me back last week they said that I should do the blood work now since there is so many that some need weeks to get results, huh?
Anyway, since I spoke with them, last week, I have been trying to get the blood work done.
Crazy as it might seem every morning that I have been getting up I forget to hold the Stevia in my coffee! I drink it black without cream of milk just that Stevia.
Silly, hmm?
A problem since it could throw an A1C test off for diabetes just like sugar, although it has zero calories.
Here's my weird dilemma for the last few morning we were going to go I forgot not to put the Stevia in!
Perhaps, I have some odd reasoning for not going, who knows?
Its got to be like some unconscious reason deep within my brain doing this thing, ya know?
Maybe not.
Only I should know, but I don't, really.
Less than two months till the surgeries, so no pressure, but I still feel positive some day this week it will get done!

Moving on...

On the binge watching front I received several notices today that NCIS season thirteen was now available.

*This blog was written on 8-21-16 but for some reason I did not get the draft published...so here it is!

Crash!

So I turned on my techno device, translation, "notebook", first thing this morning and the last thing that I had remembered is that it was installing updates and somehow from that when I arose to a...BLUE SCREEN in the morning! Giving righteous meaning to the expression, feeling blue, you betcha!
Telling or that should be asking me if I wanted to use the computer or wipe it clean for some unclear reason!
I chose the former, since it's the only one that I still have for ... that is until I send it back on Monday and then I will have none again!
So as anyone can well imagine when they bring you all the way back to store bought nothingness there is a lot to do retrieving your personal sites, for me: yahoo, Facebook and blogger as well as Netflix etc.. Not to mention trying to remember how to reinstall my anti-virus!
For that I had to contact the Geek Squad, and they did reinstall my paid for till this December Webroot for free, but MacAfee kept interfering so that was uninstalled. A bit of touch and go for awhile there.
Monday's problem of it being sent back due to the battery not fully charging seems so small with this other much BIGGER ONE!
I still haven't tweaked it all to my satisfaction.
Headers and bottoms, that's not right but you know what I mean access to other sites and tools etc. are still out of sight unless I look hard for them.
I was able to enlarge the font on my home page and reinstated yahoo as that again.
As I was asked by the Geek Squad a question our home phone number to give me a code the phone rang at a rather too early hour to the not happy awakening of Hubby, and I did answer it on the first ring! And yet he was truly angry with me a good portion of the day.
NO FUN!
Much better now though.

Any-who, as I said I was able to retrieve all my necessary sites except for those issues I mentioned above.

Moving on...

My most recent binge watching on Netflix I am sort of proud or ashamed of according to maybe your attitudes about such things, but all seven seasons of the Gilmore Girls was accomplished, and I have since moved on to Murder She Wrote! There are twelve seasons of that, so I am still good on the entertaining myself front.
Very, very, very important to ward off depression for anyone with stress due to family, medical
or just about any reason... mindless entertainment is good for you and me.
Especially with my two surgeries coming up and me being at high risk but knowing that I have no choice.

Love to all, be well, peace, and share those blessings!

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

Interesting follow-ups

Hubby did a maneuver that was amazing and worked.
He called back the committee woman's missing secretary's office and the person who answered was told to tell her, the secretary to the committee woman, to call him back between three and three thirty today, she called at three twelve!

I did hear from corporate at the computer company via email saying that they did a pass test on the computer and that is why nothing had been done it was found compliant with their standards, but I wrote back with my insistence that it does not hold a charge and that it should, being so new and verified by the Geek Squad that it should be able to be fully charged not just in the 80's% for three years yet and so they will this time be giving me a new battery!
I also requested overnight deliveries each way and am currently waiting on the response to this.
Another week seems too obsessive time wise to wait again.

Moving on...

My ear has not healed again, and so it was back to the dermatologist's again and another dosing of anti-biotic for seven more days. I was only off of them for four.
This is one more chronic condition that makes me frustrated.
The pain was behind the ear going down the neck into my shoulder, now another reason why that left side is not good.
My new pillow to remove the pressure from my ear to help prevent the pressure sores is great and its case is now in the laundry due to my ear exuding yellow and red fluids from it, not nice, oh well!
Sorry about the TMI!


Love to all, be well, peace, and share all those blessings!

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



   

It finally happened...

...to my chagrin.
Last night many read my published blog, nearly two dozen, but no one responded to whether they liked it or not...BUMMER!
I suppose harping on negativity is frowned on most everyday, especially with what is going on in this world (compared to let's say Jupiter's, Mars etc., ha, hmm?)
Olympian faking a robbery to hide a wild drunken night time experience;  Frothy Orange Haired Guy/ presidential candidate still acting like a rectal opening, sound better, guess not too, oh well?
A murderous cannibal devouring faces and posting his debauchery on YOUTUBE; no less, horrid!

But folks my negativity is a walk in the park compared to the ones that I just mentioned above and again I am confused why a company would send back a product that was in for repairs that was undone or not repaired and still not functioning as it should have been with a simple replacement of its battery that was what they knew needed to be taken care done, do you know why or how this can happen?
And why would a committee person not return a call, and how could a secretary be coming back in a few minutes at two thirty in the afternoon and still not be heard from a week and several hours later, perhaps this should be a 48 hours or Dateline story/segment, curiouser and curiouser, methinks?

Frustration is all I am saying with people not doing what they are paid for or voted in to office for; you get it, don't you? This is small scale stuff not national. Although, my computer company is American based, out in California! Name will be divulged if still not fixed!
The committee woman is local.
But the thing is I do know that I am not alone dealing with such people! Similar stories just different locales or businesses.

Oh I did get my surgery date that is in two months from now approximately, so much to still get done.
Nutritionist appointment in two weeks, blood work sooner, phycologist eval when she finally calls, the vascular surgeon is scheduled two weeks before surgery for consult and then again for out patient surgery with him a week before the major surgery to install the doohickey to prevent blood clots that will be temporary for sixty not thirty days I have been told, lots to get done!
Guess I won't need my 81 mg. nightly of coated aspirin that I have been on since my TIA in 2006.

 My conclusions:
Caring and responsibility in manufacturing is preferred, we need answers to why not being fixed, their solution: sending us another express label, yep to send it back again with a week turnaround, how truly marvelous, not!
Local government employee voted into office, our resolve: either go back in person or bombard with more calls, but we did wait one week, patient enough I think, you too I bet! Flummoxed.


Love to all, be well, peace, and share those blessings!

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

PS Corporate is to call me about the computer in 24/48 hours (Another show title perhaps, ha?) before its sent back my reasoning, do not want nothing to be done AGAIN.