50/50 was how the spinal doctor said...

 

Come on folks this doctor is on YouTube! The first orthopedic doctor on the tape from my town, Dr. Getter. No, not that Getter on FRIENDS! (Stay tuned for more cheezy jokes?)

My new doctor hopefully, just temporarily once the problem is fixed or addressed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NGAENwKQ5o

He has me going for additional testing due to that 50/50 look of my CT and MRI indications.

To see if it leans one way or another according to need.

I will be having an EMG https://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/emg/about/pac-20393913 next week, and I am waiting to hear back from my original hand surgeon to verify about my ulnar nerve entrapment https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/318043#:~:text=Ulnar%20nerve%20entrapment%20happens%20most%20ofte

That was diagnosed twenty years ago along with my basilar joint arthritis in my right thumb/ hand, it takes four months to fully be right after that surgery, I know this since my left hand had been done all those years ago, and since I am right-handed I nixed that surgery all those years ago!

Now, these tests are needed to see if my problems are more localized or coming from my neck, which is the determination of whether more surgery is needed.

He is being thorough.

Good doctor, first do no harm and all that.

Moving on...

Hubby is back on the invasive tree removal project. He has made so much headway considering he is doing all the work himself without any help!

He is on his second cluster of ficus. These trees stay contained inside homes, they do not grow like they do outside in Florida. So the best way to contain a specimen is in a home that is not too dry air-wise. Although, since in Florida we try NOT to have moistness in our indoor air due to causing mold problems, and so house plants with a dehumidifier, I have found do not do well!

In New Jersey, I had thirty-three healthy house plants, all kinds! Humidity was put into our homes there, purposely! I gave many away to friends and neighbors, only kept a few when we moved to Florida back in 1986.

These specimens, I am sorry to say, were house plants at one time, and so it is my fault I planted them outside and they flourished!

As most floras do in FLORIDA, even its name states that!

The two-spaced 1100 gallon pond, looks a little bit like Jurassic Park. The tree with the baffle on it is staying it is my Avacado tree that I grew from a Haas grocery avocado!

The street light enabled the morning sunrise to have some luck of showing through all the clouds and Saharan dust...! I was surprised I got anything.

And so we must go, for now ...

Please be smart, as well as safe.

Have a very pleasant day.

Count those blessings, and we will too!

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

Aussie, say good day!

I am Aussie, not being from Australia, but American-made, I will comply anyway, for the fun of it,... so I will say good day!

I am called Aussie because my Mom asked a sixteen-year-old girl, who had been looking at me in the crate at the adoption site that day she was asked what she thought I should be named, and without hesitation, the teenager had said Aussie! She was just looking, by the way,... so Mom did not steal me from her.
We never did find out the girl's name, and Mom liked the name Aussie too. We have since found out that it is a very common name, but it is still just right for me! My parents think that I am uncommon though,... some might say even unique! I do like that.
I am an Australian Shepherd. Here is an interesting factoid about me, I was supposed to be a miniature Australian Shepherd, but... as you might know, I AM NOT! Although I am now three years old, so I am the baby, though I tip the scales at around seventy pounds, HA! I must admit, a very big one!
I was three months old when Mommy and Daddy adopted me. I had been taken out of a hoarder's home in the Carolinas with my litter. Below is my new PIC that had been taken on the birthday that I share with my Dad, but Dad is much, much older than me!!! I was the first to be adopted, February 16, 2018, his brother's birthday.

3 months................................................ 3 years

No tail/tale publishing, circa 2018. (Although the actual date this blog was started was June 25, 2008.) 

Get it? I was born without a tail, preferable for all Australian Shepherds; only one out of five are born that way!

                                           

Hello, I am Bella in the picture above, a Maltese Yorkie, a Morkie, and I might be five years old. I am the middle child, so I am what you would expect, with all those idiosyncrasies that go along with all that! Being the only girl has its rewards, as well as difficulties... We are all rescues, so no one knows for sure our ages. I was turned in by my previous family, stating that I was misbehaving with their elderly dog, they had said I was driving him crazy! I was the second to be adopted on 8/18/18, on clear out the shelters' day!Oh, by the way, my record's called me Belle, and so for no known reason, Mom decided I was more of a Bella; beautiful either way!

Please don't forget me, I am Chance, pictured above, a Bichon Frise! I am six years old, so they think, and the eldest, and I like getting up early with Mom and Aussie. Bella sleeps in with Dad, till after seven most days, even later! I enjoy a good tug-a-war on the ropes that Dad had twisted for Aussie and me, and sometimes even Bella plays too! I was the last to be adopted, on January 23, 2020. 

I was wandering the neighborhood for days and then saw Aussie and Bella in their living-room window, so I hung out there... The Animal Welfare League checked me out and kept me for sixteen days until I was allowed to be adopted. Good evening? 

The animal control lady was called and came out to see if I had a chip I.D. with her machine, and Dad told her that he wanted to name me Chance. His reason being, that if no one claimed me, I want to give him a second chance! So that is how I got the name Chance!

Easy as Aussie, Bella, Chance, now you got it!