Off topic: August chit-chat thread

[Cherie]

Guys went out this afternoon to do a stretch of river that was very low when David did it Saturday but with all the rain yesterday and last night was fast and swollen. David called me when I expected they would be back and they'd had "a couple of mishaps and had lost a paddle. There were only two in town for sale ($100 each) but I was able to buy a used one for $25 from a place that rents kayaks. He was surprised the guys were out on the water. "We haven't put anyone on the water today. It's not safe with all the rain we had yesterday (nearly 3")." Went and found the guys (both with lots of scrapes and bloody clothing) then went and got the car with the racks and picked them up a good mile and a half before their planned take out. They should be back in a few minutes.

I'm a bit worn out today with the extra walking and sight seeing we've been doing with our friends who have never been to this area. Even with that, I feel more well than I have in a very long time. Sunny and breezy and 68 here now.

[Gabriella7]

August chit-chat

It certainly has a different look from the old BT. Just to catch up....I am still getting the IVIG/Solumedrol and just finished a 3 day series which last 4 hours in the outpatient infusion center. I saw my neuro last Wednesday and he wants me to continue the same schedule in September, October, and November. I have to have a cat scan on Thursday to rule out a tumor on my thymus gland.

I have Myasthenia Gravis in addition to MS. The MG forum here at BT doesn't have many posts as MG doesn't have as many patients as MS so I'll save time and just post mainly over here as I have been here for a long time. I hope to see some results at the end of the 6 month series. Since so many of the symptoms overlap it is hard to know what is causing what? The neuro doesn't even want to quess. The latest is sleep inversion where I sleep most of the day and stay awake at night. Totally throws off anyone's schedule.

Looking forward to cooler weather so I can get out more.

Gabriella:angel:

[SalpalSally]

OK What did y'all do with PEG?

I am well and I wish the same for all of you.

Why can't the aging process move as slow as I do? It seem that, the aheader I go, the behinder I get. :o

[agate]

Sally, the last I heard, Peg was still having problems logging in.

I'll let her know that she's being missed here.

[renee]

Is Howard's house still standing?

Any one else feel the earth move on the east coast today?

Howie?

I live hundreds of miles away from VA on a faultline within
viewing distance of VT and my apartment was moving.

Just a bad spasm. Nooooo.

It was probably the best thing that happened all day.


Time to straighten the wall art.

[Virginia]

Gabriella, nice to see you checking in. I hope the drug regimen will work wonders for you. I think I have sleep inversion also. I absolutely do not want to go to bed at night, but then I don't want to get up in the morning and I am so tired. I hate it. I always worked and had to get up and I prefer that, but my mornings are harder than my nights most of the time.

Renee, I am with you - where's HOWIE?? I did not feel the quake today, but I think almost everyone else around here did. My brother was with one of his sons and they thought something had hit the building they were in. They went outside and looked. Then his wife called. She works for the Supreme Court here in North Carolina and she asked my brother did he feel that. So I guess her building did. Then he said his younger son called him and asked if he felt it. A friend of mine called tonight and said he did. I guess I just thought I was wobbly as usual.:(

I worked much too hard today. I cleaned all the windows inside my house and I also cleaned my plantation shutters. I had to move a heavy loveseat to get to two of the windows. It is a sleeper that I put in my office when I moved it downstairs, and it is very heavy. I just knew I could not do it, but I kept trying to inch it out. Finally, I got it far enough out. Then after I cleaned the windows and shutters I kept inching it out further so I could get the vacuum cleaner behind there. Then I had to start inching it back. I am already feeling it tonight. Don't even like to think about in the morning.

Jeanie, it was also nice to see you checking in. I hope all is going well for you.

Cherie, glad Dave and friend were not hurt on the water this week-end. I guess it can happen real fast.

Gary, are you alright?

Hi Sally, Agate, Ann, Lady and everyone.

Virginia

[Lady]

I'm up north a few states from Howie. He is right by the Epic Center. I'm on the East Coast near the water, but hours away and my whole house/kitchen shook. My kitchen chair, with me on it shook. Doors and windows rattled. No breakage, some things fell.

I hope you are okay Howie. Post when you can. Email if you want, I got the last one you sent.

[Pegakafarmgirl]

Finally made it here, thanks to Jeanie, Cat Dancer, Agate,, you gals are cool,,

Things are ok in the heartland, we been busy, not terribly, but enough,,we really could use some rain, so I'll quit whining, some folks are alot worse off then we are,,

Garden is going great, so nobody wants to come see us, because we usually load them with "lots" of veggies, hahaha !,,I canned,{ I did this alone, with Joes help squishing} 27 quarts of my famous chili sauce, shredded zucchinnis, froze them,,

We bought a new used truck, which we had our eye on, told the neighbor, when you buy your new truck, we'll buy his other truck, so last week, he bought his truck,, and we bought it,, its neat,,

be careful out there..

Peg

[Gary]

As I grew up in Southern California earthquakes were a fairly common occurrence. And I have been in a couple strong ones. They never bothered me as much as they bother my wife. She is terrified of them. I am more worried about having to drive in an ice storm than an earthquake.

Well my continuing health problems seem to have taken a major backslide. The choking seems have cleared up for the most part. But the hug and the vision along with the my walking is really bad. My blood pressure shot up to over 240/185. My heart rate is okay and my kidney function is good for a change. Unfortunately is back to the steroids again. I don't like it the doctor doesn't like it. I went in Monday for my follow up appt and the Dr and the P.A. had a conference call with the kidney doc and the neurologist, so happen that they were in the office right next to the exam room so I could over hear the call. The neuro said that if they wanted to admit me in the big hospital in Boise he would put me on his service but he has no alternative but to hit it again with the steroids as it is just too dangerous to allow my BP to get that high. Kidney doc felt the same way so as long as they keep a close eye on my kidney function he is okay with the plan. They did come up with a different method they are giving me the roids with a whole liter of fluid. And after today's first treatment I have to say that I started to feel better. I am going to get this under control and then rethink the whole treatment thing. One thing at a time.

Our weather is its normal summer heat it is expected to hit 100 for the next few days and so far not a drop of rain this month. The neighbor is digging onions he has about 150 acres next to our front field and they are the jumbo type the smell is pretty overpowering good thing I am not allergic to onions!

Glad to see folks returning and seems like management is right on top of the problems and the bugs.

Be healthy everybody.

[Gabriella7]

Hi everyone, Virginia, How in the world do you do all that you do? I could do some of that back in the dark ages but not now. Funny, folks around here were on TV talking about the earthquate today and I sleep right thru it. Georgia was not close enough to have much tremor. I hope to see improvement in the next 3 months but I am very impatient as at the moment I don't have energy to do anything but sleep. This problem called sleep inversion has me sleeping all day and up at night. The doc wants me to have a sleep test but they only do them at night! If they would do it in the day time I could do that. The doc recommended setting an alarm clock to wake me up 30 minutes before I usually wake naturally and then moving it up 30 minutes each day until I am getting up at 7am.

I haven't set an alarm clock since I stopped working as it was a welcome relief not to have to get up at a set time with a alarm that startles me with a loud sound. I saw a neat clock that wakes one up with coffee smells, a slowly increasing light, and gentle bird sounds. That's what I want.

Gabriella

[renee]

Hey Gary- If I were a doctor on tv I would say that you had to quit practicing criminal law,
take your ill gotten gains and start a gentleman's vineyard.

Useless advice, eh.

Blizzards are fun, the occasional low end earthquake is fascinating but keep me away
from tornados. They happen here occasionally and are creepy.

Lets split my almost comatose BP w/your far more exciting BP.
Sounds fair to me.

[Virginia]

Well, we here in NC are waiting to see what happens with the hurricane. Could certainly use some rain in this area, but do not want the rest that goes with it. Hope everyone on the east coast is alright through this, and I hope we do not loose power here. They are thinking that in the central part of NC where I live we might get "sustained" winds of 58 miles per hour on Saturday.

I have been up to usual clean a little, do a little yoga, read a little and then roam the house in boredom. Why do people want to retire? I knew I did not.

What have all of you been up to?

Virginia

[Lady]

Well, we here in NC are waiting to see what happens with the hurricane. Could certainly use some rain in this area, but do not want the rest that goes with it. Hope everyone on the east coast is alright through this, and I hope we do not loose power here. They are thinking that in the central part of NC where I live we might get "sustained" winds of 58 miles per hour on Saturday.

I have been up to usual clean a little, do a little yoga, read a little and then roam the house in boredom. Why do people want to retire? I knew I did not.



What have all of you been up to?

Virginia

We will be getting the hurricane too. I'm on the East coast near the water, north of you Virginia. First the Earthquake, plenty of rain, which we do NOT need, and now on Sunday right through our state "Irene." The snow was awful this year too, so who made Mother Nature so mad?

Virginia

I have been up to usual clean a little, do a little yoga, read a little and then roam the house in boredom. Why do people want to retire? I knew I did not

I know what you mean. I read and clean a lot too. Roam the house. Bad weather stinks!

[Gary]

I have been following the hurricane. As lots of our friends here are going to be impacted. Just watching the waves rolling in ahead of the hurricane looks scary. Keeping you all in my thoughts.

Our weather has just been hot. Not a drop of rain in over 30 days. Which is not that unusual but it sure would be nice to settle the dust down. Plus I have all this roid energy and cant go out side to burn it up! I am going to putter around this morning while it is still a bit cool.

Be safe everybody.

[Frog42]

I'm just hoping we don't lose power here. We're away from the water but they're predicting very strong wind for tomorrow.

I tried to make a list of things we need to transfer to coolers. We've moved some tomato plants we have in pots to the garage. I hope we have enough gas in the car.

Nasty weather seems to follow me no matter where I go. :ambivalence: