May chit-chat

[Cherie]

Gary...Not good. Praying this resolves quickly.

[SalpalSally]

(((((Gary))))), Hope everything will be alright. Rest!!!

[Jeanie Z]

:) Hi everyone. Gary it is time for you to update us on how you are doing.

My DIL is finally passing some gas. She has been in the hospital 13 days and had the surgery 7 days ago.

My 103 year old friend Thelma is scheduled to go home on the 26th. That is about 4 months in the rehab. I went with her to rehab yesterday and we batted a balloon back and forth with badminton raquets. Thelma has better eye hand coordination than I do. She won hands down. She is actually really ready enough to go home but her friend has not got everything ready for her at home yet.

My groin pain is really almost too much. Today is the last day of the patch and that is always the worst day. I am taking Ibuprofen every 2 or 3 hours. I even tried a heating pad on it but it only helps while it is on it.

All in all I feel pretty healthy. One of my friends is having 15 vertebrae fused on 6/11 and 5 days later is having 3 more fused. She has had scoliosis for years and now it has become debilitating. They will put in rods and screws. I don't envy her that surgery and the rehab from it.

I only have an antenna and all the shows are crime shows or horror shows it seems. I watch PBS a lot or play computer games. It annoys me all the scary movie clips being shown when kids are watching. I don't want to see them either. All the news is one disaster or murder after another too.

Have a good weekend everyone. Jeanie :)

[Cherie]

Gary,
What's up? How are the legs?


Peg,
Moving any better?


Still feeling pretty crappy. Dentist's Office Manager called yesterday to see how I was doing and I told her better but still not well. I am now on antibiotics to calm the "pulpitis" in the crowned tooth and one behind it to try and avoid root canals. Still a lot of pain in my hip from the fall 2 weeks ago and gait is not good. Vision is worsening, bladder hard to empty, pain waking me at night...all for the past 6 weeks. Then yesterday, I got a package from Social Security stating they were reevaluating my eligibility for SSDI. I have to see a neurologist appointed by them, a psychiatrist appointed by them, an internist appointed by them who will render a neutral (uninformed) opinion as to my ability to function without assistance in the work world. All this 4 months before I can officially retire and go on regular social security. It feels like insult added to injury when I have been feeling so badly lately. Only able to work 2-3 hours a day (and not well...making a lot of mistakes) this past month.

Funny thing is that I do better when I am working and out with people than when I am home. But I guess they want people homebound. Whining officially...

[SalpalSally]

Saturday Giggle!

This is my spot, I found it and you can't have it...

[Pegakafarmgirl]

Hi

Cherie,, I am moving slower then usual,, nurse says for someone with MS , I am doing better then a normal person would, with a broken hip,,I just take my time,,

weather is playing,, ""What season we in""?, goes from snow flurries, torrid rain showers, tornadoes, hail,, mother nature needs a stiff drink,,lol

[Cherie]

I'm glad Peg. Slow is good. It means you're still moving!

[renee]

Slow is good.
Visited my much younger bro recently.
Generally he moves at a frantic pace and then crashes.

We went cruising in my crip van to do errands, little stops here and there.
After 2-3 hours and on our way home, in the passenger seat he turned to me
and said, "you make me go slow."
He was very comfortable and peaceful.

I just grinned at him.
There are bennies to moving at a narcotic pace, one being the time you share
with people you care about can be infinitely more satisfying.

Sally. re: dog in guitar case- love it.
I thought cats were the box types.

Flashback: I spent many years living with stringed instruments, paraphenalia and
performance and recording stuff.
A nurse arrived to do an at home infusion.
Medicare didn't consider an infusion stand necessary.

We rigged a microphone stand instead.

[SalpalSally]

Yeah, it wouldn't have been as funny, if it were a cat in the box..

[nuthatch]

Love the pic, Sally. Looks like a perfect fit to me!

[SalpalSally]

DD and GD (15) came over this morning for their usual grocery run.
DD has a job offer on the table, in salary negotiations. Hopefully this
will be the one... DGD got her temps yesterday and drove for the
first time. I asked her how she did and she said.."good, I didn't hit
anything".

All else is well and I pray that it is for you.

[agate]

Next week I'm getting my improved (remolded) hearing aids. In 2013 I went to the hearing aid place 10 times, all attempts at getting aids that fit. I hope this time will be the last for a while.

This is the weekend when this building has a "free table." Residents can leave items they no longer want on the table and others can help themselves. It's amazing how fast those things vanish.

I gave away a bathroom scales and a card table this time. Creating more space around here is always a help.

It took me several days to get over a near-fall where I went reeling and swerving clear across the room after losing my balance. This was one of the longest-lasting near-falls I've had, and all I was doing was lifting a laundry bin out of a closet. It wasn't a very heavy thing to lift at all. I just lifted it at the wrong angle, maybe.

renee, I know what you mean about being slow. I seem to do everything in slow mo. Slow is definitely the way to do things.

[SalpalSally]

Slo mo is the only way to go, to fall no mo.

[agate]

When I lost control of my legs completely in the near-fall, I had been hurrying, trying to get the laundry together in time to get to the washers before other people were using them.

Not worth it! Hurrying is almost never worth it.

That's where other people often do more harm than good. If someone wants you to hurry up, you can sense it even if they're being polite and not saying anything like, "Can't you move any faster?"

They don't need to tap their feet or drum their fingers on a counter. Maybe they just breathe differently. You just know they'd really appreciate it if you didn't take so long.

[Lazarus]

Thanks Agate...you said this perfectly! I realized that one movement really sends me reeling. I have to move like a robot. Stop and turn my body and then move. Any effort to slide left or right topples me. I have to turn first and then move. Not sure if this is clear but it is important for me to remember when I am active.