Monday, November 4, 2019

A seven-hour nose job surgery? Good grief!

Now I'm getting nervous about my neck lift surgery. I'm definitely going to talk to the surgeon about all this. Thanks for getting my attention!

Greetings My Buddies

More fabulous calm sunny days here on the north coast. We need rain but I am sure enjoying the not-rain.

DianeO I am glad you are feeling better. Yeah lots of things probably went into your episode including all that prior medical stuff. I now never leave the house unless I have had at least a small something to eat and have water. It might be easier for us sleevers to get off kilter. Or maybe its just a talent. Regardless we have all learned from your experience.

Well Ann, we all want to be you when we grow up. So full of life and curiosity. Too bad travel has to be so dang exhausting. I am awaiting the day I can "beam" myself somewhere - like the middle of Ankar Wat - without the corresponding planes and trains and busses.

I spent much of this weekend helping a sick friend - the one in the cabin in the woods. She has a lot of gut pain and kept thinking she has appendicitis but refused to go to the hospital. No reasoning with her. I was really concerned she would have some sort of rupture of bowel (no not appendicitis) and be in bad shape. Fortunately she called her primary care and was able to get her on the phone who had some advice; part of which was hydration. Hard to help a stubborn person.

Liz wishing you not much adventure with DS and surgery recovery. I have never heard of people being extra cranky but it makes sense. Yeah, video for later. Its amazing they send people home the same day after hernia repair but they do. Hoping for a good result.

Yesterday I planned to eat the two final pieces of Halloween candy. ate 1.5 and then just couldn't eat the rest. Tossed it. Who ever heard of tossing a half of a mini milky way?

Not much planned today other than attending to the sick one and checking out the studio. Maybe a visit to the pool.

Email from a friend who lives in Mexico. Much Day of Dead celebration including music and memorial places for every occupation of life and all manner of relations. Sounds like fun. And not about giving out cheap stale candy.

Shirley love your sunset and that you so cherish your farm home. It shows.

Time to go cherish some coffee. Diane S

Started the morning off quite nicely, until on the way to work i got an email from my principal asking if I was on campus for an IEP meeting for one of my students. Oops! I completely forgot. Was on my calendar, but I simply forgot. Parent was fine. It was a speech and language IEP. (Oh, IEP = individualized education plan). The father of the student pretty much ignored the speech therapist and deferred to me. Was kind of funny, but I appreciated it because our new speech teacher is a young, uptight, and icy woman. I had to laugh on the inside a bit.

I want to eat, eat, eat.... So, I am eating, eating, eating... but I am eating non sugar items this morning. Ezekial bread with PB and sugar free orange marmalade as first breakfast. Second breakfast is a hard cooked egg and banana. Lunch is flank steak with a side of fresh strawberries and some cooked whole wheat pasta. Afternoon snack is greek yogurt with blueberries.

Shrink this afternoon and a trip to the bank if time permits. Then must go fetch GOAT from the storage facility to get her ready for this upcoming weekend. I am looking forward to the time spent away at the dog show.

Must run go get kiddos for an assembly.

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Binge reading past posts to catch up, more or less, with the haps and hops and fiddly sticks going on here, and- oh, my.! Diane- sorry about medical woes- that low blood sugar can be scary, and I'm glad, Shirl, you are on top of that staff infection. Eat lots of yogurt and probiotics- those heavy duty antibiotics like to kill off the good gut bacteria as well as the staff.

There has been much drama here on the home front- and only some of it is mine. Grown children- (sigh). Ours were such "easy keepers" growing up. Now that they are out on their own and free agents...DS2 continues to flounder inside of a seriously dysfunctional (yes, he went back into it- again) relationship. He is miserable but seems to be unable to fully extract himself. We can't rescue- and only offering our full love and support just doesn't seem enough.

Tomorrow I'm off to the endodonist- infection that was in sinuses evidently has moved into the eye-tooth nerve and generating an abscess there- or was it there in the beginning and slipped up into my sinuses? Opinion varies between Dr. and Dentist- I leave it to them. Hope to have answers soon and a reasonable plan of action.

Rat, the cat has come to live at our house. We've about always had mousing cats that live outdoors- this is the first indoor cat since I was in college- so long ago (think it was a saber-tooth variety). Rat, the cat has about the same energy level as Noodle the dog- so far a welcome addition.

Rat is very pretty. Your infection sounds very painful and definitely no fun.

There comes a time as you say where we can't walk our children's journey for them, all we can do is accompany them and offer support. I miss the days when most problems could be solved with some time together in the rocking chair ...

Bonnie, I have really, really, really missed you! Love hearing your voice.

On the kid front, I (still!) get inquiries from folks along the lines of ... "Aren't you afraid you missed so much of life by not having children?" To which, I smile and say, "Yes, you're right ... I missed SO MUCH!"

And then I smile even bigger. :)

What an asinine question! You should start sobbing and clutch at them, wailing, yes, yes I do, what a fool I've been. How will I ever find peace??? Would serve them right for asking.

Hey, Rat! What a great name for a cat!

What a beautiful cat!

That infection sounds nasty - I hope they can clear it soon.

Ann, I've been reading about Primal Beliefs. One of them is: The world is enticing vs. The world is not enticing. I know what your belief is. :) I have some friends who don't travel much. I used to feel bad for them, until the day I realized that it wasn't because they couldn't, it was because they didn't really enjoy it that much. It had never occurred to me, wanderlust has been a part of me always. I crave travel more than carbs!!

Today was, as we like to say passive aggressively, an interesting day. It was meant to be a day to do grades etc, but the first two hours were mandatory pointless meetings. Ugh. And then multiple emails and drop ins from co workers who are starting to feel as needy as the students. And then they announced a test of the fire alarm, no need to leave the building. Except it went in for 25 minutes. I was losing my mind, so I finally went and sat in my car, as waiting it out on the sidewalk was way too cold. I saw one disgruntled co worker get in his car and just drive off. Usually I love these days because I can knock back so much work, but sadly, not today.

Tomorrow is all in service. Not.in.the.mood. usually I look forward to some new ideas, fresh perspective. Maybe it will be better than I anticipate. I'll try to keep an open mind and heart.

Peps I've forgotten to come to an IEP meeting, and since I'm the one running the meeting, it's a problem!

I'm going to have a cup of tea, and read the paper. Tea solves a lot of issues.