I am anxious to be healed so I have to keep testing how far I can walk without using the crutches. I can walk a few steps as long as I don't try to make a turn. If I do that, the leg reacts like it's weak and I start to fall. So I keep the crutches handy and know I have to wait a while longer before I can give them up. But I have to keep trying. At least I know I AM healing.
The real problem is getting to the bathroom these days. I just can't seem to move fast enough so the liners I have are really getting used up. I just HATE that. It's partly because of the turns I have to make. That causes pain and slows me down. Plus, my room is nice and warm but the Beast turns off the heaters in the main part of the house so when I open my door to go to the bathroom, the cold air hits me like a brick wall. And you know how warm/cold makes your body react. LOL!
I don't know why but it seems like I don't get the feeling that I need to use the bathroom until my bladder is really, really full. So I am using my Depends.....just in case. I've been having stomach aches so I worry about having an IBS attack, too. That's really why I am using them. Those come suddenly and are just awful. But, otherwise, I really don't feel all that bad. It's just frustrating to depend on crutches. They are a real pain in the ass.....
The Beast still hasn't taken my phone to Verizon to get them to fix the problems I have been having. I can't send OR receive a text. I sometimes can't get to my voice mail. I also haven't been getting some of the calls I should have and I only know that from people telling me online that they tried to call me. He's going out to talk to an insurance agent (we are trying to get a better quote on our house and auto insurance) tomorrow so I have to make sure that he takes my phone to Verizon. We've had nothing but trouble with our phones since the Beast went there to get HIS fixed and they lowered our monthly rate due to the Sprint ads on TV. Guess they are afraid we will move to get our bill cut in half! LOL.
I decided that I want a new phone. I've come to hate the one I have although it's easier to text on it since it has a keyboard. But I have to open it and some of the buttons located on it's side make me nuts when I accidentally put pressure on them. I am either taking pictures of stupid things or it starts talking to me and asking me to give it a command! LOL
It's expected to go down to 17 degrees tonight, which is better (warmer?) than last night. It was just awful this morning and I was glad that the schools here had a 3 hour delay start. I worry about Chewlee out in the cold, waiting for her bus. A high of 37 is expected so I have to admit that it's truly winter now. I need to remember that I have bulbs to plant in the spring. Chewlee will love helping to get them planted. She loves flowers and these she will be able to cut to take home to her mother once they bloom. I bought them especially for her.
No package yet from my girlfriend, Carol. She emailed me that I should be receiving it either today or tomorrow. She has me really going nuts trying to figure out just what it could be she is sending this time. She is such a nut...but a truly generous one. I love her to death and I miss talking to her online. She's had company and then she was dog sitting for her son. Plus she wasn't feeling well for a while. I really worry about when she isn't well.
We have a mutual friend...well, friends....that are in England....and they will be getting married soon. They met and fell in love online. She is from California and traveled to England where they are now together. Tomorrow they go to the registrar's office for their license. It then takes 16 days for the banns to be published before they can marry so the date is going to be the 26th of this month. The bride-to-be sent me a picture of her engagement ring which is beautiful and had to be costly. I'm so excited since we both are fond of the groom-to-be. He's a disabled veteran of Desert Storm and was an officer in the RAF.
It turns out he has a serious heart problem now so we would like to see them both be happy. So far they seem to be. It will be lovely to know a couple that met online, fell in love, got married and are happy together. Their wedding will initially be fairly small and the bride tells me they will be having a bigger wedding later on with her family coming in from the States.
Time to post this missive. Love you all. Please keep warm and safe. ***Hugs***
Thursday, January 8, 2015
Wednesday, January 7, 2015
Funny How Your Body Takes Over At Times.....
Today was one of those days when my body MADE me rest. Too much experimenting, perhaps? I just know that it kept me down and out for most of the day and I am still feeling tired like I need to get back to bed. But I am forced to listen to what it tells me and do what I must in order to heal. I definitely want to heal....and as quickly as I can.
Got a note from my friend Carol that said she had been notified that my surprise was shipped from New York today and should get here either Thursday or Friday. She won't tell me what it is she sent me so I will just have to wait and see. She can make me nuts sometimes with her idea of fun. She just loves to keep me in the dark. LOL!
The Beast was a bit on the lazy side today. He didn't realize that he forgot about feeding us dinner. He can eat sweet snacks and be happy as long as his stomach is full. But I like real food, not his cakes, pies and ice creams.
He bought some pistachio frozen yogurt by mistake the other day (has WAY too much of an almond taste for me) and he just loves it even though it wasn't ice cream. He really isn't a yogurt fan but this doesn't taste like yogurt to me at all. Maybe that's just why he likes it. I happen to like yogurt.....REAL yogurt.
It's 12 degrees outside (wind chill is a *feels like minus 2 degrees*). And, mind you, it's just a few minutes after 9pm so the temperature is heading down, down, down from here. The Beast went to bed a little bit ago so he could keep the bedroom toasty warm. He even covered up Baron because he worries about the cold that comes up from the floor. Baron has two nice pillow type beds stacked up to sleep on so he's not suffering at all....LOL.
Well, I am heading for bed, too, in a few minutes. Just talking to Mustachio before we both hit the sack. It's 10pm where he lives and he has to get up around 5 am or so for work. He worked late tonight (got the bad house he was worried about getting) and it was the only one he worked on all day. Figures. But, after multiple techs had been there and not been able to figure out how to get it going, at least he got the woman's system up and working for the family. He says she was thrilled. But it took him almost 12 hours. At least she tipped him $20.
Love you all. Please, please, please be weather conscious and dress appropriately. Watch how long you are out in sub-zero wind chills. Drive carefully. ***Hugs***
Got a note from my friend Carol that said she had been notified that my surprise was shipped from New York today and should get here either Thursday or Friday. She won't tell me what it is she sent me so I will just have to wait and see. She can make me nuts sometimes with her idea of fun. She just loves to keep me in the dark. LOL!
The Beast was a bit on the lazy side today. He didn't realize that he forgot about feeding us dinner. He can eat sweet snacks and be happy as long as his stomach is full. But I like real food, not his cakes, pies and ice creams.
He bought some pistachio frozen yogurt by mistake the other day (has WAY too much of an almond taste for me) and he just loves it even though it wasn't ice cream. He really isn't a yogurt fan but this doesn't taste like yogurt to me at all. Maybe that's just why he likes it. I happen to like yogurt.....REAL yogurt.
It's 12 degrees outside (wind chill is a *feels like minus 2 degrees*). And, mind you, it's just a few minutes after 9pm so the temperature is heading down, down, down from here. The Beast went to bed a little bit ago so he could keep the bedroom toasty warm. He even covered up Baron because he worries about the cold that comes up from the floor. Baron has two nice pillow type beds stacked up to sleep on so he's not suffering at all....LOL.
Well, I am heading for bed, too, in a few minutes. Just talking to Mustachio before we both hit the sack. It's 10pm where he lives and he has to get up around 5 am or so for work. He worked late tonight (got the bad house he was worried about getting) and it was the only one he worked on all day. Figures. But, after multiple techs had been there and not been able to figure out how to get it going, at least he got the woman's system up and working for the family. He says she was thrilled. But it took him almost 12 hours. At least she tipped him $20.
Love you all. Please, please, please be weather conscious and dress appropriately. Watch how long you are out in sub-zero wind chills. Drive carefully. ***Hugs***
Tuesday, January 6, 2015
Actually Feeling Better....
As much as I have hated not being able to stand or sit for these past couple of weeks, tonight I got a bit of a surprise. The Beast went to one of his church meetings and I wanted some coffee so I had to go out to the kitchen for it. As I was walking there on my crutches, it struck me that I didn't need to use as much leverage when moving forward and having to be on the left leg. I was so surprised at this that I took a couple steps without really using the left crutch. Not only did it not make me want to cry out in pain but I took two steps before I almost fell because the hip told me to *cut it out*. But I can tell it's healing so all the aggravation of having to lay down most of the time was well worth it.
The hip is not hurting me at the moment and it's been almost 3 hours that I have been sitting at my computer. Amazing!!!! I spent some time talking to Bratfink and Mustachio. Poor Mustachio has to work outside in the cold weather during some installations and he's not looking forward to it at all. He said with his luck, his calls tomorrow will probably end up being mostly outside work. I told him to leave his truck running with the heat on so he can duck into it to warm up every 10-15 minutes (because of the wind chill they expect in Louisville area). He doesn't want to chance frostbite. He once had to do a job in Cincinnati, Ohio where the temperature was minus 52 degrees in the wind. He and his helper worked for 10 minutes then had to go inside for 20 minutes or so to warm up before they were both ready to head outside and tackle the work again. He said an hour's job ended up taking them over four hours. I was surprised it only took them that long.
Bratfink is worried about the *outside* cats that Sheldon has been feeding now for several weeks (some of them longer than that). Their wind chill in Indiana will be brutal. I can't blame her and the outside cats, when they do venture into the house, either get chased out by her *inside* cats or they demand to be let out again quickly. She would feel better if they at least came in to warm up. She has no idea where they spend their nights and that bothers her a lot. It would be different if they were someone's cats (or several someone's) and they were just freeloading extra food at their house. But it doesn't seem like it to either of them so even Sheldon is worried sick about their well-being.
Tomorrow we may get snow flurries and, if we do, it means there will be accidents happening. All the schools are going to have delayed starts because of the temperature it will be for the bus students mostly. I don't think we have many students that walk to school. It's not like living in a city like Chicago or New York where you take city buses to school or the subways and there's outside walking you have to do. Lord, do I remember those days!
By Thursday morning, we will be down into the single digits with wind chills below zero. But we start recovering on Friday. The snow and really cold temperatures don't usually last long for us here. We are affected by the normal air flow from the Gulf. But who knows what all this global warming will do for us. At least, it will seem fairly normal for us this time. We just don't get many days down into the single digits.
The Beast and I just had soup and some fantastically fresh and tasty bread from Publix for our dinner. I hadn't had chicken and rice soup in years but it seemed tastier to me than I remembered it. Either that or I was really hungry....LOL. I had the same bread for my sandwich at lunch and was surprised at how fresh it was. It made the ham and tomato seem heavenly. We have always had a problem with bread being fresh here. It was like all we could buy was bread that was already stale and more fit for the birds than people. My reaction was normally to toast it lightly and that worked for me but the Beast was always having a fit. Now that Publix is here, their bakery is constantly making fresh breads of all kinds and we sometimes get the loaves still warm from the oven. Yum!
Well, time for me to get this posted and get ready for bed. I'm tired and the Beast has already gone to bed for the night. He even took Baron outside to pee and do a bit of running around. Baron headed for his bed as soon as they came back into the house. He doesn't do well in cold weather and the Beast refuses to think about buying him a sweater even though he KNOWS that Dobies are subject to bad reactions to both sun and cold. I wanted to buy him some booties for when we have snow so he doesn't get frostbit on his feet but the Beast almost had a heart attack over the idea. Men! They can be so dense at times. Like Baron's manhood would be threatened? Too funny.
Love you all. Be good and dress appropriately for whatever weather you are having. Take care. ***Hugs***
The hip is not hurting me at the moment and it's been almost 3 hours that I have been sitting at my computer. Amazing!!!! I spent some time talking to Bratfink and Mustachio. Poor Mustachio has to work outside in the cold weather during some installations and he's not looking forward to it at all. He said with his luck, his calls tomorrow will probably end up being mostly outside work. I told him to leave his truck running with the heat on so he can duck into it to warm up every 10-15 minutes (because of the wind chill they expect in Louisville area). He doesn't want to chance frostbite. He once had to do a job in Cincinnati, Ohio where the temperature was minus 52 degrees in the wind. He and his helper worked for 10 minutes then had to go inside for 20 minutes or so to warm up before they were both ready to head outside and tackle the work again. He said an hour's job ended up taking them over four hours. I was surprised it only took them that long.
Bratfink is worried about the *outside* cats that Sheldon has been feeding now for several weeks (some of them longer than that). Their wind chill in Indiana will be brutal. I can't blame her and the outside cats, when they do venture into the house, either get chased out by her *inside* cats or they demand to be let out again quickly. She would feel better if they at least came in to warm up. She has no idea where they spend their nights and that bothers her a lot. It would be different if they were someone's cats (or several someone's) and they were just freeloading extra food at their house. But it doesn't seem like it to either of them so even Sheldon is worried sick about their well-being.
Tomorrow we may get snow flurries and, if we do, it means there will be accidents happening. All the schools are going to have delayed starts because of the temperature it will be for the bus students mostly. I don't think we have many students that walk to school. It's not like living in a city like Chicago or New York where you take city buses to school or the subways and there's outside walking you have to do. Lord, do I remember those days!
By Thursday morning, we will be down into the single digits with wind chills below zero. But we start recovering on Friday. The snow and really cold temperatures don't usually last long for us here. We are affected by the normal air flow from the Gulf. But who knows what all this global warming will do for us. At least, it will seem fairly normal for us this time. We just don't get many days down into the single digits.
The Beast and I just had soup and some fantastically fresh and tasty bread from Publix for our dinner. I hadn't had chicken and rice soup in years but it seemed tastier to me than I remembered it. Either that or I was really hungry....LOL. I had the same bread for my sandwich at lunch and was surprised at how fresh it was. It made the ham and tomato seem heavenly. We have always had a problem with bread being fresh here. It was like all we could buy was bread that was already stale and more fit for the birds than people. My reaction was normally to toast it lightly and that worked for me but the Beast was always having a fit. Now that Publix is here, their bakery is constantly making fresh breads of all kinds and we sometimes get the loaves still warm from the oven. Yum!
Well, time for me to get this posted and get ready for bed. I'm tired and the Beast has already gone to bed for the night. He even took Baron outside to pee and do a bit of running around. Baron headed for his bed as soon as they came back into the house. He doesn't do well in cold weather and the Beast refuses to think about buying him a sweater even though he KNOWS that Dobies are subject to bad reactions to both sun and cold. I wanted to buy him some booties for when we have snow so he doesn't get frostbit on his feet but the Beast almost had a heart attack over the idea. Men! They can be so dense at times. Like Baron's manhood would be threatened? Too funny.
Love you all. Be good and dress appropriately for whatever weather you are having. Take care. ***Hugs***
Still Healing....
Another day has passed that I spent it mostly laying down in my recliner, feet up on pillows (to put hurt hip into comfortable position) and watching TV. The Beast fed me and brought me my coffee and the ice water I have wanted. I have been very dry so I know I am a bit dehydrated. My legs are being slathered with lotion daily (I do it) with some lotion that my granddaughter, Sheepie, gave me.
It's the lotion they sell at Victoria's Secret stores and the scent is Lemon Escape which smells like lemon and coconut. It feels good and smells even better. It's one of two different scents she's given me in the past year. The other was more flowery and I loved that one too. She can be so damn sweet at times and she shares. She told me she had gotten them at a two for one sale and she thought of me. That is why she shared. Isn't that sweet?
I got an email from my girlfriend, Carol from San Francisco, that she had sent me another present but this one was coming from New York. All she told me was that it was just for me and she was sorry but that is the way things are. I guess she wants to make sure I don't share it with the Beast. She can be so generous to me and I am really puzzled why. It's not like I am so special a person and I am not able to return the generosity since we live on our Social Security. Our taxes on the house is not high here but our insurances on our house and cars sure is. Ever since this area was hit by tornadoes that did a lot of damage to the town it has doubled. The license fees for our cars, since they are newer, are high also. I guess you can't get away from eventually having your taxes and insurance fees eating up your SS.
It doesn't help that the Beast has been a shopaholic these past couple of years. You should see the amount of various appliances that he's bought the past couple of years. I mean it.....we have three different types of coffee makers and they all work. I do have to admit that I love the one we are using right now but I think it has more to do with the Kalua coffee that Carol has been sending us. It's amazing. We will be out of it shortly and I will miss having it. I doubt very much that the Beast will order it from Hawaii. But it's been wonderful getting it every month.
Unfortunately, it seems that someone started using Carol's credit card information and she suddenly had charges on it that were not hers. The bank decided they wanted to try to locate and identify the person so they could charge them with fraud so Carol was without a credit card for a while. The bank didn't want to issue her another one right away. I thought it weird since our bank immediately issued us a new card when the Beast's was stolen that way. They didn't want to keep allowing someone to use it. Ours had a bunch of electronics charged to it and a delivery address that was in West Virginia. I never found out if that helped them locate the person or not.
We lived in Florida at the time and have never even visited West Virginia.
Anyway, I am spending less time sitting up and more letting the hip heal. I injured it the week before Christmas and I am really tired of needing the crutches. But they DO help and I am able to stand up without pain. It's moving and sitting that make it hurt. I mean when I try to do it without the crutches. The crutches don't help me sit....LOL! I can do it for quite a while though but when it starts hurting, it's the type of hurt that requires a pain pill and I only have a limited supply of those. If I lay down and take the pressure off it when it first starts to be uncomfortable, I can go without taking a pain pill. I think I only have a dozen of them left until I see the doctor next week. Whether he will give me more is another thing entirely. Oh well!
We expect the arctic air mass to hit us tomorrow (Wednesday) and the temperature on Wednesday night will be around 10 degrees with the chance of some sleet. Not a lot, they say but still..... It does mean that the schools are going to delay the start of school so those kids that take the bus (and will be outside waiting) are not out in such dangerous temperatures. I worry about Chewlee being outside in it. They also said on the news that the day will still count even with a delayed start or an early release so it won't extend the school year. I guess that's a good thing although it usually means school ends around Chewlee's birthday at the end of May. The kids here start school in August, much earlier than most states. But they get out earlier, too.
Love you all. Please take note of whatever weather you are going to be hit with and dress accordingly. Drive carefully. Be cautious and a defensive driver. Watch out for the other guy. ***Hugs***
It's the lotion they sell at Victoria's Secret stores and the scent is Lemon Escape which smells like lemon and coconut. It feels good and smells even better. It's one of two different scents she's given me in the past year. The other was more flowery and I loved that one too. She can be so damn sweet at times and she shares. She told me she had gotten them at a two for one sale and she thought of me. That is why she shared. Isn't that sweet?
I got an email from my girlfriend, Carol from San Francisco, that she had sent me another present but this one was coming from New York. All she told me was that it was just for me and she was sorry but that is the way things are. I guess she wants to make sure I don't share it with the Beast. She can be so generous to me and I am really puzzled why. It's not like I am so special a person and I am not able to return the generosity since we live on our Social Security. Our taxes on the house is not high here but our insurances on our house and cars sure is. Ever since this area was hit by tornadoes that did a lot of damage to the town it has doubled. The license fees for our cars, since they are newer, are high also. I guess you can't get away from eventually having your taxes and insurance fees eating up your SS.
It doesn't help that the Beast has been a shopaholic these past couple of years. You should see the amount of various appliances that he's bought the past couple of years. I mean it.....we have three different types of coffee makers and they all work. I do have to admit that I love the one we are using right now but I think it has more to do with the Kalua coffee that Carol has been sending us. It's amazing. We will be out of it shortly and I will miss having it. I doubt very much that the Beast will order it from Hawaii. But it's been wonderful getting it every month.
Unfortunately, it seems that someone started using Carol's credit card information and she suddenly had charges on it that were not hers. The bank decided they wanted to try to locate and identify the person so they could charge them with fraud so Carol was without a credit card for a while. The bank didn't want to issue her another one right away. I thought it weird since our bank immediately issued us a new card when the Beast's was stolen that way. They didn't want to keep allowing someone to use it. Ours had a bunch of electronics charged to it and a delivery address that was in West Virginia. I never found out if that helped them locate the person or not.
We lived in Florida at the time and have never even visited West Virginia.
Anyway, I am spending less time sitting up and more letting the hip heal. I injured it the week before Christmas and I am really tired of needing the crutches. But they DO help and I am able to stand up without pain. It's moving and sitting that make it hurt. I mean when I try to do it without the crutches. The crutches don't help me sit....LOL! I can do it for quite a while though but when it starts hurting, it's the type of hurt that requires a pain pill and I only have a limited supply of those. If I lay down and take the pressure off it when it first starts to be uncomfortable, I can go without taking a pain pill. I think I only have a dozen of them left until I see the doctor next week. Whether he will give me more is another thing entirely. Oh well!
We expect the arctic air mass to hit us tomorrow (Wednesday) and the temperature on Wednesday night will be around 10 degrees with the chance of some sleet. Not a lot, they say but still..... It does mean that the schools are going to delay the start of school so those kids that take the bus (and will be outside waiting) are not out in such dangerous temperatures. I worry about Chewlee being outside in it. They also said on the news that the day will still count even with a delayed start or an early release so it won't extend the school year. I guess that's a good thing although it usually means school ends around Chewlee's birthday at the end of May. The kids here start school in August, much earlier than most states. But they get out earlier, too.
Love you all. Please take note of whatever weather you are going to be hit with and dress accordingly. Drive carefully. Be cautious and a defensive driver. Watch out for the other guy. ***Hugs***
Monday, January 5, 2015
Diabetic Nerve Pain....
Yes, on top of being diabetic and the need to watch my diet, take the pills prescribed for me and having to drink a lot of water to avoid dehydration, I suffer from diabetic nerve pain in my feet. I'm sure you've seen the ads on TV for a medication called Lyrica. I wondered why my doctor didn't prescribe it to me since the people in the ads sing the praises of it. He told me it was because of the side effects being so serious and also very common. Listen to that part of the commercials and it's damn near scarier than having the problem. I mean....Wow!
The medication he has me on for that doesn't seem to have a whole lot of affect on the pins and needles I feel constantly. That is, until I go a few days without taking any. Then, I can feel the difference with and without it. During the worst of the time after injuring my hip, I spent a lot of time sleeping and was lucky that I remembered to take my pills when the Beast fed me. Because I have been sitting a lot, my legs swell up from lack of movement. I end up laying down a lot because the sitting hurts the bone that goes into the hip socket. That is where the tendons I injured attach and, if I sit too long, it hurts me to stand up to use the crutches I am stuck with for a while.
When I was doing a lot of resting, more than sitting, that area seemed to be feeling better. I guess it needs more resting than I am used to giving it. When I have done a lot of sitting at my computer, I have a difficult time sleeping without taking a pain pill. I hate to HAVE to take one in order to get some sleep but that seems to be the only way I can sleep longer than an hour. I'm not sure if I get that much that isn't really exhaustion from the pain and inactivity.
I have been playing some games that don't require me to be online (ones I own and have downloaded on my computer). They are all either hidden object games or my Jewel Quest ones. But even I get bored with those and would prefer to be on the sites where I can chat with my online friends that play at my favorite game site.
I continue to take the medication prescribed for my nerve pain to help slow down the damage. I don't want to face amputation caused by the effect of diabetes on my body. An aunt of mine had to have one of her feet amputated due to a sore she had developed from badly fitting shoes that didn't heal and she developed gangrene. Her daughters told me how much she hated the prosthesis she got afterward. It's bad enough I lost my big toe due to an injury that ended up causing a bone infection in it. It still cracks me up that Chewlee keeps asking when my toe is going to grow back. To her, life is simple. You lose a tooth, you grow one back. You get a boo-boo and it heals up. I wish it worked that way.
When you are diabetic, you also have a lot of problems with pressure points on your feet and dry skin on your feet and legs. You MUST use lotions and creams on those areas and make sure to get rid of heavy callouses, too. I don't use anything on my feet that is sharp like Pedegg or other things that use a razor or grater for those type of things. That's because I heal slowly for the most part so any wounds to my feet is dangerous.
There's a lot more to diabetes than just having to take oral medication or insulin. So lose weight if you are overweight. Watch your diet. Exercise. Do what you must to stay healthy. I wish everyone a healthy (and happy) New Year. Love you all. ***Hugs***
The medication he has me on for that doesn't seem to have a whole lot of affect on the pins and needles I feel constantly. That is, until I go a few days without taking any. Then, I can feel the difference with and without it. During the worst of the time after injuring my hip, I spent a lot of time sleeping and was lucky that I remembered to take my pills when the Beast fed me. Because I have been sitting a lot, my legs swell up from lack of movement. I end up laying down a lot because the sitting hurts the bone that goes into the hip socket. That is where the tendons I injured attach and, if I sit too long, it hurts me to stand up to use the crutches I am stuck with for a while.
When I was doing a lot of resting, more than sitting, that area seemed to be feeling better. I guess it needs more resting than I am used to giving it. When I have done a lot of sitting at my computer, I have a difficult time sleeping without taking a pain pill. I hate to HAVE to take one in order to get some sleep but that seems to be the only way I can sleep longer than an hour. I'm not sure if I get that much that isn't really exhaustion from the pain and inactivity.
I have been playing some games that don't require me to be online (ones I own and have downloaded on my computer). They are all either hidden object games or my Jewel Quest ones. But even I get bored with those and would prefer to be on the sites where I can chat with my online friends that play at my favorite game site.
I continue to take the medication prescribed for my nerve pain to help slow down the damage. I don't want to face amputation caused by the effect of diabetes on my body. An aunt of mine had to have one of her feet amputated due to a sore she had developed from badly fitting shoes that didn't heal and she developed gangrene. Her daughters told me how much she hated the prosthesis she got afterward. It's bad enough I lost my big toe due to an injury that ended up causing a bone infection in it. It still cracks me up that Chewlee keeps asking when my toe is going to grow back. To her, life is simple. You lose a tooth, you grow one back. You get a boo-boo and it heals up. I wish it worked that way.
When you are diabetic, you also have a lot of problems with pressure points on your feet and dry skin on your feet and legs. You MUST use lotions and creams on those areas and make sure to get rid of heavy callouses, too. I don't use anything on my feet that is sharp like Pedegg or other things that use a razor or grater for those type of things. That's because I heal slowly for the most part so any wounds to my feet is dangerous.
There's a lot more to diabetes than just having to take oral medication or insulin. So lose weight if you are overweight. Watch your diet. Exercise. Do what you must to stay healthy. I wish everyone a healthy (and happy) New Year. Love you all. ***Hugs***
Saturday, January 3, 2015
I Guess This Means The Holidays Are Over.....
Tonight I drank the last of my Bailey's. Oh well....it lasted me from the week before Christmas until tonight. Of course, I only had some with my coffee but, oh lord! It tasted soooooo good! LOL!
I was catching up on some FB reading tonight and the Princess was complaining about my dear, sweet Chewlee being so independent and driving her nuts. She's almost 8 years old (well, in five months time) and I know how fast they grow up. I hate it but that's life. She is smart, pretty and has her own opinions on things. I adore her and have loved every minute of watching her learn and grow. I wish I had had both the time and patience when my own kids were growing up to enjoy them as much. I'm just grateful that they lived! For a while there, I wondered....seriously.
The Beast did nothing but terrorize them much like his own father had done to HIM. That puzzled me because I never, ever wanted to abuse my kids either physically or emotionally due to various things that had been done to ME. I swore I would never do that to MY kids. So why he would chose to do it to his kids just floored me. He hated the way I *coddled* the kids by protecting them. When he looked like he was going to abuse them physically, I would step between him and them and he would take it out on ME. But I figured I could take it but wasn't going to take the chance that he might seriously hurt them at all!
Later on, after a few years of the kids being gone and on their own, the Beast still took his frustrations out on me. I was seriously gathering evidence of our financial status for an attorney when he was struck down by his strokes. One of my sisters said to me...See? There really IS a God!
When he woke up in Intensive Care at the hospital and asked where he was and why he was there (a stroke is painless you have to realize), a black nurse there said, *You are here in the hospital because of the bad things in life that you did. It's God's way of punishing you.* When he told me that, I seriously tried to find the nurse that was on duty then. I wanted to hug her. But no one knew who it was (or so they said) but I would have dearly loved to let her know I thought she might have been there as part of God's plan. But it spelled the end of my divorce plans partly because he really needed me at the time, no matter how ugly he got from frustrations.
The rest of it was that I knew he would never be able to abuse me again. At least, not physically. I could take him and, as bad as I am right at this moment, I could still do it. He's lost much of his strength and now I have his *getting religion* that I can use on him. His minister would never put up with it and he would have hell to pay if he tried it.
The one thing I AM grateful for was that he never did any of the things he had done to the rest of the kids to the Princess. Not that he didn't hurt her heart a time or two but he was very good to her in comparison.
Nowadays they have an organization for women who have men that abuse them, especially financially. It's available at PurplePurse.com. If you know of anyone that needs this kind of help, please refer them to the site. It may save them from a lifetime of heartbreak and distress.
Got to go now. Love you all. Stay warm and dry. Just know that I have a loving family (kids, nieces and nephews, grandkids and great-grands plus my brothers and sisters and countless cousins) and am happy with my life for the most part. I will miss my Bailey's and coffee every night but I will live..LOL. Be happy, too, and I wish you all a healthy and happy New Year. ***Hugs***
I was catching up on some FB reading tonight and the Princess was complaining about my dear, sweet Chewlee being so independent and driving her nuts. She's almost 8 years old (well, in five months time) and I know how fast they grow up. I hate it but that's life. She is smart, pretty and has her own opinions on things. I adore her and have loved every minute of watching her learn and grow. I wish I had had both the time and patience when my own kids were growing up to enjoy them as much. I'm just grateful that they lived! For a while there, I wondered....seriously.
The Beast did nothing but terrorize them much like his own father had done to HIM. That puzzled me because I never, ever wanted to abuse my kids either physically or emotionally due to various things that had been done to ME. I swore I would never do that to MY kids. So why he would chose to do it to his kids just floored me. He hated the way I *coddled* the kids by protecting them. When he looked like he was going to abuse them physically, I would step between him and them and he would take it out on ME. But I figured I could take it but wasn't going to take the chance that he might seriously hurt them at all!
Later on, after a few years of the kids being gone and on their own, the Beast still took his frustrations out on me. I was seriously gathering evidence of our financial status for an attorney when he was struck down by his strokes. One of my sisters said to me...See? There really IS a God!
When he woke up in Intensive Care at the hospital and asked where he was and why he was there (a stroke is painless you have to realize), a black nurse there said, *You are here in the hospital because of the bad things in life that you did. It's God's way of punishing you.* When he told me that, I seriously tried to find the nurse that was on duty then. I wanted to hug her. But no one knew who it was (or so they said) but I would have dearly loved to let her know I thought she might have been there as part of God's plan. But it spelled the end of my divorce plans partly because he really needed me at the time, no matter how ugly he got from frustrations.
The rest of it was that I knew he would never be able to abuse me again. At least, not physically. I could take him and, as bad as I am right at this moment, I could still do it. He's lost much of his strength and now I have his *getting religion* that I can use on him. His minister would never put up with it and he would have hell to pay if he tried it.
The one thing I AM grateful for was that he never did any of the things he had done to the rest of the kids to the Princess. Not that he didn't hurt her heart a time or two but he was very good to her in comparison.
Nowadays they have an organization for women who have men that abuse them, especially financially. It's available at PurplePurse.com. If you know of anyone that needs this kind of help, please refer them to the site. It may save them from a lifetime of heartbreak and distress.
Got to go now. Love you all. Stay warm and dry. Just know that I have a loving family (kids, nieces and nephews, grandkids and great-grands plus my brothers and sisters and countless cousins) and am happy with my life for the most part. I will miss my Bailey's and coffee every night but I will live..LOL. Be happy, too, and I wish you all a healthy and happy New Year. ***Hugs***
I'M REALLY BEGINNING TO WONDER.....
I mentioned the other day that I wondered how much under the influence of Dennis the Beast was. It seems like every time Dennis wonders about this or that and discusses it with him, the Beast suddenly becomes an advocate.
I should have suspected since they both follow Fox news like it's the end all and be all of truth in news broadcasting. I don't watch it because it is so slanted and I prefer to watch local news since that affects us most directly. I do, occasionally, watch CNN. I had hopes for him for a bit when he had stopped watching Fox and all their chat programs (that seemed mostly arguing) but it didn't last long.
Anyway, yesterday the antenna the Beast bought arrived. Today he had it hooked up temporarily to one of our monitors just to see what kind of picture he got and how many stations he got. I am ready to choke. It gets 17 channels but none of them (other than the ones I watch local news on) are the stations I like watching like Discovery, History, Animal Planet, the Weather Channel, TBS and a few others. Now he is talking like we are going to use both ... for a while ... since he has been watching some of the same channels I like. Even BBC America.
Right at the moment, I could choke Dennis and his penny-pinching ways. Worse yet, he was upset because Fox left Dish network and a regular antenna is NOT going to allow either of them to get that station either. So what are they thinking? Just what IS their point in this all?
I seem to be healing, albeit slowly. I am still using the crutches and I need them but I can get up on my own two feet a lot easier. I just can't take any steps without the crutches. I am forced to take PTA baths because there's just no way to be secure in the shower and forget trying to take a bath! But I do still have some of the special stuff they gave me at the hospital when I couldn't take a shower after surgery. It does the job but I hate having to wash my hair in the sink. I wish I were rich and I could just go to the beauty shop to get my hair done a couple times a week. I know lots of women do that. It just was never in the cards for me...LOL.
We have bad weather headed towards us that should be hitting us within the next four hours. It may or may not have tornadoes in it depending on what part of it hits us. When I told the Beast, his reaction was: *So? What's new?* Do you think he's a bit too casual about our storms? I opened up my window a bit in my computer room so I can hear if the tornado sirens go off later. It might be enough warning for us to get over to Dennis and Di's house and their safe room. But, if I am offline for a while, it could either just be damage from a tornado that's hit a relay area or we could have been wiped out....LOL. I'll be sure to have Bratfink let you know which if necessary.
Love you all. Hope your New Year is off to a good start. Stay warm, dry and drive carefully. ***Hugs***
I should have suspected since they both follow Fox news like it's the end all and be all of truth in news broadcasting. I don't watch it because it is so slanted and I prefer to watch local news since that affects us most directly. I do, occasionally, watch CNN. I had hopes for him for a bit when he had stopped watching Fox and all their chat programs (that seemed mostly arguing) but it didn't last long.
Anyway, yesterday the antenna the Beast bought arrived. Today he had it hooked up temporarily to one of our monitors just to see what kind of picture he got and how many stations he got. I am ready to choke. It gets 17 channels but none of them (other than the ones I watch local news on) are the stations I like watching like Discovery, History, Animal Planet, the Weather Channel, TBS and a few others. Now he is talking like we are going to use both ... for a while ... since he has been watching some of the same channels I like. Even BBC America.
Right at the moment, I could choke Dennis and his penny-pinching ways. Worse yet, he was upset because Fox left Dish network and a regular antenna is NOT going to allow either of them to get that station either. So what are they thinking? Just what IS their point in this all?
I seem to be healing, albeit slowly. I am still using the crutches and I need them but I can get up on my own two feet a lot easier. I just can't take any steps without the crutches. I am forced to take PTA baths because there's just no way to be secure in the shower and forget trying to take a bath! But I do still have some of the special stuff they gave me at the hospital when I couldn't take a shower after surgery. It does the job but I hate having to wash my hair in the sink. I wish I were rich and I could just go to the beauty shop to get my hair done a couple times a week. I know lots of women do that. It just was never in the cards for me...LOL.
We have bad weather headed towards us that should be hitting us within the next four hours. It may or may not have tornadoes in it depending on what part of it hits us. When I told the Beast, his reaction was: *So? What's new?* Do you think he's a bit too casual about our storms? I opened up my window a bit in my computer room so I can hear if the tornado sirens go off later. It might be enough warning for us to get over to Dennis and Di's house and their safe room. But, if I am offline for a while, it could either just be damage from a tornado that's hit a relay area or we could have been wiped out....LOL. I'll be sure to have Bratfink let you know which if necessary.
Love you all. Hope your New Year is off to a good start. Stay warm, dry and drive carefully. ***Hugs***
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