What's on your agenda for today?

After all Tuesday's excitement, we're fortunate to still have Ralphy among us:)

Getting ready to gather my stuff and run home to drop it off before going to work. It's going to be hot and sunny again today before the rain starts tonight.
 

You'll be fine, Ralphy.

I'm home! My stuff has already been put away, and I've had a cup of good coffee. Next up is breakfast before heading off to work.

Hollydolly...how are you doing today? Is your job one where you have to be on your feet all day? I hope not!
 
Going to a wake today to pay my respects. Wish it didn't coincide with an abscessed tooth and heavy antibiotics. I resemble a small red chipmunk with big glazed eyes. Thank goodness for sunglasses. I have said goodbye to so many friends this year, I am becoming emotionally bankrupt. Difficult to be positive.
 
Ameriscot said:
Georgia, no not packed, but the lists are already made - just a bit of editing from last trip. Bought our airline tickets. We go in December. In the meantime got a summer trip to the US.
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Annie, this is probably a stupid question but you'll still be able to post while in Thailand, right? Hope so!
 
Shalimar said:
Going to a wake today to pay my respects. Wish it didn't coincide with an abscessed tooth and heavy antibiotics. I resemble a small red chipmunk with big glazed eyes. Thank goodness for sunglasses. I have said goodbye to so many friends this year, I am becoming emotionally bankrupt. Difficult to be positive.
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Aw, Shalimar, I'm sorry you're having to go through this. Sounds like you should schedule a nice pampering day for yourself - facial, pedicure, massage, etc. Whatever works for you.
 
Thanks, Glinda. Feels better to just complain. Once I feel better, I am going to schedule a full body massage, and have some highlights put in my long hair. Spend a day in bed writing poetry, with the phone turned off. Good stuff. Oh, and fudge!
 
Shalimar, hope you survive the day OK, sounds emotionally and physically hard. Take care of yourself. Hard to believe sometimes, but things will get better.
 
Thank you so much, Cookie. I know things will improve. I think I am just burned out, perhaps a break from counseling is indicated. If my perspective is negative, it impacts my objectivity, not good for either the people I support, or myself.
 
hollydolly said:
Morning all...5.15am...another day another dollar.

April do you find the traction works for you, it never did work for me nor did the hospital PT. I had to pay privately a lot of money for a sports PT, and she was the only one that helped relieve the pain when everything seized completely after years of useless Hospital PT's.... but fingers crossed you get some respite with the Transaction, it just was no good for Moi..I have a feeling your PT's might be a lot better than ours..
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Sometimes, I get a temporary reprieve from the pain, but, nothing that has been lasting relief. I'm not using the hospital PT clinic source, they are useless for me and I've had really bad experiences with them, they tend to get annoyed unless you respond as they see fit and will scold if you don't progress according to their scheme of things. The place I am going to now, actually listens to me and will design exercises accordingly make appropriate changes if something doesn't seem to be working or seems to be making things worse.

My pt guy said the traction may or may not work, this is my first time with it, but, we are exploring options as he understands, my situation is a bit more complicated, I could now have problems brought on by previous medical procedures performed. Why has all my pain localized to just one side for instance. I'm no longer able to sleep in a bed, I've had to sleep in a recliner for a year or so now. He's been explaining some things to me that even the doctors don't seem to take time to discuss and it is much appreciated, so, when I received my script and they suggested the other place, though it has so much more in the way of a much larger facility and a pool and jacuzzi plus complete gym and all, I prefer this smaller facility with these guys who really seem to know their stuff. The other place has had a lot of turnaround in their staff the 4+ years I've known them to be in business.

my Pt guy mentioned Sciatica, I'm also looking into a different doctor, the one I have now is a replacement guy and we really aren't getting on as I did with my other doctors, this new doc seems to have a god complex and appears to not like to be questioned, I put the hold on wanting to have a series of repeat round of the same procedures I had gone through that were unsuccessful just a couple of years ago, plus he had already put me through the facet injections late last year which, that whole deal was a fiasco leaving me with that big arm bruise. I said no to his newest rounds of procedures and he became angered and now refused to fill out a form I had asked him to I needed to submit for services I had been using for the past three years, he's been making my life a living nightmare. He's willing to shoot me up with all kinds of drugs, prescribe pain meds even the hard kind of which I refused, but he decided to say, I don't have a need for this service that would help me with carrying my loads of groceries and picking me up from doctors under certain circumstances and the like. I use this service twice a month tree times at most, and now can no longer use them and it's one of the reasons, I keep re injuring my back and shoulder from trying to carry my groceries. I called his office to try to get an explanation and he refused to discuss it. I've never ever had a doctor do this in the past; it was a doctor's office in another city who first recommended I look into this service due to my back and other issues. I try to take the regular bus for most trips, but for some special trips, I pay the extra fee and use the paratransit bus which for the last month, I haven't been able to use because of what he wrote. I called the person that runs the program and discussed the matter and was told to resubmit the form filled out by one of my other doctors, they were as befuddled as I. My primary just refilled the form out, so, we will see what happens in a few days. Honestly, if I don't get the service reinstated, I'm not sure i'll be able to stay in the area and that, I'm dreading as this might mean, I'll have to move in with my daughter. I know I could probably burden someone from the area to give me a ride once or twice a month, but, that's just it, I would feel like a burden. The paratransit person, carries your groceries to the van and to your apt if need be, I do have a little carrier, but, that requires lifting and pulling still at some point when using the regular bus. I guess at the moment, I'm sort of feeling a bit upset on the matter, but, am just trying to deal with it as best I can. This too shall pass, I know and whatever the outcome, I'll come out of it ok.
 
Oh, AprilT, I am so sorry, what a jerk that doctor is! Hopefully another signature will suffice. How rude of you to want to control your own life. I know you do not wish to be a burden, as you call it, but you have the same right to a decent quality of life as anyone else. I think you are amazingly brave and positive, considering. Keeping you in my thoughts. Hugs. Lee, the temporary chipmunk. Lol.
 
Glinda said:
Annie, this is probably a stupid question but you'll still be able to post while in Thailand, right? Hope so!
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Of course. :) I did it the two months we were there this winter. Not going until December (I prefer a warm winter!). Got another trip before then - family.
 
Shalimar said:
Going to a wake today to pay my respects. Wish it didn't coincide with an abscessed tooth and heavy antibiotics. I resemble a small red chipmunk with big glazed eyes. Thank goodness for sunglasses. I have said goodbye to so many friends this year, I am becoming emotionally bankrupt. Difficult to be positive.
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So sorry. You are having a helluva day. Hugs.
 
Shalimar, all your pampering sounds good, but...you forgot the wine. Fudge. And wine.

Where's Hollydolly? I hope she isn't wiped out by the pain. Heck, maybe she's still at work catching up on all the stuff they saved for her.

I worked in the garden when I got home from work, and I'm bushed. It was hot out there! 87 yesterday, 87 again today. Dang! Too hot all at once...I need to ease into the heat. We're supposed to have thunderstorms tomorrow and a nice, mild 75 or so. Fine.

After work tomorrow, it's off again to dog sit for another client's dog. He's a sweet old thing, but I wish I hadn't said I'd do it:( Since Monday would also be the client's regular cleaning day, I'll clean while I'm there over the weekend instead.

Yanno, I really, really want to cut back on working so much, but I like all my clients! How do I decided who to cut and who to keep? I'd miss the clients, and I'd miss their dogs:(
 
April - I know how torn up you must feel with the pain. It's unbelievable how much of a negative impact ongoing pain can have both on the body and on the emotions. When someone hurts like crazy, it becomes nearly impossible to focus on anything else. Like Ameriscot said, your positive attitude will be such a big help in terms of your health.

Earlier today, I went to the Imaging Center to get my sore shoulder X-rayed and the waiting room was packed full of patients. So I started talking to an interesting women sitting next to me. After we'd been talking for awhile, other folks chimed in and pretty soon the place was like a party only without the drinks! Then later I went to the grocery store and ran into a whale of a downpour! Tomorrow, we're due to get a possible tornado and bunches of hail - yay.
 
Kath said:
April - I know how torn up you must feel with the pain. It's unbelievable how much of a negative impact ongoing pain can have both on the body and on the emotions. When someone hurts like crazy, it becomes nearly impossible to focus on anything else. Like Ameriscot said, your positive attitude will be such a big help in terms of your health.

Earlier today, I went to the Imaging Center to get my sore shoulder X-rayed and the waiting room was packed full of patients. So I started talking to an interesting women sitting next to me. After we'd been talking for awhile, other folks chimed in and pretty soon the place was like a party only without the drinks! Then later I went to the grocery store and ran into a whale of a downpour! Tomorrow, we're due to get a possible tornado and bunches of hail - yay.
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Thanks Kath, I do my best to keep a positive outlook, not to say I don't have a moment here and there or shed a tear when the stress of it all gets overwhelming, I'm human, not a machine, but, I take my moment and move on. Not to say, I'm not still feeling the pain or the annoyance of what set me off, but, I don't make it the focus of the rest of my day, what's the point in that. This doesn't always work everyday, but for me, that's how it is most days, get pissed if you must and get over it and on with it. Of course the pain is a constant reminder of just how human I am though it has changed and hindered my life quite a bit. So far doing everything I could to try and change that, hasn't really done much to help, but, I haven't completely stopped trying, though there have been times I've wanted to. It took years for it to get this bad, so I feel I was lucky for all the fun times I had till this point.

Anyway, I promised someone, I would open up and share a little more of what ails me and not just the fun stuff, so there it goes. I tried this before and I didn't care for the results, but giving it another shot. It won't happen too often, because I don't spend a lot of time wallowing in negative thoughts, there are enough other people who will bring that to you without doing it on own my own if they see you having too much fun for their taste whether the believe it to be real or not in their minds.
 
AprilT said:
Thanks Kath, I do my best to keep a positive outlook, not to say I don't have a moment here and there or shed a tear when the stress of it all gets overwhelming, I'm human, not a machine, but, I take my moment and move on. Not to say, I'm not still feeling the pain or the annoyance of what set me off, but, I don't make it the focus of the rest of my day, what's the point in that. This doesn't always work everyday, but for me, that's how it is most days, get pissed if you must and get over it and on with it. Of course the pain is a constant reminder of just how human I am though it has changed and hindered my life quite a bit. So far doing everything I could to try and change that, hasn't really done much to help, but, I haven't completely stopped trying, though there have been times I've wanted to. It took years for it to get this bad, so I feel I was lucky for all the fun times I had till this point.

Anyway, I promised someone, I would open up and share a little more of what ails me and not just the fun stuff, so there it goes. I tried this before and I didn't care for the results, but giving it another shot. It won't happen too often, because I don't spend a lot of time wallowing in negative thoughts, there are enough other people who will bring that to you without doing it on own my own if they see you having too much fun for their taste whether the believe it to be real or not in their minds.
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April I can understand to a certain extent my hubby had all his lower back fused in 1997 He has had times where he's had resort to sleeping on very thin foam mattress placed on a tiled floor, it was the only way he got any rest despite taking a fairly strong pain tablet, which he tries to ovoid taking due to being addictive.
However while we were in Queensland last winter. ( Daytime temptures in Queesland during winter is in low 20's Compaired S.A temptures 10- 12 c daytime temps)
anyway, while in Qld my sore hip was playing up, and I made an appointment to see a Chinese natural health doctor,who did a little massage and acupuncture on my hip and put strong medicated smelling patch on after. Hubby decided to have a session with him as he was reasonably priced and had the same treatment and was given extra medicated patches to apply he could not believe the relief he obtained from just two treatments, he has hardly taken any pain killers since returning from Qld and that was late August 2014
Another lady who lives in this area, who also escapes to Qld in the winter swears by the same doctor for fixing her shoulder problems.
 
Good morning, kids. It's already too warm here...7 am and it's 70. That's not an April temp at all; it's a June temp. And besides being too warm? I "underslept" again.

Back later. I gotta get myself to work.


ETA: Still no Holly? This old gramma is a bit worried...
 

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