Even life can disrupt the intrepid blogger.....

Some days life gets in the way.

Friday, Oct. 11, 2013

I had plans for yesterday and then I had to have my cap put on......

Things really were going great. I got up early though I had very little sleep. I got the business and personal banking done. Then we headed for the dentist to replace my cap that popped off. We were 40 minutes early but they managed to take me in early even though I was enjoying a magazine and would have been comfy for an hour or more in their waiting room. Hey, free coffee and tea is a senior's morning dream come true plus free ac and a place to sit. I was happy.

I had forgotten that to glue a cap on your tooth, they have to take a cord and wrap it around the tooth so there is room between the gum and tooth to slip the cap down. That cord is nasty. That cord really, really hurts but my strategy is to first ask to be numbed (mother didn't raise dumb kids) and then remember what it felt like to have a needle of Novocaine stuck in the end of my nose. That last piece makes getting your arm chopped off with no anesthesia seem like a walk in the park. Finally, the cap was on and ready to chew but I was nicely numb making it hard to drink anything so let's just forget chewing.

After making my appointment for the next cap which will be done from start to finish in one morning – I love them – and a cleaning we were off to Harbor Freight. I did notice they make the next appointments and take the deposit while you are numb. Half way through Harbor Freight when the numbness wore off and I would have let George buy anything to get back in the Van. YEEEE....OUCH. I was so thankful I had a prescription for pain medication. A drink of really ice water as most of it was still frozen had me actually thinking I was going to make it to Bedner's and beyond.

About 2 minutes into Bedner's the frozen wore off and I bought a frozen banana. They have the best frozen bananas (I went for chocolate/coconut covered), orange juice and everything else. Who am I kidding? You can't go wrong at Bedner's. I also got some organic teas, key lime juice with no insecticides and bottled (you know a pie is coming up), squash and 3 gorgeous tomatoes plus a loaf of their fresh olive bread. Their walnut raisin bread is to die for, too. The banana numbed my jaw, again.

Half way home, the banana stopped working because I finished it in the parking lot and I went back to frozen water which would work for a few minutes. By the time I got to the neighborhood, I was almost seeing double and the pain was off the scale. Off the scale in my world is probably you passed out 20 minutes ago in your world because I have one heck of a pain tolerance. I zipped into the house and grabbed one of my left over pain pills and hoped for instant effect.

Instant effect doesn't happen with pills but when it did decide to lower the level of pain I was over joyed. I will take what I can get. A few hours later, I discovered I not only had not gotten knocked out probably because my jaw was still hurting, but I was zipping around doing all sorts of work. A couple of hours later I noticed I had surpassed what I normally can do in a week and sat down to ponder this development. There was a ripple in the Force! Was I in an alternative reality? Twilight Zone music please play. Then it hit me. The Pain Pill had knocked out all my other pain leaving just the jaw which I can deal with on a good day.

Good Goddess, this is what my life would be like without inflammation from environmental poisons and Fibromyalgia which may be due to a lifetime of eating poisons from big business. I really, really want to beat the heads of some corporations to death very slowly and painfully for what they have done to you and me, because I do NOT want to spend the rest of my life on drugs that have probably been designed to kill me and you because of what they fed us to make an obscene profit for themselves. I really want to hurt them. I am really angry

Then I see your children struggling down the street. I was a pain management specialist when I could work an 8 hour day. I know pain when I see it. You can't fool me. I know the posture, the breathing and expression on your face as the lines are etched there for your old age. I know these kids do not feel good. I see the background pain on their faces as they pause at the corner more to rest than wait for the red light. Heck, when I was a kid, we would have grabbed the books and ran it. We couldn't wait to get home and drop those books and RUN outside and PLAY. Your kids can't wait to drop in front of the computer. It's not because they are LAZY. Kids want to run, jump and play. If they are sitting there, they don't feel like it.

Get a dose of speed and see if you can sit still and play a video game. Nope...have to move. Kids are like adults on speed. They have to move. Their muscles demand it so they can stretch and grow. It is a biological imperative. Birds even move while in the egg. Babies don't kick in the womb because of any cognitive reasoning. They kick so their arms and legs stretch and grow and develop muscle tone so they will survive after birth. Next time you get a groan from your kid when you want them to do something, instead of screaming at them, sit down and find out if why they don't want to get up is stubbornness or pain. It may take a while, because if they are younger, pain may be the only thing they have ever known.

Are you angry yet?

Wigs, Teeth, and the Cat in the Sink on Oct. 8, 2013

Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2013

Of Teeth. Wigs and Getting Old

Ninja

Did they all have to happen at once? This I ask of myself. Seems I bit down last night, on the opposite side, and my cap went flying across my mouth. I managed to save it and not swallow it but the best appointment George could get was for Thursday. Meanwhile, I am more in annoyance than pain and my gun is swollen. I don't think I will be talking much until it is replaced. Unfortunately the other side is missing a tooth from my infection experience and it is the major molar used for chewing on that side. Guess we are eating soft food for a few days.

As to wigs, some times I think the cats are out to get me. They dropped a box of wigs on me. I decided since I am preparing for an office “I lost weight” sale of clothes and whatnot’s, I might as well sort the wigs out. I had ordered quite a few to wear out just before good old cancer struck. They came in and I was confined to bed for six months. So by the time I managed to get into them and everything else, it was too late to return them. Then a few years passed, I tripped over my sixties, became frightened of hair dye and lost most of my hair. The result is I do not have anything to fasten the hair pieces to and anyway, I look ridiculous with long flowing red curls at my age and can't really wear anything that exposes the scars on my forehead. So far, two pieces have made their way into the sell bag, both never worn. I hate to sell my Rachael Welsh wig even though it is long as it really still looks good on me if you don't look closely. I know I have another box of hair pieces to sort, but there is just so much depression one can take in a day.

I should be really happy about the clothes. Much to my shock I discovered I wear a 16 now. I discovered this after waiting patiently like a large cat in front of mouse hole for a pair of cargo shorts to go on sale. They are lovely and finally the 18 went on sale...was the only size left...and I snapped it up. It will fit as soon as I extricate the sewing machine from the shop. I am not giving up a pair of shorts in my favorite color I have stalked for six months and finally captured. At least I managed some sweaters that will be too big but comfy to wear cheaply as last year I almost froze to death and a 2x is going to fall off of me. More things into the sale box. Now I am stalking a nightgown and some blankets. Hey, it's the only exercise I get! It got hot right after I bought the sweaters last year, so they got maybe two short wearings at most. Since I bought the sweaters early this year, we may have the no winter at all. That is the way my luck works.

Go forth Smile Warriors and tell some old lady how great she looks. We need the compliments at our age even though we know you are lying. Smiles are golden. Frowns shorten your life. You can't take it with you. I think the Egyptian Pharaohs proved that but the rich keep trying. Since you know the truth, be happy here and now.

Remember the story about the cups and saucers and cats in sinks. Well, I caught one of them in the sink and photographed her. Here is Ninja, Ningee's sister, doing whatever strange things cats do in my kitchen sink when no one is around. I haven't a clue. She looked so guilty when caught that it must be some evil. The night before it was her and Rusty. Now, we often find Trouble in the sink but that is just because he knows he looks good with stainless steel, black and white and wants to preen. Please forgive the counter, it needs, after 50 years, to be replaced....sort of like me.

I am noticing there is always a cat at my side. All night I get up and the cat goes out with me. I come back and a new cat comes in and takes their place. It alternates between Napoleon, Ningee and Purdy von Sweets. At the moment Purdy is taking this shift on my right. I think they are afraid I will die on them or worse, eat all the cat treats or nip.

I have found a new source of energy. Yes, I have something that will wake you up and get you going. It is a little square of raw cacao powder, dates, sunflower seeds, raisins, apricots, sesame seeds, shredded coconut, goji powder and may have rice flour. One square and you are awake. Everything in it is raw and organic and you can get them from www.nuts.com. They are called Organic raw cacao Gogi energy squares. Leave a few bags for me and don't take one at night. You will be bright eyed and bushy tailed.