Thwarted and a Surprise

march 23

11,000 steps

 I do not feel like typing at all. I wish I knew how to speak and have my speaking be typed for me. I made a plan, but no one else did. 

Ixcept called yesterday and just before we left to see if they had xray. I was assured both times they did. So, we egot in the car and left immediately since they would close in an hour. Tommy cooperated. 

EXCEPT, he left the walker  in the yard less than three feet from the car because he was trying to hurry for me. 

So, I had to dig out license and insurance cards. Usually, he carries my purse and water because carrying things gets me off balance, so I sway

Plus, how can he go in and be supportive???  I told him to use his canes. CANES??? He did not bring any. Usually, he has four and my four-legged cane. 

By this time, I am beside myself. I told him to keep my purse in car. I told him to lock it in the car first, after I got cards and thought he had canes. 

I went in, sat down and told them I could not walk to counter. Actually, I cannot stand at counter and talk, pplus, it makes a longer walk. 

They came and got my cards and I filled out three pages. MY right arm and elbow, andhand and shoulder were in severe pain. 

Tommy came in, walking/shuffling two inches at a time. This is dangerous for him. He said he did it for me. Hell NO. Bring a walker so as not to hurt yourself, too. That is not helpful. Yes, I reamed him out right there. Say nothing about that.

Then, avery nice woman told meI could see someone but could not get an xray. I was very annoyed and she knew it. I was to the point of collapsing. She said she was not the person who told me I could get and xray if I came in. Fair enough. But, employees should know the protocol. It turns out that no one there knew how to do an xray. 

I gave her back her pen and clipboard in exchange for my cards. She reached for the papers I had filled out, telling me she would shred them. I told her I would take them home and shred them. 

Now, for the really problematic part. I offered to let Tommy hold onto me. He said, yes and held on with both hands. He parked far  away and uphill. We both suffered getting to the car!    I doubt his steps were even two inches long.

Before this event, we went to get three ads, went to bank, shopped at Publix and did not go to Walgreen's to pick up meds. Everything went well until I was told I could not get an xray fifteen minutes after I was told I could.  I have been sleepy all day. This was not good.

I have had messages in for nurses who will talk to doctors. Maybe I will get calls tomorrow, probably while I have a doctor appointment.

Xray is for right him on which I landed on porch! It hurts and is lumpy and swollen. Doctor said it is at some part of hip and cartilage or something is swollen. He said it would be okay, but he does not have xray in his practice. I need to see if this is a problem. 

I did not edit this at all unless all letters in a word were wrong and word was indecipherable. 

Since I onlymove to go to bathroom, I forced the steps.

Oh, have not had a banana in three weeks. The mouth feel is unbearable! Anne, I understand.

Edit: i forgot to say that I was too tired to get dressed when we went to shop and then went to urgent care. So, I put on my pants, rolled up nightgown and tucked it into waistband. I put on light jacket and looked dressed enough.

Saturday

 

Feb15

steps 13,545

Last month, I had a week of normal sleep. I wish I could get that back. Right now, we are being buffeted by 60+ miles per hour wind. The lights flickered momentarily. Well, it is all gone just that fast. I hope my deer are not blown all over the yard. 

Finally, I have long and skinny spatulas. They are nine inches long, could be longer to suit me. The pink/green/yellow set is in the dishwasher, ready to be washed. I have been searching forever for something like this, but longer. I hate getting contents on my hands but hate waste. So, this will work. I think I have seen these before and rejected the idea because they really need to be longer.

Because I over-ate the wrong things, I gained back seven pounds. Now, I have come to my senses and eating more normally and hopefully losing at least that weight and maybe more. I don't feel like going to weigh right now, so that will be in a future post. 

For dinner I had a large bowl of soup. Then. I made brownies, ate a few and put the rest away. Other than the soup and brownies, I had one piece of bread and about 6 ounces of milk today along with part of an apple, banana, pecans, and three prunes. That is not a lot of calories in my opinion. Tommy had a small bowl of soup and a ham sandwich. 

Sunday will be the last soup, a bowl for each of us. However, there is a 3-pound package of ground meat. I want more soup. This is a small oval crockpot. I have an 8-quart crockpot in storage. I won it, never used it. I have trouble picking it up empty. So, I am sure I could not handle it with food in it. But, it would work better for cooking pots of anything for freezing. 

The storm was terrific tonight. I wonder what new Sunday will bring. 

Not My Choice

 " Happy Birthday" to Tommy. I may try to find some of his presents for him to open. I am not much better; he is steadily getting worse. Today, I asked him if he could get some Kleenex stock. 

Last night, I thought I broke a rib coughing. Today, I think I pulled a muscle. It really hurts! 

I am exhausted from coughing. I caught this first. It appears that he is not going to be as ill as I was and still am. 

Luckily, we had chicken, salad, and baked potatoes from Sunday. We have one more breast which is largest of the three and 'plenty' of potatoes, according to Tommy. 

My vibration mat came today. It is so heavy; it needs a permanent position. We cannot move it about each day.

New cleaner comes Wednesday and until last one recovers and comes back, she will help me. 

I have not had a banana since last Friday. That adds to my misery. There is plenty of fruit, but it not a banana!

Strings on Bananas

 I hate strings on bananas. HATE them. I almost choked on one today.  So, when I saw this article, I read it and had to share it with everyone. 

Today was spent in telephone hell. So, I cannot write anymore than this.

What Are The Strings On Bananas, Anyway? | HuffPost Life

Do strings on bananas annoy you? or not?

Exasperated

 

Okay, tonight, I cannot get rid of this picture above. But, you can see what ribbon candy mix looks like. the stripes are ribbon candy.

After Tommy brushed my body last night, I yawned for hours. Then, when I went to sleep at four am, I slept soundly until 1:30 pm. I was shocked because my feet were almost back down to normal size. Then, a few hours later, only then did my feet swell much at all. So, brushing is a part of his life whether he likes it or not. 

This brushing calls for a natural hair brush moved lightly over the body, all in the direction of the heart.=. I avoid brushes on my body and any animal hair on bare skin. So, I used a soft brush I use for washing my feet. I wrapped a softer washcloth around that and securing it with a hair claw. I had to keep telling him 'not so hard.' He got it done. Boy, that puts me in mood to sleep. I have known about this for years, but he always said no.

Plus, I forgot to take diuretic, and my feet still did not swell. Maybe brushing could take the place of a pill. I will discuss this with my doctor. Or, maybe I will experiment on myself. lol

The rest of the day was wasted because of his vile temper. 

Yesterday, I put out a new candy box, a crystal Christmas ornament. Inside I put colored balls for the tree. It looks festive and will not tempt me to eat it. 

At Christmas, I always put ribbon candy into a covered candy dish. I hate the stuff, but it is pretty and Christmas festive. It is always given away sometime in the spring. One year, a young guy was helping me move something. I offered him all of that candy he wanted. He was polite and would only take two pieces. The dish was six inches across and candy was three inches deep. Finally, I said, "Wait." I took a quart storage bag, dumped the candy as well as I could because it had stuck together. He was shaking with happiness as he stuffed it into a pocket with much work. It was June, time to get rid of all of it. 

I am telling you, I won't eat that stuff as it is too sweet. If I wanted to gain weight, I would eat chocolate. There were days I was desperate for a sweet, but I never touched it. The ribbon candy always had round pieces that were pure sugar, too. 

Tonight, I was desperate for an apple. I depend on fiber and apple fiber works best. I had not had an apple on Sunday. We went after dark to Publix. Someone brought me a cart. It stopped at the seam of the ramp to Publix. It stopped when the front wheel touched the threshold. It stopped when the back wheel touched the threshold! Inside the store, it never went over 6 feet while I moved about. Often, it only moved six inches or less and stopped with a lurch to my neck. 

Finally, it stopped as I was turning from a main aisle to the aisle across the front of the store, and would not go again. I was blocking people who wanted to go across the front of the store and down the one aisle. There was quite a bottleneck. I was so disgusted! I finally got the attention of an employee who was going to try and make it go. NO! It was on and charged. I asked fobnanar another cart. That cart was set where my knees hit the basket. So, I had him get another. 

I watched as the Public employee took the cart back where it belonged. It did not stop once!!! grrr

Bananas, apples and bread is all I needed. But, it took me almost an hour to collect what I wanted. I did find the Ziploc pint freezer bags that were bogo. My raincheck had almost expired, only 4 days left. Bread was bogo, at least. The use by date is December 21. I wonder how much preservative it contains. 

I rehurt my knee trying to get into the electric cart. It was recovering from the fall. The cart was so tight, my left knee would not go in. I had gotten into the cart with right foot first. When I tried to get out, the knee would not slide out as usual. I had to try to raise myself enough to get past a center part that supported the cart. I hope I never, ever get that cart again.

About two weeks ago, I used Elmer's school glue. Saturday, I found it. I had not missed it, yet. It was open in the chair I sit in and had oozed out an area about six inches in diameter. So, Tommy washed it for me tonight.  If I did not keep this chair covered with a quilt, it would be nasty, sticky, disgusting. 

No decorating done today.

In a bit, I will get brushed again. I am looking forward to improving my health and sleeping. 

Do you ever use brushing skin to achieve better health? 

If you ride electric carts in the store, are you sometimes exasperated by their eccentricities?

Tommy had never heard of ribbon candy. Do you like it?