Wintry Wednesday Chat

glenmar

Now, guys, if I had a chain saw this wouldn't have happened.  It's when I have to "make do" because DH is afraid I'd chop off a body part with a chain saw that accidents happen.  I suspect that now if I went out and bought one, DH wouldn't fuss more than he normally does with the safety lectures.......

I agree Glenda.  I have been around tools (of all sorts) my whole life.  There is a whole lot of truth to "use the right tool for the job".   Get yourself a lightweight 16" Husqvarna and you will be good to go all day !

Is there window you can stick your head out of for a convenient smoke ?

Unfortunately, In DH's childhood home, if something needed fixing, they hired it done and he's not comfortable with tools of any kind.  Power tools scare him, but, honestly, it is sooooo much safer with the RIGHT tool.

As for the smoking, I could cheat, but I won't.  The only one who would really care is me, but it's a house rule we made and one I won't violate.  I'll just smoke less.  But, I might smoke the fake ones up here today.  Normally I don't even do that, but.......

Wow, I guess I need to go back and read yesterday's thread to see what the heck happened to Glenda's toe. I'm almost afraid to read about it though .

I came back to a bunch of rambling VM msgs and quite a few emails, so I'll be playing catch-up most of the day. I left home in a really calm, happy mood and then hit the worst traffic ever and spent over an hour getting here. I'm working to shake the grumpiness off.

I hope all of you dealing with this latest storm stay warm and safe. I think we might actually have sun today. Haven't seen much of that in the last couple weeks, so it's a welcome sight.

For some strange reason, we seem to be missing all these snow storms. Usually our area gets our fair share, but it seems not that way this year. We had one, that I missed because I was in Mexico, but nothing since then. I could really use a snow day I tell ya! Stay safe everyone involved in the storms though!

Last night DH and I had friends over and we decided to play Nightmare after dinner - do any of you guys remember that board game? I used to play it when I was like 10 and thought it was super scary. Yeah....it sure was a lot scarier when I was 10, LOL. We had a blast though. There is a video you have to put in to play the game and follow along with it and it's "gatekeeper".

Long story short Cathy, I set the skill saw down on the floor and instead of shutting off like it's supposed to it kept running and bite into my boot and took off a tiny bit of my little toe and sliced into the next one in.  I got whacked in the face with a tree limb earlier and thot I'd broken my nose, but instead just got a couple black eyes out of the deal!

The good news?  My interview tomorrow called ME and rescheduled for next week.  Phew.  Yeah, I really need to turn up at a womans shelter for a job looking.....battered!

The snow fall has slowed down marginally.  Almost 2 feet so far.  This is definately a "hire the plow guy" day.

Good heaven's, Glenda!!  That's awful!!  Yes, it could have been so much worse.  But it's pretty bad as it is!!!  I hope your foot is OK  You did get it looked at, I hope!!

Today is a day of snowing and plowing.  What a horrid mess out there!  I got us cleared out once.  But there is as much as cleaned back again, plus a little more.  We're going to be in the 24" category, I think.  I just hope the visibility gets better soon.  I got stuck on the driveway plowing because I could just not see where I was going backing up.  Right into the snow bank I went.  Hubby had to shovel me out.  It's slick and blowing and near whiteout at times.  And it's been like this all morning.  I had thought it would let up a bit by now.  But, no. 

We're going to have some toast and think about going out again.  I hope that I am fortified sufficiently!!  It's going to be a close call.  If my wipers get all clogged up again and I can't see, I'm parking the truck and waiting until visibility is better.  This is the pits!!!

Hope everyone who got nailed with this are taking it easy getting it shoveled.  It's heavy wet horrid stuff.  Now turning more fluffy.  But the amounts are killer.  So take it easy.  I guess the most important thing is done.  Doggie trails.  But none of them want to be out for long!

Of course I did.  DS brought along the bits of boot, socks and toe in a plastic bin covered with ice.  YUCK.  I don't care how well they'd cleaned it, there was NO way I wanted it back!

We're already at close to two feet of new snow, but all of ours is the light fluffy stuff.  Still, when it finally stops snowing, if it ever does, we'll pay the neighbor to plow.  all that got done here this morning was the top of the driveway where the plow buried it, and the dog paths.  Mine didn't want to stay out long either!

Just a bit chill here but nothing like you guys are dealing with.  We've gotten rain, but we actually kinda need it.

yesterday's root canal re-do was ... difficult.  Now tha they don't use Novicaine -- any of the "caine" painkillers just do NOT work on me. (even wtih 20 or more shots) so in most of my adult life I've had gas.  It's always worked really well for me

Yesterday was a "bad trip".  I've got a ton on my mind (my friend Chris' hearing is today on the whole stupid animal control debacle and some other stuff), but apparently the biggie was that my lungs just are NOT in good enough shape yet to handle ANY gas. 

I warned them that last week they sent me "deeper" than I have EVER been before so don't send me any deeper -- and even right after they started as I felt myself slide in I told her I wasn't getting enough oxygen.

I was so "loaded" I could simply have vaporized into the seats (all of my big lady size) and oozed out thru the cracks.  I was "worried" enough when I went under that it wasn't an enjoyable trip in any event, but dang folks -- it took me FOREVER to come back out of it.  Normally with gas, one lungful of fresh air and you're BACK .... not so with this.

I was barely able to be on my feet when they finished with me (she asked several times if I was "ok" but frankly my judgement SUCKED and I said "yeah";).

By the time I wobbled to my car I was scared.  Part of me wanted to get the heck outa Dodge because I had a vet appt to get Billy to and I was almost on "autopilot" enough to just get in the car and GO.

But my mind held enough sanity to call David.  I kept thinking "HOW will I force myself to remain here til I am sane??" while feeling so compelled to 'go'.  I said to him "David, just plain TELL ME to ***STAY HERE*** and not drive anywhere yet"

he said "Well, if you aren't feeling well you really should .."

"DAVID ... JUST **TELL ME** -- as in an order -- NOT to go anywhere until I call you back in 10 minutes -- don't give me advice.  I need to hang onto a promise here"

It worked.  How I can convince myself of stuff like this is weird but I *knew* if I made a promise to him to wait, that I could over-rule the poor judgment side of me and not pull out into traffic.

I can so easily see NOW how people can do stellarly stupid stuff while under the influence of "substance".  I've never done dope, and I've never been *that* drunk (been drunk enough to puke many times, but I always retain enough judgment not to violate personal rules). 

I had to sit there for like half an hour before he was satisfied after 3 phone calls that I was ok to drive. 

After I got Billy to Dr. D's last night I asked her WHY I reacted that way and she told me it was likely because my lungs are still somewhat inflamed and it just punched in HARD and absorbed way more of the gas than normal because of the inflamed lung tissue. 

But man, I learned something yesterday. 

Callie - that whole dental visit sounds pretty horrible but I'm glad you used good sense and you're okay. I assume you're talking about Nitrous Oxide  or laughing gas? I have a scary story regarding laughing gas. I worked for several yrs with a pedodontist (children's dentist) and we used the gas on almost all the patients. One day we were getting ready to work on a child. We'd always lay the child back and start the gas a min. or so before we were ready to get going. I was getting the instruments in order and I turned to look at the child and there was foam coming out of the side of his mouth. I yelled for the dr. and we immediately pulled the gas off and worked on waking the child up. He was fine but loopy but we were all freaked out.  The way the gas came in was thru 2 separate tanks. One was nitrous oxide and the other was oxygen. The dr. turned it to oxygen only and had me test it out. I only took a few breaths before I knew that I wasn't breathing oxygen. It turned out that the company had accidently delivered us 2 bottles of the nitrous but no oxygen. The tanks were different colors but the blue oxygen tank had mistakenly been filled with nitrous. I've never forgotten that and I never take stuff like that for granted.

Yikes Glenda and Callie!!

I had an eventful day yesterday and I'm a bit exhausted to even type about it.  But I've known for a few years tht I have fibromyalgia and ankylosing spondylitis ("bamboo spine, where the spine fuses). 

So I've also had some very bad leg/ankle/foot swelling which has gotten very very uncomfortable lately.  My legs were so swollen sunday night, it was pitiful, I couldn't bend my toes or ankles.  

I finally found a new doctor (I hate all these moves and having to find new ones every few years) and she turned out great.  She is investigating and updating all sorts of tests for me.

Yesterday I had 4 xrays of my spine. Tomorrow I go in for bloodwork- a bunch- glucose, sediment rate, food allergy panel, gene marker for the spondylitis, cbc, thyroid, vitamin levels... there were more but i don't recall all of them.   She sent me home with Lasix to get some of the extra fluid out of my feet and legs.  She was shocked at the amount of swelling "deep pitted edema".   She feels there could be some underlying food allergies going on and says  I am very inflamed all over my body probably from teh spondylitis. 
She asked me what I m on for pain meds and I said Motrin once in a while and was shocked. She said it is very painful- I think in my denial of all my stupid issues I pretend tha tthe pain isn't there.

 She wants me on a low carb diet and the only sweets I can have is a small amount of fruit once per day.  Which is fine.  I'll miss chocolate and latte's and such but feeling like this is not worth it at all. 

Then 12:51 am there was a 4.5 earthquake and shook the bed so hard I wasnt sure what was going on! LOL  Then to find out it was an earthquake... my first ever earthquake!  Add that to the list of tornadoes, blizzards, and hurricanes! :)

good thougths to all my idogger friends :)

Sarah,  thanks for that link!  I may try that one someday, it does look pretty easy!  This one, though, I'll probably crochet just because I don't have a sewing machine.  I have tons and tons of yarn, a lot of either baby weight or soft enough worsted weight to be OK for a baby blanket.  I love new craft ideas though :)

 Anyone know how I can get ahold of the person with the Weimaraner and Vizsla. I tried to find her profile to email her but it wouldnt come up.

Emergency prayer/goot thots request - I"m posting in Spiritual Circle

sambob

 Anyone know how I can get ahold of the person with the Weimaraner and Vizsla. I tried to find her profile to email her but it wouldnt come up.

Are you talking about Jan (Vizla) and Emily (Weim)? I can't think of anyone who has both.

cakana

sambob

 Anyone know how I can get ahold of the person with the Weimaraner and Vizsla. I tried to find her profile to email her but it wouldnt come up.

Are you talking about Jan (Vizla) and Emily (Weim)? I can't think of anyone who has both.

I think he's talking about Kimberly - kle1986.