Looks like we have some folks out on sick call this morning, including Galaxy. I know Bill is around as I saw him doing the morning honors at another forum I'm a member of. Healing thoughts to all that need them. I'll forego the lighting of any candles. I'd probably burn this little cracker box down.
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Good morning. It's 62° with 88% humidity and patchy fog. The high will be 82°. Sunny with some clouds.The Home Health nurse is supposed to come sometime today. She won't have to remove the wound vac dressing. I did that early this morning after it had a terminal blowout. I replaced it with a standard dressing. That was all I had on hand. So it was put on thick and wrapped well.Looks like today will be another movie watching day.
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Good morning ...
JohnBoy .... It's good seeing you here, but I'm sorry to hear about your BIL. Sounds like your health is improving slowly but surely. Hope all will be okay soon.
Jeff ... I recall The Runaway Train movie. A real adventure.
Todd ... Thanks for the b'day wishes. I'll pass them on.
Ken .... I wish BOS wou;d get everything resolved with you once and for all so you don't have all of the bother.
Galaxy and Dennis .... Hope you get well soon.
We have not heard from Inch and Jerry lately. Hope they are okay.
Happy Model Railroading !
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
TMarshHey, $25 gift card for Cracker Barrel makes it a no brainer!
Cracker Barrel! MOH loves that place. She was on a business trip to Stillwater OK and someone from the US took her group there. Came home totally inthralled about the place. I've never been to one so I have to take her word for it. We don't have them up here in igglo land.
Mother is still way under the weather on day 4 but I'm not so bad. May have to take her to the Dr. By the way thanks for the good wishes all. Appreciate it.
Not much planned for today since we're not up to snuff (OK bad pun) I'm going to have to read the darned owners manual for the new car because it's got so many do dads and thing a ma bobs that are all greek to me I don't feel competent to drive it. Never had to do that with a vehicle before. Sheesh, getting old kind of sucks some times.
I can't believe it .... something electrical JEFFREY doesn't know. The sky is falling Jeffrey.
Johnnyboy great to hear that you are progressing in a positive way.
Well time to feed MOH. Later all.
Dennis
CDN Dennis
Modeling the HO scale something or other RR in the shadow of the Canadian Rockies Alberta, Canada
Mornin' everyone!
Zoe, justb a cup of dark roast to go, please...
I'm out the door to spend most of the watching Granddaughter #2. Have to pick her up at school then get us both lunch. her grandma will be arriving around 2:30, just in time to give me a chance to get to the MLK Scholarship interviews this afternoon.
We have some absolutely awsome young people to interview today. From everything we have learned about them so far, I am very much looking forward to meeting and talking with them. Top shelf scholastically, very involved with, sports, band, chiorus, school clubs, and community service! Several are headed to big name colleges.
I hope that Galaxy is recovering from whatever it was he had yesterday! Hope you all have a great day. I'll try to be back this evening.
Later!
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Mornin'. Today should be nice, but the weekend may be mostly a cold washout.
But, we've got no plans, so I can devote some time to ballasting. I've got about 20 feet of it to do. Other than one siding that's not ready to be glued down yet, this will complete the trackwork for Phase 2 of my layout. Phase 3 should start shortly - time to buy lumber and clear out that part of the trainroom.
My wife and my sister are going to Ireland on Monday. I don't have that much vacation time available, and I'm not sure I want to travel with two old ladies anyway. So, I'll have the time to myself to start benchwork and build the last couple of structures I've got planned.
Phase 3 is intended to be a combination of a long branch line and proper staging. With retirement looming this year and a "down-costing" move from Taxachusetts planned, I have to think long-term. I may not even glue the track down, just hold it to the foam with opened-up paper clips like I've done to a lot of other tracks. I'll keep the benchwork sections small and use terminal blocks where the wires cross, and be careful where the rail joiners go, too.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Morning guys
I woke up a little bit ago. feels good to sleep in for once. Looks like it's gonna rain again. I got a call from the commisary before I woke up. I'll call them back when I'm not still waking up.
Ken, I replaced the lights in that SD40-2 with LEDs, except for the beacon. The ATSF SD40-2 has been good to me, it's just someone at the club swiped the horn off of it and damaged an antennae stand. I can fix it when I put in an order to someone for detail parts... As for the DC pack, I have one (a bachmann spectrum, probably not that great). I saw the video, it's hard to beat american-built cars for toughness. My first 2 cars sat for several years before I bought them. They both fired right up. The Road runner looks to be in decent enough shape to drive around too.
Jeff, runaway train? someone on another forum I frequent build models of the locos.
I might work on something later...
Vincent
Wants: 1. high-quality, sound equipped, SD40-2s, C636s, C30-7s, and F-units in BN. As for ones that don't cost an arm and a leg, that's out of the question....
2. An end to the limited-production and other crap that makes models harder to get and more expensive.
V8VegaJeff I believe i've seen that movie twice but my memory is vague. In Alaska two escaped convicts hop on this train and the engineer falls off or gets pushed off or something. Unbelievable amount of ice caked all over the locomotives and everything.
Good Evening!
I haven´t been feeling up to par all day. My heart went to the Cape Town Races, making me feel sleepy and exhausted. After a long nap it was getting better, so I even got around to do some MRRing. I started on the embankment, using Styrofoam slices roughly shaped to a slope. Looks a little course, but that will disappear under a coat of plaster. I am going to use the crinkled tin foil method for rock moulds, but won´t let the plaster harden all the way. The "rocks" will be attached, when the plaster is still soft enough to be formed a little.
Here is today´s job:
The red line marks the location of the dock - kind of tight, but that´s a challenge for me.
Healing prayers to all those suffering from illness!
Well, I am employed again. At a grocery store with 3 days a week 18-20 hours a week, but still it will be nice to start making some money again.
(My Model Railroad, My Rules)
These are the opinions of an under 35 , from the east end of, and modeling, the same section of the Wheeling and Lake Erie railway. As well as a freelanced road (Austinville and Dynamite City railroad).
One last coffee in a UNION PACIFIC mug, please.
***Jimmy: CONGRATS!
***Jeffrey, I'll second Todd's idea. Charge them a Consulting Fee. I didn't recognize the movie. Surely I must have seen it. Guess that just means it is time to look it up and watch it again.
Been pushing it very hard (for me) this whole week. Completely tuckered out. Looking forward to taking a break this weekend.
Healing thoughts to those in need.
Cheers! Rob
Jeff .... Here's an AAR GP7, 1805. I took the photo with a cheap disposable camera abot 20 to 25 years ago. I would guess AAR sold this one too. It was working as a local switcher in Anchorage when i was there. I actually rode in it as it was hauling tank cars of jet fuel to the airport.
Edit .... Conrats to Jimmy
Galaxy .... Hope you are getting better.
Congrats Jimmy B! Work is work and it brings the money in. Wish I could still do that kind of work.
Good Evening
Well, we are now getting rained on and it is cooling off ...again....
Tonight we are having a couple of sets of our music and some covers of some space rockish stuff....the band is going quite well here...well enough that we may find a couple of 'residencies' here......
As for mine heart...cardiac rehab starts on Tuesday for me....yes!!.....
JimmyB!! Yay for new job!!!!!
Any argument carried far enough will end up in Semantics--Hartz's law of rhetoric Emerald. Leemer and Southern The route of the Sceptre Express Barry
I just started my blog site...more stuff to come...
http://modeltrainswithmusic.blogspot.ca/
Evenin' folks!
Chloe, I'll have the Freshly BBQed Chicken Dinner tonight. Yes, the Cornell Recipe and a glass of a Seneca Lake Riesling to go along with it. Oh, The Anthony Road one would be great!
Well.... I have had quite a day! I arrived out to my son's house around 1PM, grabbed the car seat for the granddaughter and got to School just before the preschoolers were dismissed. #2 runs over to me yelling "PAPA!!!" at the top of her lungs... Went to her house, got her (and myself) lunch and then settled down to watch Nick jr. for a couple hours... Grandma showed up a bit earlier than was expected so I headed out to the Interview board of the MLK Committee being held at the Geneva Community Center. We interviewed 5 of the 6 candidates (the other was interviewed yesterday). All I can say about them is - WOW!!!
One of the girls who has parents who teach at the two colleges here in town, lived her childhood years in France, is bilingual, has lived in Puerto Rico, Columbia, Mexico, and a few other places (parents doing research or teaching) has a High School grade average of 98.23! That is right... 98.23. Her family moved back from France when she was in 5th. grade. She is also the Valedictorian of this years graduating class. That is a first for any of our Scholarship winners.
Another is in her 5th. year in High School. There was a history of drug use and alcoholism in the family and the girl had been bounced around a bit. Her mother went to NYC so the girl went to live with her Dad in Florida. That ended up very bad and she spent the last couple years in an orphanage down there. She rode it out until she turned 18. She then came back to Geneva, got a job and an apartment and went back to High School here. She has a 89.6 ave. for this year. She plans on a carreer in Social Services. And the list could on and on. Neat young ladies and gentlemen! We hear so much about what is wrong with kids today, but I can tell you there is a lot right going on out there as well, and some of it is from places you might might not suspect! We gave each of the 6 a one year $1,500 Scholarship to help them along. That will be the most we have ever given, and the committee only talked for a couple minutes before voting on it!
Can you tell? My adrenaline is pumping!
Started this a while ago, the phone rang and it was my son from Chicago. They just closed on a home out in the burbs this morning.... They are keeping the house they currently live in as a rental property. It will be reverted to 3 appartments like it was when they bought it. He just got back from New York City yesterday after speaking at a seminar about how to achieve your goals to a bunch of disadvantaged kids.... He is a good son!
I notice that Galaxy hasn't been in today at all... I do hope he is alright!
Oh, BTW, Our interm Pastor is on a trip back home, and while waiting for her sister to pick her up in the airport she started reading the United Airlines Magazine "Hemisphere" and found an article on the Finger Lakes Region of NYS... Enjoy (and you can enlarge the pages to make them a bit more readable by clicking at the bottom). She thinks she may be on the Schooner in the first photo with some friends for my church.
http://www.ink-live.com/emagazines/hemispheres-united-airlines/1616/april-2014/#102
Evening Folks
Flo, and you may have to lift my arms so I can drink it!
Last three paychecks have been caboose and it is starting to hurt now! Last week I had to take $100.00 out of savings and look like this week it going to be another $150.00. I was just paid Thrusday and today I am down to $24.99 in my account!
Just to make things worst, my wife has a tooth ach and went to the Dentist. She needs $2500.00 worth of dential work? She seems not to understand why we cannot affoard it. Guess one tooth at a time. She will have a wisdom tooth pulled first, that is only $125.00 we hope. Then there is a root cannel, two crowns and just some fillings. There is a dentail collage close by, but I am sure there is no way she would go to it to get the work done free.
Sparkie is starting to get me mad at him! Well not really but he is sort of Caboosing me off. I had started walking him around the block on my days off, which is a 1/4 mile. Every now and then that is fine, just don't want to get another foot ulcer going. Before I started to take him around the block he would Poop 2 times a day in are yard. Now he will only poop twices if I walk him aroud the block? He also has to be half way around before he will poop! Smarter than we think.
Guess I should not say mad, but it worries me. If I do not walk him and he only poop's one time a day I am worried he will be come impacted.
Well I am bushed, did 4 hours of running today, cut the front grass and then walked the little but sweat stinker Sparkie the Rocket Dog.
">http://s83.photobucket.com/user/cudaken/media/Sparkie%20The%20Rocket%20Dog/Sparkie3-25-14019_zps0c917174.jpg.html] How do you stay Caboosed at a faces like that! Ken
How do you stay Caboosed at a faces like that!
Ken
I hate Rust
Aw, Ken, how can you stay mad at a face like that?
Home Health nurse came early in the afternoon. She measured the wound. It's a little bit smaller. Smaller is better. She did a great job on the dressing with no coaching from me.My father was telling me a while back that I need to get rid of my computers as he thinks they're a waste of time and aren't worth anything to him. I've told him I'll get rid of some of them when he gets rid of those worthless old stamp and coin collections he has. He says he won't let those go. They have value to him and he put a lot of time into them. I looked him in the eye and said BINGO! Those computers are valuable to me and I've put a lot of my time and talent into fixing them. Any one of them is as valuable to me as his coin and stamp collections are to him. What's more, he has no right telling me what to with my property and in my home at that. That was some years ago and all his stamp and coin collections are still there. My computer collection has grown a bit and he'll deny it if you ask him but he's helped contribute to that. I think it has something to do with a few peeks he's taken at IIe's on Ebay. Some of those prices flipped his eyebrows over and sent them scrambling for a fox hole! Now he sees what I do. I buy junkers cheap and fix them and sometimes I sell them or trade them for parts. Seems he has some respect for them now.Today's quick project. Clean up a CP/m card. That kept me busy for about thirty minutes. Course I did grab a little nap here and there.I also pulled down a couple of my home built GP9's and cleaned them up real good. There's a few on the central part of the layout that I have to dig out and work on too.
Nothing much going on here tonight. I'm playing around with an Apple computer program from MECC. Nope, not Oregon Trail. In fact that game isn't even in my inventory! No, this is a computer inspector I use for checking systems out and identifying problems so they can be fixed. That was how I found out I had a bad RAM card yesterday and was able to fix it.Other than that there's nothing special happening here. It's too late for it now but maybe in the morning I'll play a game or two of Starfleet1. Turn the sounds up to high so the neighbors can wonder what's happening.That's it for tonight. See y'all tomorrow.
Well, as Galaxy seems to be still in the sick bay, I think I´ll open up today´s Diner.
Good Morning!
It´s Saturday, April 26th, 2014
Healing prayers to all suffering from illnesses and special thoughts to
Barry, Flip, Galaxy, Jeff, Johnboy and Ken!
It is nice to be woken up by sunshine. I am glad the weather guessers were wrong about today´s weather. No HD list, other than a quick run to the grocery store to buy some mushrooms Petra forgot to get yesterday. On the way I will stop by at our home improvement store to get a few items I need to continue w*rk on my layout. There is plaster on the list, tin foil, a 6.5mm drill bit, black and brown paint and super glue. I am not in the mood to attack the wiring, so I´ll continue landscaping.
Jimmy B. - congrats on the new job! It may not be what you were looking for, but it earns some money, keeps you out of mischief () and will show any future employee that you made the best use of the time.
Make it a great day!
It has been something of a challenging month for me here ... first my heart/CHF/blood sugar decided to play hob with each other but as well.....my band is doing quite well for itself .... The gig tonight was...erm...interesting. Doing the first set I managed to toss my guitar into the speaker bin behind me....Second set...skewered the headstock of same guitar into my 4X12.
Thank you Ulrich,
I am home from a visit to the hospital ER that wa s a total fiasco. Tell you about it later.
Thought of the day:
Action is eloquence. -William Shakespeare, playwright and poet (1564-1616)
I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes. -Anthony Trollope, novelist (1815-1882
-G .
Just my thoughts, ideas, opinions and experiences. Others may vary.
HO and N Scale.
After long and careful thought, they have convinced me. I have come to the conclusion that they are right. The aliens did it.
well, Have you evefr heard of an Emergency Room wihtout a Doctor on duty? Well, Now we have.
After vomiting and diarreah for 3 days I told MOH I needed to go to the ER. Why? because I was: dehydrated, my electrolytes were off {even though I tried injesting Pedia Lyte electrolyte solution}, I could not stop heaving, what I put in came back up or ran right through me, and I was totally and utterly exhausted.
So we called for an ambulance to take me to the ER. The ambulance gave me a antivomiting pilll and started IV fluids. I arrived at 6 Am and never saw a Dr until 10:30? why? becaue the night Dr. had been there his 10 hours and wasn't "taking new patients". The day Dr doesn't get there until 8 am and from 7 am to 8Am there is NO Doctor there!
Now the ER Nurses { who need more credit than they get} "stabilized me" with an anti-vomiting med, a digestive upset med and some pain med into an IV drip for fluids. Because I was "just a digestive upset" I didn't get get seen right away. Understandable. but by 10AM I WAS ACTUALLY HUNGRY, DRY MOUTHED AND {sorry caps lock} and wanted to go home if they weren't going to/couldn't do much more for me. {I am not always a happy sick camper}. I wasn't allowed to eat and Dr.s concern was intense pain when proded on the lower right quadrant...appendix area! a CT scan assured him "it was within normal paramenters and I just probably had a viral infection"....no shock, buddy! They really only wanted to get rid of me as they needed the room.
MOH got me settled with plenty of fluids at home and went and talked to the Patient advocate at the hospital who was apparently outraged that it took, what, 4.5 hours to be seen an and that there was no Dr on duty for an hour, and the outgoing Dr. failed to at least examine me? MOH was also fit to be tied.
Good thing it wasn't heart failure or heart attack or somehting. Still they told me nothing I did 't already know and don't know what I expected them to do except what they did, get me fluids again, stop the heaving/vomiting and stabilize me to go home.
They gave me morphine in the hospital which I think makes my skin crawl and makes me feel funny, so I took some benedryl to combat that feeling. now I take a morphime derivitive as a pain med for my back and have been wondering why I feel like my skin is crawling. I think I may be reacting to it so I did not take it this morning and don't feel like I am crawling with bugs. The benedryl had the nice effect of putting me to sleep something I havent had in 3 days. I woke up after 4 hours, ate a little bit- i mean about 5 forkfulls of it of macaroni and cheese, the only thing sounding good. I took 2 more benadry and slept from 9 untill about 1 am. trechnically i slept for 8 hours, but I am so physically exhaustred I need more, just can't sleep.
If I do in fact react to the morphine and the derivitives, I could be in for a world of pain as there isn't much else they can give for the back pain right now. The only reason i think it may the cuplprit is that the only thing they gave me was the anti-vomiting, the digestive quieter, and the morphine in the hospital. One of the three had to be the culprit. Of course the iodine from the CT scan but that is usually not a problem.
Don't know, The Dr had on some god-awful colonge that reeked and precipitated him into the room and lingered so you could actually taste it after he left. Meanwhile I sat there sweating bullets, lying in my own mess and stinking up the place as I had no shower before gping there either. I just needed immediate relief and I guess they gave me that. now I have a fight back to processing whole foods. ate some chicken and stuffing in two sittings for "breakfast". so I am on my way to solid foods again.
They didn't even wait to see if I coud handle liquids before booting me out! they just needed the rooom and out the digestive upset case goes. I wanted out of there anyway. never been so frustrated before.
Took a good shower to get off the grime when I got home. now I can't make up my mind am I cold or hot and sweaty? already took 2 showers today. I am freezing but burning up with no fever they dismissed that too at the ER.
So that is my tale of woe. I tired to sleep more but it won't come, so I got tired of laying in bed and got up to do a few chores, the kitchen is backed up and luandry that never ends needs to be done so I have something to occupy my time. I am still wobbly in the knees and would need a cane if I didn't already use one!
MOH may once again be self-reliant tonight for dinner after a long shift at a hated weekend job.
MOH lost a day's work yesterday and fought me on it but i and the ER won out. Hope there is no trouble at work for it. Maybe i will be able to nap at about 2 pm like I/we usually do. MOh won't be home til 4 and so I will have some time alone to rest. i like to have MOH around when I am sick, and MOH wants me around too. I am a big baby sometimes when I am sick.
the cat is all upset knowing his pop-pop doesn't feel good and except while i was vomiting woold not leave my side the last few days.
Still very very week and wobbly though. so I will need to take it easy. I have lost 3 days this last week!
My tunny still wants to heave sometimes but I can calm it down. I have the antivomiting and digestive quieting meds to take now so that helps. I do have to be careful what comes out back though may not just be gas!
I cannot believe the ER has no doctor scheduled!
sorry my typing is a mess, don't feel liek trying to correct it.
Hope you all have better days than I had.
Still weak and wobbly though I guess I said that?
Galaxy - Ia sorry for what you had to go through! Spare me a comment, though, because what I´d have to say would violate forum rules for being political. only this much - I don´t understand, why such a grand nation, that sends people to the moon and one day even all the way to Mars, is not able to organize such a simple thing as a working health system.
OK, Vinne, no need to get the pan - I am stepping off the soapbox
Did some w*ek on the layout today - here is a sneak preview:
Cutting all that Styrofoam made a bit of a mess and Petra slightly uneasy. Better to keep her happy . I went into the attic to cut the stripwood, but it is too hot up there for me too feel comfortable.
Tomorrow is Sunday - it´ll be "Plaster Day" for me!
Galaxy, I hope you feel better fast. Maddog, nice progress on the layout. My plans today are to finish all the new job paperwork, and start working on a project for the club- half a bridge.
Zoe, I'll have a short stack of buttermilk pancakes with real NYS Maple Syrup, a couple sausage links, and lots of Marrakesh Express dark roast coffee to get me going today....
Galaxy hope you are getting better. Sorry to hear about your experience at the HorseSpittle... I would chaulk it off a particular Dr. at the particular hospital. Write down everything that happened and contact the hospital Administration. Write them a letter and at the bottom add, "cc - Your Lawyers Name" and esq. after it..... That usually gets their attention real fast. Don't ask how I know! (Goes back to right after my wife died...) There may be reasons that this happened that you don't know about, but there is no excuse for a Dr. on duty refusing to see a patient.
It's a dark and gloomy day outside here in the Finger Lakes, so it will be a day for completing a bunch of items I need to do inside. Currently 46°F outside with a predicted high of 54° later this afternoon... We had a lovely Spring here in the Finger Lakes... It was on a Tuesday, I think.
Best get moving.... Later!
Ray: MOH did register a complaint with the patient advocate. As I said, Apparently the Patient advocate was outraged.
The problem is there are three entities involved: the hospital, the contract Drs. and the parent company. The hospital bills you for the hospital expenses, the ER room and nurses, the Drs are "farmed out" contract Drs. from the Third entity. The hosiptal USED TO BE A good catholic hosptial {I am not} who started serving others to the community to increase a patient base, I think. Then they were bought by a conglomerate and that is how that party enters in.
Then there is the fourth party I guess, Drs. who have the priveleges to practice there. My regualr Dr, is a GP at their communtiyh outreach center adn is a differnt entity altogether.
I have no lawyer, I do have a friend who is one, but he is nto that type of lawyer, he only knows Landlord tennant issues. He practices no othre law. SO using a lawyers name would be misleading.
I didn't feel like a tirade onthe phone, but the ER dept just contacted me to ask how I was doing. I siad fair to midling and she said to come back if i needed them. I doubt it, and may change to the second worst hospital inthe area, the old one I used to go to. Thos on is not panning out to be what it used to be!
This is the smae hosptial MIL died in after bleeding out due to kidney infection. They listed cause of death as "heart stopped, anemia". Of course her heart stopped after she bled out, they gave her a total of 4 units f blood. Nad thought that solved it. and of course she was anemic!
Oh well, My aunt died of cancer in a nother state and hospital and they lsited cause of death as something like heart failure, and did not mention she had cancer and had about all her insides taken out in the process of fighting the cancer!
Suffice it to say the left hand in the ER doesn't know what the right hand is doing.
I tried to sleep agian about 10. but after an hour {and two trips to the bathroom I gave up. Sleep still eludes me and I should be happy fo rhte 8 combined hours i did get. Just so exhausted.
my stomach is not liking the solid food i ate, and nothing sounds good now for lunch! I don't know about dinner as I don't have anything in mind and probalby wouldn't eat it anyway.
Don't know.
I ve got he luandry going a second load to keep busy. I siad I was wobbly in the knees... I aobut fell over whne my right knee buckled out form under me while loading the dryer!
anybody heard form Jeffry yet? I see he hasn't been in, not like him.
Jimmy_Braum Galaxy, I hope you feel better fast.
Galaxy, I hope you feel better fast.
thnaks, Jimmy, I hope so too.
Congrats on the new job! In this economy one can't be too choosy. ANything is better than nothing. Did you say grocery store? you are kinda lucky to have it as there is one thing people need and will pay for above all else..FOOD!
MOH works a second job at a grocery here, and hates the living daylights out of it, but what are we to do? we need the money.
Perhaps you will enjoy yours more!. I hope you do!
GOod luck!
Good morning. It's 75° with 74% humidity. The high will be 85°.Not feeling good today so slept in most of the morning. I have no idea what I'll be doing today. I'll just take it as it comes.
I've got Cashier at the local family owned store. It seems like an easy job, and I got assigned some of the more slower hours- 11-5 and 9-3 this week. Granted it is only 3 days a week, but any hours are better than nothing, and teh store is about 5 minutes away from my house.
Strong Italian roast coffee in a SOUTHERN mug, please.
***Ken, how could that cute face possibly do anything wrong.
***Jeffrey, have never seen a loco with Pathmark on it before. What do they make or do?
Healing thoughts for those in need, and there are certainly a few in here.
Brush-cut back and middle pastures. Even wearing a mask, sinuses are going nuts. Must be allergic to one of those pollens out there.
Jimmy_Braum I've got Cashier at the local family owned store. It seems like an easy job, and I got assigned some of the more slower hours- 11-5 and 9-3 this week. Granted it is only 3 days a week, but any hours are better than nothing, and teh store is about 5 minutes away from my house.
I hope the customers are nicer to you than they apparently are to MOH! They are the "hard part" of moh's job.
They are usually tired and cranky and want to argue over every price thought the register takes it off at the end of the tally.
GOod luck with the job! you are right any hours anywhere are better than No hours somwhere else!
I feel like I am talking to myself in here everyone must be busy busy. It is cloudy and raining here now. SO i guess I will wait to get the mail maybe wait til tomorrow.
I have utterly no hunger, apparently no sugar issue driving me to need to eat and have no desire for food. there isn't much on TV today, but I passed on every food show! Fluids I can tolerate and should let my system recover anyway, not force it to digest solids when it doesn't want them. WHat I ate this morning has stayed put, but a couple times it was a struggle to keep it down!
I actually got warm a little while ago and turned on the A/C. then the rain came and cooled off outside by 6 degrees so I turned it off.
I see Jeffrey isn't feeling well this morning either. Must be something in the air? He didn't say what, but I can sympathize.
It is after 2 pm here nad maybe i go try to nap agian. Got a bit of a headache started so took some aspirin seems to be wroking. Aspirin is hash on tummies, so I am glad it hasn't had ill effect.
As far as the vomiting goes, it is quadruple hard for me to do. I had a Nissan Fundoplycation done about 10-12 years ago. They take two parts of your upper stomach and pull it up around your esophagus and stitch it into place. The idea is to emulate the LES muscle which holds the contents of you stomach in your stomach. Mine did not work and I used to involuntarily vomit all the time, especially at night if I rolled on to my right side. I lept a bucket with me at all times to "relieve myslef" into when the need arose. In order to get the surgery, you had to pass a test, and by passing it meant you had to fail miserably. They laid me down on my back and stuck a tube up my nose and down my throat and into my stomach. It measured the "squezing" of the LES and funcitoning. Then they had me drink water while laying down. I told the nurse it would come right back up and she "assured me" it wouldn't. well, it did, all over her! I was right, they NEVER listen to the patients! The LES muscle only funcitoned at 3% so I failed the test miserably, It was almost non-measurable! Instead of the 95-100% funcitioning the normal person has, I had only a 3% closure rate. It was no wonder the water came right back up!
So I got the surgery. It has kept me from vomiting involuntarily for years. The side effect was tha all that vomiting I did left me "starved" so when the suregey held, it meant my body packed on the pounds quickly!
That is also how my lungs got so damaged. even though I slept on a bank of pillows, the digestive acids would reflux into my esophagus and drain into my lungs! Digestive acid is NOT to friendly with lung tissue!!! The two are NOT compatible!
So since the surgery any vomiting at all is about impossible for me to accomplish. The other reason for the CT scan was to be sure the fundoplycation was sitll intact and not damaged due to the vomiting I endured. Luckily it looked {and feels} Sitll intact. It would need to be redone and the damaged area removed to accomplish the same task.
I guess you didn;t need to be bored with those facts, but anywho...
I guess back to the boring TV and wiat out the 1 1/2 hours till MOH comes home. I will nap better with MOH in the house! MOh will be tired and exhausted, and I will ask to make me some scrambled eggs. MOH does it so well, and is usually tolerable on sensitive stomach. Just what I am sure MOh wants, is to come home to cook for me.
PS I knew early on that MOH loved me wholey when we were first together. the third night i rolled on my side facing MOh nad promptly vomited all over MOH. MOh said not a word, but got up, changed clothes, changed the bed sheets, and crawled back in beside me. I knew then that it was true love and MOh was something special! not many will take kindly to that treatment!
I have to be careful if the cat or MOH vomits as it makes me want to do it too..MOh has to clean up after the ocassional "hairball" the cat brings up as i cannot do it or i will too!
well, enough.
i accomplished a whole two loads of laundry today, but that is better than nothing!
I will see what teh rest of the day will bring.