Good Evening Everyone,
I am so sorry for not getting back blogging. It seems that by the time I finish up with clean-up around the house, I come in the house, totally exhausted, and quite sore, and a horridly painful spine, and then too tired to blog, I crash on the couch and fall asleep until about 5 am, then the dog has to go out and I get the paper and then I may crash back for an hour or so, then up and at em' again. I am also feeling like not blogging, it is dull here, not much happening, and since gardening is over. I just sit'in on my butt, but I'm working inside the house, which it seems to me, I'm not getting anywhere.
Today, I had to take D to his pain management doctor in Kearney, which is about 100 miles to the east of me. They did another round of pretty painful injections with a spine needle that no one would ever get next to me with one. They only manage spine and leg pain for about 3-4 days then its back to chronic pain again and pain meds. I am just so upset that there really isn't anything being done, and what is being done now has come way too late in the game to even manage or cure the problem in the first place. Almost 3 years coming up and it was only this January that the company even did an MRI in the first place. Then the pain management didn't begin until this June, and now its going to be the 1st of November and pretty much its back to square one again. I am at a loss now. Welcome to the crappy world of work comp, (or lack of ).
While I was waiting for D to get back into the observation room, on the news I heard about 4 kids being in a trailer from my hometown that were kept in a dog kennel. Well, gee, we made the national news again! Such a nice town that I live in, NOT!
I think that with all that is going on in the world, and now this sucky town that I live in, is really getting on my nerves. Where I live in this trailer park, with the druggies, alcoholics, and other social ills, that come with the image of trailers and trailer parks, this will really put a black eye on the community. This morning, while looking at blogs and the weather, the radio personalities were talking about how this town rivals the drug problems that pretty large, urban area are dealing with, DUH! Its been like this for several years now, and is getting worse each day. I will bet that this child abuse case is connected with drugs or liquor. Seems that parents want the dope and booze more than taking care of kids and home. This case will also put a black eye on trailers even worse than it is now. Remember back last year the problems we were having with the cops here and the trailer park image he had with all of us living here.
I sometimes feel like the world comes crashing down upon your head and you don't even have a beanie hat to protect you. It seems that you just cannot get a footing and hang on to the rope for dear life. Ilene, I'm ranting today, and I am also very tired from the drive to and from the Doctor's office. I don't do driving very well anymore. I don't enjoy it like I did when I was young and foolish and would go where angels feared to tread, mainly in terrible urban areas when I drove truck with D. Some of the most dangerous and gang riddled areas and that was in the 70's. I know now it is 100% worse. Calgon, take me away.........
Anyway, I am starting to get cross-eyed at the screen, and I cannot see the letters on the keyboard. I think that I will quit for the night, fix a soothing cup of herbal tea and rest. Maybe the world will look better tomorrow. Probably not, but we can wish, can't we?
Showing posts with label garden doctor appointments. Show all posts
Showing posts with label garden doctor appointments. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Monday, July 11, 2011
A Hod Pog of going's on
Good Morning Everyone,
I hope that all of you are doing well, and surviving the gardening and heat blues. I am reading from other's blogs that the heat is on, and everyone is dealing with it as best as they can.
We are now in the heat too, we are also starting the July monsoon season, where we get almost daily thunderstorms in the late afternoon and evenings. These come up from the southwest from Colorado. Some have been a little monstrous but we only had one hail storm and thankfully, it did not damage my garden too much, as the fence and the closeness of the other trailers saved the garden by deflecting the hail stones, which were about the size of a quarter and then pea and marble sized stones. I just trimmed off the damaged leaves and used my worm compost tea and some organic liquid fertilizer to snap some of the plants out of shock. Everything seems to be doing fine. We now have the heat to deal with.
It has been ok around here, we had a neighbor from hell problem very early Saturday morning, the house neighbors called the law around 2 am, which I did not hear anything, which is shocking, but I was very tired and slept through THAT little skirmish, but then, I got up around 4 am, because I hurt somewhat, so I was up and then all hell broke loose again from the same B**** that lives next to me, and she was starting more problems with the B**** sister who lives in the trailer to the north of me about 2 doors away. They were all out in front of my trailer and so I called the law and the dispatcher, with a little humor, told me this was the second time they were called and that the cop that patrols our area at night will not be happy going back there. By the time everything was calmed down, it was a little past 5 am, and I was not a happy camper and neither was the house neighbors. I wish they would all move.....
I have been busy drying cilantro and then yesterday (Sunday), I cut some of my french Tarragon and am drying this under my carport for a few days.
I also changed my kitchen around to accommodate the canning later on,. First, trailers are not laid out well in the first place, especially the kitchen, but I moved my frigs to the south wall, and then I have my work table in the middle to handle canning. I moved my baker's shelf where the one frig was and I like it. I can move around and not stumble into everything.
I am going to try, if everything is quiet this week, to wash down my cupboards and go through some things and throw stuff out or to the Goodwill. I am running out of room. I just cleaned out the cupboards last winter, seems stuff just multiplies.
We have started the trips to the pain specialist for D for his spine problems. They are doing injections in specific spots in the vertebrae to control pain. The meds that they give him do no good anymore, and I am not a fan of meds anyway, so this is the last option for now. I talked to the Doctor and he does not have anything good to say about the prognosis, as almost 2 1/2 yrs ago, he asked for MRI's and an appointment with his neurosurgeon, only to be denied, and now the nerve damage and spine damage is beyond repair and with D's age, it is a last option and a permanent one, in which D would have the problems I have with spine surgery. The injections also only last about 4 days for pain control, so it's not a fix either. This is what work comp does to someone in our state, which is nothing, and then ruins the health of the employee and then there is nothing that can be done. Or should I say, this is what happens when the employer does not HAVE work comp in the first place. It is a mess.
I need to schedule my doctor's appointments also, I have had some issues with my parents, and I also lost a very beloved kitty over the Forth of July weekend. Her name was Runt, and she was 21 yrs old. She put up a good fight, but I am sure that she had liver cancer and finally I had to take her to my vet to peacefully send her to heaven. She was a very small, kitty, and was very sick when I got her at about 6 wks old. She had a very bad bout with a bacterial diarrhea and since that, she always had digestive problems which I controlled with enzymes and probiotics. I do not think that I did too bad of a job to get Runt to 21. She was a very sweet and yet grumpy kitty. I will miss her terribly.
Other than that, that is about all that is going on. I also forgot to mention, that I got 3 cucumbers and a tomato, Yay! And they sure were tasty! Had them for dinner last night. Everything is very slow though but it is coming along.
Well, I need to get going this morning, before it gets too hot. We are supposed to have storms also, so I need to mow and trim some more. I trimmed the garden yesterday so I could take photos of it, and I didn't want all of you to see the crappy weeds I had in my garden, it looked like a poop hole. The weeds got away from me.
Anyway, enjoy your week and take care all.
Hugs
I hope that all of you are doing well, and surviving the gardening and heat blues. I am reading from other's blogs that the heat is on, and everyone is dealing with it as best as they can.
We are now in the heat too, we are also starting the July monsoon season, where we get almost daily thunderstorms in the late afternoon and evenings. These come up from the southwest from Colorado. Some have been a little monstrous but we only had one hail storm and thankfully, it did not damage my garden too much, as the fence and the closeness of the other trailers saved the garden by deflecting the hail stones, which were about the size of a quarter and then pea and marble sized stones. I just trimmed off the damaged leaves and used my worm compost tea and some organic liquid fertilizer to snap some of the plants out of shock. Everything seems to be doing fine. We now have the heat to deal with.
It has been ok around here, we had a neighbor from hell problem very early Saturday morning, the house neighbors called the law around 2 am, which I did not hear anything, which is shocking, but I was very tired and slept through THAT little skirmish, but then, I got up around 4 am, because I hurt somewhat, so I was up and then all hell broke loose again from the same B**** that lives next to me, and she was starting more problems with the B**** sister who lives in the trailer to the north of me about 2 doors away. They were all out in front of my trailer and so I called the law and the dispatcher, with a little humor, told me this was the second time they were called and that the cop that patrols our area at night will not be happy going back there. By the time everything was calmed down, it was a little past 5 am, and I was not a happy camper and neither was the house neighbors. I wish they would all move.....
I have been busy drying cilantro and then yesterday (Sunday), I cut some of my french Tarragon and am drying this under my carport for a few days.
I also changed my kitchen around to accommodate the canning later on,. First, trailers are not laid out well in the first place, especially the kitchen, but I moved my frigs to the south wall, and then I have my work table in the middle to handle canning. I moved my baker's shelf where the one frig was and I like it. I can move around and not stumble into everything.
I am going to try, if everything is quiet this week, to wash down my cupboards and go through some things and throw stuff out or to the Goodwill. I am running out of room. I just cleaned out the cupboards last winter, seems stuff just multiplies.
We have started the trips to the pain specialist for D for his spine problems. They are doing injections in specific spots in the vertebrae to control pain. The meds that they give him do no good anymore, and I am not a fan of meds anyway, so this is the last option for now. I talked to the Doctor and he does not have anything good to say about the prognosis, as almost 2 1/2 yrs ago, he asked for MRI's and an appointment with his neurosurgeon, only to be denied, and now the nerve damage and spine damage is beyond repair and with D's age, it is a last option and a permanent one, in which D would have the problems I have with spine surgery. The injections also only last about 4 days for pain control, so it's not a fix either. This is what work comp does to someone in our state, which is nothing, and then ruins the health of the employee and then there is nothing that can be done. Or should I say, this is what happens when the employer does not HAVE work comp in the first place. It is a mess.
I need to schedule my doctor's appointments also, I have had some issues with my parents, and I also lost a very beloved kitty over the Forth of July weekend. Her name was Runt, and she was 21 yrs old. She put up a good fight, but I am sure that she had liver cancer and finally I had to take her to my vet to peacefully send her to heaven. She was a very small, kitty, and was very sick when I got her at about 6 wks old. She had a very bad bout with a bacterial diarrhea and since that, she always had digestive problems which I controlled with enzymes and probiotics. I do not think that I did too bad of a job to get Runt to 21. She was a very sweet and yet grumpy kitty. I will miss her terribly.
Other than that, that is about all that is going on. I also forgot to mention, that I got 3 cucumbers and a tomato, Yay! And they sure were tasty! Had them for dinner last night. Everything is very slow though but it is coming along.
Well, I need to get going this morning, before it gets too hot. We are supposed to have storms also, so I need to mow and trim some more. I trimmed the garden yesterday so I could take photos of it, and I didn't want all of you to see the crappy weeds I had in my garden, it looked like a poop hole. The weeds got away from me.
Anyway, enjoy your week and take care all.
Hugs
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