HAPPY EASTER and the MRI

HAPPY EASTER  and the MRI

Figured I would end up the month of March with an extra post.   Next month is a busy month..  April..  beginning of yard clean up from the winter…  April also brings about 12 birthdays in the month..  Including my husband, the King…myself a day later.. and near the end of the month.. the baby of the family, of my kids.. turns 54.

So you might want to know how did Friday go with the MRI?.. it actually went very well..  And the thought of much ado about nothing comes to mind.  As it went so smoothly. Had a nice gal who explained everything very well.  Step by step..  She was very professional but with a caring side effect. Also asking if I was warm enough..   It took almost 2 hours.. I started at about 6:05 AM and was done by 7:44AM.

We agreed on a wash cloth over my eyes..  which open a new door on the noises.. lol..   See with me not seeing anything.. my imagination went wild on the noises. I play..”WHAT IS THIS SOUND?” First there was the sound of a car wash, expecting brushes to come down and wash me.. lol.  Later there was rat a tat tat.. which sound like the French fighting it out with the Germans in Paris.   Then there was the car shop sounds of banging tools and parts..  See I told you my imagination went wild..  But it past the time..  So if you ever have one.. Know it is not bad.. just noisy.  Have them put a wash cloth over your eyes…and make up your own ideas of what the noises are.

In the meantime.. GOOD BYE MARCH… HAPPY EASTER ..  

 

Your mother dresses you funny….

Your mother dresses you funny….

Remember that saying when you were a kid.. Nope?  Well you must be under the age of 55..

Because it was said in the 1940’s and 50’s for sure.

In those days.. we would NEVER EVER be caught (dead as the saying went) with clothes that were pink and red.. together. Or pink and orange together..   Nor were we to wear blue and green.. UNLESS you were Italian.. as that was the color of the Italy flag.. What that had to do with it in United States.. I don’t know.  

Also you did NOT wear white before March..  or after September..   You, girls, were to wear gloves, dresses and hats to church.. and especially for Easter.. Easter was the time of the year for NEW shoes and hats and gloves..  and especially pastel colored clothing.    So remember that next week when Easter rolls around..  It is the day of wearing your finest.. A real clothes styling day. 

So did your mother dress you funny?  Did you look at pictures from your past or your children childhood and say.. WHAT WAS MOM THINKING?  I KNOW my daughter will tell you about the animal western shirt I made her at the age of 5.. with purple and pink hippos and elephants and etc..  And there is one son, who would probably point out the plaid pair pants he had … and I think they might have been flared bottoms?   It was the 1970’s …… lol..   even have a picture somewhere.. of my husband Marv in a pair of plaid pants.. being he was a tee shirt and jean type of a guy.. I don’t know why he agreed to those..

YUP, MOM’S DRESS YOU FUNNY…

 

Some times things don’t turn out like you figured….

Some times things don’t turn out like you figured….

For those who didn’t get the memo on Friday..  I was already last Friday.. to pull up my big girl pants and get the MRI done with out whimpering…   WHEN fate jumped in on Thursday,

With a call from the hospital.. telling me the next morning MRI was cancelled and moved to the 29^th.  WHY,  you might asked…  those words that shake you… THE MACHINE BROKE… and the parts won’t be in until Friday afternoon.

I asked her is this a bad omen..  she kind of giggled and say.. NO..  we will have it up and running on Monday.. and my appt. would be the following Friday.. A HALF AN HOUR EARLIER..  Heck I will have to get up at 5am.. to get something to eat and take my sedative before I get there.. at 630AM…  Oh, well..  let’s get this done.. 

Woke up yesterday to winter #4…. Yep more snow.. but at least it didn’t add up to much and was melted off by 10am.  It sure was windy while it snowed.. the snow was going sideways and blowing everything ever where.   Oh, well, this is IDAHO.. and we get anything any time.. when it comes to weather..  I remember one year I had transplanted some corn from the green house to the garden..  they said..IT WON’T GROW HERE… NOT ENOUGH SUMMER…  Well it grew up alright.. it was about 6 feet or more.. I was so proud, I had the kids take a picture of me, standing in front of all that green with tiny ears on it..   THEN.. I took a picture of it the next day..  black and on the ground.. See it froze, as the temps dipped to 10 above.. just for the one night..   So you just never know.

Trying to pull up my big girl pants…

Trying to pull up my big girl pants…

Ok, so as you saw I am going in for a MRI on Friday..  Being I have never had one..  never seen the machine..  I googled it.   As they asked about claustrophobic.)  ..  looked at the machine..  it didn’t look like it was small..  but one thing that did worry me.. as .. they stick you in head first..  and no opening on the head side.   As I thought if my head it stuck out on one end.. I would be ok with that..  just don’t like anything over my head … thinking to myself..  well, that won’t be too bad..  but wait a minute..  there is no opening.. 

Was talking to one of my son’s.. he says..  NO PROBLEM, MOM..  I FELL ASLEEP IN IT..  So I thought.. ok.. BUT THEN… I ask two friends and yes they both are female.. and the look of horror on their faces..   OH, NO.. DID THAT.. NEVER AGAIN..NOT UNLESS THEY CAN KNOCK ME OUT!!   Well, this isn’t looking so good..   One of them did mention.. “you need to talk to your doctor.. get a pill to take before you go.. it calms you down.”   Now I am not much for pills..  I barely remember my vits.. each morning…   I put off aspirins in hopes it will go away on it’s own..  but maybe this would be a good idea..  only one pill..  See I take things internally..  meaning my blood pressure hits sky high.. and I think I am handling things just fine.. Last time was when they took some bone marrow to see about my platelets.. at a CANCER UNIT…  I thought I was just fine with doing it.. but when they took my blood pressure it was 201 over 180..  I normally run 130 over 78…  She had me think happy thoughts (walking the beach and etc) and it went down to 160 over 88…  So I called and got the pill..  I am ready to go with this..    I want to know what is going on with my bones.. that over rules.. being nervous wreck.. and backing out.. 

So Friday… I will pull up my big girl pants… with the help of the pill..  and get it done..   It is hell to get old.  I told a friend..  why now?  I have gone almost 84years.. no prescriptions. No health issues..  good legs and love to walk.. (not now).. couldn’t God just wait on this..  just wait until he takes me home.. I have a lot of places to go yet.. and want to walk it..

   

UPDATE..   got the call that they cancelled..  MACHINE BROKE.. what the heck?   is this a bad omen... lol..   Anyway.. I am on for next Friday the 29th..

Well, that is a revolting development….

 Well, that is a revolting development….

I went to the dr. and I got my xrays…  And that didn’t quite turn out like I thought.  Well, actually..  I didn’t know how it would turn out..  I wanted the xrays for answers..  and I sure got that.. Not quite what I thought it would be.   She wanted to have a MRI…but the insurance company has to approved it and they have to see xrays to see if it really is needed. Well, they must have seen enough.. as I got in for a MRI on Friday the 22^nd..   Now I have never ever had a MRI..  Have heard other talk about having them.. but not about the procedure itself.. Only seen on dr. shows on tv.. kind of how it goes.  Now I have a better idea of it.. but still unsure.  As I got the call to come in and a little run down of what it is like and what to do before..  Like NO rings or any other jewelry.. Nothing on or in the body that is metal.  AND IT LAST AN HOUR to maybe an hour and half.!!

This is not good.. I am not good in close in places..  Don’t know how bad it can get, as I make a chose not to be in close in spaces.  Worse one was in a underground fort in Oregon, that they have tours thru.. I was doing pretty good until they said.. Here we have a door way, and if anyone has trouble with low ceilings.. this might be a good place to leave the tour.  I didn’t know I had issues so I went ahead with the King..  after all he is taller than me..  Well, I am hear to tell you after the next turn..  and too late to reverse… the ceil was lower.. I had a good foot.. should have not been bad.. it could even be a foot and half as the Ken is 6 feet and he seemed to be ok.. Found out later, he wished he had left too.

So this ought to be good … not…  asked if I could close my eyes.. she said yes, and they can put a washcloth over my eyes if that would help..  I said.. OH YES..  lol..

Anyway.. what they suspect and want better pictures of is.. degenerate bone/ arthritics..  I had them do my back, as well as my hip…, and they found something wrong at my 12 level in my spine? 

 

Not as young as I thought I was…

Not as young as I thought I was…

My body is revolting against me.. Now I know I can not lift as much as I use to be able..  (use to walk off with a 55# bale of hay with ease.. or a 70# bag of feed from the back porch) I understand those days are long gone..   I also know of late, I can’t lift much of anything over 20#.  I get it.. at 83 that is bound to happen. 

And with the way my legs have been acting for about 3 years now.. I can’t walk as much as I use to..  I could walk up to 2 miles without any problem and that was up  until about 3 years ago.  I still walk fast… .on a good day… just not as long.  And now I have to have the cart many times.. if I go thru Walmart.  If I go to Costco..  I need to take aspirin and rub my legs with EMU cream..  to make it thru the store..

Then in November.. my hip bone for some reason decided to give me problems..  It isn’t broke, but it sure is bent.. Enough that I decided to get it x ray’d.  BUT my insurance co.. has to have a referral… to get a referral you have to go see your doctor..  well, I called about January 4^th.. and the earliest I could get is March 13^th.. Yes.. tomorrow..  AND I am so ready…  Hopefully they figure out what is going on.. I know it is not broke.. but is it cracked?   Does it have a spur?  What the hell??   Hoping it isn’t surgery..   I have two counts against that..  one is I would not want to spend so much money on this 83 year old body.. to have it kick the bucket a week later…  leaving the King with a hospital bill..  The other is the platelets problem I found out I had 18 years ago.. And the blood dr. said that if I have to have surgery ever..  I need to have a dr. conference about the platelet problem, as bleeding out is a possibility.  Isn’t that a lovely thought.. hopefully medicine has come a way since the 18 years.

Then I woke up the other morning with my right muscle in my arm aching..  took me a while to figure out why that was.. I was helping out with some house work the other day at the granddaughter’s house.. and I was using a broom to bring stuff out from under the couch..  There was quite a bit and some of it was hard so I had to really pull to get it out..  So that explains that..  but still want to know what is going on with the hip, as it was Nov. when it happen.. and it isn’t getting any better, if anything it is worse as it happens every day..  in the beginning it was once a day or two.  

Hell to get old..  lol..

Well, this is the pits….

Well, this is the pits…. 

Last week was hell on wheels..   Mentally as well as physically..

Started off with Microsoft doing what they have been saying they were going to do..  Change from hotmail to outlook….  I have had hotmail for about 15 years or so.. It is my general email. I have two others..  one is my server which isn’t used much.. and the other is a gmail which is my personal one.. I have had that about 10 years.. As my grandson had made me do it.. lol..

Well on Thursday, I believe it all came to a screeching halt.  I was caught off guard as it has been telling me since the first of the year…COMING SOON.. changes to Microsoft ..stopping hotmail and going to just outlook.  Out look they have had for quite some time. But I am a creature of habit.. and it made no difference which one was used.. I got my hotmail.  But with out a date of when this would all happen..  I just plowed on..  I did make a copy of my sign on for gmail.. and put it in a folder.. And I knew my provider one..  But the King’s gmail.. I had not got around to copying.  And I went to the site and it would not let me sign in as they said it was the wrong password.  Well, I knew dang well. It was the correct one.. as I have a book with all my password in it.. so knew it was right..  Then I decide to go to Facebook.. it would not open.  Told me that my password was not correct. Once again.. I knew it was correct.. and I knew  it was really really hard for someone to figure it out.. As it has about 15 letters and numbers and symbols and etc.  I finally after 2 hours of trying to figure out how to get out of this mess..  I walked away.

When it starts to frustrate me.. I walk away..  and remember the words my son, the computer guy.. said to me many years ago..  MOM, IT IS JUST A TOY..  he told me that in the late 1990’s and at that time it was true..   and still kind of ..yet. but we now keep in contact with our friends and family… by computer.. be it Facebook. Or Messenger or emails..  So it is harder to take that advice.  But knowing if I kept it up.. my frustrating would get worse and there would be mistakes.. So walked I did..   He had called that afternoon, and I was complaining and he said.. what does this have to do with Facebook.   I said I thought because of one of the gmails is attached to the Facebook account..  He said it shouldn’t matter.

But long story short.. it didn’t and the reason why I could not get into my Facebook was FACEBOOK WAS DOWN.. NO ONE..across the nation could. 

So by the time I settled down the NEXT DAY..  I had no problem getting into my Facebook.. it came up with my account with no problems.. 

So then it was the emails to figure out. 

I found out that … the King’s gmail.. I had some where in my sanity.. gave my gmail for the kick back incase of trouble with his.. SO while it would not accept my password, it would go to  “forgot your password?” section..  And it would sent to MY gmail.. the way to redo the password.. which was kind of funny.. no so much humor.. but..  I put in the password I had in my book..  and guess what it said..   do not use old password…  now how the hell did it know it was my OLD password.. yet would not accept it?   So I figured out a new one.. yes, I put it in the book… and so far so good.   The HOTMAIL/OUTLOOK  email.. well, that got to be mostly junkmail anyway..  I took what ever was important off of that one in January and gave them my gmail.  So if I never see the Microsoft one again.. I don’t care. And all those junkmails are going to never never land.

I did try to get ahold of Microsoft and tell them how I felt… BUT when I hit send.. it told me it was a…. no reply address… which was not in the return address.  I tried the .com but that went off to some other stuff.  So gave up.  Good bye Microsoft.   The hard part was .. I had used outlook.com for the combo for all my emails.. but I can’t use it.. as gmail.has blocked them when I tried to sign them back up.. why it was erased in the transfer is beyond me.. after all the combo was listed as… you got it.. OUTLOOK.COM.

Any way.. I am like a bad steak.. I AM DONE. I AM OVER DONE.

By the way.. did I ever tell you .. I HATE COMPUTERS..  the necessary evil.??

Not giving up yet...

NOT GIVING UP YET.....

Wow.. it is not 18.. it is 19…

Yesterday, I was looking at my blog, and saw I started in 2005!! Not 06..  So tomorrow is the start of my 20^th year..

So as I was thinking .. as I do at this time of the year.. do I keep going .... is there enough people who still want to read what this simple mind writes…  and then it dawn on me.. 19 years done..  wow..  (that is a lot of BS.. lol)  and can I do one more year and end it on a even year. A milestone so to speak.. after all 20 years..

Then I thought sure I can..  just write 3 or 4 paragraphs twice a week… as I have done for the past several years..   After all I am no quitter. AND it is election year..  and my soap box may be a little wobbly.. but it is still strong enough to hold the weight of my thoughts and words of wisdom…  lol… Don’t know about the wisdom. But this year..  it is going to be either … for me.. a hell of a ride… or I will get sooooo disgusted.. I just won’t care anymore.. 

The country needs Niki to stay in the race for a while longer.. so the mouth of the east, doesn’t get a free ride..  She needs to stay to show… 1. a woman can stand up to corruption.. 2. there is someone who really cares..  even if her way isn’t the one we really were hoping for.  My self I like the gal of Texas..  Gov. Richard.. now she was a character and some one to pay attention to.. but we don’t have those kind of women anymore. I don’t remember what party she belonged to, but I really don’t pay any attention to parties anyway.

Anyway.. as you can see.. I am sticking it out.. so unless God comes up with a better plan.. I am in for the ride..  HANG ON TO YOUR HATS… LADIES AND GENTS.. this could be a hell of a ride.

Still coming in with a roar …

Still coming in with a roar …

We have had some pretty mild weather for over a month..

More rain than snow.. temps about 10 degrees warmer.

But as we headed in to March.. it is living up to its saying, of coming in like an lion and out like a lamb…  but with this year.. who knows..  March just might be a lion all the way thru April. Anything is possible this year… that is for sure.

And to be honest with you.. I am hoping that Spring holds off for a couple more weeks as it is. When I walk around the yard with the GGboy.. all I see is a hell of a lot of work..

Still hoping for a couple more feet of snow…at least if not more for the mountain. We need it for ground water for July