Invasive question. How did you get to the point that you got this diagnosis? My dad’s head is big, and mine is as well. One size fits most, not all.
Regarding crossword puzzles. I might start out in lowercase, and then switch to all caps, and I might even put a capital letter at the beginning. There’s no rules, except one letter per box.
There are pictures of two cats sleeping together, so that would be nice to do with my husband, who would also be in cat form. I envy those couples that are able to sleep all snuggled together.
If I use a plate for toast, for example, and then decide to have cookies, I’m going to use the same plate. But that’s only within 1-2 hours. When I’ve finished that eating period I’ll put everything in the dishwasher. I won’t save the toast plate from breakfast for eating cookies after dinner.
Reusing the plate depends on what I had on it before. Eggs with ketchup? Not putting cookies on it until it’s washed.
Occasionally you’ll find a puzzle that violates this convention. Like one I saw where in about four key squares there was a whole word in that box. For example, using “stand” so you could have “u-n-d-e-r-stand-i-n-g” going across and “stand-a-r-d” going down. This particular puzzle gave no hints that it used tricks like this, except for the solution key elsewhere in the newspaper. People who can solve puzzles like those are a whole league above my skill level!
This. If i just had toast, i might leave the plate out until i get around to loading the dishwasher. And if i then want a plate for cookies, i might reuse it. But I’m not going to put it away without washing it.
If the plate is dirtier, it will go straight into the dishwasher, or into the sink if the dishwasher holds clean dishes. So i do keep track of which plate held the defrosting steak.
And if the dishwasher is running, and i just had toast, “washing” the plate might consist of rinsing it off and putting it in the drying rack. But it will touch water before it goes back in the cupboard.
What counts as “working adequately”? I mean, I’ve been wearing glasses since I was six and it probably should have been six months; and my eyes are worse now than they were then; but with the aid of serious glasses I can do what I need to (though not effective birdwatching).
My knees bug me some from time to time but they work, and only occasionally need braces. I’d think that counts, probably?
I have to spend a lot more time on the john than I used to. Is that “adequately”?
I use a mix of upper and lower case letters for crossword puzzles.
Especially for the letter “i” which can look like an L without the little floating dot.
In my mind, “adequately” is a fairly low bar. Virtually none of the things on that list work as well as they used to, but they all do work at least to the extent that is necessary to live my everyday life with a minimum of whining, complaining, or seething.
No worries. I was losing feeling in my leg (the correct answer turned out to be: stop crossing my legs) and the neurologist ordered an MRI. The radiologist apparently freaked out because I was missing a “large portion” of my brain.
When I was a little kid ( 6 or 7), I overheard adults talking about a kid who had hydrocephaly. They said the doctors had to drain fluid out of the kid’s head or it would explode. !!! Of course, I could have misinterpretted or the adults were joking, but when anyone mentions hydrocephaly – even today – I get a bit quivery in my gut.
Me, too, on both accounts. I went gradually nearsighted as a kid, but didn’t realize how bad it’d gotten until I was a freshman in college. Got glasses then. Later got Lasik that was great until I developed my first cataract. My first cataract replacement was before corrective lenses were common for that purpose, and I didn’t know enough to ask. So, I just got a “plain” replacement that meant my Lasik change was gone in that eye. I did get a corrective lens with my second cataract surgery, so my eyesight was much better. I didn’t get glasses again until a year ago or so when I realized I couldn’t read writing on the TV (so many shows just display texts on the screen w/o saying them aloud).
I have osteoarthritis in my knees – worse in my right, but not horribly bad. I was using a cane before I lost weight but now I don’t need it. I can’t walk too fast or too long or I’ll pay for it though.
Me, too, because my normal printing is also a mix of cases.
Yikes! Big heads run in my family. It’s always a struggle to find an off-the-rack hat that fits my head. I’ve had bad migraines since I was 12, though, that have gotten even worse in the last year. My doc has scheduled a CT scan of my head. Wonder what they’ll find? Hopefully, not like Dizzy Dean – nothing.
I went by that and checked everything but running. I can run a little but neither fast nor far, and if I actually needed to run I’m sure I’d be inadequate at it.
I am, by the way, puzzled that “walking” and “ambulating” are both on the list and further puzzled that we apparently have two people who can walk but not ambulate.
ETA: At any rate, having done that I’m now feeling luckier than I was feeling earlier in the day.
I was thinking that the biggest crowd was at The Pyramid when it was a basketball arena and I used to go to watch the Tigers play. That held 20,000. But then I remembered a Rolling Stones concert in maybe '76 at the Liberty Bowl Stadium. It holds 58,000 but there were people on the field so it was more than that in attendance. I’ve never been to a huge mass demonstration/protest.
Doesn’t seem to slow you down. Thanks for the explanation.
My interpretation of adequate is not needing any help to make it function properly.
I wear glasses, have 15% hearing loss in one ear, insomnia and IBS. If they were adequte, I wouldn’t need glasses, subtitles, avoid caffeine and Metamucil.
I don’t use walking sticks, I can crawl, etc, without too much difficulty, but may not as well as a 9-month-old baby, etc.
I was one of the 101,273 people at the 1991 Rose Bowl. Wikipedia. So far I haven’t been to a mass demonstration/protest.
And now that I think about it, we didn’t plan to attend, but we did cross paths with Berlin Pride which was 500,000-700,000 (not sure which year we were there). Went back and changed my vote accordingly. If I had known about it, I would have brought hearing protection and stayed longer. Without hearing protection, it was just too loud to stay long.
I was a tourist in Athens and found myself in a massive political rally. They had one for each major party, on consecutive nights, but i got swept up by the largest. The news told me it had been more than 1,000,000, so that’s how i voted. But you could never see them all at once or anything, because there were buildings in the way. It was just streets full of people over a very large chunk of the city.
Would need to change my vote, then; though I don’t know whether I’ll bother.
If the only reason I need psyllium fiber is because of the Metformin, does that mean my bowels aren’t functioning adequately? Because I think it’s actually my pancreas which is the problem.
I don’t think I have insomnia in itself. Sometimes I can’t sleep for a while due to the state of finances or the state of the country, though.
I’ve avoided crowds for years as much as possible; but I have occasionally been in one. The largest might have been at a concert or a demonstration or maybe when my mother and I were in Italy and heard the Pope was speaking and went out of curiosity, but I didn’t try to count people at any of them and the largest ones were all quite a while ago. I couldn’t check both ‘no idea’ and ‘I avoid crowds’ and picked the former.
I was in Berlin for the unification celebration (3rd October 1990) google tells me 1,000,000 attended. I put more than 1 million but could have been 500k-1m
2nd place was I was on a training course in London when the victorious England Rugby team had a bus parade. The route went virtually past the training centre during our lunch break so I got to see the team (and at least some of) the 500,000 spectators.
