Evening all. Soccer has been practiced, I had on a sweatshirt and sweatpants and was still cold, a couple of the boys were still running around in shirtsleeves…kids are indestructible. Came home for some Mac-n_Cheese and watched a bit of TV (for some reason I like to watch Storage Wars).
Off to bed shortly.
VanGo, only year I rode the bus to school (we had just moved to Ft. Wayne, IN as school was starting and the nearest elementary was overcrowded), the stop for 5-6 kids was right across the street, and we could see the bus coming about 1/2 mile away, so no rush to stand outside.
Bumba, hope wife-unit is OK today.
OK, finish up the internettin’ and head off to bed. Catch everyone on Hump Day.
I’ve started this post three times. This time for sure! Not much new here today despite all the distractions. I heard an unconfirmed rumor that my downstairs neighbors are moving out. This is the couple who talked VERY LOUDLY so it sounded like they were miked up. They got a lot better, but they’re kind of hostile to the other tenants in the building. If they’re really going, I hope someone nice and quiet moves in.
I think you’re OK. Though the allergist said there are black box warnings on antihistamines, I think he meant on MY antihistamines, not all of them. Unfortunately for me, the “second generation” antihistamines like Claritin, don’t work for me. The only ones that do are “first generation” meds–chlorpheniramine (Chlor-Trimaton) and Benadryl, and those are associated with dementia. There’s also something about older bodies being slower to metabolize antihistamines, so in some cases, doses should be reduced. I think asking your doctor is a great idea.
Yes. Yes, you can. Claritin doesn’t seem to be an issue, but you can also blame it for misspellings, bad moods, bad jokes, cowlicks, hangnails, and waxy yellow buildup.
I think the idea of any kind of eye surgery creeps most people out. I’ve had blepharitis for years. I haven’t had surgery that involved cutting the eyelids, though. There’s a connection between blepharitis and dry eye, and the docs just treated the latter. In addition to plugs put into the (MetalMouse’s favorite word) puncta (sounds worse than it is), they did something with a laser, but I don’t recall what. It was immediately after a corneal transplant, so I was focused (hah) on the Big Surgery. Sorry I’m not more help!
You don’t want to call him Toe or Bi or Bias? I think you should let Roxy nickname him!
There was more than one? Or is that a knitpick? (It’s a disease. I can’t help it.)
What drove me crazy in the mornings was how POKY kids were in getting on the bus and finding a seat. It was like they were wearing magnetic shoes on an iron road.
Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffeinatin’. YAWN 'Tis 49 (BRRR!) and clear with a predicted high of 74 and mostly N.O.S. for the day. I have, for me, a pretty full agenda today. We (mostly OYKW) shall procure provisions, I shall attend to some regularly scheduled church janitor Junior Warden duties, and I have a doc appointment at eleven that includes my Moderna booster. Sup shall be heated up taco soup that, as y’all will recall, I made yestiddy. Perhaps that is enough to keep us outta major trouble today.
Bumba hope the wifey is feelin’ better.
Nellie glad the loud neighbors are movin’. Hopefully the cast of Stomp, a family of Irish River Dancers, bagpipe players, or professional yodelers won’t move in instead.
Now I need more caffeine and to feed rumbly tummy. Then, alas, alack, and bother of bothers, I suppose I must needs purtify and don appropriate bein’ about the public attire. Life is just so hard!
My app tells me it’s 36° here. My outdoor thermometer isn’t working, dammit. For some reason, it doesn’t seem to work below about 48°. I’ll have a look at it later.
Once FCD decided to get his buns in gear, we’ll head to Cracker Barrel for breakfast. That’s part 1 of his B-day. When we come home, I’ll bake him a punkin pie - that’s part 2. Dune at 4 - that’s part 3. And on Saturday, Daughter is making him dinner and a chocolate cake - that part 4. He’s 65 today.
No other plans - I do believe that’s quite enough for one day.
It was a very busy day at the office, stuffed with Teams meetings, actual work, and many to-dos around the office itself, along with meeting up with the new MPA to go over strategies, training, and various other things.
I have read everything but retained little. It was another restless night, worsened by the husband’s waking me up when he came to bed, then tossing and turning until I gave up and got out of bed at three. I was trying to sleep in just a little since I’m working from home today, but that just wasn’t happening.
Morning all. Was up past midnight last evening so of course I woke up at 7am today…stupid body. Paper has been taken in and pills swallowed, so the responsible part of the morning is done. Need to break fast in about an hour and maybe do a little shopping. Currently 41F outside, the chill of Autumn is certainly here.
A most happy Birthday to FCD; sounds like you have a great day planned for him.
Thank you, nellie and Boo for sharing your experiences! I have a feeling the husband unit will need surgery - it’s good to know that it likely won’t require a hospital stay, though I do feel for my husband. It’s not gonna be fun whatsoever. I’m hoping that he’ll at least get a little relief until then with all the antibiotics & goo.
Today is a relatively okay day. I talked to my dad who was pretty coherent, though he’s getting to the point where he’s mixing me and my sister up, but he’s been doing that for a few years already. And i managed to pull my sorry hide onto the treadmill, which made me feel good. Of course, now I’m starving. Time to eat and work. Hopefully I’ll get some time to shower and attempt to stick in my contacts. I must’ve been doing it wrong earlier - they’re not migrating anymore when I put them in a certain way, so I seem to be hitting the target, though my eyes were swollen for a couple of days from prying open my lids.
It says you have limits to what you can deal with before it starts to wear you down. Yanno, kinda like pretty much everyone. But not everyone is willing to give that kind of support to a friend, so that makes you an especially good human! Do accept a few long-distance {{{hugs!!}}}
Back from breakfast. We sat in Lisa’s section, and I told her it’s FCD’s b-day. She brought him a hunk o’cobbler as a birthday dessert. She got an extra big tip because of that. We like Lisa!
I’m about to start making the punkin pie. That should warm the house up a bit. Plus it smells good!!
The kukris are handy in tight spots where you really can’t get a machete up to speed. I keep a Cold Steel kukri in the car with the rest of the emergency equipment.
Brochure: The Acme Engineering SSLAW can scan and label up to 100 packages before needing 1000 hours of maintenance…
Brown executive: “Let’s put 2 in one of our busiest hubs!”
Me: < headdesk >
Also, somebody ordered 1(one) box of Band-Aid band aids from Da Jungle, who shipped it sans packaging. Actually I’m seeing a lot of that. I guess Jeff blew the packaging budget on his rocket penis flights. And I had to stay late. OT, woe is me. Naptime, assuming somebody doesn’t lose his Skittles when they start painting the decks.
It says you’re human and can only deal with so much other grief and stress on top of your own. Don’t be so hard on yourself.
{{{{shoe}}}}
: makes mental note to not carjack West Coast Mumpers :
Every week, we get an email from our electric cooperative summarizing our electricity usage from the previous week. The one I just got said “You used 42% less electricity last week! Great Job!”
Yeah, I was out of town last week.
FCD is having a pre-movie snooze. I’m doing some puzzles. It’s a quiet, dull day. Retirement is nice!
My surgery really wasn’t hard to tolerate. I’d suggest asking the surgeons office for patient instructions ahead of time and following them to the letter. I wish I had~I ended up having to find a way to buy just the right moisturizing eye drops after I was home but not up for driving alone. That was an aggravation I didn’t need but I inadvertently brought on myself. I wish I had bought them pre-surgery and they were waiting for me in my bathroom. Live and learn. A gel-filled eye mask that I kept in the fridge was was very soothing, I was glad I already had one and I used mine frequently the first days after surgery (I think it also helped how scary I looked).
Currently going through my own little episode of blepharitis, with all the ‘antibiotics and goo’, so I’m sympathetic. Just went to the eye doctor yesterday to find out evidently I’m extremely allergic to something that came into my world about 3 weeks ago, we just don’t know what. Yikes, @nelliebly!, I got a small taste of the itching misery you’ve been talking about and that was just in the tiny 6 square inches around my eyes! I was ready to claw the skin off. Trying to stay asleep was it’s own little hell, just like you describe. Fortunately the antibiotic drops, combined with the strongest possible corticosteroid drops, gave me relief within hours. Of course the teensy bottle of that antibiotic/steroid eye drops cost $294, which was a convoluted hurdle to surmount but my doc had a workaround. Medicare made me ineligible for the manufacturers coupons (end cost to me would have been $25) but also Medicare doesn’t have this drug in their formulary so out of pocket was my only choice ($284). Thank goodness he had a few samples~he really didn’t want me substituting a different drug but understood that someone disabled living on Social Security might not have $294 to spend on a teaspoonful of eye drops. Literally 5ml, which is a teaspoonful.
Now I have to try to figure out what it is I’m so allergic to so suddenly after 71 years. Threw out my beloved down pillow (it was way past time), changed the sheets. Haven’t used any new shampoo, face soap, laundry detergent, etc., so it isn’t that. I figure the only thing it can be is seeing the covidiots out and about that don’t think a mask has to also cover their damn nose to protect others or that my city’s directed public health mandate requiring face masks indoors in ALL public places means them too, whether they feel like it or not. There you have it: Boo is massively allergic to unmasked covidiots.
I think you should let Roxy nickname him!
Happy 
Birthday FCD