KweebsLS's Journal

Tuesday – June 30, 2009 – 7:47am

Long Update On Weeble World…

So LAST Wednesday (June 24) went like this:

- 09:30am – Foot doc where I waited for 45 minutes and saw him for 7, including a second injection.  Also witnessed elder abuse (son to mother) in the waiting room and alerted one of the staff.

- 10:30ish – Left foot doc, decided I felt ok enough to go get pre-MRI blood draw.  Got there around 10:50, waiting room was wall-to-wall people so I aborted.

- 10:55-ish – Decided to drive over to chiro and see what he was up to, and if he could work on me.  No other patients, and we got caught up on all things ‘me’.   He’s leery about some of the contrasts/dyes they use for brain MRIs so I’m forewarned.

- 12:10pm-ish – Decided to try lab again for bloodwork.  Coast was clear, I was in and out in 20 minutes.  Felt upper back adjustment I’d just had come out.  *sigh*  (We knew a time would come that they wouldn’t hold any more.  I guess it’s now.)

- 12:25pm – Get in vehicle, clock says  ’12:10’.  WHAT???  So decide to stop at mechanic on the way home (I can walk to our house from his place).  Told him what was up, he said to come back in a few minutes and he’d take a look to see if it needed a real visit, or if it was just a fuse or something.

***Note, the clock had been wonky for awhile, only GAINING time.  Like each time we turned on the engine from a cold start, it flipped a minute ahead.  Now, it’s LOSING time.  Had happened over the previous weekend too.

- Lost track of time to brain fog – left mechanic and went to other end of street to, 1) get money for mechanic, 2) something in the hardware store I can’t remember now – OH, new tennis balls for my foot, 3) and upstairs in the plaza to get my special order hair conditioner where I also snagged a glazed donut since I missed lunch.

- Still loopy about time – stopped quickly at home to refill water travel mug, and went back to mech.  He and one of his people couldn’t find any power loss from the battery, no fuses askew, so the clock might just be wonky.  And he didn’t charge us for the checking.

(***Of course, the clock hasn’t done it again.  Yet, anyway.)

- 02:45pm – Got home and just wanted to collapse but couldn’t because I was just BUZZING and wired.

***Note, husband has also been working unpaid overtime until 9 or 10pm every night since Monday the 22nd.  He will get comp time, but that means I’ve been doing all the things he usually does too.

And that was last Wednesday.  For the next few nights, I had so much trouble sleeping – and Spot didn’t help.  His ‘frapping’ hour is our bedtime now, and he prevents me from falling asleep.  There was that one night I did sleep, and if Ms. Thums tried to wake me, I never felt it.  But I ran out of energy and mood really quickly that day.  I just wanted to go back to sleep.

I slept last night too, but only after we got Spot under control.

It messes me up if I miss that window of feeling like I both want and need sleep at night.  If I push past ‘bedtime’, I pay a price.

And also since last Wednesday, I’ve been doing some house cleaning, and working on a bead project with a deadline while still waiting for some backordered beads to get here.  The last finally arrived yesterday, and one was the wrong color.  Or rather, the same color they’d already sent.  Pretty though, so I’m keeping it.  I think I have something else they’ll work with.  I’ll call the catalog company though and alert them.  I wanted to make something that ombréd (ahm-brayed) aqua/turq blues, from the lightest to the darkest and the one they sent again was the middle hue, instead of the lightest.  Easy mistake.  I’ll have to finish my project without them though.  I think.  I started years ago to read a book about the creative business and in the first paragraph it said, ‘don’t stay married to your first idea’.   Sometimes, colors and materials want to take a different path.  I’ll have to allow for that here, and actually already have.

So today is the brain MRI.  I hope upon hope, that the same two women who ran my last one are not running it today.  One of them was REALLY snotty and rushed me, and didn’t help me on or off the table in spite of me coming in with A CANE.  She also misquoted me on the prelim report, and it’s following me around now.  And the other woman was obviously uncomfortable around her.

Yep, yep, yep… If she’s working today and in the same mood, SHE’S GOING TO HAVE A VERY DIFFERENT EXPERIENCE.

So that’s all there is in Weeble World at present.

Well OF COURSE I’ve probably forgotten something.  I have CFS and menopause for Muffin’s sake!

Hugs and Mojo – and welcoming DS member fishies to Weeble World too!

Weebs