I found this on Facebook. Seems we can't even get normal snow. We got some type that begins with a g. It was explained that it begins as a snow flake, but as it travels through moisture, it forms a little ball. I didn't get to see it falling, but when I was looking in the eaves of the houses as we neared home - it looked strange. When I asked my daughter about it before I saw this, she described it as dippin dots!
The bandage comes off G's hand today. From here on it's just a band-aid. He is beginning to be able to use it some. The doctor said he put a lot of numbing agent in it. It was hard to do anything because his fingers felt like his mouth after a dental procedure.
Back to the topic of everything these days, next week is the mass doctor appointments for me. I see my eye doc on Monday, and I am glad. My eye that is getting the injections (which I get on Tuesday) is hurting. I feel like someone hit me in the eye. Anyway, as I said Tuesday the greatest thrill - the eye injection. Thursday I go to the cardio-doc. I just love doctor's appointments.
Getting ready for the cardio-doc, I went to the lab to have my blood drawn. Since I can only have procedures done on the left because of the mastectomy, I am very protective of my arm and its blood vessels.
I was lucky (??) enough to get a student working with the "vampire." I know everyone needs practical experience. Really. But with only one arm that can be used - I don't want to think about what the alternative would be to that arm if all the veins are blown.
The one teaching stuck me in a place I had never been stuck before. She went to the lateral part of the elbow rather than in the middle where most go. I was a little nervous, but it actually hurt less. The "teacher" stuck me, and the student attached the vacutainers. OK.
EXCEPT she forgot to draw enough blood for the ordered tests. So I was to be stuck again. The student was going to go back into the same area. Nope - not allowed, so they went to the hand. That one hurt, and she didn't get the butterfly in the vein properly. So they probably only got about 1 millileter. Great. They have the ruling that they can only stick the patient twice, and so it was over.
I just hope they can get enough out of the two vials and basically a little capillary tube to run the tests. I really don't want to have to go again.
My daughter, SIL, and DIL are on this diet coach thing. Supposedly SIL lost something like 20 pounds in two weeks. I really would have liked to witness those weigh-ins. I know men can lose weight faster than women, but... Really?? I have walked this earth long enough and lost and gained enough weight that I know this is a little far fetched. The up side about having to listen to them talk about : I ate this and that, Astrid said ..., the exercise CD did.." is that I don't have to host family dinner!! They are so wrapped in this lo-cal that they do the meals.
Meanwhile, I AM cutting back. I don't exercise because most of the exercises require floor work. I can't get on the floor- well, I can, but I can't get up without kneeling. And I don't want to aggravate my deteriorating back. I have been losing a couple of pounds a week. I don't feel that I am being deprived. After all these years, I have heard it all. I haven't always listened, but I am putting some of those ideas into action. A couple of pounds a week is OK with me!
2 comments:
Holy Cow!! Two pounds a week would be 104 pounds in a year!! It would be funny and "in your face" kind of thing if you lost more than they did with their fancy diet and exercise and coach.
I got queasy just reading about your blood draw experience! Ugh.
And then I had to laugh about the upside to their diets. We don't have any family meals here, but I can see that it would get old having to host on a regular basis.
I heard about those little snow pellets on tv. I forgot what they called them though. They had a funny name for them.
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