Thursday, October 27, 2005
Catching up on the random tidbits that are my life.....
I made a big ol' deal about acquiring an update to my operating system, and now it has sat on my desk for a month. I keep meaning to get to it, but I've been feeling so awful that I never finished the backups I need to do first. For some reason I'm getting errors when I try to back up to my iDisk, and I've got way too much junk to back up onto a single CD. If I ever get a clear head, I will sit down and figure out a different way. It would also help if I weren't sleeping 12+ hours a day! I start my new pain med tonight.....if it agrees with me, maybe my migraine will finally go away (I'm on day FOUR of this stinkin' headache) and my brain will engage again. Weird that I can figure out what to say in a blog but not be able to figure out how to back up my own system.
Maybe this weekend I will get around to the update. Except for a meeting of my chronic pain support group, I should be home all weekend because Chip D. Dog is having some surgery and will be a bit under the weather, or at least terribly inconvenienced with that funnel collar on his head. The vet decided the lump on his chest needs to come off because it's growing. While he's out, they're also gonna remove the wart on his lip because he keeps biting it, a cyst on his eyelid and they're gonna clean his teeth. I figure we'll save a bit of money having it all done at once because they'll only have to knock him out once. Not that it's cheap. In fact, it will cost nearly as much as surgery on a person.
I started reading Harry Potter volume 3 during my vacation. I'm almost done with it. I've had so many appointments and trips to the drug store since my vacation that I've had plenty of time to read. I read in the car while Dan chaffeurs me. I've just been too out of it to drive a lot lately.
I might get to watch some Harry Potter movies with a friend. I'd like to see the movies while I can still kinda remember the plot of the books. I was told by another friend's 11 year old that the first two movies follow the books very closely.
Now that it gets cold in the evenings, I'm using my massage cushion pretty much nightly with the heat setting. It does help with that pesky low back pain. And I appreciate any extra source of heat since I'm trying to be frugal by keeping the thermostat low. Our utilities are expected to go up by 70 percent this winter. Not good news for those of the arthritic persuasion.
Am having further adventures in cooking. Made potato soup last weekend (with Dan's help, of course). It turned out pretty well, but I think I'll try to find a gluten free cream version that Dan will like better (the one I had made used chicken broth). All the recipes I've seen so far for the cream style use flour, but I'm sure I can locate something suitable for me on the internet. Or use a regular recipe and try substituting corn starch for the flour. I'm trying to come up with fairly low cost ways to stretch our food budget whilst I have no income.
Speaking of no income, my long term disability company has blown me off yet AGAIN. They claim that the doc who supervised my sleep study hasn't coughed up the info they requested. Well, they got the name of the doc wrong, so no wonder. It's their own fault; I spelled the name out to them on the phone. Anyway, they wanted me to call the doc's office, which I did and had to leave a message and got no reply. And they want ANOTHER 30 days to process my claim. Now the earliest I can get any benefits is January. Grumble. I have some choice words for them, but I bet you can figure out what they are.
The liquid methadone wasn't available at my local pharmacy, so my doc gave me a new script for the tablets. I'm to take the lowest dosage, which is cool by me. I'm to ease into the full dosage over the course of a few days, with consistent pain relief to take place after a few days on the full dose. I took my first pill a few hours ago. So far, I don't notice anything except being extra sleepy. Too early to pass judgement, but I'm being cautiously optimistic.
I do want to do a long serious post about pain control and addiction and the difference between the two, but I will save it for another day.
That should be enough tidbits for now.
Maybe this weekend I will get around to the update. Except for a meeting of my chronic pain support group, I should be home all weekend because Chip D. Dog is having some surgery and will be a bit under the weather, or at least terribly inconvenienced with that funnel collar on his head. The vet decided the lump on his chest needs to come off because it's growing. While he's out, they're also gonna remove the wart on his lip because he keeps biting it, a cyst on his eyelid and they're gonna clean his teeth. I figure we'll save a bit of money having it all done at once because they'll only have to knock him out once. Not that it's cheap. In fact, it will cost nearly as much as surgery on a person.
I started reading Harry Potter volume 3 during my vacation. I'm almost done with it. I've had so many appointments and trips to the drug store since my vacation that I've had plenty of time to read. I read in the car while Dan chaffeurs me. I've just been too out of it to drive a lot lately.
I might get to watch some Harry Potter movies with a friend. I'd like to see the movies while I can still kinda remember the plot of the books. I was told by another friend's 11 year old that the first two movies follow the books very closely.
Now that it gets cold in the evenings, I'm using my massage cushion pretty much nightly with the heat setting. It does help with that pesky low back pain. And I appreciate any extra source of heat since I'm trying to be frugal by keeping the thermostat low. Our utilities are expected to go up by 70 percent this winter. Not good news for those of the arthritic persuasion.
Am having further adventures in cooking. Made potato soup last weekend (with Dan's help, of course). It turned out pretty well, but I think I'll try to find a gluten free cream version that Dan will like better (the one I had made used chicken broth). All the recipes I've seen so far for the cream style use flour, but I'm sure I can locate something suitable for me on the internet. Or use a regular recipe and try substituting corn starch for the flour. I'm trying to come up with fairly low cost ways to stretch our food budget whilst I have no income.
Speaking of no income, my long term disability company has blown me off yet AGAIN. They claim that the doc who supervised my sleep study hasn't coughed up the info they requested. Well, they got the name of the doc wrong, so no wonder. It's their own fault; I spelled the name out to them on the phone. Anyway, they wanted me to call the doc's office, which I did and had to leave a message and got no reply. And they want ANOTHER 30 days to process my claim. Now the earliest I can get any benefits is January. Grumble. I have some choice words for them, but I bet you can figure out what they are.
The liquid methadone wasn't available at my local pharmacy, so my doc gave me a new script for the tablets. I'm to take the lowest dosage, which is cool by me. I'm to ease into the full dosage over the course of a few days, with consistent pain relief to take place after a few days on the full dose. I took my first pill a few hours ago. So far, I don't notice anything except being extra sleepy. Too early to pass judgement, but I'm being cautiously optimistic.
I do want to do a long serious post about pain control and addiction and the difference between the two, but I will save it for another day.
That should be enough tidbits for now.
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