Friday, September 1, 2023

Results on the arm…and other doctor visits

The orthopedic doc says I have a spur in the top of my shoulder and that is causing impingement syndrome. Uhm OK. What do we do about that?  PT and some anti inflammatory drugs. Fun times. 
PT will start on the 7th

My regular doc said that he wouldn’t reduce my BP meds. In fact he did something weird when I said I pee too much (aka I pre every hour or more - NO it’s not diabetes - I drink about 24oz of water in that hour. Sooooo he increased my water pill. Doesn’t that seem counter intuitive?  I commented that my girlfriend noted I peed ok the way to Ocilla (1.5hr drive) dug through a pool house in the heat. Sweating to the point of using my shirt to mop my face - drank maybe 15 oz water while there and STILL at myself before I could get into the house!!  Like FULL bladder deal. Horrible I know, but I have issues with control and, well, it is what it is. She drank as much as me, sweated as much as me and did not have to pee. What gives?  Frustrating 

So I will take the new drugs. See what they do then go back. Oh and they had an abnormal EKG on me while I was there and said they would let me know. That’s been a few days now and no news. No news is good news?  Who knows. I swear you go in and then find all this stuff “wrong” with you. Sigh. BUT we will do what they want for now and see what comes of it. 

Oh and while waiting on the regular docs office I thought “ok this is the time to make your follow up with Dr Harrington for my hernia. Yeah, they need a referral. Uh, you had one in December when I first went in - she said lose 50lbs, I did, so????  Yeah needed another. Fine. I happen to be in a drs office, he wrote up my referral. One less thing to do. 

The count is:
See regular doc for blood pressure  ✅
   Have him see other concerns ✅
Go to appointment for ortho ✅
  Have follow up in four weeks ✅
Get physical therapy set up ✅ 
   (Starts Sept 7th)
Waiting on TMJ appointment ✅
   (Sept 19th)

Thursday, August 31, 2023

Repairs thrifting

What I do with my time in the evenings?
Repair work on those items deemed worthy. 
This one is/was

Before. Can you see the janky way they used old ornament wire to wire the crystals to the lamp?  Yeah. That looks HORRIBLE. So I ordered some jump rings and replaced the one by one… 


Here we are “in progress”. It didn’t take too long it was just tedious work as some of the crystals needed two jump rings to get it where I needed it. 

But the finished product is worth it I think. 

The gal (Lynda) who sold it to me is one we revisited THREE times an hour and a half away. Yep. She had lots of goodies. My friend Barbara went four times as I was in Utah visiting with Mom when Lynda reached out to us and said she was putting it all on sale $1 a piece. Yes. $1 each no matter the size. Barbara even revisited when I went the last time and bought more ;) we are addicted!!


But isn’t she gorgeous?