My 1st Eye Injection Today...

<MainPage> On 8/13, about 2 weeks ago, at the ophthalmologist's office, I thought I was in for just an annual look-see and renewal of referral to the retina specialist. For about a year, I've been going to the specialist every few months because I had dry AMD in left eye and wet AMD in right eye and specialist anticipated possible bleeding back of the right eye eventually which would need an injection.

However, 2 weeks ago, that dude said my left "dry" AMD had now become "wet" and there IS bleeding back there.

So today I was at the retina specialist and he agreed and did my first eye injection.

Have to admit there was a lot of subdued terror and fear at that thought but I tried to relax and deal with it. In the waiting rooms, I talked to several patients who were going for regular injections for this and were tolerating it in many different ways so it still didn't help me figure how I'd deal with it.

Turns out my specialist now thinks I'm an elderly wimp (sigh). See, my left eye is the most jittery when you start coming toward it. It will clamp shut. Tight! And it will take 4 quarterbacks to open it again. Just saying. So after he had me put my head back so far I had a momentary vertigo from those loose crystals in my inner ear, every time he came near that eye - yep - it clamped shut. Tight.

He kept telling me to relax, that I wasn't helping, it was only going to be a few seconds. In retrospect, he was correct - it didn't take even a whole minute or two at most to do what he had to do. But my eyelid wasn't having any of that. Somehow, he managed to get it done. And I felt embarrassed.

Ok - so in my case, I felt no real pain, honestly! I've had worse pain the past with probing IV efforts. He said as the numbing meds wore off today it would feel as though I had gravel or sand in my eye. And that's about all that bothered me, except the eye was weeping off and on all day, so I've been dabbing with tissues. Oh, and they told me to use artificial tears and it took me all day but I finally got one drop in that eye tonight. Very uncooperative eye. At the most, I guess I could say it felt a bit "sore" sometimes but no real pain.

Bottom line - I must return EVERY MONTH until the bleeding stops which could be a year, or two months, or never. But I plan to practice an open-eye-vacant-stare for the next 30 days so that eye will behave when I go for the next one.

Rolling along...

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My DIY Computer Glare Reading Glasses!

My eyes are fried lots of times from the glare of the computer screen. I realize many of you have fancy monitors that you can adjust but a lot of us do not have that option. I will eventually buy a pair of "real" reading glasses that are properly tinted to alleviate the dry eyes and tired feeling of the computer screens, but I need something now. It also aggravates that gray blur in the middle of the one wonky eye with the dry macular degeneration.

SO, I first tried just putting a pair of sunglasses right over my readers at the computer. Very clumsy. Did NOT work. BUT it made me quickly realize I liked the way my eyes felt right away. Sunglasses are also darker than what the "real" special glasses are tinted with.

Next, I tried putting those wraparound humongous sunglasses over my readers, the kind you get after cataract surgery. Way too dark, way too dark...

THEN, I spotted a curled up piece of brown plastic that I kept meaning to throw away. There is a reason, my friends, a reason why we do not toss some things - just sayin' -  It was the throw-away roll-up plastic sunglasses a lot of opticians and specialists offer folks when they are leaving the office after eye dilation, until eyes are normal again. Hmmm, says I.

I took my hole punch and punched a hole on each side. I found 3 green twist ties (I always get a few extra when I'm at the produce area getting them for the plastic produce bags), and tied one in the center, then on the two sides. Voila! It worked just fine for the computer. They're not as dark as real sunglasses. My eyes love the rest.

You should really put the center twist tie on first to hold the silly frisky rolling thingie in place, then do the sides. I had to poke a second hole on one side, further in from the edge, to make it fit nicely over the readers.

These work just fine for now. I am ever so happy... once in a while I do something smart and really surprise myself!

Rolling along...

Silkie's Progress - The Good, the Bad, etc.

Well, as I expected, there was no way I could get pain meds into her today again. So, I brought her home yesterday morning. She did eat some wet kibble last night before bed, but she ate nothing all day today, even though she made several trips to the dishes. But, wonder of wonders, at 7:30 tonight, she did eat the wet kibble!

I had tried drizzling the pain liquid into one of the dishes this morning but she totally dissed that one.

Called the Vet and they said it's okay to take her in tomorrow when they open (at 8 am) and they'll give her the meds, then I can take her about an hour before they close, for the second dose. The doses are supposed to be 12 hours apart so that second trip might not work and I might have to wait until Monday morning early. Either way, even if I get one good dose a day into her, at least she won't be suffering so much. She paws at her mouth, twists her face as though she's trying to get something off her teeth but when I mentioned that on the phone, they didn't seem to think that was an issue. I guess it's like us - take out a tooth and Bingo! Where does our tongue immediately go? Right - to the empty space!

Her spirits are reasonably good. She's enjoying me brushing her far more often than normal. She enjoyed a 1/2 hour out on the front porch this evening.

It won't be hard for me to pick her up tomorrow morning. And THIS time, I won't try to carry the carrier with her in it, down the back stairs. I'll have it on a stool at the bottom of the steps, opened, and I think I'll just hold her tightly as I go down the steps... now that she's lost those 6 lbs., it makes a difference carrying her in my arms.

So, we shall see - I'll feel better anyhow having them take a look into her mouth to make sure it's okay after those 3 canine extractions...

Rolling along...

Guilty Pleasures Treat Stash

Most of you know I give up chocolate every year for Lent. And come Easter, I let go full force - well, not quite that bad.

Last month I really lucked out with some special treats, though. 

Along the way, there was both a sale and a separate online coupon for a 10-piece cheesecake sampler at Smiths. I really really really love me my cheesecake but rarely find it justifiably affordable. This time, the double deal made it silly to pass up. So I got it. I packed 2 pieces in each of 5 containers, left one out and ate those pieces last month, took one container out May 1, ate one piece one day, another a few days later. I still have 3 containers in there and will take out one each month.

Then, also a sale and an online coupon deal at the same time, very rare those double deals, for double chocolate Magnum ice cream bars (3 in a pack). Had to get one. Had one super delicious bar last month. Took one out May 1 and put it in the little freezer at the top of the fridge and will likely eat that Sunday. And I have one more left for June.

Thing is, so long as I space them out like that, they truly are "treats" that I look forward to and love love love indulging in.

I guess we all have our guilty pleasures but I especially love them when they are cheap or really good deals...

No Easter Treat Bags This Year

Well, I will miss doing up some Easter "treat bags" for folks in here this year.

When I first began doing those, I was making 15 of them for various holidays. I'd give one to each of the Management team, one to each of my newsletter team, to each of my charity crafters, and to 2 or 3 neighbors. That slowly decreased to the 10 that I usually do these days. Some folks passed away, some moved away. I really had fun deciding what to put into them for each holiday.

Typically, for Easter, I'd make a holiday-themed coaster, or a dishcloth, or laminated hand designed bookmark, or printouts of various holiday-themed puzzles (word search, anagram, maze, etc.) that I'd find online, or all of the above. I've accumulated some cute little holiday "cookie cutters" from dollar stores that I use to cut out from slices of cheese, and I always included some sweets and other things. I had fun.

This year, our Management team is scattered. One works from home, one works in one office, and the other in another office. One of my charity crafters is in a different mobile home park, and one of my neighbors is leaving early this year for their summer digs in Michigan. I would only be making for, let's see, 4 or 5 folks at most, for various reasons. I don't want to make for some and not for the others.

I asked a manager if she thought I could just leave theirs on their porches but she, too, said it might be best to forget it this time. I agree.

But I will miss it...(sigh)... Rolling along...

Good Aches vs. Bad Aches

I was on my legs in the kitchen for hours today as well as up and down the back steps a gazillion times. My legs and knees are yelling at me but I don't need to take anything for them. It's been almost two years since I last took a Tylenol Arthritis, and over three years since my last Vicodin. The aches go away eventually and do not keep me from doing daily routines. I like that.

These are good aches. Good aches are those that when we look back at what caused them, we accomplished something. And they are those that we know will go away with a good night's rest.

Bad aches are the recurring ones that no amount of rest helps - they just are there.

Kitchen-wise, I had been to the store in the morning and found, yet again, whole pineapples at Walmart for just $1 each. A tip I saw online once makes it very easy for me to lop off the top, core, and skin. I got two of them. I was going to let them wait until tomorrow to cut them into inch-size chunks to put into the blender into sort of pineapple slush - I love it that way nowadays. But they were already very sweet to the smell and that meant ripe so I did them both today. I'll process them tomorrow.

I also finally got my overnight-chili project going. Lightly sautéed the pound chub of ground turkey, chopped the onion and bell pepper, and got everything in that pot a short while ago. It will cook during the night.

Along the way, a neighboring couple leaves mid-week for their journey to MI where they stay for the summer. She cleared perishables and I went over and picked those up. Ended up with frozen pound of ground beef and two frozen chicken breasts among other things but it meant I needed to rearrange stuff in the upright freezer to make room.

So the back steps kept my legs going, what with bringing in the store stuff (several trips), the pickup at neighbor's, a quick stop at a friend's porch to drop something off there, over for the mail, and later to a friend because I didn't have enough chili powder and needed to borrow some.

But I'm done now for a while - tomorrow I'll relax the legs except to empty crock pot and put into containers. I'll concentrate on some crocheting and some paperwork... pay bills, as well.

Rolling along...

Question for my Friends Who Understand Today's Cruises

Ok for any of you who are savvy about how today's giant cruise ships operate and their routes - A friend and her hubby went on a cruise down to Cabo san Lucas, Costa Rica, Panama, and Colombia. They left the 4th which was a couple of days after that one cruise ship was stalled and refused entry because of the Coronavirus outbreak. I was surprised they went and that they didn't just switch trip times to maybe a month or two down the line.

They are scheduled to return the 19th.

Questions: usually that particular route would disembark them in CA, right, perhaps San Diego? And they would need to fly back here, right?

I'm sure they didn't drive there. My worry is whether they will let them come right home from there or whether they'll make them be tested, or even make them wait 14 days before heading back here.

They're both in their 70s and some health issues... I wonder if they even have a clue about what is happening here and how far the restrictions have gone... I still can't believe they went but I wasn't asked my opinion and didn't offer it.

Flat Tires and Great Parties and Chocolate, Oh My!

Let's nail these one at a time..

Flat tires - Las Vegas is a city of construction zones. I've had 3 flats in less than a year - March 2019, July 2019, and today, February 2020. Today's was a shock in that it was a metal spike about 4/5" long in the sidewall. I had been to a free event last night with a neighbor as a passenger. I'm sure it happened on the way home, in the dark, when even with headlights, some things are just not seen on the ground as we roll over them. Anyhow, of the three, one was a simple repair and the other two required new tires as replacements. The good thing this time around is that I had finally bought a "donut" last year so I had a neighbor change it which saved me the time/trouble of a tow. I no longer find it easy to climb up into those mile-high tow cabs.

Great parties - Our senior mobile home park was 50 years old on February 26 and management and the owners (three brothers, sons of the original owner), threw residents a great party atop the Eastside Cannery hotel/casino. Dinner (buffet), DJ, dance floor, free photo booth, and at least a dozen gift cards raffled off. We also each got a free canvas tote and heavy coffee mug. Almost 300 RSVPd and I had volunteered with a friend to check them off as they arrived. The whole thing went very well, and it was a very nice event. Hmmm. Wonder if I can make it to the next 50th (I'd be 130) or at least the 75th (I'd be 105).

Chocolate - As usual, I gave it up for Lent. I rarely have trouble with this. I know I don't really have to but it satisfies something inside me. Plus it motivates me to do something I really ought to do. 40 days and 40 nights aren't all that bad, and certainly my minor deprivation is nothing compared to His days in the desert and mountains over 2000 years ago. Good feeling. So I made sure to stash what was here until Easter morning.

Rolling along...

Not a Bad Day, Considering

After a messy first three hours that began my day, looking back it was not a bad day. When I think of what some of my friends are facing, my day was blessed.

Yep, I had that frantic wake up to missing files after an overnight update to my PC, but eventually I have it all and know where it is, even if it’s not where it once was. And I will be spending time re-setting bookmarks and preferences. 

Oh, and because at first, tonight, I couldn’t find the music I’d long ago loaded to my hard drive (I have since found it), I ended up plopping in a disc while writing this, a Statler Bros. CD – nice one, tunes like Flowers on the Wall, King of the Road, Ruby Don’t Take Your Love to Town, Green Green Grass of Home, There Goes My Everything, Daddy Sang Bass, This Old House and Happy Day.

As for the rest of the day, I still managed to bring the trash bucket back in from the curb. I packed the last big bag of our charity items for the homeless, documented it, and took that one plus 4 others from the closet and stashed them in the car’s trunk for tomorrow. Louise and her hubby will take those to our contact and then we just accumulate again until October. I also made plain popcorn for 2 days and made coffee for 4 days. I finally changed four of the five colors in my inkjet, something I’ve been delaying in doing.

Tomorrow morning, I’ll be handing out 10 little Valentine treat bags to our park staff, to our charity crafters, and a few neighbors/friends. So I finished up prepping and gathering the supplies and will pack those early in the morning.

And finally, to relax, I began a granny ripple afghan for the VA.

Yep, not a bad day, all in all… Rolling along…

Crafts and Food and Stuff

Got some things done today.

Food-wise, made 4 cups carrot/raisin/avocado salad for fridge, made 1/2 gallon milk, made tuna/egg/avocado salad for today and tomorrow, and made 4 cups Jello for fridge.

Craft-wise, finished 2 hats for homeless that were sitting around unfinished and a pair of fingerless gloves. Louise will take 5 more bags to her contact on Saturday. That will be our last drop for the homeless until October. After this weekend, I'll be stashing bags in my back closet until then.

Did some minor paperwork stuff that needed doing... all in all, not a bad day.

Rolling along...

So Happy the Weekend is Over - Tough One on Several Levels

In addition to my left eye going wonky on Friday morning and staying that way, and my car battery dying and also needing work on the trunk door, had a few other bumps on life's road to deal with.

Didn't want to mention it until it was past but I was also remembering the passing of two loved ones. My long-time BFF Jane passed 11 yrs. on the 1st, and her son, like my own, Frank, passed 6 yrs. on the 3rd.

And this morning my sis-in-law goes in for diverticulitis surgery and we're praying that simply excising the troublesome area will be enough and she won't need a colostomy in her middle 70s. The two of them depend heavily on each other way out in the CA high desert.

Should have the car back tomorrow or Thursday latest, depending on when the part is delivered to the dealer. Driveway looks so very empty right now.

Life gets tricky but it's important to keep moving along.

My coping mechanism is always a combo of prayer and distraction. 

My recipe is lots of prayer following by either cooking or crocheting or something that can be routinely done but distracting from whatever can't be resolved except by time, patience, and faith.

Rolling along...

Will be Smelling that Aroma from the Crockpot all Night Long...

Tossed a ham bone and navy beans into the pot and some other stuff and looking forward to tomorrow morning and a pot of almost-Boston-Baked-Beans. Didn't have any real molasses which is what makes it great, but had a smidgen of real maple syrup and some brown sugar. Soaked 2 lbs. of navy beans during the day and then froze half of those and used the other half in this.

Having fun with New Year's Resolutions in that I think I have firmly established one, finally, after decades of trying and whining and not succeeding. I am finally doing an hour a day on handmade projects for my "2020 Christmas Tote." I am really doing it!

That said, I am now getting excited about maybe establishing one or two more new, but very needed and desirable, habits. Of course, this could all be a hazy, fuzzy dream concocted by my excited brain over my one success. Time will tell.

Rolling along...

Mixed Bag of Tasks Today

Mixed bag of things to do today but managed to get quite a few done.

For one, I've been working for 2 days on two scarves for a neighbor. Well, she only wants one but wasn't really clear on the color. First she said black, then she agreed shaded blacks/grays would be nice, but didn't seem too excited over that. So I just finished an all black one this morning, and almost finished a black and charcoal one. The second one is 14 rows black, 5 charcoal, and alternating. They are 7x60" - I'm sure I can find a buyer for whichever one she doesn't take. She's coming by the charity crafting session on Friday and will pick one then.  They are both simple stitches as she didn't want "big holes" which I took to mean not too lacey. She has no car and walks a distance in the cold, so I completely understand her needs.

I also did the one spaghetti squash today. I had bought 2 a short while ago, on sale, for only $.50 each and I don't want them to spoil. After I nuked it to soften it, cut it and seeded it, I nuked the halves. Once cooled, it's so easy to scoop and pack into cup-size containers. I then used a church key to poke a can of simple pasta sauce and drizzle that on top of the containers. Made and froze six servings. Well, I didn't freeze them all. Ate one this afternoon. Love those!

Gathered the week's trash and got that out to the curb for the morning truck.

Made four cups of Jello for the fridge. Missed that for a few days. Love having containers that I can just poke a spoon into it and enjoy something sweet (I get sugar free) but safer than what I might otherwise grab.

Brought in a nice size tote bag of yarn that someone in here dropped at my back steps anonymously. I will try to figure out who left it. Our group likes to mention the donors in the monthly newsletters.

Since it was gather-the-trash day, I decided to finally change poor Silkie's scratcher pad insert. We have a round thingie with rolled corrugated cardboard insert and it's the only commercial scratcher pad she'll use. It also has a ball that cats are supposed to roll in the track, but she finds that boring since it doesn't dispense treats. Anyhow, I added some fresh catnip and also took her toys and tossed them inside a plastic bag to freshen them. She spent the rest of the day sniffing, napping, eating, and repeating the process.

Got a few other things done, too. Even though I didn't get anything big accomplished, I am happy to have crossed a few things off my to-do list today.

Rolling along...

Crockpot Time Again

Well, cooking that little turkey in the crockpot yesterday, smelling it all through the house, made me realize it is definitely crock pot time again. I took a quick tour through the upright freezer, took a look at the weather forecasts (especially evenings) for the next week or so, and decided that smelling food cooking during the night was calling my name once again.

Tomorrow night I figure to toss in just a basic meatless chili but with at least 3 different cans of beans, can of diced tomatoes, can of Rotel, corn, etc.

Over the next week or so, hope to use some of my dried beans and lentils and barley, for sure.

Rolling along...

Weird Food Day

Well, the title of this one isn't totally correct - it was only one weird food combo I tossed together. The rest of the day was normal food prep for me.

The weird thing was when I realized I had an old package of Bob Evans whole cranberry sauce in the freezer and still had not figured out how I wanted to use it. I took it out yesterday and defrosted overnight. Then today, I tossed that whole container and 12 tiny meatballs from the freezer into the microwave. That turned out to be a really delicious saucy meatball mixup... ate half today and have half for tomorrow. I don't usually do beef but once or twice a month I give in. And I don't usually do the Bob Evans things because of all the salt or sugar, but I inherited this and will balance today's lapse along the way with healthier choices. I've made myself a promise not to become a stressed out health obsessive -

I did make 3 days' worth of coffee. And I cooked up 8 cups of brown rice, some for the fridge and most for the freezer.

I also packed 3 peanut butter jars with my CBR medley: can of whole corn, can of black beans, and can of Rotel - ends up a whole protein and I use that with the cooked rice during the week, especially when I can't decide what I really want. I also use that at times when I've eaten something I shouldn't and I want to balance it out.

There was one last package of Farmer John's maple breakfast sausage links, so I cooked them up and will use one or two each time I re-heat any of my veggie omelets.

All in all, I did get some food items taken care of... rolling along...

Thankfully, October Almost Over - My "Sad" Month

Those of you who know me well know I am generally a cup-half-full person. If life tosses something at me, once the moment has passed, I take a deep breath and move along with whatever steps are needed to deal with situation.

October, however, is always a bit tougher for me these days. It's a month when 4 of my loved ones passed away. I usually can't wait until it is over. Memories surface. Moments get sad. 

The four who are always on my mind this month are:

My mother - loved my mom so very much. She passed away from a stomach aneurysm back in 1994, Oct. 9, the year I moved to Las Vegas. She put up with a lot when we were growing up but it never soured her.

My sister - my baby sis, younger than me by only 11 months, was like a friendly puppy, even with her occasional episodes from the schizophrenia and bipolar issues. She passed away in 2009, Oct. 13, from brain cancer, after four years in a low income level nursing home because of Parkinsons and diabetes complications.

My stepdad - this man helped my mom get over the years she suffered with my alcoholic dad, a laid back Glenn Ford type of guy, all country western, and he passed away in 1990, Oct. 29, from lung cancer.

Tigger - okay, Tigger might not qualify in some folks' eyes as a "loved one" but he surely was that, our only time with a boy cat, a gray tabby who was a real gentleman and loved everybody and was our little host, and passed on in 2012, Oct. 22.

Even though it is a sad month for me when these things come to mind, I am very very grateful that I have commitments to distract me and keep me from wallowing in sorrow and freezing in place. Life, and death, is what it is.

Rolling along...

Eggplant, CBR Jars, and so on...

In addition to my visit to the retina specialist today (so far, so good, on that), I managed to get that eggplant I inherited last weekend peeled, sliced, and done up. I took the easy route. I just sautéed the thick round slices in olive oil until just tender. Then I stashed the 6 slices in a container. Over the next 3 days, I'll take 2 at a time out, drizzle some canned tomato sauce over some shredded pepper jack, and add 3 tiny frozen meatballs - sort of like a poor man's (or lazy woman's) eggplant parmesan.

I also made 3 peanut butter jars full of CBR. That's what I've been calling a quickie protein medley I've been enjoying the past few months. I toss 3 things into a bowl from their cans (corn, black beans, and Rotel), stir to mix gently, and put into the jars. I freeze 2, and the other goes into the fridge. I always have a container of cooked brown rice in there, and when I just do not feel like fixing anything big-deal, I toss a few spoons of rice into a microwaveable bowl, and half a jar of the CBR medley. It's satisfying, filling, and tasty. Makes a nice healthy protein bowl because corn and beans make an almost complete, or complete protein - depending on where you read about it.

Also took the time to cook a pack of Farmer John breakfast sausage links (maple flavored) from the freezer - I'll chop/slice one or two at a time into my veggie omelet servings for a while for a change of pace. If I don't change things a little now and then, the same food, healthy though it might be, it can get boring.

Rolling along...

The Energy Level of Some of My Amazing Friends

I was thinking today, after doing a few things in here, how often folks think I do a lot more than I do, and how often they caution me to not do too much. Thing is, I am very very careful to not go over my limit during each of my energy spurts. That's what they are - spurts. I'm not consistent. But I really don't care.

See, in my way of thinking, even more than the medical issues I might have, and those my other senior friends might have, even more than those, is the danger we impose upon ourselves with undue stress.

Stress is unavoidable. I remember once hearing that long-ago TV preacher, Rev. Schuller, point out that some stress is good - a violin or guitar string must be taut, or "stressed," to make lovely music. But in life, stress can cause a lot of grief. So knowing stress will appear no matter what I do, I just try to manage "undue" stress.

Anyhow, today, after I finished making a few days' of coffee, packing serving size (1/4 cup) cottage cheese snacks, making milk, and mixing a batch of salmon/avocado salad for several days, I relaxed in other ways.

And I was thinking about two friends, in particular.

One is 73 and now undergoing dialysis 3 days a week, about 60 miles from me, and she and her hubby must travel about 25 miles each way for those treatments. In addition, they "garden" but I call it "farming" because of the amount they produce on their lot. They have really managed to get a lot of mileage from that spot they've got, day after day taking care of that plot. And somehow, they are dealing with this, and still have their sense of humor, and still make 300 hats on a knitting loom each year for our charity crafting group. Amazing.

The other one I've never met in person. She's a cyber friend. And she and her guy live in Canada, in an area where they get really wicked winters. There's rarely a day goes by without my seeing her post a photo of the jars she's canned that day. It ranges from about 6 to 16 or more, at times. She puts up everything possible. When they get snowed in, they do not need to fret running out to a store. But even so, I don't know where they get the consistent energy needed for that, day after day.

Yep, I do things in spurts. I'm grateful I can do that. But I truly respect and admire those who do far more than I can, and more than I think I even want to at this point.

Rolling along...

Leak in Pantry - not sure of extent...

Crossing fingers, toes and eyes while saying a wee prayer. Heard a drip in pantry by back door just now when I went in there for tea bags for iced tea. Flashlight shows wet on floor behind dryer which is in front of water connections for washer... called guy to check it out - hope he comes early today and that it is very very very very minor...

Bit of a Scare After Eye Doctor Visit

I actually called the retinal specialist 2 hours after my visit, tests, etc., this morning. I left a message with them, thinking it was tied to the jostling and stuff during the tests. At home, I started to lie down on the couch for a bit and suddenly it seemed my eyes were either jumping or whirling or I was dizzy - I couldn't pinpoint any one feeling.

I slowly raised up, it subsided a tad, I sat for about 3 minutes, then decided if I needed to get emergency help, I ought to at least visit the bathroom quickly. I carefully made my way back there, and it subsided more and more. By the time I got there, it was just very light, and in another minute or two, it was gone. 

Then after I sat there waiting for a call back, I remembered that Vertigo episode I had back in December 2017. After you folks gave me feedback, I realized that was BPPV - Benign Proximal Positional Vertigo and I had triggered it the day before trying to wrestle and move a tall heavy metal cabinet filled with linens.

Today, I remembered I had been in the shed yesterday afternoon and had lifted and toted that heavy heavy carton with the wet/dry vac out for someone who was dropping by to get it.

I called back and cancelled the worried call to the specialist. So, I figure that, since I'm no longer 39, I should grow some wisdom and just not move my head quickly from here on in.

Of course if something happens and it cannot be tied to an event of heavy lifting, etc., in the previous 24 hrs., I would go right in to an ER and have it checked.

But it did go away and I'm just fine. I even drove over for my mail and also dropped some patterns I copied for a friend to their home on another street. I'll be careful tonight when lying down and when getting up. That seems to be when the fun begins.

Hopefully, I won't need a third whack on the head from my Creator to make me be more careful lifting/toting these days, and when rising or lying down.

Rolling along...