I can't get my act together and I don't know why
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Is it swollen? Tender? Might just be some fluid got pushed out when you wrenched it, but I think it replaces itself. Not positive on that. If there is no pain, swelling, or tenderness, or such, it's probably just a good sprain or strain and will take time to heal.
Have you tried to wrap it for support so it doesn't pop? Elevate it when you can, to keep that blood circulating and bringing in the troops to help mend itself!
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Hanna: It's not audible..I just feel it clicking. I'd give it a 5. It's got a good beat, but you can't dance to it.
Wish: It's still tender, but not swollen. I read where it can take up to 6 weeks to heal...so I'll wait it out. I am continuing to just lie around so as not to irritate it further, which is not a stretch for me. In fact, I'm really good at that part.
At some point, if I go for a walk, I will support it with one of those knee things. I feel certain it's just a sprain. -
Glad to hear it's not sounding like something more serious. None of need more serious in any sense of the world, that's for certain.
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Patrice.
Just reading your story about DH's mishaps....and I LOL'd ...no... I LOL so much I have never heard myself make such a racket !!
I am sitting in my dining room, the dogs in the kitchen, 2 rooms away heard me, they started to yap, wondering what I was laughing at, then all the dogs that live outside in my kennels started up, this in turn started the farm dogs up....what a noise !! DH came rushing in to see what was going on. Every dog on the place yapping at your DH with his electrical wire stuck up his nose !!!!
Sorry no advice about your knee...hope it gets better soon.
Isabella.
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Isabella,
Good to "see" you!!! How goes it with your family?
Patrice,
your knee has rhythm, why am I not surprised. Mine crackles just like Rice Krispies, it has for a while. It doesn't hurt, just makes noise.
Hanna, SOSOSOSOSOOOOOO good to see you posting again!
Sue
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Hi Sue, don't always post as oft as I did, but always read.
My family is fine , part from 19 y.o. feral g/son, who drives me to drink.
6 weeks ago he was doing his usual buzzing another driver, thru a built up area, past 2 schools at 9am, when the other driver had had enough. He jumped out and confronted g/son, who then drove straight at other guy, and over his legs, past his car... an Aston Martin... ripping the side out, and the drivers door off. He managed to slam into a bus, and then fled the scene. He was arrested and locked up for almost a day....put on police bail...he has gone on, over the last 3 weeks, to overturn another car he was driving, run a mini off the road, and his latest party piece, 2 nights ago, took his g/friends car, started buzzing a car full of Pakistanis, who slewed into him, they all got out, big fight ensued in middle of busy road. G/son got back into his g/f's car and rammed the other car, completely destroying g'f's car. Now she cannot get to work.
I am really hoping the police will lock him away as soon as he gets to court. He needs putting away for a couple of years so he can grow up. DD is disgusted with me for saying this about my g/son, she still believes he is not a bad lad, and its usually the other person who is at fault !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I keep telling her she must believe in fairies. I shall really be in for a dogging from her when the police do actually manage to put him away !!
Are you back at work yet, how much longer do you have to go before you're a lady of leisure for good ?
Isabella.
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Hi, Sue. Nice to see you...it seems like it has been a while.
Isabella: Very happy to provide you with a giggle, but very sorry about the problems with your grandson. It's so hard watching young ones screw up their lives. I hope he comes to his senses soon, for his sake as well as your family's sake. So much worry and heartache.
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Listen, all of you, hugely LOL over these last few pages!!! OMG! I visited this thread a few days ago, but I was so bummed at the time, I couldn't get myself to post!
Isabella, Jesus H. Christ-on-a-raft, I don't know who is worse, your "feral" (love that!) g/son or your DD who's gotta have her head where the sun don't shine & that kind of attitude certainly can contribute to turning innocent children into feral monsters who have not been said no to enough or had enough limits set & enforced by mommy & daddy. Oh, don't get me started....
Anyhoo, gsg, I work as a PT so I can tell you the clicking sounds to me like some resolving strain/tendonitis which is causing your kneecap not to track properly in its groove when you bend & straighten your knee. You gotta get back in the Groove, Girl! Doing the RILEY (LOVE that, wishiwere!) is good, but go see a PT. We're way more fun than doctors & more helpful usually. The thing is, it could get worse if you don't & then it could take ages to get rid of.
Glad I found this thread!
Kathi
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Isabelle, sounds like my house. If you are laughing and making a ruckus, everyone comes to check on you. If you are moaning and groaning and making a rukus from stubbing your toe, twisting ankle falling down stairs, falling in the shower, or any such accident, you'd be lucky to hear an extra breath in the house! UGH! Family! Sorry about your feral son, I'll add a prayers his time in lockup comes with a hefty fine his parents have to pay (him too of course), and also that he gets mandatory treatment for his problems, which sound plenty including anger management and abusive tendencies, not to mention attempted murder, let's see, alcohol addiction, and just plain just straighten your act up or your going down type of treatment! So sorry you are dealing with it all, but pray he 'sees the light' soon and before he hurts someone seriously!
GSG? How's the knee doing? Is the lounger still getting a lot of use?
Welcome Kathi! Glad you found us and are enjoying the sit-, er....cyber-com!
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Good morning my fellow slobs. It's so nice to have a place to come to, to be among my own kind. Special welcome to Kathi. Please just shove some of the mess aside, sit down and put your feet up.
And thanks, Kathi, for the advice. I'm not sure if my knee is still clicking. I'm thinking about going out for a walk this morning and taking it for a test run. It's still sore when I push on this one spot on the inside of my knee and hurts upon standing and sitting and when I move it from side to side. I feel certain it's a sprain that will heal on its own. I'm a big believer in PT. I went to PT for a frozen shoulder and it was resolved in only two trips...after suffering for over a year. If the knee continues to be a problem past 6 weeks, I'll go in. I'll go in sooner if it seems worse or doesn't feel better each day. But right now I'm pretty sure it's on the mend. I've stayed off it for a week..pretty much.
Confession time: I lightly dusted a couple tables in my living room, but didn't move anything, so it's not like it was cleaned. It was fake cleaned. Also sprayed some Febreze for a fake fresh smell.
p.s. I love Kathi's initials "KAK." That's the sound I make when I look at the dirty clothes piles and unfolded clean clothes piles in my laundry room and the current mess in my family room. I wish I had those initials...they are greeeeeeeat!
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Febreeze. You wonder what slob came up with that stuff hey? I sure wish they'd make it in better smells though. That smell gags me for some reason. Probably be/c my used it while I was on chemo and I had the worst times with odors back then.
Anyway....as long as you dusted 'around' stuff and didn't put it away, that's okay, I suppose
Glad to hear your knee is improving daily. Hope that continues!
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Wish: I asked my husband to pick up Febreeze, the kind for fabrics, because I was lying on my sofa reading and shockingly (Ha!) it smelled musty. Who knew not vacuuming a sofa for over 2 years would leave it smelling musty. Anyway, he mistakenly brought home the room spray and so I just sprayed it around the room and not directly onto the fabric. I used to like the way the fabric stuff smelled. Maybe I'll just sprinkle some carpet powder or baking soda onto the sofa and vacuum it up......someday.
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HA! I didn't even know there 2 types? Room and fabric hey? I'll have to check that out. Dh uses ours for his semi. He hates the smell of it after someone else uses it on occasion on his day off, so he keeps it handy.
someday...sounds soon enough
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Maybe they discontinued the fabric stuff. It's been a long time since we've had it. My husband went back the next day to look for the fabric stuff and couldn't find it.
KAK: I just looked at your photos on your website. AWESOME! I'm a photography buff...but just mostly collect other people's photos. Someday I hope to be taking my own....again with the someday. I collect black and white fine art-type photos of women.
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Okay...I just googled it. Febreze still makes the fabric spray. I'm going to have to send him back out. So much easier to point and spray than drag a vacuum cleaner out. My laziness, at this point, knows no bounds. I no longer have a problem with covering up a problem rather than taking care of it.
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Hm....I'll have to try it at the store first. I love my swiffer mop for quicky mopping, but dang if they didn't change the smell about 6 months ago and I hate it now! Even in 32 weather, when I use it, I have to open windows and air the house out! UGH! Smells are still bothering me after 8 months...weird....
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OMG - you ladies have made me laff so hard reading these last few pages, I peed my pants ! Hanna - loved your story about your DH changing gyms. gsg - I'm a fellow slob as well....if my dirty house bothers you, don't bother visiting. LOL I'm very good at doing nothing, but gsg, I think I can get a alot of inspiration from you. I can spend a whole weekend with my butt barely getting off the couch, reading, watching movies, talking on the phone. Enjoy your Wednesday all.
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Welcome to our sty, Boobytrapped. I, too, have been known to stay in bed for days watching movies, talking on the phone, and eating. I always feel bad after a laziness marathon and then earnestly resolve to make changes in my life and then don't. I used to be a clean freak...emphasis on the words "used to," and I miss that feeling of being able to walk from room to room and everything is neat, clean and in its place. There is a peacefulness to it. But obviously I don't miss it enough to actually buckle down and do something about it. So until that day comes, I'll just continue to talk and dream about it in this thread.
Again, welcome!
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My husband just walked in here and I told him we were all laughing AT him with regard to the wire up his nose and the curtain rod fall. He reminded me of the time many years ago that he was stripping wallpaper all day...home alone...and then decided to take a nap, only to be woken up by the police entering our home. It seems the water he was using to strip the paper ran down the wall into a phone jack, which somehow triggered a 911 call. He didn't hear the phone ring when the police tried to call back which prompted the police to come to the house. He also didn't hear them knock so they entered on their own. What a screwball.
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OMGOSH! Now that would NOT be to my liking! Waking up with the police squad coming through the house! EEek! My luck, I'd hear them coming into the house, and be found hiding in my closet and they'd take me out in a little white (wrap around) jacket with long sleeves to the local loony bin! Glad it was him and not me! But tell him thanks for the chuckles! Perhaps he has more stories to share so we can continue our laugh-fest?
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BTW....I was going to get the trash ready to take out, but had to run and pick up my paycheck and then read up on all your postings and now I think a Nap sounds much more to my liking....It's tiring getting dressed in street clothes that are presentable to show up at work wearing!
Nighty night! OFf to dream of a clean house! -
Hi, Ya'll. This site has my sides hurtting!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! lol. Enjoyed myselft so much today, been a long time time Thanks.
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Hi, Marsha. We're happy to put a smile on your face. Love the name LOLMarsha, by the way.
Pleasant dreams, Wish.
Hey, has anybody ever had their swiffer mop scream bloody murder when they used it? Because mine just did while I mopped my kitchen floor. I am not joking. You know the noise it makes when you push the button? That wasn't it. It was way louder and shriller and was SHRIEKING as I pushed it around the floor, while the button WASN'T being depressed. I was cracking up and telling it to shut up and stop being such a wimp. I think it's safe to say this will give me the gold medal in the dirtiest floor olympics.
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Yes, your poor mop is having pains with all those layers dear GSG! ROFL
Seriously, it's probably the thing is almost empty (most likely from evaporation...b/c we know you don't use it all that often, right?) OR, it's been knocked silly and needs to be reseated in it's holder. The fluid container I mean. Take it out and replant it. In the mop hon, not the garden!
Should stop the squealing, unless of course it's possessed! EEK!!!! A holloween mop gone wild!
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STOP, STOP, Ladies!! (which means Don't Stop!) LOL-Squared!
Glad you liked the pix, gsg. Oh, and YOU'RE the one that started that beautiful thread with all those awesome photos of women, she said in sudden realization. I have visited that thread a bunch, just didn't post.
By the way, "KAK" is the sound one of my cats makes when he's about to hork up a hairball...it's really lovely to be lying in bed, peacefully reading myself into a coma & trying not to get chocolate chip cookie crumbs all over myself (although if I do, I can get my dog to scarf them up) & suddenly hearing "KAK, KAAAAK, KAK-KAK, BLLLECK!" coming from the next room. And do I leap out of bed to clean it up immediately? Hell, no! Because warm, wet, squishy, smelly, semi-digested cat crunchies are way too hard to mop up, especially on wall-to-wall. So, if I can ignore the whole thing long enough, it dries up & then I can sort of peel it off. Much easier.
Here's what I say about the whole house-cleaning thing. When the end is near, and we're looking back over our lives, and tallying up the good & the sucky, no one -- I mean, NO ONE! -- is going to say to herself, "Gee, I wish I spent more time cleaning my house."
Kathi
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Kathi
That sound... KAK!!! I have heard it MANY times!! I have TWO cats, and I hear those sounds ALOT!
I agree, though. At the end, we won't be saying, "Gee I wish I had cleaned my house more!!"
gsg,
I hope you are feeling better soon!!
Harley
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wish: or maybe i just will go back to not mopping. i've long been a fan of sliding around on a damp rag over the bad spots.
kathi: so glad you enjoy that thread...but there's only two pictures in there that I've taken. I wish I had your talent. I have to rely on other people's art to feed my passion. I'm usually mostly drawn to black and whites, but I was completely mesmerized by your color photos. they are perfect.
harley: thank you...my knee is getting better every day. did you find a new job?
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Bless you, gsg! It's nice to be appreciated! kdeit has been encouraging me to get my butt going to put together my 2009 calendar, so I'll let you know when I do. I've been having the post-rads, back-to-work-full-time, post-menopausal-&-now-taking-tamoxifen-so-I-can-have-MORE-hot-flashes blahs lately. But I plan some creative housework avoidance this weekend!
Kathi
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Look forward to seeing your calendar! Those kind of blahs can only be remedied by doing nothing....unless there's an opportunity to have fun...then do that. Housework would exacerbate them. So avoid at all costs.
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