For Older People with Sense

I have put myself on stress-leave from my job. I need to take this time to heal my heart and soul. I don't know if I mentioned this already on this thread, so I apologize if I am repeating. I find that I am forgetting many, many things lately and think my brain is just too full at this point. I even looked at some kind of cream in the shower yesterday and wondered where the heck it came from and what it was and how it had gotten there. A couple minutes later I remembered buying it last month.....very scary!!!!!

{{{BARBE}}} Hugs for you, friend.

Or forget to check the notes.

L_C, so sorry about the back. Missed you!

(((((((((((3jays))))))))))))))) I do hope things pan out soon for you. It must be so bad when even the docs don't seem to give you a clear answer. Did you ever imagine 20/30 years ago, when you were hellraising that you'd come to this !!!! I didn't.  I wasn't EVER going to get old.

rohanna...Emla is my constant companion...I won't leave home without it, have it in all my bags, and car, so if I forget my bag there is always a supply in the car...Never had to call on it yet, but one day, you never know !!

I have had a mystery appointment pop thru' my letterbox this morning, as if I didn't have enough visits to hospitals to contend with. I got an appointment to go and see a rheumatologist...first time it had been mentioned that I need a rheumy, at an obscure hospital miles from me. I haven't had time to turn around today, so didn't get round to ringing the hospital to ask what it is all about...NOT that they'll be able to give info. out over the 'phone, so I think I will probably be better writing to them for an answer. The girls that answer the 'phones all seem to be about 15, are bad mannered, and are instructed not to go into any details ! I like to get a nice 40/50 something lady, who will chat away, and look up things in your notes for you, but they cost much more money than the silly little airhead girls, so are few and far between. The last time I was queueing up at my hospital the 15 year old was busy playing games on the computer, and as soon as an older nurse or doctor came on the scene she hurriedly flicked back to her work !!

I went back to my bed this morning. I got up, fed all dogs and cats, locked the doors and stayed there until 1pm. A good rest eased my fibro flare a little, and when I did get up I did very little...cancelled all I had planned to do, and just sat sorting out some papers....nothing to get me moving around.

Barbe...a break from your job will do you good, take advantage of it and look after yourself while you can...I know we all feel we need to do something, but just now and the it helps to get that time out.

Phyllis...Ryan sounds a little sweetie, and your DD is doing a fantastic job helping him. He must feel so isolated not being able to join in with the others.

Well, I am just going to go outside and read the riot act to my dogs. The yapping has gone round and round, from one dog to another for over an hour now. All caused by one very noisy sheep dog that is here to stay for 3 weeks.....so she'd better shut up and get used to it !!!! She comes 3 times a year, and is always a noisy influence on everything else here. If I don't go outside and bellow at them all they could go on for hours ! Just me stepping outside and the floodlights going on at this time of night is usually all it takes to shut my own dogs up, but the boarders are not used to my routine. Next line is go outside and pick up very big yard brush and slam it on an empty kennel front. That always works ! Especially if I am woken from my bed at 2-3 am. by persistent yapping. Good job I have no neighbours !! I'd be a very good floor show....especially in my usually tatty pj's. I wear anything and everything, and have long since given up on matching a pair up. I have 2 drawers full of brand new pj's 'ready to go into hospital' !! I sort of overdosed on buying them all last year, fully expecting to be getting the call to go in. I just could not walk past pj's in the shops, and now they're all sat there in neat little piles in the drawers, and I look like a tramp wearing up all the old ones. 

Isabella.

Saw this on the way home from the store today..

I did take the time to stop and smell them, and

take a picture..hugs everyone

Haha, Isabella I bought a bunch of house coats. Knit fabric, zip front, flattering colors. My DD was helping me in my closet and wanted to know why I had some many robes? Same explanation as you, take the purple one, if I wear it I will have to wash it and then the color will fade and not look so pretty anymore.

3Jays. maybe the endcronologist will solve the puzzle for you.  Will you MS Doc teleconference with others? Maybe two heads and all that....

 I am a June birthday and love pictures of roses and floral prints and floral fabric prints all with roses.

Please tell us all more about your train travel. I love the TV shows about train travel in europe and asia. Always sortof mysterious and a grand adventure. 

My husband has a face infection from a little shaving cut. He was sort of hiding his face from me, turns his head and viola he looks like he hasa golf ball in his cheek. He is now on Keflex and they say the lab results will be back onMonday either strep or staph. I am worried for him to touch anything in thehouse as I want neither of those bugs on me!  He had a similar infection on his lip a few months ago, I hope there is no connection. He is overweight but otherwise has been healthy. I am worried if he got sick what on earth we would do. Getting older has its pleasures b ut not illness. 

Oh dear 3jays!! I didn't realize even Murs has MRSA!!? Do the docs know that too? Maybe you guys area just passing it back and forth like a yeast infection....? An endo might do you some good. So friggin' frustrating, eh? I've had 2 back surgeons refuse to operate on me because they both say they can't guarantee they'll make me pain free!! I say that any relief is better, but I guess they want to bat only 100% and they dropped me.

Amyjo, you made me smile about your brain...I can't wait to see your brain at the cabin! heheheheehh

Isabella, if you wear old jammies, what do you dust and do scrub washes with? Your new ones? I know what you mean though, old jammies are SO much softer than new ones. Why not just wash the new ones a bunch of times, then the seams won't be so stiff. The rheumatologist would be for your FM. Take the appointment!! Get some drugs that will keep you moving. I have to, otherwise I stay in bed and then I get depressed and don't want to get OUT of bed.

I remember quite a few train trips growing up between Spokane WA and Bismark ND, most on the vistadome.  There was one particularly memorable trip when I was in Junior High (I think) from Bismark to Dad's home town (population 70 or so) on one of the last regularly scheduled coal fired steam engine trains.  You could lower the windows when it got too hot but then you got covered in soot from the engine.

My last train trip was just a few years ago - Amtrack to SanFrancisco and return by cruise ship.  The food on the train was wonderful, better than the ship!

My worst trip was at Christmas 1965.  I had planned to fly from Seattle to Spokane but the flight was cancelled due to weather.  They put us on a train that was standing room only, and I was a standee, Until they opened up the smoking lounge about three or fours hours into the trip.  I think they picked up the car along the way.  One other passenger and I commandeered a bathroom during the first part of standing room only.  We took half hour turns sitting on the pot.  Luckily no one came along wanting to use it!  Everyone was probably afraid of losing their seat if the got up to go!

My husband got a call this AM. He does have MRSA.  We were at a hospital on tuesday where my SIL had surgery. Maybe he got it there. The swollen face started on thursday.

 Any ideas on what to do with this will be helpful. MRSA is something I never read about or have any experience with.  I think my fear at this moment is that my husbands face will become an open sore. It is purple today in the middle of the swollen area. It was just swollen larger yesterday but not purple. 

Dang it. 

Hugs Ginger

Ginger, sorry for your new troubles and hoping your DH recovers soon.  Here's the CDC- caregiver's page for MRSA, and there was some other info linked; maybe it will help.  Bleach, alcohol, & Lysol are still some of the best disinfectants it seems.  

http://www.cdc.gov/mrsa/groups/advice-for-family-caregivers.html

Ginger - hope you can get the MRSA cleared out of your home and family soon.  That is something that none of us need and you already have so much to deal with. Take care of yourself.

When I took this picture a train was going by and I thought how neat it would be to

take the passenger train if it came here..

Ginger.. if your husband isn't allergic; a simple rx for cipro floxin usually gets it 1st time. unfortunatley, im allergic to both... wash all things you use together in hot water, twice. (i know its a pain)    also at home depo a brand named ODO BAN sells a spray that works on the MRSA staph... spray the bath, any tile you have anywhere... its cleaned up MUR, but not me, yet.. he can take cipro-floxin.

   the dr. should do a sample send it to a lab; and they'll test what drug it responds to. they go the cipro; and then change it if need be; when that comes in. i usually will get clidamycin; not as effective, and noones  given me that, yet...dorks...

   i hope you can get rid of it soon... stay out of the hospitals.. that IS where it comes from, mostly. something you touch. course, publix is just as bad.. its' just getting more and more frequent.. sorry ya got this. its' a PIA for sure!!!      3jays