I tell you, painkillers for a few days and the mail just keeps coming. I think I have it all handled.
Disappointed this morning that the knee’s still touchy. Had to start the day with Advil, and I don’t like to write when I have anything in my system. Bummer!
We went out and looked for the aurora last night but that mean old flare must’ve missed us—we didn’t get a thing.
I do pretty good with this knee during the day, but boy, standing on my feet to cook (which I love doing) sets me up for an evening of pain, serious pain. I don’t know how I got through the conventions with it, but then I was on a LOT of Advil. It’s weird: it’d get to hurting so my eyes would just start watering—streaming down my face, but I wasn’t as aware of specific pain as I am right now, with the bad spot down to one. Weird. I collect weird human reactions, and this is certainly one.
I think I’m going to send Jane out after a few cans of Bavarian sauerkraut and we’ll have some of that nice kielbasa we picked up at Costco.
Am I rambling a bit? I think it’s the Advil. Jane’s got to clean the pond filter. I sure can’t. Jane’s gotten stuck with ALL the work before and during and after Shejicon, so I’m feeling like Camille, lying grandly abed, being dramatic. But ah, well, the rest of the injury is healing fine. Swelling’s way diminished. Just that one pesky spot that can light up in neon…
The link you shared on Facebook (http://www.accuweather.com/en/features/trend/northern-lights-viewing-condit/33834457) suggests the aurora might be visible tonight (Friday night) rather than last night. It’s unlikely we’ll see anything here in NYC (the map puts us on the border of Fair and Poor), but I’ll be keeping an eye out. It’s supposed to be clear weather and the Tribute in Light is done for this year, so at least I’ll be able to see whatever can be seen from here.
We still have blue skies—we will try again! Thanks!
There’s a very easy short cut in almost all email programs to sort the inbox. Just click on the inbox,select control-a then press delete. If it’s important they’ll write again.
Alas, some of mine are Closed CIrcle orders, etc.
But I can categorize them by sender and addressee. That helps.
Made it home from ShejiCon. Found a leak from the rain had softened the wallboard in the master bath, but the rest of the house is okay. Only had four hundred emails waiting here plus 39 calls on the landline
Glad to hear you’re home safe and the house is in reasonably good shape. Also wanted to let you know that the box arrived today. I haven’t yet gotten into it, but the outside looks fine.
To all our associates who are interested, Teegan was the winner of the raffle drawing of the Pride of Chanur print by Michael Whelan. The hostess gift we gave to CJ was the framed, archivally-mounted original artwork for the cover of Destroyer by Michael Whelan. Many thanks to Michael and his wife Audrey for their kind support.
And it is gorgeous. I am going to have to rearrange my art wall, now, which has been overdue for a while.
glad you and Readyguy made it home safely. I pulled into my driveway on Friday at 3:30PM EDT. Griffinmoon and I parted company at Toledo when she picked up her rental car to head home. Cats looking suspiciously at me, but are hanging close by, maybe to make sure I don’t make off with anything, or else because they actually miss me (?)…..
wish someone would have mentioned the pond filter to me on Monday, I’d have gotten it out and helped clean it. We had time to do that, I believe, unless it’s more work than I thought.
Oh, I know you would, Joe, but you did so much. We’re ok. I just hoped this leg would be a little less painful by now!
I kept telling you, you were missing a bet at Shejicon. While the activities were very nice, what we were really there for was the facetime chatting and airing of all our obsessions, which we could have accomplished whatever same place we were all in. Though we are generally tending toward creakiness in knees and ankles, you could have easily charmed a bit of work out of us a la Tom Sawyer whitewashing the fence. Anyhow, hats off to Joe and Griffinmoon for persisting in their offers of helpfulness. I hope you are feeling better soon. What rotten luck that you should be in pain and trying to be gracious hostess at the same time.
I tweak my knees from time to time, turning I think. It’s also turning over in bed mostly asleep, so the muscles don’t get that preliminary intentional warning to tense-up, then rolling over pulls on the knee. I think it has to do with the patellar tendons.
Got some straps that have a bit of rubber tubing inside that go under the kneecap. They help some.
What helps the most is a 10’x4″ strip of Ace elastic bandage with Velcro(TM?) hooks on one end. It’s more adjustable than the elastic sleeves, and I can make it just tight enough to hold the joint together without restricting blood flow, etc. I can/do sleep with it on when the knees get painful, and under my jeans it’s fine. Sometimes only a day or two, sometimes the better part of a week, but it’s a drug-free solution. 😉
Well, there’s so much to do here, it seemed such a cheat not to do some of it! And I did have fun–I just apologize for being so pain-pilled I may not have been sparkly, to say the least!
I have contracted what the doctor tells me is biceps tendinitis. It feels somewhat like a rotator cuff tear (which I’ve had twice), and the treatment is similar, but it just is persistent. It gets to the point where I don’t feel it, and then I do something that exacerbates it, and it’s just like getting a punch in the arm where it would be most painful.
Same thing you have to do, NSAIDs, Ice, Heat, Rest….
I hope it’s not that garden stone that did it!
No, no…I’ve had this for about 4 months. Something I did back in the spring and I really don’t know what it was. I remember waking up in the middle of the night and my arm felt as though I had been lying on it and it had gone numb. Certainly nothing I did in your yard did anything to make it worse. Tonight, I was at our shooting club and feeding the fish in the pond and when I tossed in a piece of bread, I threw it incorrectly (for an overhand throw) and I felt it tweak a bit. Certain motions or positions are more painful than others, but again, it’s been going on for 4 months.
Well, for gosh sakes, I wish you hadn’t yanked on that stone! Owie!
Seriously, I didn’t yank on it. We lifted it very carefully and let the dolly take the weight. That stone had nothing to do with my arm being sore. In fact, there was no pain at all while I was out in the yard, or during the evening, or even the next day. It hurt this afternoon because I threw the pieces of stale bread out into the pond, and didn’t throw it correctly.
I’m glad we got the stone in place, and that the leak in the waterfall got fixed. I think it looked really good where we put it.