...not much goin' on here...

this is on hold...



on Thursday [or Weds. if the other job wraps early...]
G will be here to fix the shower...
which at the moment has only cold water working...
and the faucet operates "backwards"....

when we spoke on the phone yesterday...
he assured me that all WILL work...
when he's done with it...
but, at the moment, it doesn't...

he's going to talk to the glass guys...
as he was not especially pleased that there was a major snafu...
but even more than the fact that there was a mix-up...
he wasn't pleased that they hadn't told him yet...

so at this time, I don't know when the glass gets put in...

*SIGH*

but at this point, in my de-tox/re-hab...
I have other things on my mind...

very late Sunday night[Monday, 2:30 AM...]
I had some trouble breathing...

not too surprising...

I'd been coughing up chunks since I woke up...
with an oxygen mask over my mouth, post-op on Weds...
before that, just some post-nasal drip...

but being flat on my back...
& "out of it" for a couple of days & nights...
had caused the stuff to settle deep in my lungs...
and I came home Sunday and slept all afternoon...
well into the evening...
being up only for the briefest moments...

so when I couldn't cough up what was bothering me...
early Monday AM, I got panicky...
the fact that I'd just taken a vicodin...
which made me dizzy, did NOT help my panic mode...
[remember, I get anxiety attacks at the dentist if I can't breathe] ...

I got up and tried moving around, didn't loosen anything...
blew my nose, coughed, etc... not much...
tried to take a shower[hot water=steam=loose chest]
no hot water...at best, it was a luke-warm trickle...

I splashed water on myself...clearing some of the fog...
dried-off...& tried to distract myself with Klondike...
since every time I lay down, I couldn't breathe & got panicky again...

finally, it was 4 AM...the vicodin fog was lifting...
I used some Flonase spray on my stuffed nose...
[vicodin interacts with antihistamines, so I had to wait...]
after more coughing & nose blowing...
I propped myself up and got some sleep on my side...

I have taken NO more vicodin since then...
and though I "feel" my finger...
the Excedrin works pretty well for the pain...
I'm also NOT over-dosing on it...

since even though I was aware of the "problems"...
that heavy-duty pain meds can cause your digestive system...
AND tried to prevent it by drinking a lot of liquids...
taking flax seed oil with each dose, eating food with fiber...
I've still had problems that probably came about the first 24 hrs...
when I really ODed on OTC meds, 'cause nothing was working...

but things are returning to normal now...
and all the efforts I took are paying off...

yesterday, around 5 PM, I woke up...
realizing that I was having deep breathing issues again...
I was also cold...not shivering, not "the chills"...
just, "not warm enough"...

my bed has flannel sheets, a blanket...
and a med. weight down comforter...
which is always too much under normal conditions...

not only was I cold, my bed was soaked...

I wasn't shivering or sweating, but I had been...

I got up & moved around...still congested...
so since it had been a while since the vicoden...
I tried my inhaler... which did help loosen things...
I ultimately got dressed and walked around outside...
moving fast enough to get my blood pumping...
and me coughing...

I went back to bed, and slept on my side most of the night...

when I woke up, the bed was still quite damp...
but I actually felt warm again...
[probably the anesthetic working put of my system...]

I got up because I had to take Fluff back to the vet's...



when she came home from the vet's, she had a runny left eye..
I put salve in it, but it didn't get better...
so last week, I took her in & got different salve...
some times it looks worse, some times it looks better...

so he told me yesterday to bring her in this AM...

he wants to completely check it out...
there was a lesion, which I think is getting better...
generally they sew the eyelid almost shut...
but she lets me get the salve in it now...
and as I told him, sewing it almost shut...
might compromise my ability to medicate her...
in my current condition...

on other fronts, Molly has taken to her crate...
she doesn't volunteer to go in...
but goes right in whenever I ask her to...
we should be able to go walking again soon...
as I have a post-op dr's visit on Thursday AM...
and I was told to rest, on limited activity until then...

she is too strong for me to handle when I'm shaky...
and I do NOT need to be knocked down...
or re-injure my hand...
so she's been tearing around outside in the back yard...
several times a day since the surgery...

then, if I'm "up", she stays "at large"...
if I'm sleeping or gone, she stays in her nest...
chewing on pig's ears or licking peanut butter from the Korg...

my head is much clearer today...
my movements much less shaky...
I'm not too hot or cold...
and only the plugged ears/sinus stuff is plaguing me...

that, and the low-level ache in my left hand...

now I get to see how dealing with trash...
& cat boxes... effects that...

if only, I could train "them" to clean-up for themselves...