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averygoodun42) wrote2016-02-10 01:45 pm
averygoodun42) wrote2016-02-10 01:45 pm
More good things
Good things!
1. New glasses are on order! My current glasses are just over five years old. I got them when my bout of meningitis worsened my eyesight by a point (+1, not +.1). It seems my eyesight has devolved even more, but only +.75 over the last 5 years, so that's not too terrible. And what's best is that my new glasses should be better (HD progressive glasses? Apparently they are loads better, and not just hype) AND they're less expensive than my current pair was. So yay! I just hope that the lenses are as light as they felt with the plastic in them... They felt lighter than all the other frames I tried on, so it's possible that while they won't be as light as that, they will be lighter than my current pair.
2. Excellent soup. Seriously. It was so good that Page ate it without too much complaint! Best thing is that it was leftovers, so all I had to do was add the sausage to extend it and voila! 15 minute meal.
3. Geoff is better. Geoff has been suffering various physical ailments over this winter, the main complaint being his osteoarthritic shoulder flaring. He's been wearing a sling to help the shoulder muscles heal, but that puts a strain on his other shoulder and back muscles, so it's just been generally bad. What's worst is that it's (of course) his right arm that's affected - his dominant arm. So that's been dragging him down to my level, which has sucked for both of us.
Then last week sometime his right calf started itching for no reason; a couple of days later there was this red mark on it, as if he'd scratched it in his sleep. Sunday morning he put his right foot on the chair beside me, rolled up his pant leg and asked what I thought. OMG. It had started out as separate reddish areas, but now it had the definite look of connected lines crawling out of the central wound-like area. His calf was pink and hot and solid. I asked if it hurt a lot. He said no. I told him we were going to urgent care immediately after church, but if it became distinctly painful at any point, we was to call me right away so I could take him to the ER.
The doctor confirmed it as cellulitis, put him on Doxy droppings (doxycycline), marked up his leg with sharpie and told us to come back if it wasn't better in two days, or if the red areas extended out of the inner markings by a significant amount at any point. So, twice a day I would ask to see his leg. And while the red markings didn't grow, they also didn't recede. More worryingly, the pink was spreading, as was the hard swelling. Monday night we agreed that if it wasn't better by morning, we'd make another appointment. (There was also a nasty black dot growing in the center of the wound-like area, which made me very nervous.)
But yesterday morning it was better. The heat was gone, the swelling significantly reduced, and the black dot now just dark, dark red. By last night the pink was mostly gone, and this morning even the red area finally reduced its size and anger level. So yay!
And even better, he seems not to be suffering under the doxy droppings like I did. Thank god. I hope that continues for the entire course of treatment.
4. Page's increasing musicality. He still absolutely refuses to sing in public, unless required by his school, but he'll happily sing at home, especially if he doesn't think we can hear him. What's best, though, is when he sings when he knows we can hear him. So there's that, and his saxophone skills are increasing, though not as quickly as he'd like. Poor guy. He suffers under the "everything comes too easily" curse, which makes practicing difficult (because, really, what's the point if you can catch up in a trice?). Yes, discipline in this house is not a force to be reckoned with, but we do try. Ever now and again. ;-) Fortunately, he's got Star Wars music that is challenging him (of course, it wouldn't be quite so hard if he'd slow it down until he learned the notes, but I'm just a mom...) and therefore keeping his interest, so getting him to practice hasn't been asterrible horrible strenuous difficult. Yay!
5. Snow! Okay, I can happily live without getting any more snow this winter (as long as we get a rainy spring), BUT I am happy we've got the few inches we have, AND that it's going to be getting quite cold this weekend*. I'm hoping that the chill will kill all those larvae that were tricked into hatching by the abnormally warm January and early February weather. Especially the mosquito and tick larvae. *nods* (*Note: We finally have sufficient lodgings for our remaining homeless population, so no one should die of cold here. Otherwise, I wouldn't be so happy about the cold snap coming.)
6. Reduced indigestion. I'm tired of having my stomach (not tummy, but stomach) hurt. If it weren't for everyone else in the house being just fine, I would suspect an ulcer, but none of them have anything close to the same symptoms, so I think it's just my body being an attention-seeking bitch, as per usual. But the good is that the pain has been going away, and even the discomfort is starting to go down. So yay. One less physical stressor. Now to just get my teeth sorted out, right?
1. New glasses are on order! My current glasses are just over five years old. I got them when my bout of meningitis worsened my eyesight by a point (+1, not +.1). It seems my eyesight has devolved even more, but only +.75 over the last 5 years, so that's not too terrible. And what's best is that my new glasses should be better (HD progressive glasses? Apparently they are loads better, and not just hype) AND they're less expensive than my current pair was. So yay! I just hope that the lenses are as light as they felt with the plastic in them... They felt lighter than all the other frames I tried on, so it's possible that while they won't be as light as that, they will be lighter than my current pair.
2. Excellent soup. Seriously. It was so good that Page ate it without too much complaint! Best thing is that it was leftovers, so all I had to do was add the sausage to extend it and voila! 15 minute meal.
3. Geoff is better. Geoff has been suffering various physical ailments over this winter, the main complaint being his osteoarthritic shoulder flaring. He's been wearing a sling to help the shoulder muscles heal, but that puts a strain on his other shoulder and back muscles, so it's just been generally bad. What's worst is that it's (of course) his right arm that's affected - his dominant arm. So that's been dragging him down to my level, which has sucked for both of us.
Then last week sometime his right calf started itching for no reason; a couple of days later there was this red mark on it, as if he'd scratched it in his sleep. Sunday morning he put his right foot on the chair beside me, rolled up his pant leg and asked what I thought. OMG. It had started out as separate reddish areas, but now it had the definite look of connected lines crawling out of the central wound-like area. His calf was pink and hot and solid. I asked if it hurt a lot. He said no. I told him we were going to urgent care immediately after church, but if it became distinctly painful at any point, we was to call me right away so I could take him to the ER.
The doctor confirmed it as cellulitis, put him on Doxy droppings (doxycycline), marked up his leg with sharpie and told us to come back if it wasn't better in two days, or if the red areas extended out of the inner markings by a significant amount at any point. So, twice a day I would ask to see his leg. And while the red markings didn't grow, they also didn't recede. More worryingly, the pink was spreading, as was the hard swelling. Monday night we agreed that if it wasn't better by morning, we'd make another appointment. (There was also a nasty black dot growing in the center of the wound-like area, which made me very nervous.)
But yesterday morning it was better. The heat was gone, the swelling significantly reduced, and the black dot now just dark, dark red. By last night the pink was mostly gone, and this morning even the red area finally reduced its size and anger level. So yay!
And even better, he seems not to be suffering under the doxy droppings like I did. Thank god. I hope that continues for the entire course of treatment.
4. Page's increasing musicality. He still absolutely refuses to sing in public, unless required by his school, but he'll happily sing at home, especially if he doesn't think we can hear him. What's best, though, is when he sings when he knows we can hear him. So there's that, and his saxophone skills are increasing, though not as quickly as he'd like. Poor guy. He suffers under the "everything comes too easily" curse, which makes practicing difficult (because, really, what's the point if you can catch up in a trice?). Yes, discipline in this house is not a force to be reckoned with, but we do try. Ever now and again. ;-) Fortunately, he's got Star Wars music that is challenging him (of course, it wouldn't be quite so hard if he'd slow it down until he learned the notes, but I'm just a mom...) and therefore keeping his interest, so getting him to practice hasn't been as
5. Snow! Okay, I can happily live without getting any more snow this winter (as long as we get a rainy spring), BUT I am happy we've got the few inches we have, AND that it's going to be getting quite cold this weekend*. I'm hoping that the chill will kill all those larvae that were tricked into hatching by the abnormally warm January and early February weather. Especially the mosquito and tick larvae. *nods* (*Note: We finally have sufficient lodgings for our remaining homeless population, so no one should die of cold here. Otherwise, I wouldn't be so happy about the cold snap coming.)
6. Reduced indigestion. I'm tired of having my stomach (not tummy, but stomach) hurt. If it weren't for everyone else in the house being just fine, I would suspect an ulcer, but none of them have anything close to the same symptoms, so I think it's just my body being an attention-seeking bitch, as per usual. But the good is that the pain has been going away, and even the discomfort is starting to go down. So yay. One less physical stressor. Now to just get my teeth sorted out, right?
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