Cent is under the weather again and just COULD NOT get a page turned out this week. I will spare you the details, but suffice to say that it's very difficult to create good images when one has to abruptly leave the computer every fifteen minutes on split-second notice to run to another room in the house, where explosive gastrointestinal things happen.
Thanks once again to Dianna Silver for a nice piece of filler art. :)
I just finished a fast and blast on Monday and an alien probe yesterday, second one in my life, and I hope I never need to go through that again. We'll see whether the five wee poyps are or are not benign, Real Soon Now. Old age is not for sissies.
I found out through an electrician that those cheap 15A/125 Volt Pop-in receptacles have a tendency to burn up slowly after just 3 to 4 years (give or take) they make breakers go down, making you have to turn those back on then reset you part of the known galaxy. Get 20A/125 Volt receptacles, not Pop-ins and life will be as good as a Vulcan Mind Meld.
Oof! I sincerely wish you well (not in the least because of your contributions here and elsewhere), and ultimate recovery from the treatment (which might seem worse than the disease).
My 'contributions' are mainly "nothing better to do and lots of time to do it so I may as well annoy people I don't know".
Thanks for the kind thoughts, it seems we always end up discussing our various ailments in the comments as much as anything else, this is part of the aging process, we all turn into the stereotypical old women sitting on a porch complaining about everything that hurts...but at least if it hurts we've still got it;)
There's something cathartic about chatting with complete strangers about things you don't even talk to family about, it's a much needed outlet that's better than bottling things up inside and anonymity does lend itself to a little more openness.
Been a little over eight years since the last session and still testing negative, the big milestone was five years and the next will be ten, I just hope saying that doesn't jinx it like it usually does for everything else...
We still get occasional bursts of fatigue and crash out for naps that run like 2-3 hours, but other than that, the only lingering symptom is my persistent cough. Which is also going away, little by little. I think that's partly because as soon as I do one of those deep wheezy hacking coughs, I slam a shot of Robitussin and tell my nervous system to stop being a twitchy bitch. :D
@Tokyo Rose, one thing you might also try for the wheezing, is OTC guaifenesin. It helps break up the mucus that is involved with the wheezing. I hope you guys get better!
Eurgh! I can sympathize; I've had a chronic trachaeo-bronchial cough since the recent tsunami of west coast wildfires spewed clouds of burned cyclic hydrocarbons into the air, having burned not just huge swathes of forest, but significant volumes of structure and infrastructure.
Sounds like 'getting old' to me ;)
Naps are wonderful things, I've always enjoyed them, even just zzz'ing in the sun under a tree on a lazy afternoon when I was younger but since I retired they're a way of life, a ritual to appease the gods of crankiness and arthritis :)
ooc: its kinda what I was trained to do in the military :P cramed so much ep in to my head never fully understood it but like a manchurian cannidate, it comes out at the oddes times :P
I really like warm water with lemon and honey, but that isn't something everyone keeps on hand.
Frozen OJ with a spoon directly from the container is my time honored fallback. It is sticky, sweet, filled with vitamin C, and it coats and cools your throat as it goes down awesome stuff. Since it is frozen just put the lid back on and put it back in the freezer. It wont go bad, and there isn't much water in it to be mangled by the defrost cycle. A couple of tea spoons (the smaller spoon) is about an 8 oz glass worth.
Thank you, Diana, for the pic
*hugs*
Feel better!
Thank you Dianna! Looks good!
I thought EVERYONE did that... lol
After eight weeks of radiation treatments cooking my guts, this is the story of my life now and has been for years.
Hopefully her problem is transient and lets her appreciate the little things in life, like a roll of toilet paper fresh from the freezer ;)
Thanks for the kind thoughts, it seems we always end up discussing our various ailments in the comments as much as anything else, this is part of the aging process, we all turn into the stereotypical old women sitting on a porch complaining about everything that hurts...but at least if it hurts we've still got it;)
There's something cathartic about chatting with complete strangers about things you don't even talk to family about, it's a much needed outlet that's better than bottling things up inside and anonymity does lend itself to a little more openness.
Been a little over eight years since the last session and still testing negative, the big milestone was five years and the next will be ten, I just hope saying that doesn't jinx it like it usually does for everything else...
...darned chestbursters!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hiOnLknh6s
I believe a good portion of this crowd feels your anguish, Centy. No details needed, we already know first hand... Get well soon, girl!!!
Speaking of getting well, How are you and Mr. Black doing in the aftermath, Rose?
Naps are wonderful things, I've always enjoyed them, even just zzz'ing in the sun under a tree on a lazy afternoon when I was younger but since I retired they're a way of life, a ritual to appease the gods of crankiness and arthritis :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GnxtkcdGGc
I was working on it, and using the tablet as a drawing surface, when Noly came to inspect, so I slid the tablet out and took the pic.
Frozen OJ with a spoon directly from the container is my time honored fallback. It is sticky, sweet, filled with vitamin C, and it coats and cools your throat as it goes down awesome stuff. Since it is frozen just put the lid back on and put it back in the freezer. It wont go bad, and there isn't much water in it to be mangled by the defrost cycle. A couple of tea spoons (the smaller spoon) is about an 8 oz glass worth.