Thursday, January 13, 2022

 Thursday, January 13, 2022

 

    Wow! I slept straight through to 5 am. I didn't get up once to pee during the night. I probably didn't drink enough water yesterday.  

     My calf muscles were tight. That problem was coming from the hip or the back. As I sat in my old lady chair working on the blog posting for the 13th, I could feel spasms traveling down my leg from my glutes. Oh, boy. I haven't had this for a while now. It may be possible that even the ankle problem is coming from the hip. If that's the case, it is time for a THR. 

    I meditated for an hour. I was no longer in a thoroughly agitated state of mind, but I was still unhappy with certain aspects of my life. I have been clearing out people with whom I cannot negotiate changes. My mom was like that. Everything had to be her way, or she was devastated. When I told her she was hurting me with constant criticism, she told me I was saying that to hurt her. It was a dead-end. One person in my life said she couldn't take any criticism. Now that's an honest response. I understand where she is coming from. I know her family. It was a nest of control freaks who always had to be right. If you didn't see it their way, something was wrong with you. I have worked my ass off not to be that person myself. I hated it in my mother. 

   I had a Cryo appointment at 10:45. I had problems with my calendar. I couldn't find the entry for the Cryo. I received several email reminders but couldn't find them. I texted and called the place but got no reply. I finally found the email and made it to the appointment by 10:45.

    Today I had a full body treatment and a local on my ankle. I have trouble communicating with the woman who runs the Cryo. We're like bumper cars. I feel anger from her. She may be an angry person in general. She has a smooth, controlled veneer, but I feel no warmth from her. It's like a joke: no warmth from someone who dispenses cold. My skin temperature today dropped to 52. I said it was colder immediately after she took my temperature. She said no, it was the same as always. I said it was 55 last time and 52 today. I was confused why that wasn't colder. I'm really not as swift as I used to be. It took me a few minutes to figure out that she was referring to the temperature of the nitrogen and not my skin. 

 I always ask a lot of questions. I like to understand what is happening. Some people love that trait; some people hate it. I don't know where this woman lands on this subject.

   I left the Cryo around 11:20. I had an appointment with the optometrist at noon. I thought I would have time to stop at the Club's café to pick up one of those delicious open Greek salad sandwiches. I didn't have time if I wanted to make it to the optometrist by noon. I headed out.

   As I suspected, there was no hurry. I had a long wait before being seen. My time was well spent. I finished Gladwell's David and Goliath on my kindle.  

    The optometrist's receptionist doubles as a tech. She did several procedures to test my eyes before Meali'inani saw me. I told her I heard she was expecting. They have two small dogs. One is pregnant. Meali'inani showed me a picture of the event. She had just texted Sandor the female was in heat. She caught them in the act an hour later and snapped that shot. In two weeks, they will have puppies. A dog's gestation is only two months. Amazingly, a living thing can be produced so quickly.   

  Meali'inani and Sandor were not expecting to be parents. Of course, it's a little naïve to think otherwise when you have an unneutered male and an unneutered female in the same house. That reminded me of one of my favorite jokes.  

   A vet visited an elderly woman in her home to check on her cat. The woman had noticed a swelling in the abdominal area. Something was clearly wrong. The vet checked her and said,: "She's pregnant." The woman said, "She can't be. She' never goes out of this house." At that point, a large tom came out from under the sofa. The vet asked, "What about him?" the woman exclaimed in horror, "He's her brother!!"

   My eyes have been doing a little better of late. They don't get blurry quite as fast. However, my macula pucker is worse. I had my extra set of glasses made into a progressive bifocal with blue coating for reading and computer use to relieve the eye strain. I had to pick out a new frame for my second pair of regular glasses in case something happened to the ones I usually wore. Instead of being a progressive trifocal, these will be bifocal too, just far and near. The last time I picked frames, Mike was with me.

   Meali'inani ordered drops for my eyes which might help with the macula pucker. She asked what pharmacy I usually used, Long's or Costco. I answered Costco. This is an example of the flaws in my mental processing. It didn't occur to me to say "KP," where I usually get my meds. I stopped off at Long's on my way home. Long's doesn't accept KP insurance. These were expensive. I want to get the drugs through KP before paying for them out of pocket. I don't know if KP accepts prescriptions from non-KP doctors. Looks like I'm going to find out.

   I watched a documentary on Linda Ronstadt. She had some voice. I love her work. Then I started watching Masterpiece Theater's new version of All Creatures Great and Small. Mike and I watched the older version many years ago.