4 am wake up .......

I am the one that usually get sup in the middle of the night to let the dogs out.....so Wednesday morning when I realized G man was up I felt guilty....he had a road trip and should have been up at 6am to get going......I came down stairs and saw G man sitting on the couch with one of the dogs waiting for the others to come in....being the nice loving wife every one knows me to be......I told him to go back to bed.....he didn't say anything just got up and walked around....weird but ok it's 4 am........all the dogs were in, alarm set, Lucy pushed up the stairs, and G man says....."I think you better take me to the hospital, my heart is racing and I can't get it to slow down"......I looked at him, he was dressed in grey undies, and black socks with a yellow towel across his shoulders for warmth. The only thing I said was "OK lets go...let me get dressed" He got dressed too and away we went, but not before I grabbed his meds, a book and my purse.

He wanted to go across town to the hospital his doctor was affiliated with, but I had other plans. The closest hospital and one that his doctor is NOT affiliated with. ( Gman's doctor is another post, just know I think he is a quack.)

We arrived safely, after running a few red lights, and G man was seen immediately, but not before the receptionist asked if we had time to fill out paper work. To which my reply was "hell no he is having heart problems."

Heart rate 101, blood pressure 194/110.......this after he took a second pill for high blood pressure.......hhhhmmmm a little tad high for the pressure and slightly fast for the heart rate......abnormal ekg, no pain, or other typical signs of a heart attack. Possibly iskemia....lack of oxygen to the heart....blood tests......nitro patch, 3 more aspirin, lots of very kind and soft spoken nurses, residents and one attending physician. There were several discussions about the medicine for high blood pressure G man takes.....( another post about our managed care program), we know and the doctors know the FDA took the med off the market, but the new medicine did not arrive so G man had to keep taking the old.

The decision is to have G man stay the night, have a stress test, wait for blood work to come back, and send him to the observation unit. Ok good thing I brought a book with me. The overnight did not happen, G eman's blood work came back all normal, and his ekg after second and third opinions was more likely normal for him than abnormal, but the stress test is a must.

By 11:30 am G man and I were in the stress test lab, he was injected with a radioactive dye to help illuminate his heart and away he went on the treadmill.....after the test we went to t he observation unit to wait for results. At 4pm we were on our way home, the stress test came back normal.

The conclusion reached by the doctors is the medicine is not working and uG man has way way way to much stress going on....which he does... in part because he owns his company which is slow due to the economy and because he drives himself crazy with worry about stupid stuff he can not control. He has to slow down on the partying with the 20 year olds, rest more ( ha like that will happen) loose some weight (about 20 lbs)and get the medicine issue resolved.

So far he has been good about following the hospital doctors advice and has decided he may need to get a different doctor. The new medicine arrived, we bought a blood pressure monitor, and G man has been going to bed around midnight instead of 2 am.

Today Friday the 13th

Do You Suffer From Paraskavedekatriaphobia?

I forgot to mention

On my goodness I forgot to mention I went to see The Watchmen..........It was HORRIBLE>>>>>>people were walking out half way thru the movie. I am not sure why my group sat thru the entire movie. All 5 of us said it was the worst movie we had seen in a long time.

Is it wrong for a mom>>>>>

Is it wrong for a mom to be angry with her child over money, work and responsibility when the child is 22.?


A blow out of epic proportions occurred yesterday when I was notified that Jenny G had a parking ticket from early Feb....unpaid. The car is registered in my name so the late notice came to me. The fine had doubled. When I called the college parking bureau to find out if they would waive the fee, she got it the first week of the semester, they said no and that a second ticket was given 5 days ago. The fines are at $75. If the fines go unpaid the car can be towed, and I may not be able to register the car or get my license renewed.


Jenny G has been at school for 8 weeks, she will be starting a great job next week. During the lull of unemployment she refused to take a job in a fast food restaurant to make some money. She claims she put applications in at other places, but not the fast food restaurant that was advertising for help. She has no money now. Her reason for not atking the fast food job is she did not want to work there for a few weeks and then quit if she got this other job. She said it's not right to do that to an employer......so keep both jobs....you are a poor college student.

She is a great kid for the most part. But earning her own money has never been a focus. Her attitude of paying for a hamburger on Thursday that she ate Tuesday is the problem. She thinks that future income will pay her debts and expenses from the past. Where that thinking came from I do not know. If G man and I can't pay cash for something we don't buy it until we can. We thought Jenny G man the same view. Boy were we wrong.

So I really let loose on her over the phone....telling her the princess attitude needs to be gone, that paying with future income for current and past debts is stupid, stop being lazy and park in free lots at school and walk and pay her bills on time. I don't feel to bad for telling her how I see the situation. Her response was that I am right, she's sorry, she doesn't know why she does this....blah blah blah blah.....

AAAGGGHHHHHHH..... I get so angry when this stuff happens. It can be avoided with simple accountability for actions taken or not taken.......why oh why oh why has she not learned this.

Today was the day I learned something new

Eating olive tapenade on triscuits and a bowl of cheerios before working out is not a good idea......

TO

Great just what the Bills needed......T.O. Another wasted season ......

Terrell Owens
#81
Wide Receiver

T.O. shuffling off to Buffalo
AP, Mar 7, 2009
Terrell Owens needed only two days to find another place to play. The Buffalo Bills decided to take a chance on the talented but high-maintenance receiver, signing Owens to a $6.5 million, one-year deal Saturday

The good news just keeps coming

In one of the more bizarre free agent signings in club history, Fitzpatrick is now a member of the Bills, leaving everyone asking why and wanting more.
In terms of experience and chronological age, the former Ram and Bengal hardly fits the bill as someone capable of filling a mentoring role. Fitzpatrick, 26, has started five fewer games than Edwards and he’s less than one year older.
As far as viewing him as an upgrade over Losman, critics are snickering over GM Russ Brandon’s assessment of Fitzpatrick: “Over the course of Ryan’s career, he has been a very productive player and certainly brings many positives to our organization.”
Really?
Compared to Losman, Fitzpatrick has started 18 fewer games, attempted 434 fewer passes, thrown for 3,529 fewer yards and 21 fewer touchdowns, and won seven fewer games.

Confused

I am in a frazzle today....my cavalier was up 10 times in 3 1/2 hours last night. I haven't had coffee yet and it's 2:19 pm.....uuuggghhhh. I gotta talk to the vet again...getting up for hours sucks.......the dog is confused I think...he goes outside and sits....looks for a chewy that he left out there and 20 minutes later he is ready to come in.....then he must remember he left another chewy out there or just wants to make sure he has them all and the cycle starts again....sometimes just 5 minutes after I get back in bed......but last night was the worst.....10 times !!!!!!! the little piss ant has the nerve to sleep all day. Thank god I do not have a job that I have to go to in the AM.

I am almost 100% certain he is not sick.......just has his days and nights turned around...

And it's the chewys.......he must have them all....doesn't like to share with the other dogs.........this dog will look for all the chewys...carry them one by one to his bed and sleep on top of them.....if the other dogs take a chewy the cavalier cries and whines until he gets it back....he is very selfish.........

I need coffee....bad

Good Food and dollars

I read an article in a local magazine, appropriately named after our city. Rochester Magazine. The magazine is snooty and is FREE to households over a specific annual income. A 6 figure income. I get it FREE because I use to advertise my store in it. The powers to be at the magazine company must not have updated the database as my store has been closed for 6 months.

Moving on......an article in the magazine has made me aware that I have some sense of what good food is all about and how grateful I am to be able to purchase good food. AND how our government has interfered with farming through subsidies ( our tax dollars) which has allowed for a more cost effective production of food but at the expense of our health via inferior nutrition, chemicals reaping destruction on the environment,and mistreatment of animals.

The article went on to point out that BIG is not always better. (Don't we know it now with all that is going on with Wall Street, big banks, big insurance companies etc.) If we shop our local farm markets, participate in community gardens, plant our own back yard gardens, buy locally grown meats and let our politicians know that this is how we want to get our food, we may be able to shift the subsidies from industrialized food production ( high fructose corn syrup and partially hydrogenated oils) to sustainable farms that do not use chemicals or inhumane treatment of animals. What a concept! I'm in.

Kodak Moments

I thought some of you might enjoy these kodak moments.......

OUCH! AAAGGGHHHH! OH SHIT THAT HURTS!

At 4AM I was up again letting the dogs out. In a slumbering stupor I smashed my elbow on the corner of the wall at the top of the stairs and cried out. No one came to make sure I was OK. Double G was still out somewhere. G man was sound asleep with his earphones tightly secure inside his ears. Jenny G is away at college. Good thing I did not fall down the stairs, I was on my own.

Once the dogs came back in and I climbed into bed I realized my elbow really hurt and could tell it was swollen. My first aid skills kicked in as best they could at that time of the morning. Instead of getting ice to apply I opted for elevation of the injured limb. Using the extra pillows on the bed I propped my arm up hoping that when I awoke at a reasonable morning hour everything would be fine.

During the few hours of sleep that remained i dreamt about a BURSA SACK that traveled up and down my arm. Don't ask me why i couldn't tell ya. My sleep was not restful.

SO now I am walking around with a bag of frozen blueberries inside a towel tied around my elbow. My arm bends and can straighten, but the elbow has visible bruising and is still swollen.

G man looked at it and made a, what he thought was a funny laugh out loud, comment about not being able to clearly see the damage because of the amount of FAT on my arm. UH huh...and your size 40 pants make you ......what .....slim?