Life can be a Pain

Wonderful owls - thanks @Anastasia

The barn owl has little bracelets on his ankles - ooh - I love that

Dec

Thank you @Owlunar 😢

hello and hugs @Owlunar

how are you today

Hi @Shaz51

I have been reasonably okay today - pain does have a way of wearing us down as you certainly know by now but today was fair enough

How are you? And Mr Shaz - and your Mum?

It is so often one day at a time

Dec

Hello and hugs my second mum @Owlunar 👋❤❤😀🦉🦉🦉

The last bit of the house is being demolished this week ' was very upset ' very mixed emotions

Today one of our customers we clean for has breast cancer and she had a talk to me " saying this is a new beginning for Mr shaz and me " and we need to now to take that step forward in to the unknown-- I thought WOW

Anyway it is pouring down with rain here ' crazy weather

Beacause things have taken a while inbetween doctors and Mr shaz ' Mr shaz has cancelled all help again and taking more meds when he needs too

My mum is getting frail and needing more care

Me ' I have to have another appt in May for my kidney disease

Hello and hugs my @BlueBay ' @Emelia8 👋❤❤

Hi

@Anastasia @greenpea @Emelia8 @Zoe7 @BlueBay @Shaz51 @Appleblossom @outlander

I haven't had a very good week painwise. The weather turned sour on Tuesday - the barometric pressure fell abrupty and it became very cold. Even though I kept myself warm my shoulder pain flared and it stayed that way all night and on Wednesday morning. I managed to get it settled and got a taxi to see my GP for the fluvax - I have been vaccinated against flu as well as COVID.

The taxi managed to hit the curb though and set the pain off again. And it was cold - and I got cold and I hate to wait for my doctor for over an hour - he had an emergency while I was there - and I was in a bad way when I saw him. I saw my pain specialist today and he has booked me in for another shoulder ablation with a fluid replacement injection and that is in two weeks - and the following week I will be in again for facet joint injections into my lumbar spine. It is over a year since I had that done before - it lasted well

But the pain has flared badly which is why I haven't been in - I seem to focus on healing myself at such times and that's how we all should be - I am okay emotionally - and for once on a Friday night there is a good movie and other programmes I can tape - I think I will get my blankie and lie on the couch later - it's too early to take another dose of medication

I think we are in for a chilly winter in Melbourne - I would love to go to Cairns but no way to I want to find my self trapped by a snap border closure or needing hotel quarantine so that's still on hold

So I am hoping to catch up with people - I wish you all the best and I am sending hugs

Dec

@Owlunar so sorry the pain has become so bad again. But its good that you are now booked in for both the shoulder ablation and fluid replacement injection in 2 weeks and another facet joint injection into the lumbar spine in 3 weeks. You should be all good to go after that! Even Cairns. 😊

But as you say, we are still getting these snap state shutdowns. Like Perth right now. Sigh. Could mean that my husbands brother and his wife, and hubbys sister and her husband may not get here for the funeral on Tuesday. This is very upsetting to me. There are some odd circumstances for both ... his brother currently travelling, but was in perth up until last Sunday ... his sister lives outside of the lockdown areas, but has visited Perth in the last 2 days. They wont know until they approach their airlines I suppose. Could throw my plans into disarray though.

If there is a good movie on tonight, I might join you on the couch watching telly, with a blankie. Its been an exhausting week, and I'm ready to drop. You take care and rest up as much as you need to in order to keep your pain at manageable levels for as long as possible. Sending love and a hug to you.

Emelia 💕 🤗

Hugs @Emelia8 @Owlunar What are you both watching?

Hearing you about cold and pain. Layered up with outside scarf on dressing gown and uggs. Having old battle over the heater again as son is in and cant cope with it on ... will go looking for small electric in the garage tomorrow.

@Emelia8

Thanks Em - an evening watching TV with blankies sounds pretty good - it's pretty chilly in Melbourne atm. I have got drinking chocolate and marshmallows handy this weekend

I have been thinking about you - I know it's a difficult time - and moreso now with your husband's family locked down in Perth. I heard about this on the news a few minutes ago. This is definitely something rough to endure at such a sorrowful time. It a situation that is increased through the rules necessary during a pandemic

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Through the lockdown between states and countries I have been concerned about my elderly, elderly relatives and my son-in-law has been concerned about his mother in New Zealand. I try to be philosophical - snap lock-downs mean toilet paper shortages for some obscure reason I can't fathom - seeing there was a lot of toilet paper in the supermarket I bought some extra just in case - now is the time to get our panic buying out of the way when there is no emergency - and I do believe that there is none so queer as folks - as my English grandmother used to say

You are doing so well keeping us informed about how you are going during such a sensitive time in your life - I understand how difficult it is to keep caring ourselves during such a time. To save myself bothering too much about cooking with the flare-up in my shoulder I got a cooked-chook yesterday and that will keep me going for a couple of days and when the shoulder settles I can make a stew with some diced steak I have frozen for now - I have learned a lot of ways to keep kitchen work easy when my shoulder plays up

All the best Em - I have been reading your thread even though I haven't posted much lately

Dec

@Appleblossom

Good luck with the small electric heater Apple - tough on you if your son can't bear the effective heater. I know one reason I like living alone is I can have the heat at the temperature that suits around me. I am sorry to hear you can't

But I also know that at times you need to have peace at any price. I also know how bad my pain gets if I get cold,

We have to make hard choices for our kids sometimes - I do understand that

Dec