tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-43761345615966486862024-02-07T19:41:28.379-05:00Ginger's JunketGingerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11008145024743103203noreply@blogger.comBlogger981125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4376134561596648686.post-16301711491074653532021-01-09T14:41:00.002-05:002021-01-09T14:41:14.761-05:00Mama<p>It's surely been a while since I shared anything on this blog. 2020 was such a hard year. The virus raged and hundreds of thousands of Americans died from it. Mama and Daddy both had to go into a nursing home, temporarily we thought, for physical therapy and rehab. Mama's legs and Daddy's arm, after he fell and broke it in July. Mama's legs never got better and she got worse. She passed away September 21st and my whole world collapsed. It's hard to describe unless you're there, how it feels to have the ground snatched out from under you, to lose your anchor and just be drifting along, untethered and lost. </p><p>Mama had been sick for a long, long time and still, here three and a half months later, it's still hard to believe she's gone. At the beginning, I felt soooo connected to her and now, I'm feeling her slip away and that makes me unbelievably sad. She came to me in dreams and for one entire day, I smelled roses. I knew she was RIGHT THERE. I listen to her voicemails on my phone and watch videos of her to keep her ALIVE with me but I still feel her slipping away. I received a call today from the folks who made the slab for her grave. It's there now, ready for me to go look at and approve. I dread it. I don't want to see it. I'm the one who designed it and decided that she would have three little butterflies to represent my sister and brother and me on one corner and one hummingbird to represent Daddy on the other. To see it, all hard and stony and cold, I don't know if I want to. Ami and I took her flowers in the fall and a Christmas tree that stayed lit and her beloved poinsettia last month and we've been to visit her grave every other weekend, after we visit Daddy. Through the window, talking to him with a baby monitor because of COVID. We take him lunch and snacks and goodies and whatever he thinks to ask for. We are trying so hard to get through this. We tried so hard to protect him from the virus but when they tested him January 3rd, he had it. He's positive. So far so good, though. We call him every day, Ami and I do, and we stay in constant contact with the staff regarding his care. One of the last things Mama said to me was, "take care of Daddy". I'm trying, Mama. I'm trying.</p><p>The tears still come so easily. I had a mini breakdown just before Christmas. Sitting on the floor of our garage, going through her Christmas wrapping paper, bags and boxes. I had decorated our tree this year with nothing but her decorations and Larry and I clipped on family photos here and there as well. It was a pretty tree. One that was so much Mama that it hurt my heart to look at it some days.</p><p>NOBODY was ever as interested in me or what was going on in my life as my mama was. She was always so proud of my accomplishments and ready to hold me if I needed to cry over a broken heart or some trivial disappointment. The memories are sharp right now. Little small things that I'd buried years ago are rushing back to me now and I'm constantly saying, "my mama used to..." or "my mama always said...". Although she has left this world, she is STILL my mama. I am still her daughter. That relationship is eternal. I hold the words she said to me and the things she taught me so very close. Ami and I both wanted to keep her with us through the holidays so we made her amazing cornbread dressing and I made her Martha Washington candy that she made for us every single Christmas. I even made individual loaves of her ice box fruitcake and gave it to our neighbors. It was a small way to keep her here with us and at times, I felt her presence with me in the kitchen. Once I even thought to call her and ask her how long that fruitcake could keep in the fridge. It's painful the places your brain goes sometimes. </p><p>Losing your mama is a heartbreak like no other. It feels like your heart is shattered into a bazillion little pieces. How do you go on LIVING without your mama?? Do you even want to live in world that she's not in??? </p><p>Like I mentioned earlier, Mama was sick for a long time but 2020 was just unbelievably difficult for her. I prayed to God constantly and I told Him, "if You want to take my mama, I won't be mad at You" and I wasn't. I wouldn't wish her back here in the shape she was in. Life was not good for her. She couldn't do the things she wanted to, she couldn't take care of herself, Daddy or us. When she got to where she couldn't walk, I think she just gave up. </p><p>So we are left with the broken pieces of Mama. A lifetime of memories, photographs, a few voicemails and videos. I know she's still with me but I wish I could feel it as strongly as I did at first. I'm worried that one day, she'll just be gone. </p><p>Don't leave me, Mama. Come see me and bring some roses.</p>Gingerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11008145024743103203noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4376134561596648686.post-67883621960427497472020-04-21T17:33:00.000-04:002020-04-21T18:54:36.437-04:00When it rains, look for rainbows<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I've tried to write this blog entry three times already. I just don't know where to start. Our world has changed so much in the last two months. I guess that's about right. Somewhere around the end of February, the first case of <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/index.html">coronavirus</a> showed up here. Today, we have 810 THOUSAND cases and 44 THOUSAND deaths. To be exact, 44,234 Americans have DIED. While I know how this happened, I watched it happen, yet I still cannot fathom this incredible LOSS.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">New York has been hit the hardest so far and they have had to resort to using air-conditioned trailers to keep the bodies in until they have the time, the manpower, the energy, to process them and give them decent burials. This is happening here, in this country. The United States. I just can't believe it. It's like we're watching a movie. But we're not. It's real. Georgia has 19,881 cases today and 799 deaths. Hospitals are bursting at the seams, healthcare workers are working double shifts, without proper protection, using the same masks and coverings shift after shift, day after day, getting sick themselves, some of them dying.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I absolutely, completely and without any shame, blame Trump for this. Not the virus, of course, he didn't cause that. But his RESPONSE. Too slow, not serious enough, his severe mishandling, LYING to us constantly about testing and masks and every-damn-thing else, absolutely no empathy for anyone so no concern for the sick and dying. I knew this guy was garbage from Day One and I also knew that WHEN THE TIME CAME that we'd need a LEADER, he would fail us. But never in my wildest dreams would I have thought we'd have such a horrific tragedy as this and this unbelievable loss we're suffering.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I am a government worker so I am considered "essential" (although when I was furloughed every Friday for six weeks seven years ago, I was <i>non</i>-essential. Oy.) but the base decided to let those of us who have underlying health conditions (diabetes, heart disease, lung disease, immunity issues) go out on two months of administrative leave, they call it Weather and Safety Leave, in March, to try to protect those more fragile employees. I took advantage of this offer since I have three of the conditions listed on the form. I got my doctor to sign it, I turned it in to them and I've been at home since March 26th. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Larry, however, works for a company that believes itself to be essential so he's been working. We're washing hands, using Clorox wipes, Lysol and face masks. Doing whatever we can to stay safe and healthy. So far, so good.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It's horrible. The whole world is under quarantine. I follow a bunch of celebrities and influencers on Instagram and they're all sharing bits and pieces of their lives while stuck at home and it's comforting to see that we are, indeed, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXX2Ps_MeSM">all in this together</a>. As far as all of us trying to stay home and stay healthy, anyway. We're NOT actually all in this together. 22 million people in this country have lost their jobs. The government threw us all a $1,200 bone this month but $1,200 will barely cover April's mortgage payment and groceries for an average American family. Uncle Sam gonna have to do better than that!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I've spent my 26 days at home cleaning house, organizing things, keeping the laundry caught up, working in the yard a bit (we put fresh mulch in the front yard flower beds but we're out of mulch and are not going shopping for more any time soon), drinking lots of coffee, getting lots of rest, watching lots of Netflix. I have a TBR stack two stories high but I just cannot sit down and read. I did finish the book I was reading but that's about it. Mostly I just stay on my phone or watch 24-hour news and stress out. I've gone in to the office about once a week to catch up any work I have and check email and stuff like that. I have Kroger deliver our groceries every week and we practice <a href="https://time.com/5800442/social-distancing-coronavirus/">social distancing</a> with our neighbors. We watch <a href="https://www.ingleside.org/">church</a> on Sunday mornings and we covet a <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/coronavirus-toilet-paper-shortage-panic/2020/04/07/1fd30e92-75b5-11ea-87da-77a8136c1a6d_story.html">double roll pack of toilet tissue</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Folks are doing all kinds of things to try and stay positive. There's the bear in the window thing where people ride around the neighborhood and see how many teddy bears they can find sitting on window sills. We have one in our front bedroom window. Of course we do. There's the rainbow thing, too, where everybody is drawing chalk rainbows in the street, their driveways and putting paper rainbows up in their windows. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We believe that rainbows are God's promise that He would never again flood the earth. We believe that He will send us one when this storm passes as well. In the meantime, <span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">we've got a driveway and we've got sidewalk chalk. </span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><br /></span>Gingerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11008145024743103203noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4376134561596648686.post-80520832304497854092020-01-26T11:19:00.000-05:002020-01-26T11:33:13.131-05:00Ice House Baby<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Larry and I have spent the last three weekends down in Macon County helping my folks out and I know it's crazy but every time I go "home", I cry. I cry for days gone by, people I've loved who are no longer with us, my schools that are no longer there, the general rundownness (is that a word??) of it all. Yesterday, we went to the store for Mama and there it was. My <a href="https://gingersjunket.blogspot.com/2013/07/my-granddaddy-ice-man.html">granddaddy's ice house</a>. Been there forever. Ain't making plans to go anywhere now either.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Well, my granddaddy's ice house makes me cry, too.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">When I got finished shopping for the things Mama needed, I got back to the truck and Larry says, "hold on a minute" and when I asked where he was going, he says, "I'm going in the store". He comes out a few minutes later and goes to the ice freezer and gets a bag of ice, comes back to the truck and tells me he doesn't want me to cry anymore. Awwww.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We drive over to the ice house and he takes my picture holding that bag of ice in front of it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Larry said there was a bad glare from the sun but that wasn't it.</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">That was my granddaddy smiling down on me. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>Gingerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11008145024743103203noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4376134561596648686.post-90326398282442170592019-12-22T16:54:00.000-05:002019-12-22T17:43:45.832-05:00It's Christmas!<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We have just been living our best life this fall and now look, it's Christmas already! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We went to the North Georgia mountains for Thanksgiving. Had us a good old Waltons' mountain Thanksgiving, we did. We rented a house in Tiger, Georgia and spent four amazing days in Clayton, Rabun Gap and Dillard. We stopped on the way up at <a href="https://gastateparks.org/TallulahGorge">Tallulah Gorge</a> and it was absolutely breathtaking. Biggest hole we'd ever seen! Of course, Larry had to go stand out on the edge and scare the mess out of me. Of course he did. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The house we rented was in a holler, with mountain all around and it was just the cutest thing. Fireplace, gorgeous kitchen, spa shower, wraparound deck with the most beautiful, peaceful little creek in the backyard. We had our breakfast and coffee out there every morning, listening to that sweet little babbling brook. We took Banjo and he was so happy running around in the yard and down by the creek with Daddy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We had Thanksgiving dinner with about 3,000 other folks at </span><a href="http://www.dillardhouse.com/" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Dillard House</a><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> and even though we stood in line and waited in the gift shop and out on the porch for two hours and then waited another half hour to get fed AND it was $60 for the both of us, it was so totally worth it. They serve the food family style, where they bring bowls and platters of food to your table and you share with everyone sitting at your table. Larry and I had our own table and we ate ham and turkey and pork loin with dressing, squash casserole, ambrosia, peas, green beans, rice and gravy, Silver Queen corn, rolls and pie until we were about to bust. The restaurant is so pretty and so cozy and comfortable. We were so happy that we went. The ham was a big hit! Best country ham we'd EVER had. </span><a href="https://www.foodnetwork.com/restaurants/ga/dillard/the-dillard-house-restaurant-restaurant" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Alton Brown</a><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> from The Food Network agrees! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We did some Black Friday shopping at the antique stores and flea markets up there and there are hundreds! We got to as many as we could and had so much fun finishing up our Christmas shopping.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And then Friday night, we went to a drive-in movie! There's a <a href="http://tigerdrivein.com/home/">drive-in</a> there. I was SOOOO excited to be able to go to the drive-in with Larry. We were totally robbed of SO MUCH in our past and to be able to scratch this one off "the list" was amazing. Such a wonderful surprise! We saw "Ford v Ferrari" with Matt Damon and Christian Bale, surrounded by vintage cars, campers and Christmas lights. It was the best. And, OH THE POPCORN. It was the most delicious popcorn I have ever had in my life. I brought every kernel home in Ziploc bags and ate it for days.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Last weekend, we took the <a href="https://samshortline.com/">SAM Shortline</a> Christmas train from Lake Blackshear to Plains and enjoyed the heck out of that. The train was sloooow and it took about two hours to get there so we just sat and talked and looked out the window at trailer parks, abandoned tires, graffiti and the like. Trains go through the worst of areas, I guess. We made up a "12 Days of Christmas" song of the things we saw, only ours was more like "12 mobile homes, 11 broke-down cars, 10 old tires, 9 busted toilets, 8 fallen port-a-potties..." Ha! And ONE big old smilin' peaaaaanut! President Carter isn't feeling well and had just gotten out of the hospital so he couldn't meet us at the train station but that's okay. We just want him to get better. Besides, we <a href="https://gingersjunket.blogspot.com/2015/09/but-greatest-of-these-is-love.html">already met him</a>!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We got to meet Santa, though, on the train and sit on his lap. I was scared we'd break the poor man's leg! I'd never seen Santa Claus with a ponytail but this one had one. I mistakenly thought he was one of "us" but when he asked Larry what he wanted for Christmas and Larry said, "A new president", Santa actually <i>bristled</i>! That was hilarious! I'd never seen Santa Claus bristle before either and leave it to Larry to make him do it. He just looked up at us and said he doesn't get into politics. Probably a good thing, Santa.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We met up with my lifelong friend, Lisa, and her little girl, Bella, and then her nieces showed up, too! What a wonderful little reunion! It was a great day and we were happy-tired when we finally got back home. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Larry spent two weekends getting the yard decorated and it's amazing! We definitely have THE best yard in the neighborhood!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And here's our tree. The Super Fabulous Schneider Christmas Tree of 2019!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We're looking forward to having a quiet, peaceful Christmas at home this year. 2019 was a rough one for us and we are hoping that 2020 brings good health, happiness and even more love to our home.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And, oh yeah, a NEW PRESIDENT!</span>Gingerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11008145024743103203noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4376134561596648686.post-45955908326793858322019-10-11T16:04:00.002-04:002019-10-11T17:04:45.288-04:00Time is just flying by!<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I skipped September altogether! I went back to work on the 3rd and spent the first month working in administration with absolutely NOTHING to do. Made for very long days. I moved back into my position as assistant to the Vehicle Control Officer and that's where I wanted and needed to be. We went and "yard saled" at an F-15 building that's about to be turned over to C-130s and got everything I'd need for the new office. A desk and chair from the flight chief's office and a filing cabinet from the planning office. I am set now! I love the job, I get along great with the VCO and since we've been working together for two years anyway, we hope to turn this into a permanent thing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I'm still going to physical therapy on my foot twice a week. They just extended my treatment for eight more weeks so that will be a total of four months' therapy. I think it's helping. My range of motion anyway. They've taught me exercises to try and strengthen my muscles around my ankle to help me with stability, since I'm still wobbly as all get out. They've suggested shoes (I got the <a href="https://www.brooksrunning.com/en_us/ghost-12-womens-road-running-shoe/120305.html">Brooks Ghost 12s</a> and I LOVE them! Well, the right one, anyway.) and <a href="https://www.zensah.com/products/compression-ankle-support-sleeve?variant=21962276864089">compression socks </a>and we've done <a href="https://www.performancehealth.com/chattanooga-fluidotherapy-unit">fluidotherapy</a> with cellex (which is ground corn cobs that heats up really well) and they're going to cast me for custom orthotics. I have extremely high arches and cannot find an orthotic that works well for me. I do like my <a href="https://www.vionicshoes.com/">Vionic</a> and <a href="https://www.spencofootwear.com/">Spenco</a> shoes, though! I'm supposed to start aquatic therapy (Larry and I LOVED the heated pool at the beach in August and I'm excited to see if I can do more with my foot in the water) later this month. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Larry ran his very first 5K last Saturday and he did so good!!! He finished in just over 40 minutes, with absolutely NO training, no practicing, he just got out there and started running. That was just amazing to me. It was to benefit the folks at the Georgia Arrhythmia Foundation, the same doctors who performed Larry's ablation in August. We took Banjo and had a great time. We even won a door prize! A <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Pyrex-Glass-Bakeware-Container-14-Piece/dp/B0157G3IX2/ref=sr_1_5?keywords=pyrex+bake+and+store+14&qid=1570823014&s=home-garden&sr=1-5">big box of Pyrex</a> baking and food containers! Oh, we thought that was <a href="https://gingersjunket.blogspot.com/2019/08/all-pyrex.html">HILARIOUS</a>!! But we'll sure use 'em! We don't have much of the new Pyrex stuff, just leftover containers that I buy by the season. I always have to get those Halloween and Christmas ones.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We went to the <a href="https://www.georgianationalfair.com/">fair</a> Wednesday night for a date night supper of corn dogs, hamburgers, black-eyed peas & cornbread and apple dumplings. Ahhhh, fair food. Larry had worked down there setting up his job's vending booth in the McGill Marketplace and he'd seen some really cute leopard tops and cardigans he thought I would like. So we got one. A lightweight cardigan that fits just right. ALLTHELEOPARDTHINGS!! I just love leopard stuff these days and my closet will confirm that fact. A couple of weeks ago, I got me a pair of fleece leopard britches and I'm just waiting on that first cold snap.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We've made plans to go up to the mountains next month and we are so excited about that! We <a href="https://www.airbnb.com/">rented</a> a house in the woods with a creek and we're gonna enjoy the flea markets and antique stores and the lots of peace and quiet. Banjo's going, too. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I cannot wait.</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>Gingerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11008145024743103203noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4376134561596648686.post-6983017051302434952019-08-28T20:06:00.000-04:002019-08-30T06:11:51.482-04:00A little island time<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Finally!! We spent three absolutely glorious days at Jekyll Island last weekend and it was just what the doctor(s) ordered for us!! We rented a villa at Driftwood Beach and it was perfect. Two stories (those stairs were a struggle!), two bedrooms, a fully-equipped kitchen and I think our upstairs balcony had the best view in the whole place! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Sunrise, sunburn, sunset, repeat. We saw that on a t-shirt in a shop there and this was true for us. We both got a little burned, despite constantly spraying each other down with sunscreen. The days were overcast with long periods of bright beautiful sun and it was so absolutely worth it. Larry's immediately turned brown and mine has now. Gone are my days of burning, peeling and turning white again. Since menopause, my skin tans and my hair is curly. I'm a totally different girl!</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We think that's probably 5th most romantic beach in the <i>country</i>, but who's arguing? It <i>is</i> romantic.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It's a beautiful place and the site of some Walking Dead scenes come fall! They filmed there my birthday week. Don't miss it!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We spent Sunday morning at Jekyll Beach and could not have asked for better weather! We just sat and relaxed and fed the seagulls and took dips in the ocean and just enjoyed being together. I've never attended a more beautiful Sunday service. It was such a long time coming and we enjoyed every second. Look at that sky. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Georgia has the most beautiful coastline. I'm not sure why everybody wants to go to Florida all the time. Not a big deal at all. More room for us!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We went out Sunday afternoon and shopped a little and had supper at <a href="http://jekyllislandseafood.com/">Jekyll Island Seafood Company</a>. And I got to wear my new <a href="https://www.lillypulitzer.com/loro-dress/001688-blueperirumswizzle.html">Lilly dress</a>! I was so scared I'd get shrimp and grits on it. I bought it earlier this summer JUST to have when we went to the beach. It did not disappoint.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We spent some all-to-ourselves time in the pool Monday morning, had breakfast at the <a href="https://www.jekyllisland.com/activities-category/golf-club/">Jekyll Island Golf Club</a> and went back to the beach for a while. We always have to go and say "see ya later" to the ocean. Ever since I was a tiny girl, I've had to do that. Not goodbye, see ya later. 'Cause I will.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I usually take them all down and clean them and the shelves a couple times a year, and rearrange them for the seasons. I haven't been able to do that since before my first surgery. I've just been dusting around them. I don't let our housekeeper near the Pyrex. They are off limits. If one breaks, it's ME that broke it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I started physical therapy this week. I'm going two days a week for about an hour at a time, doing strengthening exercises, mostly, because I'm not going to be growing back any ligaments or tendons. We're working on building my muscles up to help support where the ligaments and tendon can't anymore. I was feeling up to it yesterday so down came all the Pyrex and I cleaned them, dusted the shelves and put them all back, rearranging them and putting fall patterns and colors front and center. Larry helped me and I think we did a great job! We also moved the dining room table next to the wall so now we have all this space in the kitchen! Our kitchen and dining room are one big room open to the living room and I love that layout.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Here's how it looked once I got them all down off the shelves. I blocked myself in and I had to make a maze to get through. Banjo wouldn't even come in there!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I go back to work after Labor Day. I feel like I'm nesting getting ready for a baby! There's so much I want and need to do before I go back to work. I'll be cleaning and organizing something every day!</span>Gingerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11008145024743103203noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4376134561596648686.post-72773461587301379622019-08-08T20:02:00.000-04:002019-08-08T20:54:57.644-04:00He's my heartbeat<div style="text-align: left;">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Larry had his <a href="https://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/atrial-fibrillation/what-is-cardiac-ablation#1">ablation</a> Monday. We got there at 6:00 AM and they took him back at 8:00 sharp. They had told us the procedure would last anywhere from two to four hours. I went to the family waiting room with our overnight bag, my pillow and my new <a href="https://shop.nordstrom.com/s/nordstrom-at-home-kennebunk-bliss-plush-throw/3564757">Nordstrom blanket</a> and I laid down on a small couch in there, watched a little of the morning national news and snoozed a bit. I had zero anxiety over this procedure. I was completely at peace. Oh, I prayed, don't get me wrong, but I just had peace about it. I knew he'd be okay. The patient rep lets you know what's going on every hour so at 8:17, she came and told me they had started, at 9:15, he was doing great and at 9:45, he was done! I grabbed our stuff and went to the recovery room where they were bringing him back to. He was coming off the anesthesia while I talked to the doctor and found out that everything went great, the area that was causing all the trouble was located and frozen and hopefully, there would be no more AFib. Larry's had an irregular heartbeat as long as he can remember, since he was a little boy, but as he's gotten older, it's gotten worse and a recent monitoring session we did through the VA showed that he was in AFib 70% of the time. No wonder he felt so bad! He wasn't getting very much of that really good oxygen-filled blood flow. We got to a room around 12:00 and we just spent the night. My sweet friend, Debbie, came twice to check on the boys and let Banjo out to potty. (I am so very grateful for my friends. They have been amazing, through all that's gone on the past year, always there to help out and bring food and coffee or whatever.) I took a few pictures while we were camping out in the "<a href="https://www.navicenthealth.org/service-center/heart-center-featuring-the-luce-heart-institute/home">Heart Tower</a>". We got NO sleep. You know you can't sleep in a hospital! It wasn't bad at all, though. I slept on a pullout sofa next to Larry's bed with my blanket and pillow. He was in a lot of pain at first, chest pain from the procedure and having to lay flat for four hours. The AFib showed back up Tuesday morning and his heart rate zoomed to scary levels! It brought all the nurses in our room. They told us that was to be expected, though, at first, and it should calm down but they still monitored him very closely over the next several hours. They put Larry on another med to help with that and sent us home around 2:00. All in all, I think we both received excellent care at the Luce Heart Institute. Couldn't ask for better! They should add my mama's name to a wing in that heart center. She had two open heart surgeries and countless heart caths and angioplasties there. Long before the "Heart Tower" came to be. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I posted this pic on Instagram and commented that I don't have any tattoos but if I was to get one someday, it'll be Larry's heartbeat over my left breast. His heartbeat over mine. There's no other tattoo I'd want.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Thank you, Lord, for modern medical technology, that allows doctors to know how to fix things and help us when our bodies fail. </span>Gingerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11008145024743103203noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4376134561596648686.post-74430536188697229612019-08-01T16:35:00.000-04:002019-08-08T21:13:50.852-04:00August<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPwOFQRoiyQMb_t9yL55LC_ROFy4wp-zhU1PJonLNg1i-phBeZKezo81wCeOwuQAvRleRrvIGOMS5PNnQE6qxcD_p7_0Cwr3GTG81WFII5-5hRUR1e41lK_tQR2yxTPopWpL5fQxUxDq4/s1600/Oh-hello-August.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; color: #0066cc; float: right; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: left; text-decoration: underline; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="800" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPwOFQRoiyQMb_t9yL55LC_ROFy4wp-zhU1PJonLNg1i-phBeZKezo81wCeOwuQAvRleRrvIGOMS5PNnQE6qxcD_p7_0Cwr3GTG81WFII5-5hRUR1e41lK_tQR2yxTPopWpL5fQxUxDq4/s320/Oh-hello-August.jpg" width="320" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPwOFQRoiyQMb_t9yL55LC_ROFy4wp-zhU1PJonLNg1i-phBeZKezo81wCeOwuQAvRleRrvIGOMS5PNnQE6qxcD_p7_0Cwr3GTG81WFII5-5hRUR1e41lK_tQR2yxTPopWpL5fQxUxDq4/s1600/Oh-hello-August.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And the foot saga continues. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I had an MRI last Friday because I'm still in pain and my foot is swelling. I went for my last (I hope!) appointment at the Wound Care Center yesterday and my wound has finally closed up and healed, just a couple of tiny scabbies but I think it's going to be okay now. It's scarred so badly that the doctor said yesterday when she looked at it, "Look at your poor little foot". </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I was supposed to get the PICC line out yesterday, too, but the doc decided to wait until I see my foot doctor (tomorrow) as the MRI showed fluid still in the joint AND a torn ligament. The same ligament that was repaired in November. The repair didn't work. He put in two corkscrew anchors and sutured the tear but the ligament just didn't attach. I guess we knew that was a possibility but after everything I've been through, ending up with the same torn ligament was not what I expected. I'll see the doctor tomorrow and we'll talk about my options. I t</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">hink it's time for another set of eyes to look at me and my MRI. We'll see.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Larry's having a cardiac ablation next week, Monday, I hope. We were set to go last week but there was a hiccup with the insurance and the VA and the doctor's office so we had to reschedule. I cannot tell y'all how irritated that made me. I cannot STAND incompetence. Don't schedule a procedure until you have all your little ducks lined up. Just me??</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">School started back here today. That's just crazy early to me. We always went back at the end of August. Oh well, no back to school at our house! Except the kids who wait at the bus stop Larry made for them. Our house is a neighborhood bus stop and Larry made a little bench for the kids to wait on. And the bus actually stops there! Soooo cute.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It's still summer here! I hope we get to the beach this month or at least by the time I start lighting pumpkin candles. I need some vitamin SEA!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">***UPDATE*** I have TWO completely torn ligaments and a torn tendon. The same ones that were repaired in November. The repairs did not take. Or hold. Or what-the-hell-ever. I'm DONE. Doc says he did everything that could be done and I'm going to start physical therapy and pray that helps. Six weeks of it did not help seven years ago when I first broke my foot but I'm willing to try again. Maybe there's different care now. Different things they can do. I'm going back to work next month and we reserved a villa at the beach for later this month. Life is gonna go on around here.</span>Gingerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11008145024743103203noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4376134561596648686.post-73606891242034775882019-07-23T19:38:00.002-04:002019-07-23T19:47:52.070-04:00Call me a porch cat but just don't call me late for supper<div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I love Daisy's face! Sweet girl. And her mama, Clemmie, who just hangs out here with us all day every day. We haven't been able to catch her yet. She's too smart! She's letting me get awfully close lately so maybe I can grab her soon. I don't know what I'll do with her when I do, though! I gotta come up with a plan.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Yes, I've been bored but I didn't buy one thing that I can't and won't use and haven't worn or used. I love everything I've gotten!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This dress is THE summer dress!! It just came out last week and it sold out in stores in two days and today, it's not online so I'm guessing it completely sold out. It's a baby doll style, leopard print (obsessed!) and it is so super soft and comfortable. I wore mine to church last Sunday. Soooo comfy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Larry got me <a href="https://www.target.com/p/women-s-striped-short-sleeve-t-shirt-dress-universal-thread-153-navy/-/A-54313626?preselect=54008402#lnk=sametab">this</a> sweet little dress for my birthday, too. LOVE my t-shirt dresses!</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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</span></span>Gingerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11008145024743103203noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4376134561596648686.post-47322113339414931402019-07-19T14:05:00.004-04:002019-07-19T14:21:38.682-04:00What I bought at the BIG Nordstrom Anniversary Sale!<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Y'all. I need to go back to work. Like, this afternoon. I have spent all spring and summer following a bunch of influencers on Instagram and they have talked me into all sorts of <strike>trouble</strike> purchases.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">My go-to for summer lounging clothes has been Target and Walmart. They've had THE cutest t-shirt dresses this year! I know 'cause I have FIVE now. Plus sunglasses, hair care, skin care, pjs, shorts, summer tops and bathing suits, omg, I have bought TWO new bathing suits.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Because we ARE going to the beach. Eventually. They cute, too. I'll have to do another blog about my summer haul! That's what they call it. A haul. I'm a Hall, too, so I'm just over here living my TRUTH. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But the <a href="https://shop.nordstrom.com/">BIG Nordstrom Anniversary Sale</a>??? You ain't an influencer if you don't cover Nordstrom's summer sale!! First time I've EVER heard of it. It actually starts today for everybody, you don't even have to be a cardholder. Well, I didn't wait for today. I got me a card! Two weeks ago. Shhhh. And for <strike>my trouble</strike> me becoming a new customer, they gave me $40 to spend. And spend it I did.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It's a super-soft modal knit that is a little longer in the back to cover you if you were amply blessed in that area. And I was. It's sold out now, though.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">These jeans are LIFE!! They are sooooo comfortable and nice and stretchy, just how I like jeans. And I don't look like a busted can of biscuits in them. Yay! They are regularly $88 (I'D NEVER PAY THAT), on sale for $58 and they are in stock. I used my $40 Nordstrom bonus for these and got 'em for $18. That's what I'm talking 'bout! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">These here things are my FAVORITE!!! They're sold out in the leopard (another obsession I've got lately!) but they still have them in dark and light gray. Oh my goodness, I can't even say enough about these pants. They're so soft and so cozy and I cannot even wait for that first crisp fall Saturday that Larry and I get up, grab coffee and hit an estate sale! I'll be wearing these babies ON THAT DAY. I love 'em!!</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So that's what I got at my very first Nordstrom Anniversary Sale. I have a feeling it'll be a summer occurence from now on. It was fun and the prices were incredible. And the best part?? I got to do it in my t-shirt dress, in the A/C, didn't have to fight the crowds or drive around for thirty minutes looking for a parking spot. The perfect sale!</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>Gingerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11008145024743103203noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4376134561596648686.post-53388991577269015802019-07-18T23:21:00.001-04:002019-07-19T14:25:02.336-04:00She wears her scars like a warrior...<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">...for they remind her that SHE SURVIVED.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The final cast came off my foot yesterday. Thank you, Jesus! It feels so good to be free of that thing. My foot is still so jacked up and I don't know if it'll ever be "normal". I still have pain in the joint and burning in my toes. It's also popping and snapping like crazy and feels wobbly. I am done, though. It's just gonna have to get better on its own or get to some point where I can manage it and live a normal life. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It's ugly. Horribly scarred. Red. Still has a tiny opening. But it looks SO MUCH BETTER than it did. I'm using a vitamin E, coconut oil salve on it every day and I read that aloe helps fade scars, too. We have a massive aloe plant out on the patio. I don't know how much better it'll get but I'm going to help it all I can. My skin graft scar is probably as good as it's going to get but I rub that salve on it every day, too.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">My scars are my battle wounds, beautiful in their own way. They show what I've been through and what I GOT THROUGH. All the nights I told Larry, "I'm not going to survive this" and the pain, oh my God, the pain. There were times, very dark scary nights, that I believed that I would not survive these wounds but I prayed so hard that I would. And it looks like I did. Or I'm going to! God is so good to us. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Here's my poor little war-torn foot. It's been through so much trauma and I'm not putting it through any more. No more cutting, no more messing with it. It is what it is. Whatever that turns out to be.</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I'll wear these scars forever, as proof that our God HEALS.</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>Gingerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11008145024743103203noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4376134561596648686.post-82588901586955052462019-07-13T15:36:00.000-04:002019-07-23T19:45:32.509-04:00Bonaire Porch CatsThere are a few houses in our neighborhood where feral kitties can find food, shelter, a kind word, a comfy pad or rug to nap on and safety. Ours is one of them.<br />
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Currently, we are feeding and caring for five. The first, a girl we call Clementine (Clemmie), started it all about three years ago. She took up here and we started feeding her. Before long, she brought her kittens and we fed them. Life on the outside is hard on kitties and some of her babies have not survived. We hope that some have moved on to other neighborhoods, been rescued and are still alive but we have no way of knowing that. We take care of the ones who come to us and nobody goes hungry around here. And you can always nap, no matter your species.<br />
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I've started taking pictures of them out on the porch and posting them on Instagram. Bonaire Porch Cats is what I'm calling them.<br />
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Clemmie is getting old. She's in rough shape with a mangled ear from various tom cats and she keeps pink eye. We are attempting to catch her tomorrow and our neighbor has arranged for her to be spayed and her ear and eyes seen about. Our neighbor also intends to rehome her to a family in the country. I will miss her immensely but I want her to be happy. I want her to live out her last days comfortable and safe. No more toms and no more babies.<br />
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This is the best picture I've been able to get of her. She just looks so sad. Hang on, Clementine Ruby, help is on the way, baby.<br />
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Clemmie has one set of kittens who are almost a year old that still come around. Daisy May and Delilah Jane. They are identical so I have no idea which one this is.<br />
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And the wee babies, Lucky Joe and Lily Belle, who hitched a ride with us to the movies a couple of Sunday afternoons ago. They were in the tire well of the truck, just chillin'. Lily jumped down, jumped back up in there and was seen by a group of teenagers who waited beside the truck until we came out of the theater. We were too afraid to try to force them out, for fear they'd run and we'd never catch them, so we left them in there and drove home, me frantically looking in the rearview mirror for one of them to fall out and get run over. That caused me SO MUCH stress and anxiety!<br />
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I have become such a softy where these cats are concerned. Larry, too. He goes out in the mornings before leaving for work to feed them and I refresh their water bowls with cold water throughout the day. And then we feed them again before bedtime. There are several ladies in the neighborhood who also feed them but evil thrives everywhere and we've had people threaten the kitties, too. We haven't seen a tom in months, just Clemmie and her four babies.<br />
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He had just pooped and was saying, "why are you watching me potty?" :)Gingerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11008145024743103203noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4376134561596648686.post-88893993819870819632019-07-01T23:50:00.000-04:002019-07-02T00:12:27.992-04:00And just like that...July<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I'm getting the hang of this <a href="https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/cancer/multimedia/picc-line-placement/vid-20084657">PICC line</a> thing. We had to go to the emergency room that first day because I couldn't get the thing to stop bleeding. They put a compression bandage on it for an hour and then watched it for thirty minutes and got it to stop. It still bleeds a bit if I move my arm too much. I'm not supposed to move my arm too much. No vacuuming, no mopping, no folding clothes. Shoot, I do it anyway. Ain't nobody got time for all'a that. We did get a girl to come clean for us Saturday and she did a fabulous job. We're in between housekeepers (again) and she's expensive but she's worth it. We'll see...</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Because we can. 'Murica.</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But there is one little bright spot! I found some folks on <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/AyaCovers?ref=simple-shop-header-name&listing_id=636897797">Etsy</a> that make PICC line covers. Really cute PICC line covers. I got this one and I LOVE it but it's too big for my arm, keeps sliding off. I ordered a smaller one and when I'm done with the treatment, I'm going to donate these (and any others I get) to the Infusion Center for somebody else to use. You know, pass it on. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Larry makes sure I get my probiotic every morning with my coffee and so far, I've had very few side effects from the medicine.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This Saturday will be eight months since my first surgery. Still wish I hadn't had it. My foot is so much worse off than it was then, horribly scarred and now I have a scar forever on my leg as well from the skin graft. Oh well, I'm taking one day at a time and I'll get back to some kind of normalcy. Eventually. Maybe.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We don't have big plans for the 4th. Just gonna binge watch the third season of <a href="https://www.netflix.com/title/80057281">"Stranger Things"</a> on Netflix and then later, sit on the front porch with some sangria and watch the neighborhood fireworks show. Our neighborhood puts on a show that rivals the professionals. We are amazed every single year.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">July, I don't know how you got here so quick but since you're here, please be sweet to us.</span>Gingerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11008145024743103203noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4376134561596648686.post-20762240535735156942019-06-21T23:24:00.003-04:002019-06-21T23:30:10.212-04:00PICCin' but not much grinnin'<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibhNB5XHWVfMY9CgVAyYABUFSVFCooXZcrjIXN0IJCePBxzigUVgvRxS1tqxWQgXnmi9bYwLyLaHlp1fvKUDaEEw5v_ED5tvFB_zslw8RnlFwh5bNbBe_Ob3UR8Umd-4NOhYICzaandG8/s1600/6D126BDE-2217-4E9D-8FF4-A28AF37402CF.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="512" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibhNB5XHWVfMY9CgVAyYABUFSVFCooXZcrjIXN0IJCePBxzigUVgvRxS1tqxWQgXnmi9bYwLyLaHlp1fvKUDaEEw5v_ED5tvFB_zslw8RnlFwh5bNbBe_Ob3UR8Umd-4NOhYICzaandG8/s320/6D126BDE-2217-4E9D-8FF4-A28AF37402CF.JPG" style="cursor: move;" width="256" /></a><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I got a new pink cast on Wednesday and a PICC line put in today. After the PICC was put in, Larry and I got educated as to how to do it and when and all that. I'm infusing 100 ml of Ancef every eight hours. Or 7:00 AM, 3:00 PM and 11:00 PM. That was best for my sleep schedule. </span>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The actual PICC procedure didn't hurt that much. The numbing shot was a little uncomfortable but once I was numb, I didn't feel much. I was able to watch on the monitor and it was cool to see my ribs and lungs and to see the wire running through there and ending at my ribcage. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I bled a good bit after the procedure and when they put my first dressing on and then some more when I got home. It seems to have stopped. It's 11:20 PM and I'm almost through with my first infusion by myself. Yay.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But, Sunday, we're going to see the new Toy Story movie and eat at our favorite Mexican restaurant.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Sweet Baby Jesus, let this be the end. Let this infection leave my body and allow my wound to finally heal so that I can get back to my life. Amen. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
Gingerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11008145024743103203noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4376134561596648686.post-69189996670578762242019-06-13T12:35:00.000-04:002019-06-13T12:49:27.024-04:00It's my 10 year blogiversary!<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Y'all. I just realized that this month marks ten years blogging on the Junket! Wow. These past ten years have flown and I have changed SO much. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I've shared my life, my jobs, my job changes, going back to school, trips I've taken, food I've cooked, Gotcha Days for our fur babies, my attempts at gardening, products I love, just MY LIFE. And I've enjoyed every minute sharing with the ones of you who read my blog. I know you're out there. I've had over 208,000 page views from all over the world. I see you and I appreciate you!! Thank you for following me and for reading about my life.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">One thing I have shared a lot that I don't do so much anymore is family get togethers. I used to love those. I love my family and I loved getting together with them on holidays and birthdays and such. But things have changed and I have very strained relationships with both my sister and my brother so I see my parents when I can avoid the other two. It's really hard to avoid my brother since he and his wife LIVE with my mama and daddy because he's a drug addict who refuses to get help. He won't work, can't pass a drug test to even get and keep a job, and the whole thing is so infuriating. I feel like he's mooching off my folks, who pay all the bills and buy all the food. And this is not the first time they've had to live with my parents. It's a pattern with them. They've allowed his drug addiction to take homes, cars, everything they have. It is not right. It is not what I need and expect from my brother. He is such a disappointment to me. He's taken money from me, groceries from me, because he LIED to my face and took advantage of my love and my obligation as "big sister". Every single person in the family who looks the other way enables him and they disappoint me, too. I'm the bad guy because I don't and I'm being "mean" because I refuse to condone his behavior.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I haven't seen my sister in two years. And that one stings. I love my sister. She has a hateful way about her, though. A way that cuts and bites and hurts and she said one thing too many, a nasty insult to Larry. At my birthday party, two years ago this month. The absolute last straw. I've suffered years of her verbal abuse, her little digs, her smart remarks, telling me what to do, how to be, how to even raise my cat (who by the way, is ridiculously healthy and happy and sweet and friendly and social), making fun of me whenever she could. I just took it, laughed and let it go. The outburst to Larry (after years of constant little digs at him as well, which he took and let go), over something that was SO small and insignificant and involved ME and not her, was just the thing that changed something in me. Like a little off switch inside. And I've not seen her since. Oh, we've texted a few times but could not get anything resolved. You can't make someone apologize for doing something to you but you <i>can</i> refuse to subject yourself to more of it. Forgiveness flows freely around here but I'm not stupid. I've touched that hot stove before.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I don't know if they'll read this or not and I don't care. I don't blog for them. I blog for me, as an outlet to express what's going on in my life and the life I'm building with Larry, after so many years of being apart. We deserve this life. We waited a very long time to have it. And we get to decide who's in it and who's not. I don't like the term "toxic relationships" but if you find yourself in one, get out. It's not worth the pain. I also have a strained relationship with Larry's daughter and have not seen them in over three years. Also, over something very selfish and nasty she said to Larry. Larry tells me all the time to let this stuff go, that the insults were toward him and he's perfectly fine with everybody, old hippie that he is. I just can't do it, though. I forgive you but you need to apologize and change when you see you've hurt somebody. I have no room in my life or heart for selfish people. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So, there's all that. Me at 52. I've been through a lot the past several years and the worst time of my entire life has been with this foot of mine. The more I endure, the more I realize that I want to surround myself with people who love me and don't play games. The older you get, the less drama you want around you, and the only drama I want in my life is "The Young and The Restless".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">My advice is if you want to blog, DO IT. Even if no one reads it. Do it for you. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Again, thanks for reading my blog and I welcome each and every one of you to stay on this ride with me. I promise it will not be boring!</span>Gingerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11008145024743103203noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4376134561596648686.post-48290005580092386462019-06-12T11:06:00.001-04:002019-06-14T15:44:41.357-04:00Still...with the foot<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But, there's tomatoes, too! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So I saw an infectious disease doctor yesterday who debrided my incision right there in the office with some kind of crochet-needle-looking-thing, scalpel, I'm guessing because it cut and it HURT. I hate when people just start chopping on you and don't tell you what they're doing or WHY they're doing it. God a'mighty. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I did like her, though. She told me she's concerned that my incision is going to bust open when the stitches come out next Thursday because the skin is very thin right there. Well, duh, I just had a skin graft RIGHT THERE. I'm so over this whole thing. Just one thing after another after another. She wants to put a hard cast on, foot to knee, to immobilize my foot and put me on IV antibiotics for six weeks via a PICC line. I'm waiting for the call today to tell me when to go to the Wound Care Center for all'a that.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The one thing she told me, that second opinion that backed up our theory all along, was YOU NEVER PUT A HARD CAST OVER A HEMATOMA. And quite possibly, the hardware used caused this infection. Soooo many mistakes made with my foot from the very beginning. This whole thing did NOT have to happen. I could be frolicking in the sand with my baby next weekend for my birthday but nooooo, I'll be stuck in a cast with a needle buried in my arm. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But hey! I have pics to share! No scary ugly foot pics but pics of plants living their best life with all the rain we've had. We got our sprinkler system fixed Saturday so no more watering every-dang-thing every day all summer. Yay. It was just the control box. No biggie.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I had almost given up on my little patio jalapeno. It was a stick! And now there's one tiny pepper bloom. No more jalapeno on a stick! Ha! </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I'm so proud of the rhubarb! I'm not looking to actually GET rhubarb this year but next year, she should be ready. Vicki, that's her name. :)</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Our sunflowers are growing big!! Every year, something stings the crap out of them and I have to sprinkle <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Diatomaceous-Earth-Food-Grade-10/dp/B00025H2PY/ref=sr_1_3?hvadid=78546414139042&hvbmt=be&hvdev=c&hvqmt=e&keywords=diatomatous+earth&qid=1560351602&s=gateway&sr=8-3">diatomaceous earth</a> on them. Guess it's time for that.</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">For an early birthday present, Larry gave me a Big Bertha! A 4-ounce Pyrex casserole dish in the Old Orchard pattern. He found it IN THE WILD, too. Incredible.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Annnnnd just because he's as cute as a slice of pumpkin pie with Reddi-wip on top...Tabbie Hoffman wearing my peace necklace.</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I had my <i>fourth</i> surgery on this foot last Thursday, again in Phenix City. Larry snapped this pic of me <strike>sleeping</strike> hiding after we were done and back in my room.
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I brought a pillow from home this time, old hand that I am nowadays. Hospital pillows are awful. And a pretty silk pillowcase makes everything better, right??</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The food is great at Hughston Memorial Hospital, as is the care. No complaints there. I just wanted to sleep, though. I ate an Italian ice once I woke up and drank some juice and they brought me a chicken sandwich but I could only get two bites down. Friday morning, breakfast was toast, eggs and bacon. Nope. I couldn't eat that either. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It took a while to sleep off that anesthesia. I'm <u>still</u> sleepy, five days later.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Here's my foot now. This time, Doc drained and flushed my ankle joint so I have two little stitched incisions on top of my foot and he removed the one remaining anchor and cleaned some scar tissue off my ankle joint. He showed me pictures. The joint was pretty much covered in scar tissue. He had hoped that would stop the popping and snapping that I'm feeling in my ankle but as soon as I got home, they started back and now are pretty much constant when I'm walking. The joint pain returned this morning so I don't know what's going on in there. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">My blood culture results will be in tomorrow or Thursday and we'll see if there's infection and then we'll deal with that as we have to, cross that bridge and all that.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I'm so ready to get on across this bridge!!! Life is passing me by, the beach is still calling and my birthday is this month! Come on, foot!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We're in the middle of a heatwave and I can't remember 100 degrees in May, ever. But climate change is a joke. Global warming is a hoax. Yeah, okay. I'm not getting on my soapbox about it (but why not? This is MY blog, right??) but climate change is real and global warming is real and I don't know exactly what we can do about it but doing virtually nothing sure isn't the fix. Before I left <a href="https://gingersjunket.blogspot.com/2018/04/changes.html">Facebook</a>, I used to see willful ignorance daily about this and that and climate change was one of the things I saw being made fun of, made light of. And yet, tornadoes and hurricanes are getting stronger and coming more frequently, the seasons are pretty much nonexistent these days and it's 100 degrees in May in Georgia. Kids graduated from college last week in Colorado in the snow and over 150 tornadoes hit the central part of our country. And last night, three tornadoes hit Ohio. This ain't just happening, y'all. God gave us this beautiful planet to live on and we are destroying it. And He knew we would all along.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We do what we can but we can do better. No more plastic bags in this house! There are <a href="https://www.qvc.com/California-Innovations-S6-XL-Totes---Essential.product.K48713.html?upsh=1&sc=K47268-CSWB&TZ=EST">shopping</a> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07MDLHC94/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1">bags</a> in the Jeep, bought specifically for that purpose. We haven't used paper towels in over 10 years and we shop local when we can, pay our bills online, plant flowers to help the bees and the butterflies and y'all know we buy OLD and vintage whenever we can. Instead of buying a new toaster, we just go get one at an estate sale. We can still do better, though. There's always <a href="https://theartofsimple.net/tips-to-go-green-at-home/">more</a> you can do.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I've been working really hard these past several days trying to keep everything hydrated outside. Everything is looking good, despite the heat.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Larry planted these tomatoes, plants he bought from the local high school plant sale, at the end of March. They are monsters now! He had to extend the space they're in. I cannot wait to have a sun-ripened, homegrown tomato on two slices of white bread with Duke's mayo and a little salt and pepper. Shut yo' mouf. That's what I lived on growing up in the summertime. My daddy always planted the biggest gardens in the spring and we had tomatoes, squash, peas, okra and peppers all summer long. I used to love to go out there first thing in the morning with the basket and pick everything that was ready. I used to take baskets of squash down to Florida to Larry's folks when I'd go spend weeks with them in the summer. Such wonderful memories...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We had to put netting over them to keep the birds and squirrels out because we feed them in the backyard, too, and they think anything you put out there is for them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Squeeeee!! My sunflowers, thanks to my amazing husband who planted these for me because I couldn't this year. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We recently bought a new mattress. A Sealy-plush-pillowtop-expensive-as-all-get-out one that is also over a FOOT high. Almost none of our sheets fit it. One of my biggest irks is sheets that won't stay on the bed. Another is a dang bed skirt. HATE. THEM.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Anyway, so I was poking around on Amazon as I do pretty much constantly, and I found these sheets.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This is what they said about them:</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I read the reviews and they were pretty good. So I decided to give them a try.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Y'all. These are the BEST sheets I have ever slept on!! They ARE hotel quality and soft and luxurious! They are made of brushed microfiber. What TC is that? I don't know and I don't care. They feel like 800+. And the best part?? They have DEEEEEP pockets and they fit our bed!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Larry and I both agree that the best sheets we ever slept on were in that cabin we stayed at in <a href="https://gingersjunket.blogspot.com/2017/09/a-little-trip-to-mountains.html">Helen</a>. Until now. These ones here are. </span><br />
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Gingerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11008145024743103203noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4376134561596648686.post-19592500199271870432019-05-15T16:28:00.000-04:002019-05-15T17:03:53.254-04:00Disney Dooney Day!!<div>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I have never in my life had a pocketbook that cost more than $25. I had a <a href="https://www.lizclaiborne.com/">Liz Claiborne</a> years ago that I got for $13 at the <a href="https://www.tangeroutlet.com/locustgrove/stores">outlet store</a> outside Atlanta and I've picked up several <a href="https://www.verabradley.com/us/Home">Vera Bradley</a> and <a href="https://www.lillypulitzer.com/">Lilly Pulitzer</a> bags for cheap here and there at estate sales. In fact, my friend, Kim, gave me a VB for Easter. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Lately, though, I've been eyeing <a href="https://www.dooney.com/home">Dooneys</a> on QVC and I decided I was gonna get me one for my birthday next month. Easy Pay and all that. Less sting.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But then! I saw the DISNEY Dooneys and fell head over freakin' heels in love with them. I love Disney. I've been to <a href="https://disneyworld.disney.go.com/">Disney World</a> three times in my life, the last time almost three years ago when Larry and I went to <a href="https://gingersjunket.blogspot.com/2016/09/road-trip-to-orlando.html">Orlando</a> for a week. I was going back and forth from the <a href="https://www.shopdisney.com/disney-its-a-small-world-satchel-by-dooney-and-bourke-1499582">It's A Small World bag</a> (because that is my FAVORITE RIDE EVER OMG, from riding it with my mama and daddy and brother my very first time at Disney World the summer I turned 7) to the <a href="https://www.shopdisney.com/disney-sketch-nylon-zip-satchel-by-dooney-and-bourke-1439230?request_type=mlt&gre_rt=ChM0NTM3MTM3MDY5MDUzMTA1MjUzEAIaAklWIg1kZWZhdWx0X21vZGVsKAA">Sketch</a>, which has just about everything about Disney on it, including that amazing Mickey Mouse chocolate-covered ice cream bar that is <i>literally</i> heaven on earth when you've walked 12 miles and you're about to pass out from the heat and being fat. Oh, it's so good. And now I hear they'll be in stores soon for a very limited time. I will buy every box I see.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Anyway, I had to go to the doctor last week about my wrist pain and lo and behold, this lady sat down beside me in the waiting room with a Disney Dooney Sketch bag!! I saw one! In the wild! In real life! I said, "OMG, you have a Disney Dooney!" and she said she bought it SEVEN YEARS ago in Disney Springs and uses it every day (except during football season, she's got a UGA Dooney for then) and it still looked brand new. No fraying of the handles, no wearing on the bottom. What?? That made up my mind for me. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ta-da!! Cute as a button and holding ALLLLL my stuff. I love it!! I also lovelovelove <a href="https://www.spartina449.com/">Spartina 449</a> and I got their market tote for the summer in their Moonglade pattern a couple weeks ago.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I've been through H-E-double-hockey-sticks the past six months with this foot and if I EVER get back to work, I'll be ready. Bagwise, anyway. Looks like surgery number FOUR will be next week. The MRI showed fluid in my ankle joint that <i>looked</i> like infection so doc's gonna go in and draw it off, have it tested and then we'll treat it accordingly. If it's infection, I may have to go on IV antibiotics with a PICC line to try and stop it from absessing and damaging the bone. Please continue to pray for us.</span></div>
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Gingerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11008145024743103203noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4376134561596648686.post-44543635089521944822019-05-08T16:48:00.000-04:002019-05-09T17:50:11.505-04:00How y'all durrin'?<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Me? I'm still at home, six months now. Never, in my wildest of dreams, would I have thought I'd still be home, healing, six months after my surgery. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I had the MRI on the 29th, a week and two days ago. Still haven't heard anything back from my doctor. I called Monday to get an update as I still have bone pain and now it's starting to creep up my leg. I was told he had to have the images. Well, he ordered the MRI, he should get the images with the report. They're really trying my patience these days. My wound is still draining and that means it has NOT closed and is draining with a speck of blood every single day. My home health nurse contract ended so they're not coming anymore and Larry and I are pretty much on our own now. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Poor Larry has been stricken with gout in his big toe and has been in excruciating pain. Just one more thing to add to his laundry list of issues. Afib, COPD, pituitary gland tumor (or enlargement that <i>looks</i> like a tumor and since his mama had two, yeah, it's a tumor), osteoarthritis in his lower back from an injury 30 years ago (and probably a little bit of jumping out of planes for Uncle Sam when he was 18), a completely blocked carotid artery that we cannot do anything about...bless his heart, he does not need this new thing that's going on. He goes to work EVERY day, though, determined to provide for us and our little family. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Speaking of our little family, we rehomed Kizzi a couple of weeks ago. He had started peeing on everything and we'd taken him to the vet to check him out for a UTI and our doctor told us that he was "marking his territory" (even though we'd had him fixed) and was telling Tabbie Hoffman that he was the alpha male. She put him on Valium but it didn't help much. He just passed out for a couple hours and then he was hell on wheels again. Tabbie is so sweet, gentle and laidback, he didn't care that Kizzi was running around being alpha. He did care, however, when Kizzi attacked him in the hallway or jumped on him when he was napping or ran to eat his food or tried to keep him from using the <a href="http://www.catgenie.com/">CatGenie</a>. THAT'S why Tabbie was <a href="https://gingersjunket.blogspot.com/2019/03/tidying-pantry.html">going on our bathroom rug</a>. Lightbulb moment! Well, it got to the point that Kizzi was terrorizing Tabbie relentlessly and Tabbie was miserable. He stopped eating (even though we separated them at mealtimes) and had started losing weight. I named Tabbie after <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbie_Hoffman">Abbie Hoffman</a> and I could not have picked a better name for that sweet baby. He's a lover, not a fighter. He's all peace and love and leave me alone, let me sleep. I loved that little booger, Kizzi, but Tabbie Hoffman is my heart. He's my baby. We <a href="https://gingersjunket.blogspot.com/2012/07/and-just-like-that-my-life-changed_17.html">found each other</a> in a prison parking lot and we have been inseparable ever since. He had to come first. Larry had done some work for a couple who own a horse rescue farm and they also rescue and rehome cats. And bunny rabbits. So we took him there. We had planned to get him healthy, neutered and then try to find him a home but I had surgery after surgery and we were so busy with my healing that we just kept him. These folks have about 20 cats who roam the farm and have 85 acres of barns and sheds to explore and lots of mice to catch. The animals are fed and loved and since Kizzi has been neutered, I'm sure somebody will scoop him up. Things have returned to normal and Tabbie is his chatty, playful self again. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I went to another ortho doctor yesterday here in town because of pain I'm having in both my wrists. It started in March but I've been so preoccupied with my foot that I just ignored it. Well, I took my last pain meds last Friday and purposely did not get a refill and by Saturday, the pain in my wrists was almost unbearable. I guess the pain meds I was taking for my foot masked the pain in my wrists. Anyway, I made an appointment and got in and saw somebody. Tendonitis in both wrists. He said he'd never seen this in both wrists at the same time. I am <i>totally</i> not surprised. It's me, after all. I got cortisone shots in both hands and today, I can tell such a difference. They still hurt but not nearly as bad. I don't know what caused it but I'm sure it has something to do with working with computers for 20 years. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I told Larry we need to check ourselves into the nursing home. A place where we can take Tabbie and Banjo and get round-the-clock care. Ha! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So that's us today. Thanks for coming to see us!</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4376134561596648686.post-20293753789887753152019-04-20T14:00:00.000-04:002019-04-20T14:26:34.047-04:00More of the neverending tragedy that is my foot<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I saw my doctor again yesterday for a follow-up from my most recent <a href="https://gingersjunket.blogspot.com/2019/04/surgery-number-three.html">surgery</a>. I've still got some drainage and bleeding that my nurse was concerned about (<i>still, </i>at three weeks and three days post-op) but I wasn't as worried about that as I was the pain I'm still having at the spot where my foot lifts across the top and the constant popping and snapping that I'm feeling. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Well, I got worried when he started pressing on my wound and there was pain I didn't even know about hiding in there. He pressed out a lot of drainage and immediately had three x-rays done right then and there. The results showed no fractures or problems with the one remaining tendon anchor (but the rubber-band-like snapping I'm feeling MAY be from the one anchor that is not there anymore, the one he took out in January...makes perfect sense to me) or even arthritis, which is what my nurse suggested might be going on. Nope. None of that showed up. What's going on is there's infection in there, either deep tissue or bone. Since I had staph in the hospital in January, I'm more than a little worried about this. He took out the one remaining stitch that was holding the graft on and I'm on antibiotics for a week. We're watching the wound very closely, changing bandages every day. If there's still drainage after a week, I'll have an MRI to see if the infection is in the bone.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The skin graft has healed over the hole and my thigh has healed as well, I just have a bright pink 2x2 square on the side of my leg, that's all. But, hey, pink is my signature colah. I've started working on that scar and it'll be lighter and smaller in no time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">If you've been following me throughout this nightmare of mine, please continue to pray for my foot to heal. Once and for all, to HEAL. Every time I think I'm getting better, something else crops up. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Today is Holy Saturday, the day we remember Jesus' full day in the tomb. The day all those years ago when all hope was lost because Jesus was dead. They all saw Him die, right there on that cross. If you're living what seems like an endless Saturday like that one was, where all hope is lost and you can't see daylight, and sometimes, I do feel like I am, then let me remind you that Sunday is coming! It's not done yet. God has a plan for your life and mine, too. My foot will heal and there will be unbelievable joy for me on that day. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Just like there will be for ALL of us tomorrow morning. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4376134561596648686.post-3736853628293737862019-04-03T17:18:00.000-04:002019-04-03T17:34:44.981-04:00Surgery number three<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Y'all, I'm becoming quite the expert on this whole surgery thing. Had number three March 26th. The skin graft. We were told to get there at 7:30 so we did and when we arrived, we found out that I was the only one scheduled for surgery that day. I felt so special. (Not really. Not even. I'm <i>prettttty</i> much done with this whole surgery thing.) It was nice and quiet and dark back there and we had lots of privacy. I don't even remember going back to the OR this time. I remember being wheeled out of there but I was asleep before we got to the operating room. Didn't miss that cold table. Or that cold room. Or having to scoot my fanny off my warm bed onto that cold table in that cold room. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I woke up back in my holding room and Larry was there, taking pics of my blood pressure and O2 monitors. And me, bless him. Doc had shown Larry a pic of my graft and he told me it looked like a football. With waffle marks on it. After I was able to drink some Sprite and sit up some, they sent me home. Since I was the only one there for surgery that day, as soon as I was gone, the sooner they could get on with their slack day, I'm guessing. They gave us our post-op instructions, threw me in the backseat of the Jeep where my favorite soft pillow and blanket were waiting and we were out of there before noon.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I slept all the way home, with a huge bandage around my left thigh and another one, yet <i>another</i> one, on my ankle. I was <i>supposed</i> to have a xeroform bandage on my thigh. That's a thin little yellow Vaseline-type bandage that prevents air from getting to the wound and keeps it nice and moist while it heals. Yeah. I was supposed to have that on my donor site. As soon as I stepped out of the car and walked into the garage, the whole thing fell down my leg and just pooled around my ankle. On top of my already huge ankle dressing. My thigh, with SKIN MISSING, was just hanging out, all bloody and naked and stuff. In the garage. I fixed it back best I could, noticing right away that the xeroform was rolled up like tight greasy Vaseline paper inside the cotton and bandage, nowhere near the wound. Oy. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Since my nurse was coming in two days, we just kept it covered with gauze and Vaseline. It looked great then. Two days later, this whole thing was bloody and angry-looking and deep. She cleaned it, slapped another xeroform on it and we ain't touched it again. I do keep a thick gauze taped to it at all times because it is extremely sensitive and it makes me extremely cussy when I bump it on something. This wound has BY FAR been the worst. The worsttttttt. And now that it's healing, it's starting to pull and feel tight. The worsttttttt I say. It makes me talk ugly and cry. So we ain't messing with it no more. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We went back for my first post-op appointment Monday and this is what the recipient site looks like. Lord, Jesus. Bless it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The cast caused me to have dry, scaly skin so I sloughed all that off and rubbed some lotion on it so it looks better than that now. The skin around it anyway. The wound? Yeah, it's still JUST LIKE THAT. That little tiny piece in the middle is what used to be my thigh. Sigh.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I go back April 19th and we'll see how everything looks then. I seriously doubt I'll ever have my pretty, pink, carefree foot again.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We left the doctor's office and went in search of some junk therapy, ending up at <a href="https://therivermarketantiques.com/">River Market Antiques</a> on Hamilton Road. There are some really cool, junky things in there! They have a lunch box museum, too, but once I saw my old Hardy Boys one in a display case in the store, that was all I needed to see. They also have plenty of sit down places for crippled girls, too, you know, in case you'd be in need of something like that. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I did find this amazing lamp that I want to go back and get next time. The guy there didn't know how much to charge (insert eye roll here) and he'd have to find out and let us know. Sounds like they don't want to sell it. Anyway, it was all the way in the back, collecting dust and feeling most unloved. I think it's gorgeous and I'm planning to put it on a table in my antique booth and maybe not sell it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Lots of interesting stuff! And two of the cutest little kitty cats who peek at you from underneath a 60's station wagon out back. We were super impressed!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">That's the latest! Friday will be FIVE MONTHS since I've been at work. I don't even know if I remember my password. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2