Monday, November 14, 2016
Wet, heavy snow broke down tree-Oct. 28th, 2016
November 14, 2016.- wet snow broke down tree on October 28th.
Haven`t accomplished much today, but did manage to turn over the compost bins, hoping to make more good soil for the flower beds next spring. Seems like each year the raked up leaf pile grows much larger. Think I should have bought some town trash bags and bagged some of them for the town to pick up. Maybe next year. But, should have a lot less leaves to rake next year since the heavy wet snow over a week ago broke down parts off the tree behind my wood shop. Glad we have only had this one snow storm so far this year. Part of the tree landed between my sitting area and wood shop, while part of the tree landed out behind the shop. Left that tall tree with two very week sections so the whole tree needed to be cut down. One son used his chain saw to cut down the tree while another son, his wife, and their son were pulling on the rope guiding the tree to the only safe open space for it to land. They did a great job guiding it. One son cut the tree up and they all helped pull the branches and logs out near the road for the town to pick up. Before the town went through a neighbor asked if he could bring over his chain saw and cut any pieces large enough for him to burn for heat. Of course I said he could take all he could use. The wet snow had toppled trees all over town so they decided to make a special run cleaning them up. At first they told us we had to keep the brush and cut up trees on our property till next spring, but with so many complaints they changed their mind. Glad they did. On top of house repairs, my hot water tank decided to give out. Son with a truck picked up my new tank and also unhooked the old tank and hooked up the new one for me. As I have said before, I do have great helpers. Reminded me of that old saying- It never rains but it pours. Hot water tank gave out while they were still working on the house. House finished and the very next day we had the wet heavy snow storm bringing down the tree while I was sleeping. God was good since all the tree sections landed between places where it could have caused lots of damage.
. First is the branches between the sitting area and the wood shop. 2nd is branches from a neighbors tree that landed by the wood fence in my backyard. 3rd is more from my tree landing in my back year and 4th is the tall remaining part of the tree to be cut down with the branches from the 1st tree in front of it. I had turned this picture before posting it, but here it is posting sideways again. That skinny tall tree off to the left is what was showing lots higher than the roof of the wood shop. that tree was useful keeping the hot afternoon sun in the summer from heating up the shop as much. I thought there was only the fallen tree section by the shop till the next day I decided to walk into my shop and check to see if the windows hidden by the branches were ok. Not broken, but then I saw the back yard through the larger window in the back of my shop. Saw all the tree branches in the back yard and let my son know there was even more cutting to be done when he came down. Town picked up everything a couple days ago. Yard now looking much better.
Haven`t accomplished much today, but did manage to turn over the compost bins, hoping to make more good soil for the flower beds next spring. Seems like each year the raked up leaf pile grows much larger. Think I should have bought some town trash bags and bagged some of them for the town to pick up. Maybe next year. But, should have a lot less leaves to rake next year since the heavy wet snow over a week ago broke down parts off the tree behind my wood shop. Glad we have only had this one snow storm so far this year. Part of the tree landed between my sitting area and wood shop, while part of the tree landed out behind the shop. Left that tall tree with two very week sections so the whole tree needed to be cut down. One son used his chain saw to cut down the tree while another son, his wife, and their son were pulling on the rope guiding the tree to the only safe open space for it to land. They did a great job guiding it. One son cut the tree up and they all helped pull the branches and logs out near the road for the town to pick up. Before the town went through a neighbor asked if he could bring over his chain saw and cut any pieces large enough for him to burn for heat. Of course I said he could take all he could use. The wet snow had toppled trees all over town so they decided to make a special run cleaning them up. At first they told us we had to keep the brush and cut up trees on our property till next spring, but with so many complaints they changed their mind. Glad they did. On top of house repairs, my hot water tank decided to give out. Son with a truck picked up my new tank and also unhooked the old tank and hooked up the new one for me. As I have said before, I do have great helpers. Reminded me of that old saying- It never rains but it pours. Hot water tank gave out while they were still working on the house. House finished and the very next day we had the wet heavy snow storm bringing down the tree while I was sleeping. God was good since all the tree sections landed between places where it could have caused lots of damage.
Saturday, November 12, 2016
Mov.12, 2016, found aneurism Jan. 2016/ home repairs done.
Here it is November 12, 2016. Been a long time since I have written here in my Blog. A lot has happened over the last year. Now over 2 years since I had both shoulders operated on. Right shoulder doing good, but still some pain in the left one. Often wonder if the pain might be caused by the two anchors used to hold it together. Think they are made from titanium metal, but not certain.
Had this awful pain in the right side of my head that woke me one night. It was very severe and each pain came and went exactly with my heartbeats. When my heart skipped a beat there was no pain. I have a normal skip. This went on for a few minutes and suddenly stopped . Then there was a slight pain with a feeling of pressure that slowly was moving upwards, around my temple and then down the right side of my head and only left pressure in my head near my right ear which remained for weeks. Saw a Dr who took x-rays which showed nothing wrong. No one ever found the cause of that very terrible pain, but a few months later I did get another Dr to have an MRA done which showed something, so they then did an MRI and discovered an aneurism in the back of my head I had a 4mm aneurism arising from the inferior division near the right middle cerebral artery bifurcation. Dr decided not to operate on it due to my age. He felt it more risky to operate at age 85 than it would be to leave it alone. So, that was last January 15, 2016 when he told me that, so I now wonder how much it might have grown in the past 10 months. My next Dr apt. to have it checked is on February 1st, 2017. So a few more months before I will know more. Since I still work making items in my wood shop using all kinds of saws and other tools, I keep praying nothing happens while I an doing things with saws or while I might be out driving in my car as I don`t want to hurt anyone if the aneurism should burst. From what I have been told it should only grow about 2% a year, so if I am lucky, It might never happen in my lifetime. Normally they grow about 1 %, but since my Father died from one bursting in his head, it gives me a 2% growth rate.
Then along came my apt. with the Rheumatologist for the problems with my hands and wrists- severe arthritis, which I already knew. With the head problem this Dr didn`t want to give me any meds, so ordered a gel to rub on my hands and wrists which help with both the swelling and pain. It is called: Diclofenac sodium topical gel -and I have since learned it is prescribed for other kinds of pain also. Tried it on my left shoulder, but it didn`t ease that pain. He also ordered an arm /wrist support that the thumb slides into, which helps supports and gives more strength to my right hand. At my last apt. he ordered a new one for the right hand/ wrist and also one for the left hand/wrist for more support. Hard to do much wearing both of them, but I do still wear the right one most of the time. This Dr has now left, the practice and my next apt. in April will be with a new Dr. Thankful for the gel as it helps loads.
This month is my apt with the Dr who handles my sleep apnea and the C-PAP equipment orders.
Next month are two more Dr`s, one handles my eye problems- double vision for years ( was told by a specialist it was caused by a minnie stroke -he believes) and now added a wrinkle in the center of my right eye- which I was told if I was younger they would operate and remove the wrinkle, but here again age matters. So the Dr. just keeps a close check on it in case it changes. Seems like every time I see my Dr. I am sent to see a specialist. Me, who hates wasting money seeing Dr`s. is lately seeing too many.
But, I am very thankful to God for giving me such a long life and allowing me to stay active and on my feet able to live alone and still take care of my home, my loving Pug Roo, and myself. In case I haven`t mentioned it before my little Pug was originally named by me friend who is a breeder of small dogs because when he was born with front leg disabilities he would sit up like a kangaroo for long periods of time. he is now 5 years old and with all the therapy I did with him as a puppy, he can walk on all 4 paws, even thought the legs won`t completely open and still often sits up on his fanny with his front legs in front of him like a kangaroo. He loves everyone especially having the great grandchildren play with him. He is my biggest reason for getting up every morning. He keeps the house from feeling empty or lonely.
Went to a Nursing Home last week to visit a cousin. My heart breaks for her and her family as she has advanced problems where she knows you and then often forgets and will ask who you are . I am grateful for the good conversations we did have . The following day I had visitors I hadn`t seen in years- one of which lives a long ways away in another state. Was wonderful catching up with each other, so much had happened over the years. They are almost like family since one is the sister, other sister-in-law to a daughter-in-law who also lives out of state and I hear from often by phone.
Halloween night was great. Love seeing all those little kids in their cute costumes, last year had 36, this year 37- some were older children, but I would rather keep giving candy to these nice kids and keep them from getting into trouble like some older ones do. Some young parents had come since they were younger, so I look forward to seeing them with their little3 ones.
Had a lot of repairs needed on the back of my home where the roof leaked down between the inside and outside walls. Had a lot of help from my family- replacing insulation and outside boards. To do the work they had to remove my back porch and they rebuilt me an even nicer porch. We also replaced the back door with a nicer one. I never really cared for the old door with the full length glass. It had been given to us and so we used it when we turned the back bedroom into a laundry room after the kids were all grown and moved out. Then we added the door and porch. That was many years ago, but the new repairs were done this summer/ Fall. Finished just a couple weeks ago. I have such great sons, daughter, a daughter-in-law, a son-in-law and a friend who did all the house repairs for me. I did help with the painting once the repairs were finished. Where would I be if I didn`t have sons and daughters and in-laws willing to help when I need help. Then my hot water heater started leaking and one of my sons used his truck to pick up the new one for me and he also removed the old one and hooked up the new one for me.
I have a great loving family which I love very much. I have 17 plus 5 more from step children making 22 lovely grandchildren and 30 plus 5 more making 35 lovely great grand children and I love them all very much.. I am a very lucky person with soo much loving family that are there for me.. Had my step son, tell me, shortly before he died - " mom, I need to tell you something, No one and I mean no one could ever have a better mother than I have with you". That was at my 80th Birthday party at the beach and lost him the following month. I will always be happy knowing I was a good mother to him. He was a very nice son and I miss him terribly. I was as proud of him as I am of all my own birth children. I am a lucky mother. Wish Walt was still here to meet all the great grandchildren, he would have loved every one of them as much as he did the grandchildren. My Children had a very loving father and I will always miss him very much.
Had this awful pain in the right side of my head that woke me one night. It was very severe and each pain came and went exactly with my heartbeats. When my heart skipped a beat there was no pain. I have a normal skip. This went on for a few minutes and suddenly stopped . Then there was a slight pain with a feeling of pressure that slowly was moving upwards, around my temple and then down the right side of my head and only left pressure in my head near my right ear which remained for weeks. Saw a Dr who took x-rays which showed nothing wrong. No one ever found the cause of that very terrible pain, but a few months later I did get another Dr to have an MRA done which showed something, so they then did an MRI and discovered an aneurism in the back of my head I had a 4mm aneurism arising from the inferior division near the right middle cerebral artery bifurcation. Dr decided not to operate on it due to my age. He felt it more risky to operate at age 85 than it would be to leave it alone. So, that was last January 15, 2016 when he told me that, so I now wonder how much it might have grown in the past 10 months. My next Dr apt. to have it checked is on February 1st, 2017. So a few more months before I will know more. Since I still work making items in my wood shop using all kinds of saws and other tools, I keep praying nothing happens while I an doing things with saws or while I might be out driving in my car as I don`t want to hurt anyone if the aneurism should burst. From what I have been told it should only grow about 2% a year, so if I am lucky, It might never happen in my lifetime. Normally they grow about 1 %, but since my Father died from one bursting in his head, it gives me a 2% growth rate.
Then along came my apt. with the Rheumatologist for the problems with my hands and wrists- severe arthritis, which I already knew. With the head problem this Dr didn`t want to give me any meds, so ordered a gel to rub on my hands and wrists which help with both the swelling and pain. It is called: Diclofenac sodium topical gel -and I have since learned it is prescribed for other kinds of pain also. Tried it on my left shoulder, but it didn`t ease that pain. He also ordered an arm /wrist support that the thumb slides into, which helps supports and gives more strength to my right hand. At my last apt. he ordered a new one for the right hand/ wrist and also one for the left hand/wrist for more support. Hard to do much wearing both of them, but I do still wear the right one most of the time. This Dr has now left, the practice and my next apt. in April will be with a new Dr. Thankful for the gel as it helps loads.
This month is my apt with the Dr who handles my sleep apnea and the C-PAP equipment orders.
Next month are two more Dr`s, one handles my eye problems- double vision for years ( was told by a specialist it was caused by a minnie stroke -he believes) and now added a wrinkle in the center of my right eye- which I was told if I was younger they would operate and remove the wrinkle, but here again age matters. So the Dr. just keeps a close check on it in case it changes. Seems like every time I see my Dr. I am sent to see a specialist. Me, who hates wasting money seeing Dr`s. is lately seeing too many.
But, I am very thankful to God for giving me such a long life and allowing me to stay active and on my feet able to live alone and still take care of my home, my loving Pug Roo, and myself. In case I haven`t mentioned it before my little Pug was originally named by me friend who is a breeder of small dogs because when he was born with front leg disabilities he would sit up like a kangaroo for long periods of time. he is now 5 years old and with all the therapy I did with him as a puppy, he can walk on all 4 paws, even thought the legs won`t completely open and still often sits up on his fanny with his front legs in front of him like a kangaroo. He loves everyone especially having the great grandchildren play with him. He is my biggest reason for getting up every morning. He keeps the house from feeling empty or lonely.
Went to a Nursing Home last week to visit a cousin. My heart breaks for her and her family as she has advanced problems where she knows you and then often forgets and will ask who you are . I am grateful for the good conversations we did have . The following day I had visitors I hadn`t seen in years- one of which lives a long ways away in another state. Was wonderful catching up with each other, so much had happened over the years. They are almost like family since one is the sister, other sister-in-law to a daughter-in-law who also lives out of state and I hear from often by phone.
Halloween night was great. Love seeing all those little kids in their cute costumes, last year had 36, this year 37- some were older children, but I would rather keep giving candy to these nice kids and keep them from getting into trouble like some older ones do. Some young parents had come since they were younger, so I look forward to seeing them with their little3 ones.
Had a lot of repairs needed on the back of my home where the roof leaked down between the inside and outside walls. Had a lot of help from my family- replacing insulation and outside boards. To do the work they had to remove my back porch and they rebuilt me an even nicer porch. We also replaced the back door with a nicer one. I never really cared for the old door with the full length glass. It had been given to us and so we used it when we turned the back bedroom into a laundry room after the kids were all grown and moved out. Then we added the door and porch. That was many years ago, but the new repairs were done this summer/ Fall. Finished just a couple weeks ago. I have such great sons, daughter, a daughter-in-law, a son-in-law and a friend who did all the house repairs for me. I did help with the painting once the repairs were finished. Where would I be if I didn`t have sons and daughters and in-laws willing to help when I need help. Then my hot water heater started leaking and one of my sons used his truck to pick up the new one for me and he also removed the old one and hooked up the new one for me.
I have a great loving family which I love very much. I have 17 plus 5 more from step children making 22 lovely grandchildren and 30 plus 5 more making 35 lovely great grand children and I love them all very much.. I am a very lucky person with soo much loving family that are there for me.. Had my step son, tell me, shortly before he died - " mom, I need to tell you something, No one and I mean no one could ever have a better mother than I have with you". That was at my 80th Birthday party at the beach and lost him the following month. I will always be happy knowing I was a good mother to him. He was a very nice son and I miss him terribly. I was as proud of him as I am of all my own birth children. I am a lucky mother. Wish Walt was still here to meet all the great grandchildren, he would have loved every one of them as much as he did the grandchildren. My Children had a very loving father and I will always miss him very much.
