Wednesday

Yes, it's been a while hasn't it?

I'm doing well. In fact last week I was vertical all damn day long. :-)

Not having the steroids daily is fantastic. 

It's too damn hot right now to do anything. Always living in the north when I see the sun and do not need a parka then I feel one must be outside. But my life is upside down now. I know it logically but I have to tell you there is still guilt about being indoors in the summer. But I think I wanna stay here inside until it's at least 80 degrees out....I'm thinking that will be in late Sept/early October.  I think I need a swimming pool. 

Rick sent me this today from the garage.

I went out to the garage to see him for a mere minute, and water dripped down my back. Okay wanted to see the purple thing he was working on but don't want to stay out here. Nope - going inside Big Guy. I can love you from inside with air conditioning.  You're on your own out here. 

I hobbled as fast as I could back to the house. Wow.

I was in the house for a full 2 minutes at best when he sent this damn meme to me. It did make me laugh. I don't understand how he can still be in the garage at 101 degrees and still be working. It was actually a pleasure to be indoors washing dishes and doing laundry. 

After 2.5 hrs he decided he couldn't take anymore either. 

He came inside and showered. He immediately proceeded to take a nap. So the heat wiped him out apparently. 😁

I don't see him getting much work done until fall at this rate. 

Yesterday I got a text from a cousin in Tampa. It was such a nice surprise and a fun conversation. I no sooner put down my phone than I hear it ding again. It's a cousin that lives in Washington state. 

What is this cousin's day? 

Then later in the evening, I get a text from my cousin Steve with 3 other people in the picture attached. He is in my hometown. I know the other couple but the woman on the right looked to me to be my Uncle's first wife Phyllis. This uncle I am referring to is on my stepmom's side of the family, not Steve/my dad's side. Got that?  I have not seen her in 42+ years. 

So I write back to my cousin and ask who that is. Sure enough, it's her. 

That is when you know the city is too small. If I dated up there I'd be hitting on a relative or a person someone connected to my family. Not safe to date up there I'll tell ya. That was a flash from the past. What I want to know is why the hell she looks exactly the same and I look 40+ years older?

My foot/ankle is not getting better. It's been a few weeks since the ortho told me it was broken and well it is what it is. Apparently, that was all there was to this. When I told him where it hurt he told me, "It shouldn't" 

He told me this twice. I gave up talking to him. 

What the hell kind of healing is that? So I am doing nothing. I am in such pain at times. The burning is up my heel to mid-calf. Excruciating burning.

I did not wear a boot on Monday and that night I was in such pain. So the boot is back on no matter how hot it is. 

I was to follow up with this ortho but why? To tell me it shouldn't hurt anymore? I swear it is tendons and Achilles pain and no one wants to listen to me because they are seeing a break. Aargh!  I canceled my follow-up with the ortho/Wally Cox.  He was an idiot if you ask me and I don't see the need to pay him to tell me it shouldn't hurt on the outside of my foot or my heel.  I then made an appt with the podiatrist. I think that is what I need. We shall see. God I'm sick of doctors. I LOVED my podiatrist up north. I told Rick if I can't get answers I'd rather drive up there at this point. Any excuse to go to the land of book-smart folks.

I expressed my need for a pedicure to Rick. I said I'd love one before I see the podiatrist. He laughed at that. I said, "I don't wish to be like those gross people you watch on that show, 'My Feet Are Killing Me.'  Those people are so gross. He laughed and said, "I don't think anyone would say that to you even without a freshly done pedicure"  I would hope not!

Have you seen that gross show? No? Then good for you!  

I walk into the room and see things and immediately leave. 

One night he said, "Oh you got to see this woman's feet"  Oh no I don't!  

I heard enough to make me vomit why would I wish to look? So I never did look. I just left the room. How he can watch this is anyone's guess. The story of this woman was she never took off her boot. Yes, a full knee-high boot! TWO YEARS!  She never took it off once it was put on after a surgery. She bathed with it and never took it off !!!! Never dried it, never washed it, just took a shower with it on and left it there for 2 friggin' years but now there is a stench coming from that general vicinity she says. 

After 2 years there was a stench. Gee, ya think? Just imagine that will ya!

The doctor's office wore masks to hid them from the smell. They had to close the office and burn incense and candles it was so bad. The skin was coming off her feet from infections. She may lose her foot. Who would not clean themselves in 2 years? And then to bathe with the boot and never dry? Oh my goodness, I had heard enough! The female doctor in this is so kind and she puts people at ease but how she doesn't yell at them is beyond me! Although Rick said she did one day to a man whose wife told her that he doesn't dry his feet after he showers. She gave him hell and that was the reason for the issue he was having.  She's pretty isn't she? I give her mad props, couldn't do what she does!

So I imagine even without getting a fresh pedicure my normal nails and feet will look like heaven to my podiatrist in comparison to that sick and twisted shit Rick watches. Do you watch this stuff too?