Having a great morning. Coffee on the porch while it rained. We enjoyed that summer rain a great deal.
We have 3 days, today, Saturday, and Sunday to enjoy before going to therapies and doctors nonstop day after day.
Yesterday we watched a documentary on Bon Jovi, the band. Yes, make fun of us, we liked some 80s hair bands and Bon Jovi was one of them.
The documentary was awful. But so was the new one on Wham. I'm seeing a lot of bad docs sadly.
Anyway, we got to discussing seeing Bon Jovi in concert when we were just friends. The band was playing in my hometown. Apparently, his mom is from Erie too. This is July, 1987.
His grandparents still lived there in ole Erie,PA. His grandfather said if you're such a big deal why don't you play here? He said, "Well then, I will"
Bon Jovi did play in Erie and I told this story and had his grandfather stand up and take a bow. It was cute.
I was living in Cleveland. (90 minutes away) Rick called to tell me he was coming to Erie, on the Slippery When Wet tour.
Rick said, "Come home and we will go."
Rick bought us tickets and I couldn't wait.
It was a stadium concert and the opening was Tower of Power with Huey Lewis and The News. Great concert!!
We were in the front sitting on blankets. It was miserably hot and they hosed down the crowd several times during the shows. That may sound awful but the watering down of the crowd actually felt good.
My goofy friend, Rick, was obsessed with the woman next to him. A cute young blonde thing wearing flip-flops. He leaned over to me to tell me she had very long black hair on her toes and feet. I giggled. Honestly this man.
But for whatever reason he couldn't stop with this young lady. Why wouldn't she wax or shave that, he'd ask me? It's like a monkey he kept saying which only made me laugh more. I tell him to trade seats with me. He tells me he can't unsee it now. I laugh and say okay, so she's not your 10.
He says, she's a freaking monkey did you see how long it was?"
"No, I did not wish to stare Richard."
But then I stare. Omg, he's right. You could braid this. Now we smuggled in alcohol. (The advantage of big boobs) so I'm a bit toasted and I can't help but laugh. My God, he's right and now I can't look away.
This poor woman. But seriously if those were my feet I'd hide them in shoes or wax them off!!
Rick's memory is intact that's for sure. Short-term, not as good. A song came on a commercial and I said it was The Letterman. He said it was Jay and The Americans. Damn, he was right. Ask him where we went yesterday and that answer is a crap shoot. 75% of the time he remembers. But that 25% he does not. Truth be told I'm the same way but, without a stroke. 😆
Anyway here is Bon Jovi when we saw him in concert in 1987.
This is John Today.
Yep, we all age. Not as well as him but we all age damn it!
Attention Class. I am going to discuss a couple of things I don't want to discuss again. Got that?
First, you all don't listen well at all. Tsk, Tsk,.
In my post a couple of days ago I mentioned my lifelong issue with my photos. I asked that none of you do that b.s. stuff with telling me I look fine or good or cute or whatever adjective. I was NOT fishing for compliments and I asked you not to do it. You did it. Don't do that anymore. This is why no pics of me are to be found. (but thank you none the less)
I also am going to explain a bit more of this mold toxins/toxic crap.
But allow me to tell you I got a great lymphatic massage on Thursday night. The inflammation in my body is off the charts and we need to remove it.
She got everything moving. My muscles that turn to stone shocked her.
She said, "you must be in so much pain." Ya think? 90 minutes with this woman was fabulous and painful. But the fabulous outweighed the pain.
I think insurance is paying for this because it was part of the treatment. We will see.
Die off - it seems no one really googled this. Once you begin a regimen/protocol for the killing of the parasite, toxic thing, whatever it is, you get your body fighting back. For me it is mold. When my husband the ole toxic/toxins of Lyme he went through this too. He began his medications and his body was fighting back. He felt far worse than ever before.
That is what is happening to me.
You do get better, but first, you will get sicker. As the treatment attacks the mold in my body the mold retaliates by releasing toxins in self-defense. This friggin' mold thinks it has a good set up inside my body and it doesn't want to leave as much as I need it to.
Mold/fungi release mycotoxins They are what cause our symptoms and make us sick. The more mold you have in your body, the higher the number of toxins that will be released. These come out like flu-like symptoms and every other symptom you have had with the illness is magnified.
I was so sick on Friday I closed down until 1pm. In 14 years I have never done this even after surgery. I was so sick I did not work. I had a fever, I couldn't leave home because I needed a bathroom nearby for both ends, I could barely walk. Everything on me hurt from my hair to my toes, including my elbows? WTF? Detox on this is no joke!
I was in bed Friday while it was still light out. I awoke Saturday to feeling so much better. Let's hope we are done with that. Although I do know things will be fine and they will increase some things again so it may happen again. It takes 6-12 months to rid yourself of this mold! 6 - 12 months!
So I am doing okay. I imagine I will be so-so or worse for a while.
Same old, same old. Then I hope one day to awake from this mold nightmare and be done with this.
Lastly, I don't think I told you where we found the mold.
I got a bug up my ass a couple of weeks ago to clean all the lower cabinets. Outside and inside. I pulled pots and pans out and cleaned everything and put them back nice and neat. The last cabinet I saved was under the sink.
I got everything out and saw water in the back. I cleaned the black on the cabinet while wearing a mask for covid to save more inhales of mold spores. I bleached it. Where is this water coming from is what I couldn't understand. I starred it wasn't leaking. How can that be?
I waited for Rick to come home before I put in the new shelving I purchased for this cabinet.
Rick found that the faucet had a very small leak. Since Rick can't get his shoulders under the sink well we called our plumber who we have a service agreement with - and Thank God! He came out and show us the tiny hole in the faucet causing this link. He had to saw the faucet off it had rusted to the granite. Now if you looked at the base that sits on the granite it was clean there so I never saw a leak. When he got this off we saw the mold inside the faucet. So all I was drinking was mold water, cooking with mold water. Hence why my inflammation number should be at 2000 and mine were over 18,000.
I asked the plumber if they needed to remove more piping to remove mold. He said no and gave Rick and me a reason. A reason I didn't understand. Rick tried to explain it to me. Still didn't get it. So I asked him to humor me and replace that pipe etc. He did and he showed me - no mold. It was all in the faucet, mostly neck. But he replaced that pipe and I was so okay with paying extra it since I wanted to know for certain even though he and Rick felt it was fine. I am dealing with this illness. Humor me, boys. And that they did. The plumber was so nice he didn't charge us for the new pipe, he said, you've paid enough. How nice was that?
So now that we found the mold. Thanks to what Rick calls my cleaning issues. I feel like I can get better eventually, I hope. But at least now I know this is for certain mold. As I told you all I couldn't for the life of me understand the mold being in my house and how wouldn't I see it? Now I know! Neither of us saw it.
So I don't want to bore you with more illness stories. I really don't.
No one wants to listen to people complain about their illness.
I know I don't want to be that person. Some days it so helps to vent and I will. But in the meantime, I hope to not talk about it more than that and bore you all to tears. Want you to still come around.
In the meantime, I have enjoyed watching these boys (twin brothers) hear music for the first time. (Since I can no longer insert the video I had to try to link it for you. hate blogger)
These 2 were not allowed to listen to secular music while growing up. A year ago they began this channel. I saw them on Kelly Clarkson. After that Rick and I had to watch a few. People recommend a song for them to listen to. They crack me up. They don't have a genre they only listen to. They listen to everything. After watching several they seem to love 70s rock. They adore Queen and Freddy's voice. They love RadioHead and Pink. So it isn't just rap and that was so nice to see that they like so many versions of music. They are cute. I can't fathom not knowing Santana or Rob Thomas. I think in this video they think Rob Thomas is Santana. I watched them watch Jimi Hendricks for the first time. They said they heard he was considered one of the great rock guitarists. Then when Jimi plays with his finger, behind his back, his tongue etc they flip out. They paused it and said, "is this real? is he faking it?" My goodness was that funny to us.
The first rock song they ever heard was Aerosmith's Dream On.
Oh my, when Steven hits the high note the brother on your left gets very excited. The rock ones they like were Queen, Aerosmith, Bon Jovi to name a few. They never heard of Stevie Wonder. So it is kind of cool to watch they react for the first time.
