Oh My God

This years photo of the European tri-color beech tree. I need a guy to come and assess the limbs for trimming.

Well, my dermatologist changed professions and I was forced back to the crazy guy. He came in with his arm all wrapped up and a semi cast thing and I asked, "what happened". Bad move. His response started with a chain saw and when I waved him off ended with a 30 foot ladder. I knew this appointment would be bad.

He said:

There was nothing really wrong with my nose and gave me 3 shots into the red areas of the right nostril. I cannot describe the pain of the last shot. Prescription for 2 items and enough samples until next year on the topical.

He does not think I had shingles, just some weird Herpes thing on my arm and shingles vaccines are a luxury and I am not old enough. And there is a better one coming out in the next 5 years.

You need to assess your life after mistakes and get rid of the risks. He is selling his 30 foot ladder. And his motorcycle.

Then I found these great clothes in the New York Times, went to their web site and got really excited until I found out they only make small sizes. Really? Only small people need nice, washable, reasonable prices on clothes? WTF.

Then Sammy Dog went off the charts and peed, yes peed on Zoey Cat's paper bag. What an asshat. When the cat gets that much joy from a paper bag, she slept in it for gosh sakes, you pee on it. Sammy Dog is in the literal dog house and Zoey has a new paper bag which we now put up during the day.

Shingles Update

Love these more than I thought I would. They last a long time.

Well we are now down to a dull throb once in a while so they pain is eased considerably. It is still ugly and a little itchy. Today is my first day working with no Aleve and no Zyrtec and so far okay. The funny thing is my face is completely cleared up. I get rosecea and it shows up during stress (like the shingles) and whatever meds I am on worked on that too. I am thinking the steroids.  I still fatigue easily which brings up bitch number one.

 My boss decides to come to the plant and pick up some parts, quite an armful really. He calls me when he gets here to tell me his badge won't work. So now I know he never set foot in the plant when I was out. Then I had to carry the parts out to him, and I was whipped. When I got home he called and first asked how I was, I told him very tired. He said me too. WTF.

Then he proceeds to ask me questions about the shit we just talked and texted about for the last hour.

Then his boss calls me to ask the same stupid questions. WTF.

We have the cat harness so this should be fun, but Big Daddy is in Mexico so I won't be for a few days.

This will be my first time taking care of both the animals alone and I am not sure how this is gonna work. Zoey cat is much more demanding of food and attention than Sammy Dog. She was watching me get ready this morning and started demanding some attention and I told her mommy is not a morning person.

They might be working this Memorial Day and I will be stuck with it if they do. Can't wait to find out.

Progress, thank God for good insurance.

It was so cold and wet I did not get pics of the glorious bulbs that bloomed. We had a lot of blooms.

They just named the new bridge to Canada the Gordie Howe Bridge. Canada really does not want the Ambassador bridge family to continue in any way in the bridge business. They are paying for the bridge, the customs plaza and now named it after the most beloved hockey player in Detroit. Wow. Gordie was a Canadian, so a win-win.

The new meds seem to be working, still painful as hell but it looks like the swelling is going down and it is turning all colors and looks to be drying up. Wow. If it is at all possible get the Shingles Vaccine. This "disease" or whatever it is called is a bitch and a half.

Another symptom of the Shingles is confusion. Yep, I was very blond. Told my doc I felt like I took a stupid pill. That is clearing up also.

Punkin Head was sending us a harness for the cat and I hope it gets here soon. She wants outside so bad she can't stand it. Big Daddy got her toy, it is like a yellow sheet with a ball that rotates underneath and she loves it. We put it out in the morning when she wants to play and we have not had coffee. That is the only time she gets it. I do the laser pen at night and she loves that too. She is not that great with the fishing pole but that may be my fault as I have not practiced enough with her.

Time for another nap.

Random Stuff

Close up of the weird tree growth.

Well, Doc changed my meds put on the shit I prolly should have been on to start with and if this works in about 2 weeks I can get a Shingles Vaccine. Hooray. Just wish the pain would quit. And I can see Curly and my hairdresser when this is all better.

Well, there is a mall nearby-Eastland Mall-and it is one of the most unsafe places ever. It is in Harper Woods across the Freeway and the first thing I told DIL when she moved here is that she is not allowed to go to that mall. It is simply not safe. The other day there were shots fired at the mall. That place is gonna close down and everyone will bitch there is no place to shop and there is no public transportation to the Macy's in the burbs. Well, quit shootin the damn place up.

Thanks to Punkin Head we are going to be adventurous on our visit to Portland and stay at a B & B. It appears to be a Mother in Law type unit attached to an old English Tudor in the upper crust section of Portland by Reed College. We got it through Airbnb. Two beds a living room and kitchen with a private pool for $885.00 a week. And it is in walking distance to Curly except you have to go up a hill that is pretty steep. Now we just need a plane ride and a rental car.

We planted 2 Bleeding Heart and one "Poblomo" pepper plant. I have no hope for the pepper, this is Big Daddy's idea. The ferns are up and the moving of the pots has begun.

Finished re-reading Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, because of the Savannah trip, and enjoyed it as much as the first time. Trying to read Anne Rice's The Prince Lestat and not too sure about this one. Watching this wacky show on the television, Southern Charm about a bunch of drunk people in Charleston and how the rich felon is running against Lindsay Graham for a senate seat. And these asshats think he could win.

Need to take a nap.

The stress has finally taken a toll

Odd stuff growing on a tree

Well, I was just sitting around Saturday letting my toes dry when I felt this nasty sharp pain on my arm. I looked and it looked all red and lumpy and I figured I had been bitten by a spider. I have had spider bites before and I do attract all things wacky, so why not. It hurt, as spider bites do and you just ignore the pain. Until very early Monday morning.

By 4 AM is was not going to work I was going to the doctor. The pain felt like someone had a serrated knife jabbing into my arm. I am not kidding this pain was excruciating. By 7AM I was at the emergency room and I felt like I could not breathe. The red lumpy painful thing on my arm did not look worse but it felt horrid.

Well, the Doc was not so sure it was a "bite", he was thinking this could be a very mild case of Shingles. Mild? Then I saw the pictures on Google and was grateful for mild. It is hilarious to be sitting in the ER and Big Daddy is looking the stuff up on Google and the Doc and Nurse are doing their job. So I got a huge dose of Benadryl and a prescription for Hydro codon and Keflex, just in case it is an infected bite. I go to the Internist tomorrow.

I started thinking in my fog induced state about everything I read on the Internet. I am thinking that time I woke up in China with the red spots on my face that hurt and stung was prolly my first bout of Shingles. Then the huge red zit that was not a zit and spread was prolly round 2. That still flares once in a while. So this would be round 3 in about 5 or 6 years. Hmmm.

I am worried about the face thing as this seems to flare alot and I cannot be around Curly if I am broken out. This is upsetting me greatly. That and the fact that it hurts like the devil. Then on top of it all I broke out in hives today and the Benadryl does not work on the hives so I am taking Zyrtec for the hives. Sheesh.