Friday, August 17, 2012

911 Wal Mart Alert

TGIF!  Truly.

Feels as if it's been a long week.  I know every week is the same but certain ones are particularly tough.  Dad's 80th birthday was last weekend.  We had about 17 people over on Sunday.  He enjoyed it as did his friends from church.  Here are some pics...


I was happy that we were able to get that many people in and sitting down to eat.  And of course my Blog would not be my Blog if I didn't put a pic of Roxie.  Here she is wearing her new party dress!  She had a great time but was exhausted after the festivities.  She had to be carried to bed.  My sweet old girl!


Quick story and then I have to do all the stuff you do to get ready for work.  I went to Wal Mart yesterday at lunch.  I walked up toward the front doors and all of a sudden this guy falls over one of those thingys that pushes a row of carts.  Big, ugly machine.  He completely flipped over it and landed in the parking lot on the hot asphalt.  Those of you who live in CA know that this week I mean it when I say HOT asphalt.  He hit his head.  And then he was having seizures.  I was completely freaked out and didn't know what to do.  Pretty soon others came over too.  All I knew to do was call 911 which I did.  The paramedics were there in 4 or 5 minutes.  He had 5 seizures during that time.  Come to find out, he was an employee there.  He has epilepsy.  I think what happened is that he had a seizure and then fell over the thingy.  My heart went out to him.  How scary and also how vulnerable you are lying there seizing with a bunch of strangers staring.  I pray his head injury was not life threatening and that he will be ok.
Come to think of it, that is the 2nd time I have called 911 in an week!  The other time was Saturday night.  Oh no - guess where?!  The Wal Mart parking lot!  However, this was at a different Wal Mart.  I don't hang out at Wal Marts - I promise.  I was actually passing through this parking lot going to Kohl's on Saturday night.  A guy was in his truck sitting at a stop sign in the parking lot, sound asleep!  Nothing was waking him up.  I just knew he was going to start rolling and either hit someone or hit another car.  Sure enough...starts rolling across the lot.  Finally he woke up.  I don't know if he had just worked a double shift at KFC right there or if he were drunk.  Either way - the Sheriffs came to check him out.
I'm staying away from Wal Mart for a few days...

Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Summer... Please Go Away

I seem to take a lot of vacations from this blog.  I think this last one has been the longest yet. 
I went for a physical today - my doctor wanted to see me before he will sign for me to take time off to go to the Biggest Loser Resort in Malibu.  He declared me healthy and told me to "enjoy"!  He thought I was going to get to be on the show and was disappointed that I'm not.  Still though he said that 8 hours a day of exercise will be good for me and I will be just fine.  Funny thing, we were talking about pain medication and the fact that I have very little left.  There are certain times when I truly need it - if you've been around me then you know that not often but every now and again, I really can't get out of bed.  That used to be because of depression but now it's pretty much physical.  He was asking when I take it and for what and then he interjected with "besides the fibromyalgia".  What?  Well it seems that  the tests I took last Summer showed some form of it but no one from Rheumatology felt it necessary to pass along that information.  It explains a whole lot.  Now I know the physical pain that I feel is not made up in my head.  I feel relief about that.  Anyway, he prescribed me a new pain medication and gave me a whopping 10 pills.  I definitely have a doctor who is more on the conservative side.  That's fine with me - I don't ever want to become addicted to any kind of prescription medication.  That's the last thing I need.
This heatwave is really getting old.  It's been so hot and miserably humid.  I was determined not to run the AC in my house but I had to give in on Saturday night.  Last night I had it on and woke up actually freezing.  How cool is that?!  Punny.  What's really strange is that we were at Costco on Friday buying jackets.  Leaving this hot weather behind and heading for Alaska.  I have a feeling I will absolutely LOVE the weather there.  Trying not to think of how much I will miss my girls though.  It's tough for me.
That Zoe though...what am I going to do with her?  I put my Tanzanite ring on the window sill yesterday while I was cooking.  Dumb move.  Smart cat.  I hope I find it.