Just for fun... Thanks Elaine

For those of you who need a little therapy today.

20 Ways to Maintain a Healthy Level of Insanity :

1. At Lunch Time, Sit In Your Parked Car With Sunglasses on and point a Hair Dryer At Passing Cars. See If They Slow Down.

2. Page Yourself Over The Intercom. Don't Disguise Your Voice.

3. Every Time Someone Asks You To Do Something, Ask If They Want Fries with that.

4. Put Your Garbage Can On Your Desk And Label It "In."

5. Put Decaf In The Coffee Maker For 3 Weeks. Once Everyone has Gotten Over Their Caffeine Addictions, Switch to Espresso.

6. In The Memo Field Of All Your Checks, Write "For Smuggling Diamonds"

7. Finish All Your sentences with "In Accordance With The Prophecy."

8 Don t use any punctuation

9. As Often As Possible, Skip Rather Than Walk.

10. Order a Diet Water whenever you go out t o eat with a serious face.

11. Specify That Your Drive-through Order Is "To Go."

12. Sing Along At The Opera

13. Go To A Poetry Recital And Ask Why The Poems Don't Rhyme

14. Put Mosquito Netting Around Your Work Area And Play tropical Sounds All Day.

15. Five Days In Advance , Tell Your Friends You Can't Attend Their Party Because You're Not In The Mood.

16. Have Your Co-workers Address You By Your Wrestling Name, Rock Bottom.

17. When The Money Comes Out The ATM, Scream "I Won!, I Won!"

18. When Leaving The Zoo, Start Running Towards The Parking lot, Yelling "Run For Your Lives, They're Loose!!"

19. Tell Your Children Over Dinner. "Due To The Economy, We Are Going To Have To Let One Of You Go."

20. And The Final Way To Keep A Healthy Level Of Insanity.......Send This E-mail To Someone To Make Them Smile.

It's Called Therapy

14 January to Now: 2 May 2007

• Sorry that I haven't kept up with this blog, but I'm going to be able to do better now.
  
  
• I've been through what I hope is the last operation...the one on my left leg. The good news is that the right leg is healing, and it looks like the left will also. I won't be off the walker until June though.
  
  
• I've taken on the responsibility of working up a Red Hat Chapter until the Fall. So far it's fun, especially since I know it is for a short duration. It's going to be fun this coming week where two other groups are meeting where we are, one on the same day but earlier, and the other the next day. If the purple hat I ordered is in, I'll go to the three, just for fun.
  
  
• I'm off for now... I'm going to work up a quick knitted hat in purple!

From October to Now

Much has happened since my last entry... I had the operation on my right leg, and the Doctor made one mistake... based on my mentioning that I regularly took Vicodin, he doubled the amounts of morphine and Oxycontin. The orders got mixed up, and the nurses also cut the time of medication in half. I was getting a double dose in half the time. Of course I went into a coma as I had in July. a week later, when they stopped the meds, I was OK, but as the doctor said: "we almost lost you". Believe me, it won't happen again!

So, anyway, I had to detox, which was a lot of fun for three days, and now am narcotic free, awaiting the next operation. It's necessary because the left leg isn't healing as it should. It will happen in about ten weeks, which gives the right leg time to heal (it is healing, yeah!). I'll be able to take normal doses of painkillers.

Of course that's not all I have going on in my life. Granted I watch a lot of the Discover, Science and History channels on TV, and reading lots of Mystery novels, and trying to read a new genre... Alternate History. I work on my laptop from bed, I try to get into my office to work on Adopt a Grandparent, and other stuff, but it's much harder on my legs. I get out of the bedroom, and get dressed every day, and my PT is now based on improving the muscles in both legs so I'll recover walking ability as soon as I can.

Oh, and the most important thing: Stan and I gave each other two Siamese Kittens for Christmas. We picked up Yin (female) and Yang (male) on Christmas day.Yin is the top one, Yang below. They are now entering their 13Th week, and are developing personalities. They are training us well. I'm convinced that my blood pressure is down because Yang always sits on my lap. Yin favors Stan...she knows who feeds her. She goes up against his leg, and flops over on her back so Stan can scratch her belly. She has him trained, and Yang has me trained to pet him while he's in my lap.

As you might be able to see, I also bowed to pressure from Stan I colored my hair. After three months I still can't get used to it, and will be going throughout the months needed to grow my own hair out. It's something to do while waiting for, having, and recuperating from the next surgery.