Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Dong Quai for me...

...Argentina... See, it's pronounced "Don Kwy"...never mind, it really wasn't that amusing in the first place...and my name's not Evita... But I have been taking Dong Quai for about a month in hopes that it would help my plaque psoriasis...so far, not really. But I'm gonna hang in there for a while longer, because it can take a while for a change to be really apparent. I do know that some of the inflammation on my leg has subsided. We'll see what happens in the next month or so...

Argggghhh...there's still over a month and a half until Spring. I truly believe I have Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)...now that I don't actually HAVE to get up and go out into the big wide, scary world to work every day it's gotten harder and harder to force myself to leave the house in the Winter. Even a trip to the grocery store is put off until we're completely OUT of something (milk, bread, TP...) and then it's a chore. Oh well...I know Spring WILL be here eventually...but I'm truly tired of cold, dark & dreary rainy days that inspire nothing much more than a NAP!

And poor PB! Her fall at work last November has turned out to be a lot more serious than we expected. She saw an Orthopedist, who diagnosed a SLAP tear in her shoulder. So a cortisone injection was given, a note for a week off work, and she was sent to Physical Therapy. Work moved her from the kitchen to out front working one of the cash registers when she went back, but even that seems to be still too much for it. Her PT tech recommended a second opinion because he doesn't think it's healing. So she has a call in now to try and get an appt. with someone else...she can't sleep most nights due to pain, and has had to leave work early several times because she just couldn't complete the day...too much pain. I feel so bad for her, but there's really nothing I can do...other than rub her with Biofreeze every night and not let her pick up/carry anything over a couple of pounds. Even driving hurts.

We've actually had a pretty mild Winter here...only one night/day of snow which didn't stay long. Mostly it's been rain and high winds...lots of flooding in the usual places and a few 'unusual' ones as well. The coast had some gusts over 100 mph a couple of weeks ago, but the valley only got 50 to 60 mph gusts. We were lucky, we haven't even lost power once (so far). All our utilities are underground, but if a sub-station or a feeder goes...yeah well...so far so good! Most of the wild weather went north of us this year, and Seattle got it... But we're not "out of the woods" yet...there's still Winter left, and I've seen 8" of snow here in the first week of March...seriously hope it doesn't happen though.

I did buy the special extended DVD editions of The Lord of The Rings (9.95 each!) a couple of weeks ago and they are freakin' AWESOME. SO much more of the story plus the very interesting 'extras' included. LOL, I was up till 2:30AM the first night and 3:30AM the second... Gotta love the little store called Stuff just up the street from home.

So...we're all still alive...just Sleepy, Dopey and Grumpy (not necessarily in that order...and No, I don't know where the rest of the dwarves are...). Monster is monster-ous, Turdle is a turd...nothing new there. Turdle yells at us every time she goes outside and the weather's crappy...I guess we're supposed to be in charge of it, or something.

Here's to Spring...I hope it's an 'early' one this year! 

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