Socks To-Die-For
or
How many times must I rip them out before I Die!?
AAARrRRRrrg!
and get the code
Showing posts with label Wordless Wednesday. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wordless Wednesday. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 04, 2007
and get the code
Tuesday, March 13, 2007
I am sorry this is not Wordless Wednesday stuff but please read it. (Andre if you read this post please look at the post below this for a note to you)
All I Learned About Care And Love I Learned From My Hamsters
You all have seen Bunny and Kiki on video before.
If you have not guessed I am omitting my Wordless Wednesday because I think this is too important to say in comments.
I am going to warn you that this piece is filled with emotion and you will cry after this is done, but it is so necessary for you to see this. I want you to just let go and allow what you see to fill you.
This is a photo of Kiki laying over Bunny to keep her warm.
Over the past weeks it has become apparent that Bunny has a tumor. I have watched her closely to see if she has any sign of pain or real bad sickness.
Bunny has a tumor in her mamory and it is large enough to effect her back leg. It has become stiff and she is kinda limping around.
She is cleaning herself and eating and walking around, but she gets stuck when she tries to turn a certain way or when she rolls on her back cleaning herself.
I have been told that if a hamster is cleaning themself they are not suffering.
But it has been hard for me to stand by while she withers away and loses her strength.
Normally I would do the "humane" thing and euthenize her. But something is stopping me. It is Kiki.
Bunny gets stuck and Kiki will come and turn her over and clean the side Bunny can't clean, and she massages Bunny all over to make her feel more comfortable. Kiki even laid down at the bottom of their cage ramp so there would be a buffer there if Bunny took a roll down the ramp as she usually does.
I cannot take away the true loss of Bunny for Kiki. I watch her care so intently with her sister. Sometimes too intently. Bunny wanted to run on the wheel and couldn't so Kiki tried running for her. That only turned into one hamster running and the other tumbling around like she was in a dryer. I quickly stopped the wheel and put a second wheel on the smaller cage I moved them to, so Kiki could use another wheel when Bunny tried to take it for a spin. It worked right away. Kiki moved to the other wheel right away.
I think some of us humans could learn compassion from this video of Kiki caring for Bunny who is in a deep deep sleep right now. I don't know how the end will effect Kiki but I know she has to have the right to be with her sister to the very end. She earned it.
Wednesday, February 07, 2007
and get the code
Me being all psychic at the Enwave Theatre in Toronto!
see the article today at:
http://seminars.torontoghosts.org/blog/
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The 5 Reasons I Blog Meme
(I was tagged by Matt and Sue at Paranormal Blog)
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The 5 Reasons I Blog Meme
(I was tagged by Matt and Sue at Paranormal Blog)
1) I blog because my Sons suggested it. I guess I was getting on their nerves
2) The reason my Sons suggested it was because of pretty traumatic event that happened to me in March 2005. In March 2005 I was suddenly stricken by a headache that lasted 24/7 with no breaks for a year. In that year I turned from a spunky and savvy businesswoman who had a photographic memory and could do "anything" from being a scientist to a long haul transport truck driver, to a suffering middle-aged woman.
In the year it took to diagnose me, and then begin some sort of treatment that would be more successful than a couple of hours a week of lesser pain over pain so intense it effected my vision and make me vomit...I had lost alot of my really cool abilities.
By March 2006, my immediate memory was gone, I was suffering from speach affasia, and I could not sleep more than a couple of hours a day, and it was not a sound sleep, it was more of a pass out unconscious from pain sleep. My vision was blurry, and I could not drive because of the pain, and the meds they were trying to ease it.
Me being the optomistic chick I am, I just plugged away each day, trying to figure out ways to create my own occupational therapy so I would not go mad.
I started taking piano lessons. I did this to help me focus a bit, and to be able to do something creative that I could accomplish in a few minutes before the music and pounding in my head would reander me useless.
I was blessed in March 2006 by a pain specialist who really took the time to seek out the whys and wherefores of what had happened to me, and who would use her great medical detective skills to start a very radical pain treatment program that used no opiats.
Thus the great "brain freeze" as I so affectionally call it began. This treatment is the use of anesthetic injected into the head, facette joints of the neck and between the vertibrae, and into the muscles of the shoulders weekly, and a drug coctail of neuro blockers, muscle relaxants, and later anti seizure meds to keep the headache at bey.
Only temporary solutions, as they cannot take the pain away forever. They only facilitate a few days of good healing sleep, so I can be stronger.
As the weeks passed by the treatments did well for me. So well I was able to do some tasks 20 min at a time, and I was able to read again. This was an amazing boost to me, at a time when I had lost my confidence.
So in March 2006 I began to blog at the suggestion of my Sons. They thought it would help me be able to keep a journal at a time it was not easy for me to speak because of the Affasia (you say different words than you intended and sometimes you sound like you are speaking gibborish)
I had to learn how to blog. That was really tough. I really had to get my Son Alex to help me alot. I could not read instructions and put the information to use, but I could listen to instructions and put it to use.
Alex was so patient with me. He would repeat the same instructions over and over again each day because I could not remember what he told me the day before, and he helped me build a blog.
By September 2006 Al was back at school, and I had improved enough that I tried to do the work on my own, and I did it!
3) The blog has helped me express myself eloquently at a time in my life I could not speak eloquently. The blog helps me be creative. I can take photos and write articles, and journal my world, and it helps me promote life Canadian.
4) I hope my blogging has helped people learn about things I can share: travel stories, Canada culture history and people, crafting
5) I keep blogging because it is a real connection to the world at large. I have made some really cool friends from blogging. I have been sparked to try some of the old crafting I used to do post headache like knitting. I cannot communicate like I used to with family because my treatments take alot out of me and my energy levels are low. So they can follow along here at the blog and catch up. I also found the perfect volunteer job for a headachey, witchy, spiritualist psychic that doesn't require more than one day a week of my time (which is good cuz a few hours of doing anything and I need a few days to recover, but that is ok cuz I got to do something) as the resident medium for PSICAN.
*********to answer the questions you are asking now.
Yes I still have the headache, but it isn't 24/7 anymore and I get sleep.
The cause is a toss between shingles of the brain (which is the favourite of the doctors as it answers why more than one major nerve was effected with time) or a severe neck trauma which might have been a repetitive injury (the doctors least favourite because there has been a progression of the nerve damage)
Now when I talk I have learned to be so quick at picking up the affasia I can fool everyone to thinking that I just stammer once in a while, and they will say I speak normally.
So I am officially diagnosed with Trigeminal Neuralgia, with 1st larangeal nerve neuropathy, and sensory nerve neuropathy of the leg.( I don't limp, but please don't stick a pin in my thigh, I won't feel it)
I still take no opiats for pain (which means I can't get addicted to something really aweful)
***and if it wasn't for the meme I probably wouldn't talk about this much on here***
********I learned to find a new normal, so I am not defined by this headache********
2) The reason my Sons suggested it was because of pretty traumatic event that happened to me in March 2005. In March 2005 I was suddenly stricken by a headache that lasted 24/7 with no breaks for a year. In that year I turned from a spunky and savvy businesswoman who had a photographic memory and could do "anything" from being a scientist to a long haul transport truck driver, to a suffering middle-aged woman.
In the year it took to diagnose me, and then begin some sort of treatment that would be more successful than a couple of hours a week of lesser pain over pain so intense it effected my vision and make me vomit...I had lost alot of my really cool abilities.
By March 2006, my immediate memory was gone, I was suffering from speach affasia, and I could not sleep more than a couple of hours a day, and it was not a sound sleep, it was more of a pass out unconscious from pain sleep. My vision was blurry, and I could not drive because of the pain, and the meds they were trying to ease it.
Me being the optomistic chick I am, I just plugged away each day, trying to figure out ways to create my own occupational therapy so I would not go mad.
I started taking piano lessons. I did this to help me focus a bit, and to be able to do something creative that I could accomplish in a few minutes before the music and pounding in my head would reander me useless.
I was blessed in March 2006 by a pain specialist who really took the time to seek out the whys and wherefores of what had happened to me, and who would use her great medical detective skills to start a very radical pain treatment program that used no opiats.
Thus the great "brain freeze" as I so affectionally call it began. This treatment is the use of anesthetic injected into the head, facette joints of the neck and between the vertibrae, and into the muscles of the shoulders weekly, and a drug coctail of neuro blockers, muscle relaxants, and later anti seizure meds to keep the headache at bey.
Only temporary solutions, as they cannot take the pain away forever. They only facilitate a few days of good healing sleep, so I can be stronger.
As the weeks passed by the treatments did well for me. So well I was able to do some tasks 20 min at a time, and I was able to read again. This was an amazing boost to me, at a time when I had lost my confidence.
So in March 2006 I began to blog at the suggestion of my Sons. They thought it would help me be able to keep a journal at a time it was not easy for me to speak because of the Affasia (you say different words than you intended and sometimes you sound like you are speaking gibborish)
I had to learn how to blog. That was really tough. I really had to get my Son Alex to help me alot. I could not read instructions and put the information to use, but I could listen to instructions and put it to use.
Alex was so patient with me. He would repeat the same instructions over and over again each day because I could not remember what he told me the day before, and he helped me build a blog.
By September 2006 Al was back at school, and I had improved enough that I tried to do the work on my own, and I did it!
3) The blog has helped me express myself eloquently at a time in my life I could not speak eloquently. The blog helps me be creative. I can take photos and write articles, and journal my world, and it helps me promote life Canadian.
4) I hope my blogging has helped people learn about things I can share: travel stories, Canada culture history and people, crafting
5) I keep blogging because it is a real connection to the world at large. I have made some really cool friends from blogging. I have been sparked to try some of the old crafting I used to do post headache like knitting. I cannot communicate like I used to with family because my treatments take alot out of me and my energy levels are low. So they can follow along here at the blog and catch up. I also found the perfect volunteer job for a headachey, witchy, spiritualist psychic that doesn't require more than one day a week of my time (which is good cuz a few hours of doing anything and I need a few days to recover, but that is ok cuz I got to do something) as the resident medium for PSICAN.
*********to answer the questions you are asking now.
Yes I still have the headache, but it isn't 24/7 anymore and I get sleep.
The cause is a toss between shingles of the brain (which is the favourite of the doctors as it answers why more than one major nerve was effected with time) or a severe neck trauma which might have been a repetitive injury (the doctors least favourite because there has been a progression of the nerve damage)
Now when I talk I have learned to be so quick at picking up the affasia I can fool everyone to thinking that I just stammer once in a while, and they will say I speak normally.
So I am officially diagnosed with Trigeminal Neuralgia, with 1st larangeal nerve neuropathy, and sensory nerve neuropathy of the leg.( I don't limp, but please don't stick a pin in my thigh, I won't feel it)
I still take no opiats for pain (which means I can't get addicted to something really aweful)
***and if it wasn't for the meme I probably wouldn't talk about this much on here***
********I learned to find a new normal, so I am not defined by this headache********
Thursday, January 25, 2007
Now, THAT'S SNOW!
Most of us Northern Hemisphere folks tell stories of "the big snow". Each story starts the same and ends the same. The beginning goes, "When I was a kid.....", and they end, "Now, THAT"S SNOW!"
Every one of those memories explains how many inches in how many hours the snow fell. They talk about burried cars, and wearing snow mobile suits, "snow days" off from schooll, skiing, or tobogganing, or GT snow racing!
In Ontario we get about one wicked storm a winter. But the accumulations don't match the good ole days.
Now, in Newfoundland the story is soooo different. "The Rock" as we affectionately call Newfoundland gets huge accumulations of snow. This is why almost every house has a wood stove as an alternative heat source. Then like Norway the big rains wash the snow away. So Newfoundland gets cycles of snow, where in Ontario, with mostly no winter rain, we get snow build up throughout the season. Then in late April the thaw begins.
Laurie had a great Wordless Wednesday up, but her linky is on the fritz, please leave your comments for her Wordless Wednesday post here if you can't get her's to work.
(click on the photo for a link to Laurie's blog)
Wednesday, January 24, 2007
Wordless Wednesday: Our Sunday 55km road trip from Newmarket (in the countryside) to the Harbourfront Centre (a block south of the CN Tower), to end up at the Enwave Theatre to do a bit of Psychic Investigation.
On Thursday I will add some words to the photos.
and get the code
Click on the photo to make it biggerNewmarket is uphill from Toronto, so amazingly enough the top of the CN tower can be spotted from Newmarket. As we get to the freeway the land dips a bit so we can only catch the faded grey tip of it if we look at the photo from left to right: to the right of the close building and to the left of the wood telephone pole, you can see the grey hazy tip of the tower in the horizon of the chain link fence.
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