It's a Little Touch And Go For Now

Yes, my sweet unknowing victims, I'm back to torture you for a few more weeks, maybe months, if I feel up to it. BWAAAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAAA! Really, I'm doing pretty good. In fact I'm feeling a bit better today considering the soreness I was experiencing yesterday. On a pain scale that I deem more accurate than the ones in the doctor's offices it was a 9. Today it's around a 3 which is liveable concerning the circumstances of chronic back pain. I'm usually a 5 or 6.

I'm guessing that I was #11 or beyond when I came out of knee surgery a year ago and the doctor forgot to put in orders for the PCA pump. I remember screaming for David to get me a gun so I could shoot myself. It was really that bad. I think I scared the nurses shitless that day.

Lucy, my nurse

Yesterday David hired this cute little nurse to take care of me while he was at work. Only problem with that was she talked with a foreign accent, which I just couldn't make sense of, and she fell asleep on the job too many times. She also had bad breath. I called David and told him the nurse he hired wasn't doing her job. He said she was under contract and there was a thing about her labor union and that we couldn't do anything about it. So I had to endure her snuggles and loves. At least she knew not to jump on the bed. She sensed I was hurting. Sweet little baby girl. She just loves her mama.

Monday is the solstice and I'm hoping to be able to get around without any pain. I made a pretty autumn wreath with orange and yellow mums and I have orange and some white candles set out. I'm making an apple spice cake Sunday morning and then David is taking me out to dinner. But it all depends on how I feel.

The Power Plant in Seguin

Two Sundays ago we went out for lunch at The Power Plant. They have great food and the view of the river is wonderful. There is an old turbine to the left when you enter. Indoor and outdoor dining. It's so cool! Only I couldn't enjoy it because I was in so much pain. I couldn't even sit or eat. I had no appetite at all. We had to cut short the lunch and get doggy bags. I asked David if we could go back this Sunday if I feel okay. He wants to go back too. We will see.

I'm back

Okay I'm back as you can see. I had thoughts of quitting this blogging thingy so many times the past week and a half, but I got bored again. So I'm back. Yay.

These turned orange this morning, will be ripe by tomorrow- big as my hand

Lots of things have happened. We have had so much fantastic rain that veggies are coming out the wazoo. David can't believe how many BIG tomatoes that are ripening, and the cucumbers too. He counted 23 tomatoes on one bush yesterday and five of them will be ripe by tomorrow. Yes! That fast. Think I'll be canning a bit this coming weekend for sure. David is just going crazy with this mini farming thing. Last year we had the tomato plants in pots in the courtyard and he was excited when he got his first tomato. We only harvested three off that one tomato plant. So you can see why he's all crazy about this idea about having above ground planting beds.

A cucumber I picked for our salad last night

Everything is so green that it hurts your eyes. I love it! Check out the front yard pics I took last week.

front side of the yard with morning glories and pecan tree which is full of  green pecans now

front left front of yard with roses, gardenia, geraniums and part of the porch

White Texas Wisteria climbing up the front of the house over the living room window.
Keeps the front rooms cool in the summer. In the green planter hanging are two begonias that are supposed to hate the sun, go figure. They like it fine.

Front right of porch with roses, gardenia, and geraniums

Tiger Cannas in pot on the left actually bloomed this morning. The Cannas on the right next to the Mock Orange tree bloomed last week when I took this picture, is still in bloom in the courtyard.

Cannas bloom up close and personal

miniature roses I keep outside next to the back door in the courtyard

Pink miniature roses in courtyard

My red and pink geraniums and small pink flowers of the begonia in the back.
Taken on my front porch

 more pink and red geraniums from the front porch

As you can see, so much green it hurts your eyes. If it weren't for the occasional flower I'd go blind.

I'm Back In The Saddle Again - For Now

Well I'm back to torturer the shit out of everybody. I missed You all it so much.. So everyone tell me what you did over the summer; not all at once please. It can get very annoying listening to all the voices besides the ones that pay rent for brain space.

As for me, I'm not so sure but there might be a problem with the surgical cement they shoved up my leg. My Immuno doctor said it feels like it didn't set right. RED FLAG ALERT!!! RED FLAG ALERT!!!  Yes I have that sick queasy feeling things are going wrong again. Already I wished I had opted for the joint injections because I know I ain't gonna walk right ever again. But what the hell. Hindsight is 20/20 as they say.

I am walking but it's with the walker and it's only to the bathroom. I like to take the sightseeing tour around the house when David isn't home I can. Speaking of ol' Nurse Ratched, I have been teaching him how to cook. YES!!! You heard me, he's cooking dinner instead of hitting the local Jack'in the Crack. Our phones have a pager system the allows us to talk to each other in a civil tone instead of me throwing furniture into the hallway to get his attention when I need my pain meds.

Anywho, I am teaching him to cook via speaker phone. It's a nice feature he found out about in the directions we keep on file. The man keeps everything just for this purpose. I started off with a simple spaghetti sauce. Then I got him to make a hash with diced potatoes, fried hamburger and corn. He made Taco casserole last night and also spaghetti with meatballs that was to die for! I lost 30 pounds since not being able to cook, etc... and now I'm gaining it all back. SHIT!! I was doing damned good too. I'm so pissed.

Oh yes, not to forget the puppies. Every 2 hours I have to let them out to do their thing, which is terrorizing the neighborhood. They found out we have new neighbors and they have a couple of BIG puppies. Both ours and our neighbor's dogs take to jawin at each other through the fence until they get thirsty and nearly dying and in great need of water or forget where they live or fall down from lack of oxygen from all the barking. It's very hard for me to get them back into the house sometimes. So I have to threaten them. It works most of the time but they're getting wise to me because they know I won't "beat them within an inch of their lives". Smart little shits. So I just wait and little by little the heat  gets to them and they want to come back in.

David has fixed a little bed for them to sleep on in the bedroom. Lucy is my nurse. She loves to sleep next to me in bed. Pebbles does the same. Spunky thinks everything is his so he has taken over the dog bed.

I'd like to chew the fat more with y'all but my Home Health Nurse is getting out of her car now. so ta ta for now my loves.