You may have to copy and paste this link into your browser to get it to work, I'm having problems with the linking button, but this is the nicest video anyone could ever have sent me to cheer me up while I was down. :) :) Keep in mind that I am the world's hugest Barry Manilow fan ;)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ul-djevrA30&feature=related
( I think it's more the thought of this person searching for that online for me that amuses me more than anything! lol)
D.
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Jinxy
So I totally jinxed myself last week when I talked about how good I was feeling on here. On the weekend I was walking along at the mall normally and snap! Broken ankle and foot. I had a good run, it's been two years since my last fracture, but it's small consolation really. I was really worried I was going to lose my job over it...I have to drive to Stoney Creek and Ancaster to teach...but tadah! Mike is my hero: I put him on my insurance yesterday, and he picked up my car today: he's going to drive me to and from my various music studios and then go to and from his, which is very out of the way, in Dundas. I think he's the best person in the world.
I go to the fracture clinic this Thursday for my cast; it's splinted at the moment. And I'm in a wheelchair again indefinitely.
I'm really noticing how NOT wheelchair accessible my supposedly wheelchair accessible unit I live in is. I can't reach the cupboards at all, barely reach the sinks, the stove burners are slanted and dump hot pots in my lap, and I can't get back in the house when I go out..although there is a wheelchair ramp, there is a two inch ledge in the doorway which makes it impossible for me to get back in once I'm out...I was trapped out there this morning until Mike came back from the library for me. (yes, he does errands too! Do his merits never end?? Don't even get me goin'!:D)
This is my 19th ankle fracture and I think in overall fractures I'm in the 50's now. It really burns my ass that this probably could have been avoided if the government would have agreed to my request back in January to have the treatment of Aclasta, which is supposed to significantly reduce fractures in people with Osteogenesis Imperfecta (OI). It's $750 dollars for one treatment for 15 minutes through an IV once a year. I can't afford it, being a single mom primarily on disability. *sigh*
So here we go again.
I had a mild pity party this morning when I was having a really hard time cleaning up...read: impossible. I had a little cry and feel ashamed now because I know how much worse off many people are and I have no right to feel sorry for myself really.
In other better news, Matt Good is touring again this fall for his new CD and will be in Hamilton in December. No groupie-ing for me this time with the bum leg/wheelchair unfortunately, but I will see him in Hamilton at least even if I have to crawl there. :)
Multiple fracturally,
D.
I go to the fracture clinic this Thursday for my cast; it's splinted at the moment. And I'm in a wheelchair again indefinitely.
I'm really noticing how NOT wheelchair accessible my supposedly wheelchair accessible unit I live in is. I can't reach the cupboards at all, barely reach the sinks, the stove burners are slanted and dump hot pots in my lap, and I can't get back in the house when I go out..although there is a wheelchair ramp, there is a two inch ledge in the doorway which makes it impossible for me to get back in once I'm out...I was trapped out there this morning until Mike came back from the library for me. (yes, he does errands too! Do his merits never end?? Don't even get me goin'!:D)
This is my 19th ankle fracture and I think in overall fractures I'm in the 50's now. It really burns my ass that this probably could have been avoided if the government would have agreed to my request back in January to have the treatment of Aclasta, which is supposed to significantly reduce fractures in people with Osteogenesis Imperfecta (OI). It's $750 dollars for one treatment for 15 minutes through an IV once a year. I can't afford it, being a single mom primarily on disability. *sigh*
So here we go again.
I had a mild pity party this morning when I was having a really hard time cleaning up...read: impossible. I had a little cry and feel ashamed now because I know how much worse off many people are and I have no right to feel sorry for myself really.
In other better news, Matt Good is touring again this fall for his new CD and will be in Hamilton in December. No groupie-ing for me this time with the bum leg/wheelchair unfortunately, but I will see him in Hamilton at least even if I have to crawl there. :)
Multiple fracturally,
D.
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Deb the Fool
I had such a great day yesterday. Well, until I had to go for a really boring meeting at work with rules and regulations drilled into my head for two and a half straight hours! ha
Before that, I took the painting down to Mike's, he made tea, then we went down to the bayfront and walked and talked and sat on the patio down there for a couple hours. It was really nice. Wish I hadn't had to leave so soon to go to work. He really liked the painting and said it cheered him up some. His wedding was supposed to have been on Saturday, so it's been really rough on him, poor guy. I wish he wasn't so upset/heartbroken and I kinda wish I didn't care that he is so much.
My friend April thinks I should do my associate degree in music pedagogy...I'm thinking about it, but man, sooooo much work involved in that. She thinks I'll have that many more private students if I have the "letters" after my name. We shall see.
I went off my pain patch a week ago and I'm doing REALLY well so far. I feel better than I've felt in a very long time (*knock wood*) and I hope it lasts. Forever, ideally! :)
Back to school/work for Braden and I today. Think I'll remember all those rules?? hahahaha
D.
Before that, I took the painting down to Mike's, he made tea, then we went down to the bayfront and walked and talked and sat on the patio down there for a couple hours. It was really nice. Wish I hadn't had to leave so soon to go to work. He really liked the painting and said it cheered him up some. His wedding was supposed to have been on Saturday, so it's been really rough on him, poor guy. I wish he wasn't so upset/heartbroken and I kinda wish I didn't care that he is so much.
My friend April thinks I should do my associate degree in music pedagogy...I'm thinking about it, but man, sooooo much work involved in that. She thinks I'll have that many more private students if I have the "letters" after my name. We shall see.
I went off my pain patch a week ago and I'm doing REALLY well so far. I feel better than I've felt in a very long time (*knock wood*) and I hope it lasts. Forever, ideally! :)
Back to school/work for Braden and I today. Think I'll remember all those rules?? hahahaha
D.
Sunday, September 6, 2009
That ever so elusive bluebird of happiness
So my computer's been broken, but I'm blogging now, so there.
Been doing pretty much the same old...teaching here and there (it's slow in the summer) and summer kind of stuff, as far as you can when in chronic pain, anyway.
I had the temp. spinal surgery again two weeks ago so I'm doing pretty well at the moment, I even went off my pain patch a few days ago just to prove to myself I'm not dependent on that shit. It's been rough, but I'm going to try and stay off it until the pain gets too much to stand again. :)
Braden's been working for his dad (my ex husband) the last couple weeks and did really well, apparently. It was really hard physical labour, industrial roofing. Alex tried it too, but well....it's Alex we're talking about here, and apparently he was taking 75 minute shits 3 times a day so was "let go" after 4 days. Laziest. Person. Ever. That's all I'm saying about it, and thank god he lives with Amanda now, and not here or I would have to strangle him.
Mike's been really depressed and withdrawn (his fiancee left him a few months ago out of the blue, and he's really worried about losing his house and is just really sad over it, poor guy.) We kinda had words the other day. (that is what we do) I feel bad for him though and tonight I was figuring out what I could do to cheer him up (and NO, not THAT O_o) so I decided to paint him "the bluebird of happiness." Yeah, I'm a sap. Shut up. It actually turned out pretty well, hopefully I'll give it to him tomorrow. He's always liked my paintings and strangely, I've never done one for him before, even though he's my oldest and best friend.
Back to school for Braden in two days, and back to work for moi.
:)
Talk soon
D.
Been doing pretty much the same old...teaching here and there (it's slow in the summer) and summer kind of stuff, as far as you can when in chronic pain, anyway.
I had the temp. spinal surgery again two weeks ago so I'm doing pretty well at the moment, I even went off my pain patch a few days ago just to prove to myself I'm not dependent on that shit. It's been rough, but I'm going to try and stay off it until the pain gets too much to stand again. :)
Braden's been working for his dad (my ex husband) the last couple weeks and did really well, apparently. It was really hard physical labour, industrial roofing. Alex tried it too, but well....it's Alex we're talking about here, and apparently he was taking 75 minute shits 3 times a day so was "let go" after 4 days. Laziest. Person. Ever. That's all I'm saying about it, and thank god he lives with Amanda now, and not here or I would have to strangle him.
Mike's been really depressed and withdrawn (his fiancee left him a few months ago out of the blue, and he's really worried about losing his house and is just really sad over it, poor guy.) We kinda had words the other day. (that is what we do) I feel bad for him though and tonight I was figuring out what I could do to cheer him up (and NO, not THAT O_o) so I decided to paint him "the bluebird of happiness." Yeah, I'm a sap. Shut up. It actually turned out pretty well, hopefully I'll give it to him tomorrow. He's always liked my paintings and strangely, I've never done one for him before, even though he's my oldest and best friend.
Back to school for Braden in two days, and back to work for moi.
:)
Talk soon
D.
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