My gramma is in the hospital.
She went to the doctor yesterday cuz she was having trouble breathing. They took some x-rays and said she should go to the hospital. The decided to admit her. I don't even know what's wrong. It could be that she had too much fluid in her lungs, but if that was the case they could've just drained it and sent her home the same day. It could also be a problem with her heart.
I'm a little worried.
Tuesday, February 28, 2006
Wednesday, February 15, 2006
Godsmack
New album in stores 4/25/06
Listen to one of their new songs, "Speak".
http://www.purevolume.com/godsmack
Listen to one of their new songs, "Speak".
http://www.purevolume.com/godsmack
Wednesday, February 08, 2006
Four posts in one day
That's what I get for staying up so late.
After some very introspective thinking I've decided that some things need to change. I have a very bad tendency, though, to look at all the things I need to change and try to change them at once, but I never get anywhere because I get so overwhelmed and it all seems impossible. So, upon the very good advice of an aquaintance (dare I say friend?) of mine, I'm going to make a concerted effort to only work on one thing at a time (sort of). I say sort of because I recently started working out again. I'm doing weight lifting, which I've always loved, but I'm also doing some exercise videos. Yeah, yeah laugh. Those of you that know me will probably still be snickering at the thought of me doing an organized work-out video, but...um...you know what? You can bite me cuz I walked 2 miles this morning without having to leave the warmth of my own livingroom. So there. Thbbbtt
But, in addition to that, the "one thing" I'm going to focus on is getting a job again. I've applied at various places around here, but so far nada. But, instead of letting myself get discouraged, I'm gonna keep trying. I'll just have to broaden the scope of what I'm willing to do, excluding fast food...and Dairy Queen. If you ask why not Dairy Queen, then you need more help than I do.
I've learned something about myself. Well, actually I've learned quite a few things, but the one I'm talking about is that I have quite a bit of patience when it comes to others (except when they're acting with extreme stupidity and a lack of common sense), but that I'm really, really hard on myself and have no patience whatsoever with my own shortcomings. That needs to change. If it doesn't, well, that's not gonna be an option. It needs to change so it's gonna.
More wise advice from the Sage I spoke of earlier is that I need to accept the situation I'm in. I need to decide to decide where I want to be a work towards it; one thing at a time.
I made a comment that I needed to find someone to keep me in line, but then I thought about it and, as he sent the message (yahoo im) that I need to be that person, I sent a message saying that I can't expect someone else to keep me in line if I can't do that for myself first. I had to grin at that.
Now, my own spin on the accepting my situation is that, yes, I have to accept it, but I don't have to like it. I can't get complacent and give up and stay stuck where I am.
I could say a lot more, but I'm starting to dry heave with all this self-discovery mumbo jumbo. It's good, but in small doses.
I'll leave you with this, though. I think that possibly the best piece of advice was this: "progress is a good thing, but go easy on yourself, fast change usually doesn't stick as well as slow change."
Peace out
After some very introspective thinking I've decided that some things need to change. I have a very bad tendency, though, to look at all the things I need to change and try to change them at once, but I never get anywhere because I get so overwhelmed and it all seems impossible. So, upon the very good advice of an aquaintance (dare I say friend?) of mine, I'm going to make a concerted effort to only work on one thing at a time (sort of). I say sort of because I recently started working out again. I'm doing weight lifting, which I've always loved, but I'm also doing some exercise videos. Yeah, yeah laugh. Those of you that know me will probably still be snickering at the thought of me doing an organized work-out video, but...um...you know what? You can bite me cuz I walked 2 miles this morning without having to leave the warmth of my own livingroom. So there. Thbbbtt
But, in addition to that, the "one thing" I'm going to focus on is getting a job again. I've applied at various places around here, but so far nada. But, instead of letting myself get discouraged, I'm gonna keep trying. I'll just have to broaden the scope of what I'm willing to do, excluding fast food...and Dairy Queen. If you ask why not Dairy Queen, then you need more help than I do.
I've learned something about myself. Well, actually I've learned quite a few things, but the one I'm talking about is that I have quite a bit of patience when it comes to others (except when they're acting with extreme stupidity and a lack of common sense), but that I'm really, really hard on myself and have no patience whatsoever with my own shortcomings. That needs to change. If it doesn't, well, that's not gonna be an option. It needs to change so it's gonna.
More wise advice from the Sage I spoke of earlier is that I need to accept the situation I'm in. I need to decide to decide where I want to be a work towards it; one thing at a time.
I made a comment that I needed to find someone to keep me in line, but then I thought about it and, as he sent the message (yahoo im) that I need to be that person, I sent a message saying that I can't expect someone else to keep me in line if I can't do that for myself first. I had to grin at that.
Now, my own spin on the accepting my situation is that, yes, I have to accept it, but I don't have to like it. I can't get complacent and give up and stay stuck where I am.
I could say a lot more, but I'm starting to dry heave with all this self-discovery mumbo jumbo. It's good, but in small doses.
I'll leave you with this, though. I think that possibly the best piece of advice was this: "progress is a good thing, but go easy on yourself, fast change usually doesn't stick as well as slow change."
Peace out
Why in the hell am I still awake?!? Sometimes I really despise insomnia. That's all it started out as, but by 3:30 in the freakin' a.m. I wasn't about to try and go to sleep only to get up at 6:15 to get my brother off to school. Yeah, I could've gotten maybe three hours of sleep, but at 3:30 I wasn't even close to tired yet. Now? I'm f'in exhausted. Physically I am anyway. My eyes feel like I scrubbed 'em with sandpaper and my body aches. God I hope I'm not getting sick!
On a side note, kinda, the reason I'm getting my brother up in the first place is cuz my mom has been sick. She's had a fever of between 100 and 103 since early Tuesday morning. Don't misiterpret, I don't resent that she's sick. It's just the reason I'm staying up to get my brother up, why I hope I don't get sick, too, and why I didn't enjoy this bout of insomnia as much as I would've if she'd been sleeping in her room instead of on the couch.
Oh well. Whatever. I got some reading done on Nietzsche (no I'm not smart) and some long overdue emails sent out.
Maybe I'll try to sleep a couple hours after I get the little nose-miner off to school.
*Screams incoherently then slinks away into the darkest corner of the room*
On a side note, kinda, the reason I'm getting my brother up in the first place is cuz my mom has been sick. She's had a fever of between 100 and 103 since early Tuesday morning. Don't misiterpret, I don't resent that she's sick. It's just the reason I'm staying up to get my brother up, why I hope I don't get sick, too, and why I didn't enjoy this bout of insomnia as much as I would've if she'd been sleeping in her room instead of on the couch.
Oh well. Whatever. I got some reading done on Nietzsche (no I'm not smart) and some long overdue emails sent out.
Maybe I'll try to sleep a couple hours after I get the little nose-miner off to school.
*Screams incoherently then slinks away into the darkest corner of the room*
By the by...
I passed my last kidney stone on Sunday. I think I passed a total of four stones. Don't get me wrong, I like pain, but only if there's a safe word attached to it. ;-)
God bless percoset!
God bless percoset!
Wednesday, February 01, 2006
PAIN!!!
I hate kidney stones!!
I woke up at about 8:30 this morning with searing pain in my left kidney. Every time that I've had a kidney stone it's been in my right kidney so this was rather unexpected. And, of course, I was out of the percoset they gave me last time. I was able to take some of my mom's Tylonol 4 (Tylonol with 90mg of codeine). It helped a little bit. Y'know how people sometimes say that "such and such" took the edge off the pain? Well, this didn't even take the whole edge off if that makes any sense. It very slightly dulled it a little bit.
I called my clinic and it turned out that since percoset is a narcotic pain killer, the script had to be picked up in person at the clinic and couldn't be called in to the pharmacy. So, thankfully, my mom was able to leave work at 11am (instead of 3pm), picked up my prescription, and got home by noon. By about 1:00 I was blissfully unaware of anything. My kidney still hurt, but most of the time I was dozed off. I'm sure it was partly due to the medication and partly because being in intense pain for most of the day takes a lot of energy.
I'm still in pain, but it's not too bad. I'm just hoping this thing passes on its own. I don't have insurance so if I have to go in for an ultrasound and, if it's too big, possibly surgery or something else, I'd rather have the stone kill me.
I think I'm gonna go to bed really early tonight.
Oh, and even though I'm sure you don't wanna know, in addition to the intense pain (or caused by it) I was extremely nauseous all day. I threw up three times, five if you count the two times that, after I threw up once, there was about a two minute break and then I threw up again.
I woke up at about 8:30 this morning with searing pain in my left kidney. Every time that I've had a kidney stone it's been in my right kidney so this was rather unexpected. And, of course, I was out of the percoset they gave me last time. I was able to take some of my mom's Tylonol 4 (Tylonol with 90mg of codeine). It helped a little bit. Y'know how people sometimes say that "such and such" took the edge off the pain? Well, this didn't even take the whole edge off if that makes any sense. It very slightly dulled it a little bit.
I called my clinic and it turned out that since percoset is a narcotic pain killer, the script had to be picked up in person at the clinic and couldn't be called in to the pharmacy. So, thankfully, my mom was able to leave work at 11am (instead of 3pm), picked up my prescription, and got home by noon. By about 1:00 I was blissfully unaware of anything. My kidney still hurt, but most of the time I was dozed off. I'm sure it was partly due to the medication and partly because being in intense pain for most of the day takes a lot of energy.
I'm still in pain, but it's not too bad. I'm just hoping this thing passes on its own. I don't have insurance so if I have to go in for an ultrasound and, if it's too big, possibly surgery or something else, I'd rather have the stone kill me.
I think I'm gonna go to bed really early tonight.
Oh, and even though I'm sure you don't wanna know, in addition to the intense pain (or caused by it) I was extremely nauseous all day. I threw up three times, five if you count the two times that, after I threw up once, there was about a two minute break and then I threw up again.
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