TGIThursday!

[Greenguy]

Morning

I'm going to try to describe the emotional & physical roller coaster I was on yesterday:

The day started out GREAT! I even commented to The Bitch about how my mood was just fucking FANTASTIC! Of course, once I said that, it was all downhill

1 - I went to take a shower & The Bitch forgot to tell me that she sprayed the entire shower with one of those spray-and-forget cleaners. She also accidentally put the shower mat back upside-down. So as I step into the shower, my left foot hits the mat & the foot & mat instantly slide to the back of the shower, causing me to do a split that Olympic gymnasts can only dream of. Yuppers! For the 1st time since high school, I pulled my groin...badly.

2 - From there I went to Aqua Therapy, which, as usual, just caused an intense amount of pain in my lower back - and the pulled groin didn't help matters.

3 - Next stop was my doctor & I had a very rare, very intense session with him.

4 - We then stopped home for 30 min & I applied my new increased dosage of testosterone gel. I instantly became sick to my stomach & felt like I was gonna vomit.

5 - We then went to a doctor's appt together, which was another emotional roller coaster.

6 - We stopped to pick up a vacuum cleaner we dropped off a couple weeks ago, only to be told by the guy that I picked it up last week?! I don't drive! This place is a good 30 min from my house! The fucker finally figured out that he gave my Dyson (one of those uber expensive fancy yellow ones) so someone else - and without having them sign for it!

7 - We get home just in time to meet with our financial guy, and while we were going over the numbers of what we had, have, and need, that's when I fucking lost it. It's a good thing he's also a good friend, because it would have been really embarrassing to basically weep about our financial problems in front of a stranger.

8 - And, to top off my wonderful clusterfuck of a day, my Mom asks me "Why are you so mad at me?" I told her that, if we got into it right then & there, it'd end with her moving out.

Typing all that out was very helpful & I'm getting a little choked up about it just re-reading everything. I was VERY close to not posting it at all, but it's here in the box, so I might as well "Submit New Thread"

So, what's new with you?

[HowlingWulf]

Greenie you're making me worried man.

[Ramster]

Good morning.

Greenie, I must say point 1 did make me chuckle a bit. If I did that my wife would accuse me of doing it on purpose to her, lol. The rest of your story not so funny though, what a shit day.

[Greenguy]

Originally Posted by HowlingWulf

Greenie you're making me worried man.

That's why I see various doctors on a regular basis. And I take meds...a lot of meds

[Cleo]

Must have been something in the air yesterday. Christy and I ended up pretty upset with each other by the end of the day. I thought that we had agreed that if it was cold and windy last night we would skip kayaking and instead order a pizza and stay home watching TV. SInce there were 20 mph winds and the temps were going down in the forties I skipped eating since she was bringing home a pizza, or at least that was what I thought.

Christy gets home and is hell bent of going kayaking despite the lousy weather. So against my bitching and being really hungry we go kayaking anyway. We get about two miles from the launch site and my foot on my bad leg goes completely numb and I can't move it anymore. I freaked out thinking that I've gotten another clot in my leg so we turn around . Nothing more embarrassing than having to tell the group that I can't make it the rest of the trip and Christy gets pissed off at me convinced that I'm faking it.

We get back to the car, by this time my leg is hurting like hell and my foot will no longer work at all. Sat in the car with the heat blasting and after about 30 minutes my leg started recovering although it is still not completely better.

Did some Googling about cold and blood clots and found this.

It has recently become clear that the shutting down of blood flow to the skin, which is the normal first defence against cold, can explain some of the large numbers of deaths that are associated with cold weather. The blood volume has to be reduced to prevent the blood that was displaced from the skin from overloading the circulation; fluid is accordingly lost from the blood to the tissues, which removes the excess volume but leaves the blood more concentrated and therefore more liable to clot.

Seems I need to be really careful about making sure my bad leg stays warm, like not going kayaking in forty degree weather since I don't really own anything warm since it hardly ever gets cold here.

Work, laundry and more work is my plans for today while keeping my leg elevated and warm.

[Simon]

Originally Posted by Greenie

I went to take a shower & The Bitch forgot to tell me that she sprayed the entire shower with one of those spray-and-forget cleaners. She also accidentally put the shower mat back upside-down. So as I step into the shower, my left foot hits the mat & the foot & mat instantly slide to the back of the shower, causing me to do a split that Olympic gymnasts can only dream of. Yuppers! For the 1st time since high school, I pulled my groin...badly.

Good morning world

Yesterday the person who was supposed to contact me the day before yesterday to fulfill an obligation did not contact me, again. So now I'm into the third day of what was a two-day disappointment about humans who don't act responsibly. And I'm not pleased about that.

Aside from that yesterday was mostly average.

But I will share a shower story from last month.

This one is about how my cat may have actually saved my life.

For some reason Shadow Cat likes to sit on the lid of the commode and wait for me to come out of the shower. Usually I leave the lid and the seat up, but I put them down before I get in the shower since I don't want to have to dry off a pissed off cat who jumped up on a seat that wasn't there. Not again anyway.

So on the day of the story, I finish showering and I pick up the shower mat to stick it on the tiled wall of the shower to drip dry. I don't notice that the shower curtain rod has slipped down several inches, lowering the curtain down onto the floor of the tub. I haven't rinsed off the curtain yet so it's a bit slick with cast off soap. I take a step back and my foot is on the slick curtain instead of the tub floor. It slips off and I try to catch my balance but my other foot hits the slick curtain too. I wind up tumbling backwards over the side of the tub with my feet up in the air and the back of my head slams into the edge of the commode.

The good news is that instead of striking hard, unyielding porcelain, my head hits the soft plastic lid over the soft plastic seat. Both of which are only down because my cat likes to jump up there when I'm in the shower. My head still got rocked pretty good, and I had a nice lump for about a week. But nothing like what could have happened if I'd hit hard porcelain the way I fell.

So, basically, my may have saved my life.

Hope my story brightens your day a little.



P.S. Yes, she got some rewards and was a

[ArtWilliams]

Greenie, I often ask myself how you do it. My heart goes out to you.

[JustRobert]

Good Morning
I've been feeling it come on and sure enough, I am sick. Thankfully I do not need to deal with out of town family since they are going to be busy with others the rest of the week. The good and bad is that our trip to Savannh next week was cancelled: good part is I hate travelling when sick, bad part is I was really looking forward to getting away using the time to think about things.

Greenie,
The shower mat situation was similar to mine. Wife usually cleans shower and mat before taking a shower making sure the mat is stuck to the floor. This time she had to do some other stuff before taking a shower so she put down the mat and thought she got it stuck good. I go step in and slip, thankfully I caught the upper railing of the shower door unfortunately my lower back did not like it at all. You probably don't remember but that was the day before the last time we flew up to visit Emerald, Bluebrit, you and your lovely wife. I flew to Canada with a heating pad wrap and spent the first two days there this way. Thankfully my back had loosened up before we all came to see you two. Your back was giving you a lot of problems at that time and only to add insult to injury the restaurant served you a hockey puck insted of steak. Kinda funny now, not so much back then

Cleo, looks like you will not be moving to colder climates anytime soon. Thankfully you found out this prior to visiting Greenie during the winter time.