Don't really know how to describe what has been ailing me. It's not unlike a cold which I suppose it is really. It started a week ago with that little feeling in the throat that is different from anything else. You know you are getting sick. I grab the Zicam which promises to shorten the duration of a cold if taken at the onset. Well, this is the onset.
Most colds I have start with a stuffy nose and move down into the chest and some start in the chest and end of in the nose but all come with sore throats, chest congestion, coughing, sneezing, stopped up noses and mucous. Sometimes I think my body is a mucous factory.
This illness didn't seem like it was going to last long and I was ready to sing Zicams praises. Two days of a slight tightness in the chest, coughing, a few sneezes, and then the nasal congestion, and the fifth day I seemed like I was almost well. Then the night coughing and the mucous came, I seem to be okay for hours then suddenly my nasal passages turn into faucets running with this thick gel like substance. It's stuck in your chest, clogs your throat, fills your sinus cavities to the brink of bursting and makes one think that putting a bullet into your brain isn't such a bad idea and then finally it seems to be almost gone but not entirely. A couple of hours later it starts all over again. There never seems to be an end although you know from experience it will one day go away.
One of the worst things about this crud is that everyone around you is suffering from it but they have all been to the doctor, some miss functions because they are "so sick" , and there is no one to give you any sympathy. In fact, everyone else believes their case of crud is worse than your case of crud.
Thursday, September 22, 2016
Monday, September 19, 2016
Chili cook-off
One Way Baptist Church of Randleman is having a Chili cook-off fundraiser. If you would like to enter a recipe, entry fees are $10.00 per recipe. If you would like to be a judge, then tickets are $5.00 each.
The event is scheduled for run from 11:30 am until 2:00 pm on Saturday October 29th.
The way this event works is you may buy advanced tickets or pay at the door. If you want to be a cook, your entry fee must be paid by October 10th. The judges pay their $5.00 fee, get their soda and fixings and then get a sample cup of chili from a cook. You can go to as many cooks as you want until you have eaten all the chili you care to. You then drop your ticket into the jar of the maker of your favorite chili. You go home full of good chili and the cook with the most tickets goes home with a nice trophy and bragging rights.
See you there!
The event is scheduled for run from 11:30 am until 2:00 pm on Saturday October 29th.
The way this event works is you may buy advanced tickets or pay at the door. If you want to be a cook, your entry fee must be paid by October 10th. The judges pay their $5.00 fee, get their soda and fixings and then get a sample cup of chili from a cook. You can go to as many cooks as you want until you have eaten all the chili you care to. You then drop your ticket into the jar of the maker of your favorite chili. You go home full of good chili and the cook with the most tickets goes home with a nice trophy and bragging rights.
See you there!
Wednesday, September 14, 2016
fruitless taljs
I chatted with my older brother, recently retired, about moving into Mom's vacant house. If he did so then the house would be maintained, the bills paid, and Mom's investment would be protected and she would be able to leave her children something. He said he liked the idea but wanted some time to mull it over.
I contacted him a week later and he said he still hadn't made a decision. Yesterday I invited him to meet with me and our brother on a Saturday and he said he would if he didn't have to work.
It's his life and if he decided to stay where he is and get a part-time job that's okay. But why leave me hanging wondering what his decision was going to be when he had already made it. I just don't see the benefit to Mom or to our relationship my just ignoring me. I just don't understand why some people are jerks and he fits my definition of one.
I contacted him a week later and he said he still hadn't made a decision. Yesterday I invited him to meet with me and our brother on a Saturday and he said he would if he didn't have to work.
It's his life and if he decided to stay where he is and get a part-time job that's okay. But why leave me hanging wondering what his decision was going to be when he had already made it. I just don't see the benefit to Mom or to our relationship my just ignoring me. I just don't understand why some people are jerks and he fits my definition of one.
Saturday, September 10, 2016
GoFundMe
When I first heard of GoFundMe I thought the page was mainly for losers who failed to plan and was just wanting others to bail them out. Now I know different. I'm sure some of the funds are for cheats and undeserving people but some are needful.
My Mom was a saver and although she didn't start work until her youngest was a senior in high school she did manage to save a lot. In the late nineties when Dad got sick with cancer she paid all of his bills out of her savings. The last year of his life she paid over $70,000.00 for medicine alone.
After his death all she had to live on was his social security and what remained of her savings. She did quite well except she never spent any of the money to take care of her house. Then the inevitable happened and she got sick. She ended up in a nursing home unable to take care of herself. Not only that but at the price it cost to stay in an assistant living home Mom would be broke in a couple of months so she had to apply for Medicaid. I did what I could with her money and remodeled her home until time ran out. She was allowed to keep her home and $2000.00.
Her social security check is $1130.00 a month. The social services charges her $30.00 a month admin fee, the nursing home charges her $880.00 a month and blue Cross charges her $260.00 a month. That totals $1190.00 a month. Of course even old people in nursing homes need things like clothes and hair care and little things like that. And of course the house has bills too: water, sewer, gas, electric, home owners insurance, and taxes--let's don't forget about taxes. So exactly where is the money to come from for this?
I live off of social security myself and I have exactly $328.00 a month I can spend on anything I want. I choose to spend most of it driving to Hickory to see Mom each week. I take her out of the nursing home and take her to her house, do her laundry, pay her bills, clean her house, then take her to lunch, then take her to get her hair done. If she needs fruit or writing pens or a special medicine she can't get through the nursing home I do that for her. I took her to her eye appointment. It cots about $30.00 a week in gas, $20.00 for our meals, and about $40.00 a month in car care. As you can see most of my money is spent on her or for her.
She won't be able to keep her house much longer as she has a negative income. She has little of value to sell and if she did sell it, then what? So I started a GoFundme page for Mom. Look it up and please help if you can.
My Mom was a saver and although she didn't start work until her youngest was a senior in high school she did manage to save a lot. In the late nineties when Dad got sick with cancer she paid all of his bills out of her savings. The last year of his life she paid over $70,000.00 for medicine alone.
After his death all she had to live on was his social security and what remained of her savings. She did quite well except she never spent any of the money to take care of her house. Then the inevitable happened and she got sick. She ended up in a nursing home unable to take care of herself. Not only that but at the price it cost to stay in an assistant living home Mom would be broke in a couple of months so she had to apply for Medicaid. I did what I could with her money and remodeled her home until time ran out. She was allowed to keep her home and $2000.00.
Her social security check is $1130.00 a month. The social services charges her $30.00 a month admin fee, the nursing home charges her $880.00 a month and blue Cross charges her $260.00 a month. That totals $1190.00 a month. Of course even old people in nursing homes need things like clothes and hair care and little things like that. And of course the house has bills too: water, sewer, gas, electric, home owners insurance, and taxes--let's don't forget about taxes. So exactly where is the money to come from for this?
I live off of social security myself and I have exactly $328.00 a month I can spend on anything I want. I choose to spend most of it driving to Hickory to see Mom each week. I take her out of the nursing home and take her to her house, do her laundry, pay her bills, clean her house, then take her to lunch, then take her to get her hair done. If she needs fruit or writing pens or a special medicine she can't get through the nursing home I do that for her. I took her to her eye appointment. It cots about $30.00 a week in gas, $20.00 for our meals, and about $40.00 a month in car care. As you can see most of my money is spent on her or for her.
She won't be able to keep her house much longer as she has a negative income. She has little of value to sell and if she did sell it, then what? So I started a GoFundme page for Mom. Look it up and please help if you can.
Wednesday, September 07, 2016
First Shot
Yesterday I started my treatment for macular degeneration with a thorough eye exam and my first shot in my eyeball. The shot itself was painless but after the numbness wears off my eye feels like an eyeball does when one gets a loose eyelash in it. Scratchy. The eye is red and the part that feels scratched is the part where the injection happened.
I take another injection in a month and will be taking them for three years. It will not be a monthly thing but on a decreasing interval so I will have 21 to 26 shots over the next 3 years, all depending on how my body recovers.
I take another injection in a month and will be taking them for three years. It will not be a monthly thing but on a decreasing interval so I will have 21 to 26 shots over the next 3 years, all depending on how my body recovers.
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