Life can be a Pain

[Shaz51]

Hello @Former-Member, @Owlunar@Sophia1, @Appleblossom

I am off to bed, soooo tired xxxx hope you have a good sleep tonight my friends xxxx 

[Owlunar]

Hi @Sophia1

I have been feeling much better this week - hopefully I am doing well now that the list of anniversaries and birthdays are over - I had the anniversary of my son's funeral on - ah - Sunday and that was a weird day - [nobody told me there'd be days like this] but I have had similar before and the thing is I know I can sit them out even though it is a total waste of a days in many ways - over for this year thank God for that

I have been creative in cooking for one and I still invent things - I do have frozen food in my freezer but if I cook something I am not likely to freeze it - I might eat what's left over the next day unless it's fish - I throw everything I have cooked or opened out on the third day just as you do - I consider it worse than wasted if it makes me sick - three days is long in enough in my opinion. We have a good idea in common I believe

Life is forever changing and we are obliged to get used to it and long ago I did - it is a strange thing to have strangers come into my home and clean it - time and time again - there are some people who do a terrific job and they could stay for a while but no - they do move on and there are others I wonder why they are employed in the industry - the last problem was my regular shopping driver who interupted me constantly last time - I started to wonder if it was worth saying anything myself and maybe I will grow a dome of silence the next time she attends - but then - I never know - she may never come again - I never know

I can accept all of this but it does give me a strange sense of de ja vu at times and I have had so many people in my life helping me out I have developed a weird sense of humour over it - a sort of private Downton Abbey - ah yes - I see life as a soap operater luckily. And that's enough

I know I am doing okay - sometimes better than others but I am not in any danger - I am able to ride myself out - I have lived long enough to know there is nothing better than going to bed with a good book to survive the really hard parts and it can be at any hour and can last as long as necessary - I have lots of books

I'll catch up later

Dec

[Owlunar]

Hi @Former-Member

I have been in and posted to you - under another user name - Decadian5 - that's when I was using my phone - now owl-pics I guess - 

I dunno how I found my way to use my phone and I don't know if it will last but Decadian5 really is me

How do I manage with my back pain - I have to I guess but there are days when I spend most of it sitting with my wheat pack between me and the chair. More so though - I do have the appropriate medication - I go to a pain clinic every 6 months and I have a new pain specialist who prefers to leave things alone if they are stable.

Annually I am worse in winter and there are times when I over-do - but over time being stable means that things are a bit harder in winter than they are when the weather is so as brutal as the weather can be in winter in Melbourne - during the rest of the year I can have bad spells but life is easier. I am used to it now after all these years but also - it is a different way of life - had I not injured my spine I would not have retired so early and I can't really imagine how different things might have been but I don't think about that now - l have had more than one drastic and unexepected life change - 

As have you - I guess we would all like life to remain steady at times but things happen and life changes - we both know that - after a long time I realised change is a part of life - sometimes unpleasant

I didn't know you had a buyer for your house - maybe you need to put your Dad into respite care while you deal with your own house which you decided to sell before all of this happened - I guess that won't be easy because this will be your home now until you can buy or rent something closer to your Dad

Decisions decisions - dontcha just luv em

I'll try and catch you on the declutter thread

Dec

[Former-Member]

Thanks @Owlunar, you're doing great. Amazing actually. Hoping a rest will ease my back tonight. Dr said a neck injury can give concussion symptoms - didn't know that. Anyway, poor dad had a fall tonight so hope he isn't too stiff & sore tomorrow (forgot his walking stick).  Home is where I'm staying. Don't feel I belong there anymore, so empty without the kidz or family  200+ km away, its time to sell. I don't know what I'll do after here. Its all so pointless living for yaself. 

I just had a post removed because they thin the pic might be targeting someone. Wish I could remember what the pic was lol. Don't know why they can't leave the post and just not approve the picture. Stupid technology when ya need it. 

Good night @Owlunar  sleep well xox

[Owlunar]

Hi @Former-Member@Shaz51@Sophia1@Appleblossom@outlander

I saw the podiatrist yesterday and he cleaned up the damaged skin and hooked nail in my toe and the infection has settled so I don't need to take anymore antibiotics - that was the hard part of the episode - and I need to go back in a couple of months

The place where he practises is like a sports clinic - I went to a gym for a short time and it was overpowering - this time I am just taking my toenails in - I get 5 medicare visits a year and hardly feel like going anywhere and paying that much of the fee for getting my toenails cut but he did that while I was there

It was certainly worth going - and not having a toenail operated on again - strange but I have ingrown toenails off and on all my life

Anyway - I can plan my trip now - I have been putting it off because I didn't know what was going to happen and now I am just going for maintenance. 

It's been a wonderful day in Melbourne for the first day of August - it was so glorious I thought winter was actually over then realised we still have a month to go - the thing is I said it out loud to some one else - I was so enthuastic - silly me

Dec

[Sophia1]

@Owlunar

a huge relief to have your toenail sorted...

planning for a trip is exciting...

please tag me in for your travel plans ...

take care

[Owlunar]

Oh yes @Sophia1

It's a huge relief

Just getting the hard skin and hooked nail taken out and not having to have a minor operation and stopping antibiotics - and on-going foot care on Medicare - which does seem a little odd to me but still

I am planning to fly to Brisbane and then taking a couple of bus tours - the last time I went away I was planning to see elderly relatives and I didn't know if they would be available so I didn't book any tours - seeing my rellies was more important and it was really worth it to spend an afternoon with them

I am hoping to go for a tour up to the Glasshouse Mountains - I have wanted to see them all my life after reading about a miraculous rescue after a plane crash in the bush - I don't know- I can't find anything about the plane crash on the internet though one source of info might be in one of the Readers we had in Primary School.

Also I might go to Hervey Bay - going up the Princes Highway in a bus feels like a good idea - I will have to make sure my daughter is okay to care for Companion Cat for a few days - the cat is fine by herself for a few days - she sleeps nearly all the time but she can be cross when I get home - my daughter or my grand-daughter check on the cat so this is always handy

I have to get onto my agent then - this I can do on the phone - I will probably go at the end of the month to give myself plenty of time to have my favourite seat on the plane -  1A - plenty of room to stretch my long legs out - sitting in the cabin is really uncomfortable so business class is so much easier esp as this will be the longest flight I have made - I have been to all the cities near Melbourne now - time to start going further

My longer-term plan is to fly to Darwin or Perth and then take a regional plane to Broome and take another plane out over the Kimberley - I have wanted to do that for a long time

I am getting wound up - this is really cool

I will keep you tagged in - in fact I am likely to talk non-stop about it - I will take my computer with me

Dec

[Sophia1]

wonderful @Owlunar

some fabulous plans and places to see....hervey bay area is beautiful....a while now since I went there..

have not been to the Glasshouse Mountains so look forward to hearing more about them...

My longer-term plan is to fly to Darwin or Perth and then take a regional plane to Broome and take another plane out over the Kimberley - I have wanted to do that for a long time

the above trip would be magical...

wherever you go..pictures please ...without identifying you..

take care following your dreams...go for it

[outlander]

@Owlunar

[Owlunar]

Hi @Sophia1@outlander@Former-Member@Shaz51

I am still working out where to go in a few weeks - I remember I didn't like being in the middle of a big cluttered city where all I could see outside was other buildings so Brisbane is not my destination - I think I will go to Cairns

Then I might go right up to the tip of the Cape York Peninsula and just to go there for the sake of seeing the sign telling everything this is the Northern Most Place in Australia

I am enjoying all of this

And here's a picture of one of the signs

I wanna go there just because I can
I am going to talk about it with my daughter tomorrow night - she will be looking in on Companion Cat for me

And I am going to lash out and buy some bathers - there's a pool with a beach at the hotel I am planning to stay at

This is fun fun fun

Dec