nuttiwebgal Posted October 19, 2014 Share Posted October 19, 2014 Dean has been home a couple of days and managed to fix the car...so today he took me to return some shirts from wal marts...I than proceeded to use the money to buy more wreath supplies...Christmas wreath is going to be so sweet! with a snowman for the center...of course! :thumb: than he took me to Micheals where I used my birthday gft card for even MORE wreath items....and as I was done...the dear man says...Babe.. look at these blue (AWESOME) poinsettia...sigh...next week he is going to treat me to the supplies for that wreath. completely his supply choices...I think Im addicted to them...gonna have to start selling them... to fund the making of them! :yes: we also had a bonfire and roasted dogs/brats and marshmellows...and then while the the 2 dads played guitar and drum we girls and Jaxon hula hooped tomorrow we start the costumes for school. hazzah :victory: 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kellee Posted October 19, 2014 Share Posted October 19, 2014 Nutti, there was a lady at the craft show selling those wreaths. They were beautiful. The cheapest one I seen was $85. Kellee 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Debra from Olde Cape Cod Posted October 19, 2014 Share Posted October 19, 2014 Got any craft fairs coming up? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chesterfieldzoo Posted October 19, 2014 Share Posted October 19, 2014 I am going to a craft tea party to teach someone how to crochet. I know it will be fun! The only thing I don't like about the ER is the waiting. Any time I go with anyone, it's always at least a 7 hour visit. Oh, and there is also ALWAYS some guy flashing his junk. I have better ways to spend my time and better things to look at! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nuttiwebgal Posted October 19, 2014 Share Posted October 19, 2014 I know nothing of this areas craft shows....but while I am making them for friends and family I am building my skills and stock as it were for future endeavors... we are all ready to make more hula hoops and a couple of other things for a booth....so it could happen. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kellee Posted October 19, 2014 Share Posted October 19, 2014 Deana, I was surprised, we were in the waiting area maybe 10 minutes if that before they called him back. Within 5 minutes they had numbing cream on it.. And 30 minutes in and out of X-ray. And home within 2 hours. We got there at about 9:45 am and was home by 11:30am. He's going to school in the morning, hopefully I can get him in to see the specialist tomorrow. He's in the vocational school for auto mechanics so he wont be doing any of that for a few weeks. They have his hand and arm up to his elbow in a cast ! Kellee Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KathieB Posted October 19, 2014 Share Posted October 19, 2014 Oh, Kelly! Tendons can be tricky. Good thing he called Mom right away and didn't try to man up. Here's hoping the specialist can finish the repair easily. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Debra from Olde Cape Cod Posted October 20, 2014 Share Posted October 20, 2014 When we were living on the Cape, the secret to getting into the ER quickly was to have blood coming out somewhere or having a heart attack. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chesterfieldzoo Posted October 20, 2014 Share Posted October 20, 2014 That's the ticket Debra! I went in with a bleeding cut and was sewn up and home in just over an hour. Went in with a possible heart attack and was in a cat scan within 10 minutes. Going in with non-life threatening issues - like trouble breathing or messed up meds - and you are there for the long haul. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grazhina Posted October 20, 2014 Share Posted October 20, 2014 When my daughter was 5 she woke with a fever one Sunday morning, and within a few hours she was glassy eyed and disoriented. I took her temperature and it was 104, so we took her to the ER. We didn't stay in the waiting area too long, since she was a little one with a high fever, but we were left waiting in an examining room for over 2 hours. By the time the doctor showed up my daughter's fever was gone and she was feeling quite chipper. They had no idea what could have been wrong with her. I was used to kids running high fevers, it was her being so blank eyed and disoriented that was really scary. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cheverly Posted October 20, 2014 Share Posted October 20, 2014 That would've freaked me out too, Grazhina. Very strange that it just went away, but glad it didn't turn out to be anything serious. Kelly, I hope your son recovers nicely, and soon! It is scary seeing a loved one with a lot of blood, and mentions of cut tendons don't make it any better. Or maybe I'm just extremely squeamish. This week I will be struggling to sit still at my desk without bouncing up and down. I get to visit my daughter this weekend, and then I'm going to make a short jaunt over to Houston to go to the Tom Bishop show. It's a kiddo and mini weekend! Yay!! If anyone else is going to be there let me know... I'd love to meet as many forum members as I can!! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roxxie2 Posted October 20, 2014 Share Posted October 20, 2014 I am trying to get back on track today. After a week of company, a week before that of being sick, nothing got done around here. My goal today is to make a dent in some of the chores that got put aside. I hope everyone is feeling better today! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KathieB Posted October 20, 2014 Share Posted October 20, 2014 There is a definite nip of fall in the air today and some of the oak trees are wearing their beautiful red and orange fall regalia. We're off to Columbia to the VA today. Tomorrow the siding people will be finished and we'll button up the yard for the winter. On Wednesday NJ and I will finish up the hospital doll house and have our pictures taken with it. Thursday we'll be finishing up packing up for the move south. And on Friday we head for Chicago and my niece's wedding on Saturday. Sunday visit with relatives and then on the road to New Orleans. Where has the summer gone? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chapchap73 Posted October 20, 2014 Share Posted October 20, 2014 There is a definite nip of fall in the air today and some of the oak trees are wearing their beautiful red and orange fall regalia. We're off to Columbia to the VA today. Tomorrow the siding people will be finished and we'll button up the yard for the winter. On Wednesday NJ and I will finish up the hospital doll house and have our pictures taken with it. Thursday we'll be finishing up packing up for the move south. And on Friday we head for Chicago and my niece's wedding on Saturday. Sunday visit with relatives and then on the road to New Orleans. Where has the summer gone? Kathie, I can't believe you guys are headed for New Orleans already! Seems like you just got back from there. On my plate today is laundry, followed by dusting and some more laundry :lol: 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kellee Posted October 20, 2014 Share Posted October 20, 2014 I am very squeamish ! He drove all the way home, 15 minutes, then called his dad, then me. I was just a few minutes away from home, dad was 20 minutes from home. I'm so glad he called us, and asked to go to the ER. He's always been scared of needles, and his blood pressure goes crazy when he goes to the pediatrician. But when he goes to the cardiologist, he's all happy go lucky! He loves the cardiologist !!! Lol. He had heart surgery at 6 days old. He don't remember it and counts the days down to the see the cardiologist. We went to the dr. This afternoon and we are scheduled for surgery thursday. I am so scared, and I know he is too. They want to take a look to make sure he didn't get any tendons, and get it all cleaned out to be sure. I hate the idea it seems to be exploratory but I guess that's really the only way they can be sure. Kellee Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pdlnpeabody Posted October 21, 2014 Share Posted October 21, 2014 I'm not sure if they'll put him to sleep for surgery on a finger or hand. Hopefully it will be quick and mostly painless. The 2nd time I got hit by a car on my motorcycle, the bike and I weren't too banged up, so I got a copy of the police report, got the bike back up on it's wheels, and went shopping (did the same thing the 3rd time I got hit). It was the next day that my left hand, ring and pinkie fingers started to ache. I didn't tear the entire tendons, but some of the fibers that connect them to the bone. It wasn't much, but I lost 2/3rds of my strength in my hand. It took months of braces and PT to get it back to normal, and it still aches during cold days. When I was 15, I slipped on ice covering the concrete slab that was our back porch. I pulled a "Home Alone"- both legs went skyward and I landed on my back, with the back of my head bouncing on the concrete several times before I blacked out. I woke up shaking in the fetal position and I couldn't lift my chin up off of my chest for several weeks. I absolutely refused to go to the E.R. Eventually, I was able to straighten my head back up, but several times I have kept it in a tilted position for too long and heard the "click" when it got locked in the position it was in. I was 29 when I found out I had broken my C-2 vertebrae into at least 7 pieces that fused back together in a shape that won't lock into my C-1 and C-3 as it should. I could partially dislocate my neck at any time if I'm not paying attention. I still don't regret my decision to stay home that day. Knowing the standard procedure for a neck injury, the E.R. staff probably would have tried to force my neck into a C collar and would have severed my spinal cord. Even if they hadn't, I would have gotten a spinal fusion, which would eventually lead to fusions of the entire spine over time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
havanaholly Posted October 21, 2014 Share Posted October 21, 2014 We finished up the nine days of hiking yesterday and came home this AM. We were less than 40 miles from the house at Fort Pickens' campground, but to get home we had to come in rom the western end of Santa Rosa Island to Pensacola Beach, over the bridge to Gulf Breeze, over another bridge 3 miles long to Pensacola, then onto I-110 to I-10 and then to our exit; I only was able to hike two days, between my newly diagnosed bursitis in my left knee (a knee brace helped considerably), the sciatica in my right hip and the cellulitis in my right big toe that doxycycline has wiped out. The first Saturday I hiked up to the state line and the trailhead and back to the road, about 3 miles, caught a ride with a friend to the state forest campground along the trail and when DH showed up I hiked the last two miles back to the car. This past Saturday he & I and one of our other friends hiked the 3.5 mile Dune Trail just east of Pensacola Beach. It was beautiful and the weather was glorious, but hiking in that soft sand does a job! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pdlnpeabody Posted October 21, 2014 Share Posted October 21, 2014 Holly, have you ever hiked Fiery Gizzard trail, in TN? I hiked about 3.5 miles in and back when I was 16. If it wasn't for all the slippery gravel and slopes, I would recommend it to everyone, but I literally had to grab a tree sapling to avoid falling off a cliff more than once that day. If I remember correctly, we saw 7 stunning waterfalls in those few miles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
havanaholly Posted October 21, 2014 Share Posted October 21, 2014 Haven't hiked in TN, Jeremy. There's a lovely 7 mile loop trail just outside of Warm Springs, GA, that has four or five very nice waterfalls but no slippery slopes. I couldn't finish it last time we hiked it because of what I learned later was my total heart block. I wanted to try it again once I had the pacemaker, but now with the age-related "stuff" I don't think I will. DH only hiked half days between a week ago Sunday and this past Saturday. There are a few things about growing old that are definitely NOT fun. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woodland_miniatures Posted October 21, 2014 Share Posted October 21, 2014 Ahhhh, Holly, now I know why I didn't see your sweet face and posts around here since I've resurfaced! Out hiking etc. for nine days, how delightful. So glad you had a grand time, my dear! (was having thoughts about your absence that were so grim I didn't want to even acknowledge them enough to ask where you were....SO glad it was all air and gremlins LOL) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
havanaholly Posted October 21, 2014 Share Posted October 21, 2014 Well what with the Itis brothers in full force I only hiked two days and played trail angel during the week since the regular angel was at work. DH hiked every day, but only the whole distance the first and last days, when the sections were only eight miles. We had brunch with one of our friends on Friday and found out that he had started hiking half days about the same age as DH, who is still in a snit bout having to slow down... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CheckMouse Posted October 21, 2014 Share Posted October 21, 2014 Got any craft fairs coming up? Since my seasonal job screeches to a halt during the holidays, I get into as many craft shows as I can. Got a big one coming up this weekend and am busy preparing my teacups, etc, for sale. Came up with a new idea this time, and am having a lot of fun with it - doing a cutaway box with a dolly inside. Also working on a shoe-fairy-house. I've had 3 ceramic shoes in my stash for years; I think they originally had candy in them, and thought it was about time to do something with them! No pix yet, still working on the first one. I made all the printies/boxes with the doll. I bought a package from a lady at the Doll and Teddy Bear Show earlier this month, with about 9 pages of vintage printies for toys, games, books, paper dolls, posters, and trunks (for toys). She gave me permission to copy them as needed and use them for my projects, just asking that I give her credit for the work. So on my label, on the bottom of the box, I added her name. I scanned her originals, and plan to keep them intact. They are absolutely beautiful! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kellee Posted October 24, 2014 Share Posted October 24, 2014 Surgery went well yesterday. He cut almost to the joint, so they repaired everything and he is doing good. He goes back in 2 weeks to get stitches out, then he'll do physical therapy. Kellee 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roxxie2 Posted October 24, 2014 Share Posted October 24, 2014 Hi Everyone! Kelly, I am glad the surgery went well. I am baking a carrot cake and doing housework. We have a balloon festival here in Taos this weekend. Its no where near the size of the one in Albuquerque but they were up this morning and it was so pretty to see them in the blue sky by the mountains. Sometimes they float this way and land on the golf course next to our house. My dog goes nuts.......he doesn't know what to make of the big balloons. Have a nice weekend 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
havanaholly Posted October 24, 2014 Share Posted October 24, 2014 Ran errands today on the AL side of the river, still furnishing our new back porch. I made a gonzo pasta salad for hiking group's potluck tomorrow to fete this year's new members. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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