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Post by Sue on Sept 20, 2012 15:25:43 GMT -5
Also, do please check out the video I just posted on the open thread. It's new West Wing material, and definitionally nonpartisan, but... political advertising, and so over there and not here nor in the ILTV thread. Julia, obviously time for me to go fix a couple of dozen problems outside, isn't that fun? Oh, that was a thing of beauty. Also, Bartlett's/Sheen's "Is this an Apocalypse Now?" made me laugh out loud. I think the fairy dolls are done, but I'm going to take another look after the glue and the glitter glues dry. Anne - Also, I finally got around to posting some comments on the Leverage thread. |
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Post by S'ewing S'cubie on Sept 20, 2012 15:26:38 GMT -5
Woke up feeling like I'm freezing to death. Chils, violent shaking and feeling so horribly COLD. We wrapped me up. Right now I'm wearing two bathrobes, socks, a fuzzy hat with a hood over it and a furry blanket. I've stopped vibrating and am sipping some weak tea and beginning to feel semi-human. Web MD could scare you to death with its symptom checker. I have conditions that can mimic a heart attack, but just to be sure I took a baby aspirin. Really, except for the muscles that are sore from their hour of violent, involuntary exercise and my BP spiking to 160/90 (which has already dropped to 140/84) from the same cause I have NO other symptoms. I hate getting old. Did you check your blood glucose? Because that sounds like a sunrise hypoglycemic episode. Cold and shivering are my most common hypoglycemic symptoms (as well as diaphoresis, which altogether makes a nasty set of events to deal with when I'm alone outside). Julia, or why I have to have 300 calories at bedtime if I'm going to get safe and satisfying sleep. I'm hypoglycemic too. I've known and tracked my symptoms for 36 years. I never get the "chills/shivering" symptoms when facing a crash. I get shaky, light-headed and extremely irritable. I displayed none of them. My BP went up, but that's easily attributable to the violence and duration of the chills. As soon as I began to warm up it went right back to normal. Bob and I have planned a better way to deal if they ever come back. Next time we will put me in a warm shower followed by a cup of hot herb tea. That should bring the shivering under control much faster. Meantime, I did take a "just in case" aspirin even though I strongly doubted it was my heart. Problem is nearly all of my other health issues sport symptoms that can mimic a heart attack. Headaches, muscle aches, weakness, pain in my chest, neck and down my arm are all things I might have in a hypoglycemic crash, a sinus attack, an allergic reaction or a problem at my spinal fusion sites. I don't see how I'd recognize a heart attack if I had it. |
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Sept 20, 2012 16:56:31 GMT -5
Did you check your blood glucose? Because that sounds like a sunrise hypoglycemic episode. Cold and shivering are my most common hypoglycemic symptoms (as well as diaphoresis, which altogether makes a nasty set of events to deal with when I'm alone outside). Julia, or why I have to have 300 calories at bedtime if I'm going to get safe and satisfying sleep. I'm hypoglycemic too. I've known and tracked my symptoms for 36 years. I never get the "chills/shivering" symptoms when facing a crash. I get shaky, light-headed and extremely irritable. I displayed none of them. My BP went up, but that's easily attributable to the violence and duration of the chills. As soon as I began to warm up it went right back to normal. Bob and I have planned a better way to deal if they ever come back. Next time we will put me in a warm shower followed by a cup of hot herb tea. That should bring the shivering under control much faster. Meantime, I did take a "just in case" aspirin even though I strongly doubted it was my heart. Problem is nearly all of my other health issues sport symptoms that can mimic a heart attack. Headaches, muscle aches, weakness, pain in my chest, neck and down my arm are all things I might have in a hypoglycemic crash, a sinus attack, an allergic reaction or a problem at my spinal fusion sites. I don't see how I'd recognize a heart attack if I had it. Tell me about it; I have left-side-body issues from repeated shoulder dislocations, tendenitis, and a T-1-2 displacement, plus esophageal refluz, plus costal cartilage damage and a cracked rib that tore the intercostal fascia; I have thoracic pain on my best days. Julia, and the more I read about it the more it sounds as if I'm always a step away from cardiac arrest, by some measures  |
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Post by S'ewing S'cubie on Sept 20, 2012 17:15:27 GMT -5
I'm hypoglycemic too. I've known and tracked my symptoms for 36 years. I never get the "chills/shivering" symptoms when facing a crash. I get shaky, light-headed and extremely irritable. I displayed none of them. My BP went up, but that's easily attributable to the violence and duration of the chills. As soon as I began to warm up it went right back to normal. Bob and I have planned a better way to deal if they ever come back. Next time we will put me in a warm shower followed by a cup of hot herb tea. That should bring the shivering under control much faster. Meantime, I did take a "just in case" aspirin even though I strongly doubted it was my heart. Problem is nearly all of my other health issues sport symptoms that can mimic a heart attack. Headaches, muscle aches, weakness, pain in my chest, neck and down my arm are all things I might have in a hypoglycemic crash, a sinus attack, an allergic reaction or a problem at my spinal fusion sites. I don't see how I'd recognize a heart attack if I had it. Tell me about it; I have left-side-body issues from repeated shoulder dislocations, tendenitis, and a T-1-2 displacement, plus esophageal refluz, plus costal cartilage damage and a cracked rib that tore the intercostal fascia; I have thoracic pain on my best days. Julia, and the more I read about it the more it sounds as if I'm always a step away from cardiac arrest, by some measures Exactly. I never even considered the acid reflux, but that could be misunderstood too. |
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Post by Spaced Out Looney on Sept 20, 2012 19:14:54 GMT -5
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Post by SpringSummers on Sept 20, 2012 19:43:16 GMT -5
Hope to be here for PR. Will probably be a few minutes late getting started . . .
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Post by Karen on Sept 20, 2012 19:54:11 GMT -5
Hope to be here for PR. Will probably be a few minutes late getting started . . .  No worries! I watch it a bit on delay, so as to skip thru commercials. I have my speghetti sauce simmering, so I am good to go whenever! |
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Post by Karen on Sept 20, 2012 19:58:17 GMT -5
Arrrrr, maties Hmmm, I thought we had a pirate smilie, guess not. Julia, expecting a dust storm any minute here in the Western Washington desert country, and no, I'm not currently joking. Avast, me beauties! Is that even pirate speak?  (Is this the one you were thinking of? It was hiding under the "transferring data" message on the bottom.) |
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Post by Karen on Sept 20, 2012 19:59:40 GMT -5
Cold finally resolving somewhat. incisions healing up. flu shot scheduled for Monday. Off to get Jim's car emissions checked and look at a reception venue for Allison. (venues limited by the frigging size of their potential guest list --- but since it's our only in town wedding we will undoubtedly go for it -- sit down for maybe 200? yikes!  our families (I'm one of 5 and Jim has 2 sisters, husbands and adult kids) -- all of the cousins are adults and 3 are married. Andrew's parents are both #6 of 7 and it sounds like dozens and dozens of them are going to make the trek down from NYC. then their are her h.s. friends and their families the whole church full of folks who watched her grow up college friends of both work and more church friends from college and NYC Currently the list is supposedly 300 but she asked us to list anybody/everybody we'd consider so I know some of them can be cut. Thank heavens we are not aiming for Dec. 29 -- that was just never going to be doable. Glad you are feeling better and things are healing. Looks like you are going to need all the strength you can muster the next few months.  |
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Post by Lola m on Sept 20, 2012 20:00:30 GMT -5
Hey ho, all! PR night!
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Post by Karen on Sept 20, 2012 20:02:20 GMT -5
I signed up for an online class. Bead Embroidery Class. I dabble in this sort of thing, but I'm not good at it, and I'd like to be. Also I took a class from Christen last year (I think), and she's a good teacher, unlike a certain other person who played bait-and-switch with the class supplies  . Younger Daughter is home from college and probably wants to use the PC. Later, S'cubiegators. Ooo..craftiness! Can't wait to see what you end up making. |
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Post by Karen on Sept 20, 2012 20:03:12 GMT -5
Yo ho ho!, Lola! And a bottle of rum. Well..technically, it's capped and in the cupboard.  |
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Post by SpringSummers on Sept 20, 2012 20:05:29 GMT -5
So, I am here!
We need to design a costume for the Rockettes?
Hmmmm!
Ideas, anyone?
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Post by Karen on Sept 20, 2012 20:06:58 GMT -5
The Rockettes! Sequins and legs and heels and lots of shiny bright smiles!
So - a costume for the chorus line. Events throughout the year - versatile.
Hmm....rainbow and birdlike?
What is the modern aesthetic this year? I am so clueless!!
Assymetrical?
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Post by Lola m on Sept 20, 2012 20:08:26 GMT -5
A modern Rockette outfit, that looks good close up and from afar. We gotta go bold here - bold! Bright red crystals as well as clear ... Gigantic wings attached to the back (but up high, so she can still kick) ... And a giant 4 ft high feathered headdress!!  |
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