November 6, 2011

The pain goes on... venting

I'm too nice a guy to go back and yell at this yahoo doctor for prescribing me a NSAID when I just get finished telling him I can't take them.
Damn!
The pill worked too. It took away the pain for about a day and a half. But, I can't take them without messing up my pouch.
Damn!
He did refer me to the doctor that I needed to be referred to. I am hoping to line up an appointment sometime next week. The bad thing is that he is located in York and it will be tough to make the trip in between bus runs.
I am looking to find out just what is wrong and if there is a way to improve things, or cure it. It is doubtful that the pain can be cured, but I will take whatever I can get. As long as it allows me to play again.

"We were all put here for a reason"

The above statement is a lie. We were put here as part of a grand experiment. We all have different backgrounds and this is an experiment to see how we react to the same problems.
How am I doing so far? You have to ask the Scientist who started the experiment. Personally, I don't think I'm doing all that well.
Oh, I've accomplished a lot of things, but I would like to be a little more cognizant of my surroundings.
I would like to remember things I need to.
I would like to feel something other than a broken heart, anger, disgust, hate, sadness, guilt, and pain. I know I will eventually, but I want things to change now! Of course.

Regardless of all these emotions above, I am making progress. I don't feel these things when it comes to my Bypass surgery. I feel good about that. I don't always follow the schedule, but I am getting better at it. Baby steps?

Did I mention that I hate Daylight savings time and everything related to it? I would rather they leave time alone. It's bad enough that I have to get up every morning at 4:30am. Just leave it alone!

This morning, I got up after watching the heads up display on the ceiling go goofy. It kept changing from 1am to 2am to 3am and back. Whoever was running the national clock didn't get it right until 4 am. I have several battery clocks in the house that I have to manually change.

So, I get up and start working on things. My goal was to install a cheap piece of carpet that I got for the back bedroom. In order to do that, I had to clear out the rest of the music equipment, vacuum the dust and dirt on the floor, and roll out the carpet. I decided to not bother buying any padding for under the carpet. I don't really need it for sale or for playing music. I just need it to cover up the glunk on the floor (glue + gunk). So, here's what I did:

  • While I was heating up my breakfast, I took a load of wash down and got it started.
  • There was a box on the floor that I tossed down a few days ago. I picked it up and put it where it belonged.
  • There were towels in the dryer that were finished a few days ago. I took them upstairs and put them on the bed for folding later.
  • The trash can was full so I traded that out. I also took out a few boxes that had been waiting for the next time I went to the trash. Of course, the recycling went out too.
  • I brought two gallons of water in from the porch. One was to make coffee, the other to make a gallon of crystal lite. By this time, breakfast needed to be warmed up. while running it through the microwave, I turned on the TV and set it up to go to "on demand".
  • I ate while watching one of my shows.
  • The wash was finished so I went downstairs and transferred it over to the dryer.
  • I came back upstairs and did the dishes.
  • Then I started a record (Yes) to listen to while clearing out the back bedroom. It took both sides of the album and half of the next album to clear out the back bedroom.
  • I ran the vacuum through the whole house and finished up with the now empty back bedroom.
I still have to bring up the now dry wash, fold it along with the towels that are already on the bed, and put it all away.

I took a short break to write this, and may lay down to take a refreshing nap.

I don't know if you know this, but they use a chemical poison to make the carpet stiff and fresh. It makes it look great on the showroom floor, but when you unroll the carpet, it is released into the air. I can't remember if it was arsenic, or formaldehyde, but you should always unroll the carpet with the windows open and leave them open for a day or so to air the place out. I will do that and also put a fan in while closing the door. The carpet is covered with plastic now, until I'm ready to work it. Professional carpet installers get sick over time because of that practice. You might see some of them wearing masks, which is the smart thing to do.

Anyway, when the room is finished, I will return the music equipment and try to do more organization so it's neater. You can't imagine how many cables and cords I have to sort. It's a necessity to have them all because of the variety of connections that need to be made.

I should have the carpet in by this afternoon, and the room ready for the equipment by Tuesday.

The next two weeks, I plan to make plans to do a whole bunch of things. What the great Experimenter in the sky's plans are for me, I don't know.