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Post by Deleted on Jan 18, 2018 0:18:32 GMT
Well, despite running the water to prevent pipes from breaking, sure enough, a pipe did break. I have phoned 6 plumbers, almost all booked solid. The soonest one can come is f'n Saturday/ Seems half the city is without water or electricity...
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 18, 2018 0:25:36 GMT
I saw on the NO news where residents had been asked not to let the water drip. So sorry! As you know, I've had it happen.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 18, 2018 0:40:48 GMT
I am sure you do remember "those days" Bixa.
Whomever doesn't have a broken pipe now, will likely tomorrow as it is supposed to be even colder tonight....
WTF would the news say NOT to run water?
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 18, 2018 4:29:38 GMT
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Post by mickthecactus on Jan 18, 2018 9:00:29 GMT
Well, despite running the water to prevent pipes from breaking, sure enough, a pipe did break. I have phoned 6 plumbers, almost all booked solid. The soonest one can come is f'n Saturday/ Seems half the city is without water or electricity... Just looked at your weather forecast and that is really cold for you! At least you should be back to normal by Saturday.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 18, 2018 15:24:33 GMT
WTF would the news say NOT to run water? And you've been living there How long? WTF was I thinking?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 18, 2018 15:30:02 GMT
Just looked at your weather forecast and that is really cold for you! At least you should be back to normal by Saturday. Mick, NOTHING here is ever "normal". We have an ongoing phrase we use, more like, "yeah, things are finally back to abnormal" The good news is that last p.m. I suddenly remembered that a friend of 30 years plus has a son who I thought became a plumber. I knew this young man as an infant. Sure enough he is a plumber and is outside with T. as I write. Here's hoping it's not too too bad.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jan 21, 2018 11:44:18 GMT
I slept until 9 a.m. this morning. I don't think I have done that in at least 20 years when not ill. Why did this happen?
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Post by lagatta on Jan 21, 2018 17:15:28 GMT
Because your body needed sleep. I get up early too, but occasionally need a bit more sleep.
I'm translating something related to Venice (non-tourist). Your topic reminds me how happy I was to be an early riser when in heavily-touristed cities like that. There were already a couple of decidedly non-posh cafés open, and I enjoyed an espresso alongside municipal workers and others who had to be up by dawn.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 21, 2018 17:18:34 GMT
That's a lovely memory, LaGatta ~ I could perfectly envision it.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 23, 2018 1:11:30 GMT
Domino effect traumas ~ Computer problems (2 different computers). I need to make a condolence call & can't find the number. The pot of black beans I was pressure cooking blew out all over the stove. More crap as it happens!
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Post by kerouac2 on Jan 23, 2018 4:30:57 GMT
You have validated my fear of pressure cookers.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 23, 2018 4:56:59 GMT
I've had this one -- the only one I've ever had -- for 18 years or more & this is only the second time it's happened. Mine is a bottom-of-the-line model, so no real safety features. Also, both times I was cooking danger ingredients, first split peas & this time beans, so it was probably my fault. Just looked up the Instant Pot, the 21st century version of a pressure cooker, to see what kinds of safety features it has. Ooooo ~ it can be set so that you don't have to hover over it. But look at the video long enough to see the SIZE of the thing. That's just dauntingly large ~ www.nytimes.com/2017/01/31/dining/instant-pot-electric-pressure-cooker-recipes.html
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Post by rikita on Jan 23, 2018 9:00:54 GMT
my petty trauma is always the passage of time - is it almost end of january, already? i need to figure out what cakes to bake for saturday (agnes is having her celebration then, as it wasn't possible last weekend) and when to make them ... and then i have another week to figure out what we still need for our skiing trip, if i need to buy anything for that, and also what to cook for the group one of the days during the trip and how to get the ingredients for that (as we travel by train and i am not sure of hte shopping situation there) and what things have to be done before the trip ... and when we return from the trip, i am sure the next thing to be organized will already be looming on the horizon (and then it will be almost mid-february already - can't it stay "beginning of the year" for a while, just so i feel like there is some kind of rest?)
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Post by Kimby on Jan 26, 2018 13:49:59 GMT
I won’t know if or how serious it is till my doctor appt in 2 weeks, but I am having aches and stiffness in ALL my major joints: both shoulders, both hips, lower back and now my neck. My mother had something called Polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR) , and that might be my problem, though I’m more than 10 years younger than she was. It’s treated with steroids - prednisone - which have side effects of their own. Mom’s hip got necrotic from prednisone, requiring a hip replacement. So far I’m enduring the aches and stiffness with 2 Aleve (Naprosyn) twice a day. But I can hardly get dressed or undressed without help. I’m bummed.
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Post by mickthecactus on Jan 26, 2018 14:00:00 GMT
So sorry to hear that Kimby.
Hope you get better very soon.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 26, 2018 16:21:37 GMT
That's awful, Kimby, and hardly petty. Let's hope you get good news when you go to the appointment.
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Post by Kimby on Jan 26, 2018 17:33:44 GMT
Well, I’m feeling good that I think I can rule out some worse stuff, like MS, lupus and rheumatoid arthritis. I should also consider undiagnosed Lyme disease, which isn’t found in Montana, but IS in Wisconsin where we go twice a year.
At least PMR goes away with steroid treatment and usually resolves completely in 3-5 years.
BTW, Mr. Kimby is eager to help me get (un)dressed, and has said that if it’s too hard for me to reach my bra clasps, I can just go bra-less. What a trouper!
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Post by Kimby on Jan 26, 2018 17:52:27 GMT
That's awful, Kimby, and hardly petty. Let's hope you get good news when you go to the appointment. As this is an ACA-covered (Obamacare) “annual physical,” all I’ll probably get are some blood tests, which should be covered, and a referral to a rheumatologist, which won’t be covered - till I spend $6550 out-of-pocket. The two blood tests of most use will be “sedimentation rate” and “C-reactive protein”, which indicates whether inflammation is involved. If sed rate is high, it’s likely PMR, and prednisone should eliminate pain and stiffness almost immediately. Something to look forward to...
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Post by mich64 on Jan 26, 2018 19:45:06 GMT
Kimby I too hope you get some answers soon and receive the corresponding treatment or medication to ease your pain.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Jan 26, 2018 20:25:16 GMT
I had a lovely ruby halo ring on our ruby wedding anniversary last year. I only wear it on special occasions but imagine my chagrin when I took it out of the box recently and found that the stone had shattered! The jeweller said that I must have bashed it as the whole of the top half of the faceted stone is gone. I would have thought that I would remember hitting my hand...rubies are almost as hard as diamonds after all so it would has to have been a significant occurrence! Anyway...I'm having a smooth stone to replace it and the jeweller is only charging me for the stone...still...I was gutted...
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Post by Kimby on Jan 26, 2018 22:07:28 GMT
I remember the buildup to you getting that ring. It hasn’t been a smooth process at any point. Hopefully the new smooth stone (cabochon?) will fix that. And hopefully the marriage is more durable than the ring!
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 26, 2018 22:25:37 GMT
That is so disappointing, Cheery! I hate to bring this up, but do you suppose there's a chance that the stone was a composite ruby? Coming into contact with a variety of common household substances and various types of surfaces that pose no threat to “natural ruby,” or rubies treated by routine techniques, have proved disastrous for composite rubies. more here: jbamagazine.com/lead-glass-composite-rubies-vs-treated-rubies/Good Morning America and a professional gemologist went on an undercover shopping trip to major department stores. They took their purchases to the American Gemological Laboratories in New York. After microscopic and advanced analytical testing, Christopher Smith, president of the lab, said three of the four ruby rings ... bought were composites. more: abcnews.go.com/GMA/ConsumerNews/rubies-real-deal/story?id=8988951
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Post by kerouac2 on Jan 26, 2018 23:16:32 GMT
It sounds like it was just a piece of tinted crystallised sugar, but since it wasn't purchased in a seedy shop of the Khan el Khalili market in Cairo, I suppose that it was a fluke accident with an authentic gem.
By the same token, I would like to think that Kimby's problem was just a version of the devastating flu about twenty years ago that caused horrendous aches and pains -- but the flu wouldn't have lasted this long.
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Post by Kimby on Jan 27, 2018 2:25:52 GMT
And I have no other flu symptoms.
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Post by bjd on Jan 27, 2018 6:03:24 GMT
Here's hoping that your pet peeve doesn't have to be moved to the health section, Kimby.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 27, 2018 14:56:26 GMT
It sounds pretty scary Kimby. Not really knowing what's going on. I'm so glad you have your husband by your side to see you through this. Having been through a similar scenario I can truly understand. Wishing you a speedy recovery and back up on your skis real soon.
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Post by Kimby on Jan 27, 2018 18:02:04 GMT
The weird thing, casi, is that I HAVE been skiing, both XC and downhill, and going for long walks. Though I’m being less adventurous than usual it’s more because it’s harder for me to get up after falling. Not because my aches keep me from being active. In fact, getting up from sitting or lying down are the worst moments of discomfort and stiffness. And getting dressed and undressed. Very puzzling, but so far not alarming. (If I was alarmed, I’d get an appt. to see a specialist ASAP, insurance be damned!)
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Post by Deleted on Jan 27, 2018 20:09:49 GMT
As a firm believer in the power of acupuncture I would immediately explore that option. But, it is a matter of finding someone you can trust and feel confident about.
Back to the Lyme disease hypothesis. If it was that, you would have had immediate symptoms of a high fever and feeling like you'd been run over by a train. The muscle aches and pains are an aftermath of any deer tick borne disease whether it be Lyme, Erlichiosis and some others.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Jan 27, 2018 20:48:18 GMT
Maybe the ruby was flawed. I took the ring to three other jewellers to ask their opinion as Jeff thought that there may have been a problem with either the stone or the setting. I didn't tell them where I'd had it made and two of them are really high end jewellers. All of them thought that the ruby had been bashed really hard, my jeweller has a pretty good reputation and I'm going with that...it's going to cost a bit for the new ruby but he's not charging for the work as it was so new....allegedly it will be ready on Friday.
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