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Post by Deleted on Jun 14, 2015 16:17:56 GMT
I do not have a crystal ball, nor does anybody else here, at least not one that works.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 14, 2015 16:40:28 GMT
Ah, we do have "the man behind the curtain...." It's all good or at least that's where my sleep is going. Jeez, I looked at the origin of this thread, likely, one of the very first... Go figure....
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Post by Kimby on Jun 14, 2015 23:26:20 GMT
Even the man behind the curtain makes mistakes. We all do. Now let's all kiss and make up. Please. ;-)
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Post by lagatta on Feb 21, 2016 6:09:22 GMT
I haven't been insomniac tossing and turning in quite a long time, and I'm really upset as well. Irrationally - thoughts of an ex who really didn't treat me very well. No, I'm not going to get a gun and go shoot him - for one thing, I've never even done target shooting. I don't know why such unpleasantness returns to haunt us - all I want to do is get back to sleep. Just drinking some water, took a couple of ibuprofen (arthritic pain woke me up; it is very humid, has been raining all day and there is still some snow left; most of it melted now but the air is very damp in a way it isn't when it is seriously frigid).
I think it is because I had to deal with a text he wrote (which has no bearing on me whatsoever).
Checking my e-mail, going back to bed (cat at my feet). To make things clear (on the net) I am not remotely homicidal.
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Post by htmb on Feb 21, 2016 6:11:30 GMT
Hopefully, you'll soon doze off to sleep and things will look even better in the morning.
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Post by cynthia on Feb 21, 2016 6:15:26 GMT
Please don't allow an ex to have even one moment of power over you. If they were worth that, they would not be an ex.
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Post by lagatta on Feb 21, 2016 7:25:55 GMT
cynthia, I know that rationally. Hell, I've worked in battered women's refuges. (No, ex never laid a hand on me; he is not at all a physically-violent man. Just mind games; the intellectual schtick). Unfortunately, there are elements in our reptilian brain that don't function by the rules of logic. I think it is because I turned down a bit of work at a conference overseas in part because I didn't want to see him, though in fairness there were many other factors, such as an interview for a job I want here and the fact that I have a 20-year-old cat with kidney failure.
Kidney failure sounds so much more dramatic than "insuffisance rénale" and the cognates in other Latin languages; insufficienza renale, insuficiencia renal etc. It sounds like imminenent death. Yes, he will die of that (this is a normal cause of death in very elderly cats) but that could be next week or in two years. What it means in the meantime is that I have to change his litter box twice a day because he pees so much.
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Post by Kimby on Feb 21, 2016 14:42:00 GMT
I feel for you and your old kitty. We lost a 20 year old to kidney failure. Not a nice disease.
Be glad your boy still USES his box. When he gets too weak to make it to the box, THEN you'll be up all night cleaning up his messes. The outcome is not uncertain, just the getting there is fraught with uncertainties. If we had it to do over, we'd probably have made that "last trip to the vet" a couple weeks earlier.
Good luck, lagatta!
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Post by htmb on Feb 21, 2016 15:00:00 GMT
It can be really tough dealing with those dear old kitties that seem to become such large parts of our lives. I can certainly empathize, Lagata. As for the other, he was probably a big part of your life for awhile, too. Dealing with old issues can be painful, even when you logically KNOW you shouldn't allow something like that to have power over you.
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Post by lagatta on Feb 21, 2016 16:16:54 GMT
Yes, of course I'm feeling much better now, this morning. The weather looks decent (not rain, nor wet snow) so I'll go for a walk and run a couple of errands before getting back to work. There are still lumps of ice on the bicycle path, so I won't cycle.
As for Renzo, I think when the time comes that he no longer uses his box, I'll be contemplating euthanasia, and hoping my veterinary friend who lives in another city southeast of here will be able to help, when she visits here to see her brother or attend a professional conference. I'd hope someone would do me the same favour!
I'll miss him for the rest of my life, though. He's my "familiar spirit".
C'est l'esprit familier du lieu; Il juge, il préside, il inspire Toutes choses dans son empire; peut-être est-il fée, est-il dieu?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 21, 2016 17:32:34 GMT
An ode to Bast, the cat god?
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Post by lagatta on Feb 21, 2016 20:51:38 GMT
Well, it is Baudelaire, of course, but I don't know if he was specifically addressing Bast.
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Post by Kimby on Mar 15, 2016 14:05:32 GMT
I've been waking up too early most nights for months. Sometimes as early as 3 or 4 am. I try not to toss and turn (so I don't disturb Mr. Kimby who has sleep issues of his own) for a couple hours, then give up and get up sometime between 5 & 6.
I was hoping the return to daylight savings time would help, and indeed the first morning I got up at 8! Next morning was 6, and today I woke a few minutes before 4. Lay there till 6 trying to fall asleep, then gave up and got up to hang out with you folks.
At least I have no trouble FALLING asleep...
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Post by Deleted on Mar 15, 2016 14:17:25 GMT
I think our bodies go through these phases Kimby. I have had very similar phases of too early awakenings, along with insomnia etc.
I really think that your recent ordeal of sorts, sorting through your parents life long belongings, sleep deprived, and all the emotions both conscious and unconscious may be contributing to this recent phase.
Just go with it for now and I hope it will soon pass.
APIAS was a saving grace for me btw during some of these phases but, computer screens, TV's etc. have been proven to cause one to not fall easily into slumber. Even a cell phone screen can be a culprit.
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Post by bjd on Mar 15, 2016 15:50:35 GMT
I wake up really early too. I try to go back to sleep when it's before 5, but often don't manage. I usually wait until after 6 to get up. Now that spring is here and I hear birds singing, it feels like I should be up. And if I hear the newspaper delivery car (any time after 5) then I figure I can get up.
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Post by rikita on Mar 15, 2016 22:48:58 GMT
waking up early is never a problem for me, it seems i am most able to sleep in the morning. agnes waking up early is a problem though - she keeps waking up before she is really done sleeping, then is tired and cranky, but it is impossible to convince her to go back to sleep ... shouldn't it be human instinct to want to sleep long enough?
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Post by Kimby on Mar 16, 2016 13:20:47 GMT
Took a Benadryl at bedtime and slept like a log till 6 AM. Bliss. If only I wasn't hearing concerns about Benadryl and memory loss....
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Post by Kimby on Mar 16, 2016 13:33:14 GMT
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Post by Kimby on Mar 19, 2016 20:23:11 GMT
Marilyn vosSavant offered her trick for falling asleep: Lie in bed and imagine yourself doing something or being somewhere in great detail. Or some such thing.
I tried it, but found it too distracting trying to create a scene from whole cloth, so fell back on a place I knew well: walking the beaches of Sanibel.
Unfortunately I fell asleep before I got very far. ;-)
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Post by Kimby on Mar 21, 2016 14:16:07 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2016 14:41:32 GMT
I am not aware of the effect of Benadryl on memory loss. I take a lot of Benadryl. (I guess I could google it...).
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Post by Kimby on Mar 21, 2016 16:25:37 GMT
Mixed opinions on Benadryl and memory. But the physical therapist who coordinated my mom's care was pretty convinced there's a connection.
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Post by fumobici on Mar 21, 2016 23:08:47 GMT
I am not aware of the effect of Benadryl on memory loss. I take a lot of Benadryl. (I guess I could google it...). You probably just forgot. :^D
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Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2016 12:53:44 GMT
I am not aware of the effect of Benadryl on memory loss. I take a lot of Benadryl. (I guess I could google it...). You probably just forgot. :^D , very likely FB. More and more I'm finding that my memory is alarmingly deficient. It's very disconcerting.
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Post by Kimby on Mar 22, 2016 17:53:11 GMT
Mine, too. And my spouse acts like I'm doing it on purpose.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 24, 2016 13:32:15 GMT
Mine, too. And my spouse acts like I'm doing it on purpose. My husband doesn't think I'm doing it on purpose but, equally infuriating is when he recounts an event or whatever and I don't recall it he responds with a retort "Oh!! C'mon,, you were right there!!! Or, I can't believe you don't remember that." I have at times resorted to saying, "oh yeah, I remember that" when in actuality I have no earthly idea of what he is referring to.
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Post by Kimby on Mar 24, 2016 14:17:27 GMT
Mr. Kimby has had some memory lapses himself, but his don't seem to count!
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Post by rikita on Mar 24, 2016 14:58:30 GMT
what i find annoying is when i remember something for sure, and mr. r. not only does not remember it, but claims that i am wrong and it can't ever have happened/been said/been done that way, like, there is no possibility he might be the one remembering it wrongly ... but also when he gets annoyed when i don't remember things taht i really do not think are that important to remember (like when i haven't memorized his work shift schedule or don't know what evening his football team is playing or similar things).
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Post by Deleted on Apr 7, 2016 13:42:09 GMT
I have been averaging only 3-4 hours of sleep a night since my arm injury.
It takes me forever to find a comfortable position and then when I finally lull off I awakes 2 or 3 times until I can repeat the same process.
This isn't going to go away any time soon I'm afraid.
I went for an x-ray and it showed torn muscles and "something else" that couldn't be picked up on an x-ray.
Off I went to the orthopod yesterday. He had me perform a series of range of movement exercises (which left me in excruciating pain afterward).
Based on the limitations of my capabilities, he felt pretty strongly that I have a ruptured tendon that runs from my rotater cuff in the shoulder on down.
I have to get an MRI to confirm this.
If his diagnosis is correct, surgery is in order to repair it.
I am very discouraged by this news.
I remain limited in my movements as I am left handed and simple movements are painful, things I go to do instinctively like picking up things, brushing my hair and or teeth, and worst of all using the toilet.
The surgery is fairly simple or so he says, it's the rehab and physical therapy that will be the most challenging.
All of this during planting time....
It sucks...
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Post by Kimby on Apr 7, 2016 16:28:03 GMT
Casi, I had similar symptoms some years ago (from lifting half of a too-heavy canoe onto a too-tall SUV), and could have had surgery, but knew that rehab would be impossible with Mr. Kimby goading me to do my share and haul firewood and drag brush to the burnpit. I am so strongly NON-ambidextrous and my dominant arm was affected, so I tried doing everything with my left hand: brushing hair, applying makeup, writing, squeegee-ing the shower stall. It was impossible. I knew I would flunk rehab, so instead took lots of ALEVE (2 at night, 2 on waking, tapering gradually to 1,1, then just one at bedtime). I also went to a physical therapist who set me up with exercises using bands and small weights. I ended up NOT NEEDING the surgery, though I have had to adapt the way I do some things. Like lifting canoes onto cars.
If you'd like, I can scan and send you the PT exercise sheets, though it's best to have some supervision at first to make sure you're doing them right.
I feel your pain...
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