cornerofmadness

Just after Easter, Mom started having back pain. SHe has spinal stenosis so this is not out of the ordinary really. But it got much worse so she went to my brother for therapy. Then she told me about these blisters on the back of her leg down near the ankle. I said shingles. The urgent care doc disagreed (because he apparently got his degree from a cracker jack box). Her foot went entirely numb. Her doc agreed, it's shingles.

Now shingles can actually cause complete numbness. So can nerve compression. She has both going on. Then her artifical knee started bothering her. Brother taped it up and that helped but ortho wants her to have MRI any how. Because she couldn't feel her foot, she fell on it and tore up the tendons and now she's in a cam walker boot but she pretty much needs to use a walker to get around because she's so unsteady.

Naturally this has left her scared. What if it's permanent (she thinks some feeling is coming back)? What if she can't drive any more etc etc. Getting older is hell.

Of course I over did it on my back and it hurts like fuck. Whee. I have the tens unit on it now.

I've spent all day working on this computer. Ever since the update it's been fucked up. I downloaded free Avast! (and since I could do that I'm assuming it's not a huge virus since they usually stop you). I ran it many times including the boot scan which found a lot of corrupted files. sigh. Nothing I couldn't live without.

I posted this on FB but here A waltz by Anthony Hopkins Who knew he wrote music? It's beautiful.

Have a cute little dumbo octopus

And I never thought I'd say this. I'm moving back to ~~hell~~ Florida. here’s my house complete with furnishings Surely I can get a loan, right?

declutter day 224 item tossed -Black shirt with wooden beads why kept -I liked it why tossed I need to empty these closets some and this is a bit older so it’s time to rehome it.