Wait and See

The story of my life! I am forever waiting for something! Now, it's waiting to see if the medicine will restore the food taste to normal. Starting with a very low dosage. It will also take care of depression and sleep problems. I think a positive attitude should also help.

I had lost 15 pounds which is something to write home about. I am not complaining about that!

When I moved from the flat land of Oklahoma to the land of mountain country, Washington State, I soon learned the meaning of homesickness. Housing was so hard to find. WW2 men returning home and getting married to their penpals, and girlfriends were causing a massive shortage of rentals. Some folks owned the big family homes and remodeled them into rentals. We rented 2 rooms on the back side of a house. I could look out one window and all I could see was the alley and a little storage shed with silver-colored garbage cans. My landlady's husband was a wino so he was usually back there with his bottle in his pocket. That wasn't too exciting so I would look out the other window and there was the driveway to the garage. This room was the combined kitchen and living room. Our other room was a bedroom which was across the hall.   In the hall were a sink and water and a toilet also shared. The most disgusting thing of all was the bathtub was downstairs in the Landlady's apartment and she had a sign posted, "Only two baths per week". One time we had taken a job to make a few extra dollars, it was training hops. A very dirty job on the ground all day and the landlady would not bend the rule for us, we went to a family member to get our baths. She was also very religious. One time I asked her if she was going to go see the concert of Roy Acuff which was coming soon and she replied that he was going to hell fast enough without her help. 

We had two boys, Kenny, Mel, and Karen. 

I had met and married a friend of a friend and we were madly in love and he wanted to live here in Washington state. It all sounded like fun to me and it was except for the homesickness. I have now been widowed for 32 years. I never remarried or came close to it. I wasn't against it, I just never met anyone. I soon made friends and life got better. 

Mel and Cora

Leah and Chloe

Dennis, Katie, and Laura

Sept 1957

Just a few old memories

Lesson Learned

Let me save you some money. Keep your money in your pocket and drink more water. I mean "WATER", not Pepsi, Coke, Pop, Soda,OJ, or any other liquid. Do you hear me? Drink Water. Everything dries out when it gets older even the body.  Get that water in your body and save a doctor's bill. So you have to go to the bathroom more often, but exercise is something else our body needs. So get off your fanny and go pee.

I am so full of water now, there is no room for food.

I haven't even tasted anything. I have Ensure and it even tasted strange. If I get the desired results I will shout it from the housetop. Keep listening!

Use Your Sniffer

The Sniffer needs exercise. I still have not solved my tasting problem and I am waiting for some Acupuncture treatments. In the meantime, I spend a lot of time reading all I can find out about it. One source I found is to sniff odors.  Some lose both their smell and taste. I can still smell everything, but the food still tastes terrible. It said that sometimes sniffing strong orders several times a day will stimulate it back to normal. The only thing I could find here was a small container with Mentholatum, It may be twenty years old, but it still has the odor so I keep sniffing at it. I ordered some Eucalyptus oil so I can sniff to my hearts content. I only need to wait until Monday for that.

Till next time!

I almost got laughed out of Mel's Diner the day  showed up with these on my feet. It was so funny.

Forget Food

I have an ailment that is highly irritating. I get hungry and desire food, but I do not enjoy it because it tastes terrible. I have discovered a couple things that taste good. Fresh sliced tomatoes with a little salt. Sausage sticks are made by Snyders, a local place. You have to buy them by noon with a check or cash. None of that magic ATM cards or Credit cards.

They are so worth it. They may also have certain days when they are open. 

It seems that Acupuncture is like magic and can correct the problem, but Medicare does not cover it in most cases I was told, but inquire around because other places may bill Medicare for you and they may or may not pay for it. Why do we have to jump through their hoops to get some proper care? I wasn't born yesterday, in fact, it was almost 94 years ago when I showed up. I have lived through a lot. It was before shots were heard of so I had Measles, Chickenpox, Mumps, and Whooping cough. I lived through at least two cases of Pneumonia. One of which almost took my life when I was 11 years old. I remember it well. Now, I would love to roll over and die, but it won't happen.

I also had constant ear aches. For the first five or six years of my life, I had a pounding sound in my ears that I thought everyone had. One day it just disappeared. 

I have decided to forget food and get by until it decides to return.

Sorry about the rant, but it's life here in the ancient years.

I look forward to meeting this guy and Buffy, the poodle.

Bad Luck

Good night, Nurse!!!

If it wasn't for bad luck, I wouldn't have any luck at all. I have totally lost my taste for food or desire for food. I still feel hungry until its miserable. Discontinuing a med that was subscribed years go helped the problem for a few days and then it came right back.  My research told me that Acupuncture is very successful in taking care of the problem. I wanted to find out of Medicare would pay for Acupuncture because if it would my supplement would pay the rest or what it would cost if not covered. It is not that I am asking a difficult Essay question. Yea or Nay should do it, no ifs, ands or buts about it. I wanted to call the place and ask the simple question, but it was the weekend and I would just have to wait until Monday. Well, Holy Cow! Wouldn't you know, Monday is a Holiday.

Crapola!!!!! The blooming fourth of July.

I know what the Blooming fourth of July stands for! Hallalulah and pass the Ammunition!

I found this a tad bit interesting!!!

I am still waiting for the Accupuncture question.

Bahhumbug!!!

ESP

 I have a strange gift if you want to call it that. It's called ESP (extra sensory perception). The only time it kicks in is to let me know bad news is about to happen. One time I had the same dream over and over. I dreamed a small plane had crashed in the vacant property across the corner from our house. Not once, but several times the same identical dream. Another dream I kept dreaming of was about a creek that I was trying to wade across, I could never get across it and there were big rocks in it and I kept trying to get over the rocks.  I dreamed I looked up and there were two flags sailing above the creek. One was an American flag and I didn't recognize the other flag. I knew it was an omen of some kind and I remember sharing the weird dream with Karen and Dennis, my daughter and husband.

Another time I was driving up the street to go pick up the twins who had something going on at our church when, out of the blue, a large flock of birds had swooped down and were headed straight for my car and then they lifted and flew over the top of my car and went on their way. I believed they were trying to tell me something.

Time moves on and our only Grandson was killed in a small plane crash.

At his funeral service, the Boy Scouts (he was a Boy Scout) were honoring him at the funeral service and two Scouts were coming down the aisle, one had the American flag and the other one had the Boy Scout Flag. I whispered to my Son-in-law, Dennis that those are the flags that were in my dream. If birds ever fly near my window it gives me a creepy feeling. ESP is not a gift, It's bad news in my case. 

I just threw this in to cheer things up a tad.