Wednesday, September 21, 2022

Football, Pain and Creativity!

 Welcome to Texas. In local climate parlance, we are somewhere between False Fall and Second Summer but I THINK we have left Hell’s Front Porch behind. Meaning the next two weeks are high eighties or nineties but triple digit you know what has left the building. We hope anyway.


My upper arm/shoulders are a little sore, thanks to the double whammy of another booster and my senior flu shot. Other than that, not a symptom. Except for the fact that they both itch like the devil and scratching while the shoulder hurts required adept fingers. Heavy enough to deal with the itch but light enough not to make the soreness worse.



Fall fabrics and kitchen towel fabrics and kids fun pillowcase fabrics. Time to sort and put away!


I was thinking that it’s been awhile, or more than awhile since I shared any form of creativity here. From me or others. In my defense, I have been a drawing, painting, quilting fool and am making inroads on learning my loom. But all of that has been set aside so that I can sew goodies for our bazaar on the 22nd of October. So I have been mass cutting and mass sewing a whole bunch of things with all the fun and leftover fabrics.  Pillowcases, hot pads and casserole sized hot pads, coasters, kitchen towels (from flannel fall fabric and terry), Christmas gift card holders and larger fabric envelopes for gifting. I can’t remember what else right now.


Just a couple things I put aside to get for me!

All this of course, in the midst of a previously mentioned serious pain flareup. I am searching for a doctor ( for pain management and for my disintegrating bones). For the loyalists who have been with me long enough to remember this old post on the knee, or this one I am now considering injections again as well as minimal surgery (only considering, as I don’t think it will help with the other issues). Whatever happens, I need to move past Tylenol Arthritis and on to the big guns. Tylenol 3, Cymbalta, Lyrical and maybe Gabbapenten have been looked at so far. I’ll have to ask why tramadol is not in the mix for bad flare ups. This is where I add that I am in a family of medical people, I don’t abuse drugs and yes, I do know what I’m doing.

Moving back to creativity though, I am making time in the Great Sewing Month to knit myself a big shawl, and to challenge myself to a couple of Pinterest projects and make them my own. I just so happen to have frames missing glass and or backing thanks to the move (buying glass is as expensive as a new frame on sale), and while I might have to get a couple floral pics as well as a skeleton unless I have some laying around, the rest of the stuff is all at home and on tap. I don’t want to copy these, just use them for inspiration, see what I come up with and try to keep my fingers away from the hot glue.





But for today, I think I’ll read all day, since that’s what I’ve mainly done so far.  With the old 71st birthday coming up soon, I have both a book lunch and a happy hour tomorrow (the latter the first social happening with my new retired women’s group), a family outing Friday night at a hole in the wall gourmet restaurant that only seats twenty, and a Saturday lunch at Texas Roadhouse. They’ve promised there will be no dancing or standing on tables (if they do, they’ll be dead to me).


As for Sunday, let’s just say I’m watching football. Only watching. The past two weeks I have been part of a pool. Picking the winning teams (ten bucks a pop) with the winner getting 350 because the pool is so large. In two weeks I have yet to hit fifty percent so this week I am sitting out. I would have done better if the Colts had actually performed as I thought they would, and the same for the Broncos, but what is, what is.


I still love football.

16 comments:

  1. I got my flu shot Monday and feel it today. I want to get my booster on a day when I know if I needed, I could take sick the day and 2nd day after. I would only need one hopefully, but I got hit hard for a day, but it was 24-36 hours later.

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    1. I had my shots Monday afternoon and canceled everything yesterday and this am. Turns out wasn't bad but I didn't want to have to worry about it.

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  2. Our province has yet to open up the boosters for under 70's so I'll have a wait awhile yet. I suspect they'll come out about the same time as the flu shot (mid-October). Hoping for no reaction!

    The fall themed fabrics are lovely. Good luck with the bazaar.

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  3. Try ice or heat on your shot spots, whichever one works. Still much better than either serious illness. Your insurance network should have a pain management group in it. They are wonderful for lots of pains, except for political ones. Linda in Kansas

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    1. I'm not quite there yet, right now I'm going thru my pco for pain, but in doing my due diligence in polling friends.

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  4. I'm going in today for the flu shot and Covid vaccine. Glad to get a warning of what I might be experiencing.

    Love your Halloween fabrics. Can't wait to see what you do with them.

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    1. Thanks. It's not till Monday but I can't celebrate too much.

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  6. Beating an old drum. You should go and be evaluated by the VA…. A good friend has had extensive treatment for her feet and later her knees and hips because of the shoes the military required women to wear. I hope you figure out the pain.
    Your crafts are so much fun. Good work!

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    1. I would consider it if the wait to be seen was not excessively long and or I thought I was not getting good treatment as my insurance with the feds cover everything. Right now I want to get multiple options. Have a local doctor and be treated in a timely manner.

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  7. I love those knitted pumpkins! When I had rotator cuff surgery I was told I could only take tramadol for five days as it irritates the stomach. I take gabapentin for nerve pain and it works well, but makes me sleepy and draggy. Hope you find what works for you! Joyce

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  8. I do too. I'm keeping one of each size and ponying up the money even before the bazaar

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  9. Happy Fall, Barb. People are telling me that this COVID OMICRON booster was the least painful of all the boosters. This is good to hear.

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  10. Love those pumpkins. I may have to do a couple for myself.

    By the way I got a warning that this was a dangerous site from my Norton Anti-virus.

    God bless.

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