Catching Up

[ghost_light]

Sadly, the Subamino doesn't live at the house across the street so I have not been able to get a picture yet. My master plan was to get some shots in the early morning before work when no one was around but that has not worked. Every time it's there after work the guys are swarming around it like flies on....a Subamino. The good news is that this means it is somewhere in Anchorage and someone else may get a sighting of it. Keep your eyes peeled! Just for the added bonus, it has red sides and a grey/primer hood. Very hot.

We spent most of the weekend on site with the Fair. I always feel sorry for all the plants around the Crooked Toad when we set up. It's such a late spring, and you can just hear all the dandelions and little leafy brush going "Ahh...there's the sun! I can finally grow and sprout and *thud!* Spool! Spool! There's a spool on me! Agh!"

Most of the guys got sexy new pirate boots and rope sandals to wear this year. I'm starting to think I'll be the only one without a new piece of garb in the Toad.

Pain levels have not been good lately, but I think that is also how much I've been up and around doing things. I'm going to have to switch TENS units this week to the old reliable from the new broke-ass. Pretty much 10 minutes after the company called to get me to buy it outright the wiring went whack-a-ding-hoy. I thought it was the pads getting old and not conducting well enough but I was still having problems with only feels the pulses in fits and starts no matter how high I had it turned up (and boy are those fits fun when you go from 0 to 7 with no warning!) I finally figured out that if I twiddle one plug I can get the impulses most of the time, and I can get the other working if I press down on the edge of the plug or pull on the wire. not pleased with this situation.

Work-wise, I should have my July schedule worked out in the next few days!

Comments

[sionainn.livejournal.com]

Pirate books don't count as garb! (Teasing! Only teasing about typo... ;-)

[ghost-light.livejournal.com]

*pthbthbthtbthb!* :)

[sweetharemgirl.livejournal.com]

Now this is the problem with coming into the middle of someones LJ. I have no idea what your talking about. lol What pain? And what has bad wires and impulses? Me confused. LOL

[ghost-light.livejournal.com]

*laughs* Okay, I have chronic back pain - primarily mid-back on the right side and in my shoulder/neck on the left. The pain comes with a gigantic knot on my left collar bone that doesn't go away while I'm standing (The fact it does go away when I lie down is a source of endless confusion for my doctors. But then, almost everything about my back is a source of endless confusion for my doctors.)

I've been dealing with this pain for 4 years, 3 Doctors of Osteopathy, 2 physical therapists, 2 chiropractors, a massage therapist, an accupuncturist, a surgeon and a back specialist resulting in a whole lot of theories and not much help. The theory I think is the best right now is that I have 3 scoliosis curves that are compressing discs and stressing the muscles, but there's no proof that it is progressing and none of the curves are big enough for a surgeon to want to go near me.

I'm in the process of getting a brace and meanwhile I take a lot of odd meds and I wear a little TENS unit which sends small electrical pulses through my muscles (kind of like feeling my phone on vibrate at all times) and is designed to trick the central nervous system into perceiving something other than pain in those muscles. The theory is that if the nerves get something besides a pain message, they will stop spasming 24/7 and I will get some pain relief. Which is a nice theory if the new TENS they hooked me up with exactly 1 month ago hadn't crapped out already.

A lot of my journal is keeping track of what the docs are saying and what is being tried. So if you see this icon, there is pain-related news ahead.

[sweetharemgirl.livejournal.com]

Ok, I'm not so confused anymore. I hope they get the new TENS working. What does TENS stand for anyway?

[ghost-light.livejournal.com]

Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation.

I had to look it up, I thought it started out with Therapeutic