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Apr. 3rd, 2023 01:33 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stitchwhichThe last two nights I slept, when I slept, sitting upright in my chair in the living room. Sinuses. Sinuses are evil. On Saturday morning, on top of the face pain and migraine-level headache, my ear canal was so badly clogged that I was weeping from the pain. I could not stand to touch anywhere near the ear or back jaw at all. I would swear that I had a knife stuck into my ear. It came on suddenly, too. My blessed spouse figured out what to do and brought me a hot moist washcloth to hold against my ear, cheek, and nose. That did help. I guess something is actually wrong but I have no idea how any doctor would be convinced that it is important enough to try to find out what it is. I'm accustomed to being blown off when it comes to sinus problems. So for now I'm relying on a regime of Motrin, antihistamines, and decongestants (normally I'd be taking a half dose but full doses for now) along with so much fluid intake that my name should be changed to "Mississippi". I hope that a few days of pill and liquid pushing will encourage whatever is clogged to clear itself out.
Bah! Spring is a pain!
Friday I had an eye exam and ordered new glasses and will be getting them in a few weeks. My prescription is "oh-you-are-so-so-blind", so the glasses have to be made in a lab somewhere in Denver. Trifocals, astigmatism, and the beginning of cataracts make lens grinding a challenge. The cataracts are a new development but do not require surgery yet and he says they may not ever. When I was a kid I was told that I read too much and "you will overstrain your eyes and damage them, and you'll go blind when you get older!" But I'd also been raised believing my medical condition would kill me before age 40 so I was pretty flippant about anything having to do with old age. Why worry about what you'll never see, right? I read by moonlight, under blankets with a flashlight, read constantly every day and night for hours and hours on end, especially when trying to get to the end of a story. I refused to wear my glasses (got teased too much for being a girl with glasses), read books with teeny tiny print, and I remember reading for so long that my eyes couldn't focus anymore and would cross so I'd shut one eye so I could see the letters on the page with no blurring. I also stared directly into the sun more than once or twice. These are all mistakes I guarded our children from now that I am a living example of what not to do.
So the new glasses are comfortable, half-frames, and designed by Armani. Ohhhhh.... that is about as close to haute ton as I shall ever be. The tops have almost exactly the same curve as my eyebrows. I do like that.
The doc checked out the diabetic risks on my eyes - no problems there at all. Those are more frightening to me than the stuff mentioned above. Glaucoma, retinal myopathy, macular degeneration, blindness due to elevated pressure in the eye - those are all risks for a diabetic. Scary, huh?
I'm working on downsizing our possessions some more. The kitchen is going through changes. We bought new flatware and will be donating away all of the mis-matched spoons, forks, and knives we currently are using. Our new set serves 12 people which should last us for the rest of our lives. And we will be losing our huge collection of plastic lidded containers this week and replacing them with a new matched set of nesting ones. Part of the "plastic problem" comes from sandwich making, odd as that sounds. The better tasting sliced meats come in resealable plastic containers, which we save since they are not recyclable. So we try to use them up until they don't seal any longer. They come in two handy sizes, too. But my man LOVES sandwiches. Loves them. I think he averages two meals a day from them. That means that we go through a lot of meat packages over the course of a year. Even holiday giveaways can't really dent our container collection. I'm going to have to take a good look at what is in the deli section to find a more affordable but earth-friendly supply. It is too bad that buying sliced meats directly from the deli is more expensive than we can manage. We have a ton of Tupperware containers. I started buying them in 1977 so you can imagine what I've stockpiled. But I don't really cook like I once did, and don't store the amount of ingredients that I once relied on. I've held on to the containers because they are Tupperware and Tupperware is expensive. I need to let that attitude go and clean the excess out of our shelves.
After flatware, storage containers, and pots & pans to follow will come - - - mugs and cups. I'm not looking forward to that. That is going to hurt and require patience and resolve. How do we collect so many of them? I think we have three cupboard shelves of "regular" mugs, then another of just Arni's travel mugs, and then yet another shelf of SCA-use cups too!
Bah! Spring is a pain!
Friday I had an eye exam and ordered new glasses and will be getting them in a few weeks. My prescription is "oh-you-are-so-so-blind", so the glasses have to be made in a lab somewhere in Denver. Trifocals, astigmatism, and the beginning of cataracts make lens grinding a challenge. The cataracts are a new development but do not require surgery yet and he says they may not ever. When I was a kid I was told that I read too much and "you will overstrain your eyes and damage them, and you'll go blind when you get older!" But I'd also been raised believing my medical condition would kill me before age 40 so I was pretty flippant about anything having to do with old age. Why worry about what you'll never see, right? I read by moonlight, under blankets with a flashlight, read constantly every day and night for hours and hours on end, especially when trying to get to the end of a story. I refused to wear my glasses (got teased too much for being a girl with glasses), read books with teeny tiny print, and I remember reading for so long that my eyes couldn't focus anymore and would cross so I'd shut one eye so I could see the letters on the page with no blurring. I also stared directly into the sun more than once or twice. These are all mistakes I guarded our children from now that I am a living example of what not to do.
So the new glasses are comfortable, half-frames, and designed by Armani. Ohhhhh.... that is about as close to haute ton as I shall ever be. The tops have almost exactly the same curve as my eyebrows. I do like that.
The doc checked out the diabetic risks on my eyes - no problems there at all. Those are more frightening to me than the stuff mentioned above. Glaucoma, retinal myopathy, macular degeneration, blindness due to elevated pressure in the eye - those are all risks for a diabetic. Scary, huh?
I'm working on downsizing our possessions some more. The kitchen is going through changes. We bought new flatware and will be donating away all of the mis-matched spoons, forks, and knives we currently are using. Our new set serves 12 people which should last us for the rest of our lives. And we will be losing our huge collection of plastic lidded containers this week and replacing them with a new matched set of nesting ones. Part of the "plastic problem" comes from sandwich making, odd as that sounds. The better tasting sliced meats come in resealable plastic containers, which we save since they are not recyclable. So we try to use them up until they don't seal any longer. They come in two handy sizes, too. But my man LOVES sandwiches. Loves them. I think he averages two meals a day from them. That means that we go through a lot of meat packages over the course of a year. Even holiday giveaways can't really dent our container collection. I'm going to have to take a good look at what is in the deli section to find a more affordable but earth-friendly supply. It is too bad that buying sliced meats directly from the deli is more expensive than we can manage. We have a ton of Tupperware containers. I started buying them in 1977 so you can imagine what I've stockpiled. But I don't really cook like I once did, and don't store the amount of ingredients that I once relied on. I've held on to the containers because they are Tupperware and Tupperware is expensive. I need to let that attitude go and clean the excess out of our shelves.
After flatware, storage containers, and pots & pans to follow will come - - - mugs and cups. I'm not looking forward to that. That is going to hurt and require patience and resolve. How do we collect so many of them? I think we have three cupboard shelves of "regular" mugs, then another of just Arni's travel mugs, and then yet another shelf of SCA-use cups too!
