Toe Woes and Cocktails

So here I  am after a 3rd urgent toe surgery on the toe that keeps on giving… and losing.. A quick synopsis of the toe chronicles: First surgery was 9 weeks ago to correct three toe deformities from rheumatoid arthritis. 2 weeks later the 2nd toe announces she is not perfusing all the way. “It’s […]

Toes and Teeth

Update on the foot surgery. After the main surgery, as you read previously, the hammer toe didn’t do as it was told, and didn’t perfuse all the way to the tip.. Not good. The poor surgeon was upset as in his 20-year career as a foot reconstruction surgeon, he had never lost a toe. “Look, […]

Toeful Me…

Well, surgery happened. Three toes straightened, screwed and fused with hardware and a bunionectomy thrown in for good measure. Today was my first post-op visit, and I was excited to see the new piggies with no dressings. Escorted by the chipper nurse, I hopped up on the exam table ready to go. The nurse proceeded […]

Say No to the Toe

So, I decided to have my longstanding deformed toes fixed. I have Rheumatoid arthritis and had 3 toes fixed on the other foot a few years ago. Think hammer toes and deviations.  And not from wearing high heels either, I was never that lucky to wear them much.   The big problem: On the left […]

Toothe Aches and Fall Prevention

This week, my lower left jaw pain has acted up. When I went to the dentist three months ago, he said I’m getting old. Well not in so many words, seeing how I look younger than him like much younger. What he meant was the gums on my lower left jaw are pulling away from […]

Where oh Where is your Underwear?

So, at 6am this morning I was startled awake from a dead sleep by someone yelling “Help Help! Help! repeatedly outside. Now I live in a complex that well, how should I say, is a little like a place you would imagine is “on the other side of the tracks” and not in a good […]

Get used to it.

You’ll get used to it. When you have no other out, they say you’ll get used to it. Get used to what? Everything. It’s amazing how you do. Get used to things that is, with enough time, you adapt to less. Or to acceptance, or to low expectations. Or to more than you expected. Or […]

Sometimes you just need a Pickle

So, I have terrible insomnia. I wake up sometimes at 2, 3, or 4 am and never go back to sleep. Its frustrating, aggravating, and downright exhaustive. It’s been worse since I returned home from Spain and became a re-pat. So, it was 3am the other night, and bang my eyes opened and I was […]

Ice and Bath should not be in the same sentence

So it’s been a while since I wrote, I’ve been under the weather again. I take autoimmune meds for my Rheumatoid and with every kid who blows snot in class which is every day, something jumps on me. So the teachers and I have been trading coughs, sneezes, and runny noses for the last 4 […]

A Million Little Things

My sister-in-law said to me the other day. “It’s always a million little things.” Warning serious bitching ahead. I get that. Since being home from Spain it’s been a million little things and a few big ones. I thought I swore a lot in Spain with the neck-choking bureaucracy. But I’ve had my share of […]