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2006-08-22 [The Naiad]: I know, I do keep a little light on, but sometimes that keeps me awake, or just doesn't help at all - my mind goes into over-drive when I'm tired. Ha.
2006-08-22 [Delladreing]: Heh yea. I found that one of those gel masks helps. You get them in different colours, they feel quite soothing too.
2006-08-22 [The Naiad]: Really? Hmmmm, maybe I better try that. Though it might not be very good if I fall asleep with the mask still on. LOL.
2006-08-22 [Delladreing]: heh its ok if you do that. They are meant to soothe your eyes anyway so :p
2006-08-22 [The Naiad]: Ah ok, where can I buy these masks from?
2006-08-22 [Delladreing]: I got mine from Boots chemist
2006-08-22 [The Naiad]: Oh ok, I'll have a looky. Thanks again Dela. :)
2006-08-22 [Rondel]: LOL [The Naiad], that reminds me a lot of when I was in my teens and woke up utterly freaked from a bad dream, terrified of my closet. Given that the bad dream was set in Marion Zimmer Bradley's "Darkover", during her "Ages of Chaos", I found a very simple solution to that -- I stopped reading her books. ;) My daughter's done the same thing with some of her favourite TV shows. We have a rule of thumb: no entertainment material is to be enjoyed to/beyond the point where one is dreaming in the genre. LOL And yes, I'd definitely say that this applies to fairy tales and ghost stories.
One solution for bad dreams that I've run across over the years is the use of lavender; I've even seen it commercially sold in the form of little lavender stuffed "dream pillows", which are supposed to help the user have good dreams. Since lavender is a relaxant, it would make sense, from that angle.
Oh, and there's a Bach Flower Remedy which targets nightmares: Rock Rose. I've known it to be quite effective, even when the user had them very badly (in one case, a Viet Nam veteran with severe PTSD). The Rescue Remedy mix also contains Rock Rose, along with several other remedies which can be helpful for conditions which are often associated with nightmares (such as "circling thoughts", where you keep dwelling on the same train of thought, or coming back to it, even when you don't mean to).
You can generally get both Bach Flower remedies and essential oil of lavender at many health food stores, especially the ones which also carry things like aromatherapy supplies, or homeopathic medicines. Plain lavender from the garden is just as useful as the essential oil, though. And, one side note: pure essential oil of lavender has the capacity to act as an immune sensitizer, so it's something to be careful about it you're already prone to that type of health problem. On the other hand, I've got immune system problems, and I've never had a problem with the use of oil of lavender, but I prefer to be comprehensive with the health warnings when making recommendation
2006-08-22 [Azuri]: Hmm I hadnt thought of lavander*hand head* silly me. Ill probly try to get that and the Bach flower thing and see how that works. its really starting to wear on my fiance :( so Im trying to see if i cant do something for him.
yea oils can be kinda iffy depending on the person which is why everyones gotta be careful with them.
2006-08-22 [Delladreing]: Failing that a mallet to the noggin seems to help.
2006-08-22 [sequeena_rae]: Or 4head :P
2006-08-22 [Delladreing]: :P
2006-08-22 [sequeena_rae]: Cause that's awesome.
Though it numbs my eyes xD
2006-08-22 [Delladreing]: Yea, it makes me feel weird too lol
2006-08-22 [sequeena_rae]: But it smells so lurvly :3
2006-08-22 [Delladreing]: as numbing as it is
2006-08-22 [sequeena_rae]: It's addictive xD
2006-08-22 [The Naiad]: Haha. Actually, [Rondel] I do have a small lavender pillow, but it lives underneath my big pillow, maybe I should put it on top and try that for a night. Thanks for your advice everyone. :)
2006-08-22 [Azuri]: I had one once, it was nice i need to go hunt down another one
2006-08-23 [The Naiad]: Yes, they are nice [Azuri], you should find another one. My brother has a bear with lavender inside him that you can heat up and use as a hot water bottle too. It's nice. :) And I did sleep much better last night, though for some reason I did still wake about 5 or 6 times for a few minutes, but I wasn't afraid. I burned some oils before I slept and told myself there was nothing to be afraid of - not people, not ghosts or the dead and not the Gods, and I think it all helped. :)
2006-08-25 [Azuri]: Ooo I want a bear like that! that would be awesome. I so took the poll XD some of the choices are just out there Dela
2006-08-25 [The Naiad]: I took the poll too yesterday, I just forgot to mention it. LOL.
2006-08-25 [a faerie tale]: Oooh, fun. I like to Cook.
2006-08-25 [The Naiad]: Me too. Though I'm not that good, so maybe Dela's recipes would come in useful. ;)
2006-08-25 [a faerie tale]: Exactly!
2006-08-25 [Delladreing]: Hehehe well stay tuned kiddies Cooking with Dela
2006-08-25 [The Naiad]: Yay, I'm watching it. What other recipes do you plan to put on there Dela? :)
2006-08-25 [Delladreing]: Lots. When I get enough I plan to have it done out as "starters" "main course" "deserts" and inclusing "seasonal treats" there is a ton of stuff I want to do for Christmas.
2006-08-25 [The Naiad]: Great! A soon-to-be-in-
2006-08-25 [Delladreing]: Hehe yea, and the stuff I am going to put up will be rather easy (I hope), the pie that is already up took me an hour to make. That included taking the photos aswell ;)
2006-08-25 [The Naiad]: Ohhh, good. Well, I'm the kinda cook that burns pasta mince. Ha. So watch out. ;)
2006-08-25 [Delladreing]: Eh no worries, I've tamed worse ;)
2006-08-25 [Azuri]: Haha Im the same way [The Naiad] I wanna learn to cook a bit better so Pete doesnt have to do all the cooking XD
2006-08-25 [Azuri]: Haha so true, but I'd like to cook for him every once in awhile(it's a nice break for him and makes me feel all girly:o). I always knew Id have to find someone who was good at cooking or I'd be screwed XD
2006-08-25 [The Naiad]: Hehe. I hope I find a lovely man that's good at cooking too. Ah well, guess I'll just have to wait and see. ;)
2006-08-25 [Azuri]: *pokes* I know you will your all spifftacular!
2006-08-25 [The Naiad]: Haha. I wish men thought that more. ;P
2006-08-25 [Azuri]: Hehe, I always thought that too. Its funny I was the least popular with the guys in my group of friends and I'm the first to be married XD
2006-08-25 [The Naiad]: Hehe, that's great. All it takes is the right person, that special someone. And if for some reason I never find that one good man then I'll become an old cat lady!
2006-08-25 [Azuri]: heheh, old cat lady XD I'm gonna be one anyway XD I love kitties. Ill be all old and cynial and talking to mah kitties
2006-08-25 [The Naiad]: Me too, even if I have a man. Ha. ;)
2006-08-25 [Azuri]: hehehe I want a pet so bad :( Ive never gotten so many offers for one now that we cant have one(landlord wont allow it) We got a offer for a ferret, a monkey and a little cute puppy! I so wanted the puppy :(
2006-08-25 [The Naiad]: Awh, I'm not allowed any pets either - silly mother. I think we both need to move to somewhere better. LOL.
2006-08-25 [Azuri]: haha mesh mesh pets are awesomeness^_^
2006-08-25 [The Naiad]: Yes indeedy. *Huggles all animals and gets mauled alot in the process* Tee hee. :D
2006-08-25 [Azuri]: haha mauled is a fun word XD so is spork
2006-08-25 [The Naiad]: I have hear the word spork being used over here. I've never actually seen one I don't think - splades yes, sporks no.
2006-08-26 [Azuri]: O.o WTF IS A splade?!
This is a spork
http://www.pro
2006-08-26 [The Naiad]: Ah I see. This is a splade, I think it's a cross between a blade and a fork and a spoon... or something. LOL. http://www.pea
2006-08-26 [sequeena_rae]: They're like, one and the same.
2006-08-27 [Azuri]: Yea, im gonna go with them being the same thing hehe
2006-08-27 [sequeena_rae]: One is just proper cutlery while the other is plastic :P
2006-08-27 [The Naiad]: Heh, right. They do look similar.
2006-08-27 [Azuri]: Nuh uh we have metal sporks :-P
2006-08-28 [a faerie tale]: Mmmm. Spork.
2006-08-28 [The Naiad]: Hmmm... strange.
2006-08-28 [a faerie tale]: Sporks are awesome. It's a spoon AND a fork.
2006-08-29 [The Naiad]: I prefer splades. I actually own those - I've never seen a spork really.
2006-08-29 [sequeena_rae]: Well this is a lovely conversation o.O
2006-08-29 [The Naiad]: Hehe, yah. ;P
2006-08-29 [Delladreing]: Ooh the intelligence of it all :P
2006-08-29 [Pyra]: Ohhhh, I've never seen a splade! They're like a spork, only manlier.
<.<...I think...ZOMGLI
2006-08-29 [a faerie tale]: Haha. Lills, we need to hang out soon. :p
2006-08-30 [Pyra]: Yes. Yes we do. Ack, shame upon my inability to get a tan. I'm tired of being pale. Maybe I should fake n' bake, yes? Maybe something will go wrong in the booth, and OMG radioactive powers! Eeee!
2006-08-30 [Delladreing]: Oh god no o.o if you must get a fake tan, get it sprayed on :p
2006-08-30 [a faerie tale]: Hahahaha! ZOMG, if you got radioactive powers, could I be your lame side-kick?!?!
2006-08-30 [The Naiad]: I love being pale - I have very pale skin, ivory-like, and I love it. :)
2006-08-30 [Azuri]: haha fake n bake, i prefer not being orange.
2006-08-30 [The Naiad]: lick ben, lickl ben, lick him up the bum, lick his may pole
2006-08-30 [a faerie tale]: ...What?
2006-08-30 [Delladreing]: ...I second that.
2006-08-30 [The Naiad]: Ben wrote that, lol. Not me.
2006-08-30 [Pyra]: To Dela and Naiad, that was strange. To Kat, YES. Yes you may be my side-kick. You'd have the utility belt and everything.
2006-08-30 [a faerie tale]: Haha! We'd be an amazing duo! What should we call ourselves?
2006-08-31 [Azuri]: Haha sooooo weeeirrd, whatever you call youselfs it cant be samich chick and key eating girl, its taken :-P
2006-08-31 [a faerie tale]: Damn, 'cause I had my heart set on that!
2006-08-31 [Azuri]: Or maybe it was the other way around, its been so long XD
2006-09-05 [BarleySinger]: To Dela and anyone else here who sometimes send messages to me or Rondel. I have had another of those extreme pain episodes (like the one that landed me in the hospital...but worse). Anyway ignore this if you have no interest
http://elftown
2006-09-05 [sequeena_rae]: Oh I'm so sorry :( I hope you get better soon!
2006-09-05 [The Naiad]: Yes, get better soon Ken. :) I had a strange pain in my side once - it was so bad I couldn't move, I just cried. According to the doctor's it was cysts bursting on my ovaries. Thank you doctors... they never did check me out to see if it was actually that though. :S
2006-09-05 [Delladreing]: .... right, all of you in a line up now. You are all being bubble wrapped and put on a high shelf.
2006-09-05 [sequeena_rae]: *wraps Dela in the bubble wrap instead* x)
2006-09-05 [The Naiad]: Heheh. Why Dela why? *Tugs are your hair*
2006-09-05 [Delladreing]: To protect you all damnit!
2006-09-05 [sequeena_rae]: Pfft, hardly :P
She wants us for our bodies x) XD
2006-09-05 [Delladreing]: Yes..because I have suddenly decided to swing away from my long love of men because I saw you two -.- :P
2006-09-05 [sequeena_rae]: *poses*
I can understand why x)
Besides, I'm marrying you, no-one else XD!
2006-09-05 [Delladreing]: Darn, secrets out the bag then :O
2006-09-05 [sequeena_rae]: Nyahaha x)
2006-09-05 [The Naiad]: I have pictures. ^-^
2006-09-05 [a faerie tale]: Heheheh.
2006-09-06 [Azuri]: XD :puts dela in a bubble and puts her and grabs a pitch fork:
2006-09-06 [The Naiad]: Hehe. :P
2006-09-06 [moonscale]: starts popping bubbles while watching with interested
2006-09-06 [sequeena_rae]: Bubble wrap @_@ *wants*
2006-09-06 [moonscale]: Mine! clutches it tightly, making it pop more...oh fine! you can pop some too
2006-09-06 [a faerie tale]: *jumps on the ground, and rolls around to pop bubbles* They're firing at us! They're firing! Fire at will!
2006-09-06 [Azuri]: *takes out secret stash of bubble wrap* Ah how I love you bubble wrap* starts poping it*
2006-09-06 [The Naiad]: *Licks my paw*
2006-09-06 [Delladreing]: bwuh o.O
2006-09-07 [sequeena_rae]: Give me the bubble wrap damnit! *death glare*
I'm going to kick you all to the moon and back x)
2006-09-07 [Azuri]: *gives bubble wrap*
2006-09-07 [sequeena_rae]: Yaaaaaaaay! *huggles* pop pop POP!!!!
2006-09-07 [The Naiad]: *Sleeps in a ball*
2006-09-07 [moonscale]: *pokes The Naiad*
2006-09-08 [Rondel]: Ahh, it's always so fascinating to see the serious and informative conversations that this wiki gets up to when I've been offline for a while... </sarcasm-filte
And <bestows bubblewrap on all> -- here: http://www.vir
Because I can. <weary smile> It's 8.18am now, maybe I should go to bed... ...even if I haven't finished the dishes...
Hugs to those who want them. :) <-- see? I'm really NOT panicking about my husband's failed liver function tests, I'm not. Really, I'm not. Really! I'm not I'm not I'm not! ...nope, still doesn't sound convincing even to me. Damn.
2006-09-08 [Delladreing]: *hugs [Rondel]* Hope you don't mind dear, but I put out another request for prayers after talking to Ken.
You have my thoughts, my prayers, and my hopes mixed in with my best wishes. You really do, I can't express how worried I am right now. *more hugs*
The informative stuff comes and goes, usually these days its just goes as we dont get too many annoying people in here anymore, and it just descends in to friendly nonsnese lol, I love that link btw. 'm going to sit and play that for quite a while I can tell.
2006-09-09 [Avoral]: Now I want bubble wrap.
2006-09-09 [Azuri]: Lol mesh mesh. *huggles [Rondel] You have my thoughts as well I hope everything pans out soon!
2006-09-09 [The Naiad]: I think I might be getting a kitten! (At last) We haven't had any pets for nearly 6 years!
2006-09-09 [BarleySinger]: Thank you [Delladreing]. I really appreciate your kindness.
I know that I am not looking forward to ANY of the likely results of my upcoming medical tests. Gall Bladder surgery is the most likely and least serious. I just hope I don't have to wait in line forever, if that is the verdict. Mostly I would like to eat again. Never been this thin before. It is odd and kinda scary.
2006-09-09 [Delladreing]: You are most welcome [BarleySinger]. I know what its like to be in chronic pain and to be scared and all of those things, I hate to see other people going thorugh them. I really wish there was more I could do.
2006-09-09 [moonscale]: Good luck to all of you, I hope it turns out ok.
2006-09-09 [sequeena_rae]: The same goes for me, I hope it all turns out fine :)
2006-09-09 [The Naiad]: Me too. :)
2006-09-09 [Rondel]: We'll let you folks know when we have news -- in the meantime, thank you ever so much for the good wishes! {{{{HUGS}}}}
2006-09-09 [sequeena_rae]: *huggles* Don't think of it, it's time like this you need your friends and family around you ^^
2006-09-09 [moonscale]: Even friends who you don't really know....*huggl
2006-09-09 [sequeena_rae]: *nod nod* Indeed
2006-09-10 [The Naiad]: Kittens! ^-^
2006-09-10 [Rondel]: That's part of why I come here at times like this. Good people, and it seems to me that the nature of the group selects for sincerity. LOL I don't think that the other personality types are all that compatible with Dela's ranting, at least not on this topic. *chuckle* And thanks, even if they're not necessary -- we're pretty isolated, physically, so the social support here online matters a lot to us. {{{{{wallows in hugs}}}}}
2006-09-10 [Rondel]: Oh -- and kittens sound like a *wonderful* treat! :D Are you getting one for sure now? Or is it still a maybe? And will it just be one, or is the "Kittens!" comment a sign that you're getting more than one? I am *very* happy for you. Our family hasn't had any pets in about 7 years, so my daughter doesn't remember what it was like (she's only 9, going on 10). Even then, we had gerbils, so they weren't as interactive; I'm allergic to cats. :( VERY allergic. *sigh* But I love them, and I'm very happy for people who get to enjoy them, especially kittens. But one obvious piece of advice, from my experience at age 5 (before we learned I was allergic) -- don't take them down the slide. ;) I *still* have scars, from that particular mistake... LOL ...but when you're 5, it makes sense: "I like going down the slide, and I like the kitten, so maybe the kitten would like to go down the slide! But it's little, so I better hold it while it goes down..." *pained chuckle* *giggles*
2006-09-10 [Delladreing]: Hehehe oh dear, I can picture that now. We hat a cat when I was growing up, only she was an ancient old thing. My parents got her when they got married because they were under the impression that they would never be able to have children so she was a good 17 years olf when I was born and by then she was a lazy old cat lol. I took over her spot in the kitchen with my babyrocker, and she didn't like it. Right up until she realised that by pawing at my seat she could make me rock which stopped the wailing sound I made and was a good toy for her to play with ;) I remember when I was 3 years old I tried to feed her by putting a can on the floor and a carton of milk and then watching her chase the can over the floor as she tried to paw it open. It was a good fond memory of watching the cat essentially play ice hockey on our marble floor lol.
2006-09-10 [Rondel]: Goodness, that's *old* for a cat! The interaction between the two of you sounds like it was good, as long as it was her rocking you in your babyrocker... ...but I have to kind of pity her for the frustration she must have felt when confronted by that can of food, that she couldn't open. It would have looked hilarious, and of course made perfect sense to a 3-year-old... ...but gee, the poor cat! I think if there's one piece of human technology cats wish they could master, it would be the can opener. What do you think?
2006-09-10 [Delladreing]: I think if a cat could work a can opener they'd be one step closer to taking over humanity. She was a lovely old cat with arthritus, she did claw me a few times as a child, but that was because I was in the state of "pretty kitty" and then poking it in the eye. And even then it was never a serois clawing, just enough to make me stop prodding her -lol-
There were a few times she would climb up in to my craddle and sit on me. That would scare the hell out of my parents as they thougth she was suffocating me. But she always seemed to do it in a way where she'd be keepng me warm but not causing me any harm. When I was little I had serious problems with keeping warm (still do, god bless hot water bottles) due to my premature birth and lack of circulation + blood etc etc. So my dad reckons the kitty could sense when I was too cold and having problems and used to try to keep me warm like she would if I were a kitten or something. There is a photo of it somewhere I must try to find it.
2006-09-10 [a faerie tale]: Woah.
2006-09-11 [The Naiad]: Well, my mother has been banning all animals from the house for the last 6 years, so I've finally worn her down. Hehe. My friend Rhian's cat had kittens 8 weeks ago, and we're all going to look at them tonight (they should be big, healthy farm cats hopefully). We're looking for two girls, which is kinda crazy, my mother doesn't want one cat now she says we have to have two to keep each other company. XD I've been thinking of all beautiful names I could call my cat - Clio/ Cleo is one of my favourites so far. What does anyone think?
2006-09-11 [Azuri]: Hehe fun stuff, I wish our landlord would let us have a animal! The last person to live here messed this house up and her animals destroyed the house :(
2006-09-11 [Delladreing]: Cleo! o.o
2006-09-11 [Rondel]: I like the name Clio, it sounds like a wonderful name for a kitten/cat! :) Healthy farm cat kittens sounds like the perfect way to get felines for the household, too; you know the ancestry, family medical history, and they're likely to be vigorous hybrids, without those nasty in-breeding problems. Not to mention capable of practical things like catching any mice you might happen to have wander into your house in the course of their lifetime. Are they to be indoor cats, indoor/outdoor
2006-09-11 [The Naiad]: Yes, now I've just got to let my parents talk and make the final decision whether we should get a kitten or two from my friend or not. *Fingers crossed*
2006-09-11 [Rondel]: Oh, and on the other thread, for those who care, we've found out what's wrong with my husband -- his gall bladder is really bad, inflamed and full of stones, and they're going to have to surgically remove it. The radiologist said that it was the most "extraordinary
2006-09-11 [sequeena_rae]: 10 times thicker? Wow o.o
Lots of luck, both of you, but especially your husband *huggles* I'm sure everything will be perfectly fine :)
2006-09-11 [The Naiad]: Wow, well good luck to both of you. At least it's something they can fix. :)
2006-09-11 [Rondel]: It's going to be quite an interesting "ride", considering that my husband can't eat or drink anything they have in the hospital (organic diet for medical reasons, chlorine intolerance), and is made sick by exposure to cleaning chemicals... ...and I've got the same thing only worse, so I can't visit him while he's in, or even drive a car... ...and that means that my daughter and I will be stuck at home in our rural home with no transportation for the entire time my husband is in hospital... ...we don't even know how we'll get him to and from the hospital (it's over 20 minutes to the nearest town from our house)... ...the rental agents want to inspect our house next week... ...and I have been bed-bound so much of the last decade that this is the first time I'll have been caring for myself, much less my daughter, in nearly 10 years (as of January this year, I didn't even have enough muscle to sit up on my own without tearing muscle in the process)... So the diagnosis and recoverable part are big wonderful things, compared to the worries we WERE facing, but we're not out of the woods yet. So, anyone who's sending us any "positive energy" towards getting through this and getting my husband better, please keep it up, if you can -- we'd be grateful. We'll make it work, but it's DEFINITELY going to be *interesting*, and not necessarily in a good sense. *wry laugh*
2006-09-11 [Azuri]: *huggles* I know youll find a way there and Im sure he will be fine^_^ Ill keep you all in my thoughts, good luck!
2006-09-19 [Rondel]: Thank you -- there's been further news, he still has to have the gall bladder out, but they had to fix the liver aneurysm first. *in shock* I have to sleep soon, so I can keep taking care of self and daughter. Thank you again. I mean it. There's no one here locally for us, not that we know; however, one of the government agencies is going to see if a church group can help see to it that we don't run out of food before we have someone in the house who can drive again (I can't, at least not without using an oxygen tank, breaking the law, and risking an accident). We live in a rural area, so this isn't as easy as it sounds, especially since I can't leave the house without that tank, and even then it upsets the delicate balance of my health, which is currently just good enough to allow me to get up out of 15 years of near-constant bed rest, to take care of myself and our daughter. Your emotional support is welcome. I feel like this all sounds melodramatic, but I'm too shocky right now to put it more carefully. These are just the dry facts.
At least today's rental inspection has been rescheduled (though I'm not sure that's a positive, I'm not up to cleaning the house any further than I have over the last week, since we got the notice -- I had to, otherwise my husband would have, and as it was, he was rushed to hospital by ambulance Sunday). And there should still be someone in to fix the stove at some point in the upcoming weeks; the safety glass top of it shattered a bit ago, everything's too blurred together for me to be sure just when.
I prefer my crises one at a time. Can I be done with them for the next decade, once we make it through this, please? Please?
2006-09-19 [sequeena_rae]: Don't feel melodramatic, we're here to help in any way we can. I just wish there was something more we could do -_- Like, all of us coming over to you to actually help you out :D
2006-09-20 [moonscale]: THats exactly how I feel! I wish I could d something instead of just sitting here. *sends hugs atleast*
2006-09-20 [Azuri]: *nod nod* Stupid drama I think we all wish we could be done with it but hopefully it will leave you alone for a long time to come.
2006-09-21 [Rondel]: Well, the good news is finally coming to take the place of the bad -- I wrote to my local pagan mailing list, of which I've been a member for a round half decade, at least, without posting *terribly* often, or ever meeting any of the members (due to the chemical sensitivity problems mentioned here already), described our situation, and begged for help. Within 12 hours, I had multiple offers of help, with everything from seeing to it that we get groceries brought out to us (so I can keep feeding myself and my daughter, and Ken once he gets home, until he can drive again), to bringing Ken home from the hospital (saving both money and chemical exposure, since our only other choice was a cab-ride, and the folks doing this keep their cars relatively chemical-free), to helping to fix our washing machine, so I can do laundry. Failing that, I've even had an offer to help replace it, for free if possible (through the local Freecycling group), or on the cheap (used) -- the folks in question have a trailer hitch, so they could pick it up and get it to us, if need be, AND they've offered to detox it for me, so I won't be made ill by the residue of chlorinated water and/or laundry product residue fumes. (Yes, my sensitivities really are that bad, and Ken's are almost as bad, but so far our daughter is mostly escaping the health problems of MCS, as long as we keep her in a non-polluted environment.)
AND:
2006-09-21 [sequeena_rae]: That's wonderful news [Rondel]! I really hope everything works out for you :D
2006-09-21 [The Naiad]: Yes, everything seems to be going good for both of you. Blessed be to you. :)
2006-09-21 [a faerie tale]: Yay! I'm so glad. :)
Bright blessings Rondel!
2006-09-21 [Rondel]: Hello folks, it's a beautiful morning, and I've caught up on my sleep, and Ken is recovering from surgery without that big nasty knot of infected pain in his belly, and we have a way to get food, get him home from the hospital, and get both of us to the doctor -- and all's right (or at least getting better) with the world! :)
2006-09-22 [Azuri]: Yay Im so glad everythings looking up! You guys are so nice and deserve nothing but happiness!
2006-09-23 [Rondel]: Uh -- things changed, less than hours after I wrote that. I called Ken, at the hospital, and found out some things -- the gallbladder was too infected to be taken out, he's been given a "safety surgery" procedure where they cleaned it up, and put in a drainage tube (a "cholecystosto
Oh, and I can't go into the hospital, even to learn how to care for Ken's stoma (the hole the drainage tube goes through) -- but the couple who are helping the most (he's bringing Ken home, she's doing my grocery shopping) are an RN and his wife, whose daughter had a colostomy, so they're going to be able to show me how to care for Ken's medical needs after he returns.
All in all, things just got a lot more scary. But it looks like they'll still be okay. In the end. Eventually. It's all "hardware", which makes it fixable. And the blood vessel shut down in the aneurysm repair turned out not to be the only blood supply to the gallbladder, it's getting enough blood from another source, so there's been no cell death -- which is why, when they found that that huge infected gallbladder was attached by "adhesions" to its neighbouring organs, they didn't have to do the incredibly risky operation to take it out anyway, knowing it would probably explode and spread infected material all throughout Ken's abdominal cavity.
Oh, and the surgeon said that aneurysms like that are rare, and almost NEVER recur, so at least we should be okay on THAT count. This one DID rupture, but it was contained within the liver, and it also stopped on its own, for no reason; if it hadn't, or if it had been half a millimetre to one side... ...well, what the surgeon said was "somebody up there likes you".
I figure he doesn't know the half of it, thanks to folks like you, and at least 70 pagans in Scotland, prayer networks in the US, and a lot more, including at least 1 each of Mabon and Ostara rituals, on each side of the globe, including pleas for Ken's well-being... (and any other genuine folks you can get involved are welcome)...
But, a lot of people who get a bleed like that apparently lie down and wait for the pain to stop -- and don't wake up. I left Ken sleeping in the tub that night, at his instruction... :O
Which is probably why the dear sweet rat fink waited a few days to tell me, until he was through the (first -- well, second, if you count the angiogram where they repaired his aneurysm) surgery and out the other side.
So now you know what's up with us. We've made it through the first crises, and solved the seemingly insurmountable problems initially facing us, but we've got a LONG way to go yet. I just have to keep my faith that we'll make it. But please don't stop the prayers, rituals, candles, workings, whatever, on our behalf -- we need all the help we can get, and not just in terms of tangible (or financial) help -- every good wish is more than welcome.
As for the fiscal issue (we've got two huge ambulance bills, among other crap we have no idea how we'll play, and our phone bill is going to be astronomical from the long distance calls to allow us to stay in touch), I'm going to try to get Ken's music available for sale again, online, as a fundraiser. He's got two full, finished albums of instrumental music, which have gotten him some radio play and a movie screen credit (not to mention interest from the pagan community, in his pagan-specific music), so that's not as far-fetched as it might sound. If you want to give the stuff a listen, and maybe spread the word about it if you like it, so that there's a market waiting for it when I can get it released through CafePress or Lulu or one of the other services that'll handle publishing and distribution for us, you can find it at http://www.mp3
I hope it was okay to mention that last -- it just seemed like a good option to try to pursue under the circumstances, because our budget was *just barely* working on our disability pension as it was, and I've learned that miracles need to be given the opportunity to happen. They may not do so, but I'd rather give 'em the chance, at least.
Oh, and Ken mentioned that he'd really appreciate it if some of you folks who've been sending good wishes could drop him a note, directly, once he's back online -- he gets lonely sometimes, and this sidelining is likely to compound that somewhat, though our enforced connection with our local pagan community may counterbalance it, at least to some degree.
2006-09-24 [a faerie tale]: Oh, Rondel, and things were looking so optimistic!
I'm sure that things will work themselves out.
You'll be in my prayers.
2006-09-24 [Rondel]: Thank you -- as I said, that means A LOT to us. {{{HUGS}}}
2006-09-26 [sezmo lex]: I am not a ful time menber of this site as i have work comitments which stop me coming on, ROndel is amazing person and my +Energy will be coming your way. can you not open a donations account, i would be more than happy to be the 1st to donate, you could do it on paypal!
2006-09-26 [Rondel]: I actually have been doing just that, at the request of various people, family and friends alike. The response so far has been surprising, but welcome. We are both touched by the care and concern shown by our community, online and off, and the various ways in which people are choosing to reach out to us, financial included. I'll get you those account details when I have them finalized -- I started by getting our existing accounts in order, but they are respectively one Premium and one Business account, and that would mean fees would be taken out of the money sent, so we're opening a new Personal account, in addition, which would mean that all donations would reach us intact -- which is, I think, preferable from *everyone's* point of view. I really don't quite know what to say or how to say it, other than -- THANK YOU. *sniff* {{{HUGS}}} This helps to counterbalance the stress/worry always engendered in me by dealing with our finances -- which I've had to do today, as it is our bill-paying day, as well as being the day on which I got our first groceries delivered, some to me at home by a new friend, and some to Ken in hospital, by the nearest organic shop. Ken is in patient paradise -- he's wallowing in fresh organic fruit (food he can actually eat, yay!), and using it as incentive to keep himself walking, now that he's allowed to, on the principle that every step is a step closer to home. *sniff* *watery smile* He got up for the first time since the surgery on Sunday, and did so 3 times, since he'd been supposed to the day before, and he'd been champing at the bit for a chance to do so. The next day, Monday, he walked 0.85 of a kilometer (he paced off a 50 meter hallway, and walked 17 laps), and today he walked 3.5 kilometers before I spoke to him at 8.30pm! That's 70 laps of his hallway - and he planned to get a few more in before sleeping. He's VERY dedicated to a fast recovery, so he can get home to us... :,} And tomorrow, he gets my latest "care package" - PROTEIN. I was able to borrow a cooler/eskie, and send it to him full of frozen yogurt and a brand new tofu dish I invented just for him, when he decided he wasn't up to meat yet. I cooked a whole block up with a minimal amount of butter, 5 mushrooms, a little tiny bit of onion greens, tamari, and white wine. It came out yummy -- I added water and simmered it until the tofu was really soft (after browning it first, for texture, half a batch at a time, the first half in the mushroom butter, the second half in the remainder of the butter and a little tamari), and the water almost all absorbed. That should help put some muscle back on his body -- and I sent him some razors so he can stop feeling like a scruffy old man he doesn't recognize in the mirror. :/ And as a special treat, he got a card from our daughter; he said it was as well I sent that instead of the locks of hair from her latest haircut (which I'd set aside for him), because that probably would have made him break down and cry, which would hurt. But his staples are healing unusually well (bless all of you for praying for him!), and he's really enjoying the books I sent -- he's 300 pages into "The Walking Drum", an incredible novel of the early middle ages, by Louis l'Amour, of all people. I've been recommending it to him for years, and now he knows why -- he's planning on reading it twice, even though I sent other good books with it. :D This is the first time in years he's had much time to read -- usually he avoids it, because he gets too far into it to be able to pay attention to much else, and he's been kept busy running the household. But our daughter is being wonderfully dedicated to being as self-sufficien
So that's the latest. I miss him, but I am glad he's got this chance to truly rest and recuperate. I just about have to sit on him to get him to do that when he's at home. LOL
2006-09-26 [a faerie tale]: That's amazing! 3.5 kilometers?!?
I'm so happy for you guys! Congrats.
I'm glad he's so dedicated to getting well so fast, but make sure he paces himself! :)
2006-09-27 [sezmo lex]: I'm glad that things are looking up! Im suprised the hospital don't have the corect deit for him, surly he has the same rights as everyone else to be fed and im sure you pay taxs like everyone else!
2006-09-27 [Rondel]: Um, yes, [sezmo lex], but -- when's the last time you saw a hospital that stocked a 100% organic diet? [BarleySinger] and I have severe Multiple Chemical Sensitivity, it nearly starved me to death before I found out that I *could* eat, as long as the food was organically grown (free from pesticides and other agricultural chemicals) -- and he's actually more sensitive to many pesticides than I am. So, it was organic food, go hungry, or risk having his belly blow up like a balloon, and rip all the staples out. Either of us can literally gain a foot (1/3 metre) in girth, just from a few bites of non-organic food.
2006-09-27 [Rondel]: I figure that I don't mind getting the food to him, as long as we've got a way -- it hasn't been that long since hospitals would refuse to admit that there could be such a thing as MCS, and in that era, they wouldn't have believed us about the dietary requirement, and DEFINITELY wouldn't have honoured it. I'm just glad that they ARE respecting hubby's medical needs, even if they can't meet this one themselves.
But there are volunteers at the hospital who can run errands for the patients, and there's a nearby shop with organic food, which they've already gotten him food from, before.
So, with the help of the nice folks who will run him cooked/prepare
It's a pretty decent diet in fact -- the nurses have warned him to keep an eye on his fruit, because it looks so yummy that the other patients (many of whom have just come off of an all-liquid diet) may find it as tempting as the staff do! LOL
(Not that they'd actually risk depriving him of the food that he needs, given the lengths to which we've had to go to get it to him, but dang, the tomatoes are so fresh and ripe they practically GLOW... *grin*)
2006-09-27 [sequeena_rae]: Zomg bwee! :D
2006-09-27 [Delladreing]: Good bye for now my loving minions I am going away on a hiatus from the internet fot a few days/week(s). I need to take a break to work on my health. I'm leaving the wiki in the hands of my friends to mind (Y'all know who you are) not that I think anything will happen. Any shit goes down report it or eh uh, yea STUFF! See you all soon my dears *hugs*
2006-09-27 [Azuri]: *huggles teh Dela* Hope all goes well with nurseing your health back!
2006-09-27 [The Naiad]: Everyone - be well and bright! Blessed be. :)
2006-09-27 [a faerie tale]: Bright blessings to both you and your husband, Rondel. :)
And Dela, I hope you get well soon!
2006-09-28 [Rondel]:
2006-09-28 [The Naiad]: Yay! *Dances* Happy happy to all. :)
2006-09-28 [Azuri]: Yay!
2006-09-28 [BarleySinger]: limps around room wishing he could dance, and says "yay" rather softly...then lies down for a bit.
2006-09-28 [Delladreing]: I'm forcing my brother to type for me here, but yaaay *hugs BarleySinger*
2006-09-29 [a faerie tale]: Ohhh, congratulation
2006-09-29 [moonscale]: *huggles!* for everyone!
2006-09-30 [Rondel]: *happy huggles* He's back, he's back, he's back, he's back! *dances happily around room*
And, as of today, he's even able to get back into bed, instead of spending all his time on the daybed, where I can't snuggle anything more than his feet!
2006-09-30 [a faerie tale]: Heheh, awwww. That's a funny mental image. :)
2006-10-07 [Falx]: *HUGGLES!*
2006-10-11 [Delladreing]: My new project is here:
2006-10-25 [BarleySinger]: Looks like we will be attending a group ritual in a few days with actual other human beings!!! IT has been years since we went to any kind of group pagan ritual. We are trying to connent with our local asssortment of pagans in the community that has been so very helpful to us in and after my hospitalizatio
2006-10-28 [Rondel]: Yup. *fights nerves, which are themselves battling with anticipatory excitement* We've already survived the first major threat to our ability to do this -- as BarleySinger woke up day before yesterday with a major headache caused by a tooth abcessing, and it was being very difficult to tell which of two it was -- and our dental care availability is limited to emergency visits for one tooth at a time, at the moment, once per week. Generally this is through the local office, which is only open on Fridays at the moment (budget cuts), so that would have meant two visits on succeeding Fridays, with the second being the same day as the upcoming ritual and post-ritual feast and gathering. Argh! But we managed to get the abcessing tooth seen to, and with luck, the other one will hold out a while longer. We *really* want to go to this thing, and have given as firm a committment to be there as our health problems will allow. I'm NOT looking forward to the inevitable migraine which I can be fairly sure I'll get for the day or 3 following the gathering, but dammit, I wanna go!
It's been coolish lately, though, so it's time to break out the warm robes.
2006-10-28 [a faerie tale]: Good luck! :)
2006-10-28 [Delladreing]: Yes indeed good luck! I hope you have fun and that the after effects of exposure wont be too bad :s
2006-10-28 [Rondel]: Thanks for the good luck wishes -- I'm sure we can use them! It's nervewracking planning on not only going to our first outing of this kind in a decade or so, but also having someone else try to feed us (meeting our weird medical dietary restrictions) in the process! I thought at first we were looking at a potluck where we could use the family fallback of bringing something we could make a meal off of, in case there wasn't anything else there we could eat, but nope, these folks are dedicated to doing it themselves, and feeding us, despite the restrictions. They're being so sweet about it, I feel like if we make backup plans, we'll be insulting them. *sigh* Eep!
2006-10-28 [The Naiad]: Hey, sorry to interrupt the ongoing convos, but is anyone doing anything for Samhain this year?
2006-10-28 [BarleySinger]: I just hate the fact that we get the choice of not seeing other human beings (ever), living totally isolated, or being sick. Every time one of our new local friends drops by it takes at least a few days to recover the health loss. It makes me wish we had a room with a large glass window pane down the middle of it. That was we could see people, and sit down near them, without being in the same airspace.
2006-10-28 [The Naiad]: Hehe. I'm not feeling too great myself right now - got the flu I think. Though I welcome human/ kitten comfort right now, it makes me feel somewhat better for awhile. Tis the season of mist and mellow fruitfullness, and also illness. Blah!
2006-10-29 [a faerie tale]: Awww, you guys should totally be part of the 'Extreme Makeover: Home Edition' dealies. X)
2006-10-29 [The Naiad]: I've never watched that show, it always seemed so... annoying.
2006-10-30 [a faerie tale]: Aww, no, it's fun.
:)
2006-10-30 [moonscale]: Most shows are annoying... at least to me.
2006-10-30 [a faerie tale]: Except House,MD -- whcich is AMAZING.
2006-10-30 [Linderel]: House <3 'Tis the best series EVAR.
2006-10-31 [a faerie tale]: Indeed!
2006-10-31 [Rondel]: I want House for my doctor, even though I know he'd make me cordially loathe him. I actually found a doctor who is incredibly close to him in real life (a competent diagnostician, top of his class, with international ties, spends one full day per week keeping up with the latest research, etc.) -- only to have him jerked out from under our ability to see him, as a result of a law about malpractise insurance (he practises without it, in order to be able to see pension patients without charging a gap fee that they can't afford -- after all, he's incredibly good, and has never even come close to being sued, in 45+ years of practise...). Sucks, don't it?
As for rituals this year, we may well celebrate Samhain -- in another 6 months, when it comes around on the wheel of the year down here in the Southern Hemisphere... ...for now, we're going to a Beltaine gathering this Friday... :D
In other news, I got one of those "your site rocks, here are all the incredibly obvious things you already know, which I think that you should learn, in order to fix it and make it more navigable (since, after all, its navigability is only what got you your first paying gig working as a web designer for a government-spo
2006-10-31 [Delladreing]: *twitch* new et colours on main street. hurt. eyes. migraine inevitable x.x
2006-10-31 [The Naiad]: Hugh Laurie (aka - Doctor House) is gorgeous. *Drools* XD
HAPPY SAMHAIN EVERYONE!
2006-10-31 [moonscale]: Happy Halloween/Samh
2006-10-31 [Linderel]: Gregory House is an unimaginable bastard. But you just can't help loving him. ^_^
Happy Halloween! :P (though we don't really celebrate it here...)
2006-10-31 [Rondel]: I had a friend point out something intriguing to me today -- Hugh Laurie (from House) is the same actor who played the fop in the Black Adder series(es), as well as Bertie Wooster in the Jeeves movies. It's astonishing, seeing him do an American accent so well!
2006-10-31 [Linderel]: Yup. Legend tells it was the hardest part, getting rid of his British accent, and that upon hearing his audition it was said 'That's just what we need, a real American man!' or something to that effect. :P
2006-10-31 [Delladreing]: I know! I love Hugh Laurie...*coug
But his accent is amazing.
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