Mucho Mental Manatee Mentors--CLOSED (Pop Tarts?) (Page 8)

Okay. Caught up now. But probably not for long.

This has been a really crappy month for me. Not as bad as for some of you. I don't have a broken bone that needs to be re-broken and re-set, for example

I had just started getting back into running, and I was knocked out with some kind of inner ear issue. No infection. But cripes. I spent Thursday and Friday popping motion sickness pills and pouring wax drops in my ear trying to clear out the blockage.

So of course, my body is stressed, so my BP starts rising. I was not going to go back into the doctor (I was seeing the campus nurse about my ear), so I chewed my blood pressure medicine to get more immediate effect. I took one in the morning, as usual, then at about 1:00, chomped one down. My BP was still high, but not ridiculous.

I seriously considered snorting the stupid medicine.

Anyway. We managed to evacuate some of the wax (it literally rolled out of my ear. Gross), but I'm still feeling some pressure and a little pain. It's not infected, however. So who knows.

At least I am back to my more normal snarky self. I'm off the motion sickness medicine. My blood pressure is back to normal. And I can sit here at the computer without feeling that I'm going to lose my cookies.

Love you all. Sorry I've been so out of it.

Okay. Caught up now. But probably not for long.

This has been a really crappy month for me. Not as bad as for some of you. I don't have a broken bone that needs to be re-broken and re-set, for example

I had just started getting back into running, and I was knocked out with some kind of inner ear issue. No infection. But cripes. I spent Thursday and Friday popping motion sickness pills and pouring wax drops in my ear trying to clear out the blockage.

So of course, my body is stressed, so my BP starts rising. I was not going to go back into the doctor (I was seeing the campus nurse about my ear), so I chewed my blood pressure medicine to get more immediate effect. I took one in the morning, as usual, then at about 1:00, chomped one down. My BP was still high, but not ridiculous.

I seriously considered snorting the stupid medicine.

Anyway. We managed to evacuate some of the wax (it literally rolled out of my ear. Gross), but I'm still feeling some pressure and a little pain. It's not infected, however. So who knows.

At least I am back to my more normal snarky self. I'm off the motion sickness medicine. My blood pressure is back to normal. And I can sit here at the computer without feeling that I'm going to lose my cookies.

Love you all. Sorry I've been so out of it.

Well, I feel like it would probably be weird for me to not address these comments, as I was one of the main contributors to that thread. 

Interestingly, the only two people I have heard from about it are LB, and a gay man on BT thanking me for standing up repeatedly for the LGBT community in posts.  I am actually a little surprised I didn't hear from mods, but I am going to PM Ron and apologize.  My BT has been extremely slow to load for the last two days, and I wrote the last post (which has been deleted)  in that thread not having seen Ron's request to make it more civil. 

Perhaps I should have kept it more civil and focused on Trigirl.  That certainly was an approach many others took, and I think, in general, that's a good technique.  However, I also believe that the reason that others could take that approach is because a couple of us were directly taking on the problem. 
It may not be your style--that's totally cool, and I totally get that--but it's also not my style to let people get away with saying the things that were said there.  If my responses made it escalate and you don't think it would have gotten as out of control as it did, you may very well be right.  I need to own that. 

POD, I will say this: I am fiercely loyal to my friends and the things that are important to me. I stand up to hateful language like that because it is extremely destructive and hurtful.  An excerpt from the PM I received yesterday:

...Sometimes peoples words can be so hurtful. I often wonder how they can say the things that they have said.I have pretty much just within the past few months come to terms with being gay, after knowing for years. It is those peoples words who wouldn't allow me to accept who I was... too many people (including myself!) are not vocal enough. I grew up with an extended family (my immediate family is awesome! Thank GOD they are the black sheep of the family) that is quite homophobic and always makes horrible remarks. They don't know I am gay and have no idea how much those words can hurt someone, especially when I was younger.  

I'm sorry if you disagree with the way I handled things in that thread.  My intent was certainly not to bring down the BT community.   Quite the opposite.

Peace.

Well, I missed all the hubbub, thankfully. But I can imagine. What is wrong with people? Just so you all know, I make it a practice to NEVER think about ANY of you having intimate relations with ANYONE. I try not to think of your "bathing suit" parts at all. Just for the record.

And I'd appreciate it if you did the same for me. Believe me, you do not want to know what goes on in my bedroom or kitchen or living room  . . . . Oh, wait a minute.

Never mind.

I just realized that on Sunday I surpassed my run mileage total from last year. 

Woo hoo!

I just realized that on Sunday I surpassed my run mileage total from last year. 

Originally posted by jobaxas surgery update initially told to fast from 7am report to hospital 1.30pm at 9.30 - already starving dr secretary called said come at three you can eat til 10 - quickly made bacon eggs and mushrooms and big coffee. got to hospital at 3pm. told by one of the many incredible staff that i was scheduled last at 6pm. i passed the hours on fb and too many gossip mags - that Jennifer Aniston constantly pregnant then not! nurse said at 5.30 its gonna be a while, but your op is only about an hour....told DH to come see me at 9pm he said thats too late an argument ensued turns out he had the right idea i finally got operated on at 9.30pm. came to at 1am. one little up chuck when they removed that throat tube but all good. taken to ward of four one sleeping less than peacefully she snored like a drain. ear plugs. BP remained too low so no sleeping pills all went well. Gung ho anaesthetist gave me an arm block now 18 hours on still no feeling lol. better than pain - do you have any idea how heavy a dead arm is? i'm home just chillaxing waiting for pain. i have horse tranquilisers when that starts xx

I'm glad that the surgery is finally over with.  Now heal thyself!

So what do you do with a tranqulized horse?   Heal quickly!! 

Ha, I love it! I hope you are doing better soon, Jo!

I must be doing better (at least mentally).  I ran a marathon this weekend.  I still have PT and did not get her blessing to run that far but she did know that I was contemplating and figures that she can fix my ouchies on Thursday at my next appointment. Sanity issues, she says she cannot fix and I just have to live with being a bit crazy to do 26.2 with no training.  I didn't die, so all is well.

Oops, just realize you were talking to the other Jo.  Dang, that gets confusing.  Disregard the above.  Wrong Jo.

I must be doing better (at least mentally).  I ran a marathon this weekend.  I still have PT and did not get her blessing to run that far but she did know that I was contemplating and figures that she can fix my ouchies on Thursday at my next appointment. Sanity issues, she says she cannot fix and I just have to live with being a bit crazy to do 26.2 with no training.  I didn't die, so all is well.

Oops, just realize you were talking to the other Jo.  Dang, that gets confusing.  Disregard the above.  Wrong Jo.