All the Pretty Little Possibilities in Everyday Ramblings

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I took this on Easter on a walk with Kes and Most Honorable around their lovely quiet flower full neighborhood. I like the composition, the colors, and shapes in the photo, the touch of yellow.

The train ride was just marvelous. Everybody was nice, the car was comfortable and quiet; the view interesting and we were on time. They are thinking about cutting that route out all together, which will break my heart and mean I will need to take the ever so much more “atmospheric” Greyhound bus, which takes longer and stops along the way.

We all had a lovely day together just babbling about whatever came to mind and playing with various electronic devices. They just got android smart phones for the first time ever. This is a gift for those of us who stay in regular contact with them because now they are accessible where they only have cell coverage and no Wi-Fi.

The only problem with the day was that I was in a lot of pain. On Saturday night this tenderness and sensitivity on the left upper side of my jaw moved to my right lower jaw and it began to hurt to swallow. It was bad enough that I sat on the floor in my bathroom and went through everything in my medicine “drawer” looking for something to take the edge off.

I found some Aleve (Naproxen) and that helped a little but it was a rough night so after I got settled in with Kes I basically blurted out…”Do you have any codeine?”

She did and the whole story of my recent discomfort tumbled out. I really wanted to keep it to myself because of the trauma she went through my oldest sister’s recent illness and passing. She was wonderful as was Most Honorable and we had a sweet low key day together that went by way too fast.

I went back to the doctor on Monday and he gave me some codeine of my own and by then the pain was backing off and the swelling going down. They took yet more blood and tested me for more things. Then I went to the dentist.

It turns out I have a pretty serious problem in my left upper jaw and the pain I was feeling was referred. I had no idea that mouth pain did that but apparently that is how the nerves work. I am going to see a very expensive specialist next week. I am still having the biopsy on Friday morning and hope to get some sort of clarity about what might be happening with the other symptoms I am still having but are less intense.

I did teach on Monday and enjoyed my class very much. We worked on making space in the body, particularly in the spine and they gasped when after being asked I told them that I had shrunk an inch and ½ over the last 10 years. And that is with doing yoga. I think most of us associate getting more compact with the very old and yet it is a gradual process the starts fairly early.

It is not really fair because it gets harder to lose weight as we get older but the body mass index all the health care professionals use to calculate healthy weight is based on your height. So if you shrink you are supposed to weigh less and that becomes more difficult! Both Kes and I went through this when calculating our goal weights for Weight Watchers.

I weighed in alarmingly close to my goal on Saturday because this hormone thing I am experiencing is messing with my weight big time.

Both my doctor and dentist said it would be prudent for me to take a week off teaching Caregivers up on the unit so I did that last night. It was disconcerting but good. All I did was rest.

So right this moment I am feeling better. Work is quiet, which is wonderful. It looks like Nimrod is going to New Orleans early next week for a conference. I do hope that keeps him busy and engaged and he forgets all about us.

Tonight I see the Buddhist counselor.

We will talk about the old Firesign Theater saying…”How can you be in two places at once if you aren’t anywhere at all…”

Apparently if one follows the rules of quantum physics this is possible.
And that is what this is all about…the ground of all things…

Everything is potential. So that means good health and good cheer are possibly available to me both now and in the future now and I am going to hold that thought close to my gently opening heart.

Last updated April 08, 2015