Month: October 2018

Yesterday, Sean had a doctor’s appointment and I needed to accompany him as his sole legal guardian.   The appointment was set for late morning so I did not have the  45 minutes to an hour to attach the tens unit to my knee.  We also had cleaning appointments yesterday at our dentist where I was pretty sure that I was going to need to get x-rays of my teeth done.  I didn’t want to have electric stimulation on my knee as an x-ray was being taken of my head.

Because of the appointments, I was unable to wear my tens unit yesterday. My knee hurt so much! It was a pain I was familiar with and that really stunk! Even though my knee was hurting so badly, I did not have a headache nor did I feel anxious.

Today, I was able to put my tens unit on so my knee is feeling a little bit better.   I take Tylenol just as I turn it on but I’m just waiting for the headache that comes after I’ve had the tens unit on for a while and the anxiousness that will accompany me having the tens unit on for multiple hours.

I keep my tens unit on until the headache becomes too much to bare.  Then, I turn a tens unit off so my knee will start to hurt and my head stops hurting so much. Why is it a trade-off that some part of my body has to be in pain?!

I’ve been missing my Dad A LOT lately! It’s coming up on my parents’ anniversary soon and I just miss him with all of the challenges I’ve been facing!  My knee is killing me still and a couple Thursdays ago, my roof leaked. I called Tallon roofing because they put my parents’ roof on when I was 16.

I remember hearing the roofers bang on my parents’ roof at 8 o’clock in the morning in the summer. I jumped out of bed and went to the dining room table because my Dad was sitting there eating breakfast. I was irate! I told him that it was crazy that they were working so early and that I am trying to sleep;

But then I saw one of the shirtless roofers walk by the dining room window. I told my parents that I was going outside to water the flowers. That was the ONLY time  that summer that I watered the flowers because I wanted to watch the young, shirtless roofers work!

A memory I have had for a long time was when me and my Dad drove somewhere. I don’t know where we went and I don’t know how old I was but I know I was young and we stopped to get gas. I sat in the car as he went in to pay.   When he came back to the car to pump the gas, he opened the passenger side door and handed me a bag of peanut M&Ms.  That was the only time he did that.

Sean was driving his car  yesterday to the dentist and we stopped at the gas station to get gas. He kept the car running as hr went to pay for the gas  so I would be warm and he told me he would turn it off before he started to pump. He came back to turn the car off and placed a bag of  peanut M&Ms next to me the armrest.

I was touched! I didn’t open the bag until he came back into the car. I had already eaten Popeye’s and my knee was really hurting. I ate the peanut M&Ms and thought  of my Dad.

When the Tallon roofing guy came for an estimate for my roof that Thursday after my roof leaked, I told him the story about watering the flowers and the hot, shirtless workers.  He laughed and believed it. The day my roof leaked, he patched it and that should hold for a little while. If anybody has 10 Grand in their back pocket, that would be cool!

I love peanut M&Ms because I rarely eat them now and when I do, I think of my Dad and the gas station and now I will think of Sean and that gas station too!

I scheduled cleaning appointments for Sean and me six months ago at the dentist I have been going to for over 30 years and I’ve taken Sean there for his entire life. Today was the first cleaning he had with his hygienist since he’s gotten his braces off. My hygienist who has been  my hygienist for about 20 years and who Sean used to call his, “Tooth Fairy” when she cleaned his teeth when he was young marveled at his teeth. They all did.   That fact made me really happy!

Sean nor I had any cavities and I made our return appointment for May.  After Sean got me into the car, I told him he could choose where we ate.  He wanted to go to Popeye’s. He really likes it but I remember having gone there with him once before awhile ago and not being impressed.

I still let him decide. As we were driving to Popeye’s on our way home from the dentist, I reminded him of the Jimmy Kimmel interview of Damson Idris.  He remembered the interview and we both started to laugh and quote Damson Idris quoting Dub C.

We sat in the parking lot next to Popeye’s, ate our food, and talked. We both got the five dollar combos and I thought it was all right.  Sean paid for it and the fries were good. We didn’t get honey for the biscuits though…  something to look forward to for next time, I suppose.