I’ve been wearing compression socks all of the time since 2015. My Mom noticed and commented on my legs yesterday. She has been putting them on for me and washing my legs since then. Today, she washed my legs even though it has only been a few days since she did it last time. She wants to tend to the sores on my feet. She said that I have skinny legs! I have NEVER had skinny anything! But I guess about a year of drinking 67% of my food is catching up with me. The speech pathologist (who I see in November) asked at my swallow test if I have lost weight without trying. I answered in the affirmative.
My Mom had me listen to this song yesterday and we listen to it today as well:
Yesterday, my Mom had a fall. She was out taking Leia for a walk. Leia did NORT cause her to fall but rather something in the city sidewalk! Something was sticking up out of the normal sidewalk. Her foot got caught and she fell. When she fell, Leia thought she was playing and she went to jump on my Mom but my Mom told her, “No!” and told her to sit down.
Leia is NOT Lassie so she does not run and get help but our sweet girl just sat down next to my Mom until my Mom got her bearings together. She finally came back into my house and put frozen corn on her face because she had an abrasion on her nose and a scrape on her knee.
it was my aunt who convinced her to call the police. She did and made an incident report. Two police officers came by and she showed them where she fell. They took pictures of it and asked if she was hurt and she answered in the affirmative. She told them her face and one police officer shined the light on her face and was surprised at the abrasion on her nose. They took pictures of her face and her name as well.
My Mom is feeling better today and her abrasion looks a little bit better. We laughed at the fact that Leia did NOT come and get the help for my Mom but she stayed and comforted her.
She can’t get help when someone is hurt and she can’t even pick up my phone when it falls on the floor from my wheelchair but I will take her over Lassie ANY DAY!!!
We got Leia on April 28, 2020. She was six months old. I asked The woman we got her from if she knew her exact birthday and she did not. When I made Leia’s first vet appointment, they wrote that her birthday was October 28. I told Sean that we could celebrate their birthdays together and they could be, “Birthday Twins.” He kind of shrugged and said okay. He didn’t really care.
But, I do!
Last year, we didn’t make a big deal about it and that was that because it was in the middle of Covid! But this year, I started thinking and it was brought on by my Mom, who bought Leia a sweater. It was too small so she is going to return it to Petco. Well, I got paid this morning and her birthday is around this time so I made a purchase at Chewy and I just got confirmation that it received and soon will be shipped. I have not told my Mom but I want to surprise her. I’ve never had a daughter and Leia’s color is pink.
Last night, when I was getting ready to get into my bed, I started joking about Steel Magnolias and when Julia Roberts says that her wedding colors are, “Blush and Bashful” but Sally Fields corrects her and tells her that her colors are, “Pink and Pink.” It seems those are Leia’s colors too:
And like so many of my Facebook friends told me, I have found her favorite toy. I got her one of these as well:
I need to give some background before I explain. I have had a Medical Guardian device for about 2 1/2 years after I had a fall. We test the device every month and my Mom makes sure that I am wearing it when she takes Leia for a walk. But then today, this happened:
I was sitting and watching TV just after my Mom and Leia had just come back from their walk. I could see a red light out of the corner of my eye and then it started to vibrate as if I had called the emergency line. An operator came on and spoke with us but he obviously could not hear us that we were okay and didn’t need any emergency vehicles at my house.
My phone rang and it was my friend and neighbor who I listed as a contact in the case of an emergency. And then I heard a fire truck coming. I live around the block from Beaumont hospital so I hear ambulances all of the time! When we first moved in, Sean and I had difficulty sleeping but after a while we would block it out and remain sleeping. But hearing the ambulance this time was different because it stopped right in front of my house!
My Mom ran out of the house waving her arms to tell them that it was a false alarm! She told me that both a firetruck and an ambulance arrived and the driver gave her a thumbs up when she yelled that it was a false alarm.
After they left, my Mom stayed on the phone with Medical Guardian people. My device was wonky because it went off again. The operator told us that I would receive another call because the ambulance was going to come again because the device went off.
As I was sitting there listening to their conversation, I started to cry and I had no idea why I was crying! I think it was my PBA mixed with the realization of the fact that this could eventually be a serious thing! Throughout this whole ordeal, Alanis Morissette was playing in my head even though I never thought that that song, particularly, one lyric would pertain to me:
Everyone knows that a supermodel needs lots of options for clothes. I have never had a girl so I’ve bought Leia a couple ofchoices for a sweater. For her evening walk, she needed to have a wardrobe change! I was able to snap this picture because it is dark outside now. Hopefully, more pictures are to come:
I am exhausted today! We went to get our teeth cleaned and I got my haircut and eyebrows waxed. That’s the first haircut I have hand since July because I got one mid-July but then the summer was too warm for me to leave my house so I let my eyebrows and hair grow. I knew I could handle it because of the previous COVID year but I was happy to get my haircut.
I posted yesterday that I received my electric toothbrush:
Lisa, the woman who cleaned my teeth (who is normally Sean‘s hygienist) but, because my Mom and I go at the same time, my Mom got my new one because my previous hygienist retired and I got her. I have gone to this dentist since I was a child and I got my braces their back when they used to handle orthodontic work. That place seems so familiar to me!
I took the box with me and told Lisa that I just received this the day before. She asked me if I wanted to open the box and I laughed and let her do it.
She explained the toothbrush to me. I think it’s crazy how involved this is! I can even connect to my phone! She demonstrated to me how the bristles feel and told me then it will be very different brushing my teeth with this electric toothbrush. She told me to give it a, “Two-week college try” to get used to using it.
I am SO exhausted that I think I will have to give it my college try I’ll go tomorrow. She told me that I need to charge it like an iPhone but I’m too tired and I will do that tomorrow because it has been almost two decades since I was in college!
I had an itch to listen to country music a little bit ago and I heard this song:
it really didn’t scratch my itch so I listened to another song and I heard this one which brought a plethora of memories to me that I will have to write about soon:
Today is a strange day! My boy is 20?! I think it’s crazy on his birthday because it’s a fact that I was a teenage mom. I had them when I was 19. I won’t be 40 until March! I can’t believe he is two decades old!
I LOVE these pictures AND I LOVE HIM!!! Today is YOUR day, Beeb!!!
I have an appointment today with a podiatrist. I think this may be doctor #21 because I think I have seen 20 different kinds of doctors thus far! I wanted to notify you all if I am too tired when I get home to write a blog post! Wish me luck!
