Category: Tunes

My Mom watched a video yesterday and this song played:

It made me cry and I had to take my contacts out. Let me ‘splain ya tomorrow, I think…

I got super uncomfortable this evening and I couldn’t understand why. Until I checked the weather and I could not believe that it wasn’t still 95° at like 7 o’clock. This heat is horrible!!!

My house is probably around 75° even though it’s set at 70°. I am just trying to endure this heat wave! I watched Voicemails for Isabel again today. That’s my fourth time and I think I’m understanding a little bit more, meaning that I can see everything a little bit better. I do that. I watch the same movies over and over again. My eyes take a few I can really get what’s going on.

After seeing it so many times, I get what’s going on. I NEVER planned on being in my homebound life, but this is how it is. Sean watched it with me for a little bit today when she bought the food truck. I remember that song was my JAM in high school!

I could sing along a little bit because I know all the words, but I can’t sing anymore. My lungs can’t handle that anymore and it’s too warm for me to bust out my breathing exerciser to work on that.

I absolutely LOVE the ending bridge, “I love you, I miss you…” I still remember belting that one out! It sucks that I can’t anymore. Maybe in the fall, I can bust out my lung exerciser breathing tube thing and maybe it will come back. but if not, I still have my memories… those have not really faded that much. It’s kind of painful for me when you think about it…

Oh, Brown! She is a former colleague of mine and she recommended this recent movie I watched and loved!

This song was in the soundtrack and I loved that too!!!

It has been 17 days since my wheelchair has stopped responding. Well, I can move it backward and forward, but I can’t extend my legs or give my back some relief. 17 days! That’s a lot! It’s 17 days and not so much ann end in sight. Dujuan is coming on Monday so maybe something will happen but I’m really not banking on it.

My Mom got a text saying that the parts ordering is on step four of six. That might be a good thing and maybe we could take my chair in next week as I had planned. But, I had a development today…

My Mom had to leave for a bit and I was seated in my wheelchair. I had my Medical Guardian device on which is what I wear anytime I am home alone even for a short while. You can never be too sure! Sitting in my broken wheelchair is quite uncomfortable because I cannot recline at all. It has been 17 days?!

I was sitting in my chair and listening to the Catechism in a Year when I slipped. I slipped forward, so much so that my butt was almost off of the seat, and the belt was just under my armpits. It did not feel good at all!!! I had just called my Mom and told her that I had slipped a little bit. I was a little slouched. I told her that before I got really slouched annd almost off the chair!

At that moment, I pressed the button on my Guardian Medical device. Avery answered and he asked if I needed help. I have had this device for about six or seven years. I have never had to admit that I needed help Like this. I had called before when we were at the dentist in the parking lot and the wheels on my wheelchair got messed up on the ramp. I also called when my wheelchair got stuck on the porch.

My Mom called 911 when I slipped in the bathroom and I was wedged between the toilet and the tub. I cried then, but I did not call them. My Mom did. Well, today, I was home alone and I had to call them. I told Avery that sometimes they take 10 minutes to get here and he offered to stay on the line with me until they get here. I told him that wasn’t necessary and he told me to call them back if they are not at my house in five minutes.

I felt surprisingly calm throughout this whole thing, but when I heard the firetrucks coming, I began to cry a little bit. I heard the Alanis Morissette in my head as I heard the firetruck coming:

Jared and Keith cut me up in two shakes and they loved Leia up like crazy! Jared said that they both are dog people! Jared had all the information on the iPad and I had to sign. I have never had to do that before. My Mom usually does that.

I did not write a blog post yesterday because my chair has been broken since May 24. Today is June 8. I’m pretty miserable! My ankles are swollen, even though I am wearing compression socks My left foot and seems to be popping off of the pedal because I feel terrible I’m without my legs extended.

I thought that I could just endure it, but this is kind of rough guys! I started my Spring/Summer chapstick and my new Chapstick for Saturdays this Was going to be Wild Cherry. I was looking forward to it because not too long ago, it was Valentine’s Day and Sean brought me a baby Red Velvet blizzard. He brought us all a doughnut as well. He got me Chocolate Glazed because that used to be my favorite, but now I have to eat Chocolate Dip because it’s softer. He got my Mom a glazed doughnut.

I thought it was a very odd thing that he got a cherry doughnut, but he said that it looks good and he wanted to try it. I was reminded of my Dad because he used to like chocolate covered cherries that we used to get him for Fathers Day. I asked Sean if he liked it and he said that he did. I told him that it was genetic because grandfather liked cherry stuff too.

I needed a new flavor for my Saturdays this Spring/Summer So I searched on Burt’s Bees website. I was going to get four of my Cucumber Mint anyway. It went back-and-forth from being available to not available and when I get paid, it was not available so I decided to get it from Amazon. One tube of wild cherry was nine dollars, but you could get a four pack for 13. I went for the deal.

Well, that didn’t work out so well! It does NOT taste like cherries at all. It taste minty to me. I asked Sean to smell it yesterday and he said it smells a little bit like cherries, but he can smell the mint as well. He said that that’s the base they use. That makes sense because I didn’t like the Apple Cinnamon Crisp once I got for last winter. I still have three tubes to use. I had my mom’s apple pie in mind when I got it, but it missed the mark. I will be using it regardless this year after Thanksgiving.

When it arrived to my house, Katy Perry was playing in my head. That’s kind of an old reference because that song came out my first year teaching. I don’t kiss girls either so it wasn’t a fitting song.

The song I changed to, even though it does not taste like cherries, was a Sara Bareilles song that I love! She says ‘cherry blue skies’ in it. Because I don’t particularly like this chapstick, it taste minty so I guess I don’t mind it a bunch. I have made it a Wild Cherry Weekend this Spting/Summer!:

it kind of really stinks sitting in this broken chair, but my Mom talked to Ray this morning and Jujuan is making a house call on the 15th. It does not look like my chair will be fixed on June 17. That stinks!!!

Yesterday, I was loving watching Labyrinth and it took my mind off of my aching body and I was taking back to childhood. I wanted to have a continuation of that feeling today so I was going to watch Willy Wonka, and the Chocolate Factory but I do not own it yet. So instead, I watched Seven Brides for Seven Brothers.

It had the same effect! That is another movie that me and my cousinT Shannon watched 1 million times:

We loved singing this song so much! I never got married and she did not get married in June but that’s how life works out sometimes. I think I might watch Willy Wonka tomorrow..

Today,my Mom came back with my chair and we still had time to get in the restroom and make it to my haircut! As I was transferring from my manual wheelchair to my power chair, my Mom said something about my big wheels being the problem.

She called Ray before we got started and left a message to see if I need doctor’s approval for work on the motor and my big wheels. I have no idea why but Tina Turner popped into my head, immediately! I started to laugh!

It wasn’t until after my haircut when my Mom sat in the van after she went in to order our pizza when I played her this song:

https://youtu.be/hzQnPz6TpGc?si=XSgfqxqqApY1fuAs

Of course, as my Mom does, she asked if she was living or dead and how old she was when she died if she was dead. I looked that up with my contacts in. I can kind of see. She was 83 when she died and she died in 2023. She insured her legs for $3.2 million.

Oh, one thing that I thought was cool before we left the haircut place was that Lady Gaga started playing and that’s my Mom’s jam! I was invited to my friend Shelby’s wedding and it was a summer when I started getting pretty bad so I was not able to attend, but I got the save of the date card and she asked, “What song is going to get you on the dance floor?” Of course I said this song because my Mom was going to come with me.

My health didn’t allow me to attend but so special to me I always am reminded of my Mom, ‘Proud Mary!’:

Yesterday, I watched this video:

Seeing that Janis Joplin got on the list made me think about the Jennifer Love Hewitt cover of Me and Bobby McGhee

I reposted a blog post I had written 5 years ago. This memory has to be from 2013 or 2014. I reread the post. I remember the day I wrote that post! I should go back to see an acupuncturist. I’m going to start looking into that! Anything to make me feel better!!!

So, get this. The new thing is that I feel myself making an ‘ugly cry face’ but there are no tears. Or very few. I guess I’m all cried out! And you know I thought of this song:

My socks are STILL NOT here and my legs are killing me! We don’t know what to do about it!

This morning, when my Mon was changing the wedge to go to my right side, I just said, “My feet hurt.” My Mom, moved my wedge and began rubbing my feet.

I was able to fall back to sleep for a little while longer because of this. Sean told me a while back about Guardians of the Galaxy 3. He told me that it was Rocket’s backstory. Sean and my Mom watched it a couple weeks ago while I was pillaging. He told me when the Rocket wakes up and he says, “Hurt!” I thought of that scene as I said that this morning.

I’ve been without socks for three weeks and one day and it’s rough! My feet hurt and I think it’s because the blood in my legs is sludge at this point. I am going on the 22nd for an ultrasound of my legs. I’m not supposed to wear my compression socks for that appointment and I’m not even sure if they will be here by then.

This is brutal and my legs ache and I’m sure blood flow is not happening very well. I thought of this video and it’s probably at the 4:30 sec. mark which makes me think that’s how my blood is traveling:

It hurts!!!