Category: Tunes

I received a Target order today. When I awakened, I saw the notification on my phone. In this shipment, my seasonal chapstick collection is complete! I figured out the right words to search when looking at target.com for chapstick. It’s under “Burt’s bees gift sets.” So now, I have all the chapsticks I need for the entire year and I will replenish them as needed. I already know that I will need to order more pomegranate flavored Chapstick around March or maybe even February. I use vanilla bean and pomegranate between seasons. If it is cold, I use vanilla bean but if it’s feeling warmer, I use pomegranate. I think it’s silly that I do this but my brother, Jimmy, got me these really cool boxes when we were quarantined for me in the beginning of the pandemic. They had my gum in them and my chapsticks fit in there perfectly! I don’t use the yellow ones because they are peppermint and the red one is peppermint as well but I have been toying with the idea of having chapstick on the table by my bed because just before I fall asleep, sometimes my lips dry out. I’m not sure what I’m going to do with that but I don’t want to waste them!

I gathered all of my chapstick boxes and before I arranged them, I sang James Taylor in my head. That song always reminds me of my cousinT Shannon! From the bottom to the top of the picture, it is, “winter, spring, summer, fall.”:

I was having difficulty trying to find a title for this blog post and I didn’t want to call it, “James Taylor”so I thought about the fact that I am spending so much time thinking about the type of chapstick that I use. I have nothing but time now that I no longer work and MS is raging through me so I can just make that a game because I apply so much chapstick because for whatever reason, my lips get really dry and cracked without applying chapstick very liberally all day long. I’ve told my Mom that my body is shutting down but she really doesn’t like me to say it like that and if I can avoid thinking about that by looking at my chapsticks, so be it.

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:

Okay, so… this happened:

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:

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!!!

I ddn’t know that it would take about 7 1/2 years for my tweets to get noticed. This is the second alert I have received in the past month:

But it seems that I am getting noticed. It’s a great song:

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:

I texted Sean this morning when I woke up to tell him, “T-30.” Because 30 days from now, he will be 20 years old! I have to say that this seriously hits differently now!

When I was 20 years old, I had a four-month-old sitting on my lap (Sean) as my Parents sang me happy birthday. I told Sean about that and our 20 year old birthdays are going to be different.

I know the thing that hits differently now is that I have had this song in my head for a while:

I’ll tell you now that, ”Alive” is NOT a word I would use to describe myself now… but I have a movie to watch now.