The Dino-Aspie Ex-Café (for Those 40+... or feeling creaky)

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I wish you all the best Leila!

Thank you. I do too.

I wonder how I insert a picture I have on my desktop. I have no idea what it's url is.

holidays ...

Nice pictures lemon!

Right now I am in York Hospital because of a large blood clot in my left leg. I am posting this with my asus net-book using the WelSpan network's wifi.
I'm on blood thinners: two injections of lovonox daily, and two or three coumadin pills daily.
I've been in here since Tuesday. As soon as my clotting factor numbers reach a certain value
I can go home.

Oh, Richie! I hope those clots dissolve soon. It can be so boring being in a hospital.

be better soon Richie ! !

be better soon Richie ! !

I think there is an echo in here.

oh my, richie! Get better real soon, ok?

The news on our front is that the bags are packed. AND, my kiddo is finally serious about applying to colleges. She coughed up the $100 it cost to send out all her SAT/ACT scores, has already applied to William and Mary, is applying to a couple in NY, one in Minnesota, and ...no joke, she's shooting at Harvard! (Not much of a chance, but at least she's aiming higher these days!). Be cool to get a WP'r in Hahvahd.

I am out of the hospital but not out of the woods. The clot in my leg is still there and it will take anywhere from 9 to 12 months for it to clear up.
I am now taking warfarin a blood thinner and metoprolol a blood pressure med. I have to get regular blood tests to regulate my warfarin dosages.
Leg is still kind of stiff but I can get around OK.

Richie, makes you wonder why they can't just stick a needle in the thing and suck it up. Oh, that's right. A piece could break off and lodge in nefarious places.

Nan, what great news to hear about your kid.

I'm sore after throwing compost on the two thousand and twenty five weeds in an effort to smother them.

ah, richie, so glad to hear you are home. be sure to do what they tell you - take the meds, take ALL the meds.

am up in the middle of the g.d. night as they've sounded a tsunami warning. sigh. tv from japan looks ghastly, what a horrific nightmare for them. the airport video is amazing - it's underwater?!?!
my condolences to them - they're having constant aftershocks. that's got to be just terrifying.

they say any waves we get will be pretty much in the middle of rush hour in several hours. my city is protected a lot by the islands offshore and a wonking deep trench just off the coast, but i think that since the kid works down in the valley that opens onto the beach a very short distance away from her workplace i'll suggest she stay home for a couple of hours, just because i know she'll get really hyper if she's at work and the co-workers start talking about a tsunami coming up the valley.... she'd be ok at her work, it's on the hillside, but she'd have trouble getting home in the unlikely event it actually did flood the valley.

i am not going to be worth a damn at work today, i'll have had two hours sleep. kid goes up to the mountains tomorrow night for girl scout camp for the weekend. hope we have no earthquakes - have had a couple of really small ones in the last few hours, the earth rings like a bell when there's a big one and it sets off others elsewhere. she'll freak.

I was at the doctor's office today for follow up and I was given a standing medical order to have blood work done every week to monitor my
INR/clotting factors and my dose of blood pressure medication was doubled from 25 mgs per dose to 50 mgs. While I was at the office I had
a silent migraine -aura and minimal headache and nausea. Not serious but annoying.

And yeah I saw the news about Japan which goes to show there are always those who have it worse off than we do.