On Thu, 19 Feb 2015 04:01:23 -0800, "Julie Bove"
> wrote:

>Hardly. I don't make enough to live on.

Uh-huh. That would explain why you buy so much food online, and why
you've spent so much on your house lately (so you claim anyway).

>Not in this area anyway. And I
>really do miss working.

>I am a people person.

Pity the 'people' don't have any say in the matter...


>people sitting at home and there isn't much I can do to go out and interact
>with people since I can't stand up for long or walk very far. I can't even
>sit for extended periods of time without extreme pain setting in.
>
>I have had really extreme leg pain since Sat. I can barely walk and each
>and every time I have to get up or down, I have to really think about it and
>decide if it is totally necessary because doing so causes me to howl with
>pain. Driving a car is torture because to lift my foot from the brake to
>the gas causes me to howl like a wolf and getting in and out of the car is
>sheer torture.
>
>Worse still is lying down. You would think that would bring some comfort,
>but no. Only makes the pain worse. And nothing is helping. Not heat,
>massage, Tylenol or even trying to walk it off or stretch. I don't know the
>cause of it is but I may have to go to the Dr. if it continues. I had
>planned to do the spring cleaning now when Angela is out of school. I did
>manage to do a little bit but if things don't get better then not much more
>will get done now.

You're your own worst enemy.

>Did not help that the front door knob fell off this morning at 5:00 a.m. I
>had to find a 24/7 locksmith then wait for him to come.

"Hardly. I don't make enough to live on" Uh-huh...

I guess in bove-world there is no back door to use for a few hours,
then get a cheaper locksmith to sort the problem during normal
business hours. Or let a neighbour, husband or whoever fix it for you
for free.


>I'm sure he wondered about me.

More than you could ever realise, I'm sure.

>I was still fully dressed but had a bathrobe on over my
>clothes to try to increase the warmth to my leg muscles. I could neither
>sit nor stand well so I was partway on and partway off of the unreclined
>recliner, thrashing this way and that trying to seek relief. Thankfully he
>was a fast worker so I was able to get to bed around 8::00.

WTF? Why didn't you sleep and *then* get the lock fixed?

>And while that
>didn't bring relief I was able to sleep for a few hours and when asleep I
>mostly don't seem to notice the pain. Although sometimes it is bad enough
>to wake me. Just takes a while to get to sleep because of the pain.
>
>My neck is also so stiff that I can barely move it and my right arm muscles
>are as the rheumatologist put it once, like iron. Normally when they are
>like this, Fibromyalgia is the cause but that almost always affects both
>sides equally. Right now it is only the right arm and the right leg is far
>worse than the left.
>
>I wouldn't wish this sort of pain on anyone. It's not a fun way to live.

You bring it on yourself in so many ways (if any of this is even
true).