Monday, August 27, 2012

Update on the Madwoman of the East San Fernando Valley

You are all probably wondering if I ever came  back  down  to earth after my last post which seemed suspiciously like a drug induced flight of fancy.  I assure you that it was not in the slightest way drug induced and my feet never for a moment left terra firma regardless of what pain medications  may have been stingily doled out to me during the worst of my recent experiences with practitioners of the finer tortures of the Spanish Inquisition.  All ideas presented in my last blog were the result of various epiphanies and none were inspired by medications or magic mushrooms.  I wouldn't mind trying a magic mushroom, but I haven't a clue what they look like and it would be just my luck to pick some poisonous variety.....


Happily I can report that my groin and thigh have had their staples removed and the thigh has returned nearly to normal size and color and no longer causes me to scream or even say "ouch"  more than 10 or 12 times a day.  However, between the mended but still achy left hip, the totally broken down left knee (which never got replaced) and now the still tender and achy right thigh I have had to sadly give up all hope of  ever being invited to star in the Ice Capades.  Thank heaven   I gave up that ambition many years ago when I realized that even though I managed to skate forward without falling down more than 3 or 4 times an hour, I would never be any good at all at skating backwards except on my fanny.   I gave away the blue  velvet skating skirt with the red satin lining years ago.

Anyway, my main motive in writing this blog is to reassure you that I am returning to what might be considered normal (for Me).  Also, after watching 3 football games and going to  bed dazed and cross eyed at 9 pm. I found myself unable to fall asleep and not even the act of raiding the cupboard and devouring 4 fig newtons slathered with peanut butter gave me any assurance that, if I went  back to bed and tried to sleep, I would do anything but  berate myself for  ,my low class gobbling, so I decided to dash off a few lines while waiting for the Sandman to show up.  

Naturally, I have no exciting news to report since I am still recovering my joie d' vivre (or however the hell that term is spelled) but my spirits are improving and perhaps I will come up with some bizarrre adventure to report one of these days.  Looking at my empty calendar I suspect I may have to make something up.  We will just have to wait and see, won't we?

 


12 comments:

  1. So now it's just antibiotics and oral pain meds?

    Any assistive device to keep you from weight bearing?

    Just curious.

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  2. Lo- just post what you eat and what you are thinking about and I will be completely charmed.
    I wish you hadn't given that skirt away. I think you would look lovely in it, even if you never got near an ice rink.

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  3. Fig Newtons slathered with peanut butter...why have I never thought of that before?

    Excuse me, I'm off to the grocery store!

    cranky

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  4. Well, joie today, d'vivre tomorrow, as they say. Personally I think it's peanut butter putting you off. Fig newtons are best plain and peanut butter goes on apples.

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  5. Keep mending Lo and I will look forward to the next blog post whenever that is and whatever it is about.

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  6. To make them just right, you need to make leather from the figs, cut strips. Prepare cookie dough, slather with peanut butter and add the fig strip in the center, fold over dough and bake. If not in the mood, then, and only then, you are allowed to take a cookie from the package and slather it with peanut butter. That should keep you busy until an adventure comes 'round for the sharing. Come visit when you can.

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  7. I'm just glad to hear you're doing better!!
    I'll take the raspberry Fig Newtons, please ~ hold the PB!!
    Hugs ~

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  8. The three fears are that things will never get back to normal, that things are already back to normal, and this is it, and that there is no normal.

    Hope you continue to feel better and better.

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  9. Having been at party once upon a time at which magic mushrooms were on the menu and noticing that vomiting seemed to go hand-in-hand with it...well, I don't believe for a minute that magic mushrooms were involved. In any event, glad you are feeling a bit better.

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  10. I am glad to hear that you are on the mend, friend.

    Although....fig newtons and peanut butter? :)

    xoxo

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  11. Just found your blog (I'm on a mission to find the crème de la crème of the interwebs) and I'm already charmed. Get well soon and I look forward to reading on!

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