70s and sunny but by Wednesday it will get down into the 50s and probably cloudy according to one weather forecast but they never really know. I looked for a two or three weather forecast and see what turns out. The weather is nice but I can't really enjoy it.
But I had an arm injury almost 2 weeks ago now and I think it is a torn tendon or bicep. I was rolling on my side and when my top half (torso) began falling backward (which it almost always does but perhaps not such severity... I can never remember) I usually use my left arm to compensate and helping me roll back over on my right side. Right then and there I could not move my left arm (which is my bad arm anyway) like I used to and have still not been able to. I made an appointment to go see an orthopedic specialist but they can't get me in until January 7. It bruised up really bad and all away across my collarbone so it was probably a combination of shoulder/upper arm injury on the inside. It is also swelling and now my left hand that just hangs down anyway is swelling. I am using cold packs and ibuprofen which helps. I still have the pretty much monthly bladder infections that are multi-drug-resistant so that causes me severe bladder pain when they take hold and my urologist has to calling something because I can't stand that type of pain. I might as well have a bunch of broken glass in my bladder. He calls in antibiotics that always takes away the pain so they are doing something but they keep coming back and they were 'Hospital Acquired' and I remember when they started to began (each bacteria) and one of them began when I was going to one local hospital/clinic to see a urologist and the last bacteria that I do not recognize must have been gotten when I was at the hospital at the end of June through the beginning of July in ICU. I am a mess and the first time I have been alone for Christmas. Last year I had my Golden Retriever Daughter with me but I lost her in April of this year. I adopted a German Shepherd (who will be two years old on January 2) and I thought she would be settled down by now but she still has a lot of puppy in her. I am planning on working with a local canine training center. She is extremely intelligent but needs to stop pulling so hard on my wheelchair when we are walking and barking nonstop and lunging toward every dog she sees because she wants to play with them. Needless to say, the couple who brought her over one day lied to me about getting their vaccinations to me (they never did) and keeping in touch to see how she was doing and taking her back if she did not work out for me (which they never did). I was not going to get a puppy (under a year old) and this bundle of energy was a little over 18 months old and she was walking calm when they arrived because I wanted to meet them outside to see how she walked alongside of them and then be inside. She acted laid back and relaxed but she is FAR from that. She was kennel/crate trained and the previous owners (of a whole six months) said they would get her crate to me which they never did. Fortunately I found a lady nearby no longer needed hers so that has helped a great deal. She is house trained but sometimes overnight she wants to have accidents and we can't have that happen more often than not. Needless to say also that I did not have my arm injury before adopting her and usually I do a ton of research on everything (which I did my arm) but not on German Shepherds. They require A LOT of physical and mental exercise. This is not a problem for me because I loved walking/running my previous two dogs since December of 2001 but they were couch potatoes when we adopted them (my husband and I) and we did not know their histories either but we were extremely fortunate with both of them by having them both Golden Retrievers, laid back, and basically trained themselves to become my US Certified Support/Companion dogs. My caregiver has always eaten at a different time than me so I have been eating alone for the last three years. Because of all that has been going on me did not even get Christmas recreations out this year. It will be just another day. Merry Christmas to all of you who have family of some kind and are not having one physical problem crop up one right after the other unexpectedly. I think my arm might be healing but it is going to take a while. Don't even know if it is something that can be seen on imaging especially if it is soft tissue. ~Lori On Sat, Dec 22, 2018 at 11:25 AM Ismael Cavazos <[email protected]> wrote: > > -- "Petting, scratching and cuddling a dog could be soothing to the mind and heart and deep meditation and almost as good for the soul as prayer." ~Dean Koontz
