It's Been 12 days....UPDATE

 

It has been 10 days today since I visited my primary doctor. Diagnosis: Medial epicondylitis (golfers elbow) also known as repetitive motion tendinitis​.  Treatment: Do not use any device connected to the internet for 1 week, call if its not better. Also sinus problems, 10 days of antibiotics.

Muscles/tendons are inflamed and swollen and  I am wearing a golfers counter force brace with a cushion that presses on the swelling​ and also my own brilliant idea the arthritis gloves for typing if you have arthritis that I found in the drawer of not Christmas past.

 I held my mouth like this to help me focus on saying, Hey Google, take a picture.  Now picture these on both arms, while  typing, poking a device. Which I am not supposed to do for 2 more weeks.

Also picture a dog named Beau on a leash, with a telescoping camera mono-pod, hanging off the leash handle,  It takes the place of the walking stick that hurts my arm to carry it. The stick is not for walking, it is for something to hold on to if I have to lean over to pick up  poop, intended to keep me from falling over.

 I know some of you are thinking how clever, how did you think of it.

I saw a man walking out of Publix, with a collapsible walking stick and came home and decided not to buy. 

I opened the closet to get out the, manual sweeper, NOT the heavy vac, and there hanging in the closet was  my old camera Mono-Pod from the past.

I have no idea how it helps me to hold my mouth in an O to tell my phone to take a photo.

I was told to wait 3 weeks before using my laptop and this is killing me.

Dictation is worse than typing. Dumb Laptop!

See you when I see you, I did find one thing that only takes 2 keystrokes as talking a command. I uploaded AI this photo  it and changed it to this.

My spoken command to Chatgtp was simply, make this person and her dog and make a caricature of them. 

 AI girl said, do you think I got your personality right?

OH MY.. it gathered this and every single word on it is Me. she did describe me, but this is NOT a caricature. I love her anyway because she made me you and cute

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 THANKS FOR ALL THE BIRTHDAY WISHES AND Sweet Comments! 

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 I COLORED ON MY I-PAD AND NOW CAN'T USE THE POINTER FINGER . I CAN'T SWEEP/MOP/MOW  OR LIFT A GALLON JUG OF MILK AND EVEN COFFEE CUP HURTS. 

I AM BORED TO TEARS. 

IT EVEN HURTS TO TAP TO TURN THE PAGE ON KINDLE BOOK. 

IT'S NOT THE FIRST TIME I HAVE DONE SOMETHING STUPID!

Saturday Sept 5, weekly UpDate

Sandra, Sept 5, 1944    -   Sandra, 1946

Sandra, Sept 5, 2026, yes, its current.

Today in the bath room mirror, changed back ground to black and added the balloons using AI

So far, I have had 5 emails and 3 texts with Happy Birthday and a  2 dear blog friend sent me an Amazon Gift cards. I WILL SHOP today..

Yesterday, I called my friend Ruby to come and hang up my birthday present I bought myself on Thursday, to finish putting the living room back like it was before Bob's illness started.

You might remember Philomena, the pothos plant that lived in the kitchen corner, for over 30 years. 

Live Pothos plant Photo Christmas 2024 Kitchen March 2025 it was gone, due to caregiver craziness, Philomena passed away and this is a photo from the prior Post of the kitchen minus a living plant.

I intended to buy a new plant for my birthday gift to me, but a light bulb went off and I thought, I will have to water, keep sun beams from touching, pick dead leaves off of plant and floor and it might just die again. Another gift to me was to drive to Hobby Lobby and see if they had silk plants like it. I still had the pot from Philomena and I found 3 long pieces and bought 60 dollars worth of them for 30, because they were on sale.... Here is the new plant, and now my living room view from sofa is just like it was when all this care giving started March of 2025.

This is from my sofa this morning just before Breakfast and Ruby's beautiful flowers in the nook.

Before daybreak and after day break.

I close with an update of my 82 year old Memory.

Wed I gave my beautiful boy Beau, my blood pressure pill and Lexapro with his pill at 4 AM in the morning, which resulted in 28 hours of anguish, a call to Poison Control that was 110.00, a visit to Vet ER, $452, which is the cost of Nausea injection, a can of food filled with ground charcoal, a blood test and I could take him home and monitor him for 48 hours. The tried to make me send him by ambulance to a 24 hour ER because they are vet after hours only, and he needed vet monitor for 6 to 8 hours, maybe 12 hours. 

the cost would be $3000 to $7000.00 which means I brought him home and did caregiver duty to him.

HE is Fine, was fine all day, had no problems, slept for 24 hours except for pee/poop times. I had to hold his pain pill for 24 hours but we did not walk, so he did ok with that.

As if that is not proof of my AGE, this morning I made my second cup of K-cup Koffee with out putting my new cup under the K-cup.

LAST BUT NOT LEAST... I have now been blessed with ZenColor Carpal tunnel Elbow and wrist and just creating this post is hurting really bad.

No more coloring, drawing or repetitive motions, and Ruby says I have to wait 3 weeks. 

We shall See. 

Who knew an adult can color to much and wreck her arm????