Daddy's Little Helper

Ride on mowing
Push mowing
Clear out dead banana trees
End of day one on knee that works and doesn't hurt.
Weed new little gardens
Water new little gardens
Distract flooded so he does take off the the neighbours
Water frangipani
EITHER take out the fast food containers to the shop for hardware sorting
OR get that garbage out of the house
GUESS which voice was mine and which was Joyce's
Distract Floydd
Paint first coat on "Healing Garden" sign post.
Make lunch
Accept " this is lovely honey" compliment
2 coat on post
Dig out foot of foundation for new hot water tank pad.
Form up foot for concrete
3 coat on post
Distract Floydd
Extend new drainpipe from new retaining wall
Make nifty adaptor for same
Clear weds from garden shed
Chop weeds and compost them
Distract Floydd.
Come in for arvo smoko
End of day two.....

Hey if I have to take these steroids I might as well get some use from the hyper feeling!

Life's little trails or trials?

I'm trying to be lay back but I'm getting more and more pissed off about my leg.

I've been having more problems with gout and my kidneys. Compounded by high blood pressure. I went on meds for the BP about two months ago and I've had two really bad gout attacks in my knee in the past 6 weeks. To the point where I'm on Prednizone you know that steroid with the side effect of divorce! I get real rangy on it.

The good news is that it's a 6 day course so the end is insight. But before the Prednizone I was on Endone for the pain and this second time it was not even cutting it fully. I had a couple of "Joyce, just get an axe and cut it off days.".
This is all complicate by my kidneys "leaking protein into my urine" and having to have ultra sounds on my kidneys and the veins. And last time I saw Doc Shoozenbootzen. He whisked me off the the ima going place in the. Basement to get a Doppler ultrasound of my legs to rule out DVT! I looked at the tech and he looked at me and I said "we have been hear before" he said "yeah it was the other leg leg last time" that was last year when I started having gout issues. Anyway no DVT. Just giant leg.

I'm also getting my local GP to get an MRI of my knee and she agrees that maybe I do have some miniscus damage and that provides a site for the crystals (uric acid..gout) to attach.

And I have an appointment with a dietician to sort out gout menues because the internet would have me eat nothing at all.

I suspect this all has inter related Interactions and I'm sure we will find out wha5s what soon but in the mean time it's a pain in the knee!

Even when I'm better I'm trying to rest the knee and get it up to reduce swelling so the yard needs cutting and the retaining wall under the house is not advancing. Frustrating!

Well this was quite a pity party, whine Fest wasn't it!

This has been keeping me from re launching Big Knock.

But I have been mentoring a lad in year 3 who is a bit of a handful and I've been reading with two year 4 groups as part of use Mentoring Program at the neighbourhood centre. And I'm the logistics leader to a gro,up of self help Leukamia patients and their spouses. We aren't official with the foundation yet so I call it the Not a Support Group.

More later
Chris