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I can barely see thanks to an aural migraine

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I’m not feeling well today. I’ve had a headache all day and it’s getting worse. Even more troubling is that along with the headache I can barely see from my right eye!

Yep .. I’m having those nasty aural migraine symptoms again. I’ve had migraines since I was about 12 years old .. thankfully though they seemed to stop when I was 25, but they’ve come back in the last few years and now, since July, I’ve been having these optical or aural migraines.

Usually when I have eye symptoms I don’t have an actual headache …. not pain wise anyway … the migraine sometimes comes later. The vision problems in the last few months have usually only lasted for fifteen to thirty minutes – but today the vision problems have lasted all day and there’s no sign of them going away.

It’s almost like I have a translucent object in the center of my right eyes vision. I can see through it but it makes all my vision blurry. Kind of like those pop up ads that say “click here” on some websites that come up just as you’re trying to read something. LOL

I’m seeing a doctor on Friday at the hospital about the numbness and odd occasional burning sensations in my lower left thigh (started in December) to see if it’s coming from a nerve in my back or my hip. I think the doctors a neurologist and if he is I think I might try to talk to him about these aural migraines while I’m there.

Hopefully these vision problems really are just aural headaches but it’s troubling when you start getting new symptoms. I’d certainly be happy if the doctor I see on Friday suggests I get a CatScan or MRI.





Good news for balding men

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The other day when my husband and I were driving around in the car I heard an interesting news story on the radio. It was a good news piece for balding men.

Studies have apparently shown that men who are almost completely bald by the time they’re in their 30’s have a much lower chance of getting prostate cancer. I believe the story said that men who are balding in their 40’s also have a lower chance of getting prostate cancer as well.

So while I know most men don’t want to be bald .. why else would there be so many hair loss for men products out there if you all loved being bald … at least there’s some good news healthwise for those that bald earlier in life.

I just thought I’d pass that on!

Why do I enjoy watching so many medical dramas on TV?

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You’d think that since I’m an ER nurse (well one that’s on medical leave) I wouldn’t be all that interested in watching medical shows on TV, but they are still one of my favorite form of television watching.

I used to love watching ER. Oh I’ll admit the early years of the show were the best, but I watched every episode right until the series ended last year.

Now this year a new crop of medical TV dramas are on ranging from more nurse oriented shows like Mercy, Nurse Jackie and HawthoRNe to Trauma which covers the paramedic side of medical drama. I even watched the short HBO series Bloodletting and Miraculous cures – mainly because it was a series that developed from a book written by one of the ER doctors that I’ve worked with for several years.

I also watch House regularly, although as with ER I think the earlier seasons were better than what’s being produced lately. Likewise with Grey’s Anatomy and Private Practice. Geez there’s a lot of medical shows isn’t there? Maybe they all just need to take a multivitamin and they’ll get better?

These shows are full of errors – from having too many doctors and not enough nurses, to medical errors, to patients going from deathbed to miraculously healthy by the next day. LOL

Of all the new shows I think I like HawthoRNe best. It captures the emotions of being a nurse in the ER much better than most of the shows I watch regularly.

Although, just like Mercy, I don’t understand how the nurses that are supposed to work in one area end up working all over the hospital and even assist during surgical procedures. In real life, in a big hospital, nurses work where they are assigned whether it’s the ER, a medical floor or in the OR … they aren’t all over the place .. nor are doctors unless they are specialists – then they might be seen regularly in a few areas of a hospital over the course of a shift.

I think I like watching these shows because I can spot the mistakes and I get a little thrill when I spot them. LOL Maybe these shows keep me on my toes?

Anyway .. do you like watching medical dramas on TV? Which ones are your favorites and which ones could you do without?

How do you handle unwanted door to door sales people?

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I was just saying on my other blog how much I hate door to door sales people … well at least the ones that are trying to sells services or items that are an obvious scam!

We just had a guy at the door trying to sell us a service to repair our brickwork … but believe me he looked like he should be buying a ton of acne medicine rather than wasting his time trying to scam us on work we don’t need done to our home.

Our dog just freaks when someone comes to the door too. She barks her head off. Of course she just wants to make friends with whoevers at the door, but they don’t know that because she looks like she means business.

Maybe next time a solicitor comes to the door we’ll just let the dog bark and bark and scare them away?

How do you handle door to door salesmen? Do you talk to them or just leave them standing outside?

How can I get my dog to let me cut her nails?

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I think it’s time to bring our dog to the groomers again. Midnight is a Lab, short haired and seems to be fairly clean, but man does she need her nails done.

She won’t let me trim her nails at all. It’s a huge fight from a dog that normally lets us do just about anything to her. She used to let me cut her nails when she was a puppy and in her first year, but all of a sudden last summer she didn’t want any part of it. Maybe something happened at the groomers that scared her off?

Anyway .. her nails are so long that I’m afraid just about every time I ask her to shake hands or when she gets excited and tries jumping up at me. Why? Well it’s because her claws dig into me and scrape my skin. Most days I get at least one fresh scrape on my arms, hands or legs.

I don’t heal well either. The scratches she leaves on me take a week or more to heal even though it’s really just a light scrape of the skin. By summer when I get a bit of color I’ll have scars all over me from our dogs claws scratching me. Hmmm I wonder if I could use some fade stretch marks cream to fade fine scars? Might work.

Anyone have any ideas as to how I can get my dog to let me cut her nails again? I have special nail clippers and one of those nail grinder thingies and she doesn’t want anything to do with either of them.

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