Saysusie....

Saysusie · Posted: Mon Jun 09, 2008 2:25 pm Post subject:

Thank You PIP Laughing

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Oluwa · Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2008 7:21 am Post subject:

Hi Saysusie..

Enjoying another day on the west coast? The east coast in fine, at my house..everything is just fine.

Thank you for the Disney tip. I'll point my husband in that direction. I've only been to SeaWorld..with Shamo.

I've been floating about in the pool, thank you for the push, a push to get my thoughts rethinking about what was. The was can be just not on a grander scale. Tiny, little.

My dips have turned into 20 minute swims. Water enveloping my body, every curve..it is so nice to float about.

We have a saline pool...it is nice, did you notice no red eyes. Easy to maintain. Push a computer button for more chlorine out put for the salt that was added, or another button to lessen it...

It is just a simple small cell, oh about the size of a small loaf of bread that convert the salt to chlorine. But our filter looks like a space capsule. So large I planted a Yew hedge around it, so my neighbors don't have to look at it.

I guess one can convert their chemical pool with ease to a saline one...maybe check it out, eh...

I will have to buy a pair of those fins, my shoulder joint are fizzling... I used my husbands and they are the regular ones and they feel so cumbersome. I think I will do that right now before I forget.

Thank you for everything Saysusie and keeping me on track about IT, my life...and the fin tip...off to amazon.com...toddles.

Love,
Oluwa

Oluwa · Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2008 7:36 am Post subject:

Gosh.... so many styles...how does one chose? Maybe these Zoomers Z2 Swim Training Fins......

Saysusie · Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2008 1:58 pm Post subject:

Did you get the zoomers? Those are good swim fins. Mine are Auqua Spheres. Let me know how you like them.
While on your back, in order to give your shoulders a rest, try doing a figure eight with your arms under water to give you a bit of a push. In this way, you can still work your arms without putting too much stress on them and/or on your shoulders.
Don't forget to keep your sunglasses on while swimming on your back!!!! My best friend, who swims with me, suggested to me that I use snorkel gear (mask and tube) when I am tired and doing free style (free-style breathing can make you tired if you are not doing it properly and when I get to about 70 laps, I stop breathing properly 'cuz I'm tired!). This may also help you to do a few more laps without getting too tired!
So, we are keeping one another motivated to get in (and stay in) the water. My physical therapist told me to try to get into the water every day, if I could! So, between you and him, I may stay on track. So, Thank You Sweet Angel #angel

I hope you have a wonderful day, and a soothing evening with a peaceful night!

Peace and Blessings
Saysusie
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Oluwa · Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 4:59 am Post subject:

Saysusie,

Yeppers, my husband order them from Amazon. Should arrive by the weekend...

I am ready to flip but not flop...

My shoulders..right in the dent of the muscle where the deltoid meets the bicep is painful. Inside shoulder joints, soles, palms of my hands and finger joints hurt something awful too. Especially my fingers joint. Feels like I smashed them in a car door. They're not swollen or red...And it hard to lift my arms up from my sides...pain in the dent...

So, these last few nights I have been swallowing Lortab and Flexeril and waking up with a cotton ball filled head....sluggish, mild pain, just tight. I can deal with that.

I'll try the figure 8's today...and try a different stretch...

I am having wonderful days...this pain is manageable., no hinder rash, pinked face but not red...

Doing small increments of fine tuning a daily routine to feel productive, to feel well and finding a balance between being selfless and selfish. Hard to put me first, but now I am taking the "biggest best slice of pizza first from the pizza pie" so to say...

Happy Wednesday..Hugs.
Love,
Oluwa

Saysusie · Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 7:57 am Post subject:

Your avatars always give me a chuckle first thing in the morning! I love this one.
I'm sorry that your pain is such that you cannot lift your arms. I suffer from that same type of pain in my right shoulder off and on. Of course, I blamed it on the swimming Confused

and if I couldn't blame it on the swimming, I blamed it on the FM, and if I couldn't blame it on the FM, I blamed it on the Lupus.........anyway, you get my drift!
I know exactly what you mean by making a distinction between selfless and selfish. But, from what I know of you, you do not have it in you to be selfish. So, I think you only need to continue to work on being a bit less selfless and keep taking the biggest piece of pizza - after all, you are still leaving plenty of slices for everyone else.
I am scheduled to sing tonight at a banquet. So, today will be a day of rest so that I can have the stamina to sing for 3 hours. The repertoire is mostly head voice songs, so I should do fine!
Have a happy day with some much needed "Me Time!"

Peace and Blessings
Saysusie
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Oluwa · Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2008 8:25 am Post subject:

Hey you Saysusie...

How goes life today?

How was the banquet? Three hours, did your voice hold out? I listened to your CD, mine now the other day while resting...enjoyed it as much as the first time, second time...third...

I don't know what head voice songs mean. Singing from your memory?

Hugs,
Love,
Oluwa

Oluwa · Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2008 4:48 pm Post subject:

Pretti in Pink...

How goes life..I just zipped past your complimenting post, thank you, you are always so kind...

So what have you been doing? Feeling? Health? Do tell Monica..

Love..hugs,
Oluwa

Saysusie · Posted: Sun Jun 15, 2008 9:03 am Post subject:

Oluwa

Head voice means, essentially, all of the songs were soft, quiet ballads. I did not have to belt out anything, reach for any high notes, or make any strong pronunciations.
The banquet was very nice, there were many more people than anticipated. I managed to get through all three hours. However, yesterday was a stay at home day in order to recuperate Laughing

How was your day? How is your day today? It is a perfect day for floating in the pool and I may do that later this afternoon. My hubby doesn't want to celebrate father's day with a lot of fan fare, so he and I are going to the movies and an early dinner. Afterwards, I am going to the pool.
Have a wonderful day!

Peace and Blessings
Saysusie
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Oluwa · Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2008 7:50 am Post subject:

How was the movie, Saysusie.....which one?

Thank you for teaching me about head voice. When you hear your voice recorded does it sound like you in your head. My recorded voice gives me the willies. I say that is not me...

The Zoomers arrived, but I still haven't taken them for a dip. They are one piece, formed rubber...they feel nice on.

I had still been achy so I hadn't swam for a few days...but today maybe the day to, after I return from taking my dog to the vet. She either developed a brain lesion or an inner infection...poor girl. Toppling over, staggering about. From my research possible Vestibular Disease...

By my description the vet assistant thought so too when I called for an appointment.

I hope it is the latter. It would be awful, well for me to see her like that..Flopping, with her head tilted to keep her world in balance. Her personality is the same..happy, trying to jump, tail wagging..full of love and spirit. I don't think it bothers her in the slightest, except when she get motion sickness and throws up. She is the same except lopsided...leaning...

From my reads, they can live with either..with the first gosh that would be awful if more lesions were to come. It would be very difficult for me, a decision. It pains me to even imagine it now...zip, out of mind...

We had an early dinner yesterday too, my husband had to sleep early he flew out to Boston this morning and will return back on Friday, early Friday night. Not bedtime, midnight late...

Happy Monday.
Hugs,
Love,
Oluwa

Saysusie · Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2008 2:29 pm Post subject:

Oluwa

We did not make it to the movies. He and I went to dinner, got lazy and decided to go home and chill. Didn't make it to the pool either. Yesterday was just a lazy day for us.
I am so accustomed to hearing my recorded voice singing that it doesn't bother me any more. What I hate to hear is my recorded speaking voice. Like you, I always deny that the voice is mine!
Not doing too well today; energy = 0 pain = 8
But, I am getting in the pool today, no matter what!!!
My best friend (& swim buddy) suggested that I trade in my swim fins for zoomers. Let me know how you like them and how they work for you and I may upgrade to zoomers.
I hope your dog gets better. Is their medication that she can take? Isn't it amazing how their personalities never change? Let me know how she is and what the vet said!
I also hope that your aches subside and that you manage to have a good day today! Get some rest and take care of yourself.

Peace and Blessings
Saysusie
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Oluwa · Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 8:16 am Post subject:

I'm lovin' 'em Saysusie...

I propelled about like a pro. Zip...flip... on the other side of the pool..well, it is only 33' I think, but I got there before one could push the stop clock it felt like. I torpedo from one side to the other with my hands on my side...wow...

Thank you, thank you so much for introducing me to the short fin. I tell you, it felt good to have my heart race, without that sick intense nagging pain. I let my thigh and calves to all the work instead of the full hip thrust and arm movements..I did the figure eights too..thank you.

Just one suggested item to purchase, just one change in a maneuver...ah I feel good. I'm really, really happy you gave me those suggestions...hugs.

I don't know how the Aqua Spheres maneuver...but if they are like these they make the duration in the water longer, a great cardio and really with ease...give them a flip...they may just be better than the spheres.

Energy more than a zero today...and pain less than an eight? Did you get to float at least.

I've been sleeping alot, but today I'm feeling rather good. I wish I could share my feel good with you.

Riley my Jack has what I thought, Vestibular Disease. I guess inner ear infection, brain lesion...either or, she is expected to recover with a possible residual of leaning a bit, losing balance or the head tilt..

She fell into the pool today...didn't doggy paddle too swell. I came to the rescue. I am hoping she won't fear the water now or will just stay away till she recovers. The vet said maybe 2 - 3 weeks. I see improvement already...

It was hard watching her eat. Head tilt, one eye on the bowl, yet missed it, so I had been hand feeding her. Today I pulled out two low edge, big round pasta serving bowls for her water and food...can't miss that.

If it is an ear infection we are dosing with antibiotics...basically it is treat the symptom as if. Regardless if we did an MRI, SCAN...it would just say hey that is what it is and there is no medication for a brain lesion.

Sending you feel good vibes...Hmmmmmmmmmmmm..Hmmmm.

Hugs,
Love,
Oluwa

Saysusie · Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 9:38 am Post subject:

Oluwa

Yes, I did float in the pool yesterday and I intend to do the same today. No matter how bad I feel and how much pain I am in, getting in the water always makes me feel better. My friend and I just floated back and forth making out shapes and animals in the clouds. We laughed and floated; floated and laughed. She and the water are like happy pills for me Laughing

I'm so glad that the fins and the smaller hand movements helped you, especially since they caused much less pain and allowed for more time in the water. Getting outside, in the water and exercising are great medications for us, in so many ways.
I got my B-12 shot today, slept REALLY WELL last night (actually, kinda passed out around 7:30 pm Very Happy

), so I have a bit more energy today and the pain has subsided a bit. I think that today is going to be a better day for me. So, I think some of your "feel good" did make it to Victorville! For that, I have to say "Thank You, Thank You, Thank You!"
I hope that Riley continues to improve, I can hear your love for her in your words. With your love and your 'tender loving care', I'm sure she will. Laughing

Have a WONDERFUL day and keep jetting in the pool!

Peace and Blessings
Saysusie
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Oluwa · Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 5:49 pm Post subject:

Saysuie...welcome, welcome..

I am happy that you are having a little break at least from all IT's and FMS stuff...

Sleep, I use to take for granted. Plop, flop and I was out..didn't budge or stir. After wrestling with the sheets for these last years. I just love when I get a good night...puffy eyed, bed wrinkle dents in the cheeks...I love it all...who cares now, unless the puff is a symptom...

Before I use to wake and whine before I went to work...oh, look how awful, puffy eyes...break out the ice, slap the cheeks...now I marvel and admire the look cause I know I just had some goo-oood sleep and I have been having a few of those good nights myself lately. Hoping for another tonight...

I am hoping..one for you too tonight...

Sweet Dreams..almost my bedtime...EST...
Love,
Oluwa #Sleep

Saysusie · Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2008 7:45 am Post subject:

So, Sweet Angel;
I am hoping that you awoke this morning to puffy eyes and bed wrinkle dents in your face Laughing

I don't think that the puff is a symptom. I get them also. And, have you noticed, when you get a really, really good nights sleep...you also have sleep crud in the corners of your eyes? Like you, those things that I hated when I was working are all welcome signs of restful rest! Very Happy

Have a Great Day today........hope the heat and humidity do not drain you of any of your "feel good" today!

Peace and Blessings
Saysusie
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