INSOMNIACS place to talk in the wee hours

can anyone guess what is wrong with this pic ? Good luck.

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When we lived up north, our house had very narrow step risers. They had carpet. I walked off the landing and slid most of the way down on my back. Got a shoulder sprain and whip lash. Still bothers me, 40+ years later.

My guess ? you are still in the hospital.

Ms. Chevy said I should post this pic here. I guess it goes with the theme above.

Depending on the carpet placed on the stairs, you can still slip. I fell on my butt twice with our current one. Will try and take picture of the stairs.

JunieB, the pictures you were referring to is of Italty. Beautiful country. I didn't take those though.

Thanks so much everyone for responding. Seriously, thank you. Made me teary in fact.

I love the dog on the railings! The folks with the hundreds of stairs must have great butts. (My DD rowed on crew in college and they ran the stadium stairs for training and her butt simply levitated.) I like the runner with the hardware on the steps. It looks pretty.

I looked on Home Depot last night and saw various 3M solutions that I will use on the deck stairs for sure and on the 4 concrete steps up to the front door.

The house is new to us, a flipper redone. Built in 1972. It is a raised ranch where you go up seven stairs to main living and bedrooms or down five stairs to laundry, guest bedroom, storage room (no garage) and family room. I have officially taken over the family room for my sewing room, whatever else room crafty, painting, doll play with DGD and little theatre for her. DGD is 5 and will now live only 2 blocks away!!!!! Yeehaw over that! I have not had my sewing room set up properly in 8 years and I miss it. My husband has pledged not to put anything in my area other than what goes there. I turned my eyes away from the growing boxes and other items that were piled into my special room in the last two houses. A huge mistake on my part. I found the strength to insist this never happen again. A big deal. I used to know where everything was in my sewing room and I want that back again. We raised four kids, three boys and a girl so having space for my stuff means something special to me.

My husband does have his office, he is a nice guy. He does so much for me more than I could ever expect.

The stairs are this darkish Brazillian Cherry, that will show a ton of dust. I have been warned off of carpeting, they say it is slippery. The 3M non slip strips would probably ruin the finish on the stairs but I am not sure I care if it saves my life.

There is a hand rail on one side I think I will add one on the other side. The house we currently rent is a two story and I fell up the stairs quite hard trying to carry things. Now I have a fabric shopping bag I put on my shoulder to do that. It works well and I recommend it to everyone.

Any additional ideas are most welcome. I like the idea of carpet because it would cushion a fall. Obviously not if it would also cause a fall. Also I am in Kirkland WA and it rains alot!

We do our final walk through today, closing is the 10th.

Hugs

Ginger

holeinone. U r right still St the hospital. I didn't touch that food one night try had fried catfish. nd ,1 night BBQ porkchop. Wth ???

I keep trying to text but I keep falling asleep. Can't remember what I said or really what anyone said to be honest. Newest guess of the doctor is my heart rate is too high and my blood pressure is too low. They started me on a blood pressure medicine. My blood pressure has always bottomed out. it at the most of that is true. My heart rate was 137-142 and 119th really too high. The doctor would like for me to be 80 or less but he will send me home anything under a hundred.so hoping for yet another possible cure. Been let down too many times from this worrying to stay neutral

OK ndding off

Sas. Sending you a pm later or tomorrow to pick your brain

Hootie hoo

Peppermint honey! DANG! I give you one more day, then me and Phylliwhoknowshowtodoit will come spring you outa there! xoxo

Patty- hope you will be going home soon.

Hi everyone else. Very busy with work and got lots of things to do at home and with biz taxes right now. Hope everyone is ready to spring in to March!

depression and cancer

Primal Scream Therapy Session

sharing a blog posted in 2014, a discussion about experiences of a cancer patient who writes often about their challenge to find care options. . .

I can't remember having a conversation about depression with my original oncologist. But I was referred to counseling which was a great help. And latter attended a Hope group. I've not actually had any chemical treatment for depression, but it's been with me ever since the diagnosis.

The problem is not just treating those with poor outcome (ie low survival rate) cancers. The emphasis on survival actually ignores the consequences of surgery (which can be life changing). Chronic illnesses that arise from the cancer, and continue to affect the 'cured' patient, such as Lymphedema following breast cancer or in my case a whole series of side effects from the cancer spread and chemotherapy.

Basically these 'new' conditions are considered as something outside the cancer, so you have to spend a lot of time explaining to GPs, nurses, consultants from other disciplines, your cancer experience. It's a sort of Primal Scream Therapy Session every time you engage with a new clinician.

I've had to reconnect with options again, as a side effect of chemo left me totally immobile for months on end. Forcing me back into a morphine haze , which in turn reminded me of the chemotherapy experience (which in my case had me close to death a couple of times) also referred to as the 'dark days' by cancer patients.

The problem is not just treating the depression along with the cancer. Its actually designing a holistic approach to the whole treatment process. Because the experience does not actually fit into a single disease model . Diagnosis, treatment and cure ; sounds lovely. But for many, it doesn't happen that way. I applaud attempts to understand the person who is undergoing treatment; but we have a long way to go, before the whole person is considered.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeW8jjwjtjE&index=1&list=RDTeW8jjwjtjE

Just popped in to see if Patty has made it home, so sorry that is a negative. It is a beautiful February day here in Missouri, hoping it is where you are too. I told Sas responding on this thread was like trying to jump in a moving car....!