What Up! Wednesday Randoms

[danitaec]

Starting this jam super early because I have a story to tell!

[aggiebug]

hollydfromtn sorry about your H. I hope he feels better quickly and you and lo don't get sick.

pitdigger how are you feeling today?


Dd just found a dog toy that is a hollow tube and is having a grand time hearing how different her voice sounds.

[mishka29]

Oh man I must have slept funny bc I woke up with a stabbing pain in my back. Not nice. LO has her 9 month apt today. I'm hoping for a quick round of naps before we have to go. Once again I will skip food for sleep.

[seamonster]

Nov 11, 2015 7:40:00 GMT -5 danitaec said:

Starting this jam super early because I have a story to tell!

Story time!

[seamonster]

Dragging today. I felt ok coming to work. Now I'm barely able to concentrate.

Would I be a bad wife if once LO is asleep I shove food in my mouth and go to sleep as well?

[aggiebug]

Nov 11, 2015 7:40:00 GMT -5 danitaec said:

Starting this jam super early because I have a story to tell!

Dude you are leaving us hanging!

[aggiebug]

Nov 11, 2015 8:05:17 GMT -5 seamonster said:

Dragging today. I felt ok coming to work. Now I'm barely able to concentrate.

Would I be a bad wife if once LO is asleep I shove food in my mouth and go to sleep as well?

Nope you clearly need it. Get some rest!

[danitaec]

Son of a biscuit-eater! I had it all typed up and then my computer froze and it all went away. Starting again...

[lilyelayne]

danitaec

hollydfromtn hope you & S had a good night at your ILs
pitdigger ugh food poisoning is awful. Fax you feel better today.
seamonster go to bed!

[lilyelayne]

badw0lf

[lilyelayne]

I have the plague aka the crud aka a mancold. I'm allowed to have a mancold, right? I want a mancold!

mishka29 hope the appointment goes well & your back feels better soon

[danitaec]

Trying again:

TL;DR I fell and jacked up my shoulder

Our deep freezer, where my ~170 day BM stash lives, is located in an outbuilding in our back yard. I'm super worried about it dying and taking my milk with it, so I'm trying to be better about checking it. My husband is away working this week, like every week, so A)I had to take the baby out with me to check it, and B)I wanted to do so before it got dark. So, here we all go outside - the dog, baby, and me. Doggie takes off to do her thang (it's fenced), and bambino and I go to the building. Freezer is fine, stash safe and sound, so we start locking up. This building is built up off the ground, and there's a ramp leading up to it, for lawnmowers, etc., blah blah blah. The latch for the door looks like this:

with another thing above it for a padlock to fasten through.
So I'm standing on the ramp with bebe on my hip, and the dog is going crazy because some boys are on the other side of the fence (and egging her on, the jerks). I'm trying to get the latch, um, latched, so that I can wrangle the dog and give the stink eye to the boys. I grab the latch with one hand, flip the thingy down, and still have hold on the handle part when for some reason I turn (maybe to look for the dog I don't know), and slip. The previous homeowner tacked two "grocery store" rugs - you know the kind - on the ramp, ironically to prevent slipping. Well after them living outside for years they occasionally get kinda gunky. And that gunk is slicker than owl snot, as my daddy would say. So yeah, I slipped. My foot folded under me and I was going down. To try to catch myself I had a deathgrip on that stupid latch handle; the rest of my/the baby's bodyweight went the other direction. Basically I tried to detatch my arm from its socket. I think I very nearly succeeded.

My first thought - after "holy crap I didn't hurt the baby!" - was that my foot was broken, as I'm pretty sure it's not supposed to bend the way it did. I managed to pick myself up, and grab the dog, and together with the baby we all made it back into the house. Turns out my foot/leg is fine, but my shoulder is jacked. It was kinda bothering me before, I guess from all the baby lifting, but now it is royally screwed. It aches all the way around the socket, and down to the very tips of my fingers. I should probably see a doctor, but where is the time?

So, any tips for shoulder/arm trauma? Am I a clumsy ox or what? At least it's not my dominant arm, but I need them both for clarineting, typing, parenting and such.

FIN

Cookies and other carbs for reading it all!

[seamonster]

Ouch!

I would see a doctor to make sure it's ok. Might just be sprained. Try ice, ibuprofen, and rest. Maybe put your arm in a sling. But I'd see a doctor.

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danitaec Oh, you poor lady! Things like that happen so easily. Try to rest it as much as possible and see if you can find the time to get it checked out by a doctor.
Also, do only the most necessary household work and eat lots of cookies and chocolate. And get lots of baby snuggles, I hear those help!
Do you have anyone that can come help you if you need anything before your H comes back?

[hollydfromtn]

danitaec Ouch!!! I agree with PP, definitely take an anti-inflammatory and rest it as much as possible. If you have a sling, use it. It helps remind you not to use that arm too much. I sprained my shoulder moving a couch a couple of years ago and the sling was the only thing that got me to quite using my stupid arm long enough for it to heal. I'm not sure how that would work with a baby though.

[hollydfromtn]

Thanks for the thoughts ladies. H texted me this morning and said his fever was back down to around 99, so hopefully he's crossed over the hump and on the mend. I'm going to leave S with FIL once he wakes up from his nap on my arm and go check on him and do some deep cleaning. But for now I shall nap because as you can imagine sleeping in a new place with a 9 month old was shitty last night. He was not a fan.

[aggiebug]

danitaec eek. I am sorry. Take care of yourself and do your best to rest, ice, and reduce inflammation with ibuprofen. If it's not better in a day or two make a doctor's appointment!

[pitdigger]

aggiebug, G you would probably never be able tell had a rough night, except for wanting to nurse and a couple extra dirty diapers this morning. DH and I are dragging. It's a general malaise, so we took it easy today: St. John the Lateran and St. Clement. We did it all in about an hour and a half and now we're resting. Tomorrow we head down to Sorrento.

[dmorgendorffer]

danitaec well on the bright side, good job somehow managing to fall so that your LO didn't get hurt but sucks about your shoulder. Hopefully it is just sore from the trauma and with a little motrin and rest it will feel better.

[dmorgendorffer]

Doing product research for my job today and I've spent a fair bit of the morning playing old school Carmen Sandiego. Probably spending more time on this than is really necessary but its for work!

archive.org/details/msdos_Where_in_the_World_is_Carmen_Sandiego_1985

archive.org/details/msdos_Where_in_the_World_is_Carmen_Sandiego_Deluxe_1990

[kaydee0402]

danitaec, another vote for doctor!

[kaydee0402]

hollydfromtn, glad your husband is on the mennd! And yes, deep clean everything! And open the windows if possible to get fresh air in the house.

[kaydee0402]

pitdigger, yikes! Hope everyone is better soon so you can enjoy the rest of your trip (which I'm extremely jealous of)!

[kaydee0402]

Nothing exciting here. I left my breast pump at home and DH had to bring to work, but I got some snuggles with DS while they were here.

My mother is driving me up the wall with my sister's baby shower. She is the worst about releasing control to other people, but she doesn't want to do all the planning, so that means I'm in charge and she just nags the crap out of me about it. UGH. When my baby sister gets married, I'm letting my middle sister plan the shower so she can deal with mom.

[aggiebug]

So with today being veteran'a day, do you celebrate current military members or only former ones?

[kaydee0402]

Nov 11, 2015 12:03:29 GMT -5 aggiebug said:

So with today being veteran'a day, do you celebrate current military members or only former ones?

Everyone!  If you served at some point, it's your day.

[aggiebug]

Nov 11, 2015 12:23:18 GMT -5 kaydee0402 said:

Nov 11, 2015 12:03:29 GMT -5 aggiebug said:

So with today being veteran'a day, do you celebrate current military members or only former ones?

Everyone!  If you served at some point, it's your day.

K I always think of a veteran as someone who is not active duty but veterans day seems to acknowledge everyone?

[cloe111479]

Nov 11, 2015 12:47:40 GMT -5 badw0lf said:

Don't you hate it when you're binge watching a show and then find out it's been cancelled. Ugh. I feel so lost! What's going to happen to the characters?!

YES!!   I have refused to start some before for that reason.  I do not want to be left in the middle of the story.  

[hollydfromtn]

Nov 11, 2015 12:47:40 GMT -5 badw0lf said:

Don't you hate it when you're binge watching a show and then find out it's been cancelled. Ugh. I feel so lost! What's going to happen to the characters?!

Ugh I hate it! IMO you get so much more invested when binge watching rather than watching week to week, so it makes it that much worse when it leaves you hanging.

[aggiebug]

Nov 11, 2015 13:17:24 GMT -5 badw0lf said:

Nov 11, 2015 12:57:43 GMT -5 cloe111479 said:

YES!!   I have refused to start some before for that reason.  I do not want to be left in the middle of the story.  

I didn't know it was cancelled until I was almost finished the second season! Boooo. Also it's the dumbest ABC Family show. I have no idea why I'm so invested.

What show