I don't always carry a bag, but when I do it's the bag that came with a DeWalt drill. The drill died long ago but the bag is black and yellow and really tough.
I don't always carry a bag, but when I do it's the bag that came with a DeWalt drill. The drill died long ago but the bag is black and yellow and really tough.
I got my custom made mod this morning and I am in awe.
She's so beautiful. It's exactly the finish I was hoping for:
Comparing the size to my other similar styled enclosures, she's really small:
Even though the internals are exposed, it looks really clean compared to the other ones:
It's also the only one that has a lip to pull off the cover. The other two need to be opened to turned off and it's always a pain to do it when you don't have nails:
She's so beautiful. It's exactly the finish I was hoping for:
Comparing the size to my other similar styled enclosures, she's really small:
Even though the internals are exposed, it looks really clean compared to the other ones:
It's also the only one that has a lip to pull off the cover. The other two need to be opened to turned off and it's always a pain to do it when you don't have nails:
Very true. Saranac Lake is often the coldest town in the contiguous US. I live 12 miles outside of town at a higher elevation. -30 degrees F isn't uncommon at all here. I remember one day a few years back, the wind chill was -56 and I couldn't go outside even for a moment.
My office has zero insulation. If you were to come here in the dead of winter you'd find me with a space heater at my feet and a blanket draped over me to hold its heat in. You'd also be likely to find me chain-vaping
I've heard of -100 F wind chills up there. I forgot the name of the mountain, but it set some sort of record for anywhere. Some of those summits have high winds on a normal day.
Another funny hospital story:
When I first hurt my back I was sent to pain management. We all know what they do there. I was expecting hot baths and massage but instead, I got prescriptions for hardcore narcotics. As I said I was a reformed addict BUT the addict in me told me to fill the scripts and stockpile them for the day things got bad. My mind always says "there is no such thing as too much" of anything (my addicted mind that is) so six months into stockpiling and telling the DR I was taking them, I am admitted to the hospital for an emergency hysterectomy. My pain pill management DR comes in to tell me he will be managing my pain based on the dosages he is prescribing to me. I agree. I could not blow the whistle on myself and admit I am not even taking what he is prescribing so I just roll with it. Suffice it to say I was wasted for three days during that hospital visit. Do not remember a single person that came to see me. My neighbor tells a story of coming to visit me and upon arriving seeing me breeze past a nurse that was trying to stop me (I wanted to go out and smoke) I was in a wheelchair and pushing frantically to get away from the nurse and did not even see my neighbor. This was the same hospital visit where I had wandered off, IV in arm and wheeling the IV pole and they found me downstairs in a DR's office with my head on the desk fast asleep. I am pretty sure I was discharged early from this hospital stay too.
When I first hurt my back I was sent to pain management. We all know what they do there. I was expecting hot baths and massage but instead, I got prescriptions for hardcore narcotics. As I said I was a reformed addict BUT the addict in me told me to fill the scripts and stockpile them for the day things got bad. My mind always says "there is no such thing as too much" of anything (my addicted mind that is) so six months into stockpiling and telling the DR I was taking them, I am admitted to the hospital for an emergency hysterectomy. My pain pill management DR comes in to tell me he will be managing my pain based on the dosages he is prescribing to me. I agree. I could not blow the whistle on myself and admit I am not even taking what he is prescribing so I just roll with it. Suffice it to say I was wasted for three days during that hospital visit. Do not remember a single person that came to see me. My neighbor tells a story of coming to visit me and upon arriving seeing me breeze past a nurse that was trying to stop me (I wanted to go out and smoke) I was in a wheelchair and pushing frantically to get away from the nurse and did not even see my neighbor. This was the same hospital visit where I had wandered off, IV in arm and wheeling the IV pole and they found me downstairs in a DR's office with my head on the desk fast asleep. I am pretty sure I was discharged early from this hospital stay too.
I love the desert climate. Being a Southern California girl it suits me. Death valley not so much, at least not in summer. I have been there and it is great in the spring and fall. I hope to be in Prescott AZ in a year or too. Hot in summer but not beastly.
Yeah DV in summer is a bit much. Temps look mid-90s most days around now, which is perfect for me. Last time I was there it was 108. A bit much, though I'd take that over -30 any day.
I have tried Gapabentin (several times) but it does make me feel like I am partying (a buzz) and my rehabilitated mind does not like that. Again, that slippery slope and the terror that ensues. I am currently using Cymbalta and Naprosyn.
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How has the Cymbalta been working for you? Helpful? And yes, if that's the way you feel on Gabapentin, best not to use. Chronic pain really sucks. At least with acute pain, as I've had from say a tooth or a fracture, may be terrible, but you know it will get better. Chronic pain is depressing because you know it won't heal itself away. But for me, the idea of something going wrong with surgery on my cervical spine is even more depressing.
Gabapentin will give you a buzz, I know this because my daughter's father, who is always looking for a buzz, takes a couple and drinks some beer and gets himself to that place he craves. Much to the annoyance of the rest of us. I imagine the rest of the drug world has realized this and is now abusing it
I get you Eskie. I have opted out of the back surgeries too and am in agony a lot. I have on occasion taken 1/2 of a Vicoden so I could move that day but it terrifies me. Terrifies me that I will decide I like the feeling and down I go. The whole time is spent in so much angst, that I give myself, that I am not able to relax at all.
The Cymbalta works good. it has its side effects too though. I was on it for about 3 years, 60mgs and watch out if you skip a dose, brain zaps and other weirdness. I decided due to this I would get off of it. Dropped myself down to 40mgs, it was hard time. Like getting off ......, sick and dizzy even. I eventually regulated at 40mgs but the neuropathy pain was brutal. So I am back on 60g and feeling better. It is the less of all evils for me. That and Naprosyn.
I totally get your worry. After going through that when you were younger, I can imagine the fear of going down that road again. Unfortunately all medicines have side effects, including Naprosyn, it's all a matter of finding a balance that works for you. For me, if it were my lower back that was as bad as my neck, I'd already have had the surgery. Even a bad outcome would leave me stuck in worse pain, but I could still move.
But there's spinal cord in your neck, and if that type of surgery goes wrong the consequences are well in excess of just pain. Having dealt with a medical disorder that had me essentially, but temporarily paralyzed for a month or so, the idea of that as permanent is totally unacceptable to me. I still have some minor residual problems from that bout, and that's coming up on two years now, so I'm assuming it's permanent. Fortunately it's not at all bad, just my right ankle, and I've learned to compensate without thought, but it was still a scary time. I'd rather have the pain. If it ever advances to actually squeezing the spinal cord itself than just the nerves shooting off, then I'll have no option, but hopefully that won't happen for a very long time.
No, unfortunately any non-steroidal, whether taken orally or absorbed through the skin is a bad thing for my kidneys. Given they've been stable for about 10 years at the reduced level they are, I'm not looking to tip the balance in any way. By the books I should have been on dialysis 5 years ago, but what do the books know.
So you are talking about being paralyzed then? Yes, I would have a hard time going for that type of surgery too. Try the Cymbalta. While on it the only side effects for me are dry eyes and dry mouth. Not a lot to deal with to have the pain go away. Wait I guess there is also that mind-numbing thing that happens with all anti-depressants. Some think of it as a good thing. Ambivalence is what I am talking about. Your kid could come home from school with straight F's on a report card and you would wave it away as "it will all work out."
Lyrics was the update to Neurontin, when Neurontin’s patent ran out. It’s barelt any different.
I tried both, and could not tolerate the first and also it gave me no relief, but Lyrica was great for a while. And then I had a reaction, and had to stop taking it. Elavil worked for some stuff, but not everything.
I tried them all back then though. Some helped with some pain, but nothing worked for long, and nothing but opiates worked for the migraines. Which of course nobody will prescribe.
In the end, it was too much work to remind the doctor every single visit WHY I needed any of those meds, and when the last neuro cut me off because I was out of state, and could not have an office visit - never mind that I couldn’t have gotten an appointment for 3-4 months even if I’d been home - I just gave up. I’m sick of being treated like a crybaby because I’m sick.
Karma story... ex doctor was one of the worst about ordering tests, or treating anything. I’d begged him for referrals for the migraines he wouldn’t treat. “Take Tylenol” he’d say.
Ran into him a few months back, he was talking to someone I know, and complained about having a migraine. I smiled sweetly and said “My doctor said Tylenol would work! You should try that!”
And there you have the wiring of a DNA75C, 3 wires only, battery positive down. 
Morning shinies 
it's rewick Saturday here today - whose idea was it to have so many RBAs in rotation?!
Just rewicked 1 doggy, 2 project x's, 2 hussar v1 RDAs, and 1 Haku Venna RDA
it's rewick Saturday here today - whose idea was it to have so many RBAs in rotation?!
Just rewicked 1 doggy, 2 project x's, 2 hussar v1 RDAs, and 1 Haku Venna RDA Right now I'm on imipramine, which I've been on for depression, so it's sorta double duty. It's more sedating than something like Cymbalta, and it hangs around longer, so no ups and downs with a missed dose. It took a long time to figure out which med would work best for me, and in the end I'm on the oldest antidepressant ever made, and which is still considered the gold standard. When it works it works well But is also has the most side effects, so newer drugs are better tolerated and have far less risks associated with them. Having gone through several major episodes, I no longer mess with what works.
It's a little strange, but with all that going on, I never think of myself as a sick person. Just someone with some problems I deal with. If you ask me how I am, you won't here I feel ill. Unless I eat some bad sushi. Then I'm allowed to play the I'm really sick card.
@AngeNZ I do that too, and curse myself. If I get to them once a week I have about 8. I did more yesterday just because I got a couple more.
Shiny mail wasn’t too exciting today, just another Zlide and a few packs of plex 3d coils - I love that they work in the Zenith and Biip. I haven’t tried that yet, but maybe today.
I think the door was loose on my Topside. Tightened it up and so far, so good.
Shiny mail wasn’t too exciting today, just another Zlide and a few packs of plex 3d coils - I love that they work in the Zenith and Biip. I haven’t tried that yet, but maybe today.
I think the door was loose on my Topside. Tightened it up and so far, so good.
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