Welcome … I hope the weekend is going well for you. It’s not bad here but I’ve had a couple of issues crop up.
Amazon never did show up with my battery charger. I called this afternoon and they are sending a replacement shipment that is supposed to arrive on Monday. The original unit is still in transit but there was a shipping issue. I might wind up with two of them. Although they told me I could send one back if I get two.
My cyst was driving me nuts and I opted to try draining it on my own, this was a bad mistake. I used a sterile syringe & needle. I started by washing my hands and wrist with warm soapy water. Then dried off. Swabbed the cyst twice with two different alcohol pads and then busted open the syringe. I poked it directly in the middle but the needle wasn’t fully in and when I went to draw back on the syringe the needle came out. I got nothing but a flash of blood. I poked it again from the side and was able to draw back on the syringe. I got a little more blood but nothing else. Finally my last poke I opted to stab it from the top. I pushed and it hurt but I pushed some more. I felt it in me and wanted to make sure that I was inside the cyst as much as possible. I kind of wish I went deeper. However when I pulled back on the syringe I got nothing but a little bit more blood. To say that I wasn’t happy was quite the understatement. All I did was make things worse. The area is sore now and bruised a bit. It did increase for a short time in size but has since shrunk. This morning it’s all red and warm which means it’s infected. I did a virtual doctors visit and found that it might be a fibrous cyst, not all of them are filled with fluid. However, it is possible that my doctor may choose to try to inject a steroid into it to see if that will shrink it. Most likely I am going to wind up getting referred to another doctor for the drainage or surgical removal. Honestly I am fine with leaving it in just make it go back to being not a huge pain and so swollen. At any rate I got some antibiotics and they are hitting me hard it’s almost like I am taking the medicine for an infected tooth. 1 pill 3 times a day for 7 days. I will be at the doctors office on Thursday so he can touch it and hopefully I can talk him in to trying something first before throwing up his hands and sending me off to see a colleague. I’m looking for relief sooner rather than later. At least I had the foresight to recognize the infection and caught it in the early stages before it spread and put me in grave danger. I know that shit moves fast and the sooner you act the better you are. I am mad that I gave in to trying to fix this on my own but I was tired of suffering and going to the ER probably wouldn’t have yielded any thing different other than maybe some diagnostic testing.
I did get up super early and got my shower and on the road. I went to a place that is an hour and half away. I got curious on the way down and discovered an energy facility. They had the most amazing smoke stacks. I’ve seen them before in the distance but never up close. The smoke was billowing out but the bulk of it was stagnant. I was enjoying the view and wish that I would have taken some photos and video. I was in the country and there wasn’t anyone around. Found out that the restaurant had a breakfast buffet on the weekends, that sounds temping. However my eyes were set on a Philly Cheesesteak Omelet. I had to wait forever for it to show up and it was red damn hot. Tasted delicious but the steak could have been sliced a little thinner. It was easily 5 or 6 eggs. I got toast with it and had a soda. It was $15 and I left a nice tip. The waitress was really friendly and gave me a large soda to go. The trip home was a bit of a challenge because my GPS headed me to a road that was closed. I remembered where I came into town and took that way back home. I was a little out of the way. I was on some country roads that seemed like they would never end. I decided to put my foot on the pedal and was up to 120. I liked the speed but hate what I did to my gas tank. That was a huge fuel suck but I did it twice because you know once just isn’t enough. I wanted to get home to get online with a doctor about my wrist plus I had to use the bathroom. This was a very enjoyable trip and I might make it again next weekend and try the buffet.
The vehicle feels pretty good and is running well I think it enjoyed the trip more than I did. I am interested to see where the battery is now. I’ve been back out since coming home. Stopped for cat food, medicine, mail and grabbed something to eat. I’m giving the network time to go to sleep and for things to cool down a bit. Then I will go back out with my meter and see what the health check says. I still think that I am headed towards a new battery the only question is when. If there is plenty of life left in it no shop will replace it under warranty but I know they would sell me a new one for cost and I am sure that’s up from when I originally purchased what’s in there now. My late spouse had an SUV and the damn thing ate batteries, winter seemed to kill it quicker than anything. Even after he passed I think I put at least one battery in it before I wound up getting rid of it.
In other news I watched the latest episode of The Pit. Lost it over a little girl passing away. This show is so damn real it feels like I am in an actual ER. Then I finished up the Netflix series Zero Day. It got really good and I just had to watch to the end. There was a couple plot twists that I never expected but the mystery was solved in the end. I was all keyed up after watching it but managed to somehow slow things down and watched some Night Court and then I was out like a light until early morning when my bladder woke me up. The next time I woke up was at 6:30a when Rudy was making biscuits on me. He wanted his food, I just couldn’t believe morning came around so quickly. It was a little after midnight when I turned the lights out. I wanted more sleep but was also excited to get moving. I didn’t get back home until 10:30a
Almost worked in a nap but I was tired and moved from the chair to the bed, that was enough to wake me up and I couldn’t fall asleep. Watched some YouTube videos and then just got up and started moving.
I’ve taken care of my work task. I need to get up at 6:30a to do testing because of monthly patching. I want to keep on schedule so that I make it to breakfast, the grocery store and gas station at my usual times so that I have the morning to rest. I’ve been blessed with the fact that it’s been quiet all day but I have had some spam roll into to my work email account that annoyed me and made me think that I was getting work. I could go all weekend without hearing the email alert for my work email account. Here’s hoping that the quiet continues for work.
Talk with you all again soon. Stay warm and be well.
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