Good morning Monday, time for some facts about Earth for this week, and this week we are looking at mountains.
There are 1,187,049 mountains on Earth
Mount Everest is the tallest mountain on Earth above sea level, however, if measured from the centre of the Earth it wouldn’t even be in the top 20. Why? Well the Earth isn’t a perfect sphere it is slightly squashed and bulges out in the middle
The oldest person to climb Everest was Yuichiro Miura from Japan who was 80 years old at the time.
The highest unclimbed mountain is Gaqngkhar Puensum in Bhutan which is the 40th highest mountain in the world.
Chimborazo which is in Ecuador is actually the highest mountain in the world and the closest to space, when measured from the centre of the Earth because of the shape of the planet.
Up with the alarm another cool start to the day, expecting a warm day, I managed to eat two slices of toast for breakie.
I went and had a 1hr nap this morning and it helped me not feel so exhausted this afternoon.
Had a bad night, restless and finding it difficult to settle, I woke at around 4am with my mask feeling tight but 4.50am I had decided to get up. I took my medication started to brush my teeth only to throw up. I also have a bad headache. Siting here I remembered that yesterday morning when I took my 9am tablets having a brief thought that I had three 100mgn tablets not two it was only a brief thought as I took the tablets and now I think that may have caused last nights drama and throwing up. So I checked online and I was right it would most likely be he cause. Although why it would take so long for it to make me sick I don’t get.
After Sam left for school I went back to bed, when Tim got a phone call and saw me laying there very still he became worried and when Sue tried to contact me to see how I was I was that out of it I didn’t hear the phone so she came over to check on me. Sue in fact told all my siblings I wasn’t good and they all contacted me to see how I was. After a 2hr nap I felt better not great but better, it didn’t last though.
By 3pm I was so tired I was having trouble standing and felt like I was going to fall over.
A new day not throwing up but very tired and nauseous, put my feet up and closed my eyes for 20 minute helped a little.
I decided to wear some eye shadow to try and stop me rubbing my eyes like I am trying to push my eyeball out of the back of my head.
I feel like I have so many things I want to do and no motivation to do shit.
It is a good thing our bodily functions like going to the toilet come natural and not something we have to have motivation to do.
I also closed my eyes a couple more times during the day.
NATASHA’S BIRTHDAY SHE IS 37
Had a good night, I didn’t tell Tim I had gone to bed last night because I was slightly annoyed with him. He came in and was annoyed that I hadn’t told him I was going to bed so we were both annoyed.
It has been a good morning Tim off to another GP appointment then into work to hand in paperwork all up he was gone around 4hrs.
This arvo I started a letter to a pen pal in NZ and all was going good till the last save then print and it wouldn’t save it just froze. I was trying to decide if I should lose the unsaved part and close the letter and try again when the computer decided to do a system update and restart. All was fine after that happened.
A good night I like good nights when I sleep well up at 5am when the alarm went off. Yesterday it was 32 degrees here, today they say it will be only 23 degrees. Even though it is cooler I am still drenched in sweat.
Tim lodged a complaint with the council about the garbo’s making a mess when they try to tip the contains of one bin into another so they don’t have to walk up the driveway. There are few of us in the complex that have the blue dot service this means we do not have to take the bin up to the top of the driveway, instead the garbo comes down and gets it. I wouldn’t care about how they remove the rubbish except that a lot often goes onto the ground and they leave it there.
Had a so so night, woke up a few times, noticed Tim wasn’t in bed he had fallen sleep watching TV again and it was 4.40am before he came to bed.
Tasha an I went to the doctors we both had appointments, all I needed to a referral to see the neurologist and Tasha needed a referral to continue seeing someone over at the hospital.
It isn’t a hot day but it is still warm and I was drenched in sweat all morning, after seeing the GP I came home and changed my pants from longish pants to shorts, also was able to remove my shoes and socks.
Sam helped me get my socks on this morning but I managed to get my own shoes on.
Tasha was in a right mood when I rang to make sure she had the disability parking permit but this is because she was over tired and feeling rushed her mood changed by the time we arrived to the doctors.
Had some problems last night, felt a lot pain and had to get up and take some paracetamol and have a bit of a cry, I then went back to bed and settled down pretty quick.
Tasha came down and got my skillet (small electric frying pan) out of the cupboard for me.
Turned the air con on at midday couldn’t handle the heat any longer.
Tasha came down to help me get ready for bed but she was in a rush, her phone kept going off either with a message or phone call.
After about 3hrs of sleep I woke enough to hear Tim speaking to someone and he said he was going to Morisset to pick up Kathy, Michael & Summer as their train had broken down and they needed a lift home. He didn’t come and tell me and when about an hour later I got up for a drink and noticed there was no one in the house but me if I hadn’t heard him earlier I would have been worried.
Sadly I have no more already prepared posts about Parkinson’s Disease and the book I was using as a reference had to be returned to the library.
Let’s look at Rigidity which is something I am struggling with myself lately. Most suffers don’t notice and stiffness or rigidity of their muscles and may only be revealed after an examination by a doctor.
Muscles stiffness does cause a number of important symptoms which are commonplace and cause many considerable distress the most common is pain. It is not uncommon for suffers who have arthritis or other muscular conditions to have their pain misdiagnosed. Now treatment for these other conditions will not relieve the painful rigidity of Parkinson’s an effective Parkinson’s treatment is of course what id required.
The pain caused by Parkinson’s is mostly felt in the back, neck, shoulders, arms and leg muscles. This is true these are the areas I feel the pain. It is a continuous ache made worse by exercise or fatigue. The pain is generally associate with exhaustion and the thought of moving from a comfortable chair is low, however, sitting doesn’t stop the pain or even ease it and often normal pain killers don’t help.
When the pain is in the upper neck or head the suffer may think they have a brain tumour or if the experience it int h4e chest they may think they have a heart condition.
Rigidity of muscles may cause an apparent weakness, however, when a muscular strength test is carried out all seems to be normal.
This symptom is nearly always associated with slowness of movement, which we will discuss in the next post.
Here we are at another Thursday here in Aussie land so it is time for a little more about life in the 1890’s here in Australia. This week we are looking at the clothing trade during the 1800’s the clothing industry consisted of three major sectors those being tailoring, dressmaking and millinery.
Tailoring was divided into coat, vest and trouser making, males were taught to make all garments while females made only one or two items. This led to the deskilling of tailoressess and the setting of low wages. Of course this saw men’s wages increase over time, with much of the sewing involved being done on steam powered machines.
The making of shirts, dresses and underclothing was left to the lower paid women to do.
An inquiry into the sweating system in Victoria in 1890 revealed the terrible conditions faced by some workers. It was reported that some women worked between 60 and 84 hours a week making clothes as diverse as dungarees, silk shirts and tweed trousers. One woman who worked 84 hours a week making tweed trousers at eight or ten shillings per dozen earning a total of only 31 shillings for all her work. She was the only one earning a wage as her husband was blind.
Some improvements were made in the late 1890’s when the wages board was set up to determine fair wages for factories and rates a piece of work for factories and outwork.
From this time the use of outwork began to drop off as it was less economical and at least on the surface the so called sweated labour less common. However, it was more likely driven further underground as desperate women fought to earn even a few shillings.
Good morning all, we are in for another stinking bloody hot day here in Newie anyway while I can still function more or less and if you could see how many mistakes I am making you would go with less functioning not more, just saying, what was I saying, oh yeah it is time for some Aussie Slang.
Turps: Turpentine or pure alcohol, if you go on the turps it means you are on a drinking binge
Two Up: A gambling game played by tossing tow coins simultaneously, that’s all I know never played the game
Tafe: Stands for Technical and further education common here in Australia, I went to Tafe after I left high school
Uni: University you know like college in some countries
Ute: A utility vehicle like a pick up part car part small truck like rear in which to store shit, it was designed to travel over rough ground like on a cattle station but is seen everywhere now days
Good morning all you may have noticed there was no Monday post this is because I was pretty unwell throwing up, extremely tired and felt like shit.
Ok time for this weeks creature and it is the Axolotl know what this is, how about if I say it is the Mexican Walking Fish.
However, it isn’t really la fish but an amphibian and like the frog and the toad they breath through their gills having three on each side of its head, just above the legs and skin.
However, unlike other amphibians they don’t develop past the larval stage which is the tadpole phase in frogs, if they did they would become salamanders.
They are native to Mexico and considered critically endangered, in the will they live for between 5 & 6 yrs but in captivity they can live up to 15yrs.
They are able to heal almost any injured body part, regenerating arms ,legs, tails, skin and even major organs such as the heart, liver and kidney.
I slept pretty much straight through the night waking once to pee at 11.40pm. Then the next thing I knew it was 5.11am and I needed to pee again.
Another stinking hot day turn the air con on at 11am.
Tim drove Sam over to his girlfriends.
Woke to heat it is going to be another stinking hot day, I have the doors opened but no cool breeze this morning. I turned the air con on at 8.30am due to dripping in sweat.
Tim has had his work appointment changed from today till Wednesday at 2.30pm. His physio went well as far as I know and yes I was sitting within feet of him but I put my headphones on and watch my tablet while his appointment is going on.
Damn it has turned out hot really hot and I am feeling drained.
What a morning, I woke up at 6am over sleeping by an hour and I feel rushed, so rushed I skipped my morning wash.
I then realised I took the wrong mediation last night taking my morning tablets instead of my night time meds. Explains why I had a hard time settling last night.
Then my mouse wouldn’t work I tried to change the battery didn’t help. After some fiddling around I got it working.
Tim went to the chemist I was expecting the meds to cost around $180 it cost $230, either prices have risen a lot or this chemist is just more expensive.
Had a better night sleep woke and got up at 4.50am it is suppose to be only around 21 degrees to much cooler then the last week.
Tim has gone to his doctors appointment then he has to go into work for the meeting about him returning to work.
Tim arrived home at 3.30pm and he was in a right mood, the meeting was cancelled and he was told they want a full clearance for him to work full time, damn if his doctor thought that was possible he would have done so already. They just want an excuse to sack him and as Tim finally said screw them and the job he doesn’t need this added stress in his life. I have been saying for a while if they sack him it will not be the end of the world.
Had a good nights sleep woke at 4.20am and after peeing I went back to bed for halfa getting up at 4.50am.
Sam told me about how his girlfriend had issues last night and ended up walking her to Sam’s place and how he was upset and worried about her, this caused him to have a bad night.
Tim drove me to the post office so I could buy a pre-paid satchel to send something to Kelli for Thea’s birthday. He was shocked at the cost, I wasn’t, it cost $30.
A new day has arrived after another good nights sleep.
When I got dressed this morning my shorts are very loose won’t be long before they will be falling off me if this continues. This as in me having bugga all appetite.
Managed a banana sandwich for breakie and a glass of chocolate milk.
I have been looking for Thea’s birthday present all day I know I have something, I just can’t find it.
I have felt ok most of the day but by around 2pm I started to feel restless, I ended up going to have a shower and it kinda helped.
Woke to a wet day and a cool day as well but I don’t need to leave the house today so it’s all cool.
Ok I remembered that Tim and I were talking about the electricity bill and how it hadn’t arrived, so this morning I went online to check it out for some reason our e-billing wasn’t in place I fixed that and the bill was due on the 1st February so I paid that. Later I will go back and set up direct debit payment again.
This afternoon I was shaking a lot, I looked like a fish out of water. Both Tim and Tasha want me to go back earlier to see the neurologist which means going to the GP to get a new referral then going to Sydney to see her, I am not so keen on the idea.
Do you know how Parkinson’s Disease get its name? Well it was down to a doctor named James Parkinson’s back in 1817. He noted what has became known as the classic symptoms of the condition tremor, rigidity, slow movements. Now days balance problems have been added to this list. There are other not so common symptoms.
Dr Parkinson first name for the condition was “shaking palsy”, I don’t know when it became more commonly referred to as Parkinson’s Disease.
Someone with Parkinson’s may not have all four of the main symptoms in fact some don’t have a tremor. However, from what I have read everyone with Parkinson’s has bradykinesia which is the slowness of movements. Generally speaking a person will not be diagnosed with Parkinson’s if they do not show signs of bradykinesia that said a person needs to have other symptoms in order to be diagnosed with Parkinson’s.
As mentioned not all suffers have a tremor and a tremor on it’s own could be something else. Tremors can be difficult to treat and may be disabling, even though usually the tremor can be treated with medication that either controls the tremor or eliminating it but of course they don’t always work. Around one in five Parkinson’s suffers have a treatment resistant tremor.
Then we have the issue with slow movements and smaller movements when being examined the doctor will have the patient tap the middle finger against the thumb so the doctor can see how big the movements are as well as how fast the movement is done.
Some other examples of this is small handwriting and taking more time to write the words from experience when saying handwriting they mean cursive writing not printing. Suffers also often find that their arms may stop swinging when they walk.
Then there is the problems with facial expressions which includes less blinking and have a mask like expression or may look like they are angry or upset when they are not either. They can have slurred speech spoken in a soft voice. Overtime they may find it hard to get out of a low chair and walk in a shuffling way.
Also under the umbrella of Bradykinesia comes a slowness in reaction time which is one reason why people with Parkinson’s fall over, as if they trip they cannot react fast enough to prevent a fall. It can also affect how someone gets in and out of bed, in and out of low chairs, and in and out of a car. Medication is good for this in the early stages of the disease.
Hello all time to step back till the late 1800’s and what the working life of people in Australia was like. According to a Victorian year book of 1894 something like 200,000 people were engaged in manufacturing work in the Aussie Colonies.
Items that started being made in commercial quantities such as biscuits and confectionery had been made in small workshops but slowly that faded out and the big manufacturing companies started to take over.
In the days before Australian factories things like boots, shoes, clothing and even cigarettes were imported from Britain or made in small local workshops. By the end of the 1800’s Australian factories would be competing with imported items.
In Melbourne boot and shoe factories were established in the inner city suburbs of Collingwood and Fitzroy. As I said earlier these items would have been made by a small family run business in which the man would cut, join and shape the leather.. His wife would have done the sewing while the children or another apprentice will do other tasks.
Even after the invention of the treadle sewing machine many still like to do the finishing work by hand.
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