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.
Time for another creature and this week we are in South America and the creature is the Glasswinged Butterfly, I have never heard of it till I opened my book and saw it.
Unlike other butterflies which have colourful, patterned wings designed to warn off predators these ones do not. Instead they are pretty much invisible as its wings are all but transparent.
If you thought that was cool how about the fact that their 6cm wide wings can carry around 40 times it’s own weight and it is also a damn fast flyer at speeds of up to 13km an hour.
The glasswinged butterfly is most commonly found from Central to South America as far south as Chile, with appearances as north as Mexico and Texas. This butterfly thrives in the tropical conditions of the rainforests in the Central and South American countries.
The adult glasswinged butterfly can be identified by its transparent wings with opaque, dark brown borders tinted with red or orange. Their bodies are a dark brown colour. The butterflies are 2.8 to 3.0 centimetres (1.1 to 1.2 in) long and have a wingspan of 5.6 to 6.1 centimetres (2.2 to 2.4 in)
Here we are at another Monday, which o f course means a day for some facts.
The thickness of the Earth’s crust varies between 5 kilometres and 70 kilometres, the thicker part forms the land and the thinner the oceanic crust makes up the ocean floors.
The crust is broken into irregular plates which drift over the upper mantle layer near the Earth’s surface.
The first landmasses appeared soon after the Earth was formed. They move, joined together and broke apart many times throughout history.
Many of the Earth’s fascinating features occur at plate boundaries, mountain ranges were formed when two continental plates collided.
Volcanoes, ocean trenches and earthquakes are all the result of the movement of Earth’s plates.
Another warmish day I had a little sleep in till 5.20am. A pretty damn warm if not hot day here but no need for the air con which is good.
Trying to get through to Tim that just because they disagree doesn’t mean they hate him. In fact on his birthday when he was in a mood Sam looked straight at him and told him he isn’t allow to die. Sam also said that went for me and Kathy who was here at the time but he was looking at Tim, who didn’t notice and didn’t take in what was said.
The laptop keeps freezing this morning but I got the shopping done took close to 2hrs but it is done.
Another warm to hot start to the day and another day of a laptop that likes to freeze. Kathy is dropping the girls off around 8.30am they are in our care for the day till Michael gets off work.
Tim has the female physio coming this morning, I have not seen him do any of the exercises she asked him to do.
Tasha took the girls with her when she went to the shops.
Bought the girls Maccas for lunch
Tim cut my hair and I had a shower before going to bed. However, after only a few hours I was up due to my legs shaking so much and me not feeling good, stayed up about 30 minutes then went back to bed.
TODAY WOULD HAVE BEEN MUMS 84 BIRTHDAY
A rough morning woke feeling not so well, I was retching while brushing my teeth after that I took my medication with a drink of milk. That made me feel worse and I ended up throwing up, I think the milk is going off after throwing up I managed to eat 2 slices of raisin toast and started to feel better but not 100%. I now have a headache.
Tim has a hand rehab appointment he says he has another appointment in a month or something.
Sandy went to the cemetery and she had Skylar with her, she looked at Skylar and thought something wasn’t right when she spoke to Skylar she said “Nana” was talking to her she then gave Sandy a really long tight hug she hasn’t done that before and Sandy asked why such a hug, Skylar said nana told her to do it. She then said nana told her that she loves Sandy so much.
I have felt off all day.
I am not feeling 100% this morning but not as bad as yesterday morning.
The cleaners came as they do, every fortnight.
After the cleaners left Tim turned the air con on as it is so very humid.
A new month and the start of another school year, Sam is in year 11 this year, Sydney-May is in year 9 this year and Summer is in year 6.
Sam walked in at 6.50, so no need to ring and wake him to come down.
Went to the doctor’s to have my medical form filled in form my disability parking permit renewal, the Tim and I went and handed in the form to Service NSW we walked in at 11,16am and walked out at 11.28am. Had to take a number and wait to speak to someone.
After that Tim and I went down to the lake to just sit and look at the lake.
What a terrible night up an down like a yo yo and tossing and turning this went on till close to midnight. I was still awake and up at 4.50am.
This morning my internet is playing up, I keep getting a message saying I have no internet but I do have it.
Asked Tasha to let me know if she was coming down to help me get ready for bed as I am having a shower before bed but of course she didn’t.
My new shorts came I will try them on over the weekend.
Had a good nights sleep up at 5.15am, it is a nice start to the day there is a slight breeze through the house.
Haven’t needed the air con on at all today which is nice but it has been a warm day.
Tasha came down for an ice block she has had a busy day with work and other stuff.
Tim is pissed off with the troubles of trying to set up a meeting at work with his advocate being able to attend, the company said Monday but she is unable to attend on Monday and Tim has a doctor’s appointment that morning but the company are saying to bad, to sad, don’t give a fuck.
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