A new week has arrived and that means some facts about the Earth.
If you went soaring through the atmosphere in a hot air balloon, you would find it harder to breathe the higher you went as the atmosphere gets thinner.
The mixture of gases in the atmosphere has taken over 4.5 billion years to evolve, around 99% of the atmosphere is made up of oxygen and nitrogen, the remainder is tiny amounts of other gases.
The force of gravity is not even all over the Earth, a person weighing around 150 pounds at the equator would weigh 151 pounds at the North Pole.
The part of the Earth that has life on it is called the ecosphere.
The length of a day on Earth is increasing by 17 milliseconds per century.
I have no deodorant as Jess ran out and came and took mine, and boy do I stink. I went in and washed under my arms. I turned the a/c on at 9am as I was sick of being drenched in sweat.
The computer was working well till 9am when it decided it was time to freeze.
I decided to start having an egg flip with or for breakie as I am not eating much during the day.
Had a really good night, slept well woke twice to pee but straight back to sleep.
Yesterday afternoon around 3pm Sam walks out of his room needing help with a bleeding finger due to a slip of the knife, he had been eating a pie. Anyway Papa helped him clean it up and cover it with a band aid, it’s not a serious cut thankfully. I helped change the band aids this morning.
Sue popped over to see me no reason other then to make sure I am doing ok. I asked I she could send of the parcel for Thea & Daemon which she said she would do.
Tim had another meeting at work and they have terminated his employment this is ok, he was frustrated with the run around and he has no idea when he will able to go back to work at 100% and that’s what work wanted to know.
It started to piss down rain around 10.30am and came over pretty cool.
Sam out early and Tim was just walking out to go meet him but he was already here.
After around 3hrs sleep I found myself needing to pee 3 times in under an hour, so I decided to get up for an hour or so. I did at last settled down on returning to bed.
I woke to find Tim asleep on the lounge at 5am, he moved from the lounge to our bed.
Had to ring Jess to wake Sam who’s phone was going straight to voicemail, also been raining on and off and I am not suppose to take the scooter out in wet weather.
Due to the rain I rang and cancelled my podiatry appointment. As I sat at my computer and watched yet another very heavy downpour I decided to cancel as I am slow getting in and out of the car and if such a downpour happened when I was getting in or out I would end up drenched. I now go next Wednesday.
SUMMER’S BIRTHDAY SHE IS 11 TODAY
Had a really good night slept straight through for like 10hrs and haven’t been shaking at all since I got up nearly an hour ago. Feels good.
The no shaking lasted till 8.30ish and even after it returned it wasn’t bad.
Felt good all day.
DAEMON’S BIRTHDAY
Had another good nights sleep woke only once to pee and then straight back to sleep. Tremor wise I am not as good as yesterday when I got up but it is also in no way bad.
A warm and sticky day, had turn the a/c on at midday.
I have restarted my exercise program to help keep my body moving as it should, I got a little slack for a while but I think that has passed now.
Another good night, slept straight through again woke with very little shaking. I have the front and back doors opened and the breeze is nice, we are in for another hot day.
I had to go and wake Tim at 11am. He was shocked at how late it was and he was in a deep sleep as I had to say his name a few times before he woke up.
He had a phone call from Youi they said that the woman Sarah is going to help Tim find another job not driving heavy vehicles as he isn’t cleared to do that by his doctors as yet. They guy also said something about how much they will keep paying Tim if he is unable to get another job but I can’t remember what was said. The gist I got was they wouldn’t be paying the amount they are currently paying but I am not sure.
Had another pretty good night woke when the alarm went off, much cooler this morning only 22 degrees better then yesterdays 38 degrees and should stay around the low 20’s all day, with maybe some rain.
I was writing some letters this morning and when I tried to add a photo it came something about the graphics being missing or faulty what the hell, it was fine yesterday. I restarted the computer and it came good.
Been raining all day.
Up at 4.50am after a decent enough good night.
I have no deodorant as Jess ran out and came and took mine, and boy do I stink. I went in and washed under my arms. I turned the a/c on at 9am as I was sick of being drenched in sweat.
The computer was working well till 9am when it decided it was time to freeze.
I decided to start having an egg flip with or for breakie as I am not eating much during the day.
Had a really good night, slept well woke twice to pee but straight back to sleep.
Yesterday afternoon around 3pm Sam walks out of his room needing help with a bleeding finger due to a slip of the knife, he had been eating a pie. Anyway Papa helped him clean it up and cover it with a band aid, it’s not a serious cut thankfully. I helped change the band aids this morning.
Sue popped over to see me no reason other then to make sure I am doing ok. I asked I she could send of the parcel for Thea & Daemon which she said she would do.
Tim had another meeting at work and they have terminated his employment this is ok, he was frustrated with the run around and he has no idea when he will able to go back to work at 100% and that’s what work wanted to know.
It started to piss down rain around 10.30am and came over pretty cool.
Sam out early and Tim was just walking out to go meet him but he was already here.
After around 3hrs sleep I found myself needing to pee 3 times in under an hour, so I decided to get up for an hour or so. I did at last settled down on returning to bed.
I woke to find Tim asleep on the lounge at 5am, he moved from the lounge to our bed.
Had to ring Jess to wake Sam who’s phone was going straight to voicemail, also been raining on and off and I am not suppose to take the scooter out in wet weather.
Due to the rain I rang and cancelled my podiatry appointment. As I sat at my computer and watched yet another very heavy downpour I decided to cancel as I am slow getting in and out of the car and if such a downpour happened when I was getting in or out I would end up drenched. I now go next Wednesday.
SUMMER’S BIRTHDAY SHE IS 11 TODAY
Had a really good night slept straight through for like 10hrs and haven’t been shaking at all since I got up nearly an hour ago. Feels good.
The no shaking lasted till 8.30ish and even after it returned it wasn’t bad.
Felt good all day.
DAEMON’S BIRTHDAY
Had another good nights sleep woke only once to pee and then straight back to sleep. Tremor wise I am not as good as yesterday when I got up but it is also in no way bad.
A warm and sticky day, had turn the a/c on at midday.
I have restarted my exercise program to help keep my body moving as it should, I got a little slack for a while but I think that has passed now.
Another good night, slept straight through again woke with very little shaking. I have the front and back doors opened and the breeze is nice, we are in for another hot day.
I had to go and wake Tim at 11am. He was shocked at how late it was and he was in a deep sleep as I had to say his name a few times before he woke up.
He had a phone call from Youi they said that the woman Sarah is going to help Tim find another job not driving heavy vehicles as he isn’t cleared to do that by his doctors as yet. They guy also said something about how much they will keep paying Tim if he is unable to get another job but I can’t remember what was said. The gist I got was they wouldn’t be paying the amount they are currently paying but I am not sure.
Had another pretty good night woke when the alarm went off, much cooler this morning only 22 degrees better then yesterdays 38 degrees and should stay around the low 20’s all day, with maybe some rain.
I was writing some letters this morning and when I tried to add a photo it came something about the graphics being missing or faulty what the hell, it was fine yesterday. I restarted the computer and it came good.
Well here we are at another Friday and so I will share a little more about Parkinson’s Disease, the dreaded condition I have, today I will share a little about slowness of movement.
The name for this is “hypokinesia” if you can pronounce that you are better then me, anyway it affects everyday movements such as walking, getting out of a chair and in and our of bed, turning over in bed. It can also affect speech, swallowing and facial expressions. If the slowness affects one’s arms then it will affect one’s writing as well as other hand movements.
This slowness of movement is the most important feature in the diagnosis of Parkinson’s and nearly always the most disabling. It is what causes the expressionless face (which I hate) which can lead some to think the suffer is stupid or angry which we are not.
It leads to the lack of natural movements such as blinking or swinging the arms when walking and even if the suffer is nervous they may sit still without turning their head or moving their hands. I wish I could stop moving my hands at times, it always looks like I am waving at people.
They disability from this arises from the fact that our voluntary movements become slow, reduced in range and require more effort and concentration to achieve. This is why our steps become shorter and we may start to drag our feet in a shuffle instead of lifting them off the ground, when we shuffle we can do so pretty fast being unable to stop causing us to run into things, yes this has happened to me.
Repetitive movements need to do things like brush one’s teeth or stirring saucepan can become difficult and frustrating. This also goes to handwriting it can become not just slow but messy and smaller the longer one attempts to write. This books says it can also come to an involuntary halt which will require some effort to resume, damn didn’t know that.
Then there the issues with using our fingers such as trying to turn a page in a book, doing up buttons and and bra hooks which is why I don’t wear bras with hooks anymore. If one hand is more affected then the other it can make two handed tasks even harder like peeling food or doing up shoelaces.
That will do for this post, more to come next week.
Hello everyone, time for a bit more on the working life of Aussie’s in the 1890’s.
This week we will touch other jobs city workers had starting with the good old office worker. Until the invention of the typewriter in 1864 office workers were mostly male.
However by around 1890 more and more middle-class young women were being employed to work the new office machines. Business colleges were teaching the skills of typing and shorthand to more and more females, although these skill were still studied by males.
Despite the advent of typewriters the careful “public service” copperplate hand-writing was still paramount until the twentieth century for work in registers and ledger books.
Then there is the job of a telephonist with the invention of the telephone came new opportunities for young females for employment as a growing number of manual exchanges started to appear. From this time many middle-classes as well as offices had a telephone. Some home even had a special room just for the telephone.
Another Tuesday has arrived so it is time for another creature and this week we have the Flannel Moth Caterpillar.
This moth is also known as the pus caterpillar and touching this creature is definitely a no-no as the hairy comb-over conceals small, exceptionally poisonous spikes that can stick in the skin and cause excruciating pain that lingers for up to 12 hours. If you do happen to touch a puss caterpillar the best way to remove the spines is with sticky tape. Lay it over the site and rip it off.
The puss caterpillar morphs into a flannel moth, which also has a pretty hairdo, but it is harmless.
Another of the caterpillar’s charming traits is its method of poo removal, it flings its faeces away from its body to prevent parasites from being attracted to it.
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.
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