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[nebo]

Oh, sorry I didn't respond. I took it as standing just fine on its own without my lame attempt at levity (I can fly!).

I can fly, I can fly, I can fly!

Consider yourself engaged with me...

Uh,,Oh,,,

When's the wedding? And can I assume that it'll be a Disney wedding? And are Mr. Buzz and Mrs. pkondz invited?

I've talked to Mr. Buzz.
ANd I can tell he only has ONE eyebrow,,,, over his middle eye,,,,you might want to be carefull there...

I've seen pictures of baby Buzz... I'm not sure how to word my thoughts exactly on a family friendly board... Suffice it to say that I'm going to disagree with you.

Too late





If Nebo says it's okay, I'll post a pic of the pup.

Hold it,,,,WHAT?
You post Gremlin Nebo,,,, Parting the Red Sea Nebo, COPPERTONE NEBO, Simpson Nebo,,,,but now to post a cute picture of a dog you ask permission? Hey,, Ross,,, you're the closest, will you please go and smack him upside the head?




It's not as bad as I first feared. I think I caught it just in time to lessen the impact. Yeah it still hurts and yeah it's not fun... but it's no where near as bad as last time. Keeping my fingers crossed...

Aren't backs great?

 

[Backstage_Gal]

Ponzi, so sorry about your back!
But, as a PSA, I will share with all my Nebo fans the Safety in Motion advice from Disney. Remember, SafeD begins with me!

Technique #1 Position Elbows Closer
This technique makes everyday activities easier and safer.
Green Zone Elbows are close to your side. Your hands can reach down to pockets or up to chin.
Yellow Zone Elbows move away from your side, but not more than 6 inches in any direction.
Red Zone Elbows are more than 6 inches away from your side.


Technique #2 Point Your Toe and GoThis technique reduces strain on your back and knees
A. Pre-position one foot If you are setting or stacking product to your left, preposition your left foot back. When stacking to your right, put your right foot back.
B. Step first When passing things to someone, step first to point your toe, then hand off.
C. Push back and turn


Technique #3 Use Mid-range MotionsHelps protect the tendons and nerves in your wrist & hands
-Carry the weight on your arm
-Avoid carrying with your wrist bent back and weight hanging on your fingers
-Push with the power side (Closing a car or van trunk, tail gate, heavy door?)
-Push with the padded little finger side of your hand. Keep the pressure off your index finger.
-Reposition your body or the target. Bend your wrist less when triggering or squeezing scanners, spray bottles, hand tools, shears.


Technique #4 Same Side Hand and FootReach with your Same Side Hand and Foot
1. Reaching out with right hand = right foot forward
2. Reaching out with left hand = left foot forward
3. Reaching out with both hands = one foot forward


Technique #5 Big Load Big Toe / Little Load Little Toe

Lifting with two hands: Big Load, Big Toe
1- Foot forward with Big Toe close to the side of the load
2- Flex knees
3- Tilt or swivel load to position elbows closer
4- Break eye contact and look forward

Lifting with one hand: Little Load, Little Toe
1- Little Toe close to the load
2- Flex knees
3- Reach with Same Side Hand & Foot
4- Break eye contact and look forward

Stay in your green zone, my friends!

 

[Mom&RN]

yes, you have!!! we waitresses and house cleaners, also. nebo's a mite squemish. I try to tell him "sometimes, it's best just to NOT think about things"

And nurses, don't forget nurses. Nothing, I mean nothing grosses me out!

 

[pkondz]

Poor Ponzi! Feel better soon. Sorry about the back.

Thanks... It's sorta better... sorta worse...

The actual "I threw my back out" part is still tender and sore... but I can move without screaming now!

But after that first badminton day with Kay.... hamstring's sore... and after our first winter storm of the year and all the shoveling that went along with it... the rest of me is sore too.

Seriously, I'm sore... but in a good-you've finally had some exercise-way. And the back's not too bad. <phew> I think I dodged a bullet there.

Beatles are a tough group. Thought about doing "HELP" once, but it never panned out. I would really like to conquer "Hey Jude" one of these days though.

Let me start you off then...

Hey, Dude. I saw you nude.
Don't try and fake it,
I saw you naked

too risqué? All righty then...

Hey, Dude. I ate your food.
Don't try and fake it,
I saw you bake it.

take it away T-Man!

What dog doesn't love to go for a car ride?

I've had three Keeshonden so far. The first hated car rides, the second was ambivalent, so....

Do you feel like a chauffeur? "Ponzi, to the canine playground please. Keeshy and I want to frolic in this establishment for a bit."

Ha! I'm a parent. I always feel like a chauffeur.

Except Elle is learning to drive now, so now instead of feeling like a chauffeur I get to be in a perpetual state of terror.

Right, like your muddy boots wouldn't get muck all over the seats.

Wait a sec... so you're saying you walk on your car seats? Don't you just sit on them and skootch around until you're comfortable?

Did you expect it to bend appropriately with a heavy dog in your arms?

Yes. Yes I did.

I was such a fool.

You shouldn't be throwing out stuff that you'll need later.

Hello? Where were you when I needed this advice?

J/K. I know all too well about back pain. I have a back disorder that causes my back to go out on me every now and then. Would require surgery to fix. I'll pass though. I don't really need the surgery as long as I'm careful lifting and not over exerting myself.

Ah! So that's where you and Mrs. T met. At the back fixer upper's place.

Take care and hope the back feels better soon.

Thanks! It's gettin' there.

The Dreaded "Twinge",,,,you have an hour, two, tops, before you are miserable.

Yup.

Oh yeah, that'l work. Why didn't I ev er think of badminton when my back goes out?

Try it.... But it's not for the faint hearted.

Hold it,,,,WHAT?
You post Gremlin Nebo,,,, Parting the Red Sea Nebo, COPPERTONE NEBO, Simpson Nebo,,,,but now to post a cute picture of a dog you ask permission? Hey,, Ross,,, you're the closest, will you please go and smack him upside the head?

Aren't backs great?

Oh, all right. I post pics of you in various states of disrepair... but they're still pics of you. My dog ain't really part of this TR, ya know? But I'll see what I can find.

And yes, backs are great... but I still prefer it when the quarter back throws to a receiver. Then again, there's definitely something to be said when a really good back finds a hole in the line and breaks one for 15 or 20.

What? Not what we were talking about?

My bad.

 

[pkondz]

Ponzi, so sorry about your back!
But, as a PSA, I will share with all my Nebo fans the Safety in Motion advice from Disney. Remember, SafeD begins with me!

Technique #1 Position Elbows Closer
This technique makes everyday activities easier and safer.
Green Zone Elbows are close to your side. Your hands can reach down to pockets or up to chin.
Yellow Zone Elbows move away from your side, but not more than 6 inches in any direction.
Red Zone Elbows are more than 6 inches away from your side.

Great... so not only am I in the red financially, but physically too.

And nurses, don't forget nurses. Nothing, I mean nothing grosses me out!

Two nurses sitting at a hospital cafeteria
Nurse #1: "Isn't that boy over there one of your patients?"
Nurse #2: "Yup, he's had some gastric distress for a few days now."
Nurse #1: "Oh? I guess that's his mother with him?"
Nurse #2: "Yes it is."
Nurse #1: "I guess he's not quite over his illness since he's starting to vomit all over the table."
Nurse #2: "No, I guess not. Do you think his mom's going to get sick too? Oh, never mind, there she goes."
Nurse #1: "Yup. Looks like she had the pea soup special like you're having."
Nurse #2: "Looks like it."
Nurse #1: "Mm hmm..."
Nurse #2: "Pass the salt."

 

[bankr63]

Hold it,,,,WHAT?
You post Gremlin Nebo,,,, Parting the Red Sea Nebo, COPPERTONE NEBO, Simpson Nebo,,,,but now to post a cute picture of a dog you ask permission? Hey,, Ross,,, you're the closest, will you please go and smack him upside the head?

Sorry Nebo, you are 830 miles away from Ponzi, I am 1287 (if I drive through the US to get there - it's longer if I stick to the Canadian side). You're going to have to go smack him yourself. Besides, I caught that 550th bug you've been avoiding - I'm not going anywhere for another day or so. On your way home, swing by and I'll pass it on...

 

[pkondz]

Sorry Nebo, you are 830 miles away from Ponzi, I am 1287 (if I drive through the US to get there - it's longer if I stick to the Canadian side).

I thought the same thing!

 

[nebo]

Ponzi, so sorry about your back!
But, as a PSA, I will share with all my Nebo fans the Safety in Motion advice from Disney. Remember, SafeD begins with me!

Nice work with the PSA Marita, Pretty Sound Advice, but I don't think I have enough feet and toes to perform all those stunts, but if you can save just ONE back today, Attagirl! And,,, um,,, you do realize it's also useless information,, right?
Oh, it's sound advice, no doubt,,, but still useless.
If morons like me and Heather and Ponz and Monica and Mike Stephanie, and many others thought there was a chance we were about to throw the old Sacriliac out, we would stop immediately,,, but 99 percent of the time it's a sneak attack. I even once threw it out, "TESTING" it carefully, so I DIDN"T throw it out,,,, that's when I threw it out!
Oh yes,,, I was just brilliant. BRILLIANT I tell you!
Like running a knife over your wrist to find out if it's so sharp it might cut you if you're not carefull.
No, my mother was never complemented on the intellectual prowess of her only male offspring.

Technique #1 Position Elbows Closer
This technique makes everyday activities easier and safer.

Is this for the shot glasses or the wine glasses?

Green Zone Elbows are close to your side. Your hands can reach down to pockets or up to chin.

Hold it,,,,
Whose chin?

Yellow Zone Elbows move away from your side, but not more than 6 inches in any direction.
Red Zone Elbows are more than 6 inches away from your side.

Wait,,, six inches,,,, on the side?

"Check please!"

-Reposition your body or the target. Bend your wrist less when triggering or squeezing scanners, spray bottles, hand tools, shears.

How did we go ;from spray bottles, to SHEARS!!
And just what are "squeezing scanners?"
or is this something I probably don't wish to know the answer to?


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And nurses, don't forget nurses. Nothing, I mean nothing grosses me out!

Oh my
GOODNESS!
Does that sound like ;she just threw down the Gauntlet?

I mean,,, ok, if Copperone Nebo from our dearly beloved Ponz man doesn't gross you out,,, or the cow nebo,,,,,,
well,,,, I'm not quite sure if you were here for,,, the exquisite picture,,,, self portrait if you will,,,, that I took of my eye,,,,when it wanted attention........and I"M twitching right now thinking of that again,,,,, and,,,,,,
GUESS where we are going tomorrow?

Gotta run,,,, all you kids take care,,, love you.

 

[jecskc]

The eye thing WAS gross. It was hard to look at and it totally gave me the heebs.

 

[Backstage_Gal]

Nebo, about my Safety in Motion post, I thought myself, who can remember all that? But I think frontline workers get to practice, there are classes for that. Practice makes perfect?

 

[Mom&RN]

Oh my
GOODNESS!
Does that sound like ;she just threw down the Gauntlet?

I mean,,, ok, if Copperone Nebo from our dearly beloved Ponz man doesn't gross you out,,, or the cow nebo,,,,,,
well,,,, I'm not quite sure if you were here for,,, the exquisite picture,,,, self portrait if you will,,,, that I took of my eye,,,,when it wanted attention........and I"M twitching right now thinking of that again,,,,, and,,,,,,
GUESS where we are going tomorrow?

Gotta run,,,, all you kids take care,,, love you.

I don't think I was here for the eye picture but trust me if you have a gross disease, wound or malady and you tell all your friends about it most of them will either offer a bit of sympathy or run away screaming BUT if you have a friend that's a nurse I guarantee the first thing out of her mouth will be "Can I see?" Good luck at the eye docs, I'll be thinking of you and praying for a needle free visit.

 

[bankr63]

GUESS where we are going tomorrow?

Gotta run,,,, all you kids take care,,, love you.

If it's not too late - here's wishing you "good results"! Whatever you are hoping will happen today with your Eye Guy, that's what should happen...

 

[MHSweb79]

Good luck with the eye! I can totally relate and I thought of Nebo last Friday when I was sitting across from my eye doctor with him going, "When I shine the blue light in your eye, it lights up like a Christmas tree!" Pretty sure that's not a good thing.

A few more horrifying comments from him that I only partially hear (20% of my cornea, scarring, affairs in order, etc.) and I was quaking in my shoes, fearing that I was in for the Nebo treatment. Turns out, I have a pretty significant infection in my cornea and he gives me a tiny bottle of super-strong antibiotic drops that are too expensive to even prescribe and that I have to keep on the downlow from the DEA.

I wobble home and try to explain to my DD and DH what just happened. DH is on the computer, hearing, no doubt, "BLAH BLAH BLAH eye BLAH BLAH BLAH infection BLAH BLAH" when I get tough and say, "and we may have to cancel our trip to Disney next week." That got him. "Wait, what??!!?" Yes, let's keep our priorities straight.

Spent the weekend laying on the couch with my head back, putting kerosene drops into my eyes and generally feeling sorry for myself. I start to wonder what kind of glass eye I would look good in. I picture a neon-pink billiard ball, so when people do a double-take (as people will) I could shake my head sadly and say, "Yeah, pinkeye." Then I wonder if I could get one with a regular brown iris but a hidden mickey put into the pupil? That would be cool!

It's around that time when my DD comes over and pats me on the knee, sympathetically. "You might want to start learning braille," she says. "You know, while you can still see the dots."

OK, now that is seriously funny and we get into a spirited discussion of the stupidest places we've seen braille. Like the McDonald's sign on the register that said, "Ask if you need a braille menu" which isn't there any more. We decide our absolute favorite is the keypad on our DRIVE THROUGH ATM, which is still there.

Went back to dr. yesterday, who declared my eye 80-85% improved. I tell DH, and his relief is palpable. "So we can start packing?" he says. Whatta guy.

Who was asking what Nebo's followers should be called? Maybe something like "The Walking Wounded."

 

[pkondz]

I picture a neon-pink billiard ball, so when people do a double-take (as people will) I could shake my head sadly and say, "Yeah, pinkeye." Then I wonder if I could get one with a regular brown iris but a hidden mickey put into the pupil? That would be cool!

That would be cool. Surely (don't call me Shirley) with all the cat's eye and zombie contact lenses out there, someone could design a hidden mickey lens?

I also like the idea of the neon-pink eye. Except I would always have a normal looking one in my pocket and switch it out when people do their double take. "What? A neon pink eye? Uh, huh... What've you been smoking?"

 

[monymony3471]

I need to catch up a few pages!


Plus I got a post card the other day, thanks Barb! The pixie dust was overflowing!

 

[pkondz]

The pixie dust was overflowing!

Oh? Here, this should help with that.

 

[Thumper_Man]

Plus I got a post card the other day, thanks Barb! The pixie dust was overflowing!

Oh yes, so did we. Thanks Barb. I meant to post a thank you earlier, but life just gets in the way.

 

[Mom&RN]

Plus I got a post card the other day, thanks Barb! The pixie dust was overflowing!

Oh yes, so did we. Thanks Barb. I meant to post a thank you earlier, but life just gets in the way.

You are welcome! Glad to spread some pixie dust

 

[Thumper_Man's Wife]

Oh? Here, this should help with that.

You are welcome! Glad to spread some pixie dust

Yes, Thank you!!! I was so excited to get it I almost forgot to show T-Man what was written on it. oops!

 

[nebo]

Hi ya'all

Yes, I know I've been absent without leaves, but it's been a bad week so far.

Ok, ok, a bad Year so far.

Is 2013 the Year of the Bat? It would be fitting.
Yes, more eye worsenings, but there's good news and bad news about them;

After all the OCT tests, (occular coherence tomography), that they can just barely get the machines to register my "long' eyes,,, and having what Grand Bob cleverly phrased as the "Optical CANON", and then having Florescine injected in my veins so the Optical Canon can trace retinal leakages,,,,, welll, after all this, no new injection was necessary.

The bad news was that no new injection was necessary.

It appears they are writing off my left eye as a goner, it is just breaking down (atrophing) and noghting they can do.
And my better eye is just breaking down from dry Macular Degeneration,,,, not leaking,,,, again, nothing they can do either.
Did you know that people that have cataract surgery, about 10 percent of them develop Secondary cataracts?
Want to guess which category EYE fell into?

It might help if I have that removed,,,, but that's a major deal,,,, and expensive as well.

On the long drive home from ;there tuesday, my face started to hurt,,,, and slowly, slowly,,, the hurting just got strongeer.

Yesterday at the last moment, I made an emergency appointment with Dentist the Menace for today.

I barely made it through the night,,,, two hours sleep tops,, along with a bottle of Wodka.

My stomach is absolutely killing me from all the Ibuprofen I took,,,aspirin did no good at all,,, neither did acetaminophen,, and don't make me spell that again!

The good news again is that I'm adorable on my left side;
I look like Chip or Dale with my swollen cheek sticking out so far.
Too bad the other side still looks like Jafar.

The other good news is that I got a few Vikes out of Denny the Menny,,,a total of 12, extra strength.
Hah
this is like letting Otis Campbell sniff the cork!
He alos gave me , after I told him my stomach is killing me from all the Ibuprofen,,,, a super Ibuprofen prescription,,, like the ones Monica gave me when we met up.
And some Penny Cillian.

After a few injections of novacaine and anestithi,,, anesti...
numbing shots, he explored an now told me I need,,,,,
3,,,, count em,,,, 3 teeth pulled,,, they are all infected something fierce!
And he can't do it,,, they will break apart,,, I need to see an oral sturgeon.

And that was basically it.
According to him,,, I have about 20 minutes till these shots where off, and then I can go back to screaming.
That's why I'm trying to quickly get in a post before it happens. Yeah, there are a few comments I want to post on,, in particular MhSweb,,,that I just glanced at now,, and yeah, it would be nice to get back to just trip reporting too, I'm trying!

Now ai have to go and either get some much needed sleep, and find out which of the oral guys names he gave me might be on the Dining Plan we have.
I mean, Dental Plan.

Wow, talk about your Freudian Slip!
I've been living on Ramen soup; and it starting to get,,,,
BORING!
But at that grocer store I just talked about,, a package only costs 18 cents!
Not kidding,,, that's all,,, and it's cheaper if you buy it/them by the carton. Compare that to Campbell's Noodle soup at a buck and a quarter,,,,,

No wonder,,,,,,

you ready for this?


No wonder,,,,

This is gonna hurt,,,,,


No wonder,,,,,,

Everybody Loves Ramen!


Yeah, the vikes kicked in.