12/28 China AMPS 93,+6 58,+8 77, PMPS 85,+2 64,+6.5 60

[Chris & China (GA)]

Yesterday's condo

12/27 AMPS 79,+2 79,+6 72, PMPS 78,+2 66,+4 57,+8 62

Deputy LagoonMistress Extraordinaire China, on duty!!

Had me a little worried this morning with that AMPS, but I guess I should relax and trust that my little surfer girl knows what she's doing.

Got Cleo's stitches out today from her cyst removal surgery!! (and while she was there she was subjected to the indignity of getting a quick shave around her nether-regions)....she's getting older and has really long hair so hopefully it'll help keep her a little cleaner and smelling a little better

It was actually a lot bigger incision than I thought it would be...Now we just have to wait for all the hair to grow back!
(with stitches)

Good news on the water heater too!! As I thought, "somehow" when the furnace guy was here a month ago, he must have bumped into the temperature setting on the water heater because when he got here to check it out, he said it was set on "Warm" instead of "Hot".....so that was an easy (and cheap) fix!!

I had called them soon after I'd noticed the change in the water temp since it coincided with the day he'd been here, but they said there was no way he would have changed the temp or bumped into it (but they also said they'd ask him to make sure)....when I called back they told me he had said he hadn't done anything, but it's just too much of a coincidence that it happened on the same day for me......Looks like I was right the whole time!!

Surf safely tonight kitties!!

 

[Bobbie And Bubba]

Surfer Girl China! Bubba is doing his best to be right there with you to keep all kitties safe in the l agoon .

great news with the heater. Hope they didn't charge you!????

 

[carfurby (GA)]

Nice surfing for China. It looks like Cleo is healing nicely. I'm glad your water heater was something simple.

 

[Ella & Rusty & Stu(GA)]

Yo Deputy China, Thanks for taking over in the lagoon while I'm having a vetty bounce. I'll get back on duty tomorrow.
~LagoonMeister Rusty

Hi Chris. You could have fixed the water heater yourself!
Glad that Cleo is OK and sending her some beautiful healing vines.

 

[Chris & China (GA)]

Hope they didn't charge you!????

If he was going to, I didn't give him the chance...I said "Thank you" and closed the door.....LOL

You could have fixed the water heater yourself!

I do kind of feel bad having him come out, but I haven't been down in the basement for years. After all the back surgeries I've had, my left leg has permanent nerve damage and the stairs down to the basement are really steep. When my son had his bedroom down there, I had to go down occasionally, and at that time I had the washer/dryer down there and had to use it, but I've fallen down those stairs enough times that I got a stackable washer/dryer and put it upstairs and just don't go down there anymore.

 

[Ella & Rusty & Stu(GA)]

I've fallen down those stairs enough times that I got a stackable washer/dryer and put it upstairs and just don't go down there anymore.

Bummer on your back and leg pain! One of our friends has bad back pain and swears by something called, I think, TENS. It is a control device with a bunch of little pads attached. It delivers massages and pings of various strengths (that you can control). I think he got it on Amazon. Check out this page on Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/s/?tag=felinediabetesfdmb-20

 

[Chris & China (GA)]

I had a TENS unit many years ago and have tried it several times since...I've had 14 back surgeries since 1989 and now there's so much scar tissue that there's really nothing they can do anymore. If they do any more surgery (like to remove the scar tissue), it just creates more scar tissue!

I have had a morphine pump for pain for 10+ years....it helps with the pain most of the time but never all of the time, but there's nothing they can do to reverse the nerve damage. I can barely feel my left foot at all and from the knee down, it feels like that creepy feeling when you've slept on your arm or leg wrong and it goes to sleep

The other choice I had (other than the pump) was something called a Nerve Root Stimulator which is kind of like a TENS unit on steroids.....the electrode goes directly to your spinal column to send a little electrical current to "break" the pain signal from being able to get to your brain to feel it. Pain doesn't exist until the pain signal gets to the brain, so the little "zap" is supposed to stop it from ever getting there

 

[Judy and Boomer]

Beautiful surf China!

 

[Ella & Rusty & Stu(GA)]

Chris, I wanted to click the "like" button on your latest reply, but I can't "like" your account of your pain and surgeries. So maybe if Rusty and I just send you some "no pain" vines, they will help a little.