Chronic Chick Talk

These are pictures of the flood water close to my home

This is a picture of where the flood waters were rising close to my home. The flood waters were so close that they almost had to turn off the power because the generators are underground.

This picture is where there is at least a 10 foot drop off.

Picture of a park that is flooded on a regular basis. The building is a restroom. Sometimes people are seen walking in the water. There are light posts in this park that the water rises almost to the top of the posts.

Flood waters rising towards someones home, usually there is no water here.

I’ve had my fair share of tornado warnings, flooding, thunderstorms, close call fires and hail. Nothing like fire, ice, and water all in the span of 2 weeks. Thankfully the water receded the next day or we would have been without power.

I haven’t been on much lately. This past week has been absolutely crazy. We’ve had night after night of tornado warnings. One night there was actually one spotted over our town from another state, and the mayor decided he didn’t want to scare the people, so he didn’t sound the alarm. The excuse was that it was almost out of the area, a lot of people are mad. So we’ve been in limbo for the last 2 weeks. Daughter has missed some tae kwon do because the storms coming barreling down. My female dog Darcy was so scared she jumped in the bath tub. She’s terrified of storms- looks like the creature on Jurassic Park that attacked the guy in the Jeep.

Yesterday, the home next to us burnt almost down and almost caught our home on fire as well. The tree in-between was on fire. We received a phone call to hurry up and get home because of our dogs: Darcy and Mason. I am very thankful to have my home and my pets today. It makes you appreciate the small things. The home is a total loss, but no one was hurt or killed so that’s the important thing. Time will tell what the cause of the fire was.

This past week seems like a whirlwind. Last weekend my daughter received her orange belt in tae kwon do. It was neat seeing all the different belts do steps to receive the next belt. She got an award for being the most improved in her school. This has been a lot of hard work for her. She’s been working for 7 months for this particular belt. She has her days she likes the tae kwon do and other days she cares less.

The weather has been crazy between the earthquake tremors and the temperatures falling back out. I will be glad when it stays at one temperature. We’ve been walking/wheeling mason my Maltese Poodle, to reduce his weight. The vet says he needs to loose some weight. It’s a struggle to take some of his weight off. He loves to eat. My daughter’s been walking him a couple times a day. We have to start out slow with him because of arthritis in his hips from a birthing injury or the mother attacking him. He was near dead when we bought him from a pet shop. We saved his life. Mason loves to bark, so were trying to curve the barking. He is a high strung half poodle. Darcy my other dog is doing well, she’s a high strung Shih Tzu, but she doesn’t bark as much.

I think this week has been pretty productive. It may be just me, but I think removing those energy saving bulbs has helped. I do still have the pain from living with the lupus and fibromylagia, but I am feeling a bit better.

Most people don’t want to be around a chronic complainer. You know the one that shows up at the family picnic. You see her coming and everyone starts disappearing, but wait you couldn’t get away from dear old Aunt Bertha. So you endure the conversation, wondering when she’ll ever quit whining about Uncle Harold’s snoring and Aunt Beth’s teeth. You sit there for the 30 minutes wondering when you will find your out.

While writing this it got me to thinking, where do I rank on the complainer score sheet? Yeah, it’s hard not to complain when life seems to suck when you’re in a lupus flare, and the pain never seems to end. You wake up and if its not one thing hurting it’s another new symptom.

I’m challenging myself not to complain as much about living with lupus and pain, even if it does suck. After all everyone one around me knows I have lupus. It’s not like you can’t figure out when I’m in pain. I’m not very good at hiding it, although I have tried to hide it. I won’t say that I will not complain about living with lupus by no means.

Here’s my thinking, if I don’t complain as much, maybe I won’t be constantly reminded of how much I hate lupus. Yeah, it’s given me some positives, but the negative ones outweigh the positive ones. (that’s another post-tba)

So I’m going to ask you to try this test:

Find yourself a pen and paper and write down all your complaints for the day.
Look at each one and think how you could possibly reduce the amount of complaining you do in a day. Is the complaint something you could fix? Is the complaint something you have been avoiding doing? (get it done, so you can check it off your list).

So, the next time you complain about something find something that you can compliment. You see the compliment is good for the receiver and for the giver. You both should come out feeling O’ so good.

I was tagged by Mel

The 10 reasons why I blog:

1. To increase awareness of lupus, and living with chronic illness.
2. To help others understand lupus from my point of view
3. To find some positive out of living with lupus
4. To speak my mind
5. To share tips and stuff with others
6. For networking and meeting great people
7. To continue to learn- it’s my own addiction, but a positive one.
8. I love to write and it brings out the best in me.
9. To inspire others
10. Just because I feel like it (lol) pheww.. The list is done- Yeah

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