Yes, smonster, you met Betsy. (It's nice to get the testimonials.)

erika - I'm so sorry for your loss.

And Trudy! OMG - I hope she turns out to be okay. So scary.

Can't wait to get the new power cord from my laptop. So frustrating to not be able to keep up with everything.

In my family we call it being "caring weird." Many years ago, I said something, my mom said "what?", I made a crack about hearing impaired people and she replied "what are caring weird people?"

Heh. That's another of my dad's habits - if he mishears, he'll repeat back what he thought he heard no matter how ridiculous. "We need to clean it better." "Volcano peanut butter?" as if there was a chance in hell that was what you had actually said.

Some of this stuff is probably hearing loss, microstrokes, and general old age. But mostly it's a longstanding habit of not paying attention combined with a disregard for mental editing.

I'll add my misheard funny to list. When we were in the hospital after having Shane, the nurse came in and said, "Do you know about Shaken Baby Syndrome?" I said, "Chicken Baby Syndrome? No, I haven't heard of that."

Shoot, last night K-Bug said something about bring your daughter to work day and both CJ and I heard something that included "bra spider". Looking back I don't get how I heard that, but both CJ and I heard it, so it wasn't just my ears playing tricks on me.

I apparently don't have a UTI (the result of my culture came back, and the NP said that there were bacteria in there, but not close to the kind of numbers you get with a UTI). She recommended I call my OB/GYN and see if it's some ladyparts problem.

Ugh, I can sympathize with feeling like something in your ladyparts has mysteriously gone awry. Several years ago I got into a cycle of UTI/yeast infection/UTI/yeast infection that eventually sort of petered out into feeling a little weird all the time but with nothing really medically wrong anymore. It was unpleasant. I hope you're able to get a diagnosis and treat it soon.

Was at the ICU last night for a while with Dad & Ginny. Like Cassiepants said in her update, we'll know more tonight.

We HAVE had something funny come out of this, however. The story wound up in the news and several accounts have referred to her as the elderly woman who collapsed at Newark Airport. It's pretty sad that if she DOES recover she's gonna have a stroke when she finds out she was called "elderly" in the news.

It's pretty sad that if she DOES recover she's gonna have a stroke when she finds out she was called "elderly" in the news.

That is literally adding insult to injury. Put her in the dictionary for that cliche.

ION, my whole damn left leg is getting muscle cramps now. I'm fairly certain the foam roller will help, but I'm just as certain that it will hurt like a motherfucker in bastard sauce. I mean, it's already crampy; I'm afraid putting pressure on it will jack the pain up to 11.

But I can't think of anything else, and the end result will likely be no more crazy muscles. t edit I am drinking a lot of water, and walking around, and I eat a banana every day (potassium being helpful to prevent/treat muscle cramps).

Why so defiant, Left Leg? Why can't you be more like Right Leg?

Steph, try less water - you may have diluted your bodily fluids too much. And since potassium isn't helping, try getting some magnesium and some salt.

Tep,

Press down on the muscle that spasms. It hurts like a fucker for 10-20 seconds then relief. Then do the foam roller a bit later.