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.

Steph, try less water - you may have diluted your bodily fluids too much.

That's possible -- I was drinking a lot of water because of the maybe-UTI.

And since potassium isn't helping, try getting some magnesium and some salt.

I take a calcium/magnesium pill before bed every night, so I think my magnesium is okay. But I'll have some salt.

Press down on the muscle that spasms. It hurts like a fucker for 10-20 seconds then relief.

I'll give that a try.

I've felt sick to my stomach all day and kind of head achey. I took something for the headache and tried to drink water (I don't drink enough water) and not be on the computer, but I still feel icky.

Tomorrow is Maple Festival here in town. Well technically it started today, but I'm going downtown to look around. Depending on how I feel. Will is coming up, he wants to go see a movie -looks like Jurassic Park 3D is still playing and he's never seen it so maybe we'll go see that.

Mom is supposed to come visit me on May 7 but those plans may be on hold. My dad hurt his back really badly - by being really dumb.

I love my dad, but he was down at the beach and going to mow the lawn and he has a push mower you start with a cord and cross body action. So he tweaked his back.

That's not the problem.

The problem happened when he went back to town and decided to move some logs around from a "small" tree he had cut down last week. And then he did something and the pain was so bad he went to the ER. And then he had tingling in his feet and called his doctor who is scheduling an MRI.

Dad will be 71 in August. (Which kind of freaks me out) but he doesn't think that he can't do things that he used.

This impacts Mom's trip because my nephew's schedule is such that Mom takes him to preschool and picks him up because it's half day and so it both starts and ends when my brother and his girlfriend are at work.

I'm feeling homesick and I really wanted a week with Mom and just spend time with her. I know it will happen but she kept putting it off because of scheduling issues and her own reluctance to travel and so I'm worried that she'll keep putting off rescheduling (if it comes to rescheduling).