I was asleep and about 6:30am, I awoke by a hard thump on my head and my right eye was covered in chain. I didn’t know what the hell hit me and trying to get out from it, I thought we had one hell of an earthquake and when I became fully conscience. I saw it was my Power Wagon diecast metal model that I inherited from my father lying by the side of the pillow. I had some hellacious leg cramps last night. I get them sometimes and it must have caused the power wagon to inch forward and then fall on my head when I moved just enough at that time of the morning.
Suggestion: Put those things somewhere else. Are you sure you didn’t sustain a head injury? (Not joking. Your sentence structure in the post above seems a bit disjointed. Reread lines 3 and 5. Not being critical, concerned. Your posts are always flawlessly worded.)
I do have a slight bump on my forehead, I sustained a hematoma… That explains it.
They have been up there for over four years I have owned that headboard. That is the first time that has happened.
“Are you sure you didn’t sustain a head injury?” Nemo, the readers will never be able to tell any difference with Cederq.
Ya forgot to check the wheels. Poor Guido, not his fault.
Her fault…
In transition?
No, a biological female. Just her name is Guido…
Was visiting friend yesterday and she was telling me that her oldest son had his veins in one leg operated on. Apparently veins have ‘flaps’ that open & close as needed and his wasn’t opening properly any longer causing excruciating pain in his legs. Both of us had never heard of such thing. Apparently easily missed by doc’s. Had the surgery but he’ll have to deal with compression socks that go to his thighs for a while. Other leg will be operated on soon. Sorry about your ‘almost earthquake’. Those little car’s have some sharp edges.
Those “flaps” in your sons legs are called valves, much like your heart. Means he has Venous Reflux and those vein valves are not operating and is a congenital defect, meaning he didn’t catch it or a result of an injury, he was born with it. I suffer from the same affliction. It means the valves are not closing between heartbeats to allow the low pressure venous flow to not flow back and flood the calf and thigh muscles. A good example if you have varicose veins on your legs and even arms, you have Venous Reflux and the same thing is happening both superficially. He will have problems later in life if he doesn’t take care of it. Did he have vein ablation? It means blocking by cauterizing or injecting sealing foam into a lower and upper part of a vein like the Greater Saphenous veins (main veins) in his legs?
My friend only knew what she related to me in hope that I had any knowledge. Nope, had never heard of this. He told his mom that his leg felt much better and was healing well. He is over 6’8′ but don’t know more than that but wondered if his height had any bearing on the leg problem.
Get rid of the jewelry box on your dresser and move those heirlooms over there.
Cool, never saw a Prowler on the site I visit, supercarcollectables. To bad they didn’t put the 4.7 in that baby for real.
My dad collected Ertl Collectibles and Danbury Mint Collectibles. He must have had over six hundred cars and trucks from all vintages. When he passed away I was the executer and passed out a few of the cars to my siblings and my dad’s younger brother that wished for the Packards and Studebakers in the collection. I kept a few, the cars you see on the stand and a 1937 Chevy pickup and a 1945 Army Power Wagon. The cars you just see the white tail end is a 1965 Chevy Bel Air Wagon, I owned a 65 Bel Air, but baby blue and my dad bought the model for me for that reason and I have the ’32 Deuce Coupe from American Graffiti.
Very cool sir.
Close friend died without a will and wife thought that him collecting matchbox car’s for 45+ years was stupid and sold them in a yard sale.
That is what I did, I use to get a Matchbox car every week during the spring, summer and early fall cutting grass for neighbors and I did the same, sold them at a swap meet for a good amount of money at the time after I had gotten out of the Army. All were in good condition with the boxes. Now? I am sure better money.
Is the truck OK?
Not a scratch!
CederQ, you just had to have a head on collision in an abnormal way. I heard a rumor that your motto is “why be normal”.
Poor Guido.
so sorry to hear about your noggin! hope it is better soon. The leg cramps could be low potassium? Eat a banana.
Magnesium.
Bananas are surprisingly very low in potassium. The leg cramps are a result of my MS.
Magnesium helps. And drink more water.
Why do doc’s who put their patients on Hydrochlorothiazide for HBP; which depletes potassium, tell them to eat at least 1/2 a banana every day to replenish potassium loss? My mother’s doc told her that and my doc said the same to me.
Plantains have 3X the potassium of bananas and oranges have a good portion, but not enough for MDR.
Personally I’m not fond of bananas. Plantains, a member of the banana family, have to be eaten RIPE, otherwise they taste like crap.
I’m not a doctor or a nurse, nor do I play one TV. The above statements are based on my own research on the subject and are NOT to be considered as medical advice. YMMV.
You ever, completely trust your doc? Saying bananas have enough potassium is like saying Lizzo is much more classier than Melania Trump. Yes they have some potassium (K), but you would have to eat a bunch of the damn untasteful things to get a therapeutic level of K in your system. There is other fruits and food that are higher in K then bananas. At one time there might have been enough K, but bananas have been genetically modified to grow larger fruit, ripen later so they can be shipped green and the taste has suffered and potassium is not being added to the soil they are grown in.
6:30? Ah, that’d be bliss. The damn alarm goes off at 5:15 for me. Wondering what the chain part is about. Well, if all you got was a little bump and a bruise then it don’t sound so bad.
That’s a cool story on the model collection.
The model has a winch on the front and it has about a 4 inch long stretch of chain to represent a coil and it hangs out, no way to roll it up. That is what was gathered in my right eye.
Good thing you don’t collect rocks. —ken
Good thing that it was a Dodge, Cederq, so therefore unhurt. If it’d been a Ford, then Leigh would be asking for updates on it’s condition.
You need to make some model chocks!
Chocks solve that problem!!!
Shoulda been a little more dodge and a lot less ram. Probably a ghost or poltergeist got bored. Fence or chocks. How to run your life chapter 6, no extra charge, just the standard fee, you’re welcome.
It’s a good thing that headboard isn’t any higher. A high bookshelf, longer drop, and that truck could do some serious damage.
If the Cascadia subduction zone earthquake hits the Pacific Northwest, I’m sure I’ll feel it even this far away in the Oregon Outback. You will most definitely get a good, long jolt from it, even as far from the fault as you are. Phil will certainly be looking at a ‘pockyclips scenario where he is.
As for bananas, they’re way too far up there on the glycemic index for me. I don’t eat any fruit on my low carb diet, except maybe some dark berries, and then in small, infrequent servings. Most doctors know little to nothing of real nutrition, and I give them no more trust on the subject that anything else. Probably the most significant book I’ve read in the last couple decades is Gary Taube’s book Good Calories, Bad Calories. Meat ‘n veggies for me. Meat ‘n veggies.