I’m sorry, Liverlips — but your puns have taken a tern for the worse…
Perhaps you still deserve another tern, but I’m being told you are flaming those beautiful pink birds, who go crazy being compared to a short-legged grey waterfowl, from a whole different family.
That, to a flamingo, is a fowl comparison… a grebe-us error. They are not seabirds, and they point out that you don’t have one leg to stand upon.
Personally, I find them a bit lacking in the humor department… but you might want to just pink about it.
The human mind sometimes works about that intricately (and crazily). Bodies, too, when you get into the weird things your system will do to you when it’s out of whack.
I don’t usually tell this kind of stuff… but just in case it’s useful…
I got I think three really bad vertigo attacks, spaced over maybe eight or ten years, when I didn’t know what it was.
A different friend drove me to the hospital each time, barely able to stand or walk.
….
You’d think I’d realise, the second time.
But they were all different, a few years apart, and progressively worse… and you don’t really think well in that state, or I didn’t.
The last time, when my friends arrived, I was sitting on the end of the bed, holding on to the mattress because I thought I was literally being spun off into space while the room turned… they had to talk me into letting go.
I absolutely couldn’t tell the room wasn’t really in motion, except that I somehow KNEW it couldn’t be. Very scary!
…
I was also throwing up, shaking, and could hardly see.
In the ER, they wanted me to wait for my turn in a chair, but I fainted and fell off.
Hey, that gets you in fast… LOL. I woke up on a gurney.
The main thing they did was give me meclizine, plus an anti-nausea medication… in about half an hour (i think) I was OK, but I had to take the medication for a day or two.
I guess I’m lucky, since Farside says it didn’t help him. (Antivert is a brand of Meclizine.) I only take it a few times per attack and it’s over.
But I didn’t know it was OTC and I could just buy some at the drug store.
…
Finally they sent me to PT.
They taught me a couple of exercises involving slowly laying my head, thus my body, all the way over to one side, and then the other…
It apparently breaks up the fluid in your inner ear.
It made me very dizzy, temporarily, but after I did it, I didn’t get vertigo for a very long time, and haven’t had a major attack since (knock wood.)
…
If you feel it coming, you’re supposed to do it again… but now if there’s any hint of it, which is maybe once every few years, I just take some Meclizine, lie down, and poof!
I carry some in my purse, just in case… and if it ever gets outdated, I throw it out and replace the whole Costco Barrel-O’-Meclizine, which costs less than one small blister pack at the regular drug store.
I don’t think I’ve even taken any of the current crop, but the $5 or so is cheap insurance.
My sinuses have always been bad. Perhaps I’ve avoided vertigo through my earache prevention strategy. I sleep on my side; when I wake during the night, I switch sides (same theory of keeping the mucus moving.
I’ll sympathize. Years ago, after a trip to Japan, I got a case of vertigo. The doc put me on Antivert and I was on it for about a month. Didn’t do a lot of good, and my son had a birthday, so he wanted to got Magic Mountain. Being the good (and adventurous) dad, I went on the Viper roller coaster with him. Not the wisest idea. I didn’t lose it, but certainly didn’t want to go on any more roller coasters that day. Awhile later, I got a case of the flu, or something similar. Ran a fever of 104. After the fever broke, the vertigo was gone. I can’t recommend it as a cure-all, but it certainly worked for me. Hope you get better soon. (and stay away from roller coasters!)
Take care. I wish I could help, but thankfully I haven’t had vertigo. I guess I had a minor experience of what it’s like. I’ve been prone to earaches and during a particularly long, and long lasting one I sew the doctor. The doc cleaned out my ear with a Water-pic. The water in my ear left me completely unbalanced, but only for 10 minutes or so.
Day two of stuffing recipes.
A head of celery is another name for a bunch or stalk of celery (celery joined at the bottom).
Separated, they are sticks or ribs.
Having two types of stuffing in a turkey seems a bit of overkill (only the neck ?), but, leaving out the walnuts it sounds good.
As so often happens, I have found eight clear, if small, differences. The ninth difference, I aver, is that in the left hand image, the plane is a Boeing 727, while in the right it’s a 737.
,
Pink!
One good turn (tern?) deserves another.
I’m sorry, Liverlips — but your puns have taken a tern for the worse…
Perhaps you still deserve another tern, but I’m being told you are flaming those beautiful pink birds, who go crazy being compared to a short-legged grey waterfowl, from a whole different family.
That, to a flamingo, is a fowl comparison… a grebe-us error. They are not seabirds, and they point out that you don’t have one leg to stand upon.
Personally, I find them a bit lacking in the humor department… but you might want to just pink about it.
🙂
,..
.
I can not look at this right now.
Another for tomorrow. 😀
Beautiful.
I know it’s only the image that’s animated…
But wouldn’t it be cool if it were a real bronze end copper model?
If you look closely, though, you can see a lot of magical transformations that would have to be replaced by actual, non-dissolving, metal parts.
The human mind sometimes works about that intricately (and crazily). Bodies, too, when you get into the weird things your system will do to you when it’s out of whack.
Michael Sowa
That bunny girl may have a long wait…
The Easter Bunny may be coming, but it’ll take a while…. He doesn’t usually travel much in November.
Happy, we are waiting for your comment.
indeed we are
Stay away from that place across the street, Peter.
Someone is shopping for a boyfriend. 😀
,,
I’ll have to look at it tomorrow.
I’ve had a vertigo attack this afternoon, so i’m looking at it while i’m on my side.
It’s not working. 🙂
Do you take Meclazine for that?
It’s magic for me.
OTC and really cheap, besides, especially if you can get the generic at Costco.
Funny thing, i got an appointment (finally!) for PT for this just this morning.
Let them check for strokes to be sure.
Talking from a friend’s experience (she was lucky).
My vertigo a few months ago was harmless afaik.
Get better!
I don’t usually tell this kind of stuff… but just in case it’s useful…
I got I think three really bad vertigo attacks, spaced over maybe eight or ten years, when I didn’t know what it was.
A different friend drove me to the hospital each time, barely able to stand or walk.
….
You’d think I’d realise, the second time.
But they were all different, a few years apart, and progressively worse… and you don’t really think well in that state, or I didn’t.
The last time, when my friends arrived, I was sitting on the end of the bed, holding on to the mattress because I thought I was literally being spun off into space while the room turned… they had to talk me into letting go.
I absolutely couldn’t tell the room wasn’t really in motion, except that I somehow KNEW it couldn’t be. Very scary!
…
I was also throwing up, shaking, and could hardly see.
In the ER, they wanted me to wait for my turn in a chair, but I fainted and fell off.
Hey, that gets you in fast… LOL. I woke up on a gurney.
The main thing they did was give me meclizine, plus an anti-nausea medication… in about half an hour (i think) I was OK, but I had to take the medication for a day or two.
I guess I’m lucky, since Farside says it didn’t help him. (Antivert is a brand of Meclizine.) I only take it a few times per attack and it’s over.
But I didn’t know it was OTC and I could just buy some at the drug store.
…
Finally they sent me to PT.
They taught me a couple of exercises involving slowly laying my head, thus my body, all the way over to one side, and then the other…
It apparently breaks up the fluid in your inner ear.
It made me very dizzy, temporarily, but after I did it, I didn’t get vertigo for a very long time, and haven’t had a major attack since (knock wood.)
…
If you feel it coming, you’re supposed to do it again… but now if there’s any hint of it, which is maybe once every few years, I just take some Meclizine, lie down, and poof!
I carry some in my purse, just in case… and if it ever gets outdated, I throw it out and replace the whole Costco Barrel-O’-Meclizine, which costs less than one small blister pack at the regular drug store.
I don’t think I’ve even taken any of the current crop, but the $5 or so is cheap insurance.
I have both a anti dizzy and an anti nausea.
I’m not sure of the names.
My sinuses have always been bad. Perhaps I’ve avoided vertigo through my earache prevention strategy. I sleep on my side; when I wake during the night, I switch sides (same theory of keeping the mucus moving.
Thankfully, I’ve never had this. How scary!!
Yes, it has helped me when I had a period of dizzy spells.
I’ll sympathize. Years ago, after a trip to Japan, I got a case of vertigo. The doc put me on Antivert and I was on it for about a month. Didn’t do a lot of good, and my son had a birthday, so he wanted to got Magic Mountain. Being the good (and adventurous) dad, I went on the Viper roller coaster with him. Not the wisest idea. I didn’t lose it, but certainly didn’t want to go on any more roller coasters that day. Awhile later, I got a case of the flu, or something similar. Ran a fever of 104. After the fever broke, the vertigo was gone. I can’t recommend it as a cure-all, but it certainly worked for me. Hope you get better soon. (and stay away from roller coasters!)
Could have been an inner ear problem in your case.
And maybe it was the roller coaster that cured it.
I always avoid roller coasters.putting rollers on coasters greatly reduces the
stability of my drink
Take care. I wish I could help, but thankfully I haven’t had vertigo. I guess I had a minor experience of what it’s like. I’ve been prone to earaches and during a particularly long, and long lasting one I sew the doctor. The doc cleaned out my ear with a Water-pic. The water in my ear left me completely unbalanced, but only for 10 minutes or so.
This will blow your mind.
just another day at the office—for that person
wow!
Day two of stuffing recipes.
A head of celery is another name for a bunch or stalk of celery (celery joined at the bottom).
Separated, they are sticks or ribs.
Having two types of stuffing in a turkey seems a bit of overkill (only the neck ?), but, leaving out the walnuts it sounds good.
I’ve found all nine.
And now I’m off until tomorrow afternoon.
There are things that must be done.
do them well!
Alexi, I replied to your message on the 10th.
Road trip on a beautiful sunny day!
The Cliffords may be using the same calendar as that Easter Bunny in the window, a couple of posts up from here.
Or maybe it’s just a lovely summer day in Ohio, in mid-November. It could happen, right?
Anyway… fresh air, and nine fresh differences… Cleo looks happy. Claude and Clara are their usual implacable selves. Life is good.
Do your best to find all nine…. Then check your solution against mine.
I hope you don’t give up, but if you do… I guess you can
I’m feeling generous on such a fine, warm day.
As so often happens, I have found eight clear, if small, differences. The ninth difference, I aver, is that in the left hand image, the plane is a Boeing 727, while in the right it’s a 737.
That was the only easy one for me. I had trouble with the rest.
P51, I replied to your message on the 10th.
Got the same nine. Woo-hoo!
Seven for me.
Same here…
WOW, no ‘gimmee’s in this one. It was a hard fight to get eight.
Found 8. The ninth one was barely noticeable. I forgive myself! Our day here looks like that ~ but, it is 27 degrees. NOT opening the sun roof!
i only got 6 before i gave up! bummer.
After a couple of easy weeks, comes a hard one. But I finally found #9! Devious!
all nine, never thought I would fine them all!
Check out Claude, looking like the BMOC in his shades, and driving a hot yellow two-door with moon-roof and a babe in the front seat next to him!
Warning to the unsuspecting: Nighthawks has eschewed the simplicity of the past couple of weeks, and embraced subtlety in this week’s FTND.
But not as much subtlety as he has been known to embrace on some previous occasions.
I think this one is quite doable.
French dip
Yes!
Yummm
works pizza –no fish!
No fish, no pizza.
Anchovies?
I love ’em.
Blip
Moms birthday! Happy 91st
Poof!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, PLODS MOM!
Hoppy, hoppy, hoppy!!! 🙂
Yes! Tell her , please, that we all said happy birthday!
And we’re also celebrating that you got this life-changing surgery, and that you’re doing well enough to post here!
Happy Birthday to your Mom, Plods! Hope you are having a good day and feeling good!
What they said! Yay!
She already received the best gift ever: You’re alive and getting better!
Happy birthday, mom.
Does she know she is the mother of an Old Phart?