Running With Scissors.(Formerly HippoRastaPotamus): April 2025

Here is how my infected grody toe looked like yesterday at first. You can see it's red( although nowhere near as red as the day before!) with yellow pus so I soaked it in a hot Epsom Salt soak to bring the pus to the surface and then I popped it to release the pus and put an antibiotic cream on,, which I did and then it just felt sooooo much better! Shortly after that the nail started peeling off (see third photo below)and came completely off(see last photo, and you can even see the nail off to the left,too), and even though it looks really bad it actually feels much better and hardly hurts much at all now! This is also the same toe where the nail has regularly peeled and come entirely off on and off now for the past 2 years or so(and also the one always getting stubbed and hit on everything and rubbing on my shoes,too), so maybe my hubby wasn't wrong when he joked I have a melanoma under my toenail like Bob Marley did(I'd be honoured!).

Maybe I really actually do?

It's also that same left leg that's twice as big and swollen as the right one, so maybe indicating lymphedema; inflamed lymph nodes, also common with cancer, and if it's spread, say, to my lungs, that would also explain my bad cough I've had for at least a year now,too. When I posted the photos up on Twitter they even put a sensitive warning up,as well(see below) they thought it was so graphic and gross, ha, ha!

Ewwwww, gross!!!!

The 30 YR old still has a headache, nausea, and is very unsteady and unbalanced from his concussion on Friday and he slept most of the day yesterday and his GF even had to put his boots on him( it reminded me of dressing a toddler) so either he's really in bad shape or she's just over-doing it, and he needs a completely darkened room to sleep( think Elvis and his black-out curtains) during the day as well so him and my hubby decided( without even asking me, mind you!) to just take over MY little nook in the rec-room (my personal space, my "territory" if you will) where I have my computer and have my nap) and so he just shuts off my computer ,makes me remove my plants from the window( no sun) and kicks me out, displacing me as if I'm "disposable", even though *I* live here, too, and then decided it wasn't dark enough so he moved into the main floor bathroom....taking all my bedclothes from my bed with him( so I still couldn't have my nap OR even go to the bathroom now) telling me to go all the way upstairs to go to the bathroom knowing I can't go up and down all the stairs with my breathing issues..... but does anyone care?

Again no.

I feel like I just got shoved aside without any consideration at all , like I don't matter, just shove me out of the way and take over my little area, not allowing me access to my computer, to have my nap, or even go to the bathroom!

I was pissed!!

As it turned out, the best darkest place is my hubby's room so he ended up just going up there to sleep, which works out better as it's on the second floor where it's much quieter, anyway, and doesn't disrupt anyone else,either..

Yesterday a guy also came to see about fixing our badly broken fence and my hubby said he's the only guy even willing to DO it for under 10K it's in such bad shape. It will take his entire income tax refund ( 2K) but at least we have the $$$; God always provides, and now the leaves are finally out, small but open, and we had a storm yesterday but just heavy rain, thunder, and really strong wind but some places even got golf-ball sized hail, and it was 24 C with a humidex of 30C and I asked my hubby to put the A/C in my window so I would'nt swelter but he never bothered....and this morning it's a cold 2C and I can see my breath! Hopefully it's also safe now to finally get the snow tires taken off the car....

I got my new credit card yesterday as well so I ordered more weed and finally got to order the bath-bombs I tried last week and also got some new dreads,too; grey ones this time to add to my collection, and Beja grabbed some empty toilet paper rolls and ran off with them( he's a little bugger!) and a Facebook friend fainted yesterday and her eyes, chin, forehead,and face is all bruised and it turns out she has a heart defect she never even knew she had and is now in the ICU and getting an ablation! Holy shit! I still really miss Buddy,too, but I have the Dachshund tattoo above my heart for him that will be there forever, just like he will be in my heart forever.

Americans are determined to hate each other, as they always have, and Canadians are determined to hate Americans, as they always have.-Kathryn