Bipolar check-in #65

@Mountaindewed have you tried flaming hot mountain dew? Is this a real product?

I got my tattoo! It's still under the clear second skin wrap. I can take it off after 3 days. It bled a bit- I'm on blood thinners- and I think some of the ink bled under the wrap too which is normal but because of that it looks terrible right now. The wrap material was originally designed for burn victims. After the wrap comes off I'm to use Aquaphor ointment- but they were out so I got the store brand. It should be the same stuff, right? The attached photo is a pic the artist took right after she was done. It's my kids' names. Noah drove me to the appointment because it was in an unfamiliar area. I was supposed to just have a consultation but it was an easy design and she had time so I went for it. I may have to call tomorrow to ask a few healing questions- because I heard what she told me when she told me but my memory is blurry. I even had her write details on the after-care sheet but I'm still confused! It's different than when I had my other 5 tattoos and that's the problem. Noah and I got lunch at a local pub after. It was good but expensive. Not more than I've ever paid for a meal but more than I thought. Noah paid and I paid him back. I'm kinda disappointed that the tattoo is as small as it is- I was picturing larger.


I've washed my clothes, sheets and towels this morning. I needed to but I also wanted clean sheets because it's less chance for infection. I also got a shower and managed to do so without the use of my left hand as I was keeping the tattoo out of the water even though the wrap probably would've it the soap out.


So that's my new tattoo story. It's going to take 3 weeks to completely heal and I need to put sunblock on it once it is healed. I need to stay out of the sun until that happens. Wear long sleeves. Good thing that the weather has cooled back down to normal temps for this time of year.


So that's my story and I'm stickin' to it! Sorry that the photo is upside down!

Today was really hot (90) and very humid here. We took my nieces to a thing at a local zoo and it was so hot I was just pouring sweat. We always wear masks indoors still and had to wear them outdoor for part of the event. Several of my meds cause heat intolerance and so I always have water and frozen washclothes in a cooler in my backpack when I do things like this. I didn't bring water because I thought my mom would but that part was fine; I had enough to drink before I was ok until I got water.


But I found my new weird side effect.....Last fall after it wasn't hot anymore I was put on a med called Trospium which is for overactive bladder. I assume this is the cause as I never noticed this before and the pill is the right color....My sweat is yellow. My mask had a ring of yellow around the areas I was most sweaty. I suppose it could be from another med but I've been sweaty in masks before this.

Sometimes I wonder if there is anything meds don't do!

I have Chromhidrosis which not all the time but a couple of time a year my sweat is blue. It actually stained several pairs of socks lol. I have not had the blue sweat in a year or two though I think it might be because of my weight loss. We will see this year.

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I Hope this works. It reminded me of you. If it is just my words I'm sorry, I don't know what I'm doing.

@Jennifer 1967, I was thinking that BeyondtheRainbow really hit the nail on the head with that photo, too. I hope you get to go to the pool and/or any sea or lake, as well, even more frequently this summer. Sometimes I think of the old Calgon commercial ("Calgon take me away!") when I need a retreat. I suppose your pool is the same kind of thing. Hugs

I will definitely try to be down at the pool every day that it’s not raining. It’s truly the only place I find peace….floating early in the morning, alone, surrounded by rabbits, squirrels, birds singing, flowers and greenery. Very nice. That period of time I get to float helps me get through the rest of the year.

Moose… your tattoo looks lovely and has such meaning. All of mine are personal also.

Beth … use the AC !!’ Glad it helped you so quickly. I’ll give up food before I try and suffer half having a heat stroke. Yes check into what Nammu mentioned. I used average billing in Florida to avoid big spikes and it was just so much easier. Hope you have a plan available.

Wild ! Thank you for doing NAMI walk ! Oh I can’t imagine walking in that heat !

Hugs to anyone I have missed my memory is broken today.

Bluebird? Are you okay.

Soupe?! When is your trip ??

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Well this month I have been keeping track of every single dime we spend and on what.

Mini rant here… I seldom EVER spend money on anything unless we really need it. Id love just 1 shirt. I only have 2 that fit me well. I mean I don’t go anywhere but still I’d love not to wear the same 2 to see Richard.

But can I ?! No I can’t because we have bills and responsibilities that come before anything else. The last food we ate out was Arbys and I had coupons and we brought our own drinks and ate in the car and that was 2 months ago !

We have no one to help us to get by. We are responsible adults dealing with this inflation that is killing us. We are trying to only go into town twice a month …we combine trips to include grocery, pharmacy and my twice a month appointment with Richard which I may need to cut down to once a month. I don’t even want to talk about the food items I have just taken off my normal grocery lists completely. Earlier this month I was shopping and that Diet Coke looked Amazing but I just couldn’t justify buying it.

I have no choice but to find a part time job. We simply can not survive any other way. So whether I’m in massive pain or not I have to suck it up and do it.

Sorry I just had to get that out *sigh*

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My husband had such a place in New Jersey. Yes, the wildlife make the experience even lovelier. His swim hole had herons nearby. He misses it so much! He is the one pictured in the attached near the middle raft.

My husband had such a place in New Jersey. Yes, the wildlife make the experience even lovelier. His swim hole had herons nearby. He misses it so much! He is the one pictured in the attached near the middle raft.

My brother in law met Carrot Top at the airport and they exchanged fist bumps. I feel like with D list celeberitys they would either be friendly because they would be happy someone cared and recgonized them or they'd be jerks because they are D lists for a reason. My aunt got harrased by Richard Simmons at the LA airport back in the 80's. She was by herself with my 2 young cousins and she was most likely very tired and she was giving them twinkies probably they were tired as well and Richard Simmons came up out of nowhere and started yelling at her about unhealthy twinkies were and basically called her a bad parent. That tops the list of "things that sound like they didn't happen but actually did" but I guess Carrot Top was pretty cool to my brother in law.

Who or what is carrot top?! Kinda makes me think of Donald trump

I went to a swim hole when I was in summer camp when I was 12 and I jumped from the diving board and went down deep enough to touch a catfish with my foot…that was the end of that haha! Can’t swim in murky lakes anymore!