Prototypes and Opioids
Every project needs a prototype. I believe that for 2020, I will be doing small socks for the wee ones . . . well maybe some that are not so wee. Putting on individual initials will make them personalized socks to receive. Right now my thoughts are about 5″ with just enough room to slip in a treat prior to mailing them out this Christmas season. Of course I went to the scrap box for the sample. I am one step closer to an actual project. Before I cut out my actual pattern it will get tweaked a bit, making sure to size it up here and there. I think a lid to an ice cream pail will be the perfect weight of plastic for the pattern to be traced on.
Today when Dennis went to Lewis Drug he picked up my blood pressure prescription for the three months at a whopping price of $2.99 in total. Dennis’ Methadone prescription for 30 days was $7.43. We do have Blue Cross, Blue Shield prescription coverage. Does one balance out the other . . . I am not sure. Dennis did make an announcement when he got home. This morning was the last time he is going to take the Methadone, an opioid . He is going to try to go without it. Dennis takes the Methadone for his Nephropathy pain. The pain is in his hands and feet. While in Korea, on the 39th parallel, he shared that the weather was consistent with Minnesota’s. The winters were horrible. Feet and hands were always wet and freezing cold. The nerves in his hands and feet took a toll. When fellow soldiers didn’t make it, the field hospital personal always saved the fallen’s socks and gloves to share where needed.
I give Dennis so much credit for trying to stay off of this drug. Dennis thought perhaps he had been on it long enough that the effect was no longer being felt. The pain was tough to take at times taking the med. Time will tell. At least the prescription will be here if he feels that it was doing its intended job. Dennis put me in charge of keeping the prescription safe and away from him for this upcoming trial.
We have taken precautions of getting done what we needed outside today. Tomorrow tells to be a bit worse. Today it is 89 degrees, feeling like 101 degrees. Humidity is 68% and dew point is 75%. We have cleaned the filters in the Koi pond and “that is all folks.” I hope and pray that all take heed and stay safe and healthy through the weekend. I would rather think of all of you than read about you.