Blogging, Turning 40 and Heat Stroke - a Saturday Morning Update

Good morning! I have been trying all week to find

time to drop in here and dump my Noggin... longer than a week, actually... I've been moving from one thing to the next so fast that I just noticed this morning I hadn't flipped the daily calendar in the kitchen since the 17th! So I guess the last four days have sort of run together.

Things have really started popping with the blogs .. Mom's especially. She's started connecting with people in the "Flea Market Gardening" community and they've all been sharing blogs... always something to be excited about when building blog traffic and making that stretch from "learning how to monetize" to "getting a check every single month"... 

I've been working on the format and such at the Ochorific Song of the Day and KCoJax Candids mostly... those blogs get the most consistent traffic. After Mom and I spent the day at a Dan Morris Blogging Concentrated seminar in Nashville a LOT of things connected for me, so my noggin has been in a flutter trying to get these implemented and such... If you want to help me along, I'm always thrilled when I see someone share a blog ... In fact I usually shout out to Evan in cheer, "So and so shared my blog!!!!" 

Last week during my initial posting of the Superman Celebration blogs, I was retweeted by a staff writer for the New York Daily News... Now let me not skip over others of you who retweeted my Superman stuff... I saw two of my fellow Metropolitans retweet them and I was especially tickled because of their connection to the Superman community... But when I went to the page of the guy who stuck out to me due to his name and saw that he's a writer for the New York Daily News I shrieked bloody murder and nearly turned cart wheels ... which I should not be doing due to my recently advanced age ... 

Which brings me to my next topic... I turned 40 last week... Even as I write that I sit here and stare at it ... it looks so odd to me. I don't think I feel 40 ... not in my mind anyway ... at least I don't think so ... maybe I do ... I've never been this age before so how should I know what it feels like? I know my knees hurt sometimes and that sciatica that I've been joking about for years in my favorite "old lady voice" which I patterned after my Great-Grandma Nonna Belle at a very young age ... well, that sciatica is now very real and every now and then I'm like, "Well what the f*ck... I feel old today..." I have a nice little piece in the works on turning 40.... I'm anxious to finish it up and will try to do so and post it this weekend...

Last night Evan and I were talking about my Great Nephew's 3rd birthday... and I went on to discuss how when I was little my Great Aunts all were "oldish" ((except for Margie as she was the baby of Lee and Nellie's kids and is within a couple of years in age of my Dad)) but anywho, their boobs drooped, they had wrinkles... They sure weren't 40!!!!  Needless to say, Evan suggested that next time I'm out at my folks I try to find a picture of these ladies and see if possibly my mind's eye is a bit off...

Lastly... I want to warn you about Heat Stroke!  Yesterday morning, Evan's mom called just before 8, very shaken and said, "I need help out here...".   I told her I was on the way and called Evan at work on the way out the door to have him call her and find out what was going on and call me back... I wanted to know in advance what I was walking into... Evan called back within a few minutes and said his step-dad was very "out of it" and his Mom couldn't handle him to the car to get him to the hospital

I arrived at the house to find E's Mom getting things together to go to the hospital and E's step-dad sitting in his chair very glazed over looking...  I squatted down beside the chair and called his name... His eyes were absolutely unfocused and seemed very blurry looking... I patted his hand a few times and called his name... His eyes cleared and he looked right at me as if he'd just been waken from a nap... 

He looked shocked, even... I said, "Good mornin' Del... Are you feeling yucky?" ... 

"Yeah", he said .... 

"Do you know who I am?", I asked him .. and went on to say, "It's okay if you don't, I just wanna know if you do..."  

He looked back at me like he was just sure he knew me, but wasn't sure how.  It's the way a lot of us look at people when we see them in the grocery and don't know if we know them from "Real Life" or "Facebook"... anywho, I told him I was Evan's girlfriend, Kim and he said, "Oh yeah you are!  Well what're you doin here?"   

I told him that I got a call that he didn't feel too good and came out to see if he'd let us take him to see Dr. Patel ((which I think J. later caught Hell for because he didn't see Dr. Patel until later in the day... haha)) 

Anywho, we changed his shirt because initially she had thought the problem was his blood sugar and she had tried to help him sip some coffee... didn't go well.  As I was leaning him up I noted that his back was as hot as a fire cracker... I mean it felt like "104"  I told J. and she started to feel of his skin... She was an R.N. for so many years that when she started nursing she worked with the above mentioned Great Grandma Nona Belle!  She was a little befuddled by a temperature with all of these symptoms...

Fast forward through "I could NOT get that man up out of that chair", I told J. if we could get his torso onto my back that I could buglug him out to the vehicle, but he wasn't nearly strong enough to "walk along with my help", we called the ambulance, went to Massac Memorial and as of last night this was diagnosed as Heat Stroke.

E's Mom said that he had worked out on the tractor over the last two days and he was stubborn about it when she told him it was too hot, he drank water but she said he "could've" drank more... So I tell you all of that to tell you this ... PLEASE BE AWARE OF THE HEAT!  

That became a thing for me when I lived at the Ocho... the little neighborhood kids playing outside all day was what made me start putting a cooler of ice and cups outside of my door... so more on tips more staying hydrated and such later.... I just want you to have it on your mind... If your skin starts feeling "tingly", you need to go inside, cool off for a bit and hydrate.  That's basic advice enough for now.. :) 

I'm off to get into the day now... 

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