Daily Archives: 5/31/2018

Domestic Bliss

Medical update

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First, daytime TV is horrible.

Second, I dragged my aging butt to the medical imaging facility yesterday morning and was subjected to a ten minute meeting with an MRI machine.

Side note: the power geek side of me would LOVE to play with the innards of one of these things.

The MRI scan was to determine a ‘calcium score’ that should indicate the status of the plumbing feeding blood to my heart.

You get a numerical score.

Mine is 560, a number significant enough to get me a consult with a cardiologist before I’m cleared for the back surgery that was my initial complaint.

In the meantime, I am careful about the pain meds. I find that one int he morning knocks the edges off things until I get the domestic functions necessary to maintain my household, and another at bedtime lets me sleep without writhing in agony when I unconsciously try to turn over in the night.

and I’m waiting on the call from the cardiologist to see what happens next.

History

Today in History – May 31

1669 – Citing poor eyesight, Samuel Pepys records the last event in his diary.

1678 – The Godiva procession through Coventry begins. Now there’s a tax protest.

1884 – Dr. John Harvey Kellogg patents “flaked cereal”

1889 – Johnstown Flood: Over 2,200 people die after a dam break sends a 60-foot (18-meter) wall of water over the town of Johnstown, Pennsylvania. FEMA slow to respond. Bush widely blamed.

1909 – The National Negro Committee, forerunner to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), convenes for the first time. There’s money to be made in racism, and they’ll keep it going as long as they can.

1911 – R.M.S. Titanic’s hull is launched. This will end well.

1916 – World War I: Battle of Jutland – The British Grand Fleet under the command of Sir John Jellicoe &Sir David Beatty engage the Kaiserliche Marine under the command of Reinhard Scheer & Franz von Hipper in the largest naval battle of the war, which proves indecisive.

1927 – The last Ford Model T rolls off the assembly line after a production run of 15,007,003 vehicles. The VW Beetle (Type 111) finally beat that production number, topping out at 21,529,464. 15,444,858 of them were built in Germany.

1961 – The South African Constitution of 1961 becomes effective. In another ten years they’ll have to hire an outside consultant to read the next one to them.