melting mama

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K, you're gorgeousity

Good Supervision.

Tagged: Ten randoms unknown factlets about me.

I was tagged by a childhood friend on MySpace to do a ten-random facts 'bout me.  This would be easier if I weren't already sharing nearly everything.  This is difficult.  Trying to think of one is hard enough.

1. I get claustrophobic if you're up in my personal space.  Even if you're my kid, that's me saying "don't hang on me."
2. I got into college on academic probation.  I was told that I would have to maintain a certain GPA to stay in - because my high school grades were so randomly terrible.  I had A's + F's.  I was going to Johnson + Wales in Rhode Island for Advertising and Public Relations.  It never materialized, because, well, that costs money.  I went to a more local community college instead, in an adult evening course program, and quit very quickly because I couldn't make a balance sheet work in my accounting class.
3. I have sensory issues - I cannot eat many foods because of the way they feel or smell.  This isn't related to weight loss surgery, it's always been this way.  Don't even think of coming near with with bananas, peanut butter, seafood, raisins, pudding, milk, eggs etc.. I will gag.
4. I forgot to change my name when I got married.  I didn't realize it until the first time I had to fill out paperwork for a "real job" - and I needed a new copy of my Social Security Card.  It was then, I realized, Beth _________ never existed!  We purchased several houses with my name not being correct!  So, I just hyphenated in '05 when I found my little mistake.
5. No one believes me when I say "I want it all cut off."  They never take enough off.  They don't think I am serious when I tell them, I want it cut like you would a boy, just messier.  Today, this girl nearly got it right!  So, when folks ask me about my hair-cut - and how to get it done the same - I have no clue what to tell them, because my hair is NEVER what I asked for it to be.
6. The surgeon who did my first consult for a tummy tuck told me to wink-wink "rub poison ivy" on my belly when it came time to take the photos for insurance approval.  Little did I know I'd be pregnant soon after and it wouldn't happen.
7. I bought a glucose-meter.  Bob stuck me three separate times before we figured out how to use the damn thing.  He checked his own level today while I was out - and he felt "sick" --- he was 37.  WTF?
8. Driving home on the highway - it smells like DEAD ROTTING CORPSES.  Two days in a row I have smelled this odor.  I almost feel like pulling over and finding the bodies.  Sick.
9. I yelled at the boy at McDonald's today.  I ordered an iced coffee.  He did not ask me what I wanted in it and handed me a obviously full of cream/sugar coffee.  I said, "What's in that?"  He said, "Cream and sugar, obviously."  I nearly lost it.
10. I wonder, many times... why people are reading my babble here... and reading the comments, but do not say anything.  Some people comment repeatedly - but most just peek and leave.

Friday, June 29th, 2007

Today's plans?  Go to police department where my car was vandalized, file report. 

Now, our cars have been keyed at various locations - mostly out of area grocery stores when Bob is traveling for work - but nothing has EVER happened in this particular parking lot until yesterday.  I park far away with this vehicle - because it's big and I have the potential to take out the side of your hot little BMW if I don't.  Yesterday, I parked with an "island" on one side, and no further cars on the other - figuring the least potential damage would occur there - because if someone had to park next to me - it would be on one side. 

Like I said, it's a big ****ing vehicle, and I do not want to hit someone else.  I remember telling my son about the Jaguar in front of us - and we discussed the cost of a new Jag.  He said, "So if I take all of Daddy's money for a year, I could buy a Jaguar?  But, if I had that much money, I think I would just buy us all motor scooters, then we could all have fun."  Nice kid, thinking of us.

...They then have access to pull the security videos of the parking lot the time I was there yesterday.

ETA:  I went to the cops filed a report, and back to the store to file a complaint with store security.  The "asset protection" folks called me at home to discuss details, but apparently - they watched the right girl - but the wrong car.  They told my husband that I left - and came back into the parking lot six minutes later?  WTF?  Why?  They've got the wrong girl.  Nor, did they "see anything" happen to my car.  So, whatever.

Topic change:

The boy had his weigh-in for football last night.  Does anybody know how the weight factors in where they put the boy?  He's a big kid - not really fat per se, but he packs a wallop.  He's definitely not an eight year old size, he's more of a twelve year old size (90 lbs) I don't think they'll place him with eight year olds?  How does that go?

Today's eating:

Coffee.  Lots.  Using the rest of an open Muscle Milk as creamer.

Breakfast - 1 slice flax bread, 1 serving chicken, 1 spread mayo

Lunch - 1 tortilla with cheddar cheese, melted

Snack- 1 ISS Protein Wafer

Dinner - All but one bite McD's cheeseburger

Snack- 2 ISS Protein Wafers

Big Girls.

Give it to me.

What song is stuck in YOUR head? Thanks to MySpace - it's this:

Melting. Mama Is.

(This was written in June 2007, pre grand mal seizures.)

When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you sometimes find that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.

- AA Milne, Pooh.
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The results are in.  I saw the Neuropsych today to discuss me.  I'm reading the evaluation now.

Apparently, I'm wicked smaaaaht. (That's smart to you non-Massholes.)  Though, my brain has a leak, and information is seeping out the back door.  I am now, most literally, Melting Mama.  My brain, is melting.  Why?  We do not know.  This is why I went to the doctor in the first place, because I Felt Something Was Wrong!  I will paraphrase my test results for the blog, because, it's a whole lotta gibberish.

First of all:  My IQ is in the " very superior" range. LOL.

       

                                                                                                                                       

IQ Range	Classification
140 and over	Genius or near genius
120-140	Very superior intelligence
110-120
90-110	Normal or average intelligence
80-90	Dullness
70-80	Borderline deficiency
Below 70	Definite feeble-mindedness

But, from the evaluation -

"Ms. Melting Mama's sharp decline in functioning from superior verbal comprehension and high average to superior visual-spatial reasoning to significantly below average and deficient range verbal memory and visual-spatial memory are likely related to her significant mood disorder and anxiety disorder. 

However, her report of decreased memory functioning since gastric bypass surgery and the demonstration of some significantly deficient functioning on this evaluation indicated that brain neuro-imaging is needed.  Her other health issues and deficiencies are also diminishing her memory functioning."

My long term memory is fannnntastic, but...

What were we talking about?!  Oh, yeah.

Diagnosis, Diagnoses, Diagnosisises? Four of 'em:

• 296.7 Bipolar I Disorder (What?)
• 300.02 Generalized Anxiety Disorder
  
• 300.3  OCD
• 294.9 Cognitive Disorder, NOS:  Memory Functioning Deficiency

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"Pooh," said Rabbit kindly, "you haven't any brain."
"I know," said Pooh humbly."

White U.S. children have highest rates of diabetes

 I suppose it's no surprise, but:

"Non-Hispanic white children have the highest rates of diabetes in the United States, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday, and the disease appears to be more common than expected.  They said type 1 diabetes is the most common form of diabetes in children and teens, but they also noted increases in cases of type 2 diabetes, the kind linked with obesity and lack of exercise."

Read the entire article here:  Reuters