WHAB’s 1924 Brick Schoolhouse RDWC

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Sorry, folks. I’ve been out of sorts for more than a few days.

BPPV, it turns out.

Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo.

What’s BPPV, you say? Yeah, me too!

I almost didn’t mention it. I was there for scheduled physical therapy. My first in a couple of weeks…Christmas, New Years…etc.

I told him that a few days ago I was getting out of bed, getting on my hands and knees to then stand up…I fell back on the bed. I got back up on my hands and knees and stayed there for a period of time I thought sufficient for my balance to get re-centered…I fell back on the bed.

I got back up on my hands and knees and stayed there for a period of time I thought sufficient for my balance to get re-centered…I got to my feet…I fell back on the bed.

It was bad. Really bad. When I finally did get to my feet I had to hold myself up as I tried to traverse the classroom. Then that has been repeated multiple times over the past few days.

It’s happened many, many more times to a lesser degree. But, you don’t know what degree it is going to be until your in it.

Looking down and looking up, even slowly. Laying down. Rolling over in bed. Turning my head too quickly. Etc…

It is still most severe getting out of bed after a rest period.

Coincidentally, I was talking to the right person all along. They, PT, have a test to see it is caused by one of 3 or 4 typical reasons. They, PT, conducted the test - NO FUN, nearly threw up - they look for how a person’s eyeballs react to the movement they ask the patient to perform. People that exhibit CRAZY eye, your pupils darting back and forth rapidly, have BPPV…and not some other form of balance problem. And the degree of darting, total movement (what I gathered) indicates improvement or no improvement.

I wasn’t going to mention it because it wasn’t getting worse. It was bad but it was static. I had to learn to move so as not to cause the episodes.

I had CRAZY, CRAZY eye!

They prescribed Meclizine…

…and I’m instructed to call them directly Monday. Oh, and I must lay on my Left side in bed. I favor my Right side

They said we may have to do that all again. I’m not looking forward to it.

So, there was Christmas (Merry Christmas, all who I absentmindedly omitted! ), then New Years…in between I was done with my recuperation to a point that I was preparing to get back in the attic to finish up. I was going up that day. I literally couldn’t get out of bed.

Once I was up out of bed, up and around, I was too concerned with my generally equilibrium to risk balancing on ceiling joists for a few more hours.

I wished they’d screwed up the prescription and issued me Mescaline instead!

Now, I’m late to this too…But, I would have posted it had I been able to.

Without further ado

May the best of last year be the worst of this new year for you all, your families, your friends and loved ones! Happy New Year!

Oh, I got my 3 year Patient/Cultivator License.

The entire process, my the Tele-Exam, and them sending the paperwork off to the State, and receiving approval from the state, took less than 24 hours!

Elevate-Holistics.com,

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WHAB

[DougDawson]

Hope you start doing batter bother and congrats on your 3 year license. Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year to you and yours my friend. Hope it’s a great one for you.

[Rhino_buddy]

Woah man. Hope you can get out of bed now. None of that vertigo shit. ‍:dizzy:

Glad to see you back around. Was curious where you’ve been, even tho Ive been laying kinda low.

[WhiteHotAfterburner]

You’re so very kind, and I could not appreciate it more!

Yes, thank you. It will reduce my sense of rush with a new year renewal every year.

I don’t remember what I paid last time. But, this time, it was around $80 for the Tele-Exam (best prices around), $30 for them to submit the paperwork (the patient can save that cost and submit it themselves for free), and then $75+tax to the state. Right around $185 total. I’ll have to look back to see what I paid.

$185+ for 3 years is a great cost reduction over time.

Thank you very much, my friend!

You ,
WHAB

[WhiteHotAfterburner]

Hey there, brother!

From my brief read, you have to get some crystalline type material (otoconia) out of one part of your ear and into the other part of your ear where it belongs.

I did not know we (humans) had a crystalline type material in our (human) bodies and that it ‘belonged’ anywhere in our (human) bodies!

Thank you, my friend. Always a pleasure to see you around!

You ain’t been laying lower than I have been! For different reasons (probably ). Still got that thing hanging over me.

Yeah, I’m feeling a little queasy at the moment. I think I’m going to TRY and lay down VERY slowly on my LEFT side and to reverse that order trying to get up. VERY SLOWLY!

Do you remember that game, at least I played, where you have a baseball bat standing straight up and you put your forehead on that top of the bat and spin around around the bat and EVERYONE laughs as you reel uncontrollably crashing to the ground?

That’s exactly what this is like.

No laughing!

I’ll be around. As soon as I can without my head spinning wildly, I’ll get the insulation done, there’s only maybe 1% needs finished, and start rebuilding the grow areas. Finish the Loft, and resorting the Bloom Room. I’ve already done a bunch of the setup work (proper tear down procedure) to included giving that Active Aqua Chiller a Pickling Vinegar soaking bath when I took it down. I had never seen nor ever heard of Pickling Vinegar before that. But, that’s what was recommended and that’s how I handled it.

I do hope you and yours are all well and fine, brother!

Btw, that game mentioned above? That’s the real Gateway to drug use. It is us physiologically altering the function of our brain for self-enjoyment.

When people Gateway this, and Gateway that - ask them if they played the baseball bat spin game!

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WHAB

[arb]

I hope that shit straightens the fuck up whab.
My Moms had severe vertigo the last ten years of her life and it was brutal for her.

[WhiteHotAfterburner]

Wow! That sounds horrible, brother!

I don’t believe I could go through what I went through for more than a couple of months before I packed it in…maybe even weeks.

Sorry for your Moms, my friend! R.I.P.

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WHAB

[WhiteHotAfterburner]

My PT guy is a shaman of some sort! Maybe even a supernatural presence from the Universe!

It’s animation but this is what he did. It worked!

Deep Head Hanging Maneuver to Treat BPPV Vertigo

Wild!

It’s only just been 24 hours since his fix but I’m feeling much better!

I’m still going to give it til Monday to make sure things are good.

I wonder if he walks on water?

Guesses?

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WHAB

[WhiteHotAfterburner]

Hey folks!

Feeling much better (I think! ).

I never noticed it before but laying on my left side these last several days has my left hip hurting. My left shoulder doesn’t like it much, either. I never noticed either before. I’ve never spent that much time on my left side as I have these past several days on Doctor’s Orders.

But, I messaged the PT clinic yesterday AM (having messaged the clinic over the weekend informing them the Epley Maneuver worked and we can save each other a phone call about it) asking if it was alright if I began laying on my right side again, something I had forgotten to mention in my previous message. They responded this AM telling me it’s okay for me to lay on that side.

I went down for a nap to test it out , looking forward to resting on my favored side …

…maybe I got out of bed too quickly but I got a swimmy sensation that lasted longer than it should have.

On Monday they instructed I take it easy for the rest of this week. I’ll stay out of the attic until then but I have some things down here that need done.

IF my Thought Process Machine doesn’t squawk my moves and throw me to the floor I’ll try to get something done. We’ll see.

I do hope you’re ALL making it a great week!

IF you haven’t yet, you still have the rest of the week to get it done!

Man, IF I could sell that BPPV stuff I’d make a fortune! People spend a lot of money trying to do to themselves what that BPPV did to me.

…and my desperately trying to avoid it would puzzle those people!

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WHAB

[Gpaw]

Good news, that sounds like you have that ‘loose crystal’ under control.

So now your state has gone legal, have you thought about an outdoor grow?

Cheers
G

[WhiteHotAfterburner]

Hey there, my friend!

Thank you, brother! I hope so too!

I have thought about it. But, the same rules apply. 4 walls with locked entrance, not visible from anywhere, from any side, from the outside of that space.

For instance, that includes your backyard garden next to a multi-floor apartment or office building. IF you can’t comply, blocking view from the 4 sides AND the top, with that rule you can’t grow.

My only problem with doing an outdoor grow, outside the existing garden, is digging the first hole. The undisturbed ground here is hard and rocky, typically. When I considered it the last time there was a mini tractor here with a excavator bucket.

I have been thinking about putting at least one in my SIL’s garden. The ground is softer there as my SIL worked her ass off on it. She gave me the okay to plant there a long time ago when I first got my license.

Now, here’s my interpretation of the rules. There is not a single neighbor and anyone else looking at the property from any side - not standing on the property - that can see either the garden or the one spot I have mentioned before where I would like to put a plant. Those are ‘walls’, not being able to seeing anything, imo. Unlockable, though.

There are some rigid foam insulated panels (4x8, I think…large regardless) with galvanized steel skins on both sides laying all about in the treelines here from the previous owner. They’re several inches thick. I don’t want to say exactly because I’m not exactly sure, I’ve never measured them and don’t want to give out wrong information.

I could easily stand them up as walls, 4 foot tall walls, that is. Which brings up another problem with the rules.

IF I had a Sativa and it’s growing normally (outdoors, that is) and starts exceeding the height of your wall. She could go 20 foot tall EASILY! I’m supposed to build FOUR 25 foot tall walls with a 25 foot tall lockable door?

I haven’t put much thought into it but, I think those panels look like they were part of some sort of walk-in freezer type of structure. That’s the impression I have of them just a few brief glances.

Thanks for the question! It’s one I’ve been wrestling with ever since I decided to get back on the field of play.

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WHAB

[WhiteHotAfterburner]

Who’s ready for ‘another’ WHAB dilemma?!?!

I’m really puzzled here…

You all remember I rehabilitated the gas range that had been “stored” outdoors?

A couple/few (maybe several by now) months ago I tried to Griddle something, a hamburger I’m pretty sure. When I went check it for the flip and it was still very nearly raw.

You have to pretty much take the range apart just to get at things. There are neighboring assemblies the griddle conflicts with (regarding ease of disassembly). I will eliminate the conflict at the front of the range.

I suspected something wrong with the valve or the griddle burner assembly, the looped bit…like blocked, physically blocked. Maybe a critter got in there and made a home of it.

The only accumulation of anything was right there where that tube slips over the orifice on the valve.

I scraped that out and gave it a bath, the only way I have to test it here. I even sent a welding torch file tool through a bunch of the ports and they’re open.

It does not seem to be a blockage of any sort. Some small chunks came out but nothing concerning.

I put it back together enough to test it after it’s bath.

That’s the extent of its operation. A few of the gas ports are lit…with the valve FULL open.

Speaking of the valve, there has been a hint of the smell of propane occasionally…nothing bad, not really a concern, imo.

The blue dot in near the bottom of the picture is that valve full closed. It’s leaking.

I was not expecting that leak to be there, minuscule as it is. I was expecting it to be in the other pilot assemblies that I don’t use any more. I closed their valves a long time ago.

I did take a quick look at it but the range still has propane going to it.

I now think it is in the valve seal, however that is accomplished on these valves. I tightened that knurled fitting above, at the base of that stem. It was a little loose, not fully seated. I tightened it and it didn’t make a noticeable difference, regrettably.

Prices for new valves run all over the place, from $14+ to over $40.

Do any of you fine folks know anything about these valves? Are they rebuildable? Would I be able to find a repair/rebuild kit?

I’ve been without a griddle for the past several months. I never got the oven working even though I R&R’d the Safety Valve.

So, I have 4 top burners to cook on. I could have used the griddle earlier this evening, when I started the diagnosis.

Now it’s many hours since then and I still haven’t eaten anything…

This has been on my To-Do for a while. I didn’t plan on digging into it today. I thought it was going to be a simple fix and I could get cooking.

My stomach is growling so loud that IF we had live sound here you’d hear it on your side of these confounded wires!

I’m going to have to pull the range out to turn off the gas. Maybe I’ll just close the valve at the tank and bleed out the remaining gas.

It’s not going back together until I have it fixed. I don’t know how long that will be…

#WHABs

Good morning folks!

Make yours a great day!

Oh, there is only 1 day of the next several days that has above freezing nighttime temps. Winter is here to stay and I haven’t been up in the attic to button it up.

IF I can eat something I’ll get up there tonight, if not then tomorrow (nearly tomorrow now).

First…

B.K #6. I’m really enjoying this Dry Sift game!

I do need a better way of consuming it. That is my second pipe. Neither worked great.

Any suggestions, recommendations? Ease of use is my intent. So nothing I need an certification for , nothing extremely complicated, please.

folks!,
WHAB

[WhiteHotAfterburner]

Oh, I haven’t been completely idle this entire time, although it may seem so

Months ago on one of my trips to my Sister’s place I was installing her Cell Phone Booster Antenna.

I had it nearly complete except for 1 of the 2 U-bolts I bought for it was inside her RV and she was away.

I suggested to her that she ask a guy who’d been helping around the place to finish the install “the holes drilled and everything is there”.

I clamped it in place, I think I’ve posted that here

Remember, 4 holes were drilled. All the hardware was there.

My work on the right. His on the left.

That hunk of lumber there was ONE of the hunks of lumber they shoved in the excess spacing on his clamping system. There was 3 or 4 pieces of wood shoved in it.

I will admit one weak point in my design. The U-bolts are shorter than the rectangular tube they are attached to. The washer and nuts are on the inside of that tube. I have to go back with my offset ratchet wrenches. I have them snugged up but not tight.

I was able to get a socket on a ratchet in there but the swing is limited making ratcheting more difficult. I mean to include a hand, a wrist, a lot of a forearm in there trying to swing a ratchet!

I put the holes for the U-bolts there because that’s where that tubing is welded to an arm that is permanently attached to the frame of the RV. That’s it’s strongest point.

I was so stuck by the whole situation I mentioned to my sister that I hoped she didn’t pay much for the work and materials. I’m not sure about the labor but she said she didn’t pay him anything for materials.

Maybe it was his way of supplying me with some excellent materials I can put to some good use at some point in my remaining time on this Beautiful Blue Orb Full Of Bi-Pedal Carbon Based Humanoids Hurtling Through The Universe at 1.2 million mph (2 million km/h)!?!?!?

It does look like - with my brief glances at it - he did the skirting very well.

AND, IF I’m going to grow any outdoors I should start them very soon.

Good morning!

Edit Add: I bought a valve…I messed with the one here and I didn’t like how it was acting. https://www.partsfps.com/valve-top-burner-for-vulcan-hart-part-00-719221

Restaurant Equipment & Foodservice Parts - PartsFPS

Great company IF anyone needs like items. I have ordered from them before. Probably because of their prices

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WHAB

[WhiteHotAfterburner]

I’ve been pondering changing the title of this thread again.

My Maladies sound good?!?!

No sooner had I recovered from that Baseball Bat Spinning Game disease …just getting my feet under me again, literally…I had something affecting my eyes. Specifically, my left eye. With it being so close in time to my most previous medical woe I thought for a moment that they could be related and what that might entail.

I’ve not been using my overhead lighting in the classroom since the ‘NEW’ rules were enacted. About a week ago, I started seeing things off in my periphery, a couple of times it jolted me…I thought something or someone was right there, getting WAY TOO close.

Somethings appeared like smoke crossing your vision, sweeping over your view.

I was also getting what looked to me like flashes of white off in the corner of my vision.

I didn’t know what the hell was going on. What now?!?! Why now?!?!

After a couple of days and some interior lighting, natural or otherwise, I finally figured it out. I messaged my VA Clinic and they made a spot for me to be seen yesterday.

I have a pre-scheduled appointment with the Eye Clinic for the end of March, a follow-up to my previous eye appointments, but that I thought this is a dramatic change and should be seen.

I have what turned out to be a huge floater in my left eye. A huge floater with what looks like two large pods on stems attached to a tail on top and a tail on the bottom.

Sort of like this, with the pods nearer the viewer…

I even described them to the Nurse and Dr. that they looked from my perspective to be musical notes with tails extending in both directions.

…as I move my eyes left and right that tail seems to move with the eye the pods linger behind that motion making it look like the pods are waving like a flag in the wind.

Crazy! Wacky!

The floaters are very nearly smack dab in the middle of my vision. The worst place to have a floater.

I have other floaters. They’re off to the edges.

And, the white flashes of light I now believe are the ends of those tails smacking against the inside of my eyeball. Sort of like the white flashes a person gets when their brain contacts the inside of the skull - a concussion. Those tails look to be very long and it was difficult to see the movement taking place as it is taking place.

Good thing they’re not connected as I had considered, even briefly.

Also, I knew weather was coming in late afternoon yesterday, they said 4pm - Snowy weather, 3-6 inches said. I planned things to get back to the Schoolhouse before the weather got here.

I had to forego a stop in ‘town’ upon my return from the ‘City’ as I was getting slippery on the highway. I was changing lanes and the rear end of my car was trying to come around on me. I got slippery again when I changed lanes back…just a little fishtailing.

I made it back safely but - Winter is here.

So, back to My Maladies, in your opinions, what on me is next to go?

What will the next installment of WHAB’s Woes entail?!?!?

I hope you are all HAPPY and HEALTHY, emphasis on Healthy!

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WHAB

[Tejas]

How are they going to remove the floater(s)?

[WhiteHotAfterburner]

That hadn’t been discussed recently.

On this visit they said we’ll ‘keep an on things’ leading up to that coming end of March appointment.

From what I recall, back then, we were going to give my left eyeS this past year (10 months) of observation to then make a decision on them.

For my left eye, specifically…I have I man-made lens in that eye (previous cataract surgery) AND I have that Laminar Fold (Macular Pucker) issue diagnosed early last year.

A significant surgical procedure was discussed at that time and a difficult and relatively complex healing process after surgery.

50/50% chance it fixes anything, from what I recall.

And, I have a cataract in my right eye to deal with. Lower priority, IF I recall.

In the interim, I am hoping that my Musical Note Malady will drift away as simply as it drifted to where it is tonight.

I have to be honest, looking through this floater is rather difficult. It feels like that eye is injured and I’m compensating for it as if it were, subconsciously.

I don’t exactly recall having a discussion on how floaters are removed.

I remember the Pucker, the Cataract, but not the Floaters.

I’ll do what research I can in the meantime. But, I’m missing more letters than usual for me (I habitually omit the “r” in your long time! ) while typing and focus is pretty bad on the left eye. Nearly constant movement in that eye. That’s offputting!

A rather odd bit about an odd situation. I was working on figuring out what was going on and I was flitting my eye horizontally back and forth like that BPPV test/diagnosis.

I think I can see color in those pods. They are more opaque at time than other times. As the pods wave left and right I can see what I think is the broadside of the musical note, the body of it. I think I can see Gold/Yellow/Light Green alternately. They can look translucent at times as they pass by.

Thanks for contributing to the odd discussion , my friend!

Weird stuff!

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WHAB

[Tejas]

Here’s a little info on floaters, How to Get Rid of Eye Floaters: 3 Different Ways

[WhiteHotAfterburner]

Hey brother!

Thank you ever so much!

From that link, we (Drs. and I) previously discussed #1 and #2. We’ve never discussed #3.

#1) Ignore. I do recall discussing doing nothing.

#2) Vitrectomy. This is the treatment that we discussed at length, nearly 1 year ago now.

#3) Laser therapy. This was never discussed. I’m not sure the Technology was widely available back then, nearly a year ago.

IF that large floater would move out of my direct vision, out of plain view, I’d be happier about it and not take it any farther.

Vitrectomy was discussed at length, IF ignoring it wasn’t going to work. For instance, directly in the persons view. This thing is nearly dead center from left to right and covers around 90% of what I see top to bottom from my perspective.

They remove the fluid/gel that’s in there now, along with the floaters, and then they inflate your eyeball.

That fluid/gel is the vitreous…

Vitreous is gel-like substance that keeps the shape of your eye round.

Recovery means 50 minutes of every 60 minutes spent face down for at least 2 weeks, at minimum…can be extended.

50 minutes of every hour face down for literal weeks.

After all that, it may or may not solve the floater problem.

I said I already had floaters. I got to thinking about it after I mentioned that. Mine have been small, mostly translucent and mostly out of view, whatever my Thought Process Machine (brain) fails to overlook

It ‘may’ be that this is the same floater just relocated.

I do remember seeing small pod like items, separate small round like things.

My brain did get used to dealing with them - as discussed in much of what I have read so far - that they rarely bothered my eyesight at all. But, they were off to the sides, the edges are not nearly as opaque as these seem to be.

Again, I’m hoping it slides out of view just as easily as they slipped in.

I am certain, at this point in time, that I don’t want to see permanently what I’m seeing now. I would have to opt for the surgery.

I think my brain is thinking I suffered a physical injury to that eye. I’m unconsciously treating that eye as if it were injured. Like automatically limping from a leg injury to favor that injured side, that’s what my left eye is doing. It’s in defense mode. I do not like this at all!

Thank you, brother @Tejas … thank you very much!

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WHAB

[Kabuddha]

…it’s taken me about 6 months to read through your thread but glad I did, good stuff! Love the old school house youve fixed up.

About your eye…for me at least, if I don’t drink enough alcohol on a regular basis, after a couple weeks my vision starts fading. If you are still having problems I would suggest drinking a couple 5ths…alcohol is also great for when my knees start acting up and getting stiff.

I’m not a doctor…don’t know anything about prescribing meds, in a pinch I can sew you up though ! I prescribe sugar, salt and alcohol…better than “Tussin” ! Sugar for mood, salt for cardiovascular health, and alcohol because it’s God’s favorite medicine.

[Tejas]

For your stiff knees, give Naproxen a try. One tablet every 12 hours. I find it works well for my knees and other joints.