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Published: January 22nd 2016
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We're getting there. Just a few more catch-ups and we'll be up to date. Mark your calendar for January 18th - Martin Luther King Day and also a big selling day at the huge Webster Flea Market. We're off.....Sam and Sandy got a head start: the early bird gets the worm! Sam looks for parts to make his cannons.....we just browse now. Just before our departure, a horrendous event happened to me.
The day we went to the Tampa RV show, I was a little dizzy. I know you think I am a lot dizzy but this was for real. It wasn't bad looking up or straight but when I looked down, I was spinning in a monster size whirlpool. Hurl! Just don't look down you say. I diagnosed myself as having: Benign ParoxysmalPositional Vertigo....calcium crystals in your ear fluid. If you turn your head around just so you can correct it but I couldn't remember how to twist the old squash. I had this one time before and used a scopolamine patch. ANYWAY.....after primping my hair, I sprayed it up with lots of spray so I could look fancy instead of frompy. Whoops.....spray went into my affected ear. Knowing
that wasn't going to be good, I got a Q-tip to wipe the outer edges of my ear. We all know: NEVER put a Q-tip inside your ear! Because my hands were full, I gently rested the Q-tip in the very outer portion of the auditory orifice to carry it to another mirror. Somehow, and I have no idea how....I raised my arm and slammed that Q-tip straight and deep into my ear. OOWW and more OW! Yowee! Positive I had perforated my eardrum and lodged it into my brain, I struggled to rip it out of my head. Just like an embedded arrow! I was shot! I fell forward onto our bed just in case I was going to pass out. I moaned and groaned waiting for bloody fluid and brains to shoot of my ear. I could feel some fullness and fluid. Nooooo - I am slowing becoming another Helen Keller. I let out weak bellows for Cory but he was watching TV. Finally, he heard my agonizing squeals. His caring words "Are you okay?" My faint response: "Noooooo".......(I like clenching and tearing our bedspread apart). Where's nursemaid Lulu? Cory looked in my ear with a flashlight ...nothing
Run, Lulu, Run
Beautiful Florida back road gushed out. It's very difficult to access the damage without an otoscope and how could I look in my own ear anyway? I had him speak to me while I covered up my good ear. Yes, yes, I can hear! Hallelujah! I really would have been happier just being dizzy. I know you think I am already dizzy but....we discussed that before. I decided I had to just wait awhile and see what was going to happen inside by injured ear.
Cory assisted my weakened body to the car. Lulu wasn't a bit concerned. She flew by me like a big hulk and took her seat. Buckle up, Babe! And we were off. I was limp but held my hurt head high. We drove through the beautiful canopy of old oak trees. A perfect Florida picture. It reminds me of Forrest Gump....run, Forrest, run!
Once at Webster, the dealers were in the over flow area. Yippee .....that means lots of stuff to look at. Even though we are getting out of the antique business, we still love to look. We would have filled our roadster in one swipe down one aisle. Now we just look and drool but
pass it all by. Times have changed. We still miss the action. We are now just trying to sell all the tons of stuff we have stacked and stored away at home. Would fill a football field plus the concession stands. We traipsed up and down the aisles. Saw a couple of our dealers friends from our selling days. That was nice. Made our way over to the "new" section and dragged through all the pavilions. Bought only a couple items...strange for us. one thing we did buy however, were those bamboo pillows we saw at the RV show. Looked like the same thing with no doubt...the difference was we bought two for $35.00. Remember the others were $90.
I had a great motivator to push me through this humongous flea market. Cory had bought be a Fitbit for Christmas and I was wearing it the whole time. It measures and records how many steps you take, how far you go, how many calories you burn, how well you sleep and much more. I figured I had walked 20,000 steps, 20 miles and burned 18,000 calories. Anxious to see the truth on my Ipad (which shows my record). By
coincidence, Sam & Sandy departed the market right behind us. We decided to meet for lunch at Bob Evans. We needed sustenance to restore our well-being. I got out my iPad and searched for my Fitbit info. It kept trying to sync itself....never finding anything. Sandy worked with it...no luck. She had me check the wristband and the confirming lights to make sure it was connected. My band was just squishy. Nothing! Rats. Then I took the wristband off to check the little devise that fits into this flexible band. Whaaaat? Nothing there! No devise! Good grief. Holy-Moly. Know where it was? Back at the RV still connected to its charger. Crap. Wouldn't just know! All that exercise and nothing to prove it. As I often say:"suck it up!" Such is life!
We cruised along the busy highway heading home. We had a purpose:1-get lots of rest. 2-try out our new pillows. It didn't take long to hit the bed. It had been a fun but a traumatic day (my ear and Fitbit). We tossed the new bamboo pillows on the bed followed directly by our heads. Ooooo.....our nights rest was going to be so good. WRONG!!! Move ahead
to morning. We did not accomplish #1 because of #2! It was a terrible, restless night (according to my Fitbit). Plus our necks hurt and are terribly stiff. No-we are not coming down with meningitis. Forget about my plugged ear. The problem is with the rotten bamboo pillows! Do not buy them! Fake, fake, fake! We could have slept on a pile of broken bricks with burdocks in them and rested better. Phooey. They were bad! So bad! So now they are shoved under our bed in the storage area. Probably will end up on our guest room beds at home.....come visit us, anytime. We'll leave the light on for you! And new pillows on your bed. Even Lulu has had enough of this treacherous day. Let's move on.
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