FIFTH HOUSE OF PLAY

A PLAYER

                                       PLAY-THAT'S WHAT MY HOROSCOPE SAYS.  BE CREATIVE.  SKIP RESPONSIBILITIES.
                                   PLAY
                                   PLAY BALL
                                    ALL THE WORLD'S A STAGE AND WE JUST PLAY OUR PART
                                           TOMORROW AND TOMORROW AND TOMORROW
                                                THROUGH THE PETTY PACE OF LIFE
                                                     LIFE IS JUST A  POOR PLAYER WHO STRUTS AND FRETS HIS
                                                                                                                                                          
                                                      HOUR ON THE STAGE AND THEN IS HEARD NO MORE
                                                        IT IS A FOOLISH TALE TOLD BY AN IDIOT
                                                           FULL OF SOUND AND FURY
                                               SO PLAY
                                                     THE PLAY IS THE THING
                                                             PLAY ON
                                                                  OUT
                                                                    OUT

PLAYFULL

                                                    BRIEF CANDLE

THE BLIMP IS BACK

                                  THE AFTERGLOW OF THANKSGIVING DINNER,AN ATLAS ROCKET BLAST OFF FROM ACROSS THE INDIAN RIVER AND THE SPACE COAST 42ND ART SHOW ONE BLOCK FROM COCOA BEACH'S WAVES MAKES IT POSSIBLE TO ACCEPT THAT A PLASTIC GOODYEAR BLIMP MOBILE IS HANGING AGAIN ON MY DECK OBSCURING THE GOLF VIEW THAT I PAID $260.000 A FEW YEARS TO HAVE FROM MY BACK BEDROOM WINDOW.  I REMOVED IT LAST WEEK AND PUT IT IN THE FRONT ENTRANCE WALKWAY BUT MY MANIPULATIVE SELF-INVOLVED HUSBAND BROUGHT IT BACK.  I GUESS NEXT WILL BE A PORTRAIT OF VINCENT VAN GOGH AS HE CONTEMPLATES CUTTING OFF HIS EAR WHICH I REMOVED FROM THE MISTRESS BEDROOM.  YES MISTRESS-I PAID FOR IT WITH MY HARD EARNED CASH.  YOU'D NEVER KNOW.  IT'S ALL YANKEES AND GOLF WITH BARELY ONE OF MY INTERESTS.  ACTUALLY I LIKE VAN GOGH BUT NOT WHEN HE LOOKS CRAZED AND IS ABOUT TO CUT OFF HIS EAR. 

ROLLING ON THE RIVER IN TITUSVILLE,FLORIDA

IS THAT ALL THERE IS?

I ONLY WISH THAT I COULD SEE A BLIMP MOBILE AS LOVELY AS A TREE

                                 SO YOU CAN A TAKE A MAN OUT OF HIS MISERY BUT YOU CAN'T TAKE MISERY OUT OF THE MAN.   WHAT'S TO LOSE LAUTREC?

FORE

LET'S TRY FOR AN EAGLE ON THE PAR 3

NICE PUTT-LOOKS LIKE YOU MADE A BIRDIE ON THIS PAR 4

THE FOURSOME-THEY ALWAYS WALK

                      A FOURSOME WAS ON THE SIXTH GREEN TODAY.  THEY WERE QUITE UNIQUE.  EACH OF THEM WAS TALL AND THIN.  THEY ALL HAD A RED PATCH AROUND THE EYES.  THEY FINISHED THEIR STINT ON THE 6TH GREEN BUT ODDLY THEY DIDN'T HEAD FOR THE PAR 3 SEVENTH INSTEAD THEY HEADED BACK TO THE POND ON THE SIXTH FAIRWAY.  I GUESS THEY LOST A LITTLE WHITE THING THERE.  IN THEIR CASE,IT MUST HAVE BEEN AN EGG NOT A BALL.
                     THIS FOURSOME ON THE GOLF COURSE DON'T USE CARTS.  THEY WALK AROUND THE COURSE.  ONCE IN A WHILE THEY LET OUT A SQUAWK AND FLY AROUND.  USUALLY THAT'S WHEN THE GOLF COURSE MOWERS OR BLOWERS START TO BELLOW.  ALL RIGHT THE TRUTH IS OUT.  NO MORE BEATING AROUND THE BUSH.  THERE WERE FOUR BIRDIES ON THE SIXTH GREEN,NO EAGLES AND NO BOGIES WHICH IS PAR FOR THE COURSE.  THESE TALL THIN ALMOST SCRAWNY ON THEIR TOOTHPICK LEGS, RED EYE PATCH AND LONG BEAK WERE SAND HILL CRANES SEARCHING FOR GRUBS IN THE SAND HILLS OF THIS CENTRAL FLORIDA GOLF COURSE.

THE SIXTH GREEN

                     THE TWO KIDS ARE GETTING BIG.  THEY ARE ALMOST AS TALL AS MOM AND DAD.  SOON THEY'LL HAVE TO FIND THEIR OWN GOLF COURSE OR PARK TO FORAGE IN.  FORE!

GOOD FORTUNE COOKIES

                          THE CHINESE BELIEVE THAT A TREE IN FRONT OF YOUR FRONT DOOOR BLOCKS GOOD FORTUNE FROM ENTERING YOUR HOUSE.   I HAVE A TREE THAT BLOCKS MY VIEW FROM MY FORNT PORCH PATIO OF TWO LAKES AND THREE GOLF HOLES.  I HAVE TO APPLY TO THE TOWNHOUSE COMMITTEE TO GET IT CUT DOWN BECAUSE IT'S IN THE FRONT.  THEN I HAVE TO REPLACE IT WITH ANOTHER TREE.  IT ACTUALLY IS NOT AT MY DOOR.  A BOTTLE BRUSH TREE IS OPPOSITE MY FRONT DOOR.  I LOVE IT.  IT  REMINDS ME OF MY SATELLITE BEACH CONDO WHERE BILL'S FAATHER HAD PLANTED A BOTTLEBRUSH TREE ON THE CANAL.  IT HAS NUMEROUS RED BOTTLE BRUSH  LIKE FLOWERS.
                              THE TREE IN FRONT OF MY TOWNHOUSE IS ALWAYS IN GREEN LEAVES.   THEY MUST BE TRIMMED INTO A LOLLIPOP TREE TWICE A YEAR AT $5O + A CUT.  I HATE LOLLIPOP TREES.  I DID NOT EVEN REALIZE THAT THEY EXISTED.  I THOUGHT ONLY CHILDREN PAINTED THEM.  ART TEACHERS DETEST THEM AS UNNATURAL.  WELL YES VIRGINIA AND ALL ART TEACHERS LOLLIPOP TREES DO EXIST.  THEY ARE ALL OVER MY NEIGHBORHOOD.  THIS ONE IN FRONT OF MY HOUSE IS MAJOR IRKSOME.  I HAD TWO CUT DOWN IN MY FRONT ENTRANCE PATIO THAT WERE TALL AND SCRAGGILY.  THEY WERE HITTING THE ROOF.  SO I GUESS THE PREVIOUS OWNER HAD GIVEN UP TRIMMING THEM.  MY NEXT DOOR NEIGHBOR HAD MINE TRIMMED THIS SUMMER.  IT'S ON MY PROPERTY.  WHY HE DID IT, I DON'T KNOW.  HE NEVER GOT THE GARDENER TO CLEAR MY FRONT WALK OF BLOWN OVERGROWN PLANTS.  ANYWAY I PAID HIM BACK $50.  HIS HOUSE JUST SOLD FOR $100,000 LESS THAN I PAID FOR MY HOUSE NEXT DOOR IN DECEMBER 2008.  HE SAYS HE'LL GET MORE THAN THE APPRAISAL, SO HE'S HAPPY TO GET AWAY FROM ALL THE STAIRCASES,EXHAUST FUMES, TOWNHOUSE BOARDS, GARDENING RULES AND LACK OF PRIVACY AND SECURITY ON A GOLF COURSE WHERE PEOPLE GO IN AND OUT ALL DAY 6FT. FROM YOUR BACK DOOR.  ALL THE NEWER NEIGHBORHOODS HERE ARE PRIVATE STREETS WITH NO TRESPASSERS ALLOWED.  THE GOLF COURSE OWNER HAS A GATE IN FRONT OF HIS STREET'S ENTRANCE.  WHY WE DON'T HAVE A GATE AT NIGHT ON THIS GOLF PATH IS BEYOND ME.
                      I HAVE A GIGANTIC TREE IN FRONT OF MY FRONT DOOR IN CAPE COD. I LOVE THAT TREE.   IT PROVIDES SHADE FOR THE ENTIRE FRONT YARD OF MY HOUSE.  UNFORTUNATELY  THE WINTER MOTHS IN THE SUMMER TURNED THE LEAVES INTO SWISS CHEESE.  ACTUALLY THAT HELPS MY GRASS GROW.

MY FAVORITE TREE-ISA TWIN ONE IN BEEBE WOODS,  IT'S AN AMERICAN BEECH WHERE EVERYONE CARVES THEIR INITIALS OR MARY LOVES BILL MESSAGES IN A HEART

                          THIS IS AMERICA.   I FEEL A TREE KEEPS YOUR GOOD LUCK IN.   A TREE PROTECTS YOU FROM THE REST OF THE WORLD.  IT PROVIDES HOMES AND FOOD FOR ANIMALS.  THE ONLY ONES I OBJECT TO ARE THE ONES THAT BLOCK YOUR VIEW AND HAVE TO BE TRIMMED INTO LOLLIPOP TREES TWICE A YEAR.

BE PATIENT

ROME WASN'T BUILT IN A DAY

                                  MY GARDEN LOOKS GREAT.  BILL GOT THEM TO FIX THE WATERING SYSTEM.  PREVIOUSLY IT WAS HITTING TOP OF MY SEGO PALM TREE AND NOT THE FLOWERS IN THE BACK.  I WOKE UP ONE NIGHT AT 2 AM AND SAW IT ALL MALFUNCTIONNING.  IN THE FRONT THE SPRINKLER HEAD WAS SHUT OFF BY MY BOTTLEBRUSH TREE AND FLOWER GARDEN.  MOST OF THE OTHERS IN MY GARDEN PATIO WERE BARELY WORKING.  TWO GARDENEIAS DIED IN THE FRONT BECAUSE THE SPRINKLER ONLY HITS THE GRASS AND NOT THE PLANTS.  ONE GARDENIA IS ON ITS LST LEGS AND PROBABLY DEAD.  FINALLY AFTER THREE YEARS MY MAINTENANCE WOMAN PATTY HAS REPAIRED THE CHIPPED STEPS IN MY FROONT ENTRANCE STAIRS.  SO BE PATIENT.  WE ARE GETTING THERE PETIT A PETIT COMME NOUS DISONS EN FRANCAIS.
                                      PETIT A PETIT L'OISEAU FAIT SON NID.    MA MAISON EST MON NID.  IT'S A NESTING INSTINCT.  I'VE ALSO GOTTEN MANY GOLFERS TO PARK AWAY FROM MY BACK DOOR ON THE SIXTH HOLE EXCEPT THE FRIDAY AFTERNOON BOYS.  THEY PARK RIGHT ALONG SIDE MY PATIO TABLE AND GARDEN.  OFTEN THEY BLOCK THE CART PATH.  I DON'T KNOW IF THEY ARE MEMBERS OR A LEAGUE OF KENNEDY SPACE CENTER WORKERS. 
                                        SO ALL IS PICKING UP.  THE WEATHER IS FRESH AND COOL.  I WALKED FROM THE RIVER TO HOME YESTERDAY WITH A STOP AT THE MALL FOR ART SUPPLIES.  I HAD USED MY LAST CANVAS TO PAINT A COPY OF AL RAO'S ORANGE FLORIDA LANDSCAPE.  I'LL DO A BLUE,PURPLE,GREEN AND PINK ONE SOON. 
                                          WE HAD A $1.99 BREAKFAST AT THE ITALIAN FISHERMAN RESTAURANT NEAR US. THEY ARE FOURTH GENERATION RESTAURANT OWNERS DESCENDED FROM A NEW JERSEY RESTAURANT OWNER.  THE FAMILY HAS HAD SEVERAL RESTAURANTS AROUND BREVARD COUNTY.   THE GRITS WERE GREAT.  WE WERE CELEBRATING 11/11/11. BEFORE DINNER I BIKED AROUND THE NEIGHBORHOOD.  WE WENT TO PAUL'S SMOKEHOUSE AT SUNSET  ON THE RIVER FOR ROCK SHRIMP AND COCOANUT SHRIMP EACH AND THE MOONRISE.  IT TOOK A WHILE TO EMERGE FROM THE DARK HAZE OVER MERRITT ISLAND.  BUT SOON IT WAS BIG AND ORANGE OVER THE MOON RIVER.

                                           SO 11/11/11 TRANSPIRED PEACEFULLY ON THE MOON RIVER FOR YOU FOR ME AS ANDY WILLIAMS WOULD SING.  A ROCKET WILL BLAST OFF FOR MARS OVER THAT RIVER ON NOVEMBER 25TH.  THAT'S IN 13 DAYS.  THANKSGIVING IS IN 12 DAYS.  WE ARE GOING TO OUR SISTER-IN-LAW'S IN SATELLITE BEACH.  UNCLE JOHN IS FLYING DOWN FROM MARYKNOLL,NEW YORK.  HE'S 84 AND BORN ON THE SAME DAY AS QUEEN ELIZABETH.

WAR BIRD MUSEUM IN TITUSVILLE,FL

                                           TODAY WE ARE GOING TO FREE  DAY FOR VETERANS AND THEIR FAMILY AT THE BREVARD ZOO IN VIERA.  TOMORROW WE GO TO THE FREE DAY FOR VETERANS AT THE WARBIRD MUSEUM IN TITUSVILLE.

FULL MOON IN MY EIGHTH HOUSE OF SHARED RESOURCES

                                  MY GURU SAYS:  DON'T TRY TO CONTROL FINANCIAL DECISIONS AND IT WILL ALL WORK OUT.  I DODGED THE BULLET OF GOING ON A BAHAMAS CRUISE AT A BARGAIN PRICE ON MONDAY.  MAYBE THE REQUEST WILL RESURFACE.  IT WILL BE 81 HERE SO I DON'T KNOW HOW IT COULD BE BETTER IN THE BAHAMAS.  IF WE GO IT IS ME WHO PAYS.  ALTHOUGH BILL HAS FUNDS.
                                   YESTERDAY I HEARD TIM MCGRAW SING ABOUT THE LAST DAYS OF YOUR LIFE AND I HEADED TO THE ENCHANTED FOREST.  I HAD BEEN HERE ALMOST A MONTH AND HADN'T VISITED THIS ENCHANTED COUNTY PARK.  IT WAS GETTING NEAR SUNSET.  THE PARK CLOSES AT 5.  THE SHADOWS IN THE HAMMOCKI WALKS WERE BEAUTIFUL AS EVENING APPROACHED.  I MET A NATURALIST WHO HAD JUST SEEN A BOBCAT WALK BY THE VISITOR CENTER.  A SCARLET KING SNAKE HAD SHED ITS SKIN RIGHT BY HIS FOOT AS HE SAT INA CHAIR OUTSIDE AND WAS CRAWLING INTO A NARROW HOLE.  HE WANTED ME TO SEE IT.  HE PHOTOGRAPHED IT WITH HIS PHONE.  MY PHONE'S MEMORY IS FULL.  
                               AFTER THE SNAKE HAD SLITHERED INTO ITS HOLE, I WALKED AROUND THE COQUINA ROCK GARDEN.  THE HOLES IN THE ROCKS WERE MADE 21,000 YEARS AGO AND ARE STILL GETTING NEW HOLES FROM THE CARBONIC ACID IN THE SHELL AND SANDSTONE ROCKS.    I TOOK A SHADY WALK ALONG THE BOARDWALK IN THE SAW PALMETTO PINE  HAMMOCK AND SAW GIGANTIC SPIDE RAND WEB ON MY WAY TO THE REMAINS OF THE ADDISON CANAL.  THE CANAL WAS BUILT IN THE EARLY 20TH CENTRUY TO BRING WATER TO THE ORANGE GROVES.  IT WAS NEVER SUCCESSFUL AND LATER ABANDONNED.
                                 BUT THE 8TH HOUSE OF SHARED RESOURCES ENTERED THE PICTURE WHEN MY HUSBAND CALLED TO SEE IF I WANTED TO TAKE A CRUISE TO THE BAHAMAS ON THE CARNIVAL SENSATION ON MONDAY OUT OF NEARBY PORT CANAVERAL.  TIM MCgRAW'S SONG SAYS JUST DO IT AND TREAT EVERY DAY LIKE IT'S THE DAY YOU ARE DYING.  MY MOTHER-IN-LAW WENT ON APLANE TO THE BAHAMAS WHEN SHE WAS DYING OF LUNG CANCER AT AGE 75.  SHE DIED ON A PRIVATE PLANE ON THE WAY BACK.  SHE WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AT THE AIRPORT IN FT.  PIERCE.  I DON'T KNOW IF SHE WAS GOING FOR A TREATMENT OR WHAT.  SHE WENT WITH A FRIEND THAT I'VE NEVER SEEN OR HEARD OF AGAIN.
                            I LIVE LIKE I AM DYING ALL THE TIME.  WHEN I DRIVE I FEEL FAINT AND CAN BARELY CONTINUE.  USUALLY FOOD,WATER AND FRESH AIR HELPS.  LACK OF SLEEP SEEMS TO TRIGGER IT.  THEY NEVER TELL ME I HAVE NARCOLEPSY OR A SLEEP DISORDER.  IT'S ALWAYS A MYSTERY AFTER A ZILLION TESTS.  ALTHOUGH FINALLY I QUALIFIED AS HYPOGLYCEMIA BUT HTAT CAN HAPPEN TO ANYONE AFTER THE GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST.

FULL MOON IN 8TH HOUSE OF SHARED RESOURCES

                              SOMETIMES I CAN'T DRIVE FAR.   SO I RARELY GO TO THE ENCHANTED GARDEN.  BUT I'D HAD LOTS OF SLEEP,THE AIR WAS FRESH AND I'D EATEN MY BRISKET LEFTOVERS FROM SONNY'S PIT BBQ,SO I DROVE THE FIVE MILES TO THE FOREST.   EVEN IF YOU MIGHT DIE , YOU'VE GOT LIVE HARD OR DIE TRYING. 

EXPECT MIRACLES

                        I'VE FOUND A FRENCH SPEAKING AM RADIO STATION IN MIMS.  THAT'S THE GOOD NEWS.  THE BAD NEWS IS THAT THERE IS A LOT OF STATIC.  BUT STILL IT'S AMAZING SINCE MIMS IS THE MOBILE HOME CAPITAL OF BREVARD COUNTY AND HAS SOME OF THE  POOREST PEOPLE WHOSE ANCESTORS WORKED IN THE NOW DEFUNCT INDIAN RIVER ORANGE GROVES.  THEY BOMBED A CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVISTS' HOME ON CHRISTMAS EVE IN THE 1950'S KILLING HIM  AND HIS WIFE.  THE CHILDREN SURVIVED.  HE WAS A TEACHER AT THE LOCAL SEGREGATED BLACK SCHOOL IN TITUSVILLE.
                 BREVARD COUNTY IS A POPULAR WINTER HOME FOR CANADIANS, SO MAYBE THAT'S WHY THERE'S A FRENCH STATION IN MIMS.  IT'S ALL  IN THE NICK OF TIME.   I HAVE A MASTERS DEGREE IN FRENCH FROM 1970 BUT I'M STARTING TO FORGET EVERYTHING.  SO THIS STATION PROVIDES A REFRESHER.  I HAVE A HOUSE AT THE MIMS EXIT MAYBE IT WORKS BETTER THERE.  I'LL HAVE TO TEST IT.  MAYBE I'LL MOVE BACK THERE WHEN MY TENANTS' LEASE IS UP IN MARCH.  MY REALTOR SAYS DON'T SELL NOW , WAIT FOR PRICES TO COME BACK UP.  THIS SOUTH TITUSVILLE TOWNHOUSE IS DOWN $100,000 SINCE JANUARY 2008.  THE ECONOMY CRASHED IN SEPTEMBER 2008 AND THE KENNEDY SPACE CENTER LAYED OFF 6,000 + WORKERS IN 2010 AT THE END OF THE SPACE SHUTTLE PROGRAM.  THIS TOWN HOUSE WENT DOWN $40,000 IN TAXABLE VALUE (MARKET VALUE) ACCORDING TO THE TAX APPRAISER THIS YEAR.  NOW I ONLY PAY $1500 A YEAR.  SO WHO KNOWS?
               AU REVOIR

                               





























                  

RUDE

                    I TRIED TO TELL MY SELF-CONSUMED HUSBAND ABOUT MY VISIT TO THE DOCTOR BECAUSE I FELT FAINT WHILE DRIVING YESTERDAY.  HE CUT ME OFF. SO WE WENT TO SONNY'S BBQ TO EAT CHOLESTEROL LADEN FOOD TO BENEFIT THE HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATING CLASS.  HE WATCHED THE NEWS WHILE WE ATE.  I DID  ALL THE TALKING.  HE WALKED SO SLOWLY OUT OF THE RESTAURANT THAT HE LOOKED LIKE HE WAS 100.  HE HAS PLANTAR FASCITUS.  I HAD IT IN JULY AND NEVER EVER WALKED THAT SLOWLY.  BY THE WAY MY NEW DOCTOR THINKS I HAVE THE GOUT.  DOESN'T EVERYONE?

                       ANYWAY I HAVE TO GO FOR BLOOD TESTS.  THE DOCTOR HAD NO ANSWERS AS TO WHY I FEEL FAINT.  SHE WASN'T REAL CONCERNED.  SO I GUESS I'LL KEEP DRIVING.  IT'S HYPOGLYCEMIA.  BUT SHE SAYS THE BLOOD TEST THAT DETERMINES IT ISN'T VERY ACCURATE BECAUSE EVERYBODY'S BLOOD HAS HIGHS AND LOWS WHEN FASTING AND THEN DRINKING SYRUP.
                      SO IT'S THE SAME OLD,SAME OLD.  NO DIET, NO MEDICINE AND NO FIRM DIAGNOSIS.  MY BLOOD  PRESSURE WAS EXCELLENT.  I DID GET AN ACTONEL PRESCRIPTION FOR MY PREVIOUSLY DIAGNOSED OSTEOPOROSIS.  THE NEW DOCTOR HAD EXCELLENT RECORD KEEPING AND COULD FIND ALL MY MEDICAL INFORMATION FROM VARIOUS DOCTORS.
                          EATING PROTEIN IS THE ANSWER.  WELL SONNY'S PIT BBQ IS PROTEIN CENTRAL.  SO I'M ON THE ROAD  TO RECOVERY.  I GUESS THIS IS DOCTOR SHOPPING BUT I END UP WITH NO PRESCRIPTIONS EXCEPT GOOD OLD ACTONEL.
                           I SEE A NEW HOUSE ON FRIDAY THAT UNFORTUNATELY IS FRAME  AND AS IS.  I WARNED MR. RUDE I'M NOT STAYING.  IF I COULD DRIVE I'D GO FURTHER.  IT'S KIND OF RIDICULOUS BECAUSE I ALREADY HAVE TWO HOUSES THAT I CAN'T SELL. 

Remain Neutral

                               My horoscope says to remain neutral.  Being a Libran I can see both sides.  I'll be pressured but I mist wait for a decision from within.  That's a good thing because I still feel whoozey from my mal de mer from yesterday plus I waited 21/2 hours to eat today after I woke up at 7 a.m..  I could barely talk on the phone when I called the plumber to fix the leak in our kitchen sink drain.   I asked my husband to call yesterday when I called to tell him I felt faint driving over the bridge.  I had to stick my head out the window because the car was stuffy(full of car fumes,hot,confined) as I drove slowly over the bridge to nowhere(actually the Canaveral National Seashore, the Wild Life Reserve, the Black Point 7 Mile Drive and not to forget the reason all this land has been preserved  for a buffer zone for the Kennedy Space Center).   I put my top down on my Miata when I got to the other side.  i had awoke at 5 or 6a.m. and I guess wasn't sufficiently fueled for this journey after a small turkey sandwich and a banana nut muffin. 
                         My husband didn't offer any help and berated me five hours later when I finally made it home after taking the long way to avoid the bridge.  He was furious that I didn't have food in the car. It was in the other car.  It was an impromptu visit to the National Seashore.  I thought the muffin I had just eaten would be enough.  But my car was hot, I'd  walked in the noonday sun briefly around the town and new Pritchard House shadey garden plus I'd been to the bank and Fox Lake Park in my car and had arisen early.  So the vapors hit.  They say I should go to the hospital when it happens.  That was impossible.  I was over the river and through the bridge.
                             Hours later after chocolate milk,ice cream, trail mix and a stretch in fresh air, I was fine. i guess I could go now to the hospital, I feel whoozey this morning even after chicken parmesan, a banana and low calorie yogurt.  My blood test last year said I have Hypoglycemia.  The endocrinologist doubted the GP's diagnosis .  He wants me to have a blood test when I have an attack.  I told him that was ridiculous because I always eat to recover and be able to drive.  So we'll see.  I've already worn a 24 hour monitor for the neurologist and had an MRI,ekg,encephlogram and some ridiculous test including balance at the neurolgist that was straight out of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.  Also I went to the cardiologist whose office lost most of my records when they moved to another location.  Any way I tried.  The GP is very good but her receptionist is unintelligible because of some Jamaican accent.  She told me that I needed Actonel because my backbone is fragile according to an osteoporiasis test that I had at the hosptial.  I could barely understand her.  She told me I needed medicine and then stated the side effects which sounded worse than the osteoporosis.  When I told the Hispanic physician that he receptionist was unintelligible, she told me to ask her to repeat it.  The neurologist who was Cuban had an assistant who also was barely intelligible.  It was like Desi Arnez giving you a brain test and treating you like Lucy.  
                Anyway they all make Dr. Conrad Murray who was  just convicted of manslaughter for mistreating Michael Jackson with the wrong medicine and procedures and causing his death look like a rocket scientist.  Well that's all folks.  Time to go.  My husband is up at 10 a.m. and taking his insulin shot in his stomach.  He goes to a zillion doctors and receives 10 different prescriptions for his heart and diabetes.  i receive nothing except Actonel for the osteoporiasis and am going unconscious as I drive around  town.  I never drive on the highway.  So that's the saga news.  PS;  My husband is totally unsympathetic and put all the onus on me for not having enough food in my car in case I have an attack.  HMMMM!  I'll move on t another doctor.  luckily in Florida, there are a zillion.   in Cape Cod, you can't see a GP etc.

Your average physician

                      Babbbalu  as Desi would say!  By the way my husband was unsympathetic when I had a mastectomy and begrudged driving me home from the hospital.  He told me to take a bus!

VAN GOGH VENGEANCE

                         I FEEL FAINT SOMETIMES WHEN I'M DRIVING LIKE I'M GOING TO GO UNCONSCIOUS.  THE DOCTOR SAYS IT'S HYPOGLYCEMIA.  SURE ENOUGH AFTER COFFEE AND A BANANA NUT MUFFIN, I STATED TO FEEL UNSTEADY IN MY HOT CAR WHEN I WAS DRIVING OVER THE BRIDGE.  I MADE IT OVER AND THEN I CALLED MY HUSBAND.  HE ACTED LIKE HE COULDN'T CARE LESS.  HE OFFERED NO HELP.  I DIDN'T BEG BECAUSE I HOPED I'D SNAP OUT OF IT IF I PUT MY CONVERTIBLE TOP DOWN.  GOING OVER THE BRIDGE I FELT LIKE THERE WAS NO OXYGEN IN THE CAR WITH THE TOP UP.  ALL MY HUSBAND DID WAS COMPLAIN THAT HE CAN'T FIND THE PICTURE OF A MENTALLY ILL VINCENT HOLDING AN ABSINTHE BOTTLE OUT OF THE MASTER BEDROOM.
                     OVER THE BRIDGE I WAS AT THE POINT OF NO RETURN.   SO I FORGED ON TO THE VISITOR CENTER FOR SOME COLD WATER AND TO SE E AN ALLIGATOR AND BABIES.  WITH THE WIND IN MY HAIR I FELT FINE PLUS I ATE AND DRANK EVERYTHING I HAD IN THE CAR MAINLY THE FRENCH FRIED ONIONS THAT I HAD IN THE TRUNK FOR THE THANKSGIVING  GREEN BEAN CASSEROLE.  THAT SEEMED TO SUSTAIN ME SO I HEADED 6 MILES TO THE OCEAN TO TOUCH THE COOL WATER. 
                    I WAS FINE.  STILL I AVOIDED THE BRIDGE OVER THE INDIAN RIVER AND TOOK THE LONG WAY HOME VIA OAK HILL AND US 1.  EVENTUALLY I FELT SLIGHTLY WHOOZY AND STOPPED FOR SODA AND DURKEES FRENCH FRIED ONIONS.  I WAS SHAKEY BUT OK.  I HEADED UP US 1 TOWARDS MIMS.  I COULD BARELY MAKE IT TO THE CONVENIENCE STORE AT THE NORTH STAR TRAILER PARK.  I BOUGHT AND CONSUMED CHOCOLATE MILK, AN ICE CREAM BAR AND SOME TRAIL MIX PLUS GO OUT OF THE HOT CONVERTIBLE AND STRETCHED MY LEGS.  MY LEFT LEG WAS STIFF.  THEN I WAS FINE AGAIN AND TOOK CARPENTER HOME INSTEAD OF BUSY US 1.  WHEN I GOT  I WAS PERFECTLY FINE. 
                     I TOLD MY  HUSBAND HE SHOULD HAVE OFFERED HELP THAT  I COULD BARELY MAKE IT HOME FROM THE CANAVERAL NATIONAL SEASHORE.  HE COMPLAINED ABOUT HIS MISSING VAN GOGH PAINTING.  SO I REITERATED.  HE SAID NEXT TIME HE WOULD OFFER HELP.  I ALSO SHOULD HAVE CALLED HIM AGAIN.  ANYWAY I SURVIVED. 

INDIAN RIVER TITUSVILLE,FL

                     I'LL GET MY AC FIXED, GO TO THE DOCTOR AND BUY TRAIL MIX FOR THE CAR.  SO WWVD?  WHAT WOULD VINCENT DO?