neglected TT,our home for awhile (w/blackwater problem)

[GPW]

Busy Guy !!! Hang in there !!!

[Redgloves]

Time for some health care advice:
Why be so bull headed at take a less dose of gapabentin? Uncontrolled pain affects personality, increases stress, blood pressure, sleep quality, and quality of life. Gapabentin is an appropriate medication for nerve based pain along with other medications. Also, pain specialists can provide guidance on treating nerve based pain and establishing a treatment plan. Above, all the goal is to increase your quality of life. Basically if the gapabentin works it works, gapabentin is not meant to be used as an immediate release pain medication.

Have you consider trying acupuncture?

Good luck,
Jean

[working on it]

Time for some health care advice:
Why be so bull headed at take a less dose of gapabentin? Uncontrolled pain affects personality, increases stress, blood pressure, sleep quality, and quality of life. Gapabentin is an appropriate medication for nerve based pain along with other medications. Also, pain specialists can provide guidance on treating nerve based pain and establishing a treatment plan. Above, all the goal is to increase your quality of life. Basically if the gapabentin works it works, gapabentin is not meant to be used as an immediate release pain medication.

Have you consider trying acupuncture?

Good luck,
Jean

• Thanks for your concern, but I really don't need any more "needles" stuck in me, since that is what this PHN feels like. You're probably right about holding back on the dosage; I used-to hold back some or all of most of the pain meds I have had over the years, to be able to save them for future, non-chronic or non-diagnosed pain episodes, as they might occur (I've broken, dislocated, sprained, torn, and ripped most bones & muscles over the last 60+ years...it never hurts as bad as the next incident, after Drs' office hours). But, now that I'm retired and not on call 24/7/365 like I was for years (46 years at my last job, missing only about 10 days; none because of any of the above, but from double-pneumonia 4 times), I shouldn't have to save up meds. I'll be taking the recommended dosage from now on.
• More progress on the New Home battlefront: the garage wiring is completed, with increased amperage available (60 amps up from 40); now we have power to the sheds, car/trailer battery maintainers, the travel trailer converter, and the garage door (which weighs about 200 lbs, and my wife can't lift it). And my new air compressor, which draws too many amps to run via an 80 ft extension cord from the new house, can now be powered-up in place, instead of moving it near the house, and running 60 ft of hose. I used up 62-63 feet of the 75 feet of 6/3 cable, so I have 12 feet left, to use to install a dedicated remote receptacle for my unused 220vac welder, that I bought in 2013, but didn't have the correct wiring to use (I used a 110vac welder instead).
• I'll need a 50 amp breaker, outlet parts, and a 25 ft welding extension cord, and I'll be ready to try it out (my neighbor has been a steady user of my smaller fluxcore welder; I may gift it to him). I also ran our telephone/internet cable in 1" conduit, from where it emerges from underground, to where it enters the house (except for two feet, secured to the power service boxes). The technician left it very long, and laying on the ground, since I had to be able to reconfigure it after he left, which I did, shortening it by over eight feet. Now the dogs can't rip it loose, so my wife can be entertained by Netflix, without unforeseen disruptions! Slow progress, but progress anyway!

[working on it]

• Here it is, three months after what I thought was my final post in this "new home project" thread. Things have progressed slowly, with my wife's office, the guest bedroom, and the living room entertainment center all lagging (she wants to/doesn't want to convert her antique upright piano into an entertainment center, so it remains clogging up my garage, and the living room remains unfinished). Same in her other two rooms. Otherwise, all is OK.
• Our water supply from the local supply company was temporarily shut off (happens 3-4 times a year out here), due to a failure somewhere up line. We received no "boil water" notice from them, as is the usual case after the line is repaired, but our neighbors did, so we've been using bottled water for three days. I called them tonight to see if it was OK to consume water from the tap, now, and was given the go ahead. But, to call them, I asked my wife for their number (in Pennsylvania??), and she gave me a copy of last month's bill. I was shocked to see a chart of our water usage over the past year. This graphic I made (to post on the refrigerator door, as a reminder) tells a story by itself. It shows the cost of neglecting vigilance over water usage, and failing to get straight answers from a spouse (bless her heart). I had no idea that there was a much worse situation under my house than I thought (the sandhill we live on swelled up and filled-in under the flooring, preventing any visual observation of the big picture!).

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[pchast]

Wow.