Monthly Archives: July 2019
Old TENS, New TENS . . .
Last night was so-so, mainly because the new TENS unit shuts off after an hour. Better than the 30 minutes of the IcyHot version, but either way I’d wake up in pain a while later. So I’d start it up again for another hour. Rinse, Lather, Repeat. At first I thought I’d tear into to it and see if I could add an external timer, but decided to just look for another unit.
And I quickly found one, that even thought it’s not rechargeable, a 9V battery will last for 48 hours straight. And even better, at $27, it’s $10 cheaper than the one I have now. That one I’ll return when the new one comes in on Thursday.
But even though last night wasn’t really great, today was pretty much back to normal. Even Jan said I looked and sounded better. And I felt better too.
And hopefully the feeling good will last because I have a number of projects that are stacking up in the queue. Along with the new TENS unit that came in on Monday, I also received the 7 additional Blue Streak Ignition coils for the truck, so I want to replace them and the plugs as soon as I can.
Then of course there’s the rear brake job staring me in the face. And I’ve got the new UPS for our DirecTV DVR charging up and I’ll put it in place tomorrow. I tried to this evening, but Jan had a bunch of her shows set to record, so I’ll have to wait.
And with all this ordering stuff, of course, I had to get a new toy. Well, maybe not a toy, but a new TV ‘thingy’.
I’d been thinking for a while about getting a outside antenna to pick up some of the 70 local Houston stations. Of course we already get the 10 or so main Network stations on DirecTV, but we’d like to see some of the 50 or so sub-channels that carry old movies and TV shows
So I ordered this antenna to give it a shot.
I finally got a chance to put it together this afternoon, and after hooking it up, I just laid on the passenger chair and set the TV to scan for new channels. And it found 34, with the antenna inside the rig and pointed up in the air about 30 degrees.
I had already used Google Maps to get the direction to point it, easy to do since almost all of Houston’s TV stations are in the same area of southwest Houston in the Missouri City area.
So then I took it outside and just laid it on on the patio table. Now I got 59 channels.
I’m looking forward to seeing what I’ll get with I put it up in the air.
For dinner tonight Jan and I made another visit to Doreck’s Meat Market for a Cheese Burger/Ribeye Steak Sandwich redux. However this time we shared some of their Potato Salad and Baked Beans, both very good.
And of course, any Texas meat market worth the name, will have Alligator on the menu.
Hopefully tomorrow I will feel as good as I have today.
Thought for the Day:
Power is more often surrendered than seized.
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But It Got Better . . .
Today I felt probably the worse I’ve felt since this sciatica thing started a few weeks ago. In fact after a really bad time, tossing and turning all night, I didn’t even want to go to work, but I knew it was possible that our office manager might be out sick, since she left early on Friday.
Plus my new TENS unit was supposed to come in today, so I wanted to get started with it as soon as possible. And I’m glad I did go in since it turns out that our office manager has the flu.
Oh boy, Something else to get sick from.
And since I was pretty blah at work, and it was pretty quiet, my client told me to go on home an hour early. I had already been using my new TENS unit. But I couldn’t put the electrode pads in the right position without stripping down, but I did feel a little better. So getting home, we made a Yummy Yummy run for an early dinner.
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Back home I let Jan put the pads in place shown for Sciatica treatment , which for me was one right about the waist line on the left side, and the other one on the same side on the upper thigh. I then turned it on and and raised the level until it was a definite tingle.
Then I went and laid down for a couple of hours, and for the first in days I slept with no pain, and felt great when I got up. I used the unit several times on and off the rest of the evening and still felt great.
Now if it just works the rest of the night.
Thought for the Day:
“It would be nice to spend billions on schools and roads, but right now that money is desperately needed for political ads.”
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