Rich uploaded two more videos last night and I have a third one to go live. I’ve been doing some product reviews as I think it’s an important part of this channel. We, the physically challenged crafters, spend so much money on products that are either hyped as terrific for us, or ones we think will be great for us. Often times this is not the case and we have wasted money on inferior products or ones that just won’t work for us. It’s so much fun to do these because I get to really put the product to the test. The tools I’ve used so far have been a handle for acrylic blocks and a removable handle with three acrylic blocks that transfers to the other blocks. I really liked the removable handle with different size blocks and although I couldn’t get the handle back on while filming, had no problems doing so off-camera (wouldn’t you just know it!) The first is a handle you can put your hand through and attaches with suction cups. Without wetting the suction cups, it would not stay on. Wetting the suction cups did get it to stay on while filming but I didn’t think I gave it enough of a workout to definitely recommend or not recommend it, so we’ll be playing with it again before I make my recommendation. Now for something totally irrelevant.
So I want to tell you about a doctor’s appointment I had yesterday. I NEVER talk about physical things but this is so horrible, I have to share. I have this thing that some post-menopausal women get, called “burning mouth syndrome.” Look it up, it’s real. It’s exactly like it sounds. My mouth feels like I burned it on hot coffee and has felt like that for two months. So I have a canker sore on my tongue from the inflation and it hasn’t gone away this entire time so I was getting a little freaked about it. I went to my ENT and he said he thought he could help it to heal. Great you say, how is that going to work? Well, he’ll just stick a NEEDLE into my tongue and move it around with some long lasting steroids and a little numbing agent. I believe I’m pretty brave but not when I’m at the dentist or when you stick a needle in my tongue and leave it there. He left it there forever, it seemed, and then when he was done explained that he needed to keep it there a long time so the steroids would work longer or something..there was a ringing in my ears and I was thinking of ways of ending his life at that point so I didn’t really hear what he said…Honestly, I thought he was going to do a punch biopsy to make sure it wasn’t cancerous and thought that was the whole point of what he did. Let’s just say that if he decides he needs to do that biopsy later, he missed his window to stick a needle in my tongue. Holy crap did that hurt. And then he uttered these important words, “Try not to bite your tongue today.” REALLY? It’s already inflamed and hurts and rubs against my teeth and you want me to avoid biting it? Geez, I might be a little bit of a moron, but I always thought that was an already established objective in life…..
So that was my doctor’s appointment and we are no closer to getting rid of the burning mouth syndrome, or maybe we are because he gave me some medicine as well. He wouldn’t do that two months ago when I was there because he wanted my rheumatologist to do it. Correct me if I’m wrong, but aren’t you the guy who handles mouth things? So today, apparently he didn’t think she prescribed the drug of choice for this, so he changed it to his drug of choice. Here’s the funny ending to the story. My rheumatologist called me last night so we could discuss how this problem was coming. I told her about the needle in the tongue and I think she might have lost consciousness for a second. I’ve always believed that doctors were supposed to be tough. She said something like, “Wow, I’ll be that hurt, ooooh.” And then there was a moment of collective silence where I think she tried to regroup. Rich, my husband, on the other hand, said something like, “If he’d have had that needle in there much longer, I would have passed out.” You and me both, buddy.

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