Re-Post from 2012 "My Grandma "Tillie Jungbluth"

My Grandmother Mathilda Mae Heiny Jungbluth is special to me and I am to her. By the way she be dead. I have a photo of her and Pa, a black and white glossy that has flown off the wall in my bedroom twice in my life just when I was about to make a really bad decision.  She was doing her best to STOP me, but I was young and did not realize her intention.  I did think it very spooky the first time it fell off its nail perch with no cause and effect going on.  No one jumping or humping on the bed, no wind gales coming thru the window.  And no one vacuuming or dusting for cobwebs accidentally did it.  Nope....she did it.

The three instances have occurred over a forty year period of time and wouldn't you know it she struck again this evening.
I have had an extremely difficult two months with stress levels to the moon where she obviously was perched and took notice.  I realize this card I made with her photo on it isn't as heavy as a framed glossy but....it has sat there for months and never fell off the shelf it resides on across from "me" bed.  Tonight I was in the "rest room" (why its called that I don't know) and when I came out there she lay right in my pathway....  I said to myself....oh crud now what?  It has to be good grannie cause I am up to my brows in chit lately.  I sure hope she lets me know what it is I am not supposed to do.  Oh, could it be, leave my livelihood (job) and put the cat and dog in the car with kitty litter and hit the road  ( don't forget the laptop) for as far as my gas tank will go!  God wouldn't that just be a gas.  Puns, I love em.  I don't want to die or anything nutz like that. I just want something besides work and taking the dog out to pee, and more work, and taking the dog out to pee, and getting groceries and washing the car and so on.  Oh I am grateful for all the working and being able to take the dog out to pee.  Heck I am grateful I can still pee. On my own that is.  And I don't live in Iran or Iraq or Syria, those poor peoples. Yet still....Grannie is trying to tell me something along with the pigeon (dove) that flew directly at me, when I was taking the dog out to pee.  So close over my head the dog got scared and jumped on my leg to pic her up. And when I turned quickly to see where it went it was GONE.  Oh yes I said GONE!   Pigeons or doves coming before you means you need to make your home more family-ish... okay it really means to huddle with your family as there will be safety adn security in that activity.  Oh my god you have to be kidding me.... What am I missing?
hummm, sort of the opposite of driving AWAY as far as the gas tank will go huh?  Which is only 300 miles max with my car.  So that means I could end up north almost to Marinette, Wisconsin, or East into Lake Michigan, or South to Centrailia, Ill. Or West to some god forsaken place in Iowa.  No wonder Grannie is telling me to knock it off and settle in.  It is what is is, it is what I have been dealt, so deal.  (Chit, I really wanted to get away, but I suppose a planned vacation would make more sense. YA THINK?)  okay okay I wont run away this time.

Quinine!

So I drink. Yup. I drink before bed. In 1994 I watched a 20/20 on Restless leg syndrome which I have and have had for most my life.  20/20 said studies proved drinking a beer or two before bed stopped RLS. Given I do not like beer and I had friends that over-indulged in the drink of hard liquor and had shown me how to drink down a bit a Scotch....I noticed no RLS those weekend evenings. That said I started having TWO shots of J & B Scotch before bed to this day.
And yes I informed my physician of my choice of poison.  Her pills or my Scotch.  All went well for a decade at the least....then the RLS started coming back...so I once again listened to friends who suggested Quinine or Tonic Water with my Scotch.  The RLS went away but I began having headaches which is not the normal at all for me. Not a headache person. Unless I ingest Lactose which gives me a severe migraine. Otherwise nope no headaches.  So I went to GOOGLE like I do for every question I have in life.

Google told me things that scared me!!  Said Quinine can be fatal.  And number one side effect was headaches.  Ya think??  Now what ?  Bar of soap under the sheets?  Gabapentin?  No No No!!

After a few nights of jumping out of bed five times with leg spasms I am back on Quinine.  Which is truly to treat Malaria.

Quinine is a medication used to treat malaria and babesiosis. This includes the treatment of malaria due to Plasmodium falciparum that is resistant to chloroquine when artesunate is not available. 

While used for restless legs syndrome, it is not recommended for this purpose due to the risk of side effects.

Quinine - Wikipedia

Not long ago I had surgery with the complication of A-Fib.  I was treated with a drug called Amniodarone.  No pharmacist or doctor told me I could not mix grapefruit and or TONIC/Quinine with that drug.  By the way Amniodarone is a strong life saving heart medication.  Wouldn't "cha" think someone would have told me... As usual I googled it and saved me own life!  

"I'll just deal. Me and my J & B will just deal....."