My son and I recently talked about past Easter celebrations from his youth. My brothers and I would make up plastic eggs for our kids to find in an Easter egg hunt. It worked out where we would decide a few weeks before Easter that each sibling was responsible to provide 100 eggs to for the kids to find.
Sean was blown away that we were all in our early 20s doing these things for our children. I always filled the Easter eggs I was responsible for with Sean’s favorite chocolate and quarters! I laughed when I told Sean about how exciting it had to be for the kids to find an egg with a whopping 2 quarters! My brother, Dave would provide the “Golden Eggs!” I think it was one egg that was golden in color that contained $5!
Sean never got the “Golden Egg” when we held hunts for the kids so it got me thinking about the fact that I wanted to have one more Easter celebration for Sean! My son is 17 so next year, he will technically be an, “Adult” in the eyes of the law. I think I am just feeling nostalgic so I wanted to have one more Easter basket! Sean doesn’t care either way! He hasn’t cared that he hasn’t had an Easter basket for the past couple years because I have not been working. I wanted to change that!
So yesterday, I just received my Social Security check and paid my bills so I had a little bit of money to get him some Easter candy for a basket! My Mom loaded me into the car to take me to Target to get some! The first thing that I noticed once we got into the store was that Target looked so much different than I remember it! My Mom told me that it has been changed for a few months but I wouldn’t know because I rarely leave the house! She pushed me in my manual chair to get all of the specific things for Sean.
While we were in Target, I saw my friend and former colleague, Jonathon Wright! I was so happy to see him! He looked at the items in the basket on my lap and told me that he was glad that I am eating healthy! I laughed and filled him in on what’s going on with Sean! I was really happy to see him and I was immediately transported back to a time when I first started working with him and teaching English. I was still walking on crutches and driving back then as well. It really seems like a lifetime ago now!
Once finished shopping, I could feel myself getting fatigued! My Mom stopped to get us a shawarma for dinner and as I waited for her while sitting at the car, I realized that my knee was killing me and even my feet hurt. When she came back into the car, I told her about it and I was a little puzzled by it. She told me that I have NOT been in my motorized chair for too long!
It’s saddens me to realize that this was true. When I leave my house roughly once a month for a haircut and eyebrow wax, I am out of my chair probably a total of 30-45 minutes. Shopping at Target, it was longer. My knee was killing me! Once I was home, I reclined my motorized wheelchair and basically passed out till close to 11 o’clock. I was bothered somewhat because I wanted to write my blog post about seeing Mr. Wright and trying my hand at venturing out to Target.
I thought of a picture I posted on Facebook recently:
The MS fatigue was REAL to me yesterday but I think more important was the fact that I realized yesterday how much my motorized chair is a necessity now! My legs need to be elevated to NOT hurt so much! So, me passing out after getting home yesterday was completely an MS thing but my knee hurting so badly it’s not! This, “Double Whammy” really stinks! And it is where I find myself!