Month: August 2023

I had my doctor appointment yesterday, so today is technically a ‘recovery day.’ But, it’s a Pillage day as well:

I could not NOT wear contacts because I had to see in order to Pillage so, today is a modified recovery day.

I had that appointment with the specialist today. A few days ago, I was a little bit nervous, but then I wasn’t.

I explained to my Mom a few months ago that all of these doctors appointments are nothing more than to get them to sign the ‘permission slips’ that I tell them to sign. I definitely do NOT want to sound or be haughty or anything about this but I have had MS long enough to tell them what I need.

This doctor told me that the last time I was seen in this clinic, was in 2013. I told him what I needed and he put the request in the computer. We had to wait almost 2 hours to see him and I told my Mom that’s about right because I came to this clinic in 2001 (it’s the same specialty but I don’t think it was the same office) and I had to wait two hours then and when that doctor came in, he did not sit in the doctor’s stool, but sat in the chair next to me. I will never forget him looking at me and telling me that, “MS sucks!”

I remember being surprised, first off, that he sat in the chair next to me, and then for him to say that to me. I that was the first time I heard those words from a doctor and I think I may have looked at him almost teary-eyed, and said, “Yeah.” that was way back in 2001, I didn’t even know what to expect back then but I already knew that it started sucking!!!

Now, for the rest of the year, I just have two doctors appointments in September and then I am done with doctors for this year. I think it was in 2022 when I got my pressure sores on my heels that I understood how this is going to work with me having MS for this long and the fact that now I need multiple doctors in different specialties to handle me.

I was telling my Mom today, that two of the last three doctors we saw, told us, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” I had to call the specialist after getting the referral off MyChart from my internist. I have been handling this for 21 years, but it turns out that probably in mid June that it to be ‘broken’ so that’s why I went to the doctor today. He signed off on everything and now I’m good to go!

Somehow, this rain is killing me even more than it normally does! I am trying to decide which songs I want to post, but I feel too terrible to Think about it any further. Have a doctor’s appointment tomorrow….

Tomorrow begins go time for me for August. We will get our haircut and my eyebrows waxed and I am seeing a specialist on Friday. I want to explain why this ‘change’ is complicated’:

As I posted yesterday, this is my last tube of Cucumber Mint for the Spring:

Now, I am leaving the house tomorrow, so I am NOT going to take my bag o’ chapstick with me. So I have decided to make the executive decision to use the Strawberry Sorbet that I bought a couple years ago to try. I don’t love it but I don’t dislike it so much as to not use it. Last year, I just used it on Saturdays but I forgot to use it this past Saturday because of what was going on with my Cucumber Mint.

So this is what my Spring/Summer flavors look like right now. But here’s where the complication begins, after I finish my Cucumber Mint chapstick which is in a bag right now, I will finish the Pomegranate, and then I will put all of my Fall flavors in there, until my other pack of my leftover Fall flavors from last fall is gone. Then I will switch it back and will buy more Cucumber Mint for next Spring.

I know that there is no reason to pay this much attention to the type of Chapstick you are using but, it keeps my mind busy, and it wasn’t until I became homebound that I can use and tire tubes of Chapstick. That kind of makes me feel a little bit accomplished!!! I’m trying to look at the bright side of things…?