My Mom and I have been reading about chapstick, and the fact that I might be addicted. I just laugh about it! I’m trying to find concrete evidence as to why I put on chapstick so much, but I also read that people just like to feel the softness on their lips. I think that’s what’s going on with me!
My body hurts all of the time, so I apply chapstick, and then I can rub my lips together for a little bit of solace, I think. But I have been noticing a new development with my chapstick in the past couple of weeks.
I have written before about the fact that my hands are just ‘for show’ now. It’s getting so difficult to control my hands at all! I was having difficulty putting the cap back on my chapstick after applying it. So what was happening is that I would miss putting the chapstick cap directly on the chapstick, so I was denting chapstick.
To avoid applying uneven chapstick on my lips, I have opted to rotate the chapstick all the way down into the tube before I put the cap back on. Because I no longer have hand-eye coordination, and I kind of don’t like spreading uneven chapstick on my lips! I’ve only been doing it for a couple days and that seems to be working. I think I have only a little over a third of chapstick in the tube for Mint Cocoa. The next one will be Vanilla Bean.
Tomorrow I have a virtual appointment with my Speech Pathologist. I’m interested to see what she says about my speech and the fact that I no longer watch football anymore. She has kept me on her caseload because MS is progressive. I’m trying to remember when I was released from speech services last year, but I had to wait until this year so I my appointment count can start over.