I made a doctor’s appointment for Sean this morning because he developed a cough last night. Correction: my Mom came over this morning, got me out of bed, and called the doctor to make the appointment because I was too sick.
There were no appointments available for Pediatrics today but because he is 18, my Mom was able to make an internal medicine appointment for him. He’s old enough to be seen in internal medicine which kind of blows my mind!
My mind was further blown because he drove himself to the appointment. I didn’t have to go with him and that was the first time in his life. I was too sick anyway! He texted me from the pharmacy as he waited for a prescription for his cough to be filled.
My face really hurt today because I am not well yet. I fell asleep reclined in my wheelchair and I was only awakened by my son covering me with a blanket before he went into his room. I saw him walking into his room as I drifted back to sleep. I think it’s a little bit crazy that my son is growing up but my son is growing up…
A Facebook friend of mine that I’ve known since preschool posted not too long ago that she still had her Christmas tree up. She didn’t apologize for it and said that her kids like it and it made them happy. I completely identified with her even though her kids are in grade school. My boy is 18 and a senior in high school but he has loved the tree since we got it.
I first got the tree in our first apartment and he was four years old. When she posted this, my tree was also still up! My Mom offered to take it down just after Christmas and because I don’t have a huge role in putting it up, I told her she could take it down whenever she wanted.
Upon hearing this, my son pleaded and told her that it had to be up for longer! My Mom agreed to two more weeks. She started taking it down at the beginning of the week. Now that there is sickness in my house, she had to stop. I told Sean that it looks like a wreath. If it stays up long enough, it could be a Lenten wreath!
So, it is officially no longer Christmas in my house but maybe it will be set up for Easter because it Lent isn’t that far away.
My Mom came over early this morning to get me out of bed and I was able to watch the first broadcast of GMFB. I still didn’t feel well but I enjoy watching the breakfast table as I wake up. I was able to see a segment called, “The Hype Scale.” Kay’s, “Hype Scale” was my favorite. The “Hype Scale” is a comparison of things they like the most (a 10) and things they loathe (a one or a zero). Kay doesn’t like smart watches but she really liked Sean Kingston. This song was is her most played song on Spotify:
Sean Kingston always reminds me of taking my oldest nephew shopping for his ninth or 10th birthday. He bought a Sean Kingston CD among other things. However, this song is this song that reminds me of him:
Now, whenever I hear a Sean Kingston song, I can think of both Kay and my nephew.
I was only able to catch the rebroadcast of GMFB this morning because I was not feeling well enough to wake up early. During the rebroadcast, I did not see, “Throwdown Thursday.” Because and had nothing chis say about a segment that I did not see, I chose to write a blog post about something that I have been thinking about for a while.
I belong to a number of MS support groups on both Facebook and Twitter. I am more engaged with certain groups but given that I have had MS for 19 years now, I feel I have something of value to and to questions that get posed to the group. My experiences with the group I really engage in are usually wonderful so I didn’t think it would be a problem when I added my two cents to a question that was posed to a particular group that I usually didn’t comment on a lot. Well, that wasn’t the case in this particular instance.
The question was posed if we should wear medical alert bracelets saying that we have multiple sclerosis. I kind of thought it was a good idea and then I explained my situation. Last wild-card weekend, my knee, “Popped” out and would not. “Pop” back in. I ended up going to the ER via an ambulance because it hurt so much. I really thought they would just be able to, “Pop” it back in. I think it was because I was in so much pain that my speech was extremely affected.
I told each doctor who came into see me that I was not drunk or on drugs and that I was thinking clearly. I just had MS and was having problems speaking. I added that a medical alert device may have been helpful at that time. The responses I got to that included being told that knees do NOT pop out. Well, mine does! It has been doing that since my injury and subsequent surgery. I didn’t know what to say in response so I did not respond but I haven’t commented on anything since then in that particular group.
I really started thinking about this recently when I saw this video:
Toward the end of the video, he pops a person above back into place and that is exactly what my niece sounds like. So far, this January, my knee has popped out every day. That’s 22 days! It hasn’t popped out yet today but the day is not over yet.
I searched YouTube for videos of knees popping back into place and I found these:
My knee makes a popping noise multiple times a day and it is jarring when it does happen. It is usually when I transfer and I used to gasp and cry but now that it has been 2 1/2 years, I just kind of groan because it kind of startles me. My knee burns when it’s popped out and perhaps when it goes back in which hurts but ultimately, it feels better.
Now, with this last video, neither Sean nor my Mom yell like these kids dIdq but that’s what it look like the day I went to the ER. They ultimately could not help me and I missed some football and was only able to get home to watch the Saints get eliminated which really stunk!
When I got my taxes done, my knee popped out in the driveway while I was getting out of the car and my Mom had to pop it back in. Sean told me that I should put together a montage of my knee popping out because it does all of the time end it does sound kind of gross!
Every time I see this commercial, I think it’s absolutely terrible but yet it still is amusing. I laugh out loud every single time I see it! I definitely would not want to be the grandma! Am I a terrible person?
Sean stayed home from school again today. He is sick. This morning, the left side of my throat hurt when I swallowed. I’ve always told Sean that he needs to stay healthy because if he gets sick, that means that I will get sick and then I said that I will die! I would say it but I didn’t really believe it until this morning when my throat hurt. When my Mom got here, I asked her to make this drink that is supposed to help. It has apple cider vinegar in it so it’s disgusting but my throat hurt.
Sean got out of his bed and my Mom asked who she was making it for first. I told her to make it for Sean and he drank it and thought it was really gross and I knew it would be. I just told him that I had to drink it too! My mom put together chicken soup for Sean and for lunch, I just drink the broth.
I told Sean that we are two, “Sickies.” Sean corrected me that he is a, “Sickie” and I am not. I told him that it is very possible that I can get really sick and even be hospitalized if I don’t nip this one in the bud. I told my Mom that we need a red X on our house or a skull and cross bones on the door because this house is sick. hopefully, we both will get over it soon but I can feel my head pounding right now.
So, I really thought about this since finding out which teams were in the Super Bowl on Sunday evening. It is, as Kay says it, Super Bowl Liv (Pronounced with a short I like, Liv Tyler). Sean watched both games with me and once I found out the Chiefs were in it, I wasn’t super happy. Sean told me that Patrick Mahomes is good enough to win him his fantasy football league Super Bowl so he was okay with it. I wasn’t so sure though.
When we watched the NFC championship, my son commented on Rob Lowe. He was wearing an NFL hat and NOT rooting for either team:
The 49ers won the game and it wasn’t close. So, it’s between the 49ers or the Chiefs. I have to pick one of them because the Detroit Lions aren’t you going to be in a Super Bowl anytime soon, even though Kyle went with them opposed to the Cincinnati Bengals to get the Lombardi trophy next year.
I really am not a Chiefs fan (even though Mahomes is pretty impressive) nor am I a 49ers fan. My Mom thinks Jimmy Garoppolo is really handsome though. She told me that a couple years ago when Kyle started talking about him. This year, she also saw a bunch of 49ers players reading to kindergarten classes and then we were told that they read one-on-one with 2nd to 4th graders. My Mom is convinced that they will win the Super Bowl because they read with kids. I told her that most teams do stuff like that but it didn’t matter because she thinks the 49ers will win because Jimmy Garoppolo is handsome.
For me though, Jimmy Garoppolo really isn’t my cup of tea and I’ve been watching the breakfast table to see who they’re going with. On Monday, the whole table was all about the Chiefs which didn’t really sit well with me. I am not sure who to go for though. Maurice Jones-Drew (sitting in for Nate) was talking at the breakfast table today that the 49ers have a really good defense and the Chiefs have a really good offense.
He added that it definitely will be a game which I am excited for. I usually make the decision for who I am going to jump on the bandwagon for early on in the playoffs but when the Saints were knocked out again, I didn’t know who to go for. Maybe I should wait until tomorrow’s Throwdown Thursday to decide which team I should hook my bandwagon to, or maybe I think I will be like Rob Lowe…
I haven’t seen this commercial for a while and I just recently saw it again. It reminds me of a dear friend and former colleague of mine and I really like it. Recently, I have allowed myself to have one or two Dove dark chocolates. I eat them slowly and it takes four bites for me to eat in one piece. I can no longer read what’s inside of the wrapper because my eyes have gotten so bad.
Today, my Mom read my chocolate wrapper to me. It’s sad, “You got this!” See?:
That was a really nice reminder for me. I searched on YouTube for the commercial and I saw this one. I never saw the entire commercial but here it is:
So, I woke up late this morning and after watching the first broadcast of GMFB, I felt that I was missing something so I continued watching the replay. I saw a new segment today that I hadn’t seen before. “Trend of the World.” Kyle began singing a line from the REM song but I didn’t know if I wanted to put that one on my blog.
As I was debating that in my head, Kyle began saying the lines from Conga by Gloria Estefan. Gloria Estefan was my aunt Rita’s favorite singer! Whenever I hear anything by her, I always think of my aunt Rita now with fondness! I think the segment may have changed to the three words to describe the upcoming game. I think Kyle chose ”Miami Sound Machine“ which is her band.
As Kyle was talking, they showed a picture of Gloria Estefan singing at a concert and I couldn’t stop thinking about my aunt Rita! This isn’t the picture they showed on GMFB but it looked similar:
I was able to get out of my thoughts enough to hear Nate talk about Patrick Mahomes’ touchdown from the game against the Titans last weekend and he chose this song to describe it:
I really dug his choice of songs because in the wee hours of the morning, when I can’t seem to fall asleep, I watch my YouTube feed. Specifically, I watch the blind auditions on The Voice. I don’t watch the show on TV but rather just watch the videos that show up in my YouTube feed. I remember seeing a girl sing that song and Boy George didn’t realize it was his song for a little while because she sang it so differently. I think I watched that in a longer 17 minute video but I searched that particular audition today and I found it:
So I’ve been thanking about this particular audition and my aunt Rita all day long!
Continuing with the focus on things that people don’t realize I can no longer do.
I miss having my finger on the music pulse while teaching middle school students.
During my first year teaching, it was the very beginning of, the ”Justin Bieber Mania” I remember grading papers in my classroom while a school dance was taking place and I could never forget the middle school girls’ screams that accompanied the beginning of that, “Baby” song.
Once I became the Reading Specialist, after a few years, my classroom changed to being adjacent to the cafeteria where the students’ physical education classes took place. Mr. Curl always played music! I always knew which songs my students liked and overtime, I liked them too!
i’ve recently been seeing this commercial over and over again:
I really liked this song but I didn’t know who sang it. It wasn’t until I saw that the musical artist, “Lizzo” took a break from her tour to pack lunches for firefighters and people displaced in Australia.
I didn’t know who she was so I looked it up. She is the one singing in the GrubHub commercial!!! I would’ve known that if I was still teaching.
I miss teaching for so many more reasons than, “Knowing what the kids are listening to” but that’s one thing that I can admit without crying.
