I am currently having issues with my feet. My big toes are hurting! I was at a loss and did not know what to do but then I thought for a moment and decided to commence a ‘meeting of the minds’
My Facebook friend, Ashley started this group a number of years ago, and it consists of people who have had MS for a long time.
I decided to ask them and I posted that ‘I am a homebound, chair bound person and what kind of shoes do you use? Which works best for you?’ I got responses! And I still am getting them! Over 20 people have commented on the shoes they use and it’s so enlightening and I have a lot of ideas.
That’s really good because I canceled my hair appointment on Wednesday:
I have no idea what’s going on with my phone. It’s not letting me pictures but it’s not.
So, for this month, I will forgo my haircut to go to Optimize to get new contacts and then wherever we’re going to end up, going to to get new shoes. nedical shoes I think. This really scares me!
I haven’t heard this song in so long!!! Definitely a throwback! I heard this all throughout high school but I think I started hearing it in eighth grade?:
I read on Facebook on Saturday that today was 35th anniversary of Home Alone release date. I arranged for Sean to pick up Roman Village and bring it here so we could watch it.
It had been about three or four years since I saw this movie so I knew that we would laugh! And did we laugh?!!!! My Mom laughed especially and I loved hearing it!
Before Sean came over, we talked on the phone andhe asked me what my favorite part was, and I told him this part:
It’s still my favorite part!!!
I had too much bread, but it was from Roman Village and with each piece, I stated that it felt like I was back at CCA. We used to get Roman Village for the staff for Parent-Teacher conferences constantly!
Here is the deal with me, I have been on the SouthBeach diet pretty much since I had Sean. While I was working at CCA, I would say that I don’t break my diet, but I WILL for Roman Village bread! I had A LOT of Roman Villiage’s bread today while it was hot! Can I pay for it tomorrow but it was worth it because we laughed so much and I loved hearing it!!!
Today, I watched the Hallmark Channel as my Mom went to get her hair done. There’s something going on with my eyes that’s kind of scaring me a little bit. On Wednesday, I go to my optometrist and get a different kind of contact lenses.
My Accessibility remote control is not fully synced to my TV so I not really use it. My mom just put the Hallmark Channel on because it’s Christmas time. I saw a few commercials though! Here is my second one!:
Denny’s reminds me of going to Texas when I was seven with my family. I haven’t seen those Christmas movies in forever! Too bad we can’t get them now because they aren’t available without subscriptions to stream.
This song started playing after my chosen Sara Bareilles song finished and I am driving to work on Dix and I’ve stopped at the stoplight to turn onto Goldsmith to my school. It was a cold, snowy, winter day that I decided that I really liked this song! I was younger than 34. I can’t forget that moment! This was back when I thought that I would get married someday:
This is one of the last times that I could belt this song out!!! Sean was with his dad and I was doing laundry. Sean was due home and I had left my front door open of our second apartment because I was busy.
I remember when Sean opened the door with his dad right behind him and I was belting this song out full-force and I wasn’t even embarrassed to be caught! I haven’t thought about that day in a long time… I miss being able to sing… A LOT!!! #ItSucksToSuck #MSsucks!!! 😒😒😒…
I have talked about my time working at 7-Eleven in the summer between high school and college. 7-Eleven is a disgusting job!!! I just wanted it because it’s fun to go to 7-Eleven and get Slurpee’s. But it’s definitely NOT fun cleaning up after people getting Slurpee’s because they make a mess!!! I didn’t know that BEGORE I started working there and I didn’t know how ABSOLUTELY DISGUSTING it would be making 40 parts of coffee at 6 o’clock in the morning when you are hung over after a friend’s graduation party!
Something I haven’t written about but I have been thinking about it and I have to talk about is this:
I remember when I was working there and a sales rep came in for a meeting with the woman who owned the store. She had a franchise. He put a box of cow tails on the register’s counter:
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Cow Tales had just come out or something, it was the summer of 2000 right when matchbox 20s Bent CD came out!
A little girl came in, probably about seven or eight years old and she got her own small Slurpee. She was so proud of herself and she put a fistful of change on the counter. It was one of those moments when 7-Rleven gets really busy. So there was a long line behind her.
She glanced at the line and began to whimper. I calmed her down by saying “It’s all right, honey.” and I counted it out the change and slid the money for the Slurpee toward the register and the leftover money I slid to her and told her to put it in her pocket. She took the change and put it in your pocket and smiled at me and I told her to have a good day and to enjoy her Slurpee!
My Mom just had her birthday and she was given Cow Tales she wasn’t a fan. I told her that I will take them! They are sitting on the desk under my TV and today I had two of them.
My Mom told me they were disgusting and I corrected her by saying that they are nostalgic because I thought of that little girl the whole time I ate them! I recounted that story to Sean today and he said, “That’s a great story, Mom, but they are disgusting!”
I told my Mom and Sean that they are STILL nostalgic for me! I only have a few more left to eat but I’m not sure that I will buy them again.
I had forgotten what it feels like to have snow on the ground. Waking up today was horrible! I was kind of awake at about 6 o’clock and I didn’t feel good, when my Mom changed the wedge, she told me that it was snowing.
I struggled for a while longer. I tried putting prayers on to get back to sleep, but I couldn’t. My whole body felt horrible, and I have never felt this way in my entire life!!!
As I continued to struggle to wake up, I was so grateful that I got my Thanksgiving cards out yesterday because it’s winter weather now! When my Mom finally came into my room, I sat up fully in my bed and started to put my feet down as tears were freely streaming out of both eyes hand down both of my cheeks.
I looked at my Mom in desperation, and just said through tears, “Endurance is key!” that’s why I reposted that old post that I had written in 2014. I remember writing that one. And it was the first time that I began to cry as I wrote it. Ms. Harden had just come into my room and she was completely alarmed at my tears, but I quickly wiped them away and shook my head because I assured her that it’s nothing like that.
I have been thinking about that post for a while and I remember writing it and I remember being in my classroom as I wrote it. I have been thinking that endurance is the key for a while! I feel that my disease is spiraling, but I’m catching it at everyturn! It’s tiring and it hurts.
Next week, Liz is calling about my contacts and I need to order another supplement from Dr. Clark’s office tomorrow. Endurance is key even in this weather.
