Category: A Bit Of Randomness

This category is full of randomness that really doesn’t fit nicely into any of the categories having to do with my road to walking.

#MyGirlL: Answers

My Mom Just left to take Leia to the vet. She is getting her first round of allergy shots and then maybe we can get some answers! She has been on steroids for a long time! The vet prolonged her steroids as she was stepping down from them so she has been on one pill of steroids every day for a couple weeks now. I hope this works !!! 🤞🏽🤞🏽

#MyGirlL: “Shoot the Dog”

Once my Mom gets me out of bed, I usually do not talk for about two hours as my body is trying to wake up. So I just sit in my chair and take my vitamins while drinking my nutrition shake. I pray as I am doing this as well.

But this morning, before I started drinking my shake and even before I got my pills out of my pillbox, I said to my Mom, “Shoot the dog.” She did not give Leia her shot yesterday but I wanted her to give her the serum so that’s why I told her to, “Shoot the dog.”

I started drinking my shake and took my Goli as my Mom repeated to herself, “Pinch, pull, poke!” and her allergy serum is in her body! My Mom talked to the vet today and they still want to keep her on steroids for a month. Just one pill a day but look at how much better she is already!!!:

After my Mom administered the shot, she said to Leia, “Good girl!” And I added, “No, good girlS” and my Mom started to laugh and she called my aunt to tell her all about it.

Kaleidoscope

I posted this meme on Facebook:


And of course, I added the hashtag about March being MS awareness month to my post but there are two songs I think about when I think of kaleidoscopes and here they are in no particular order:

And I kept yelling for this song during the show but they did not play it:

And just because tomorrow is my birthday and today is her husband‘s birthday and her birthday was eight days ago, who are these kids and I love this picture!!!:

Sorry, Cheese!

My Mom is laying down and this song popped into my head and I had to post it here because I wanted to hear it. My cousin, Cheese, did not like this song at all! I loved it and I turned it up one notch and the time while she was sleeping in the passenger seat as I was driving us home on the way from Western and she said with her eyes closed, “I hear that!” Sorry, Cheese, I HAD to hear it again.

From !!! to a .

There are three possibilities for how I felt on my birthday. I think my first forty birthdays constituted: !!! but I think my 41st birthday was just a . I don’t mind that at all!

Having had an MS for 22 years it’s seriously no joke at all !!! I am still trying to wrap my head around all that has been entailed with my disease for the past couple years. it’s all quite overwhelming!

But, I think the biggest contributing factor to my birthday changing from !!! to a . Is daylight savings time!:

I don’t think this day has ever fallen on my birthday in the past 41 years?! I had posted before that I will be gypped by one hour because of daylight savings time! My birthday was low key and I didn’t mind at all!

However, no matter how low key it was, I still had to check out my Twitter profile and I found this early this morning before I went to sleep:

This Hurts

This morning, well actually, it was this afternoon when I awakened. My Mom came into my room and started taking my blankets off of me. I was situated in the “TV”position for my bed so I was pretty much sitting upright.

We don’t really talk much as I am waking up but we will have a conversation. Today as my Mom was moving my chair from where it is plugged in for the night to put it where it needs to be for me to get into it, I looked to my right at her with tears in my eyes and I said, “This hurts.”

This statement kind of startled me and I am STILL trying to make sense of it because in the 22+ years that I have had MS, I have only admitted it hurts with tears in my eyes twice now.

The first time was when it was raining and my Mom was driving me to work. It was my last workday before I stopped working because I needed kneesurgery. I remember crying because it was raining but I’m puzzled that I cried this morning and it is not… does this mean that something is going to be happening to me soon?

A Valid ID

I thought about crying yesterday morning for the rest of the day and I was puzzled. Today, we began one of my, ”Go Time[s].” And I am already exhausted!!!

We got our haircut today so the van stays in my driveway for my appointment to get my ID renewed at the Secretary of State tomorrow.

Christina asked me if I was okay as she was cutting my hair. I just told her that I was tired! I am tired but I am remaining focused until tomorrow after I get my ID renewed.

Last year, we found out that it was expired so I have had an expired license for the entire 2022 year!!! We have found out for months that the DMV is not a well oiled machine but Sean was able to me an online appointment.

I think that it’s pretty terrible that everything is done online. What about for people who cannot see?! Because that’s me right now!!! That fact is so startling to me that all I have been doing for the past couple days is cry. That is the ‘something’ that was coming. They are just sad and pitiful tears and I hate them!!!

I will be done tomorrow after I get my ID renewed. I have to get my taxes done so, I need a valid ID!!!

Done.

Yesterday, I rented a van to get our hair cut and then I needed to go to Secretary of State to renew my ID. It had been expired for the entire 2022 year! I told my friend Bert that I have not had a valid ID for an entire year and explained that that was going to be my monthly outing for March. This is what he said:

We left early for my appointment because I am NEVER comfortable out of my house handling business so my Mom and I put a game plan together and then we went.

We got to the office at 3:34 p.m and my appointment was not until 4:20 but a nice woman took us and my ID stuff was handled right away. I can get my taxes done because I have a valid ID now! Or at least I will in about three weeks… I was back and seated in my house by 4:45. This was an extremely hard two days but I’m pleased to say they are done.

Recalibration and Segmentation

Thinking about these past two days and how difficult they were, I need to do some re-calibration. I think it’s going to take me some time to sift through all of that but my abilities are changing and I no longer can do what I used to be able to do. I think I just need to segment my movements more.

Once I was finished and seated in my house, I realized how difficult it has become and I just sat there and cried for probably about a half hour as I was seated in my house alone because my Mom is taking the van back. Wednesday and Thursday I sounded kind of like Nicki Minaj and this song is in my head so I have to put it in here:

My mind is full and I’m not sure what to do about it. I do not need to think about leaving my house again until next month so I have some time to think about my much needed Recalibration and Segmentation.