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.

“I Feel the Same”

This morning, well, this afternoon, as I had just sat up in my bed, my Mom walked over to my bedroom and waited. When I sit up in bed, usually, she turns the light on. I signal that to her by just giving her a thumbs up with my right hand. Because talking when I first wake up is NOT an option.

Today, as I was adjusting my bed to sit up, she turned the light on just as I was readjusting the top part of my bed with the controller so I could recline a little more to make it easier on my hips. My right hip because that one still hurts a little bit. But it’s actually feeling a little better because I have been on supplements to address that since February 21, 2023. I just mumbled to her, “ I feel the same.”

I can’t believe that it is ONLY June, and I am so affected by this heat! I see my PCP on Tuesday. And my last appointment, she wanted to see me in three months. I guess I am that in-firmed now. it kind of startled me when she said that in March.

But I had already made my appointments for the year and she could see on her computer that I will have already seen my endocrinologist last month. But I do not need to see them again until February 2026. I need to get weighed though. I think the last time I got weighed was last March. I think there was something going on with the scale or something.

I asked my Mom for the picture of my leg from my compression socks. I guess it’s like this until September:

September is SO far away and there’s SO MANU days of feeling miserable until then!!!

A Start.

I woke up this morning with a start! I have to tell you that is NOT a good way to wake up! I was startled because I thought I was late for an appointment. it was 11:28 a.m. when I woke up and when I realized I did NOT have appointments Leaving the house for the month of June, I set a rosary on my phone and went back to sleep.

Dragonfruit Lemon

So, today, I debuted my new summertime flavor, Dragonfruit Lemon. It took me a few applications to realize that I really dig it! Like, a lot!!! I know that I have written before about other summer flavors that remind me of the festival at my grade school the summer.
This flavor also reminds me of summer, but not great school summer. I am in college!

I told my Mom that I am driving around my college campus (back when I could drive. That is such a crazy sentence! but it is fitting) in the summer. I loved summer classes! I was talking to my Mom today about the crazy schedule I had for myself in order to teach the following fall.

I had a goal! My goal was to be teaching by the time Sean was in kindergarten. I surpassed that goal because we moved out of my parents house when he started summer preschool at the Dearborn Early Learning Center. I haven’t really thought about my summer classes in a long time.

Think that that is a story for another time because I’m thinking about that time but it has been 19 years since I graduated the first time in 14 years since I graduated the second time.

I pillaged today. I think it is this heat that is making me feel terrible and causing me to take longer to pillage. I think I am going to reapply my chapstick now! I really dig it!

I Am NOT Okay.

I read when I woke up this afternoon (because it’s like that now) that Beryl made landfall in Texas. I am not sure if it’s because of that or this heat, but I am NOT okay.

I have cried three times (excluding all family deaths) as an adult, where I actually felt myself ugly cry. The first time I felt that, or maybe not the ugly cry face but my shoulders were shaking and I was silently sobbing was when Adam, my trainer at Barwis was leaving.

The second time I openly sobbed was the last day I went to work before my last knee surgery. It was raining and my Mom was driving me to work. It ended up being the last day that I reported to work because then my doctor had me not go to work anymore and then I had surgery. And then I never went back to work.

The third time I openly sobbed was sadly, this morning. I was seated in my living room, and I had already washed my hands and taken my morning vitamins and then I got an overwhelming feeling, and I began to sob just for a little while before I could get myself under control. I was completely shocked! I think it is the prolonged heat that is doing this to me but I am not okay.

But, okay?

Well, at least it wasn’t raining yesterday?! Because it did today, all day long!!! It wasn’t as hot so I was able to actually eat food for my lunch and I did NOT cry. Yesterday, I drank my lunch by just having another nutrition shake. I actually added another pack to my Target list because it is only early July so this summer has a long way to go!

I do not have time for crying because next week is ‘go time.’ The following week, I have an appointment with my optometrist. I was planning on having July be my Eye Care month or something because I had scheduled both my optometrist and my neural ophthalmologist for July. I thought to have some kind of cute name. Like my BookTober Fest when I worked but yeah, no. In this heat, that is NOT happening!

But, my new neural ophthalmologist rescheduled twice so then I was able to make my appointment for October 1. My appointment schedule is starting to take shape for next year. That’s how far ahead I think! That’s how my brain works. I was thinking about it today and maybe it’s a good thing that my brain works like that so I really don’t think about the fact that I go to the doctor every month of the year!!!

I’m seeing my optometrist this month and I made that appointment in February. I started seeing him in July 2021. My prescription has NOT changed since I met him. My eyes have worsened, but my prescription hasn’t changed so I can still see up close without my contacts in. It was a strange rationale, but okay.

The Brown Mr. Sketch Marker

So, I think having MS for 23 years leads to some issues. I’m trying to figure it all out! But, I tried something today and I need to continue it for two more days.

I need to pay attention to my urinary tract health now that I am in a power chair all the time so therefore I do not move. My Mom called Zerbo’s (the local health food store/market) because my naturopath gave us another supplement to use. I am seeing him on Wednesday for ‘the go time.’

Joe at Zerbo’s told her that he knows about that remedy, but he is going to give her one better! He told my Mom that he has told hundreds of people and it will work as long as I take it as he tells us. Well, I took it this morning and it is IN-TENSE!!!

My Mom asked me this morning how I felt just after I took it and I told her it feels like I swallowed the brown Mr. Sketch marker! Because it really did!

Joe told my Mom that she needs to give me a rounded teaspoon of Ceylon cinnamon and mixed it with just enough water to let it go down my throat. My Mom used 2 tablespoons. She mixed it up, and I drank it down. Man, was it HOT?!!!!

He told her to have me take it three times a day for the next three days and then one maintenance dose every day. So, I only have to take it six more times. It will taste like this:

Cinnamon Haze OR “Less”

I have taken a total of five doses of Ceylon cinnamon. I still have four to go, and I will be done tomorrow. I must say that ingesting 3 teaspoons of cinnamon is INTENSE!!! I spent yesterday a bit startled and kind of stupefied because I was stuck in a “Cinnamon Haze.”

Each time I gingerly blew my nose, I smelled cinnamon. I didn’t blow it really hard because I didn’t want a powder keg explosion in my nose again! As I drank my morning shake yesterday, it tasted different, because I had remnants of cinnamon dust in my mouth. Chewing gum afterward was also a COMPLETELY new experience!!! I liked how it tasted!

Because I was so inundated with the cinnamon smell I thought back to working at Fairlane mall at Superstars. Cinnabon was located the floor below us across from where we were situated in the mall. I could smell Cinnabon ALL DAY LONG! Subsequently, I gained 15 pounds while I worked there. But I only worked there from after basketball season to before softball season. Five or six months?

I really like that today was the second day of taking this Ceylon cinnamon, and it already is “less!” What I mean is that it is it’s less abrasive to take this cinnamon. Oh, it’s still HOT for sure, but it just feels a little bit “less.” And therefore a little bit more tolerable which is good, because I will have to do this for the rest of my life!

So Be It!

I think it was the last summer when I talked with my Mom about the fact that I may be addicted to Chapstick. She was the one who suggested it, because she read about it online and I laughed hysterically!

Fast-forward to this summer, and since the beginning of June, I have gone through two ENTIRE tubes of Cucumber Mint chapstick! Wait. What?! Maybe I am a little bit addicted to chapstick… I love how soft it feels on my lips when I press them together. I guess I like that feeling a little bit more now that I am homebound and it’s a little more painful…

Because of that possible fact, I have made the executive decision to make my new Dragonfruit Lemon chapstick, my chapstick for the entire weekend. maybe I will let my current chapsticks last until September when I can go to Pomegranate for Pumpkin Spice in October. So, I guess I may be a little addicted to Chapstick… so be it!