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So, when I got diagnosed with osteoporosis, (it was a Friday). The following Monday, I did two things. I can’t remember which one I did first but I think I called endocrinology first because I knew that it would be a while for me to get an appointment. I called on February 5 and my appointment is Not until May 16.

And then called my Naturopath’s office and was able to get an appointment to be seen on February 21 where Dr. Clark gave me wafers to take. I take four a day for now and I will go back on March 20 to see if anything further needs to happen. I originally said that they tasted like, “Sawdusty bottlecaps” but I have recently changed my mind and think they taste like teething biscuits that my nephew used to have when I was 13.

Today, we had to vote. I have been voting absentee for the past couple years but today, I had to go into my precinct to vote. That would take place before we got our teeth cleaned.

Before we left to go to my precinct to vote, we decided that we were going to get pizza today. Pizza and lasagna are the only things that I can still eat. Both options are quite, “carb-y” but I think in this weather, that seems to work out better for me. I am at a point where I get weighed every six months, and I need to keep weight on me now so the prospect of eating these things is not problematic for me at this point:

I had to wake up early today because it was a “2-fer” with voting and the teeth-cleaning. I am currently sitting in my house, and I had just finished my two pieces of pizza and then beginning to feel “The Crash” begin. We both voted and we both got our teeth cleaned. So February was success in terms of what I needed to get done next month is haircut and primary care physician appointment. Both of those days are a single day rental.

My Mom left to pick up the van because I am getting a bone density scan tomorrow afternoon. I have already checked in online and upon check-in, I need to NOT have vitamins today until after my scan tomorrow. I started taking my regiment of vitamins in the summer of 2007. What I take has changed somewhat through the years, but I have to tell you that not taking anything feels strange! So strange!!!

I shared, I have been sharing that Sheryl Crow song because that’s my jam! I recently looked through her catalog I saw a song where she did that duet with Kid Rock. I forgot about that song! But then that got me thinking.

I wrote my senior thesis to this album, and I don’t even remember what my senior thesis was about:

I do not want to listen to this album again, but it reminds me of a different time in my life. So I was thinking and I found this video and I was in high school back when the MTV video music awards were something big I thought he was so cool!:

that really seems like a lifetime ago…

So, my dermatology appointment had to be be rescheduled for April 26. That’s really good because I had a dentist appointment in February and an internist appointment in March.

It’s rainy and it’s cold, but today was not a bust because parking was free and in addition, we got a deep dish pizza from Little Caesars! I still can eat that!

Next week, I have a bone density scan. I guess I am taking this Chronic illness Care serious.ly. I will never forget the morning of October 28, 2023 and two months to the day before my 23rd anniversary of having MS, both of my hips felt like they were burning.

How it feels when my knee pops out of its Sacket. The first appointment available I could get was in February. On my brother’s birthday! It’s my brother Jimmy’s birthday! We are also getting our teeth cleaned on my brother Steve’s birthday!

My Mom picked up the van tonight and tomorrow is “go”Go Time” because I have an appointment tomorrow. It’s a dermatology appointment. I think I’m really starting to get the hang of this whole, “Chronic illness Care” thing!

I never would have thought that my life would be like this, but it is now. I’m OK with that I think. At least, that’s what I tell myself…?

I discovered my first canker sore on January 12. We treated it and it went away. We have already spoken to our dentist and my naturopath.

Well, guess who discovered another canker sore today! It’s me! I am officially a Gutter-mouth! I actually tried to take a picture of it. It’s in the center of my lower lip. I was able to get a picture and I texted it to my Mom.

My Mom was actually napping but I woke her up so we could put medicine on it so it stopped burning. It didn’t hurt again when she applied it to my lip. I don’t think that I like this new development.!!!

So, I found out that I had a canker sore on the 12th. It’s the 16th and it’s still NOT healing having MS for 23 years, it makes sure that any ailment I get it lingers. I think that it may be weirding my Mom out a little bit that the medicine does not bother me at all when she puts it on the canker sore. Having MS as long as I’ve had it, this canker sore does not compare at all but it’s NOT fun at all!!!

So, I wrote about that Maroon 5 song that I added to my “Daddy” playlist. I hadn’t heard it for a while so I played it last night when I read over my blog post. Well, I lost it!… Again. 17 years later!!!

I turned this song on and as I heard the opening bars, I saw myself driving to the School of Education at U of M Dearborn. It was just off main campus and driving there from my work, seeing that I have lived in Dearborn for my entire life, certain landmarks hold deep memories for me!

I think that I have written about this memory before, but it was just after my Dad died when I was still in school to get my masters degree. The School of Education building is on the way to the Henry Ford dialysis center. I think it had been just months after my Dad had died and I was driving to school after I had to teach for the day.

Something that I have realized now that I no longer work, it was SO BEYOND tiring to work for the 12 years that I did work! So, I was tired and I still needed to go to class. As I was driving to school in a familiar environment, I saw a car that was my Dad’s car! My Dad had stopped driving for a few years before he died but you couldn’t tell me that then when that car turned into the dialysis center.

I gasped and turned into the parking lot of the building where my class was. I always parked in the front in the disabled parking. I pulled into the spot, and I lost it! I told Sean that the other day. I never told him that before. He was only four. but 17 years later, I thought I could handle it, but when I heard the bars, turns out that I can’t!!!:

I chose this video of this song because I think it’s more dramatic and I can’t believe that it affected as much as it did, correction: as much as it DOES! 17 years later?!!!