Category: Random Thoughts

wow!!  it’s been a long long time…

November was one helluva hectic month.  OB arrived first, 2 weeks later Learls and her 3 sisters came in (can we say full house?), the masquerade ball happened, thanksgiving and then 1 by 1 the visitors started leaving – with OB and Learlyn leaving bright and early yesterday am.  i had no time off and worked right thru and just had no time to write…thru all of this the MS behaved itself – thank God!

i’m in search of a personal trainer – ugh!  my last trainer got a job in NY and moved back – i was not a happy camper but what could i do?  of course, chances are that i won’t be able to find a trainer who will charge the same rate that i’d been paying so woe is me.  I really need a trainer, as we all know, so i’m on the hunt.

The masquerade ball came off without a hitch – was a very nice event and well attended too.  My mask was hand made and i asked Sdee to use orange to incorporate the MS colour.    i made my speech and actually felt good throughout the whole thing so i didn’t rush (i tend to do that sometimes), i came off very confident and apparently alot of people liked it.  All in all was a good nite – some people got tite so that’s a sure sign of a good nite 🙂

I can’t post more pictures, because i haven’t been sent any yet and i only had these 2 on my phone.

anyhoo, this is it for now…be back tomorrow for a few more updates from last month.

Only 12 more days to go before the GCC Fundraising Ball ‘Masque n Mas’ on Nov 17th 2012 at 7pm.

Top 3 reasons you should attend:
1) Support a good cause
2) Support a community member, Stacey Samuel O’Brien
3) Enjoy a night of entertainment

so went in for my infusion on Friday…

good news!

• guess at some point i lost track of things…i was already scheduled for my infusion on 12/18 and i’m leaving on 12/21, so there was no need to get my panties in a bunch last week about my travels.  That day will be an extremely long day at the center – i have to have an MRI of my neck AND spine (it’ll take about 2 hrs (read FOREVER) oh goody, can’t wait), the infusion and then i go to see my doctor for a regular 6 mth check up.  1st appt is at 10:30 and the last is 3:45 – can you say all day in there?  ugh!!!

• apparently word on the street is that BG 12 won’t be available until summer 2013 – “great”…we have to wait even longer now.

Read this online; it appears that we now have to wait until March 2013 to get word from FDA re: approval of BG12.  Steups!  do they know (read care) how many people are waiting for this drug to become available???

Anyhoo, better to be safe than sorry i s’pose.

so i’ve started watching AMC’s “The Walking Dead” – let me just say, very good show, but as i was looking at those zombie bitches shuffle along, it occurred to me that we walk just alike.  i shoulda gone and tried out for a part as an extra (it’s filmed right here in Atlanta), i woulda gotten the part.  the only thing is for some things with no brains they move really fast and for that alone I might not have gotten the job.

it’s time to start thinking about hibernation – i’m already slightly pissed off because of the temperatures here.  Anyhoo, Saturday nite i went to a friend’s house lime.  In fact it was while i was getting ready to go that i realized that I’m going to have to start dressing differently and it was only because of who it was having the lime that i continued dressing – anyone else and i would have kept my ass home!  he has a friend (whom i’ve met before) who’s father has MS.  when i saw the guy, i asked about his father.  as it turns out it had been a rough past 2-3 months, although he was on the mend.  He uses a catheter and the line had gotten infected; he was lying in bed and clearly something was wrong but he kept telling his wife that he was fine (talking to the men here – u know how you all tend to be – u’re not going to any doctors for anything!).  Luckily his wife decided not to listen to him and called 911.  Long story short, the infection had moved throughout his body and he ended up spending a long time in the hospital.  if she hadn’t acted when and how she did, the outcome might have been much different.  we talked for a while and 1 thing that Onyx kept telling me was to “keep working out”.  he peppered our conversation with that any chance he got because he’d seen what happened to his father when he stopped and just couldn’t stress to me the benefits of working out regularly and consistently.

I mentioned in a recent post about my having to think things thru entirely before i do something.  well one of the things that i NEVER think about that i really need to is my “juicing” appointments.  I bought a ticket to go home for Christmas the other day and it was only AFTER i bought it that i realized that i’d probably need to go in for my medication on the same day *gasp* – surely didn’t thinkTHAT thru entirely did I???  i’ve come up with a solution that i hope will work.  going in on friday and will find out then – fingers, eyes, toes, legs all crossed because i not trying to hear that i have to change my ticket!

alright, as u were – i gone so.  hope u all have a GREAT day!