Category: Random Thoughts

To my Trini Peeps

Okay…(almost) so every year (if u like me) i wonder what the hell they coming with again the following year – as far as soca is concerned.  I have to say tho that last year the only song that i liked from the very 1st time i heard it was “Palance“; everything else had to grow on me.  This year?  i like just about everything – there are few songs that i can do without and only “Advantage” had to grow on me (after 3 listens i was sold on the concept alone).

But SHIT!  Does some of the music have to be so bloody fast?????

Doh get me wrong, i have come to accept the fact that i eh go be wining down to the ground anymore.  The thought/picture of my doing so with a cane and 2 stiff leg is not a sight that even i would want to see, so i does jes be tapping my cane along, tapping meh foot to the music.  I swear that I can barely even do that to some of the music this year!  LOL!!!

i eh go lie…as i get older, i realize that there is absolutely nothing wrong with Groovy Soca and when i see the young ‘uns carryin on (like i used to – of course) i jes want to tell them to “relax already – good Lord, settle down!”  Doh get me wrong, I am all for a good time and there is nothing like being on the road for Carnival Monday and Tuesday – in fact if i could i would be front and center, but sheesh!

Quite frankly, left up to me “Wotless” can easily win Road March hands down – no questions asked! 🙂

Home

I love my house…we bought it in 2002 – been here ever since.  It’s perfect for G and me – we have no complaints.  when we started looking around, i had specific instructions for the realtor.

  • It had to b close to a highway (i have too many friends who live 15 miles from the exit and i didn’t want that)
  • it had to be close to Atlanta (i know u get more for ur money the further out u live, but that shit is NOT for me)
  • The bedrooms had to be equally sized (too many places we looked at had a huge master and 2 closets for the other rooms – NOT acceptable)
This one has all that and more.  I’ve mentioned before (i think) that it’s 3 stories…yup, 16 steps (but who’s counting) between each floor (if only i knew then what was in store for me).  2 of the bedrooms are all the way on top (G and mine) and there is another all the way down – that’s where i work.  So everyday i have to make the trek up and down all 32 steps at 1 time or other because i work all the way down and the kitchen is in the middle.
I love my house – until last Saturday!  i finally got to celebrate my birthday with the crew on Saturday (what with the weather and scheduling and whatnot).  We did the usual – eat, drink and be merry and then it was time to come home.  I got here and i swear it took me about 5 mins to climb 16 steps – WTF?!?!?  it was a looooooooooooooooong, slooooooooooow, “painful” process.  I’m not sure what the problem was – i didn’t try to figure it out – but, for the 1st time since being here,  boy did i wish that i owned a FLAT house!
Now and again, i really feel like this…

good grief!

have i ever mentioned that i hate having ms?  i do!!

so i got some new boots.  they are cool and they are tall boots with no zip so i have to pull them on and off as i go.  This morning i had an appointment with the devil (my dentist); i put on the boots and off i went.  i got back home and needed to take them off so i could walk around with ease in the house.

i’m not sure if i ever mentioned before but the left side of my body is my probelm side.  Everything always happens on the left side

  • the first sign that prompted me to go to a doctor that eventually led to my diagnosis was twitching of my left eyebrow
  •  the vision of my left eye was off 2 years prior to my diagnosis, 
  • my left foot would drag more etc etc – 

and in general, it’s weaker than my right.  Well i go to pull off the right boot with my left hand this morning and NOTHING.  the blasted boot would not budge.  Try as I might, I couldn’t, for the life of me, find the strength to pull off the boot.  WTF????  i’m heading out later – i had visions of having to keep the bloody thing on until i returned and then ask my friend to pull it off for me before i go in the house.

well my persistence finally paid off; i was so determined to get the shit off – someone from my past always used to say “persistence is the key” I finally i was able to get it off and pelt it way.

Did i ever mention that i hate having MS???  i DO!!!!

Ah Shit!

Wednesday was not a good day.

i actually had a few thoughts of “if I continue to walk like this, I’m not going anywhere anymore”… it was really not good.  I even decided that maybe i need to contact my neuro and go back on that other drowsy medication 3x a day and was trying to figure out how i could take it without it’s interfering with my life too much.

Anways, in the midst of my wallowing my alarm went off at 4pm – it was time to take my afternoon sets of pills.   I opened my handy dandy “Wednesday” container and what greeted me?  every single pill that i was about to take as well as those that i was supposed to take at 8 AM!  ugh!!!!  is this y i was having such a hard day again??  i remember it’d happened before…i took the 4:00 dose and went on about my business.

Later that nite, at 8pm, the alarm went off yet again for that round.  I took out the container and what did i find?  i’d taken the 8:00 tablet at 4!!!  WDF????  where was my mind yesterday?  i guess in my confusion about realizing that I hadn’t taken the morning pills, i didn’t really think about what i was doing at 4???  who the hell knows!

well….it was too late by then to do anything about it and I had to just chalk up Wednesday as a lost cause and move right the hell along to Thursday

Side Effects Again

I don’t think I will ever stop talking about side effects!  lol…

so for a long time i’ve been feeling a tickling sensation in my throat and each time it happens i have to cough to try to get past it.  it wasn’t really making sense to me why it was happening and just out of the blue for no reason, but hey, i just chalked it up as 1 of those mysteries of life.  G kept saying that it was the damn MS doing something but this time i actually wasn’t convinced.

1 of the tablets i take is mailed to me and it always comes packaged with the drug facts and information etc.  They say u should read it each time and i do for the most part but never really put 2 and 2 together until a couple months ago.

One of the side effects is:

irritation in your nose and throat!
well hell!  that must be it then…it’s really odd, it’s not painful but it feels like a small piece of hard plastic just stuck there and i have to cough to get rid of it.  Doesn’t happen a whole lot, but of course, it’s good to finally have an explanation.

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