No More Info For You

Got a very sour reaction today when I withdrew my consent to discuss my medical file. Well, being honest and cooperative didn't get me anything but humiliation, so why bother ?
Anyway, back to playing scuba. I highly recommend it to relieve stress. A very relaxing game, even if it is pointless .

Endless Time Waster

I'm embarrassed to admit how much time I have wasted (enjoyed) playing Endless Ocean
So if my blog is a little skimpy for awhile, you know what I'm up to !

Hitch Hiking Geese ?

My son took this picture with his phone camera yesterday.
Don't ask me what this geese family was doing on the bridge over the highway. Luckily they were rescued by a nice couple who herded them safely toward the ravine.

Livestation

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In the past 24hrs I have watched : the Riz Khan show, an interview with Mikhail Gorbachev, Moscow's preparations for Victory day (May 9, pro and con), The risks of reporting on genital mutilation in Sierra Leone, the Pakistan refugee crisis, and ad for endfistula.org,(more on that in another post) .

So if you are tired of stories about swine flu, what kind of mustard President Obama has on his hamburgers, and Ashton Kutcher's musings about Twitter The creation of Twitter... is as significant and paradigm-shifting as the invention of Morse code, the telephone, radio, television or the personal computer."
-- Ashton Kutcher (yeah he really said that) Try it !!
Sure there's jingoistic propaganda, but there's lots of that in the Western media too. You're smart enough to figure it out and you don't need the government to tell you.
Do you?

Paying For It

Went to see Il Divo last night at the Air Canada Centre in Toronto. It was a Mother's Day treat from my son. I loved them! Fantastic !
Thank You son !!

Sorry I have no photos, as my camera had the wrong kind of batteries in it, my cellphone is broken, and my son's phone was low. Oh well, it's all here in my head.

I took today as a vacation day as I knew that I would be a wreck. Ha ! Wreck is mild.
I'm a total zombie disaster with a mega headache. It's beyond belief that I can experience new depths of fatigue. Were is the bottom ?

Speaking of cell phones. My new, free one, was delivered today. The upgraded version of my old phone, but just as stupid and annoying. Who ever writes these instruction books needs to go back to school. They also need to try the phone before they do illustrations, because very few of the buttons correspond to what is shown in the pictures. At least this one really does have an mp3 player in it, were as the old one only pretended to. They even threw in free headphones and all the other accessories . I guess the company knows how awful the phone is and thinks bribes will ease the pain of trying to figure it out. It does slightly.

I have a couple of awards I still have to put on my blog and also award them to others . First I need to pull this axe out of my head .

Catching Up…Sorry About Being Away So Long

Thank GOD School Is Out

April 27 was my last day of class...NO MORE Linear Equations, Scientific Notations, Powers, Polynomials, and their relatives.

Blame them for keeping me from blogging :)





I Hope This Is Not My Last Mid-South Chapter MS Walk

I was not going to walk this year because I was upset the walk was moved from Shelby Farms to H. W. Cox Park in Collierville. I had a change of heart and decided to participate two weeks before the April 4 walk in Collierville. I formed my team and set a goal to raise $500, I thought that was reasonable because of the economy. That goal was achieved less than a week so I raised it up to $1000.00. I am happy to say my team and I raised over a $1000.00 for the MS Mid-South Chapter.

Unfortunately, I am sad to say moving the walk to Collierville was not the same as having the walk in Shelby Farms. It was very noticeable that the attendance was not the same (I guess others felt how I felt in the beginning). The atmosphere at the Collierville walk uninviting and unfriendly. If the Mid-South Chapter decides to continue the MS Walk in Collierville, this year will be my last year participating, but I will continue to donate to the MS Society.

The Mid-South MS Walk always been at Shelby Farms before Collierville start having a walk on the same day about 2 or 3 years ago. The Chapter excuse having it at Collierville’s H.W. Cox Park was it did not cost them and it cost $3,000.00 to have it at Shelby Farms. That is poor excuse to take it away from a traditional site. Free is not always best…less teams signed up, less volunteers’ and less vendors participated. ..most importantly LESS MONEY WAS RAISED.

P.S.

You all know I did not hold back on the survey sent to me by the National MS Society.




NO THANKS DOC

I am no doctor, but in my opinion having morphine entering your body 24/7 is worst than popping a Lortab as needed. I am so use to having pain and I now have a very high pain tolerance, but that tolerance level is penetrated every day. Lortab is prescribed 1 tablet every 4 to 6 hours I take no more than 7 tablets a week. One tablet a day to keep the pain at a level I can tolerate.

I like my neurologist, but I disagree with her preferring to have me on morphine than having me take Lortab, as I need it for pain. She seems to believe Lortab is more addictive than morphine. Hmmm, am I missing something here, I wonder what is the hang up with my neurologist and Lortab.

I am the one who lives with the freaking pain and I should have a say in what I choose to put in my body. There is no freaking way I want to go back on morphine and go through the withdrawals I had when I decided I no longer want morphine entering my body. Hell, It was me having heart palpitations, severe constipation, and feeling as if I would stop breathing any minute while on morphine. Yes, I felt no pain, but I was paying a high cost not to feel...A DECISION HAD TO BE MADE! I prefer to feel than to stop breathing at any moment. The choice is mine and I will make that very clear at my next appointment or I will find another neurologist.


Finally...



My Baby Girl is moving back home. She is not moving back in the nest, she is moving to be near her Mom, Pops, and sisters for a couple of years before she head off to Harvard for her Masters and PHD. I am happy as a kid in a candy store!

Nice and Quiet

OK I removed my uniq clock. I liked it, yet others found it loud and annoying. I think I'll go back to my other quiet clock.

Sunday and it's a new week, new month. Had to give in this weekend and put a down payment on a new fence in the backyard. My neighbour(the OK one) is having her's done. The guys seem to be doing a good job on it, so I decided to get them over to my place for a quote. Not bad really, as I only have to do one side and I don't need to replace my gate, as it is fairly new. Not that I have the money . If I waited to have money, I would never get anything done. Oh and it's going to be higher than the old one, so that will give the other neighbour(the Bad one) less to snoop about.

I sure hope I have a better work week because this past one was awful. Some people have no clue what confidential means, some people fancy themselves to be amateur psychiatrists, others are just plain meddlesome busy bodies. I was sorely disappointed at how they tried to renege on the tele work arrangement. That's still on track though and it seems I have a couple of people in my corner now .

At least I am rid of one miserable ogre, who kept telling everyone about my "cognitive issues". That person should know, since they were the cause of them !!
Good riddance. (Just hope you don't cause anyone else so much misery on your way to the top)

I'm exhausted today. I think it's a hangover effect from all the gardening I did yesterday. Hard to accept that this is the way it will always be. That I will pay the price for trying to act like my old energetic self. I keep forgetting she's gone.

Have to compliment the U.K. MS Society. They do an excellent job of raising awareness of MS. I'm leaving the link to "MS Out Loud" on for awhile as there are so many good ideas on it.

Time for a shower before the Opera show

Oh yeah forgot to mention the movie Nixon/Frost, is worth a look if you haven't seen it.