How many ways can I say that this has been a very strange summer?  On the up side I have not missed work and overall I feel well.  Weekends consist of work and rest -- which is sludge in my way of thinking.  Also I have completed a few more projects that will be photographed and posted on Ravelry.  The strange bit is that in spite of the weather, I ( Read more... )

It is still out there.  Frankly, I'm a bit detached from it.  In the weeks since I last posted an entry, it has been a time of change ( Read more... )

Just got home from the doctor's office.  My pain is the same as usual as is my sense of balance.  (cue the chorus -- "Yeah, Right!")  But there is some good news.  The blood tests have ruled out a species of MS that is not treatable, even though my symptoms were tending to that diagnosis ( Read more... )

So this afternoon I gathered up my various goods and spoke with the insurance folks.  Turns out that the price of injected medicine is pretty reasonable when the insurance helps you out.  So, when I see the neurologist I can tell him that I would be willing to try this stuff.  While I can't be sure that it will take care of all my symptoms, I at ( Read more... )

Yes, yes -- I know it is Good Friday.  My thoughts are supposed to be carefully bent on the matters of the Passion.  But instead of being bound up in the profound mystery of the day, I am being pleased by a simple creative impulse ( Read more... )

The weekend has come and gone and my need for rest has made being sociable rather a bore.  I come home, eat lunch and sleep for four or five hours.   But until things cohere, me and the pain pills will dance ( Read more... )

In the middle of the nap, the phone rang.   Answered it on the third ring -- great hang time.   It was the neurologist's office wanting me to come in to visit.   So off I'm going to see the doc tomorrow.   Maybe we can get to the bottom of this whole annoying episode and I can do something different for a change ( Read more... )

Got the word from the Doc that my MRI did show some new MS stuff in my head.  Next step -- call the neurologist.  He was out of the office today, so left a message.  After I see him, maybe I can get some treatment ( Read more... )

That's one step done with.  I have been resonated, squeezed into the tube, injected with reflective matter and subjected to more motionlessness than I am truly comfortable with for now.

The one thing good about it was that there was some fine classic rock on the headphones this morning.  But they frown on tapping your toes to the beat.

Now I get ( Read more... )

After a weekend I'd rather not repeat, I got to the hospital for my scan only to find that the MRI scanner was down for some reason ( Read more... )