I am overcoming my inability to type with my ability to talk (and talk and talk and talk) I'll be posting a video every week on my YouTube channel. I'll be posting those videos here too along with an occasional regular blog in the mix. (As long as my hands are up to doing the extra typing.)
You'll be able to watch the videos here, but I encourage you to stop by my channel at YouTube once I'm up and running to follow me and get my numbers started!
Life with a chronic illness and in a wheelchair we all create and live with our own kind of normal. I had a few wonderful days of exactly that, including enough energy to accomplish "too much to do." With MS they don't last forever, but when they do it's heaven! Everyone enjoyed having me around, ESPECIALLY me!
Please come and enjoy with me a great weekend including a new kitten!
(Thank you David, Mike, Claudia, Sheri, my Dad & Aunt and Casey, the sweetest little kitten around, for making my world fantastic this weekend!)
One of my dearest friends and someone I've known since high school is my hero! She's just a year younger than me, she's returning to school to earn an associates degree.
Some people might find that scary, to return to school after all those years. I find it just a little bit different than what all of us do every day. We learn. Sheri is just smart enough to know that.
And going back to school is so incredibly similar to learning to deal with chronic illness and being in a wheelchair. We have to learn about our illness, about the wheelchair & about how to continue to exist the best we can. Like someone returning to college, we have to learn too, but we have never stopped learning.
This vlog is about things I've been doing to catch up in my world. It includes how one gets a weight when they're in a wheelchair and can't stand on a scale, Covid booster shots, my emotional support cat celebrating his birthday and my sheer joy in seeing and listening to the nearby carnival.
I'm so sorry I'm posting this late this week! It's been a really rough week for me, or anyway a rough second half of the week? Let's just say it's been a rough June so far as far as my glucose levels are concerned. I've got a new home health aide who's doing really well but she's not so up to speed that we've started cooking yet. So I'm not eating the best for my glucose yet because David doesn't cook unless it's directions on the box.
We are getting close to her having regular stuff down to the point of being able to do it quick enough to do some simple salads. Just right now I need to put together a grocery order that has fresh vegetables that go in those simple salads. LOL.
The point is, glucose is worse than MS for this, I fall asleep without any warning for hours. And then sometimes I'm only awake for a little bit before I fall asleep without warning again. This is why I really need to get the new aide ready to start cooking. It helps that she's excited about getting there too.
So, here is the intro for this weeks YouTube adventure:
We I'm back from being sick! At least as heck hope I'm not going to get sick again. This week is short stories from my homemade Smash Books. (Old school type scrapbooks with random things in them that I put together using some of my old scrapbook stuff when I couldn't scrap by hand anymore.) I took some pictures of the pages and from the pages and then filling them in with the short stories that go with them.
I'm almost back to normal (knock on wood) and when I get totally back to normal I should be able to stay awake & my glucose should be back to normal, or at least somewhat normal. When I do and I can put together my weekly list of daily tasks for myself. Yes I do that and I have always been a make lists for myself person. That's how I got through high school and still had time for a part-time job and seeing my friends on the weekend! One of the things on those lists will be at least once a week I'm going to do a regular blog just for my blogspot readers and I want to get involved in more of the cat fun from the blogs I read.
