Slow going, but going...

Lest we never forget that we are not the only ones with problems.

Sadly, everyone has something.

No one is perfectly fine all of the time.

Some may be okay one minute and than in a split second; not.

Sound like a Debby Downer attitude?

Perhaps to some people, but nah to me; I’m just a realist.

It is times like these that I want to thank any and all of you who have been sympathetic to my medical issues and as for the others, well no one can make anyone else feel what you do, unless they have a base to compare to, a previous personal experience of similar substance.

That’s what I believe it takes to kick in the compassion bone in most people, which can seem otherwise cold to the world’s suffering.

No one ever wants pity, no matter what their circumstance; have you ever noticed that?

PITY can be considered to most, a dirty word with shame and disappointment of misfortune often tied to it…commiserating is the word to use to show understanding and sympathy and should be utilized when that is what you truly feel.

And I certainly feel that from all of you.

I know my explanations of my daily journeys with this illness called Multiple Sclerosis can be tedious, and so I ask for your forgiveness tempered with patience when it appears to take up so much of my dialogue here… although, when my time of this house arrest, for lack of a better way of describing the reasoning which is actually due to the medication and it is over, then I will live my life as one should!

Going out, again, amongst all the things there are to explore away from here!

Oh how I look forward to that day, just a week from today!

My only fear is a setback.

Since I am down to my last two days of this stuff…two pills really; tonight and tomorrow morning

And I have had a little spell I had a twinge first of my hand pain and then of a real nasty back spasm that needed intervention with additional Baclofen of twenty mg., that I only take as needed now and at bedtime and even now as I sit here my shoulders are not happy…and feel as before or once again, inflamed! A cough, a weak dry cough…OH NO!

I CAN’T HAVE ANOTHER COURSE OF THIS STUFF!!!!
WHY DID THE DOC GIVE ME ANOTHER REFILL; DID HE KNOW THIS COULD HAPPEN????

SCARED!

I sure hope that I AM WRONG!

Moving on…

While incarcerated in my home that I do find as a cheery happy space I have been able to reconsider my house plant specimens and realize that I needed ones that were tried and true and strong, bullet proof so to speak, houseplants, oldies but goodies, voila, I remembered my roots, you can laugh now if you care to, it’s a pun-ny thing that I did say on purpose…!

Yes, when I was a indoor gardener, extravagant-aire, last nearly three decades ago in good ole NJ with my thirty-three indoor floras, my most successful ones were the Scheffleras and ficus plants that I had transplanted upon arrival to this sunshine state into our first home’s outdoor garden, around the pond and bridge over it that Hubby made there too alongside our swimming pool, on the other coast and they grew to massive healthy specimens! When they had been received as tiny houseplants, in small pots originally, one even a ceramic bassinet, for Number One’s arrival… well, I figured it out to reverse the process, since this, our third Florida home, just so happens to also have those plants that I had taken clippings from the others and transplanted here, nearly fifteen years ago when we moved into this house and so Hubby brought me a few clippings and I was on my way …with my rooting hormone and excellent potting soil! All done now, and so we will see, what we will see!

Between laundry and house neatening and cleaning and preparing food, which tonight was a Tilapia, shrimp, scallop scrumptious dinner with sweet potatoes and a cauliflower broccoli carrot mixed veggies, wow what a fine HEALTHY meal and so very delish!

I just need to think at times to be creative, and also not to be in too severe pain, ya know?

That’s all I got right now for all of you…

Tomorrow I will try harder to think about something more exciting and creative. Now would be a great time to think of something crafty for me to do, well I will think on that and so till next time…

On that note of possibilities, allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night and ask you to kindly count all your blessings and share all those overages with you know who and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear!