Wednesday, July 30, 2014

Evaluation today for PT

This morning I was evaluated and accessed at the rehabilitation center nearby my home to figure out  how the physical therapy department will be proceeding to help me with balance, strength, range of motion, and pain.
These tests have no pass or fail criteria for anyone familiar with the concept of PT.
It was amazing to hear that I have met my deductible and so I will only be responsible for a 90/10 split that is me being responsible for the ten%. And I am currently entitled to thirty-five visits, and I will be seen three times a week.
Hopefully I will not be needing all those visits!
Too many eggs in one basket!


Although, I have called it quits before when I felt they and I have accomplished all that we could.
Who wants to wear out their welcome, really?
This is my fourteenth time at this facility, but my sixteenth in PT, my other two were, at one other facility and one time at home, this past winter.

So what's to know?
Too much I am afraid according to the PT Paula who I only knew from our visits with me going to independent exercise  there. She has figured out that my dizziness/vertigo/nausea appears to be more predominant on my left side of my ears and head, although when lying on either side it does happen, but not too severe on the right.We did a test for that.
Her explanation was quite complex for my wee brain.
Next time I will try for her to either write it down exactly to know what it is called, something about crystals in my ears moving causing the sensation of dizziness/vertigo/nausea all due to the Multiple Sclerosis.
If I understood it at all it really isn't an ear thing for an ENT, it again is a neurologist thingy or in her case a knowledgeable physical therapist thing.
 Below is what I found on the topic.

"Dizziness is a common symptom of MS. People with MS may feel off balance or lightheaded. Much less often, they have the sensation that they or their surroundings are spinning — a condition known as vertigo. These symptoms are due to lesions — damaged areas — in the complex pathways that coordinate visual, spatial and other input to the brain needed to produce and maintain equilibrium.

Usually, these symptoms respond to an anti motion-sickness drug such as meclizine (Antivert®, Bonine® or Dramamine®), the newer skin patches that deliver scopolamine, or the anti-nausea drug ondansetron (Zofran®). Consult your healthcare team if dizziness or vertigo becomes bothersome or lasts a long time; in severe cases, a short course of corticosteroids may be prescribed.
Other conditions that may cause dizziness include middle ear inflammation and benign tumors of the acoustic nerve that connects the ear and the brain."

Thanks to:
  http://www.nationalmssociety.org/Symptoms-Diagnosis/MS-Symptoms/Dizziness-and-Vertigo

My expectations aren't what one might think.
You see, as we all know I have illnesses that have no known cures, so it's not like this is going to magically make me all better.
So I am doing the logical thing, expecting the worse and hopefully being pleasantly surprised when the better happens!? I am nothing if not a realist.

Life is iffy at its best and cruel at its worse.
So when I say things like, love the world and hope that it loves you back; I mean it!
Our love is something we should give freely, and it's LOVE I mean, that does not in this case mean SEX!
Although, the latter is a very personal thing and of course you can do with that whatever you wish as long as you are of legal age and it is with another consenting adult!

But who am I to tell anybody what to do, really?

Moving on...

After there we went to pick up my new contact lenses for righty, and I quickly removed the one that was in and put the one that has more moisture in it and  I am hopeful this will be the answer, anyway I received three other types to try, one should work theoretically, right?

We ate lunch at Perkins for the first time in years and picked up a few pool items at Lowe's.

All in all our accomplishments were many and except for one concept idea, which I will discuss at a later date when the reality of it is more possible.


On the somewhat mysterious ending note, 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 your overages and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, you hear?

LOVE THE WORLD AND HOPE THAT IT LOVES YOU BACK! 


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