Up in the air!?

 

Hubby is unsure whether we will have to return to the hospital again, due to his catheter leaking or if he fixed it.

Today I am scheduled for PT and he is scheduled for labs at the Florida Cancer Center.

So, we are basically in a wait-and-see mode.

Moving on...

My neurologist diagnosed me as having incomplete paraplegia. 

And so that dx was noted in the rehabs information.

However, no one could tell me exactly where it came from even when I asked why that was my diagnosis.

Curious and upset, I looked all over online and on YouTube trying to find who or why someone would have that dx.

The information I gleaned was that all of the people diagnosed with incomplete paraplegia had bad accidents where their spinal cords had been injured but not completely compromised, or detached.

But created definite problems with their ability to move and walk.

4/11/2024 (5 days ago)

"Hello Dr

I have been going to the rehab for a couple of months now, and they seem to think I will get better from MS, actually they have my diagnosis as IMCOMPLETE PARAPLEGIA?
I keep telling them I have MS. And all I want to do is not fall so much... last few months I fell five times... last time was on 3/12/24, yep two days before Dr. H. had me go for a MRI for cervical, thoracic and lumbar, nothing to do with the fall. I hit my shoulder against the wall when I fell, still hurts... he insists nothing has changed I saw him two days ago, and now has me going to Dr. J., I am scheduled to see Dr. J. I am in a lot of pain and numbness... weird how both happen hands arms and legs and back and now left shoulder too! I sleep with ice packs and extra-strength Tylenol still! I'm running out of ideas, so I thought you might have some? What was on the script you sent? There seems to be some confusion on the goals I am to meet.

"     

L. M, MD

                                                        4/11/2024 (5 days ago)

incomplete paraplegia is weakness in both lower extremities that is what you have as result of the MS. The latest results of testing I have are the CT scans from 02/28/2024. I will look for the results of the MRIs, did you have them at Fawcett? Let me know to take a look at the images and be able to answer better"

Let me introduce you to the crew...

Lastly, moving on to who they are, our crew...

3 months, and ...now

   

Aussie, say good day!

I am Aussie, not from Australia, but American-made. 

I will comply because it is fun and say good day!

I am called Aussie because my mom asked a sixteen-year-old girl looking at me in the crate I was in at the adoption site that day what she thought I should be named. Mom asked her age, but not her name... ha! And without hesitation, the teenager had said Aussie! By the way, she was just looking, so my mom did not steal me from her.
We never found out the girl's name; mom liked Aussie too. Since then, we have discovered that it is a ubiquitous name, but it is still just right for me! My parents think that I am uncommon, even say unique! I do like that.
I am an Australian Shepherd, a red Merl. And here is an interesting factoid about me: I was supposed to be a miniature Australian Shepherd, but as you might know, I AM NOT! I am a standard Australian Shepherd! Although I am now six years old, I am the baby, though I am the largest of the fur babies, and due to my breed and being standard, I am just right, ha! 
I was three months old when Mommy and Daddy adopted me. I had been taken- out of a hoarder's home in the Carolinas with my litter. 
Above is my PIC, taken on the birthday I share with my dad, but dad is much older than me!!! I was the first to be adopted, on February 16, 2018, on Dad's brother's birthday.

No tail/tale publishing, circa 2018.

Get it? I was born without a tail, preferable for all Australian Shepherds; only one out of five are born that way!

                                           

Hello, I am Bella, in the picture above, a Maltese Yorkie, a Morkie. I might be ten years old. We are all rescues, so no one knows our ages for sure. I am the middle child, so I am what you would expect, with all those idiosyncrasies accompanying that! Being the only girl has its rewards as well as its difficulties. 
I was turned in by my previous family, stating that I was misbehaving with their elderly dog it had been said that I was driving him crazy! I was the second to be adopted, on 8/18/18 on clear out the shelters' day!
My record called me Belle, so for no known reason, Mom decided I was more of a Bella, beautiful either way!

Hey, wait! Please don't forget me! I am Chance, pictured above, a Bichon Frise! I am 12-ish years old, so they think, and the eldest, and I like getting up early with mom and Aussie. Bella sleeps late with Dad, till after seven most days, even later sometimes! 

I enjoy a good tug-a-war on the ropes Dad had twisted for Aussie and me, and sometimes even Bella plays, too! I was the last to be adopted on January 23, 2020. 

I had been wandering the neighborhood for days, and then I saw Aussie and Bella in their living room window, so I hung out there... 

The animal control lady had been called and came out to see if I had a chip I.D. with her machine, and Dad told her that he wanted to name me Chance. His reason is that if no one claimed me, "I want to give him a second chance!" So that is how I got the name Chance!

The Animal Welfare League checked me out and kept me for sixteen

days until I was allowed to be adopted. Good evening.

Easy as Aussie, Bella, and Chance, now you got it! In order of adoption!