Friday

Time has just blown by today. It was 2 am before I was able to wind down and then 6:30 was here before you know it. 3 hours of mind numbing meetings over a subject matter that I fully understand as I used to give these reviews for 12 years. Then home to a feeling that all was not well in my apartment. It has been growing for a few days now and I know what it is.

To the neurologist appointment. Somehow I had two and a half hours between the meeting and the appointment but I barely made it. Sit...wait....sit....wait. At least I had some entertaining people that I was waiting with who had no problem talking to me.

Finally my one on one with Dr Blair. Talking, testing, scoping things out. He is most happy with my progress thus far and believes, with the results of the TEE, that I will be fine. We talked about therapy but he is very happy with the changes I have made this far from weight loss, muscle strengthening, awareness of issues, adapting, reflexes, cognitive abilities and speech. He believes that in time I will gain pretty much every thing back.

All told I was there for 2.75 hours. Were does that time go. So no cringing sentence of doom...not that I expected any. Continue with aggrenox and keep doing what I have been doing. My blood pressure was 104/64. It has not been that low since probably high school. So now I get to pay attention to the other meds and start those discussions with my primary Dr.

Swing by Home Depot for a couple of necessary things....filters for the air conditioning and then home. Home to make a change. Today was the day of change. Still repairing the damage done over the years, still mending the pathways in the mind. Learning what I can and learning with new challenges what my body can do and has difficulty with. Living and enjoying what I can.

But something that had been nagging me at home was still there. Thus I made changes. I rearranged and deep cleaned the living room, dining room and kitchen. Spent some time with my accountant going over all these medical expenses and how I am going to pay them with school loans kicking in this month and virtually no money left over but that is OK. I am not worried about that. He is a good accountant and he will make sure I have at least a ten spot in my wallet to take a date out to Taco Bell (LOL).

I skipped over the guest room for right now as that was about 2.5 hours on those three rooms. I tackled my bathroom with a new shower curtain, deep clean and now am letting the tub soak in some goodness. Grout cleaner tomorrow when the grout line is dry and another 30 minutes in there and I will be done. I do these super deep cleans and moving about every quarter a year. It keeps it fresh and cleans those spots that the weekly cleaning misses.

Admission time: I do chores on two days and then the other 5 between work, gym, extra work, drive time and all....I have no time to even think. I hit up my blogs and fb on those 5 days and maybe take a couple of hours to catch up on news and such but that is it. Now on those two chore days I often slack off and just want to veg for one of those days. Thus things back up. That is what was bugging me.

Then I just realized....I have not eaten since a lemon pie slice at lunch time. So with the lateness I am snacking on half a turkey panini, some banana pudding and a banana while I type this.

Hmmm.....essentially this long assed rambling was to say....I am OK.