It's Sunday and time for our weekly happenings!

[Sarahsmom46]

What's happening in your life this week?

Maybe its a doctor's appointment, medical tests, a birthday, anniversaries or just meeting up with friends for dinner.  Feel free to share it with us.  Hope we all have a healthy and happy week ahead.

[Audrey_M]

As usual, I'm a day late and a dollar short.

I started off the week with the first slushy snow of the season. Barely enough to cover the ground, but enough for me to see 4 accidents on my way to work. Why and how??? If only people would use common sense driving in snow, these things would not happen.

My work week is going to be jammed because I took three days off at the end of last week (use it or lose it vacation time). I'm in accounting/finance which means that the work just piles up when I take off time, so I'll be working extra hours to catch up.

I had an appointment with a therapist scheduled for today. I started seeing him 7 weeks ago and today was the third time he botched an appointment. Guess I won't be seeing him anymore.

During my down time, I'm strategizing in the back of my head how to prepare with an appt. next Monday with a neuro for a second opinion. I'll probably have a clearer idea within the next few days and will spend evenings and the weekend putting it together.

LuLu, good luck with your test results. Like you, I don't like the time change either. I would rather not drive home from work in the dark.

Hope everyone has a good, safe and productive week, whether it be in terms of health, work and/or friends and family.

Audrey

[starryeyes1]

I am having a Dr appt tomorrow and an MRI of the spine which hasn't been done for a few years.
I'm definately nervous about this appt for some reason. Maybe because I have suspicions of lesions on my spine.

Hope everyone has a good week!!
Kristi

[johnniebear]

It took awhile to get approval from the insurance co,  thought I was going to have my first
3T MRI last week.  

Its now scheduled for this Tuesday...then the following week a follow up visit with the Dr.

take care
Johnniebear

[michelleric]

Everyone has pretty busy lives here.

Here is mine:

Recovering today after the weekend. Had 21 people here yesterday, to celebrate all the November birthdays in our family. (6 in all). February is a cold month, right?!

Working tomorrow, lunch plans with friends Wednesday, looking forward to it.

School conferences Thusday/Friday.  No school those days, so home with kiddies then.  Hopefully my body will be better than,(I wish that for working tomorrow as well), and we can have a fun time together.

Work Saturday, and  a outing sunday for a religous/camping/hiking day with the congregation.

Michelle

[twist330]

Tomorrow I have neuropsycho appointment this is my 2nd visit and where as i dreaded the first one, I was wrong to feel that way. So tomorrow I am OK with.

The end of the week we are visiting my daughter for her 21st birthday she is at college about 4 hours away from us. So we are taking a long weekend.

[thornygates]

Off work this week. already have my wake/sleep times messed up, but did get some greatly needed shoes. one can only re-glue the soles on so many times.  :c)  been a long time since i walked through a walmart. sure messed me up but needed the shoes and wanted to feel 'normal' - ya know?

Weds go see my neurologist.

[patchoulired]

Julie- Thanks for the discussion topic : ]

Monday I will be going to my lawyers to deal with disability letters, medical updates, etc.

Tuesday I will go to my appointment to try to get food stamps.

Other than that, I will be trying super hard to get some drawing done for one of my classes that I am behind in in school.

I hope to have a friend or two over, company is always nice.

I cannot wait to see the orthopedic surgeon about my left hip later in the month!!! I'm very worried about that : [  (P.S.-- If anyone has had experience with AVN in their hip, please message me.)

[twopack]

Here's a link to what I've been up to this week-end. (It's my dog's coach running by her, not me.)  We are both exhausted after two VERY long days.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZFhJPZ_THQ

This week we are going live with some new computer programs at work that should confound us for weeks (maybe months) to come.  I get to work the first two days of it :(

I'll see a new GI guy this week to schedule a look-see of my esophagus to check on my Barrett's (a condition resulting from long term reflux).

Every extra minute I have will be used for final study in preparation for a certification exam connected with work that is scheduled for next Saturday.  This has been consuming the majority of my time lately.  Study is a slow go these days because reading is such a labor intense activity any more and hard on the eyes.  Fortunately, the exam will be provided in large print.  Not the study material though.  Errrrrrrrrrr.

I look forward to the return of life's more boring pace and spending some time here again.

Mary

[frowngirl]

I will be up bright and early with a conference call and then off to work. I feel very fortunate that I can still work and that I have an awesome career. I can thank the good Lord for that.
I am hoping I will get my LP results back this week.

I hope everyone has a safe and healthy week.

FG

[huff1711]

I am getting up in the morning, and calling about short term and long term disability. I'm scared to death, but it's something I have to do all alone. I'm going to drive myself crazy being home all day. So I've got to find some hobbies and I have no clue what to pick.

Chad.

[anon07072023]

Hi,

I'm waiting for someone to call me to set-up a cognitive functioning test. Also waiting to see if my insurance is going to approve a c-spine 3T MRI at the University.  My neuro said he had to list it as for information/management instead of for diagnosis.

And I'm working all week.

Lu, yes, I don't like the time change either.  I'd rather have it lighter outside when I get off of work - especially since we walk our dog in the evenings after work.

[Lulu54]

I start the week with a Monday morning stop at the lab to check if the cooties are gone - I finished the antibiotics on Thursday and they want a recheck  3 days later instead of the usual week off.  Here's hoping the mega-drugs did the trick.

I hope to be back in the gym with more stamina this week - weight lifting class and Tai Chi on Mon/Weds and swimming Tues, Thurs. and Sat.

Somewhere in there I also hope to reschedule my massage treatment that was supposed to happen the week I was in the hospital.

Oh yeah, I have to work, too.  

AND basketball season has begun - two exhibition games over and the season opens Saturday. I'll miss the first game because it conflicts with the MS Swim I've organized.  We now have about 20 people who have come at least once.  

Does anyone else beside me hate the time change and the early darkness it brings?  I will waste all my daylight hours at work and have to do everything else after sunset, which will be about 5:30 or so.  Yuck!!!

[HVAC]

Had a lovely riding lesson today. I got on and off by myself which is a real achievement so I can one day ride with out a lesson. I even took the horse all the way to the far pasture by myself. I am improving so much. I did not get tired. I did fairly well on my dressage movements. There are letters and at the letters you have to do something specific, which is hard with my cognitive, following precise directions. I was relaxed and the horse responded well.

Monday I am finishing another painting. I just finished a lamb which I will post on my photographs.

Tuesday I am taking the train to D.C. I am going to spend time with my big brother, who I missed at the Rally. Then coming home Thursday morning. I will go to Arlington and see my folks grave with the flags for Veteran's Day.

Friday another riding lesson.

Saturday MS Support Meeting and picking up to blueberry bushes and apple trees.

I hope everyone is doing well.

Alex

[COBOB]

The partner and I are still picking up from the Guy Fawkes Bon Fire we held out here at the ranch on Friday night.  The cattle, chicken and dogs all seemed to take it in stride.  I guess we had 40-50 people show up.  Lots of fir, beer music and good times.  I think I over did it with going up and down the stairs to the to loft of the barn where we had the food and drink.  I've spent the last two days with spasms in my feet and calfs.  Oh well, paybacks are a b_tch.

Monday- Thursday are just regular workdays, although my work is rarely "regular."  And Friday morning, I'm heading in to see the Neurologist about my latest crop of lesions on the MRI.  His reason for requesting the MRI was "Dx:  Optic Neuritis - ?? Disease progression??"  OK.... I guess three fresh lesions count as disease progression.  That's about it for the week.  I'm sure I'll have something to post about after the neuro appointment.

Bob

[Sarahsmom46]

Meeting with doctor to go over my echocardiogram results from last weeks test.  I'm not concerned, but curious why I am being called in as that usually never happens.  

Otherwise it should be a quiet week, hopefully.  

Julie