I am scheduled to see a home health care provider in the morning for assessment of my case as I think I am approved for 2 or 3 days a week. I think their services cost far less than regular therapy sessions which seem to be in the thousands for a month of visits, about 8 sessions or 2 a week.
I think they charge that much because of Medicare and your insurance pays without questions. So, I will see what home care charges for their two or three days a week. I think it's only 2 hours each day
:Clap-Hands: Okay, most of you know I use a scooter at work so my line of sight is about butt high at best and many, many, many of our customers come in Walmart with their low cut shorts, skirts and pants where their tattoos show. I can not help but notice which is what I think they want to accomplish while shopping in a cool store.
Anyway, this summer it appears that the tattoos have gotten a little bigger while some of the customers have gotten a little bolder in their display of them. Ca
Well, after being on Short Term Disability since 15 April, my doctors said I could return to work on Monday, the 23rd of this month. After two hospital visits (stays), many MRI's and scans they still aren't sure of what is causing the dizziness, balance loss and severe weakness in legs and arms.
I feel better so I'll just take it easy one day at a time and see how things turn out. But I'm ready for the return to work since I like my job and I get to meet and see many people every day. Of c
WELL TODAY IS EASTER SUNDAY, so I could write about Meditations from the Mount and the seven reasons Christ suffered and died. However, my pastor really has a great sense of humor and I'm frankly still laughing from one of his many jokes. I might add that I've been up since 5 am to make the Son Rise service at 7 am.
Anyway, I wanted to share this with you members and guess to make you smile while you help the kids eat those Easter eggs you stayed up late preparing last night.
This is e
Man today starts a week of special days and the week before Easter this leap year. So I hope everyone will celebrate in their own way and enjoy any time off if you're like me working 40 hours a week.
Last year we had snow on Easter day, a couple days ago we had 90 degree weather so we never know here in central Texas what the next day wil bring weather wise.
Tomorrow we can wear our green I suppose and drink a little Irish beer and tell a few jokes. Then Good Friday and the kids being
This subject comes from the Dear Abby pages and when we throw in a stroke for either spouse we get a picture of why some couples are ready to throw in the towel. You know Dear Abby is distributed by Universal Press Syndicate for many home town news papers.
This story caught my eye because the husband's name was "Fred".
Dear Abby: My husband and I have been married for 35 years. The first 30 were pretty much devoted to raising children. Now that we are both retired and empty nesters, I
Thought I would blog about something to get off the stale back pages so Black History Month came to mind. History has never been one of my strong subjects but for a month that started out as a Day, Week and Now a Month for some years now is something to look at in terms of history and the many African-Americans that has contributed to those pages in our struggle to be citizens of these United States of America.
When we look at black history heritage we find many names and historical facts
Well, I read all of your well wishes and suggestions in my last blog. And as you all know I don't blog too often but I thought I'd let you know I made it to four years post stroke.
Thought I would wait a couple days to make sure I passed that mark and headed to 5 years. I wish you all a successful year and all your wishes come true. I posted it on the message board but I know you all read the blogs first and may not get around to the topics on the message board with so many members now.
Without any doctors knowledge of what is happening to my left side physically I am in a struggle to make 4 years survivor on 15 Jan 2008. The doctors can not explain what is taking place to cause the problem I have. Their one answer is its not more brain cells dying.
Well then with therapy why am I becoming so stiff and unable to move my left side? Each doctor, my PCP, my Arthritis doctor, my Neurologist, and all the VA doctors. They each have a list of my medications, my therapy schedules
Subject: What would you do?
What would you do?....you make the choice. Don't look for a punch line, there isn't one. Read it anyway. My question is: Would you have made the same choice????
At a fundraising dinner for a school that serves learning-disabled children, the father of one of the former students delivered a speech that would never be forgotten by all who attended. After extolling the school and its dedicated staff, he offered a question: "When not interfered w
Subject: Early Christmas Greetings
This is a bit early, but oh so true, so just thought I'd share it with you!
Twas the month before Christmas
When all through our land,
Not a Christian was praying
Nor taking a stand.
Why the Politically Correct Police had taken away,
The reason for Christmas - no one could say.
The children were told by their schools not to sing,
About Shepherds and Wise Men and Angels and things.
It might hurt people's feelings, the teacher
Thanksgiving is the time of the year we give thanks for our many, many blessings. Most of us don't think about the meaning of Thanksgiving.
To most of us it's a holiday we don't work and we share with our family and friends. We enjoy lots of turkey baked or fried, a big ham and football all day long.
Our forefathers set aside this day every year to give thanks for their abundant crops. They celebrated with a meal of wild turkey and vegetables they raised and a prayer of thanksgiving.
Hello to each of you, thanks so very much for your prayers, thoughts, concerns and caring. Because of you all I'm back home. A little less ability in my hand and knee but otherwise satisfied to be alive and can still do for myself.
They let me go Sunday with a diagnose of no stroke but unexplained lesions in two spots on my MRI that they will not call stroke related. I had about every test and scan possible. I bet Medicare is wondering what on earth were they looking for with this patient w
Happiness is the inner joy that can be sought or caught, but never taught or bought. That means to me that life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we are here we might as well dance. I logged in today and read the newbie introduction by jcr56 about her husband and couldn't help but recall my own feelings about life and where I would be in a few years after having a stroke I knew nothing about.
She stated that she would love to know what has helped us all what she can do to help he
The hospice instructor wrote the words, "Fix it" on the board and proceeded to declare, "You can't do it."
You can't fix it. So then, what can you do?
You can be there and experience with some hurting soul, the ministry of presence, understanding, and silence. You can weep with those who weep. That is part of what the church does. When the church functions with its ministry of tears, the world takes notice.
Likewise, you can also rejoice with those who rejoice - and this is sometimes
food for thought
Subject: What do you Make of Life?
Words of wisdom from a loving Mother to her Daughter.
What do you Make of Life?
A carrot, an egg, and a cup of coffee
You will never look at a cup of coffee the same way again.
A young woman went to her mother and told her about her life and
how things were so hard for her. She did not know how she was going to
make it and wanted to give up She was tired of fighting and struggling.
It seemed as on
Hey, I'm on vacation, short but sweet in New Orleans. Haven't been here since Katrina two years ago. It's not the same in some areas, especially the lower 9th ward, it's in shambles. I brought my big scooter and go out in day light only, Don't want to become a statistic. Glad I brought my laptop and staying across the street from the casino.
I wish every survivor could get out of the house once in a while to see the outdoors. I even walked about a block to see in different little shops what
OK, so most of you already know I am NOT computer friendly, So this blog is very short and looking for replies from those who know where the spell check happen to be hiding from my use when I make a post or reply? First of all, it no longer appears where you post the reply as it once did.
I find myself having to hit more options to get another page with the icon, checkmark, but when I hit it, it says ie spell check not detected, hit ok to download. IT NEVER HAS FOR ME.
There is a man in Memphis, Tn who has a motto he lives by everyday. I think I'll try it, I have been in the mood for a long time now.
Listen carefully and live by these 4 rules: Drink, Steal, Swear, and Lie. You are probably saying to yourself....What?!! No way!!
Here are his explanations of these rules.
1. Drink from the everlasting cup every day. Our cups runneth over.
2. Steal a moment to help someone that is in worse shape than you are. There are many.
3. Swear t
Being a 3 year survivor here and looking back at where I was at one point in my life reminds me of the bible saying "I will go and prepare a place for you." So, it reminds me of Closed Doors and those the Lord opens for us. I say to myself, "my place is not prepared yet, I'm still here for a reason."
I think back to when I was a stroke victim, lying on the floor passed out for hours before getting to a hospital. Then once there becoming a survivor. We know not all victims survive a stroke o
While many of us are outdoors going about activities and remembering all our fallen heroes and those who served and still serving in harms way, I'm inside reading and praying for this world in which we live.
I came across this subject, "What's the point?" In part it says scientists once thought that the vertebrate with the shortest lifespan was the turquoise killifish. This small fish lives in seasonal rain pools in equatorial Africa and must complete its life cycle in 12 weeks before the p
Tomorrow's solemn ceremonies (Memorial Day) will be peppered with hymns and prayers as we honor fallen heroes and commemorate their sacrifices.
This is rightly so. It is also a reality that at the heart of every selfless act and sacrifice is remembrance of a giving God and a crucified Savior. Likewise at the core of every heroic act done in the name of freedom and truth, is the God of truth who decreed the high value of freedom and dignity of humanity.
So many of our young people have
God's return on his investment unto us: Consider the following, if God gave you 70 years of life.
You would spend:
24 years sleeping
14 years working
8 years in amusement
6 years at the dinner table
5 years in transportation mode
4 years in conversation
3 years in education, and
3 years reading.
If we went to church every Sunday and prayed to the Lord five minutes every morning and night, you would be giving God five months of your life in worshi
Well, I haven't blogged in a while so here is a life experience as one of a kind.
My niece passed away on Monday this week while in the hospital with breast cancer, so it was a matter of time. Her husband died the same day, probably around noon, while cutting a yard for an elderly lady in his neighborhood.
The search was on for him, he couldn't be found, to give him the news about his wife's passing at the hospital where he visits daily. His kids went to the ladys house to ask his wher
