Full Mind

Category: My Life with MS

  • Fresh Cut Flowers

    I love cut flowers in my house. Better yet, when they come out of my garden. Two weeks ago Kroger’s had a dozen roses for 6.99. You can’t go wrong, right? For lack of my favorite color roses, (yellow), I bought cream ones. They looked beautiful for about four days before they started dropping, drooping,…

  • New Wheelchair

    I finally got my new wheelchair! It was delivered on Tuesday morning. It’s very different than my existing wheelchair. This one is aluminum instead of titanium. I have no leg attachments, which I never used. There is a curved bar that goes straight down with a folding foot rest. I was able to choose a…

  • Pool Lift

    A couple of weeks ago, (4th of July week) we stayed at our home in Wilmington, North Carolina. We were on a mission to buy furniture. I wanted to spend time in the pool. Needless to say, all week was spent furniture shopping. On Friday, (we were leaving the next day) I finally got to…

  • Monthly Weigh In – July 2024

    I’m pleased, 143.4, almost down 2 lbs. Not much but something. I have been watching what I eat and I made a major change. It used to be that if I was full and Pete brought out ice cream, carrot cake or some other sweet I would eat it. Now I recognize when I’m full…

  • Physical Therapy II

    When I returned to physical therapy the following week there was a complete attitude change. My PT, Jessica, addressed my concerns about strengthening my core to hopefully stand up straighter. I was given printouts of stretches and exercises to do daily, (see below). She stated that because of the arthritis in my hips, it might…

  • Monthly Weigh In – June 2024

    145.2 lbs. I took this on the 9th and forgot to post

  • A Day in the Life

    A Day in my Life, I will wake up anywhere from 12:30 am until 4 or 5 am. I cannot go back to sleep because my mind is full, so much always going round and round. I will put the TV on, Nick at Nite, it has mindless TV and is enough to distract me…

  • MetLife Stadium, Accessibility for Handicapped Individuals

    First and foremost I will state that Met Life Stadium in Rutherford, NJ is handicap accessible. I’m sure because of ADA guidelines they have to be. The personnel there are very helpful. The following is my experience when going to see The Rolling Stones on May 23, 2024. In February I went online to Ticketmaster…

  • Physical Therapy

    Today was my first day back to Physical Therapy. I told her what had happened to me in the pool and how I can still feel the pain in my left hip. My mistake, I wore a casual sleeveless dress down to my kneess. She had asked me to wear loose clothes and I don’t…

  • “Living on the Edge”

    “I’m very healthy, I just have MS” I have quoted this for years. Even as a child, I was rarely sick. Now at 65, things have changed. I’ve been thinking about the different illnesses that have kept me down and they all have something in common. “Ice Pick Headaches,”. I have had these for years.…