Full Mind

Category: My Life with MS

  • Pain

    I woke up this morning with pain radiating from my left hip through my entire leg, throbbing pain. I was laying on my left side. I rolled over onto my back and it slowly dissipated. I desperately want to sleep on my right side but I won’t. That is the position I was in when…

  • Dog Adoption, My Continued Journey

    I am still looking to adopt my new little friend. I have been using the website PetFinder.com This has not been productive. Every pet I’ve applied for, I’ve heard nothing back and one even came back on weeks after I applied. There is nothing in my applications that woud affect my ownership for a new…

  • Monthly Weigh In – August ’24

    144.6, this has been going on for almost a year. A pound or two down and then up again. Last month I wrote that I stopped eating out of boredom and not eating when I’m not hungry. This month I’ve been trying to not eat anything that has no nurtritional value. That encompasses A LOT…

  • 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…