OLLIE'S

   

     Dan and I went to Ollie's last night.  He wanted to get shampoo. He doesn't like to use Olivia's shampoo in the shower because her shampoo is about $40/bottle and we pay for it! We bought tons of junk food that we didn't need at all!! We also bought toothpaste and paper plates, and other toiletries.  We were in the store close to an hour.  They have the best stuff, none of which we need, of course!!

I only had to use a shopping cart and not my walker.  I was worn out because we had been out most of the day but I am trying to make myself NOT use my walker. I am exhausted but hope I will sleep well tonight.  I use to go to the gym 2 or 3 days per week and work out and use the treadmill, and the stationary bike and even the stair climber once in a while! I have not been to a gym since last May, my sciatica started in April but really flared up in May. Now I am like a lazy couch sitter because exercise hurts when you have sciatica and Parkinson's. After Ollie's we went to visit my friend Joni and her husband Lee. She doesn't live far from Ollie's. I told her that we were going to bring ice cream for them but she said no, they didn't want any.  Dan and I stopped at Dairy Queen and brought that with us. It was fun hanging with them and seeing all the updates they have done on their house. Their bedroom is on the first floor, I am jealous! I hate having to climb the steps every night! I am afraid of falling, I have a death grip on the railing!  They moved into the house a few months ago and have done a ton of fixing things and decorating and buying new furniture.  They bought their new couch and chair at Raymour and Flanagan!  It looks a lot like the couches in our family room which we bought at Big Lots for less than half the price of what they paid!  I bought new couches for our family room a few months ago because I had trouble getting up from the couches, I didn't realize that was a symptom of Parkinson's.  I think I had Parkinson's for quite awhile before I was diagnosed!

Right now my Parkinson symptoms include difficulty walking(but better than I was), difficulty getting up from the couch, and my voice is softer than before!  It sounds the same to me but Dan says he can't hear me most of the time unless I raise my voice! I don't have any tremors at this time.  That is how most people know they have Parkinson's.  Tremors are the main symptom in the early stages/ diagnosis. I am seeing a neurologist who is a movement specialist at the end of the month!

My chiropractor wants me to exercise and work on my sciatica problems!  I keep thinking...no, no, no, I am finally out of excruciating pain and I know my leg will throb after I exercise! But rules oriented me will do it!

Tomorrow I am going to clean for a while and then read my book for book club. Our selection for the next book club is Lilac Girls.

The book summary sounds great, I can't wait to read it!!

New York socialite Caroline Ferriday has her hands full with her post at the French consulate and a new love on the horizon. But Caroline’s world is forever changed when Hitler’s army invades Poland in September 1939—and then sets its sights on France.

An ocean away from Caroline, Kasia Kuzmerick, a Polish teenager, senses her carefree youth disappearing as she is drawn deeper into her role as courier for the underground resistance movement. In a tense atmosphere of watchful eyes and suspecting neighbors, one false move can have dire consequences.

For the ambitious young German doctor, Herta Oberheuser, an ad for a government medical position seems her ticket out of a desolate life. Once hired, though, she finds herself trapped in a male-dominated realm of Nazi secrets and power.

The lives of these three women are set on a collision course when the unthinkable happens and Kasia is sent to Ravensbrück, the notorious Nazi concentration camp for women. Their stories cross continents—from New York to Paris, Germany, and Poland—as Caroline and Kasia strive to bring justice to those whom history has forgotten.