Just Like A Bad Penny, MY Sciatica is Back and I Need my Walker

   
     Today I woke up to my throbbing leg!  It HURT so much. Sciatica sucks big time!!  I thought the pain would go away once I got up and out of bed and started moving around but that didn't happen. I had to use my walker to walk to the bathroom!! SO SO SO ANNOYING!!! I had to use my shower chair to shower and I thought that was over.  I took two Tylenol so I could function. I had to drive Dan to work because his car is in the shop and I have to drive Olivia to work at noon. I would just give my car to Olivia but she works until 9 pm and then I couldn't pick up Dan(hey, maybe that works out better!!! I could have the house to myself!!).
        I take my Parkinson's meds every morning when I get up.  For some strange reason I am off balance today when I walk.  I take Carbidopa Levodopa every 4-5 hours. Hopefully, my second dose will kick in better. There just is no rhyme or reason to my sciatica and now there seems to be no rhyme or reason for some of my Parkinson's effects. I don't see my Parkinson's specialist until sometime in July.  I also have an appointment with a neurosurgeon  in July. I am hoping there is a simple surgery to alleviate my pain because I am really scared about having back surgery, especially near my spine!!
         Yesterday I felt fairly good in relationship to my pain level. My PT gave me exercises to do but unless I take prescription pain meds there is NO WAY that is happening. I want to do the exercises so that we can start the intensive BIG program for Parkinson's people.  Today I will try to lay low and rest my painful leg. 
Tomorrow I have to make Olya's birthday cake for her 21st birthday party which is Sat.  Her actual birthday, which she shares with Amy, is on Sunday, June 2nd.  That still shocks me that she and Amy have the exact same birthday.  She wants to go to Joe's Crab Shack for dinner.  All of the Joe's near us have closed so we have to drive an hour to get to one.  I was thinking that maybe Matt's parents want go out to dinner with us. They are coming to Olya's birthday party on Sat. and then going to the casino overnight!  They'll pick up Matt on the way back home on Sunday.  I'll have to talk to them and see what time they are coming back on Sunday.  I was going to take Olya to the Russian Market today to get a birthday cake for her.  She decided she didn't want to go there today because she has too much homework to do for her online class.  There is no way I can go alone because of my pain. Maybe tomorrow, we'll see how I feel.  Usually Tylenol works for me but it is not working well today!
         Yesterday Dan and I made reservations for Universal Studios next year and for the Bahamas next year. I wanted to get handicapped rooms because I need a bar in the shower.  They were so much more expensive than a regular room!  I hope that there is at least a bathtub in the bathroom so I can sit on the side of it if I need to do that,  I think it is unfair to charge extra for handicapped rooms!
          Yesterday my girlfriends and I made the baby shower decorations for Mary's daughter's baby shower.  Mary brought her two sisters with her and they were such great workers!! Joann brought ALL of the supplies. Mary, Joann, and I were all education students in college so I think we are all anal about getting things done and following directions!

Mary's sisters, Loretta and Elizabeth, were so much fun to hang out with!!
   After I typed the Proverb about the bad penny, I started to wonder where it came from so I googled it. I think my mind tends to wander!!! I digress.
         Proverb. a bad penny always turns up. A person or thing which is unpleasant, dishonorable, or unwanted tends to appear (or reappear), especially at inopportune times.This proverb has lived long in the language. It derives from the notion that some coins were 'bad', that is, they were debased or counterfeit.
bad pennyThe 'clipping' of coins was rife in the Middle Ages, long before standardization of the coinage was reliably enforced. This example from the reign of Edward I shows the degree of 'badness' that pennies then endured.
The term 'bad penny' was established enough in English by the late 14th century for it to have been used in William Langland's famous prose poem Piers Plowman:
Men may lykne letterid men... to a badde peny.

The expression continued to be used and, by the 18th century, the proverb as we now know it began to find its way into print. An example is found in 1742 in Henry Fielding's translation of Aristophanes Plutus:This [the phrase ‘A very bad stamp’] is literal from the Greek... It was a Metaphor taken from their Money. We have a Proverb in English not unlike it, a bad Penny.
What made whoever coined this proverb link bad pennies with the notion of something unwelcome returning isn't now clear. Perhaps it was the sense that, if you clip or pass on a bad penny, it won't be long before it comes back to you in your change. Our present day expression of that would be 'what goes around comes around'.

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