Wedding Photo Find!!

        I have been cleaning out my attic.  We have all of the boxes down and i have been sorting through them and tossing some stuff, saving some stuff, and giving most of it to Goodwill. I think the guy at the local Goodwill seems to know Dan and I well!! I had a hard time moving around today but if I keep busy, my pain  is always less or at least my brain thinks it is less!! And Parkinson's  takes a back seat because I try to ignore it the best I can and keep moving. I threw away old cans of paint and started to sort through a box of photos. Amy was in a lot of the old photos and it was difficult for me to go through them.  I found this old wedding photo of Dan and I!  I started to think of the young woman I was back then, I had no idea that I would have a beloved daughter that would die at age 18, I also had no idea that I would be diagnosed with Parkinson's and Sciatica!

I am so glad that I have been purging so much stuff!! When I found that wedding photo,  I remembered the life ahead that I thought was so filled with promise and joy.  There were many wonderful moments in my life and I wouldn't trade one second of it but I wish that my daughter Amy was still alive.  And it would be nice NOT to have Parkinson's!
          By the time I take my third dose of Carbidopa Levodopa(between 6 and 7 pm), I feel almost normal. I wish I could take more doses earlier in the day. My girlfriend had sciatica for a few months a few years ago and  she had the radio frequency ablation procedure and she said it decreased her pain for several months and then she did it a few more times and hasn't had any pain for the last year!  I am going to first ask my pain management doc to put me on a low dose oral steroid. If she won't do that, I will try the radio frequency ablation procedure!
     Olivia is starting a nw job on Monday so she has a  few free days right now! SHe is going ot wokr at a Blowdry Bar.  Olivia and her friend Irene hung out today. I LOVE  Irene,  she is the nicest young woman ever!
Irene painted this canvas while she was here visiting! It is so beautiful, she thinks she doesn't have any artistic talent but she really does!!
       

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