The TREE is UP!!

     The group of young women singing in this video  have the most  beautiful voices! I think that music can be very healing!
             Let the Christmas season begin, the tree is up and decorated! The stockings are hung!  The presents are purchased and wrapped!!Olivia decorated the tree and the railing on the stairs and they both look beautiful!! Olivia has an artistic eye!
        Today when I got up, I could barely walk due to the pain.  I don't know what triggers the painful throbbing. Maybe it is because my body was "still" and quiet in bed for a few hours.  I think that my walking balance is terrible!  I felt like I was going to fall over, I had to grab onto the walls or chairs.  I kept saying "Whoa Nelly whoa."  It is really such a strange feeling when your balance is off.  Several times I had to sit down because my balance was so off.  It is difficult to describe the feeling but the best I can compare it to is when you get off of a really long thrill ride and you feel sort of lightheaded and airy and off for a bit. But then you feel OK in a few minutes!! However, with Parkinson's you don't get to the OK in a few minutes or a few hours. You just feel totally off balance.  My Sciatica pain was not as bad in the afternoon and evening, I would say it is a 7 on a scale of 1-10.   I can't wait until I can get another laser treatment.  I really hope that the laser will be my answer to pain management and pain reduction.  
         I spent most of the weekend on the couch. I did go shopping at Macy's with my sister after dinner on Thanksgiving.  I ran into my bestie Priscilla and her adorable granddaughter.  They were shopping and then driving to Pittsburgh to see Priscilla's other granddaughter Keara. Keara is Priscilla's deceased daughter Krissy's daughter. Priscilla usually goes to visit her once a month!

        When I do too much, my back goes out and my  PD really acts up.  Dan and I went to the cemetery as usual today.  This is the first time in 19 years that I didn't get out of the car. It was rainy and wet and my balance was so off!  I was afraid I would fall.  When we were there last Sunday, Dan had to hold onto me the entire time, he basically had to carry my weight as we walked to her grave site.   My balance was so off that I just couldn't walk on the ground without total support. I worry daily that I  will be a burden to my family! I also have had problems getting up from the couch! I have to bounce up and down(like an idiot) on the couch a few times and grab onto the coffee table before I can get up. 

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