Blessings

     Today we go to see Dr. Grimes or He Who Shall Not Be Named. He is the movement specialist but there is a lack of movement in this body. He is the one who diagnosed the MSA just two short years ago. I am not looking forward to it because he is going to ask about my falls and I am going to have to tell him about the fall against the window and the fall I had yesterday. I was being so careful and sat on the couch closest to the armrest so I would have it as support when getting up. When it came time to get up my legs deceived me and gave up. I fell into the end table then continued forward and tried to grab the ottoman and pushed it into the chair while falling into the patio door. I thought the stain glass lamp was going to fall on my head. Thankfully it just rocked back and forth and did not fall on my head. Again no cuts or a broken bone just bruises.  As telling this to Dr. Grimes he said what I thought he would say, I must use my walker at all times now because there is no warning with MSA you just fall.  To think when I just want to get up and go get something or move there is no doing this, even if I want a coffee I cannot get a coffee and push my walker. Another freedom gone!

     It is amazing the things we take for granted until they are gone. I cannot tell you how many times I have been sitting and thought will just get up and grab that. But there is no more just doing anything any more. My three point turns are now fifteen point turns. When moving to the left I seem to have more trouble. So there is no thinking what is fastest when turning I have to go to the right.

    
      On a brighter note two of my friends are coming for a visit. Turns out that my friend from Alaska has a woman cousin who is married to my other friend’s husband’s cousin. It is such a small world in some regards.  When these friends came over we planned a lunch of finger foods. I have been friends with each of these ladies and it was going to feel god bringing them together. We had a nice lunch, lots of laughs and a great visit.

     

     My daughter’s mother-in-law was on a cruise on the Queen Mary 2. A  luxury liner which is fastest in the world. When she got back she wanted to visit as well. She came one evening and we talked about her trip. 






     In the course of her conversation she mentioned how important it was to get a Madonna medal and have it blessed for me at the 
Notre Dame Cathedral in France, one of the best known churches in the world. This meant so much to me not only because it was the Madonna but she is of a different religion but realized how much this means to me.

     A person has to remember all these good intentions; support and prayers are not going unnoticed, and that blessings come in many forms!