My Life with Multiple Sclerosis 093022

Hello, Possuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuums!

Coming to you from the Celebrity Suites of the Wyndemere Condominiums on Turtle Creek in Dallas, Texas. Today is Friday, September 30. It’s going to be a sunny Fall day in Dallas today with a high of 81.

Happy Birthday to:

Laura Walden Reister

Good Morning, Possums, and Happy Friday, TGIF and Happy FriYAY! It’s the end of the work week and for this, I am grateful. Today, the State Fair of Texas opens, but September 2022 bids us farewell. I go into the hospital to check my blood lymphocyte levels to make sure they are high enough only to have chemotherapy knock them back down next week. But that’s OK.

Home Health came out yesterday to get things rolling. My physical Therapist comes out this morning for my evaluation - not sure when occupational therapy will evaluate me. I can’t really start anything next week - PLEX and Chemotherapy - so the next week will have to work. I’m just happy to get started.

I went outside yesterday evening with some friends. After being in the hospital for 8 days, that god-awful in-patient physical therapy place for 5 days and quarantine in my casa for an additional 10 days, it was as if Christmas came early. And to see my wonderful friends that I haven’t seen in 3 weeks, it was nothing sort of FAB-U-LOUS! God, I missed these guys!

All of the tables for the Dallas Titans Fall Fundraiser have been reserved - and in two days. Last night, I saw the design for the t-shirt for the event and it looks FANTASTIC. I cannot wait to post it and begin taking early orders.

Not much only calendar today or this weekend. I guess I will catch up on my streaming shows, enjoy the taste of Fall weather we are having and probably do a little work.

What are your plans for Friday / the weekend?

Anyhoozle, I wish you and everyone around you a SPECTACULAR day. Do everything today with kindness in your heart. The world is full of kind people. If you can’t find one, be one! Peace, Love and Blessings to you all. -AJ

#strengthpatiencepeacefaith

#hopelovejoygrace

#AndyStrong

My Life with Multiple Sclerosis 092922

Hello, Possuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuums!  

Coming to you from the Celebrity Suites of the Wyndemere Condominiums on Turtle Creek in Dallas, Texas.  Today is Thursday, September 29.  It’s going to be a mostly sunny Fall day in Dallas today with a high of 84. 

No birthdays on my calendar today.

Happy Friday Eve.  Yes, this work-week and this month are coming to an end.  While it may be nice and sunny here, Florida got pounded by Hurricane Ian and it’s not over yet.  It’s going to dump more rain on east Florida, head back out to sea and then hit Charleston, SC and head on up to my  part of the state.  I’m not sure how it will be once it gets upstate, but y’all be careful and hunker down.

My quarantine is over and I am free to go outside and socialize once again.  That makes me very happy and I plan to do so later.  Home Health is coming this morning for my assessment for physical and occupational therapy.  They picked a bad day for my assessment.  My legs are NOT cooperating today and I think it’s time for PLEX.  It’s been almost four weeks since I have had it.  I just need to hold on until Monday.

Lots of work to do today and no meetings - I am OK with that.

What are your plans for Friday Eve?

 

Anyhoozle, I wish you and everyone around you a SPECTACULAR  day.  Do everything today with kindness in your heart.  The world is full of kind people.  If you can’t find one, be one!  Peace, Love and Blessings to you all.  -AJ

#strengthpatiencepeacefaith

#hopelovejoygrace

#AndyStrong 

My Life with Multiple Sclerosis 092822

Hello, Possuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuums!

Coming to you from the Celebrity Suites of the Wyndemere Condominiums on Turtle Creek in Dallas, Texas. Today is Wednesday, September 28. It’s going to be a mostly sunny Fall day in Dallas today with a high of 89.

Happy Birthday to:

Joey Rebollar Jr.

Tom Blackmon

Happy Hump Day. We made it half way through the week. It’s also my last day in Covid Confinement. I can go out into the world or have people over. I may need to socialize myself slowly. It feels like a lifetime since I have seen anyone. Sure, people have called to check on me, and I am grateful, thankful and blessed for that, but I want to see someone that is NOT on a television or a Teams meeting.

Hurricane Ian is about to bash Florida big-time. I hope they all got out of the path or at least to higher ground. Prayers to all of them. While I don’t wish harm on any of them, I find hurricanes absolutely fascinating. But that’s another story, never mind, anyway…

I thought I was going to have an entire week with no hospitals, doctors and whatnot, but I have to go into the hospital and do some bloodwork on Friday to see if my lymphocytes are high enough for me to have chemotherapy next week and then on Monday I have to do more blood work before my PLEX appointment to check my fibrinogen levels to see if I need real plasma or FFP (fresh frozen plasma) or get the synthetic stuff.

Yes, indeed - nothing but the glamorous life for me - LOL. I shouldn’t say that. I do have a very good life filled with the most amazing, loving and caring people. Sometimes, though, I think having a chronic disease is like having a full time job. But instead of going to meetings and writing reports and stopping by the typing pool for the latest gossip, you lie in bed or sit in a wheel chair and get poked and prodded and tested and studied and examined. But it doesn’t stop there - it pulls in your family and friends and it can be exhausting. No, it is exhausting. Sorry - I guess I am in the mood to vent today.

It’s too bad that I don’t have the Real Housewives of Dubai to cheer me up. Season one is over. I suppose if I want to see cat fights, bitchiness, prevention, and over-the-top, snotty behavior, I will just have to tune in to The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City starting tonight. It’s just awful and they are so petty. One of them is headed to prison for a stint and that’s just awful and I take absolutely no pleasure in that. But I do find it all COMPLETELY entertaining.

OK - just a few meetings at work but lots of work to do before I can enjoy the housewives.

What are your plans for Hump Day?

Anyhoozle, I wish you and everyone around you a SPECTACULAR day. Do everything today with kindness in your heart. The world is full of kind people. If you can’t find one, be one! Peace, Love and Blessings to you all. -AJ

#strengthpatiencepeacefaith

#hopelovejoygrace

#AndyStrong

My Life with Multiple Sclerosis 092722

Hello, Possuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuums!

Coming to you from the Celebrity Suites of the Wyndemere Condominiums on Turtle Creek in Dallas, Texas. Today is Tuesday, September 27. It’s going to be a sunny Fall day in Dallas today with a high of 87.

Happy Birthday to:

Lynette Townsend

Randy Ardis

Terrance Annibaba

Good Morning and Happy Terrific Tuesday. A little taste of Fall weather (this may very well be our 15 minutes of Fall) has rolled into the Metroplex. I wonder how many people have broken out their sweaters. I’m not hat’in, mind you, but I bet there are a few. LOL

That State Fair of Texas starts this Friday. The gates will be open at 10am. For three weeks, droves of people from all over Texas will stand in line for funnel cake, corny dogs, turkey legs and whatever the #1 fried concoction is this year.

I will probably not make it to the fair this year. Not because of my wheelchair, but for the close proximity of people. Chemo is going to keep me away from huge crowds until I am done with it.

It’s my next-to-last day of quarantine. I’m pretty excited about that. I have opened my balcony door once or twice but it’s not the same as actually going outside.

OK, I had better get crack’in. Lots to do at work today.

What are your plans for Terrific Tuesday?

Anyhoozle, I wish you and everyone around you a SPECTACULAR day. Do everything today with kindness in your heart. The world is full of kind people. If you can’t find one, be one! Peace, Love and Blessings to you all. -AJ

#strengthpatiencepeacefaith

#hopelovejoygrace

#AndyStrong

My Life with Multiple Sclerosis 092622

Hello, Possuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuums!

Coming to you from the Celebrity Suites of the Wyndemere Condominiums on Turtle Creek in Dallas, Texas. Today is Monday, September 26. It’s going to be a sunny day in Dallas today with a high of 87.

Happy Birthday to:

Mark Thibodeau

Good Morning and Happy Monday. Time to kick off another work week, and in a few days, say goodbye to September 2022. Can you believe it? I can’t. As slow as some weeks have gone this year, I can’t wrap my head around the that fact that it is almost October.

The temperatures this week are trying very hard to reflect the Autumn season with highs in 80’s and lows in the 50’s and 60’s. I do miss a cool, crisp Autumn day. We do have Autumn in Texas, but it only lasts about 15 minutes and you never know when those 15 minutes are going to occur.

After today, I only have two day left in my Covid confinement I can rejoin society on Thursday (or at least go outside). Next week, I am free of doctors, hospitals, infusions and anything medical. I need to really enjoy it because the following week I have plasma exchange and chemotherapy.

OK - I had better get busy. No meetings, but lots of work to do today.

What are your plans today?

Anyhoozle, I wish you and everyone around you a SPECTACULAR day. Do everything today with kindness in your heart. The world is full of kind people. If you can’t find one, be one! Peace, Love and Blessings to you all. -AJ

#strengthpatiencepeacefaith

#hopelovejoygrace

#AndyStrong 

My Life with Multiple Sclerosis 092522

Hello, Possuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuums!

Coming to you from the Celebrity Suites of the Wyndemere Condominiums on Turtle Creek in Dallas, Texas. Today is Sunday, September 25. It’s going to be a partly cloudy day in Dallas today with a high of 94.

Happy Birthday to:

Dean Boyd

Good Morning and Happy Sunday. Time to prep for the week ahead and it looks like a busy one. My day yesterday was very busy if busy means being a complete slug. I caught up on all of my binge-worthy shows; She Hulk (hilarious), Handmaid’s Tale (at this point it’s bordering on repetitive. June sacrifices herself to rescue someone and bring down Gilead. We get it June. You’re a martyr. Now, please sing a different song next season) and my favorite streamer: The Great British Baking Show.

I just don’t get it - every week it’s the same thing; a signature challenge, a technical challenge and a showstopper challenge - always in that order and always with the same judges. And every week I MUST watch it. Maybe it’s because I love a schedule and I know what’s next. Maybe it’s because the bakers are so nice to each other and they help each other out and cheer each other on. Americans would be sabotaging each other, talking smack and watching as someone burns and gets kicked out of the tent (off the show).

Who can say?

Just so you know, it is not lost on me that I love the niceness and camaraderie of the Great British Baking Show as well as the catfights, smack-talk, gossip and overall bitchiness of the Real Housewives. What can I say? I’m a Renaissance Man!

OK, I’m going to get busy. Today is church, a Board Meeting, a little work and some more binge-watching.

What are your plans today?

Anyhoozle, I wish you and everyone around you a SPECTACULAR day. Do everything today with kindness in your heart. The world is full of kind people. If you can’t find one, be one! Peace, Love and Blessings to you all. -AJ

#strengthpatiencepeacefaith

#hopelovejoygrace

#AndyStrong

My Life with Multiple Sclerosis 092422

Hello, Possuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuums!

Coming to you from the Celebrity Suites of the Wyndemere Condominiums on Turtle Creek in Dallas, Texas. Today is Saturday, September 24. It’s going to be a sunny day in Dallas today with a high of 96.

Happy Birthday to:

Ann Wilson

Judy Studyvin

Linda L Dowell

Margaret Lynn Scoggins

Mark Case

Richard Wisnieski

Good Morning and Happy Saturday! It’s the weekend and it looks like it will be a beautiful, hot day. While I am thankful to be out of the hospital and that dreadful in-patient physical/occupational rehab facility, the walls at home are starting to close in and I feel a case of cabin fever coming on. I just need to hang on for four more days and keep myself busy……and take lots of naps! ‘Outside’ isn’t going anywhere.

I was watching the news this morning and it occurred to me that Covid and monkey pox are not the headlines they once were. Top news continues to revolve around transporting migrants to the northeast, the hurricanes churning and heading our way and the war in the Ukraine. I guess I was late to the party - I got Covid when Covid wasn’t cool anymore. LOL - However, I think it’s here to stay.

OK, I’m going to get busy and do a little work this morning before I begin lounging this afternoon. Whats are your plans today?

Anyhoozle, I wish you and everyone around you a SPECTACULAR day. Do everything today with kindness in your heart. The world is full of kind people. If you can’t find one, be one! Peace, Love and Blessings to you all. -AJ

#strengthpatiencepeacefaith

#hopelovejoygrace

#AndyStrong

My Life with Multiple Sclerosis 092322

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Coming to you from the Celebrity Suites of the Wyndemere Condominiums on Turtle Creek in Dallas, Texas. Today is Friday, September 23. It’s going to be a sunny day in Dallas today with a high of 97.

Happy Birthday to:

Geni Trotter

Thiago X. Nascimento

Will Sexton

Aimee Jones

Happy Friday / FriYAY! It’s the weekend. This week went by quickly, but that’s OK, we have a brand new one starting in two days - LOL.

I took a COVID test yesterday and I can report that I am COVID-free. However, I still have 5 more days of quarantine. I think I can manage that. I have plenty to binge-watch (thanks for all of the suggestions) and plenty of work to do as well.

Mom and Dad (and the tour group) made it to Israel safely. That’s a relief. I know they are safe and fine and they are going to have a fantastic time, but selfishly, I like it better when they are in South Carolina.

I received an email from a friend yesterday which contained the Hallmark Channel’s announcement of their Christmas / Holiday movie schedule this year. It has begun - and we have skipped over Halloween, Thanksgiving, Indigenous People’s Day (formerly Columbus Day - that new name is going to take some getting used to), Veterans Day and my weekend planning meeting for next year’s Arbor Day activities (kidding).

While I am sure each will receive an ‘Honorable Mention’ as their day approaches, the Christmas / Holiday still manages to steal most of the attention. I even saw an advertisement announcing the day and time “Rudolph” is scheduled to come on television this year. But I digress.

No meetings on my schedule today, but lots of work to do. What’s on your Friday schedule?

Anyhoozle, I wish you and everyone around you a SPECTACULAR day. Do everything today with kindness in your heart. The world is full of kind people. If you can’t find one, be one! And be thankful!

Peace, Love and Blessings to you all. -AJ

#strengthpatiencepeacefaith

#hopelovejoygrace

#AndyStrong

My Life with Multiple Sclerosis 092222

Coming to you from the Celebrity Suites of the Wyndemere Condominiums on Turtle Creek in Dallas, Texas. Today is Thursday, September 22. It’s going to be a sunny day in Dallas today with a high of 99.

Happy Birthday to:

Alex Silva

It’s the first day of Fall and it’s going to be 99 today. Somebody better tell Mother Nature. I think she is stuck in July.

It’s also Friday Eve and ain’t nothing wrong with that either. I am looking forward to the weekend. As each day passes, I am one step closer to my release from quarantine. Mind you, I am in no hurry to run and jump into a crowded venue, but knowing that I can leave my casa if/when I want to will be comforting.

I was going to take a COVID test to see if I still come up positive, but I opened the box pulled out the instructions (easy enough), opened them up and I CANNOT READ THEM. The type/font is so small it’s crazy. Do I need to go on an all-carrot diet? Have Lasek surgery? Get a magnifying glass?

That’s what should be all over the box - “WARNING: Enclosed instructions are printed very, very, very, very, very, very, very tiny. If you don’t have 20/20 vision or better, you’re screwed. Love, COVID Test Maker.

Well, would you look at that. There’s an online video I can search for on YouTube and watch. It’s just too bad I cannot read the address to search for it. SERIOUSLY?

Thanks to everyone for all of your binge-watching suggestions for the weekend. I have plenty to watch now.

I have NO MEETINGS today but plenty of work to do. What’s on your schedule today?

Anyhoozle, I wish you and everyone around you a SPECTACULAR day. Do everything today with kindness in your heart. The world is full of kind people. If you can’t find one, be one! And be thankful!

Peace, Love and Blessings to you all. -AJ

#strengthpatiencepeacefaith

#hopelovejoygrace

#AndyStrong

My Life with Multiple Sclerosis 092122

Hello, Possuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuums!

Coming to you from the Celebrity Suites of the Wyndemere Condominiums on Turtle Creek in Dallas, Texas. Today is Wednesday, September 21. It’s going to be a sunny day in Dallas today with a high of 99.

Happy Birthday to:

Brandon Brown

Nick Sanchez

Good Morning and Happy Hump Day. We made it half way through the week. Today is also the official last day of Summer and it is going out as a scorcher. But cooler weather is ushering in next week so maybe we will actually get a taste of Fall weather in the near future(I’m not holding my breath).

Mom and Dad are off today on their vacation trip to Israel/Egypt. I know they are going to have a wonderful time.

I am currently looking for shows/movies to binge/stream this weekend since I will be in lockdown until next Wednesday. Anyone have any suggestions?

I received a call yesterday from the in-patient facility I was confined to for physical / occupational therapy. They want a review/evaluation of my time spent in their facility. I don’t know that their is enough time in a day to review the treatment I was promised (but didn’t receive) and that I was confined to my room (I was told I would not be). All of that including the room, the food, the actual therapy - it literally could take all day.

On the bright side, I got another call from the company that will be coming to do my physical occupational therapy at home. This will start after my lockdown is over but before my next chemotherapy treatment.

Things are falling into place!

Only three meetings today so maybe I can get some work done.

What’s on your schedule today?

Anyhoozle, I wish you and everyone around you a SPECTACULAR day. Do everything today with kindness in your heart. The world is full of kind people. If you can’t find one, be one! And be thankful!

Peace, Love and Blessings to you all. -AJ

#strengthpatiencepeacefaith

#hopelovejoygrace

#AndyStrong