Ass? Yard. Yard? Ass.

Whoops!  I did it again.  Lost my balance out in the yard, fell on my ass, bruising my right hip in the process.  Were it not for the padding that my neurologist INSISTS that I get rid of down there, I could have been hurt more seriously.

Here’s what happened.

See, most of the folks in this trailer park own dogs.  Unfortunately, most of the dogs in this trailer park are SMARTER than their owners and they run free pretty much whenever they like.  Two in particular have been a pain over the last couple days.  They’re nice, sweet dogs who wouldn’t hurt a fly, but Raven thinks ALL dogs (other than Shiloh) are going to try to HURT her like that damn pit bull across the street has time after time.  Shiloh just likes to scream and scream at them.

So, our doggies had an urgent need to use the yard.  So, one at a time we took them out… Gail standing with a shovel to ward off intruders, me holding the leash and trying to keep each dog on task.

Raven had to posture and growl and bark and bristle, but she finally DID pee, then scratched the dirt to show she meant business.  I had to get Gail’s help to drag her back to the steps.

Shiloh wanted to run and sniff and run and sniff, and then the dogs came back, so Shiloh wanted to run over to where they were.  She peed, turned and ran to the front of the yard.  I turned as well… and lost my balance.

“YIPE!”

The sound came from Shiloh, not me.  My falling “startled” her.

“Uh, Gail?  A little help?” I asked from my back with my head on the downhill side of a gentle slope in the yard.

She helped me up, and that is when I noticed my knee hurt.  My right forearm and hip hurt as well.  So did my left shoulder.

Limped back into the house to assess damage.  Just a small abrasion on the knee.  Felt my hip and noticed a big lump right above the point where my femur attaches to the hip.  (The picture is about actual size.)  The lump has gone down, but this baby still stings and is no doubt going to bruise up quite nicely.

I’ve always felt that when you fall off the world, the best thing to do is get right back on it.  So Gail and I went shopping.

Hanging it Up — the Process Begins

After talking it over with Gail and giving it a lot of thought, I’ve decided to begin the process that will result in my taking disability retirement under the Federal Government’s disability retirement plan.

Brain Out of Gear

The old brain seems slightly out of gear this morning.  A bit out of phase, if you will.  To demonstrate and for the purposes of instruction, I’m going to stop correcting my typing — NOW!

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I just had a whole piece writeen about forgetting to take one of my dopamine pills yesterday and how  I felt all drawn out and blank until I went in for my 6pm dopamine and discoveredn I hadn’t taken my 2 pm dompane.  No wonder I felt so stretched out and drawn and immobile.  I had been without levodopa in my brain since 1o in the morning.

Then I wrote about watching a TV show on RLTV (Retirement Living Television” about deep brain stimulation.  The subject was a feisty 70-year old with tremor-predominant PD.  The DBS fixed his temor but good.  But I wiah they would have talked a little bit about the differnces between Tremor Dominant PD and Postural Instabilit Gait ?Disturbance PD, because we dont react the same to DBS — which is WONDERFUL for tremors, bt does not a lot for balance or gait difficulties. Sorta made me feel like a winp, seeimg how well he was doing compared tomy conditon.

See, I WROTE all those things, then for some reason known but only to God, I hit the “back” key and everything went away.  I thougt it might be saved as a draft, but no suchluck.  So I’m typing it again, but this time givingyou and idea of how well my brain and fingers are working in coordination this morning.

Slept greeat.  Took my levodopa about an hour ago, so it;s kicked in.  So I don’t know what the problem is thims morning.

Coffee will fix it.  Coffee fixds ecerything!

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