Just about
a week shy of a month since my last post....Hmmmmmmm....what'sa been happenin'..?
Well, had another friggen migraine episode...laid out for 5 days before I could function normally again....dammmit I'm getting to really hate these things. Next doctor appt. he and I are going to have a comin to Jesus face to face because this is nuts. ............Okay...so, that's that with those...
Back on the 10th of June I had an amazing surprise visit from my youngest son that lives in Tennessee. He called me the night before at 10:30pm and said he and a friend were 4 hours away in Cincinnati at an amusement park and were driving up the next morning. I was ecstatic....I hadn't seen him in a number of years and, well, let's suffice to say that this was a wonderful reuniting.
This past Friday my wife and I went out to dinner with two other couples. This was our Canton Ohio TM group. This was Lora that got hit with TM in July 2008 and her husband and then also Lizzie's boss and his wife Nancy who is also a TM'r. She has had it since 2006. This is really bizarre because we all live in Stark County Ohio which encompasses a fairly large area and even more specifically, Nancy and I live in Canton and Lora lives in East Canton which is 15 minutes away. Stark county has a population of about 400,000 and Canton and the surrounding area is about 300,000 of that. So there are the statistics of about 3 to 5 per million that get TM where here we have 3 per 300,000 that have it. What's up with that...? We all even had the same Neurologist and the same physical therapists in the hospital. Anyway, we had a great dinner and it was wonderful to talk with them. Hopefully this was the beginning of many more little get togethers with them and possibly getting in touch with at least three other TMr's that I know of that live here in N.E. Ohio. That would be nice.
...K...this weekend was the weekend for the Canton Blues Festival. http://www.cantonbluesfest.com/
This happens every year and they get some pretty good name blues bands to come in on Friday and Saturday. This year...Friday was Johhny Winter and Saturday was Taj Mahal. Well, after dinner was over Friday it was too late for my wife and I to head downtown so we made plans to go Saturday. This is an all day event but I knew I couldn't make the whole day so we wanted to go at least to see Taj. We got there about 6:00pm and watched the band before Taj....and then he came on stage at 8:30pm. Now, to say the least...he was amazing...and the evening was soooo wonderful, the weather was picture perfect to even just a tiny bit cool after the sun went down. A slight breeze was up and the crowd was incredible. We had taken fold up camping chairs to use and it was pretty comfortable but with the pain I have and the legs cramping I had to shuffle my butt around quite a bit. Now, when we got up at the end of the night..and that was about 10:15pm the legs were shot. I had to have my wife hold me up for a couple of minutes to get my stability back. i had doubts also about how the legs were gonna feel this morning too...but to my pleasant surprise...they are not too bad. A bit tired but not bad. That's a good thing.
So, we had two wonderful days in a row...and I'm kind of getting a good feel for what kind of activities and the level of activity that is going to affect my legs. This is good info to know.
Getting ready for a nice cookout today for Fathers Day...
Music to complete my post for today....why not something that Taj did last night....and boy, dummy me...I didn't even take my camera to the show...I coulda got some great pictures....oh well.
Till Next Time......
