TheBanyanTree: Death by a Thousand Strokes

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Excellent writing as usual 😊 
Are you on blood thinners?


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From: TheBanyanTree <thebanyantree-bounces at lists.remsset.com> On Behalf Of Monique Colver
Sent: Sunday, 20 January 2019 1:58 PM
To: Banyan Tree <thebanyantree at lists.remsset.com>
Subject: TheBanyanTree: Death by a Thousand Strokes

Or not. Who the hell knows? I didn't know I was having strokes when I had them before, though looking back I can pinpoint one when my vision went and I couldn't walk straight and etc., but I had no insurance and slept it off. I've been delaying my vascular test because there's a whole new deductible to meet, though we lowered it for this year, and I've been working as much as I can. In my business, January is when everyone who can works long hours and weekends. That isn't me anymore, but I'm still working as much as I can.

I'm going to have to pay that deductible and I've still got a big copay from my last MRI to deal with (which was totally unsatisfactory, as my white space has increased).

Then again, I am a hypochondriac, so maybe I'm fine. Yesterday I was feeling like I had cold. Feverish, then cold, sniffly, stuff like that. Tired, but I'm usually tired. I worked some, then did a few minor chores around the house because I'm trying to be a Person Who Does Things still. And then I had such massive pain I felt like I couldn't and shouldn't move. A couple of pain pills and a few hours later I started to feel more human. I avoid the pain pills, so it's gotta be bad for two. Figured it was just fibro. Or Parkinson's.

This morning I noticed my right leg was sore and not working as well as the other. No big. That's pretty common. My neck hurts on the right side, but it has for awhile. Then later today Andrew went shopping. He eats very healthy, and I try to keep up, but when I'm sick and nauseous there's nothing like Pringles in the green can. He bought two. I picked up one in each hand and said, "Hey, someone's already opened this one," by which I meant the one in my right hand. 

"I didn't open it," he said. I handed him the cans and said, "Isn't one a lot lighter?" 

He switched the cans from hand to hand and said they were the same. I took them back and switched them from hand to hand and he was right. They were the same. That's when I realized my entire right side was off today. 

Oops. Well, I didn't realize I'd had an embolism a couple of months ago when my eyesight went out temporarily either. I slept it off. I do love me some sleep. But now I suspect I've had another of those little strokes that pop up to fry my brain matter so it turns from gray to white, dead space inside in ever expanding circles. 

We have vascular issues in my family. My mom and her only son. Years ago my brother had brain surgery to fix something, and he once had an embolism at work  that had him sent to the ER. Hard to say, because he doesn't want anyone to know and won't tell anyone - his wife told me and and swore me to secrecy. His daughters don't know. Me, I tell everyone. We're opposites, but I'm not sure which one of us is the evil twin. Probably me.

Last week I did a 2015 1040 with a schedule c and an Idaho return. Then I did a 2016 corporate return with an Idaho corporate return and a 1040 with an Idaho return. That was the easy part. First I had to reconstruct 2015 and 2016 from paper statements. That took weeks because I have other things to do. I can still think, most days. Some days I'm either lazy or one of my maladies isn't cooperating. 

Death by a thousand strokes. That's funny. I'm going to schedule my vascular test Monday though. And I can never remember if it's nauseous or nauseated so that's not a sign of anything except laziness. I mean, I could look it up.


Monique
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