TheBanyanTree: Death by a Thousand Strokes

[Barb Edlen]

Laura said everything so well. We’re here for you, Neeky. 

> ✿*ﾟ‘ﾟ･.｡.:*


> On Jan 20, 2019, at 4:43 AM, Laura Hicks <wolfljsh at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> That’s a bit scary. When you get the vascular scan, if they find something,
> is there anything they can do about it, or is it just for “I told you so“?
> 
> I’m sorry this keeps happening to you. You seem to collect more than your
> share of odd medical issues.
> 
> You sound like you are coping as well as a person could, and allowing
> yourself to rest occasionally.
> 
> Unfortunately, I have no advice. Or maybe that’s a good thing, since you
> didn’t ask for advice.
> 
> Hang in there.
> 
> Laura
> 
> On Sun, Jan 20, 2019 at 12:58 AM Monique Colver <monique.colver at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> 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
>> Sent from my iPad
> 
> -- 
> Laura
> wolfljsh at gmail.com