TheBanyanTree: Death by a Thousand Strokes

[Monique Colver]

Thank you sachet!

Monique
Sent from my iPad

> On Jan 20, 2019, at 3:39 AM, Barb Edlen <mountainwhisper at att.net> wrote:
> 
> 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