Thursday, October 30, 2008

Nada is as Nada does......

Well having a Stroke means you really need to watch it. Anything that leads to fuzziness in the biannual is for certain a Stroke! It is not as if you had you chest ripped open and a new heart in place and had the chest stitched back up. You can deal with that. A Stroke, of the Linguistics, is funny to begin with. I mean I had no paralyses and nothing that would call me out. Except I could not speak. I spoke, for what it was worth, it was bubbles. "Bubbles" meant I could grasp at the problem and be aware that I could solve it and then the "bubbles" went away. As if nothing was there to begin with. In fact I really got into the Zen portion of it. It to nothing at all. Nada. I could sit and be aware for hours on end : Nada is as Nada does. I could go the motions at work and in the end, get up and do it again the next day. I went on for months like this, 6 months when the SSRI (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor) hit me. Thank the Dog I am out of that. Now I am 21 months into this. And I feel, for what ever it is worth, fine now.
So this hit me, carotid artery, it really hit me in the last 6 or 7 months a feeling of pain. It would come on in a second and leave again. And in would not show up again for days or weeks on end and there it would be again - pain. This Monday (27 of Oct) it really hit me again, it was fierce. So Dr. H said come on in. So I go in for the scan on Friday. We shall see what we can see. It will likely be nothing. I did in fact give the good Dr. H a plan for me getting off of Prozac. Which really, really helped me get through the SSRI (depression) . Now I have to wean off it, which should take me about 3 months.
It is funny, Rose said last Oct when we went to the Lane Farm Pumpkin Patch I do not recall it as such. I recall going there. But my speech was not ready then, and as such, I did not recall it. I was Nada. This Oct I should recall something. We will see won't we.
Be Seeing You!

Sunday, October 26, 2008

Friday, October 24, 2008

The Hike LAST Sunday.....

It is bizarre!


It is funny the things you have to put up with when you have had a Stroke. I now I have said this many times. I am really feeling better than ever. It is others I have to deal with now which is bizarre. My family is with me, they tell me when I make since or not. And that guides me. It was horrible the last six months, awful, but now the depression is going away. Thank the Dog for that. I was relating this to a friend whom I have known since Kindergarten. And he had to tell me :

" Please, no more Stroke! Give me something else to deal with, your wife or family or the dog. Please! "

Which kind of wigged me out. I have been related my experience to him via emails, virtually every day, for lets see, 18 months. When I truly look at this, yes, 18 months of my Strokism would seem to get to me. And I have had the Stroke! Sorry my friend from Kindergarten!

It is weird buy I am getting through it. What else can I do, crawl under a stone? I don't think so.

Thursday, October 16, 2008

Strockism




This was at the very height of my depression. Although I had Prozac to make it through it, at days all I wanted to do was go to sleep and sleep for days on end. Prozac made me get up and go to work each day. Got to hand it to the SSRI.



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The Sales Opps Club



This was my old Sixth Grade. Can you tell the Sales Opps Teams?
When I got back to work the Sales Opps Teams had it posted on my wall.
After three months out. I did not know what it was until I had been here for a day.
20 months of this, now I think I am at the end of it, I think ( LOL)

Monday, October 13, 2008

Dan-o and Puccini


This was in the morning, our hike as it were, Ron took the pic. (this was a Sunday)