The Mom from the Country cont.

Oh my God! I waited 2 weeks to get my referral to a pain specialist that my so called dr. referred me to. They called yesterday and I missed their call. Today I started calling this morning in hopes of getting an appointment. I finally reach somebody to get the appt.. and in the course of our conversation I discover they can't prescribe pain meds. Obviously there was a lack of communication from my dr. to their office.. I asks this lady what I am supposed to do now. She says she doesn't know but maybe I should contact my dr. to get some help. Well, that aint happening. I remember that with the script for my pain meds from my country dr. that she had included a name of a pain specialist. I make the call and leave a message. In the interim my phone is going to be shut off because I screwed up on my bill paying last month. So I will have to keep calling from Sadie Grey's phone until I reach somebody. My hopes are that they can prescribe pain meds. Whoever heard of a pain specialist that can't prescribe pain meds? Well, I found them. Hopefully this next place can help. We shall see....

Mom from the Country

Being from the country I seemed to have been spoiled by my family dr. I am currently on some pain medication for my multiple sclerosis and my degenerative discs disease in my back and neck. I have been seeing my family doctor for quite some time and each month she would write a new script for my pain meds. I moved down here to the city in August and I began my search for a new family doctor. I found one...sort of. I went to see him to get a medication refill on my pain meds and he informs me that noone in the office can write pain scripts. This is on a Friday and I am going to be out of my meds soon. Not only was he not able to write my script, he was of no help on what to do next. I called my family doc and left a message with her telling her of my plight. So this weekend Lex Fori and I beging our search for an emergency room that would help me. We first went to County hospital. That was a joke. A lot of crazies in there waiting to be seen. People yelling at each other and one man called this lady patient a pscho...she was but he didn't need to tell her that. Realizing that it was going to be a long wait we went to another hospital. It was way out in the boonies and when Lex got a little confused we found ourselves taking the scenic route. At last we end up at a new hospital and I am in and out of there in an hour and a half. With a dose being given to me there and a script for 3 more days I felt like I was getting somewhere. So Monday I get the mail and it is a note from my country doctor. She had enclosed a script for a month and also a name of a new doctor and a pain management doctor also. It seems as though doctors down here are not alowed to prescibe class A drugs. I need to go to a specialist for that. What a bunch of b.s. when I can't go to my family doctor and get help. After all I was used to being able to do that at home. On the up side I went fishing the other day with Sadie Grey. I hadn't been fishing in about 15 years. We were getting ready to go home with the only catch for the day being Sadie Greys when we saw fish jumping. I threw my bait in the water and lo and behold I caught one. It was a bass coming in a weight of probably a pound and half. It was awesome! I was so excited. It was a really good day I thoroughly enjoyed myself. I look forward to going again soon. I really wished Perfect would have been there to see it. He was really happy for me. Well, that's pretty much it for me for the last few weeks. I hope to blog again soon and not wait so long next time. I almost forgot, I was at Lex Foris house Sunday night and she cooked some awesome chicken. She is not used to being the cook and she had found a recipe for the chicken and decided to try it. Hoping the chicken didn't turn out dry like her other attempts she was really glad to find we had enjoyed the dinner a lot. It was really good and I think it prompted her to search out more recipes to try out on us. I look forward to the next attempts. This wouldn't be a big deal except for the fact that she really hasn't done much cooking and her last attempts didn't turn out so well. So on with the next recipes. Thanks Lex for a really good dinner.

The Mom About Town

It's been awhile since I have blogged. Not sure why I haven't cuz it's not because I've been too busy. Oh well on with my saga. Yesterday I actually got out and drove by myself to an A.A. meeting and to the post office and to the store. I did have to make a couple of calls home to get my bearings again but all in all I did pretty well. The meeting was good and I collected my 11 year chip. Eleven years of sobriety...wow! It has really gone by pretty fast when I look back. There were some shaky times in the 11 years but thankfully I had my sponsor or a close friend to bring me back to what's really important. That and the fact that alcohol would not only not help the situation but it would also make the situation worse. For the most part these days I don't even think about a drink which is good. Yesterday was my son's birthday. It was a nice day. Sadie baked a homemade cake and we had ice cream to go with it. Sometimes I feel so old. Like when one of my kids has another birthday....lol I've really been praying for my other son and his fiancee'. She lost her job due to her illness and he had been spending the time being Mr. Dad. He is has been pounding the pavement looking for work and it looks like he may have been successful. He will be laying pipe (very difficult labor). Hopefully he is able to do it because he has his own health problems. I know they have been through some really difficult times to put it mildly. His fiancee' still hasn't been able to get anything done for her health problems which has lead to some pretty bad depression. I know things are going to start getting better for them, I just wish it would start NOW! Anyway things are going pretty good. I have a drs. appt. with my new dr. That is good because then he can refer me to a pain specialist for my back. Things are slowly coming together. They say that moving is one of the top three stresses in life along with death and divorce. I believe it. It just seems to take so long to get acclimated to my new surroundings. Oh well, on with another day.

Mom in the Snow Country

Hi there everybody, I just got back from spending 3 really nice days back in the snow country. I thought I would want to stay once I got up there but quite the contrary. I really had a nice time but it was really good coming home. I really missed Perfect and sadie grey and my couch. lol
I went up there to celebrate my 11 years of sobriety. I got sober there so I wanted to go back. They gave me a card that everyone had signed and also a birthday cake. My friend that I went up there with gave me a really special 11 year chip on a chain so I can where it as a necklace. We went to a lot of meetings which was really good. It had been a while since I had attended that many meetings in that short amount of time. It was really nice to go to the meetings. To another person who is a member of A.A. they would really understand. I don't know what happened to my font, tried to correct it but it didn't help. I tried some more buttons and that helped a little.lol My friend took me and a couple to dinner at the Outback...my favorite place. I had my ususal...Alaskan king crab legs. Normally I can eat all of it but this time I couldn't...so sad. I also developed a cough while I was up there. Smoked like 5 cigarettes one day. Nasty habit!! Anyway it is really good to be home and I just hear I may get to see my grandson this Sunday. Awesome. It's been awile since I have seen him. I am sure he won't know me but that's o.k. I never thought that I would be glad to be mom in the city but I am. I guess I am finally adjusting to my new surroundings. You Think!! Well that willl be all from me for now...but I will return<3

just another day in the city

Hi everybody, The first thing I want to do is comment on SadieGreys last post. I was so proud of her and in her insight fullness after going with me to an A.A. meeting. It seriously brought tears to my eyes as I read it. This maybe the wrong place to make comments on a blog but I guess I will learn as I go. I am currently in the process of finding a primary care physician so that I can ultimately end up seeing a dr. for my back. I already had a back fusion where they go in and install a titanium rod and cage to fix my chronic back disease known as degenerative discs disease. My back is killing me right now...only when I sit, stand, or walk. So off I go for the search of a good family doc. It was really great attending my first AA meeting here in town. The people were great and sharing as usual was really informative. I look forward to attending more meetings. Kemo and I are getting ready to go to the pharmacy to hopefully pick up some medications that I phoned in and to drop off another one. I am feeling more settled in that I have been. I seem to be able to cry at least once daily...just the emotions of the big move. I am living with my son and daughter-in-law and they are both really going out of their way to make sure I am comfortable. I love them both dearly. I am surely blessed. So I will go for now and do our errands. I will return to blogging soon.

This is my second day of using my blog. I have just recently sold most of my belongings and moving from snow country to a huge city where the lows here are higher than our highs back home. It was a decision made by both me and one of my sons and my daughter-in-law. At times I have wondered if I made a good decision or not. I have multible sclerosis and it has come to a time when it is best to not live alone any longer. I really believe in the long run, when we get all of our kinks worked out that this will indeed be a good decision. This is a town that i was born in and left when i was 23...many years ago and swearing i would not return to this God-forsaken heat infested city. Well, here is proof that one should never say never! There are some real positives to this move. The first one is I get to be with most of my family. Besides living with one of my son's & daughter-in-law, I am about 30 minutes away from another one of my sons and another daughter-in-law and a beautiful granddaughter. Totally Awesome! Tonight I am hoping to go to my first A.A. meeting down here. Should be interesting. Since I have been gone so long from here I have no clue where anything is. I get lost taking a walk around our apartment...I don't look forward to getting out there and finding out where everything is coz I am sure I will get lost. After re reading what I have wrote down I find that I could be termed as passive-aggressive. Not sure if I want to do anymore blogging if I am going to find out things like that. Oh well I will continue to blog...it might be helpful. Well, I will close for now. I hope I get some comments on my blog. Thanks for reading this.

My Life

whats your favorite color?	blue
whats the last song you listened to?	elvis songs
has a crush ever made you cry?	yes, but of course
are you a social person?	semi social most of the time I just hang out on the couch and watch t.v but my roomie is getting me up and out morenow
whats the last concert you went to?	simon & garfunkle outside at some rodeo grounds it was awesome
how tall are you?	5foot 2 inches
do you think your attractive?	sometimes, it depends on my atittude
have you ever peed in a pool/lake?	no!!!!
do you have siblings?	yes, 3 brothers one of them is a twin brother,
do you have a best friend?	several, I am very fortunate
can you keep a secret?	yes, if I make a promise not to tell something I keep it,,,always
have you ever kissed a pet on the mouth?	yes, dogs, cats
have you ever done anything illegal?	but of course, haven't you
whats your drug of choice?	drugs are bad duh!
have you ever broken a bone?	yes 3 all of them were my ankles
whos the last person that called you?	My brother, the twin.
name 5 things you can do with a brick:	Break a window, build a wall, sit on it, 5 things?? huh.
big bird vs. elmo, who would win?	Big bird
what do you usually order from starbucks?	I don't
do you have any tattoos?	No, But that may change.
have you ever cut your own hair?	Yes. Sorry to say.
have you ever had a stalker?	No
what is your ringtone?	Memories
what color underwear are you wearing?	White
what the thing that annoys you most?	Liars, cheaters, selfish people,
have you ever thought your cousin was hot?	Hell yea, I lived with him for 2 years.
have you ever kissed a picture?	Yes
do you like to play dress up?	Yes
have you ever thought about what people would say at your funeral?	Yea
has someone pushed you in a pool with all you clothes on?	Yes
what are you wearing right now?	PJ's
do you have more than one piercing?	Yes, 2 in my ears.
m&ms or skittles?	M&M's everyday
do you have braces?	Not anymore
do you still watch kiddie tv shows?	No
vampires or werewolves?	Neither
are you easily amused?	Sometimes
have you ever sung kareoke?	No
do you sing in the shower?	Yes
have you ever sat on top of a roof?	Yes
did you nswer this surver truthfully?	Mostly... :)
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