June 8, 2019
Tomorrow is Pentecost.
Wow, how time flies. It is already June 10th and all my good
resolutions to attack my blog have gone with the wind. But, here it is, Tuesday
night, and I will try to fill you in on what has been happening since the last
blog. Not much, really,
The spasms have been
continuing.
I noticed that my air time was being eaten up in huge chunks even though
I hadn’t made any phone calls, like R60.00 at a go , in one day. I used to get
R150 of air time that lasted more than a month and a half. Where was this going
and how???
June 27 After several tries by friends with no
lasting results, I went to the provider, Vodacom, and found out that I hadn’t
updated anything for years and the system was trying to do that on my air time
because we have a wi fi in the house and it was when I was away from home that
this was happening. It took two hours to remove the guilty stuff and R250 for
the service. I will try to download once
a month and not let it updates pile up like that in the future.
On the 28th I had
a dentist appointment with Sr. Michael, who has been looking after me (teeth
wise, for more than 40 yrs. Now. I am convinced that the all powerful, all
knowing God that I love and try to serve could have done a better job on teeth.
God must have had his reasons why God gave me such disintegratable teeth. On
the 28th, I had a session with my
( My medicine is kicking in now and I am nodding off here so I had
better give it up and try again tomorrow.) See you tomorrow.
It is tomorrow now (29th). I am just as drowsy as yesterday.
But here goes. Over the weekend (Friday 31st to Sunday,June 2nd
) I moved back upstairs to my own room. ( I had been moved down to the ground
floor after my knee operation and had
been living there for 3 months) I had to keep going upstairs to get some underwear
or a toothbrush or something that I needed from my room upstairs and I thought
it is now time to move back to my normal
habitat. I needed lots of help since I am not supposed to be picking up and
carrying heavy things since my spinal operation last November (am at the stage
in my life where I am slowly but surely falling apart)
Ever since the knee replacement
op, I have been having spasms (I counted 5 a minute—that is 300 an hour which
have been hounding me since the op on the 14th of March.) An MRI was
taken of my whole spine and the brain too but they could find no causal connection
between them and the spasms. (I wanted to get an affidavit from the neurologist
confirming that my brain is working ok show to my detractors). But, till now,
they have not been able to find the cause of the spasms. They are treating the
symptoms and not the cause(s).
The physiotherapist is frustrated
because when she tries to get my knee straight, the she
pushes down, the harder the spasm pushes back up to her so it cancels out her work
so she gets nowhere.
I am still able to drive (thank
the Lord) without being hindered by the spasms.
I have seen the neurologist twice in the past 4 weeks and the physiotherapist
also twice but no progress only upping the dosage of the pills I take and then
monitoring to see if they are having any effect…. So far only a drowsiness that
affects my sleeping positively. Otherwise the spasms keep coming
I was supposed to go on my
home leave this year but with this hanging over my head I had to cancel the
trip. Hopefully next year. We shall see.
In the meantime, I keep doing
my exercises and some new ones to try to force the knee to its proper place,
which takes a whole lot of care whingeing physio exercises. I am prepared to be
like this if I Have to be but I would prefer to get this thing straightened
out, (hey, I have got to go… I keep falling asleep. I will catch up with you
all tomorrow.
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