October30, 2019.

QUALITY OF LIFE (in spite of spasms)

Before the drugs (medicines)

85%

1.       Able to drive 

2.       Took services at

-Srs. of Mother Theresa—Monday eve.Shallcross

-services at St. mary’s hosp.—Tues and Thurs mornings,

-Service at Savannah Park on Sundays

3. Drove to appts, for doctors and physios

4. Shopping---Pavilion, Pinecrest, Knowles, Pick N Pay, Pinecrest

5. Climb stairs with crutch—no problem.

6. Services and meals downstairs-walk with one crutch

7, Dress and shower self

8. Visit sick people in hospital and at home.

9. Could walk to garage to fetch car and return it. (100 meters)

10. Slept well at night

(Spasms came after sitting or lying down. When you were busy during the day

You didn’t notice them although they were 24/7)

(Didn’t appreciate my quality of life---nothing to compare it with…)

After taking the medicine---Oct.1,2019

(a cocktail of medicines, mu quality of life dropped down to about .05

-i can’t drive

-I can’t climb stairs

-for a while, I needed the food to be brought to

-couldn’t attend Mass

-medicine caused hallucinations—drugged

-still feel the spasms, though less often

-confused—seeing double-----pres p and get x or pres5 and get 3,

couldn’t communicate either by phone or computer- very frustrating

--after a week Dr. Bhagwan said to cut the dose in half.

-I want to cut the dose in half again and then ease off altogether and

Be drug free.

-I shuffle, I don’t walk. I use a 4 legged walker but am frightened about

Falling—not confident---need something to hang onto (A wall, a bed,

A table, a chair, a desk, anything, to feel somehow secure.

In the beginning, my life was eat, sleep, eat, sleep, eat sleep…not my idea of quality

Of life. It is improving slightly and slowly. I seem to be always sleepy, especially

After breakfast and lunch.

    The medicine is also causing constipation…but we are dealing with that problem.

Hopefully, by Christmas I will be back in shape. (fingers and toes crossed and prayer)

I hope to have better news net time. Thanks for all the moral and spiritual support.