The day after........

the symposium about PD I was only able to barely lift the remote as I lay (mentally and physically) exhausted from all the important info presented by knowledgable neurologists. I will definitely attend next years meeting. Highlights include 1) a lady sitting next to me told me she pees on herself every day (I didn't ask) !! and 2) at least 10 people told me they liked my T-shirt (PARKINSONS SUCKS ) and lastly 3) saw many friends from PD classes I participate in.....all kind and friendly and they 'get' it (pd)

AND MEA CULPA MEA CULPA to my friend Roz who has been my friend since college ..... and my brain memory forgot the 1968-1972 mostly wonderful years at Syracuse University.
There are I am sure others have been deleted unintentionally.....SORRY
love you Roz then and now

Have a WHATEVER week !!!

There is a little trail off Tildenwood Lane  that passes by an old structure. I don't know what it was or is but I think its , but very picturesque. A little creek is nearby. Yesterday I went there just to  calm down (stressful day) and breathe and what I saw was that a huge dead tree had fallen on top with strewn branches everywhere. AND then it hit me (not the tree).....I had a pretty calm week and then a storm (metaphorically) came and I felt buried under the limbs and branches and twigs. The storm of course is PD. Not the physical manifestations of PD but the anxieties. I spent most of Friday on the phone with Medicare, Drs., Workmans comp, and insurance companies. Issues with my car, bird feeders, plans made and changed, and OF COURSE today Saturday I will attend an all day PD symposium in Va.
This is a major WHATEVER day for me. Get over 'it'. I can still talk and walk and drive . And write.

These pictures are me and my Zippy and Rita and her Zippy. We each still have our Zippys . No,we didn't bring them to school with us. But a life long connection between me and monkeys (technically chimps) and me and friends is priceless and exciting !! ! 
And then yesterday I heard from another friend I hadn't communicated with in quite a while....(I knew some stuff because of Facebook) and when we spoke it was like it was 1987 (when we met a summer camp as adult division leaders.) Fran and have both been through a lot but can laugh like we both are thinking WHATEVER or WTF !!!!!!!!!

I have made life long friends in each decade of my life...1950s my sister Janice, 1960s Rita, 1970s Carol, 1980s Fran, 1990s Rhonda, Fredda, Arona and if I forgot you lets blame it on PD. I meet new friendly interesting people all the time but names often escape my short term memory bytes.(very disturbing to forget so much)

I went to the Apple Store for a class about photos. 
Don't remember much.

Gotta go. Jeopardy is on. 
Diane

The ice preserved the daffodils very well. Apparently not so the cherry blossoms. Lets blame Trump.

A VERY WEIRD cosmic karma event happened to me last week. My friend Rhonda and I took a drive to Georgetown and I was reminiscing about when I was in junior high my friend Rita and I used to take the bus to Georgetown to "shop.".... because our ultra sophisticated and cool French teacher Miss Murphy got her hair done in Georgetown. Major student-teacher crush

The NEXT day I received an email from .......yes......Rita !!! We had not communicated in years. She had recently come across some letters we used to write to each other, mostly during math class, about anything and everything....Rita mailed me one of the letters today and it reads very much like one (or any) of my blogs, the only difference in that instead of photos I drew lots of little pictures. Drawings of other kids, the teachers with labels (lumpy Lemanski, and manly Mattes the pe teacher) . Amazing to me is how little I have changed !!!!! in the note there are lots of references to how fat I was......my weight at the time was MAYBE 138. And it was fairly entertaining.....I think I still am.


Diane Galin
Eastern Jr. High
Silver Spring md
1962 or 1963

Okay local fauna on Hitching Post Place
You win, take the seed. I give up. I concede.

In nature, its always survival of the cleverest 
Clearly you're the victor, accept it with grace.

To the mice, moles,voles and squirrels
Deer, chipmunks, birds or a bear please 
SHARE 

I don't make up stories for the blog. I may edit my own thoughts, delete info, exclude certain details, but I tell the truth.

I woke up this AM, found my glasses on the floor (I often fall asleep with my glasses on) put them on and noticed a smudge on the left lens. Wiped it clean.Put glasses back on. Something still isn't right. I move the glasses around my nose. Then I look at the glasses again. Guess what....the right side lens is missing.....no glass.....I look around.....it is on the floor. I pop it back in the frame, and wonder whether or not to share this sad tale of  " DUH ".

Learned an important tip yesterday for those of us with short term memory issues (CRS...can't remember shit). When you park your car in a BIG multilevel or expansive lot, take a pic of the number of the spot or level (easy to find) then you don't panic  when you are done shopping and try to remember 1. which way you came in (malls have multiple exits) 2. that you even took a picture of the parking space.


Diane

This image (couldn't get my phone fast enough for a live pic) was what I saw at 3 am at my bird feeder. A big beautiful deer (no antlers) was standing at the bird feeder happily eating my birdseed . Just the perfect height so the dear deer didn't have to stretch or bend  to eat. I tapped the window...he/she ran only a few yards away and came right back....so I tapped louder..... off she/he ran further...I went back to sleep...don't know if there was a return visit.

So I of course I went to the computer to see how to keep deer away (without any harm) and found out that deer don't like Irish Spring soap and human hair. Okay. Got the soap, but not a lot of extra human hair.....I'm keeping what I have thank you.

1st time I see a bear at the feeder will be the last day I feed anyone
 but cats and humans.
Tonite I have put large plastic bags over the feeders (another internet suggestion). Come on....I dare ya.....

Diane

This crazy weather is exhausting my cats.
80* to 20* in 2 days. For me every bone, neuron, muscle & tendon aches. PD exercise and yoga stretches out the tightness....meditation relaxes (at least for a few moments) the anxiety of daily living.
                                    
       I have gone to 2 support group meetings at St. Marks. I am the only woman (so far) and I find it very interesting to hear what the concerns of the men are.....meds (timing/effectiveness) and giving up driving (a man without a car is a major BIG deal). Looking forward to learning more about men and PD, since my personal experiences have been about myself, my grandma and my mom.

HEY gotta go and do some birding and squirreling and weeding and landscaping and writing and repurposing furniture ... the usual self assigned chores and duties of a WOMAN with PD.

Diane