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 Latest News for the Month of

October 2005

    It's a new month and fall is upon us. Thing's have been moving fast around here lately as we try and get ready for the big move. I hired an excavator to level out the drive and haul away allot of dirt that he cut down from the driveway at the house on State St. This will make it much easier for me to get the coach parked now. Of course nothing goes according to plan and the excavator hit the sewer pipe. So that will need to be fixed before the drive is finished.

The packing is coming along but is a slow process. I guess I don't need to explain how much fun that is.....NOT. It's during that time when you find things you have been looking for as well as discover allot of things you been  " collecting " and now wonder " do I really need this anymore " ?

On the health front things are a bummer. My blood volume shot up unexpectedly along with my platelets which normally spells problems. The girls at the hospital were happy to take a unit of blood off me and that went smoothly as always. True to form though I threw another small blood clot to the brain again. I cant blame anyone for this because I have been skipping my weekly lab tests and my blood levels just got away from me. This clot appears to be a TIA ( mini stroke ) and I am sure I will bounce back in a few months time but the portion of the brain it got tends to make you a very hard person to live with. :) No patience, a bit angry at times and any stimulation from a few people's voices at once sends the brain into a tail spin. So I have laid off the phone, not talked much to people, have avoided crowds and am simply trying to take it easy. I can't explain just how the brain reacts, but stimulation in anything other then small doses sets the brain into action which starts to shut your thought processes down. Its a protection mechanism the brain undertakes to protect itself ( and you ). When it happens I normally drop everything I am doing, remain quiet, no music, TV, conversations, computer, etc. and then things slowly return to normal. The best way to explain what it feels like is to have someone sit you in a chair, line up 10 people across from you and have them ask you questions - all at the same time. Nothing registers, you don't remember anything and your brain goes hey wire from the stimulation and you feel like your going to go nuts or just scream. That's basically the way I feel when people talk to fast or when I am concentrating and trying to figure out a problem. The more I stimulate the brain, the worse it becomes. I can honestly say, thank God I have no little kids in the house. If I did, I would probably be moving into the coach by myself. I simply cannot handle screaming kids, loud noises or chatty people. Thankfully, Ingrid is a quiet person, she never raises her voice and she is very keen about this problem. She works overtime to keep things quiet around the house. She has been through this before with me and has had some conversations with my neuro Doctor. He counseled her on how to handle me during moments that my brain begins to fizzle.

I have so much to say here, but don't want to over stimulate your brain so will cut this short. I will add more later. In the meantime, be safe, enjoy and remember everything in moderation. :)

More Later,

Chris

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