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HAPPY FALL EVERYBODY! Isn't it amazing how fast it has made it through this season? I used to love kicking though the leaves that weren't swept up on the sidewalks, and collecting horse chestnuts and buffing them to a nice shine. When I was a kid I planted several right next to the side of our house, and my Mom got mad at me because by then then, in one year, they were two feet tall! At least they were easy to pull out. 888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888 I've had a rough patch lately with more optic neuritis. This is impacting both my blogging and my reading of all those mysteries and 1000 books DH loaded on my laptop.Talk about bad timing. Fortunately I have had the occasional day when the ON abates and I can read or do the Zen thing,  but I have to be careful because I am also noticing a bit of double vision. My MS sucks for sure. Right now I am working on a 9x11 piece which I plan to mat and frame to hang somewhere; perhaps in the...

Ever want to say, "Whoa, Willy!!"? Me, too. Life hasn't been kind to me lately, and it's not the MS I'm talking about. It's my new chair, and it's Medicare, and it's sales people who don't really give a damn, and it's Drs. who let orders sit on their desks because they are too busy to catch up on their paperwork which I imagine is tremendous. Well, MS did play its part in the story, I guess, because without it I wouldn't need the chair in he first place, now would I? But it now plays just a bit part in this drama. I have needed this chair for quite some time, at least according to my E-mail records, going back well over a year now, in 2012 when I was trying to get ahead of the game and getting a mobility assessment from a PT and being taken too literally from my doctor  (my PCP) who took me off that year-long list after I expressed my upset wait for one. [talk about a run-on sentence!] Really? And now she treats me just l...