ya hoo!!! its me again... yesterday was temple day and it was a looong one. we leave here at about 1:30 in the afternoon and we got home at 11:30.. so today I am tired..also saturday is increase the med day... but life is so good. I just love my sisters in the temple.. what a family.
today is kinda clean up day.. straighten things.. anything except what I really should do, which is make bread.
My quote for the day is "1. learn to love your calling in life and in church
(I teach the 4 year old... who couldnt love that) 2. Learn to be satisfied... it is more pleasant 3.Learn to accept adversity....your going to have some. 4.Get in the habit of saying pleasant things...not negative remarks 5. Live in the present to the hilt...sucess is a journey...not a destination. 6.Live and honor the covenants (baptism and temple) 7.At the age of 70 + resist the urge to straighten out everyones affairs. So what advise can I give you today to help you straighten out your affairs? Love ya robin

Its me again.....wow

Last time that I was at Terry lees home.. I spied her little note book of interesting thoughts....So I got me a mediun size pink spiral note book..(so it is easy to find) and began collecting my own.....or someone elses thoughts...it is about 1/2 fulll now and I take it to church and if the talks get toooo boring during sacrament meeting.. I can read something worth while....
Neal Maxwell...."We knew before we were born that we were coming to earth for bodies and experiences and that we would have joys and sorrow, ease and pain, comforts and hardships, health and sickness, success and disappiontments. We knew also that after a period of life we would die, we accepted all that eventualities with a glad heart, eager to accept both the favorable and the unfavorable. We eagerly accepted that chance to come earthward even though it might be for only a day or a year. Perhaps we were not so much concerned whether we should die of disease, of accident or of senility. We were willing to take life as it came and as we might organize and control it and this withou murmur, complaint or unreasonable demands.

Sometimes that is a hard concept to remember. love ya robin

My last blog was on Jan. 14 2008... so today I celebrate by writing a new blog...
I was unable to get into my site.... so nan helped me and here I am again.

PARKINSON AND ME

I had wondered for some time about the changes that felt were not right for me. So when I went to the Dr. in mid December, I asked her... could parkinsons be genetic? She said "possibly...WHY?" I explained to her what I had observed and said it seemed similar to what my father had gone through.... ( he lived to be 92 years old). After she had me walk down the hallway and bent my elbow a few times and asked about what I had precieved?

I told her about the weariness, weakness ( I have always been very strong),, stumbling into objects ( doorways, tables etc.) , shaking hands(especially my left hand) and choking on food or water.

She put me on ropinrole.25 mg 3 times a day.. for a week. and then increase it every week until I was up to 1mg..3 time s aday. It has really been fun..

Ropinirole causes nausea, dizziness, drowsiness, trouble sleeping, weakness, dry mouth. So about an hour after I take the pill morning sickness hits.... I go to bed at 10:30 and wake up between 1am and 2am.. so I go out to the recliner and wrapup in a warm blanket and fall back to sleep. but I am not complaining.

Parkinsons is caused by a group of basal gangli, deep in the center of the brain. These gangli are responsible for movement. PD is a loss or damage to the dopimine receptors in this region. PD is deggeneration of a number of nuclei in the dopamine producing nerve cells in the brainstem. Dopamine is a neuro transmitter that stimulates motor neurons... the cells that control the muscles. By the time the symptoms appear I have lost about 80% or more of the dopamine producing cells.

Looking back....myhands began shaking in 1982,,I noticed in an art class age47 restless foot movement...began 1999 age64

balance problems..about2006 age 71

walking steps didnt seem smooth 2008 age 73

left hand shaking ... dec. 2008 age 73

choking...nov 2008 age 73

voice changes (sounds like I have a frogin my throat...dec 2008

The best defence is to exercise daily. delete stress from my life, exercise my mind. etc. etc.

So every day will be a new adventure

every day will carry with it a responsibility

I will make the most of everyday

come what may... and love it.

Information if such a good tool.. I thought I would share with anyone who is interested Love ya, robin