Archive for May, 2009
To continue on from May 23 and my next move.
I have a lot of ideas to pass on now. Depending on where you live you will
find that there may not be any separation of meals and room and services.
I was quite awhile finding this one
Then to have your toenails looked after can cost $19 to $40 a month without
any massage and bring your own towel.
Then there is a big difference between retirement residence and nursing
home. This one is both.
L also found out that there can be large bachelor apt. and small ones.
Nice to be near down town. Also pay attention to what is beside you.
I can add a lot of services—-a la carte.
If anyone wants to send me an email use sid@allcorn.ca : Still later.
I’m Moving Again, Five Moves Around in Two to Three Years
Yup I am into the only residence I have been able to find that has a full kitchen + full bathroom + handicapped bars (not drinking type) + first floor so like a motel entrance or through a hall way.
The best part is the full separation of meals and apartment. All others and one I stayed in for a few months charge huge fees + some meals are obligatory .
As life goes on I can get whatever services I want to add on .
Well I started my little note too late in the day and must get my beauty sleep .
Will tell you more about it in the morning.
Don`t forget the challenge re the weight loss (see May 21). Only 14 days till we start!
Challenge from Sid Allcorn head blogger.
Hi everybody. Please read the entry from May 21 under “Living with Parkinson’s” called “Challenge.”
We already have gotten $15 so you would have tripled your money and lost weight which you were supposed to do anyway–right?? So on July 22 we all win anyway.
Well you may wonder why I put this under the “Living with Parkinson’s” heading? First of all I am in this and may in fact win some money on July 22. Secondly my Parkinson’s Doctor says that it could add 50 years which would mean that I could live until I am 124 ( 50 + 74 (as of June 11) =124) and there are so many things I want to do I could sure use it. I sure don’t want to be awarded posthumously for all my hard work.
You only have until June 10 to enter (see blog May 21)
Challenge
I now weigh 239.6lbs, anybody interested in a 5$ challenge to lose weight?
Let’s say every Wednesday there will be a weigh in. Somehow you will let me know what you have lost. Use the blog (see below).
All you will do by June 10, 2009;
1.) have sent me your $5 and email.
2.) I will assign you a number that will exclusively be yours to report and no names to the blog.
3.) immediately you will send me (using the number) an entry to the blog with your weight.
Now every Wed using the number I gave you, you will let me know your weight and I will post everybody by number only.
There will not be any return of the $5 even if you quit.
Let’s try for June 17, 24, July 8, 15 and July 22 will be final weigh in. I will announce on the July 22 the winner and how much they lost and he/ she will get all the money that has been sent to me.
Another Great Day in Parkinson’s Land
I was so concerned that my son-in-law would not finish his roof in time before the rain that I asked God to put them off until he could finish.
I felt so lost as I could not get on the roof and help him out. Well God went one better – not only did He keep the heavy rains away but He also gave me a way to help. I guess you have to have specially cut shingles for the roof peak and they go right down the whole peak- and you need a lot of them.
So I asked about doing it for him. Well for the last two days I sat in the shed and cut what are called caps. I think that it helped as with the project to bolster my self esteem .
What I Learned About Myself While Working on my Wood Project
Remember how I reported going ahead with a wood project the other day. I also said how I would pass along what I thought I had learned about myself.
Well it actually took 2 days but I finished it. My Daughter said it was the nicest project I had ever done.
It was a planter with 47 parts that I had cut out on my table saw.
Here are all the things I was able to confirm about my life.
1.) Tremendous sense of accomplishment. Realized that in life generally the measure of accomplishment is commensurate to the level of difficulty.
2.) To read about how difficult something is not enough you have to try to do it as well.
3.) Feeling for something truly comes from some kind of experience with it.
4.) I liked the feelings and want more of the same.
5.) Feel pride and want people to see it, maybe even sell it.
6.) In my latest writing I must devise ways of getting my characters to experience the very thing I want them to do when I am gone and some game is no substitute.
7.) The very idea of the dangers involved can so easily become the very reasons for tackling or not tackling it. Much easier to not.
8.) The interest and challenge made it so that I never slept during day and stood up for hours even though most days I can hardly get up let alone stand for any length of time.
I sincerely hope that you will tackle your next project with Vim, Vigour, Authority and it`s good to be handicapped.
A Kind of Neat Day with Parkinson’s
Well my daughter cut out a wood project for me to do. It is a step planter. So I just pretended I was no longer handicapped and went to Home Depot to get seven 8′X1″X2″ boards.
Anyway, got some nails and glue and I guess looked pretty funny with seven eight foot boards balanced across my nexus walker (which is a loaner till mine is fixed). Well I have a power saw and proceeded to cut them into forty-seven smaller boards. I guess this not a thrilling story but the power of being a fully operating human being for a day was very thrilling for me.
More tomorrow as I am a little tired now. I ‘ll tell what I learned today about me that might help you.
The World News Last Night Really Upset Me!
I don’t know how many of you know about or listen to CBC during the night time but I do be as countries do reports on their happenings both within and in areas of the world.
Since I am still involved with the theme of my first book through the writing of a third one it has become important for me to have an up to date report on human rights, poverty, women’s rights, uses of words like empathy, love, compassion, united nations , miracles and youth. There was a report from some country on what was called Honour Family Killing.
If you wish to not know what this is then I suggest you don’t read any further. It is utterly disgusting, sickening and if we do not get rid of it then I would not be surprised to wake on some morning in the near future and discover that in fact we were faced with annihilation through a new flu bug that we could not fight. God should not be alone on this one!
Here is a small sample report from the internet to inform you.
Thousands of Women Killed for Family “Honour”
Hillary Mayell for National Geographic News
February 12, 2002Hundreds, if not thousands, of women are murdered by their families each year in the name of family “honour.” It’s difficult to get precise numbers on the phenomenon of honour killing; the murders frequently go unreported, the perpetrators unpunished, and the concept of family honour justifies the
act in the eyes of some societies.Most honour killings occur in countries where the concept of women as a vessel of the family reputation predominates, said Marsha Freemen, director of International Women’s Rights Action Watch at the Hubert Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota.
There were a number of stories of terrible situations. I guess this happens in 15 to 20 countries. We just finished celebrating Mother’s day.
I would like to reprint what I wrote for that day here. You can find it in the Inspirational category as well.
A Mother’s Day Prayer
It seems you had a little problem when you first introduced a Woman on the scenes. Thank you God for persevering and making her the very best of all. Down through all of History she has inspired by her beauty and presence in a world that would be so drab without her. So many Women have suffered needlessly because like a fragile beautiful flower they did not protest.God, may we yet begin to appreciate their brilliance and let You know on special days like this that we wonder at their bravery and courage. You allowed us all to come to them as Mothers and lay our head upon their breast and cry when things went wrong and know the strength you caused to flow when we had done something wrong.
God bless these Women all as nurses when we all fall, teachers who guide the little ones, and all the professions opening up as we now know that their caring nurturing spirit will save us all. So hug your Mom and hold her close as she is the most precious gift that God could give you most of all.
Amen, and love you Mom.
Bye for now everybody.
To Continue the Saga of a Typical Parkinson’s Doctor Visit
I`m not sure what I want to say but I do know that I am getting tired of the dead air when I do see him. Each time it seems as if he has to look over the file and try to make some intimate remark that I guess is suppose to show that he does remember me.
Last visit I asked about the doctor in Toronto who had written up about some electrical gadget that you wore in the back of the knee to help stimulate movement. Well he must have gotten confused because he said “oh yes you are the one who was looking into the laser cane.” Well I guess I can forget any electrical impulses – oh well I`m probably too far gone to bother any way.
In business when someone comes up with an item or new product shouldn’t there be enough concern to follow it up or get some in so that some follow-up be pursued on person`s behalf. Why would’t the doctor behave in a similar way?
Never is there any participation by the doctor to start something – it all seems to come from me. The only way I got on the Azilect was to keep asking if there was anything new. Then when I did get them I had an awful time trying to get his support to fill in the forms for financial support. Now I must give him credit he did give me a few sample freebies.
I`m not sorry to be so negative because it is my life and I have the top doctor in the land, who by the way is a very pleasant performer, but if Parkinson`s is a unique individual disease why am I being seen only every 6 months and asked to walk down his corridor or flap my hands? Maybe it may be that he has too many patients or is required to spend too much time on research (that nobody can afford anyway). How about getting a couple of those laser canes in (I wonder what would happen if I did it on behalf of the society)? Let`s see if they are practical and do help or get some big medical supplier to try them out. I just got me a $10,000 to $11,000 power wheel chair provided by ADP to the tune of 75%. So I guess we live in a country that looks after its handicapped but gosh how many laser canes or electrical gadgets or medications could we supply for that same amount.
Let’s see some comments to this blog. Not finished yet -I have some other stuff too.
How about somebody calling the Parkinson`s Society and finding out if anybody is following this blog or not. I can`t seem to get through. The pamphlets say to contact 613-722-9238. Good Luck…
Is Anybody Out There?
I wish there was someone out there who would comment. It gets kind of lonely when you get to think like you are on the Titanic and everyone has left and you are all alone and going down to DAVY JONES LOCKER.
This has been a learning experience but I need now to know that someone is reading this and agrees or disagrees with what I put here or what would be great would be for someone who is employed in some aspect of the Parkinson’s work to get upset and present counter arguments.
Another feature I am trying to cultivate is the writing of my novel. I just sent out to some folks a copy of book 2 and asked for reviews —- I did not get one back. Now I had thought that some of you would join me on these novel adventures. Here is an opportunity to get into print. As a matter of fact why not put a review right here and spark some interest or concern. Just send me an e-mail at sid@allcorn.ca and say, “send me book two.”
I can send you the cover now too—it is really different. See what a “Read-it -to -me-book ” is all about. I also came up with what I think is a unique explanation of miracles.
This is all in the life of a Parkinsonian. Is your life this full? It’s great.
