Mid-Saturday afternoon. You are at Pine Hill
Lakes Park in the far north lot facing south on this clear brisk day. This is
after a late lunch at Smashburgers. Carol is beginning Harlan Corbin’s Fool
Me Once. Earlier this afternoon you were both spreading six bags of mulch under
the bushes around the two utilities containers between King’s house and yours. –
Amorella
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hours. We’ve had those bags in the garage since May but we had to wait until
those bushes were trimmed a few weeks ago. It has been a really good day for
some outside work. I am still excited seeing that Joe and Jason finished the
bathroom tile yesterday and that the new flooring is down. It is looking like a
bathroom once again. Monday Basco is coming to measure for the shower and
Tuesday Joe and Jason are out to grout. Later in the week Dan will be out to
paint.
You have begun listing the hallucinations in
Oliver Sacks’ book that you have experienced. Your doctor assured you that you
do not have MS. This is what Dr. Ten Pas stated. – Amorella
** **
“You have a small benign tumor between the
two halves of the brain. Not to worry as it should not grow further as you are
older. Your cerebellum looks very healthy. The rest of your brain looks good
except for a bit of hardening of the arteries at the top left of the lateral
ventricle (the central cavity). This has been caused by high blood pressure
even though the blood pressure has been treated on and off since 1960 (mostly
on since 1972). You have no autoimmune diseases and no inflammations in the
brain. You do not have multiple sclerosis though this was suggested as a
problem. You do have:
12.6:
Occipital neuralgia
The
IHS description of occipital neuralgia is the following: occipital neuralgia is
a paroxysmal jabbing pain in the distribution of the greater or lesser
occipital nerves, accompanied by diminished sensation or dysaesthesiae in the
affected area. It is commonly associated with tenderness over the nerve concerned.
Diagnostic criteria: pain is felt in the distribution of greater or lesser
occipital nerves.” - Dr. Ten Pas,
Neurologist, Cincinnati
** **
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hours. I know I have mentioned this before but I feel more comfortable with
this in context.
Tonight you watched NBC News, a “Blue Bloods”
and “Blindspot”. – Amorella
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hours. We decided are better off stopping television after nine o’clock. The
day was both busy and relaxing, particularly since we didn’t have to get up at
seven as we do when Joe and Jason are here. – I don’t think I’ll have all that
many examples of hallucinations. Most are visual, a few audio (voices or
classical music), a few aromas, mostly burning flesh and hot or cold flashes or
goose bumps felt at times of hallucinations of a presence, usually sensed from
an upper corner of the room in front of me, usually the right corner. I know I have mentioned some of
these from time to time. These are not ‘flash’ sensed. Flashes are something
different; a pop up from the unconscious is the best way to describe it.
Flashes are not dreams either. The focus of this is on showing I have some
mental disturbances from time to time but I understand them for what they are,
and if I am not sure I still have strong doubts as to their authenticity other
than from mental dysfunction, mostly I think, from the left/right temporal lobe
or perhaps just above the brainstem or cerebellum (intuitively the center brain
location). - rho
You don’t have to go through and list them
if you don’t wish, but if they come to memory write them down at that time.
This was not an assignment as such. – Amorella
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hours. I would feel more comfortable not making a list as such – it seems to me
counterproductive.
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