Bright Ideas

If you read this on Thursday, I’ll be making my least favorite trip to Billings. If I have my new wheelchair, the trip will be more comfortable. The trip is to have the treatment for jaw pain. That treatment had been scheduled originally for the first week in January, rescheduled for the first week in February, rescheduled again for the first week in April, and finally the second week in May.

All that rescheduling was the result of snow. Are we safe now? All medical trips should be scheduled in spring and fall. This treatment will shoot radiation into the nerve that was causing me all the jaw pain last year. The nerve has been quiet for a couple of months now, but after the trip it should be permanently quiet.

Then my neurologist will schedule Ocrevus infusions, IV treatments to slow the progression of MS. MS was supposed to slow down in “older” people. ‘Guess it doesn’t realize I’ve gotten older.

I’m still sitting in a wheelchair I’ve had for 16 years. I can’t get replacement parts anymore; the chair went the way of the dinosaurs—it’s extinct. The next one I receive will be built to fit me. It could even correct some of the twisting of my torso my old chair couldn’t address.

Maybe I’ll get out more.