MS and Boredom, Brother Set the Record Straight

     What do you do with endless time on your hands? I’ve seen every mountain men episode on tv, read everything on the internet, what do I do now? I’m starting to have cognitive issues, hard to concentrate, remember things, reading has suffered as a result. I don’t drive anymore so I am limited to places I get to in the wheelchair, you take your life into your hands doing that, besides I don’t have anywhere I want to go. Boredom is my kryptonite, to all of those who have told me I’m so lucky not to have to go to work I say can you really not understand what this is like? It will be boredom that kills the beast, not beauty.

     I got a phone call from the father, one of the siblings called him and said I had blogged about the wedding, it was important to them I knew the brother didn’t want to invite me, he did it because the father asked him to. Ok? I stand by what I said, it took huge balls to ask me. Man up and own what you did, but that’s really not his style.

I'm Bored To Tears, And Rosie Is The Best Girl Dog In Perry Hall

What to do, what to do?  Getting harder with each passing day to answer that question.  I've read every page on the internet, played every game, so what do I do now?  We haven't opened the pool, the wife is so busy running with her parents it didn't seem worth it?  "My" garden is a joke this year for the same reason, only thing I did was my lettuce table and that's played out already.  The boredom is becoming as much an issue as the pain and dysfunction, been home now almost 16 years, running out of things to do.  Not a people person, the local clubs send me thank you cards periodically for staying away, need to find my "thing".

Rosie has been a great addition to the family!  Now when I talk during the day there is a living thing to respond to me.  Yeah, she gives me the same vacant stare most humans give me, but she is by my side all day until the wife gets home.  Sure, she ate my shoes and my favorite hat, and all the remote controls, and all the throw pillows, and anything paper she can get her paws on, but who among us hasn't had that same urge?  She loves tomatoes and carrots, especially if the tomato is on the perfect sammich you constructed with your favorite ingredients and left it on the table to run to the bathroom.  If she is off somewhere in the house and someone rings the doorbell she runs to me and sits while barking to protect me.  Yeah, should have done it a long time ago!