Family Update, Social Media On Hold

A lot going on around here, more than I care for. The father and the sister both had cancer surgery, made out really well, but it was still cancer. I'm rehabbing after back surgery, the time I spent down really took it's toll. I had a ruptured disc, did it sitting on the commode, turned for something and felt it go. I need to come up with a better story, like it happened wrestling a group of terrorists trying to abduct a busload of preschoolers? Doing P/T here at home, the gal comes twice a week, can't believe how hard these simple exercises are. The father in law isn't adjusting well to life alone, 62 years of marriage will do that, breaks my heart.

I got off of all the social media like Facebook, hard to sit here and see what others are doing? Envy and such feelings really aren't aren't my style, but I was beginning to struggle with the things I saw my friends were doing, I didn't like it. Going to start blogging here again, working on gathering info for a project I'm interested in, even if it goes no further it will stimulate my brain, so that's a good thing. I will miss it, but it was starting to depress me more than it made me smile.

MS Treatment Redux, Social Media Makes My Head Explode

The medicine for the leg pain I'm taking is called Gabapentin, it's the generic for Neurontin, have to say, so far so good.  Let's face it, the pain is never going to go away, but if this stuff can make it manageable I'm in!  Also have rethought the IVIG therapy.  The neuro called the other day and urged me to do it, said the bad side effects date back to when the blood supply was untested, so I'm going to give it a whirl, can't live forever, right?

Trying to figure out the usefulness of social media, think I may be more suited to reading?  I have a Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest account, but it tends to get on my nerves more than it informs me and makes me think, wow, that was interesting.  It be nice if it was chock full of original content, more pictures of folks and interesting tidbits from their lives, less "shares" of someecards with quippy sayings.  I can only take so many pictures of kittens with "smile" attached to them, or 25 ways to fry an egg!