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Friday Humor

I decided on quite an interesting blog for today, lay awake during the night planning it, thinking of all the quirky things to say, and lo and behold,....yes the train of thought left the station .

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"So lets talk about me baby"..You see, not only did I meet gravity, I have been diagnosed with a progressive disease called Essential Tremors.  That means, my hands shake, my legs quiver, and sometimes I feel my head quiver, and I wonder is it nodding YES or shaking NO.  Ok thats just my sense of humor.  

At the age of 15 I fell on my back at school during PT class was knocked out for a few minutes, but that never phased "godzilla" the teacher.  One Sunday we had some youth over for lunch and I kept dropping my knife and fork, my cooldrink glass would wobble as I brought it too my mouth.  We just thought it nervousness because a guy I fancied was sitting next to me. 

Later, working for a large Mining Company in Johannesburg, secretaries were rotated to serve to all the very high profiled mining magnates, my turn came, I was extra super nervous, cups were these fancy bone china noritake stuff.  So, carrying a tray of 12 cups and saucers with saucers made a jovial ting-a-ling chiming sound, suddenly silence....and I mean S I L E N C E, everyone looked up (say about 48+ mining male big shots) and there I froze, and all you heard was ting,ting ting ting ting ting ting ting.  An elderly gentleman stood up, took the tray from me..."there there my dear, you relieved from tea duty"..well, if I could evaporate there and then I would of.

Years later, when my dad was diagnosed with Parkinsons, I thought, maybe thats what it is, cause the doctors could never pin point the tremors and make a diagnosis, medications and xrays, ct scans and mri i have been through it.

2007 I was attacked with chronic tiredness, tests, medication, tests, and more tests.  A lot of speculative diagnosis.  Finally, July 2012, I was so zombie like, just living because I had to, I thought at one stage I would never see the end of 2012.  The August I was referred to a Neurologist who assessed me and yes..more tests, placed me on medication.  I went from zero km p hr to 120 km p hr in like 4 months, ready to take on Julius Malema if I had too. 

It was a good 2013 until I hit gravity and broke my leg.  My shakes have deteriorated to such an extent I cannot write or sign my signature, its ziggity zaggity squiggles, my concentration span lasts from here to there and then I have to ask you to please repeat yourself, I am not forgetful, I just cannot focus, particularly when it is important things that need my attention. When i'm anxious or stress its aggravated even more, I have had to (shamefacedly) ask my ex and his wife to help me with managing my finances, and some independance is being challenged as I find it difficult to drive when my legs go all wobbledy gook on me.  Oh, try to drive and when you stop at a robot and you wonder how you got there, the journey in between is non existent.  Scary stuff...even I think so now that im actually sharing my thoughts with you.

Well, work has now become an impossibility for me, so I now need to hear if they will put me on disability retirement.  Lets hope and pray it all goes thru soon!

We have a joke here at home, a new energy saving mechanism to make milkshake, beat up cream, froth milk for coffee, just give it to me I will shake it up for you.

Is humor necessary when you have an illness or a disability?  What do you think?

as usual, its time to sign off,   raising my cuppa coffee to you