It's all free-falling from here

Good Evening ... world;

What a difference 24 hours can make in ones life.
I got hit a multiple of times ... sort of like getting hit behind the knees ( who remembers doing this to others? haha) I'm still moving and I know I am sitting down.

I can't begin to explain some of the happenings in just the past week ... then add today, which apparently began at 7:50 with a process server.  Then a brain therapy session, (i'm still not sure what the hell we are suppose to be accomplishing here)

I'm going to hit the pillows after a deep, deep shut off of my brain and hope for a better day tomorrow.
My mantra through this entire "ride" has been, if the opportunity is given to me to awake each morning, the least I can do is give the world my best shot. However ..... (you'll all just have to wait for the series) ... my right hand (dominant mind you) may be permanently damaged in my function.  Hmmmm .... chock up another one for the "systems."

On that note ... I am going to lay my head down and envision big, warm, solid arms to hold me in rest.

Peace and Light to all!!
Be good to each other ... please.
~ et ~

I'm wondering ....

Hello,

Found this cool, interesting (for the parts I got) article on the inflamatory response.
All I can wonder is ... especially if you see BOTH of my poor lil hands today :(
They resemble midgit catchers mitts .... it has been another morning of dropping s$%^!!

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/04/120402162546.htm

I SO NEED to pump up my "stemmie" supply!!! I hate it when it is your own body rendering attack.

Wishing all a peaceful and stress free week!!!
Peace and Light
  ~ et ~

I'm thinking the time has come ...

Hey All!

Now, for most, the below task would be fairly simple.
I just tossed the flipping thing as my right hand, my right eye, my brain ....
I have no clue what is wired to what these days ...
In any event, I have done nothing but drop things today ... (may have overdone yesterday) and my right hand/forearm/ and today, all the way up into my shoulder .... which means only one thing ....

I can't wait for justice to prevail, I will be calling my all time favorite ortho guy on Monday.  I guess it's time for me to pay through the nose for someone to talk to me in that southern charm tone ... LOL .... yeah, Go ahead, cut into me, make me scream in pain, lol ... just allow me to use a better portion of my hand before the nerve damage takes over and I lose function all together. I trust this man explicitly .... I am right-handed after all, and these past few months, each day I lose more of the function, and the burning pulling of something in there that shoots clean up to my shoulder, escepally at night.

Anyway ... I'm going to kick my task list to non-existent today and just be my new found ADD-self!!!
At least I am laughing .... I have too, I can't believe some of the completely stupid things I am finding myself doing .... peanut butter in the freezer ... something else that should have been in cupboard, was in the closet .... crazy and frustrating as I waste a lot of time roaming around looking for stuff .... at least I get my exercise.  So .... let's play ... you can chime in with your "humorous comments" .... wonder how many of you would say the same things I tell me and then bust out laughing .....

Riding the wave ....

Peace, Light and a Great weekend to all.

et



This STOKES my enthusiasm

Hi ~

I just wanted to post this news article on my friends with StemGenex ....
Collaboration is how it gets done folks. 

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases-test/stemgenex-on-exciting-new-adult-stem-cell-based-therapies-for-auto-immune-diseases-204279071.html

Just makes me feel good, restores some of my fallen faith in humanity. Enjoy the read ~
Peace, Light and Love
et

Prayers for my hometown

Please pray for Boston, my hometown.

Yes, I was born and bred in the Boston burbs.
Today's situation has my loved ones, and friends in a lock down mode, within less than a mile of what is happening today.  The entire situation just breaks my heart. I have many, many memories of our Boston Marathon outings, the family fun. I worked, played, and have many friends and loved ones right in this area of current danger ..... The victims of this tragedy are in my thoughts and prayers for strength and faith that they will survive these horrible acts.

My heart is in Boston, as you can take the girl out of the city, but you can't take the city out of her heart.

In Peace and Light
et

I don't get too excited about much these days

Greetings to my readers, and trolls alike.

This link is to the DRI - BioHub webcast a couple of weeks ago.
Not only did I really enjoy the webcast live, I am going to look forward to watching it again.
This is such an amazing collaboration of passion and science.

http://www.diabetesresearch.org/BioHub-Webcast?srctid=1&erid=1301700&trid=e7b69380-ce0d-4c3e-ae26-fbf0662cbdcc

Enjoy the read!!
In continued peace and light
et

Please, don't define my life as "tragic"

Good Sunday to all!!

Again, I apoligize for lack of posting. I am doing my very best to move forward, in life, in recovery from my injuries, as well as trying to maintain some sort of control in regard to my T1.

In conversation with a family member the other day, and a friend or 2 over the past few months, it has been stated that my life appears "tragic" to many. I can't help myself but chuckle at statements like this. My life is not tragic, but any means of the definition ... at least not in my opinion.  As a middle schooler, others made similar comments to my daughter, regarding life with me .... again, and she stated this, "she lives with it ... it does not define her!"  Out of the mouths of babes. 

In relation to the past 12-14 months ... my life has taken a turn that I had never imagined for myself. A complete transformation of sorts ... but in my heart and soul, I am the same person I have always been, just with a weeeeeee bit more challenge.  I am doing my best to work my way through all these changes ... and to be honest with you, it is sort of a liberating experience.  I am allowing myself the time, and the failures of such, to make my way.  I don't know how to put a price on the things I have lost ... that is not my main objective ... I DO, however, want those holding the cards, even though these individuals have done and been in the wrong, i.e., at fault .... to do what is right. I am skeptical at best.

I have learned even more about who I am, and what I am capable of and my compass to aim me in the appropriate direction so that I may move forward in a positive, serene, sort of manner. I know what I like, I know how to enjoy those around me ... and have chosen to surround myself with those who WANT to know me and what makes me get up in the morning .... lol .... I guess what some call "tragic", I call character strengths ... hehehe ... I am looking forward to being able to put my book project into some sort of tangible sort of income and look to helping move the stem cell science to the front of today's healthcare issues.  I am sick to death, no pun intended, of the wrong sorts of folks calling the shots on my life ... last time I checked, I did reside in a "free country" .... and I don't feel my take on it, is completely off base. 

Anyway ... I am going to take today and tomorrow rather easy ... just trying to finalize some of the last things to rid my surroundings of.  I am no different from you, I put my pants on the same way, cope with the same sort of self-doubt, and questions about the future many do, I just do it with obstacles of Type 1, the chronic, potentially fatal disease in which I have lived and dealt with my entire life ... or at least 40 of the last 50, and a brain injury inflicted on me by an individual who thought his actions apparently are of no fault of his own, and that my status has nothing to do with him or his actions.  I move forward ... regardless of my "status".  I have some really great people in my corner, excellent therapists, going beyond what I believe if the scope of involvement, wanting "what's right" .... and looking out to make sure I am, at least taken care of in terms of covering my expenses in the medical area alone, never mind the "pain and suffering" of it all. I don't know how to put a price on anything like that.

I am off to do some packing of my worldly possesions ... hehehe ... wishing you all a comforting, happy, and relaxing sort of day.

Peace and light
et

Interesting Article on Gene research and Type 1

I am not going to knock where the science is moving forward faster.
It is a collaborative effort on so many levels, and world-wide attention is bringing
some of the US scientists to light ...

Enjoy the read.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-03-08/wa-researchers-crack-diabetes-testing-code/4560306?section=wa


Peace and Light
et