Well, hello again! It's been a while, I know, and a lot has happened. Let me catch you up. (How cute is this little girl waving at you right now? I love her!)
1) It has been more than two years since my stroke(s). I'm doing well. My leg and arm are still not at
pre-stroke capacity, but I manage. I walk with a pretty solid limp, but I'm choosing to ignore that in favor of the first two words of this sentence--namely that I WALK. Anything else is just gravy.2) My shoulder is almost complete unfrozen. Yay!
3) I just got done with a 2-month second job to help out with some bills because:
4) In May of this year, I filed for divorce. I moved out of the house we shared in August. Two things on that--moving sucks rocks and also moving is EXPENSIVE. I'll catch up--I'm getting there, but starting up a new household is challenging. Anyway, it's a bummer, but something that needed to happen. Neither of us was happy and we both deserve to be. I don't know if it's a relief to him, but not having to be constantly unhappy is a relief to me. It's nice to have my own place. I feel sort of like a real adult for the first time.
Along the way, of course, there have been other little things--I've been using my insulin pump for a year and my A1C is down to 7.1. That's the best it has been since diagnosis. The pump is a lifesaver! I've been retaining about 30 pounds of water for a while now, and we can't figure out why. So we threw a couple of pills at it and now I pee all the time. So I've got that going for me. I've got the girls the majority of the time, so we're settling down to yet ANOTHER new normal. It's always an adventure around here! Honestly, though, I'd probably be bored otherwise.
How is everyone else doing? Anything new going on out there?
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