-
Blast from the past Very First post!
Here is my very first post dated July 1, 2009. WOW a lot has changed! I now have 3 perfect Grandbabies! I no longer work as a receptionist. Now I babysit full time. Somethings stayed exactly the same…. I still can’t handle stress without eating. I still could easily eat a 1lb bag of peanut butter M&M’s at one sitting. (Notice how I am now avoiding all mention of dieting!??! Yea….. oh well, 2013 is a new year right??) Let’s get this party started!! Hello! As you may have read from my bio my name is Connie. I’m 51. Married mother of 3. First time Grandma with 1 absolutely PERFECT…
-
Time to put the Whine back in the Peanut Butter!
When this blog first started I intended to have an outlet for me to WHINE about being a caregiver for someone with Multiple Sclerosis. Now, it’s time to put this segment back in. So Sunday’s will be a posts will be about MS from a caregivers side. DH has had MS for 15 years.First we start with the basics. What is MS……Multiple Sclerosis is not contagious or hereditary. It’s not a mental illness. It is a disease of the central nervous system (the brain, spinal cord, and nerves). Nerves have a protective coating around them called “myelin.” When someone has MS, this protective coating is chipped away exposing the nerve and preventing messages from the brain to pass…