Re: MJ Update - Busy, busy, busy

[Guest guest]

Hi MJ

When I read your message something jumped out at me. This was your reference to

your allergies. I, myself and my Mom also suffered with all the dripping. I

lead a nutrition class at our church and last week we had a speaker who was a

breast cancer survivor. She was highly educated in health matters and some

alternative medicine. She recommended my mother and I try something called Milk

Thistle. IT is in a capsule. I was amazed and thrilled to see the vast

improvement we both had. I'm almost afraid to say it but I am completely dried

up. Also, I like the fact this is a natural remedy rather than more medicine.

You might want to give it a try. Good luck!

Peace to You,

Beth Carollo

MJ Update - Busy, busy, busy

Geez, here it is Thursday and no update from last week. I have been super busy

but yet tired and trying to get back into the swing of things. My allergies have

been kicking in so the post nasal drip is driving me crazy.

Classes are going okay. I have 4 classes and only have one class a day except

Wednesday, I have 2. So last week…biology is okay. The teacher talks super

fast and it’s a good thing she posts her notes on the internet, because no one

physically can write that fast. She gives us study questions to help study for

the test so that is helpful. We have a test Monday, which I get to take in the

classroom with everyone else…I’m skipping disability services since their

computer keyboards aren’t working. English class is okay but probably gonna

suck since we have to watch 6 movies and I haven’t seen any of them and they

are not my idea of fun. We already watched Thelma and Louise and I didn’t like

it. My teacher said it was a “female empowerment movie†but all I got out of

it was a chick flick gone bad with 2 females going on a crime spree. We also

have to watch The Piano, Fight Club, Kill Bill, Brokeback Mountain, and American

Psycho…these are for Gender and Film. Oh joy!! My Tuesday Biology lab was

changed…or actually, I got “kicked out†of my Tuesday lab class…LOL! We

were doing microscopes and I asked the teacher how I was to do my lab. I was

informed that I needed to come back to the “adapted lab†on Thursday which

wasn’t listed in the course studio. It was okay, but way understaffed so

instead of taking 20 minutes it took an hour. Sigh. My History class is okay. We

have to write a paper each week and 2 for the last week. It is completely

online, so we have “online†discussions. Every Wednesday, the teacher posts

a question about a chapter in our $100.00 book, which we started on page 600.

She didn’t get the memo that you could just order the last third of the book

and only make the students pay $40…ugh!! So, for our discussion, you have to

post your answer to the question and reply to 2 students each week.

My last class is my Intro to Rehabilitation Class. I must say it was

interesting. Having SMA, I am used to doctors telling me that I am going to die,

which of course, I never listen, but having a teacher tell me that was quite

interesting. No, don’t worry, she didn’t say it to my face but made a

general statement. She introduced to the class People First Language, where you

refer to the person first and the problem later. So, I am not supposed to refer

to myself as disabled (I’m no longer disabled!!!!) but am a person with a

disability. To me personally, it still doesn’t change the fact that I’m

disabled. But anyway, we watched this really lame old movie about the “Ten

Commandments of Communicating with a Person with a Disability.†So after the

movie was over, the teacher commented that she hates people who refer to

themselves as blind or disabled, but hopefully by the time we graduate (3 years

and 3 months) “they†will all be dead! Well, since when asked, I say I’m

disabled, I guess I have 3 years and 3 months left to live. Only I could come to

that conclusion and laugh about it!!! It will be an okay class, we do a lot of

off campus trip, all on our own time, which should be interesting. We have to

visit a facility in 2 weeks and my friend Sara, who is also in a chair was told

to go to ODS (disability services) and they will teach her how to use the city

bus to get where she needs to go. Luckily can drive me since my facility

is NOT on a bus line!

We went to GJ’s on Saturday to visit and had taco salad for dinner. We had a

great time. Other than that not much else has been happening except for us

trying to get my monthly medical supplies. has been yelling at the DME.

She ordered my stuff last Tuesday, and it was sent to New York. GRRRR!!

Doesn’t really help me there, now does it. I was really getting low on Tolerex

so demanded that they send me Tolerex on Friday so we wouldn’t run out.

They told it was sent out Friday and on Monday they would go to NY and

pick up the order they sent to the wrong place and redeliver it to my apartment.

This Tuesday we went to pick up a package and it wasn’t my food YET!!! The DME

said it was being delivered Tuesday but it never arrived. Yesterday, we went

again to get a package and it still wasn’t my food!!! So, called YET

AGAIN and was told it was left at the side door??? How does a package get left

at a side door of a campus??? We demanded that they figure out where it was

delivered (which they didn’t want to, like we were asking for a million

dollars or something). Guess what, they delivered my food to Grandma June’s

house. hit the roof….how can they screw up so much on one order and

continue to be rude about it, like it was our fault. is soooooo fed up

with them!! So, after class and some yelling we headed up to GJ’s house to get

my food. And while we were there, the rest of my order showed up at GJ’s.

GRRRRR! I did get to see Aunt before she headed home (this morning) and

got a great dinner too. We had ham loaf, baked potatoes, and green

beans….yum!!!

Today I have biology lab and we are doing bacteria stains. This weekend I will

be studying for my first biology test (Monday) and writing my English paper on

why I hated Thelma and Louise (I was the only one in my class who didn’t like

it). We are going up for Easter dinner Sunday at GJ’s.

Please keep my cousin and my friends, K, Jenna B, H,

Madison B, and ne W in your prayers along with anyone else who is under the

weather or having surgery. It has been a hard start to spring this year. My

allergies have been bad so far this spring. Big hugs to everyone.

MJ

Quote of the week:

To get all there is out of living, we must employ our time wisely, never being

in too much of a hurry to stop and sip life, but never losing our sense of the

enormous value of a minute. ~ Updegraff

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