Fall 2015 Progress Report
We are in the middle of our fall migration to Arizona and the region about there. We got a late start, October 30th, just taking care of all our medical annual reviews. The final delay was waiting for a part for our towed vehicle to fix a "Check engine" light problem. This resulted in us getting caught up in the big Pacific NW storm. Yesterday we drove into gusty wind warnings and were forced off the road. Today we drove in slush around Reno Nevada. I say we, but I am mostly relegated to co-pilots seat. Even that has it's stressful moments. My southward travel dyslexia kicked in and I directed my wife, Judy, to turn left instead of right onto I-80. Turning left put us into a Walmart parking lot. Generally that is not a problem. many times RV'ers stop at Wally-World because they generally have huge parking lots and occasionally they even let us camp over on their parking lots. This Reno Walmart is different, however. It's parking lot is hemmed in by I-80 and is therefor small even by regular big-box stores standards. Now picture this: We have a 34 foot "Class A" diesel pusher towing a 22 foot Mercedes Van. It's turning radius is 75 feet, and the van undercuts the rear wheel track by about 4 feet. When I took over the con. we were almost to the point of having to decouple the rigs and drive them separately to a staging area to put it back together. I am proud to say I was able to extract us from Wally-World and get back on I-80 headed East to Fallon, NV.
The toll was that my stress level skyrocketed and I was shaking like a leaf. Soon I was able to take a quiet exit and exchange drivers again. I am practicing my mantra, "When going south, if the map says turn toward my right hand tell the driver to turn left."
This summer several new things forced themselves into my attention. Increasing my Sinemet from 4 tablets to five in combination with gradual advances in PD itself has forced me to give up driving. It is simply too easy for me to nod off, and caffeine no longer keeps it from happening. In addition I was seeing a PT for urge urinary incontinence. My PT has me doing daily stimulation of the tibial nerve just alongside the ankle bone on the inner ankle with gel coated electrodes. I am using a TopTens unit to electrically stimulate this nerve with high tension signals to the point of discomfiture for 30 minutes each day. I seem to be in better control of my bladder.
I can't wait to see what will quit working next!
The toll was that my stress level skyrocketed and I was shaking like a leaf. Soon I was able to take a quiet exit and exchange drivers again. I am practicing my mantra, "When going south, if the map says turn toward my right hand tell the driver to turn left."
This summer several new things forced themselves into my attention. Increasing my Sinemet from 4 tablets to five in combination with gradual advances in PD itself has forced me to give up driving. It is simply too easy for me to nod off, and caffeine no longer keeps it from happening. In addition I was seeing a PT for urge urinary incontinence. My PT has me doing daily stimulation of the tibial nerve just alongside the ankle bone on the inner ankle with gel coated electrodes. I am using a TopTens unit to electrically stimulate this nerve with high tension signals to the point of discomfiture for 30 minutes each day. I seem to be in better control of my bladder.
I can't wait to see what will quit working next!
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