Thursday June 20, 2013 - A morning in the life

So, it's 9:00am on a Thursday morning and already in the MS life, action.  I thought I had enough in me to go out to my car with my walker on a Timmys Run for a morning coffee.  I made it fine down to my car, but the walker is so big (a beast) and heavy getting it into my cleaned out hatch is always difficult, but I need my morning coffee.  My internal battery was running at 80%, but the loading of the walker took it down to 40%.  Made my Timmys Run for my small with 2 creams.  Unloaded the heavy walker in my parking lot, internal battery of me and my MS now down to 10%... enough to get into my building and into the apartment... barely.  My apartment door is an industrial strength door and is set to close itself.  It is set on kill.  Ten minutes with the walker to get through the door, now battery is 0%.  I tried to get to my chair on the balcony and rest up and recharge my MS battery a bit.  It took me another 5 minutes to go through the sliding door, it is too narrow to take a walker through.  I have no table outside on the balcony which would have saved me.  I tried to place my coffee on the second chair, but this meant I had to bend way over to reach it.  Already at 0%, my knees buckled and I sank slowly into the sleeping position... thank God I went down slowly as it is concrete out there.  I already know, once I am down, there is no getting up.  I managed to do the important things like have my phone in my pocket, and save the valued coffee.  I always wear my Lifeline panic button around my neck so I pressed it for help.  Lifeline called 911, but it took them 40 minutes to arrive... good thing I was not injured, just minor scrapes from going down even gently on concrete.  The paramedics were very nice, lifted me up and into a chair, even warmed up my coffee for me in the microwave.  Resting up for even an hour lying down on concrete recharges the MS battery inside of me a bit.  Now, lets tackle the day... do not sign up for the multiple sclerosis, ever.  My daughter says that she has a table  and 2 chairs in a patio set, and wants to donate to her dad, but I can't go over and get it because I can't carry anything, and my daughter can't fit them into her car.  I wonder what to do.  Anyway, nice day out.  I promise.