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Waves of communication

Grocery store robot moving in store

Last week and parts of this week, the pain medication I usually use for my chronic head, neck and abdominal pain didn’t work.  I did my usual activities of volunteering last only to return home and try to forget the pain.

At times this didn’t work very well, although I managed. I was grumpy, yet I managed.

I colored and sketched a plastic pumpkin. It was out of proportion.

Now it has googly eyes

This morning, I had pain issues again in my head and I took curamin for the pain. So far, it’s been working the entire day.

Not sure what was happening over the last week.

Maybe it was the weather transition of Summer to Fall…

As I may have mentioned in a previous post about the Stop and Shop robot….

When I am in the grocery store, I run away from the robot which is suppose to alert the management about spills and maybe shoplifting?

It’s too bad my programmable shunt valve ( and it’s super advanced technology, sarcasm ) doesn’t allow me to communicate with this robot electromagnetic waves or something.

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I had three days this week of bliss without cerebral shunt or chronic pain. A huge improvement from the last few months. Yesterday, this changed, as the shunt began to rebel again.  Today, some of the same pains from before have returned like shunt pain, distal catheter in abdomen pain and dizziness when I move my head from side to side.

New Medical Fashion….

The good news is I received my medical ID bracelet in the mail. I’ve had a shunt since early childhood and it never occurred to me before to wear one indicating I have a cerebral shunt.

I would think all doctors should suggest to their patients who have internal medical devices to wear something which would indicate they have an internal device. Some do and others don’t.

I already have a medical card I carry with me that has my medical, doctor and emergency contact information.

How would an EMT know to check my bag for this information? Like for example in the event of an emergency, if I’m unconscious for whatever reason (accidents, fainting or squirrel attack ) At least someone will know where to find information and contact my doctors and family.