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I had five pain free days earlier this week. Kind of a small miracle, which should always be celebrated. Then about two days ago, all the shunt drama returned.  Shunt valve pain with dizziness, distal catheter pain, nausea ,pain in my right eye and scalp sensitivity where my shunt is located.  Last night, my balance was really off, I had walking issues and I was bumping into things.

I’ve read in the news that soldiers in Iran suffered traumatic brain injuries as a result of an Iran Strike recently. The article can be reach here: 109 troops suffered brain injuries

I just hope these troops are getting the appropriate services they need to assist them in their recovery.

Symptoms of brain injury often never really ever go away completely…. A fellow survivor told me once, that recovery is a marathon and not a sprint.

In the meantime, I’ve re discovered word search puzzles, which I use to pass time when I’m not out saving the world through volunteering or drawing.

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.