| JULY 30, 2001 I had my mental evaluation for disability. To be quite honest I went in fearful that they would not be able to see a decline and I would be deemed too well. I don't have the results yet but I left nearly in tears. He gave me these drawings of objects that had bits and pieces erased off it and I had to identify them. One I thought was a broken pair of scissors... you know one finger loop and one blade. It wasn't until I got in the car to go home that I realized it was a necktie. There was also a bowl of lettuce. And his response was *yesss....* like he was trying to get me to say something else. DING!!! About 5 seconds or so it dawned on me that he wanted SALAD. SALAD, for crying out loud! Yes, by gosh, let me go back to work as a nurse. Now, doc you wanted 150mg/10cc and give 1ml? Or was that 40mg/1cc and give 1cc. Errr... Then to cap it off we did the number repeating thing. Well upwards to the 6 digits I was starting to have problems. Sooo... brilliant me devises this plan in my head... all the while he is giving me these numbers to repeat back to him. So, I decide I need a prompter to help me recall the number. So, while he saying the number, I am concentrating on the number and tipping my head either right or left depending on whether the number is high or low. SO, here I am, got my eyes closed, concentrating, tipping right, left, left, right, left, right, right. Then all of a sudden I'm completely lost and tell him I can't remember what way I was tipping my head. rotflmbo... when what was important was remembering the number. LOL... Yeah, no problem, my cognitive abilities aren't affected at all. It's a good thing I can laugh or I'd be in tears. People sometimes forget I did NOT ask for this. I do not want it. I'd rather be normal. |
You are listening to Memories from the musical Cats, written by
Andrew Lloyd Webber and T.S. Eliot. I felt this song was a perfect
selection
for this site because of the affiliation I feel with Grizabella. Although
for her,
it was age and not health issues that changed her, neither of us are who
we
were before, on the outside, and it can affect how we feel on the inside.
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