I keep busy with lots of little things and some few big things. I am about finished editing my second book and making it ready for some other set of eyes to look it over for consideration as a published book. With one book already published in 2007 more publishers are willing to look at this one.
I do a lot of polishing of hard wood things like duck calls for pleasure. Nothing pleases me more than having some smoothed piece of beautiful wood in my hand, like Birdseye maple, walnut burl, red oak. I wear a duck call around my neck at all times. If a seizure strikes I can blow it to get attention. You see, this is New York; you don't use a coach's whistle, or everyone will run away, thinking it is a policeman. The duck call makes people turn around to see what it is, with open and innocent curiosity. That is the attitude I want when they see me asking for help because I am having a seizure. And also because this is New York, if you have even a gran-mal, no one will notice. I only wish I could polish my soul as easily as I polish a wooden duck call to make it as beautiful as possible. But it is not so simple. Polishing the duck call wood does provide a lesson: by hard work its hidden beauty will come out, and by no other way except hard work is this possible. And, you cannot make it better than what beauty it inherently possesses. "I beseech Thee, O my God, by Thy beauty, stinging forth above the horizon of eternity, a beauty which, as soon as it revealed itself, the kingdom of beauty boweth down in worship, magnifying it in ringing tones, to grant that I may die to all that I possess and live to whatsoever belongeth unto Thee. Thou seest me, O my God, holding to Thy Name the Most-Holy, the Most-Luminous, the Most_Mighty, the Most-Great, the Most-Exalted, the Most-Glorious, and clinging to the hem of the Robe to which have clung all in this world and in the world to come." Baha-u-llah When the pain and fatigue subsides enough I try to take care of all the domestic chores so my dear wife can concentrate on her business. How the time flies. DG. Dalton H. Garis Flushing, Queens New York, USA From: Janice Nichols <jan...@centurytel.net> Date: Tuesday, 26 January 2012 9:48 PM To: Dalton Garis <malugss...@gmail.com>, Janet Dunn <j.d...@shaw.ca>, <tmic-list@eskimo.com> Subject: Re: [TMIC] Looking for input. Actually, I am doing pretty well. Still getting stronger in my legs after 5 years of TM. Balance isn¹t terrific, but I can deal with it. What do you do to keep your brain going since you are practically a shut in now? You always kept busy with mental activities. You and Bridget are the only ones I have known that have the seizure problems. Surely the doc¹s can come up with something for you two to carry on decent lives. I pray for you both. Janice From: Dalton Garis <mailto:malugss...@gmail.com> Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2012 3:13 PM To: Janice Nichols <mailto:jan...@centurytel.net> ; Janet Dunn <mailto:j.d...@shaw.ca> ; tmic-list@eskimo.com Subject: Re: [TMIC] Looking for input. Actually; The situation was much improved for a while. But now they are back again, having Segwayed into a kind of mental fog, which comes on quickly then leaves me with limited speech and locomotion capacities, and in need of around 3-4 hours sleep almost immediately. I am really a shut-in now, since I can't depend on more than around 6 hours of lucidity before the next attack. How are you doing? Love to all, DG Dalton H. Garis Flushing, Queens New York, USA From: Janice Nichols <jan...@centurytel.net> Date: Tuesday, 26 January 2012 10:23 AM To: Dalton Garis <malugss...@gmail.com>, Janet Dunn <j.d...@shaw.ca>, <tmic-list@eskimo.com> Subject: Re: [TMIC] Looking for input. Dalton, how are you doing with your seizures? Haven¹t heard much about it lately. Hope it means there is vast improvement. Janice From: Dalton Garis <mailto:malugss...@gmail.com> Sent: Monday, June 25, 2012 9:59 PM To: Janet Dunn <mailto:j.d...@shaw.ca> ; tmic-list@eskimo.com Subject: Re: [TMIC] Looking for input. We love you, and your struggle; It is all of our struggles, also. Our solidarity has done sooo much to keep me going, to get up and try to make something useful of the lucid and non-distracted time I can get. DG Dalton H. Garis Flushing, Queens New York, USA From: Janet Dunn <j.d...@shaw.ca> Date: Monday, 25 January 2012 10:43 PM To: "tmic-list@eskimo.com" <tmic-list@eskimo.com> Subject: Re: [TMIC] Looking for input. Resent-From: <tmic-list@eskimo.com> Resent-Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2012 19:48:11 -0700 Thank you for all of the replies. I am going to try the baclofen as needed. Yes, I am taking other meds - effexor, welbutrin, oxycontin fast acting, and oxycontin time release, and either tylenol or advil. I also have flexeril if I need it. I have come to the conclusion that it is a combination of the lack of Lyrica and the heat. Hot for us where I live is 24 degrees celcius - which is about 75 degrees. Cold is -35 or 40. I don't want to go back on the Lyrica, so I am going to try the baclofen. I have never had spasms like this before. Wow - how some of you live with bigger and badder (I know, I know) spasms is beyond me. I cannot tolerate the pain and uncomfortableness of the darn things. Always something new to enjoy ahem, ahem. It will be eight years in August for me, and this disease never ceases to frustrate me. Thanks again, so glad we are such a friendly helpful group. I will not whine about the heat again after hearing how hot it is in Texas, and other places. Where I live we may get one or two days of 30 Celcius which is about 82ish. And then we get an awesome thunder show. Take care my friends, Love Janet
