IntrinsicTina

I never mastered the perfect spiral on a football...but I played a mean game of hoops for a short white girl.

I was sitting here minding my own business, blogging away, and speaking positive about life and how I keep my "eyes wide open", when Blam! reality smacked me upside my Pollyanna head.  I type on my laptop with some difficulty but I persevere.  The fingers on both of my hands seem to have our minds of their own.  They fail to extend, they shake, they ache, and they tremor.  They frequently and involuntarily, tap a combination of keys that open up new pages, show me history, and even delete prose that I've worked on for lengths of time.  They also fail to depress keys leaving me wondering what my darn point was anyway.  Most recently, these tremoring fingers have taken to making my on-screen text smaller and smaller as I attempt to get my thought out of my head and onto electronic media. I wish that I could say that I handle these instances with dignity and grace but that would be a lie.  I curse.  Oh, I patiently take a bunch of it but inevi...

On the average, I take 35 pills per day to follow the Deanna Protocol.  This includes chalky pills, vegetable capsules, and sublingual tablets.  This does not count the nine doses of Arginine Alpha Ketogluterate (AAKG) that I take mixed into fruit juice three times per day.  This is Day 18 on the Protocol and I'm doing much better at taking the hourly dosage of Alpha Ketoglutaric Acid (AKG) and getting the benefit of reduced fasciculations.  This is what I've been waiting for. No sooner did I type the last paragraph when my middle finger on the right hand went into a rapid fasciculation and hammered my wireless mouse for a few seconds.  Admittedly, I got up very late this morning and started my supplement routine hours in arrears.  Also, as I recall, my fingers first stopped extending, then upon forcing an extension, they would trigger.  Next they spread from each other and would tremble and/or twitch.  I'm hoping the isolated fasciculation (o...

Today I tackled two swim aerobics classes, count them, two!  Both shallow water, which I do each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and now the deep water class as well.  Of course, the deep water aerobics class required a little specialized equipment.  First, they had to install the "lift", a hydraulic chair, that gently sets me into the water and then takes me back out.  That worked out well but the floats they snapped onto me were horrible. The idea is that the bouyancy belt keeps one bouyant while one performs floating aerobics.  Good idea, not so good to strap the floats about my waist and in the back.  It kept forcing me forward in the water and my muscles are weak thus not a fair fight.  Some folks tried to help, attempting to adjust the straps, and offering suggestions (not knowing about the degenerative muscle disorder), and finally another set of floats were attached, this time in the front.  It was better but too restrictive not allowing ...

Today was "Meet with the Dietitian" day for me at the U of W immediately following water aerobics.  My husband packed up all the pills and potions and off to the Emerald City we went.  We shared about the Blood Type Diet, massage therapy, water aerobics, and the Deanna Protocol and the recent positive changes with regard to strength and energy gains.  She introduced us to LiveStrong.com for food, water, and exercise tracking.  My husband was disappointed as he had other expectations but it went about how I expected.  I kind of know what I'm doing as I do the research prior to committing to a new modality or treatment.  Poor guy, he's regretting the bill already but he doesn't trust me...therefore, he pays. We hit the 5 Spot up on Queen Anne for a late lunch where I had my first Black Bean Burger.  It was "the Bomb"!  Not a gut bomb.  Served up piping hot with avocado on a soft bun with a green salad and Pickled Onion and Pepper side.  ...