What’s been happening??

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Since my last entry, I’ve been feeling good…as far as the “brain” goes. Still haven’t had any MAJOR “brain” problems or just anything like that. Feeling good on the INSIDE of my head.

How else can I just describe all that?

A bit confused about other things…. But the BrAiN feels good.

Other things to describe… other things to describe… I think that this brain of mine is (sort of) understanding whats happening in my life. These things are new for the brain, with it having to deal with changes that are unbelievable (to me). Never the less…..

Ok, on to a different subject. I have been feeling good (like I mentioned), but can only last half-a-day. About an hour or so after lunch, my brain is done.

“Let’s Take A Nap!” is what the ‘ole brain is wanting. “Nap Time!”

I sit and usually take a nap and feel tons better. Doesn’t matter what my brain had been doing before in the morning (hard work or nothing at all) it just wants to take a nap.

After typing this… I think I’ll just go for another napie-time. <yawn>

Hmmm… Well…

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It’s been a little while since I wrote. Mainly because it “seems” that my brain has been changing  just like I had been saying before. Pain is gone and that’s a good thing BUT this BrAiN of mine now has different problems.

My thinking is not straight and very short. Hard to keep things in my head for very long. When I try and talk with other people and I just get interrupted for some reason, I will ALWAYS forget what I had said or wanted to say. Other reasons I forget that stuff. Mmmmm….. Errrrr…. This is getting tough.

I saw a Neurologist who was part of the surgery today and explained my situation as far as things happening to my brain. I was HOPING he was going to say something like “Don’t worry, it get’s better for ya.” Uh, no….. Bummer. What I was actually told was… basically….. My brain, the way it is now, is not getting better. It can “stay the same as it is” (hopefully), or go all the way down to “not working correctly at all” (that would suck). BUT NO SEIZURES! That’s the GOOD THING from it all. There’s always that good thing about it. It’s been about 6 months, and they can have more of a clearer picture of where we (my brain and I) are going. In other words, my brain is done. We’ll all see…

So. Living, waiting, breathing, seeing, walking (that’s a good one), eating, drinking…. there’s other important things too… These are all good and important things that I can easily say that “still” I have and have not been taken away.

Oh, reading. That’s a good one. I enjoy that. I wasn’t able to do that easily a few months ago, but it’s better now. Need more of that.

I’m feeling real good today.

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I have felt that I had a tremendously good day both yesterday and today. Yesterday, I went for a walk with a person (who was obviously trying to wear me out) for about a distance of around 2 miles. Piece-o-cake. I really need to do this walking again. Very surprised that I was getting through this long walk so quickly & easily. I thought that doing a walk after just sitting around the house EVERY DAY without a very long list of things to do was going to be more complicated. I wasn’t just strolling either. No, I was doing a “nice” pace to walk. Very nice day this early in the morning. Love it! Do it again next week!

Saw a good movie on Tuesday. It was “The Fault in Our Stars“. This was very interesting. One of those that causes these things to fall from my eyes while I watch. I think this movie made more of a difference, or understanding, to me rather than other people in the audience at the beginning. I could understand this girl on the screen with her portable oxygen tank (not that I’ve used one, but I can understand feelings a person might have). It wasn’t till later in the movie that everyone in the audience could understand and watch quietly.

Even though she was just a character on the screen, it was still showing that she was having trouble getting around. Carrying an oxygen tank was very tough and I sat there paying very close attention to this person and seeing what they are having to go through.

It’s just me… It’s just me…….    This was from the very beginning. Not feeling sorry, just curious as to how to be a success. That’s all. Feeling sorry and completely crying was later. Still, it’s a good movie!

But, these have been Good Days! 🙂

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On the 25th, I described the pain I have always had on the front-left side of my head. Always been there. This past week I could definitely feel the thing on the beginning weekend. As the week went on and on, I felt this “pain” getting smaller and smaller. It was weird. It was getting smaller in “WIDTH”. I just thought (but not wishing) the damn thing was just getting ready to MOVE from the left-side over to the right.

Week went on and on… smaller, smaller, smaller pain…

By Saturday, it was gone. All gone. I have two forehead sides without pain and today (Monday) it’s the same.

Guess I’ll have to wait and see how much more this is going to feel better. Doing pretty good there. Skin and everything on the outside is looking fine. Now I am “still” suffering on the inside. Can’t “remember” a damn thing from one place to another. I think of something, stand-up and have to sit down because I’ve forgotten the reason of my standing. YEAH, IT’S THAT BAD.

I think I mentioned this before, but this thinking and typing here is a shorter and shorter thing to do. I think that my brain just might have forgotten the benefit of knowing how to spell. Thank God for spell-check. This has only taken me 15 minutes to type, instead of ALL AFTERNOON like before.

Testing better…

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I have this Lumosity testing software that I’ve been using on a regular basis and the outcome of the ending scores in the past have been more of a small or slight growth based upon how my brain wants to get itself better. Other people and myself were thinking this wasn’t a good thing. Not right. Maybe this is how my brain just was before the operation??

Well, I’ve finished this testing from another person and have been testing myself more and more. Something strange has happened! This PAST WEEK or so, my brain has decided to remove most of the slight-frontal pain it had there. That’s what it seems to me. I checked my scores on the Lumosity for the past half-week or week or so with the outcome being outrageously higher than it has been in the past. Whoa! The line goes from a “slightly growing” to a “large jump”!

This is Incredible! What’s causing such impressive growth? Am I just healing at a great rate at this time? This is very interesting. I just think my BRAIN is saying, “OK, I’ve pretty much healed everything else. I’ll heal myself now…”