![]() ![]() I smiled and felt my facial muscles for the expression. I began talking to myself, out loud, making sure it was clear and not slurred or babbling voicings. With a family history of heart problems, I was aware of the signs, and how to deal with an onset if one still had the ability to control functions as it begins. As I was processing this as a possible problem, I became aware that the entire right side of my body – from neck to feet – felt like it was asleep not paralyzed but buzzing and as if something was trying to grasp my entire right side with frail but gripping fingertips. This time, it stayed blocked, completely. But, they began dissipating almost as soon as they appeared, and never lasted more than a minute or so at the most. Now, I had been having little bouts of impaired vision, where these obscuring fields of gray blocked parts of my field of view in either eye sometimes the top half, sometimes the bottom half, sometimes the sides, sometimes was like a tunnel and sometimes right in the center of my vision. While shopping in an Indianapolis Wal-Mart in mid-August, I suddenly went totally blind in my left eye. ![]() That word is stenosis from an Ancient Greek word that means “narrowing.” However, like being in a late-onset Sesame Street episode, I was destined to learn a new word, a medical word that was applicable not just once oh no, it was applied to my condition twice, but with different body parts in play with the use of the word. ![]() Oh, this little distraction sorta clouded my larger issue for absence. Other than that, not a scratch, dent or wobble in the wheels or fork, all controls untouched and safe to operate. ![]() My darling Della, who valiantly tried to stay upright after I was forced into the median curb by a car, only suffered a broken rear turn signal lens and a scuffed derby cover on the transfer case. ![]()
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