Post by rramom on Jul 7, 2013 21:43:20 GMT -5
Sometimes, things in life happen that redirect our focus. My health has been going downhill, to the point where I can't even walk from one end of my house to the other. After stumping the doctors here in Wichita, my husband took me up to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester. They've eliminated some things that could be causing my problem, but haven't come up with a diagnosis yet. Right now, they've told me to discontinue a couple of my heart meds, and want to get a biopsy of my muscle.
We were up in Rochester for a week & a half, and the earliest they could get the next appointment (for the biopsy) would be another week away. We just couldn't afford to stay up there that long (with TrailerDwarf taking off work & the cost of lodging & meals), so we came back to KS. I'm hoping to get things handled here in Wichita, or maybe up at KU Med, rather than making another long trip to MN.
After many blood tests, reviewing tests done in Wichita, a few new tests, plus exams, etc., they did rule out some scarey possibilities like ALS and nerve damage, so there's some hope I might be able to recover if they can figure out the root cause. I hope so, or I'm going to have to start training from a wheelchair.
My health has impacted my ability to carry, because just the added weight of my gun & extra mag make it even more difficult to pull myself up stairs where there is no other alternative available. (I can't even carry my own purse!) So, if I know I'm going to be climbing stairs away from home, I either purse carry (so someone else carries up the stairs for me), or rely on my hubby to defend us if the situation arises.
However, if I know there are elevators, and I can be pushed in my wheelchair, then I usually put on my holster. While at Mayo, I did carry - however in my purse. There were just too many times that it would have been difficult to keep it concealed while medical people were examining me to have carried on my person. I checked the MN laws, and never saw anything about medical facilities being off-limits.
Rochester, MN is a nice little community, where my "spidey-senses" never gave me any alarm. We heard a fellow resident (of the place we were staying) say they got lost and ended up in the ghetto. Just for kicks one Sunday afternoon, we went driving around looking for this supposed ghetto, and couldn't find it. Not saying they don't have crime there, but I saw absolutely no graffiti or gang signs. In fact, it was difficult to spot anyone not wearing their pants up at their waist!
I did get one piece of good news as we were coming home - Cabela's notified me that my backorder of .22LR came in, so we picked that up on Thursday.
While we need to practice situational awareness all the time, sometimes issues in life can pop up that need our attention more than - gasp, do I dare say it? - firearms. Self-defense is something that should be such a natural part of our daily lives, that we can let it "run in the background" while we focus on things that need our attention.
We were up in Rochester for a week & a half, and the earliest they could get the next appointment (for the biopsy) would be another week away. We just couldn't afford to stay up there that long (with TrailerDwarf taking off work & the cost of lodging & meals), so we came back to KS. I'm hoping to get things handled here in Wichita, or maybe up at KU Med, rather than making another long trip to MN.
After many blood tests, reviewing tests done in Wichita, a few new tests, plus exams, etc., they did rule out some scarey possibilities like ALS and nerve damage, so there's some hope I might be able to recover if they can figure out the root cause. I hope so, or I'm going to have to start training from a wheelchair.
My health has impacted my ability to carry, because just the added weight of my gun & extra mag make it even more difficult to pull myself up stairs where there is no other alternative available. (I can't even carry my own purse!) So, if I know I'm going to be climbing stairs away from home, I either purse carry (so someone else carries up the stairs for me), or rely on my hubby to defend us if the situation arises.
However, if I know there are elevators, and I can be pushed in my wheelchair, then I usually put on my holster. While at Mayo, I did carry - however in my purse. There were just too many times that it would have been difficult to keep it concealed while medical people were examining me to have carried on my person. I checked the MN laws, and never saw anything about medical facilities being off-limits.
Rochester, MN is a nice little community, where my "spidey-senses" never gave me any alarm. We heard a fellow resident (of the place we were staying) say they got lost and ended up in the ghetto. Just for kicks one Sunday afternoon, we went driving around looking for this supposed ghetto, and couldn't find it. Not saying they don't have crime there, but I saw absolutely no graffiti or gang signs. In fact, it was difficult to spot anyone not wearing their pants up at their waist!
I did get one piece of good news as we were coming home - Cabela's notified me that my backorder of .22LR came in, so we picked that up on Thursday.
While we need to practice situational awareness all the time, sometimes issues in life can pop up that need our attention more than - gasp, do I dare say it? - firearms. Self-defense is something that should be such a natural part of our daily lives, that we can let it "run in the background" while we focus on things that need our attention.
