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Joined: May 04, 2006 Posts: 3395 Location: Mid-Michigan
Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2008 1:05 pm Post subject:
Loobie wrote:
I'll be walking down a long hallway to get to my office and about every 10 feet I have to push off the wall to put myself straight.
Not to find humor in your predicament Lew, but have you ever considered applying for work at the pentagon?
Bob _________________ Wife diagnosed with MS in Feb. 2006 and is a participant in the Tovaxin IIb clinical trial.
Joined: Sep 12, 2006 Posts: 874 Location: Dayton, Ohio USA
Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2008 5:50 pm Post subject:
Only if I was on the outside 'ring' and my office was on the left _________________ "When you're in jail, a good friend will be trying to bail you out. A best friend will be in the cell next to you saying, 'Damn, that was fun.'"
Joined: May 04, 2006 Posts: 3395 Location: Mid-Michigan
Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2008 6:12 pm Post subject:
Loobie wrote:
Only if I was on the outside 'ring' and my office was on the left
I wondered about that, but depending on which way your alignment is out of whack, couldn't you just alter the direction that you walk? Clockwise vs counter-clockwise?
No response from your coordinator/Opexa yet?
Bob _________________ Wife diagnosed with MS in Feb. 2006 and is a participant in the Tovaxin IIb clinical trial.
Try doing the PASAT while there is construction going on in the room next door! That happened twice. Talk about a concentration distraction! And I am a business/math major and that darn test drove me nuts!
One of the distraction tests they give air traffic controllers is a tape of a busy day at Oshkosh Air Show and ask inane questions about it that don't pertain to controlling airplanes at all. Things like what color was the third plane that checked in to see if the person is paying attention to non-essential information. Interesting.
I was told that they aren't giving the PASAT during the extension study....tell me it isn't so what you said Lew!!!! I will be pulling my hair out...oh I don't have much!! LOL! _________________ Tovaxin Lab Rat
Joined: Sep 12, 2006 Posts: 874 Location: Dayton, Ohio USA
Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2008 4:49 am Post subject:
Alas every time I go there for my 'real' shots it's the same stuff as the regular trial. Eyes, short walk, peg test, pasat, long walk, all the damn questionnaires (that isn't every time). The big thing that they aren't doing every visit is all the MRI's, for which my bladder is eternally grateful.
Bob,
I don't concentrate hard enough at work to remember to change my hallway routes . It's really not that difficult for me anyway. It's much less tiresome to just 'shove off' the wall than it is to actually use my legs to right myself. As for the hitting corners thing. The only times that REALLY sucks is when you nail it right on the bone, or you've got a beverage! Another thing I absolutely hate, and this is because I end up stepping on toes, is people walking right next to me. I just have to say "give me a little sway room if you value your toes". _________________ "When you're in jail, a good friend will be trying to bail you out. A best friend will be in the cell next to you saying, 'Damn, that was fun.'"
Joined: May 04, 2006 Posts: 3395 Location: Mid-Michigan
Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2008 7:12 am Post subject:
Loobie wrote:
Another thing I absolutely hate, and this is because I end up stepping on toes, is people walking right next to me. I just have to say "give me a little sway room if you value your toes".
I think you've mentioned before and I've forgotten, but has pretty much everyone at work been informed of your MS so that most of these people know why you sway?
Bob _________________ Wife diagnosed with MS in Feb. 2006 and is a participant in the Tovaxin IIb clinical trial.
Joined: Jun 14, 2007 Posts: 127 Location: Historical Glendale, OH: Home of the Squirrrels
Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2008 8:38 am Post subject:
av8rgirl wrote:
... I was told that they aren't giving the PASAT during the extension study....tell me it isn't so what you said Lew!!!!...
I got that slice of info, too. It had better be true! I was enjoying the fantasy of drop-kicking that CD player of HAL and his * numbers right into the Olentangy! Should I review my cheat-sheet in preparation?
Hey, at least we won't have so many MRI's! That has to be a major plus for all of us! _________________ Jane the Pain
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. It's really not that difficult for me anyway. It's much less tiresome to just 'shove off' the wall than it is to actually use my legs to right myself. As for the hitting corners thing. The only times that REALLY sucks is when you nail it right on the bone, or you've got a beverage! Another thing I absolutely hate, and this is because I end up stepping on toes, is people walking right next to me. I just have to say "give me a little sway room if you value your toes".
Should I review my cheat-sheet in preparation?
