Planning The Unpredictable

Neuropsychology

nina — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 03:49:37 +0000

I had my Neuropsychology test about two weeks ago. It lasted from 830am until about 330 with a lunch and potty break in there. It wasn’t too bad. I actually enjoyed the puzzles and pattern detection stuff. The parts I hated involved was related to word finding and the Stroop Effect. One of the word finding tests was name as many words that start with A in a minute. They also asked for F and P. I failed horribly. It felt like I only got 5 right but it was really 20.

Anyway, the results were interesting. I have an IQ of 125 which is 95% (5 people are smarter than me out of 100 of my age/gender) when it comes to Performance IQ. It was surprised it was this high. I struggled throughout school so color me surprised that it was this high.

On the other end… my word finding was horrible. I was at 2% (98 people are better at it than me). Another area that I sucked at was the Stroop Effect which measures distractions. I was at 50% for this which is ‘normal’ but I know I am having problems with it. Both of these are probably related to the MS.

I am going to get a script to visit a speech therapist to work on methods to help figure this stuff out. Kind of exciting.

Woman with MS wins right to die

nina — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:53:43 +0000

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8176713.stm

There is a video of her on the website so be sure to check it out.

“The key to living well with MS is getting the right care and support from the point of diagnosis, including palliative care when it’s needed.”

Well, I completely agree with that.

Health care plan

nina — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 17:52:34 +0000

I admit to not being as informed about the health care plan as I should be but I found this interview to be fascinating.

http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/07102009/watch2.html

It’s about 25 minutes are so.

In other news… I hope the Seattle folks are surviving the heat. It was 94 degrees inside my condo last night.

A wedding present

nina — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 04:10:18 +0000

As a wedding present to myself, I skipped my shot the day before and the day of my wedding. I am now an old married hag and loving it. As if getting married wasn’t stressful enough… we are also buying a house. So far so good… though.

In MS news… I have my neurophysiology ALL DAY test September 1st. It is going to be a long day! I can’t wait to report here info when I have it.

Hopefully I’ll be posting more now that one major life change is out of the way.

Words

nina — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 06:52:57 +0000

What do you do when people always comment (think its funny!) on your misplaced/slurred/screwed up words?

I am getting tired of some coworkers always commenting on it. Today I made a comment to him about how I had holes in my head and to be nice to me but I have said that before…. I don’t think he connects the two.