#TBT

Bristol Vermont Fall 2017 

Seems so long ago and far away 

Grandfather

 

My Grandfather 

Circa 1915

He died when my Mom was 5

Supper time

 

Morning

 

Circus

#Caturday

 

Christmas Carol

 Friday Night Musik 

and 

Christmas Carol YouTube Link to Joe Bonamassa et al 🎸 

Merry Christmas 🎄🎁!

Christmas Eve

The Moment Meela Discovered the Christmas Treats 

Sprachlos

 Sprachlos 

1. The humongous spending bill our lawmakers spun up

Includes export of American money to foreign entities, no oversight 

2. Washington Post just published propaganda cartoon depicting Republicans as Rats 🐀 

Oddly or not, reminiscent of Nazi Germany, Goebbels and depiction of Jews as Rats to be exterminated by gas. https://www.facinghistory.org/resource-library/image/when-vermin-are-dead-der-st-rmer-antisemitic-cartoon

Ich bin Sprachlos 😶

Tuesday Tractor

 

Flashback to The Charlotte Vermont Tractor Parade.

 I got to pose with the old Titan, lovingly restored by Harvey Sharrow 

The Great Conjunction of 2020

 A fitting ending to 2020, The conjunction of two planets in our tiny solar system. 

Look Skyward tonight. 🔭

Then think of the Gravity of this event 😎

Interesting article link on the astrology of this moment in time :

https://www.astrology.com/article/great-conjunction-saturn-conjunct-jupiter-in-aquarius-2020/

The Space Between

 

Space Between https://t.co/01ZPChBcYV
Space Between 2https://t.co/FXN30W55TD
The Sun Came Up https://t.co/Zl2mJwwYGr 😎🎄 https://t.co/wsoo4kl7vE

— Mary Gerdt Parler:Alvarita1 (@marygerdt) December 19, 2020

Travelogue for the Universe: The Vibrational Frequency of Healing

Travelogue for the Universe: The Vibrational Frequency of Healing: Got this awhile ago... repeating first impressions and adding photos using Apollo and Oura Ring...    https://www.core77.com/posts/92780/Good-Vibrations-Calculated-to-Ease-Your-Stress ...

Friday Night Musik

 This week another video by Eric Scott Et al...

Peace Bomb ☮️ 

Agnes

 

Captain’s Cave

 

Sunny Day

 

 

Musik Link Extraordinaire 🎸

 

YouTube link 

An all time favorite 😎

Eric Clapton and Joe Bonamassa at Royal Albert Hall.

One song of a Fantastic live album

Sunny Day

Posting Late today! Oh my!!

 Starring Meela 🌟 

Scene of the Crime

 

I am Completely Blown Away 😎🙏🏼👍🏼❤️ 🎶
Stop whatever you’re doing and spool this one up 🎵 https://t.co/VvHcNoB6gd

— Mary Gerdt Parler:Alvarita1 (@marygerdt) December 12, 2020

Friday Night Musik

 Fred picked out this week’s Music 🎶😎👍🏼❤️

Please contribute to their band while you enjoy the concert 😎

Travelogue for the Universe: Glenn Hughes - You Keep On Moving #TBT

Flashback post. In my Top ten Most Popular

The Great Glenn Hughes

Travelogue for the Universe: Glenn Hughes - You Keep On Moving: Music Links Great! ...and link to another by Glenn Hughes  

Closed

 

Aunt Lillie’s Hermits

 

Mom’s Cookie recipe from her Aunt Lillie 

Tastes like Christmas ❤️

Meela Sleeping 💤

 

Think 🤔 Cognition

Think Cognition... Great Article by Dr. G

https://multiple-sclerosis-research.org/2020/12/thinkcognition-how-precious-is-my-brain/?unapproved=97438&moderation-hash=61bad567bf2a2f05316173a880cbd3f2#comment-97438

My comments: 

I Knew it.

I Knew it and didn’t Want to know it.

You just opened a floodgate of emotions,

A Helen Keller moment.

Did it take an accident for you to revisit your unpopular observations?

I worked many years doing cognitive assessments.

The bad case scenarios are easy.

The Subtle changes are So hard to see sometimes.

Loved ones afraid, unaware or frustrated.

Insurance companies and government programs rely on checking the right boxes.

With Cognitive impairment sometimes there are no easy boxes.

Our neural messages Slow and sometimes never arrive.

The Original pathway is Damaged so your smart brain routes signals around it.

Usually unbeknownst to you.

I wrote an story  called Wheelchair Repellent.  Early on in my diagnosis I had to justify to Myself, old Neuro nurse, that I Needed DMT’s. I had Seen untreated Multiple Sclerosis when I worked Before DMT’s.

It was mostly about Cognitive changes I Feared the most.

I take my treatment, without fail.

Now about brain damage and evaluation, of course I worry about your accident and whether you had a little bump or sloshing of your 🧠. Focal changes can really hide when doing any Neuro cognitive assessment. 

It’s hard to ask significant others of patients if they notice any changes. I do think it’s worth it to be open with the patient about your concerns, your need to evaluate and monitor, including significant other, caregiver in being honest. Also look at DMT regimen and teach patients how it helps. Great thoughts .

Wheelchair Repellent 

https://traveloguefortheuniverse.blogspot.com/2011/09/wheelchair-repellant.html

Assorted Cognitive posts

https://traveloguefortheuniverse.blogspot.com/search?q=Cognitive+

#Caturday

 

Friday Night Musik

 This week, a Great YouTube link 

Garth and Maud Hudson in Norway 🇳🇴 

Don’t Do It 

#TBT Travelogue for the Universe: Psalm Challenge # 116

This week flashback 7 years ago I posted spa video memorial of Mom 

and captured a butterfly with my camera 

Travelogue for the Universe: Psalm Challenge # 116: Psalm Challenge # 116 i joined the Psalm Challenge hosted by a friend in Greece who is from Germany. There were people entering from all ...

Apollo

 

Hi Sara, thanks for your question. You can learn more about the science behind the Apollo here:https://t.co/zBHxaaZxBX
Let us know if you have any questions, we are happy to help! :)

— Apollo Neuroscience (@Apollo_Neuro) December 1, 2020

Meela

 Was just thinking how important it was for us to have a cat companion. Meela

Rehearsal

 

Doctor G. And EMR Dreams

My comment first:

 Excellent beginning of True Healthcare reform! Positive thoughts and hopes for Patient Centered Charting. We have some of that in USA. Your ideas keep going. NHS has too much Government in it. Health Maintenance organizations can be more efficient, paid to insure patients an actuarial appropriate per patient per month fee. Shared risk between insurers and patients. Insurers are motivated to keep enrollees healthy. Rehabilitation self directed is ok. You need direction. Maybe just get an OT/PT evaluation initially and periodically. High level stuff. Your muscles get all out of balance. Best Wishes. Your recovery amazing me. 👍🏼

Dr. G’s blog:

https://multiple-sclerosis-research.org/2020/11/rethinking-healthcare/?unapproved=96728&moderation-hash=9b6e92fb749ad6340fc9c20b57b53b7c#comment-96728

#Caturday

 Meela posed with her daisies ❤️

Friday Night Musik

Great YouTube link

A Favorite Rick Danko Interview 🙏🏼😎

Happy Thanksgiving 🦃🍁

 

Giving Thanks 🙏🏼

 Great article about Giving Thanks, Gratitude and How it Helps You.

Neuroscience of Gratitude from Apollo.com

Neighbors

 

Self Determination

 

We have the Right To Self Determination.

Use it. 😷

Healthcare

 https://multiple-sclerosis-research.org/2020/11/discharged/

I follow Dr. G who is a great neurologist. He was struck by a motorcycle while running 🏃🏻 

He was praising National Health System in UK 🇬🇧 

I, of course, had to respond...

Ok, about the NHS. I know the “single payer” model is a respectable goal.

Everyone gets access to care equally, no charge, quality is good.

In the USA 🇺🇸 our system of Healthcare is a hodgepodge of private, public, self pay, no pay (hospital system charity) . In the USA, you would probably have a good health insurance policy as a Dr. working in private or public hospital. There would be a pending lawsuit settlement for the motorist who hit you. You would probably have copays for inpatient  care and meds. If you were poor or uninsured, there are programs which you could apply for like government healthcare for poor Medicaid or “free care” as part of hospitals’ Hill Burton act requiring they provide some free care for non profit status. Elderly and younger  disabled like myself have Medicare. I have a Retiree Medicare supplemental plan for myself and my husband which covers deductibles. I earned that Benefit and took less salary because I had good benefits. A few self pay people stuck with a bill can pay over time. It really is a fragmented system. But flipping a switch to Single Payer System isn’t easy. For one thing Americans Don’t like standing in line, waiting, being told there are limits to their healthcare. Another is the general distrust of government deciding, well, anything. Best Wishes on your healing. Don’t overdo it. 

#Caturday

 Meela  😎❤️  🐾🐾

Friday Night Musik

 

Love this one.

Glenn Hughes 

Travelogue for the Universe: Friday Night Musik ...Early Edition Richard Barone #TBT

It was a very special day...🎶🎸

Travelogue for the Universe: Friday Night Musik ...Early Edition Richard Barone: Today the Travelogue received a fine vinyl album  By  Richard Barone. The postal lady liked the looks of it. I was thrilled....

The Right to Self Determination

 

@threadreaderapp #unroll please.
Yes, Dr. Gold, We USA Citizens, Each Individual Competent Adult,Has The Right to Self Determination. Period.
You understand the Consequences?
You understand No Science says 10 guests ok 🦃 12 too many😷 That’s screwing with your head. #propaganda https://t.co/OsmYhkDAWi

— Mary Gerdt Parler:Alvarita1 (@marygerdt) November 17, 2020

Travelogue for the Universe: Rerun with link to I Flew a Falcon by Richard Barone

Travelogue for the Universe: Friday Night Musik: Friday Night Musik This week, Falcons on my mind. Mom's cause was to rid waterways of ddt. We see falcons now. ...

I Flew a Falcon