At long last, we have reached the final installment* of my 2013 “Leftover Colorado” trip, which started with this post TWO MONTHS ago! This final day of the trip started with a drive from the town of Gunnison to the town of Creede, and general … Continue reading Leftover Colorado, part eight (July 2013)
I regularly complete surveys regarding my Parkinson’s Disease (PD) symptoms and treatments (mostly Fox Insight surveys). One question they always ask is whether I physically act out my dreams (a common PD symptom, it seems). Since I sleep alone, I’ve never known how to answer that one. Until recently, that is.
On one recent night, I fell asleep on my couch. Eventually, I started dreaming. I dreamed I was fighting the Arachnids from the movie Starship Troopers. But not with weapons – I was just punching them. I woke myself up when I punched a canister of snacks I had left on the coffee table. So, now I know the answer to that question. It may also be why Bear stopped sleeping in my room long ago.
Happy New Year, and my profound sympathy to all of you who made the mistake of flying on Southwest Airlines this holiday season. I had enough trouble with Southwest last fall; I shudder to think what it would have been like had there been THOUSANDS … Continue reading Leftover Colorado, part seven (July 2013)
I’ve briefly mentioned Restless Leg Syndrome (RLS) in this blog, but haven’t addressed it head-on., so let’s do that, shall we? I have only had three nights of true RLS, which were a result of trying to quit Pramipexole cold turkey. Those three nights kicked off The Worst Two Weeks of My Life. For more on those two weeks, see The Disease. I’ll just say this much for now: thanks to RLS, I now understand the concept of “sleep deprivation torture”. Every single time I was JUST on the verge of falling asleep, my legs would tense up, and I would feel that I HAD to move them around. This happened probably a dozen times each of those three nights.
Since getting myself back on a stable dosage of “prami” I have not experienced true RLS. I say “true” here because I periodically experience what I describe as Restless Arm Syndrome. The sensation is exactly the same as RLS, except it occurs in my arms and/or pectoral muscles. It only happens about once a month, but when it does happen, I just get out of bed. I am not about to put myself through the aforementioned sleep deprivation torture. Sometimes I’ll take an impromptu dose of Carbidopa/Levodopa. That helps sometimes, but not always. Whether I take the extra dose or not, the Restless Leg/Arm Syndrome ceases with the sunrise. Therefore, I think RLS is a vampire.
Continued from part five… My next destination on this trip was Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park. You may recall that I’ve posted photos from Black Canyon before. Those were actually from a more recent visit (July 2019). The photos below are from my … Continue reading Leftover Colorado, part six (July 2013)
Now that the college bowl season is well underway, I feel I should share my idea for a new college bowl game. I came up with this idea over 20 years ago, but have never had the money or connections to make it happen. The … Continue reading New College Bowl Game
And now, once again, it’s time for… Excerpts from Novels that Never Existed! NOTE: The excerpts below, and the non-existent novels from which they are taken, are all © 2022 by Cedric Williams Then there was the time my uncle’s walrus escaped. It used its … Continue reading More Excerpts from Novels that Never Existed
Part FIVE?! For the love of spit, how many weeks’ worth of ThrowBack Thursdays is it going to take to document this one trip?! Well, let’s see here…glancing through the remaining virtual pile o’ photos…it looks like there will be a Part Eight. But let’s … Continue reading Leftover Colorado, part five (July 2013)
Man, it’s taking forever to get through my 2013 Leftover Colorado trip. I need a vacation from that vacation. On top of that, last week’s post consisted mostly of exploring three ghost towns, and the post I was going to write for today was scheduled … Continue reading Lakeside and Lightning (August 10, 2013)
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