Bomb Ram..!! 🤣

Morning all, congratulations Ram!

Hell yeah Ram!

Enjoy it.

Huge Grats brother Ram. Make sure to stay busy enough to not get bored but, not so busy to lose your mind.

Smoking L'ateleir on Capitol Hill...just watching all the silliness

Congrats on the retirement, Rambo!

We streamed the fight, here at work, and had pizza, nachos, cookies, ice cream... no beers, though. 😟

The Sgt's adjourned to the roof for cigars afterward.

Finally after 2 years some good news.

My neuropsychologist let the wife and I know that she had come to a conclusion on the first of my many list of brain issues. She told us that the first and foremost was to deal with the problem of sleep. She said of all my issues this one is an issue that is detrimental to my future health especially with all the other issues meaning my heart. She said that a body going without sleep for a long period of time leads to issues with increased heart attacks, strokes etc which we know.

My issue of no perception of time and sleep cycles being as screwed up as your sisters tackle box was the first thing she started studying. She said that after reading over the records from our first visit and looking at the images of my stroke with the hypothalamus being hit. She said I have textbook what they call "Non24"

Now for the wild part, this mostly happens to people that are totally blind. It happens to them because they do not have the visual cues such as being able to see daytime and night time. It is a circadian rhythm disorder so with blind people not being able to see this it throws off their internal clock.

She said in my case I am not totally blind so I see the visual cues but due to the brain damage in the hypothalamus my internal clock itself has been damaged or thrown out of whack and it has presented itself as Non24. She said with people that are not blind they can typically treat with light therapy. She said this would not work for me and she had to throw in that my previous neurologist should have known this. She said him suggesting turning lights on in the AM and off in the PM and setting alarms was asinine because it would not work.

Of course the next question was what will work if anything. She said the only other option for me would be sedation at night. This idea I do not like but when she went on to say, This is just to try and reset the clock. She said that for a short period of time every night I would have to knock myself out and hopefully the clock will reset and then I would come off the meds. Now she did tell us that this may not reset my clock due to the damage could be to extensive. If that is the case then I will be taking a pill every night to drug myself to sleep. She could tell I did not like this one bit and she told me she understood but better to sleep regular by taking a pill than going days without sleep as that will lead to a worm dirt bed in a hurry. Now comes the long process to finding the right dose and all that BS but hey, that is one issue down I guess right? I am thinking that if it "resets" Great, if not and I end up having to take a strong sleeping pill every night not so great but still issue resolved I guess. Now just a few more issues to go. I think my next two visits for testing is sometime this month.

Sunday Sunday Sunday

😎 Dudes...

I'm up way to early for Sunday.. coffee sounded good tho... 😟

=d>

Peaches and cream oatmeal, buttered toast, chocolate chip zucchini muffins, coffee.

Arsenal on the dvr.

Morning gents

ain't no pork up in da pan... 😞

Do whatcha gotta do, Chris.
I hope it works !

IK,R ?

I had to settle for a scrambled egg, potato and onion, cheddar cheese omelet this morning. 🍵

Chris, this is a win! It is a possible answer to one of your issues. Good morning everyone. Have you discussed non 24 with your doctor? I wonder if this could be an issue for you even though it would be a different context than usual.

Good afternoon, y’all

Congrats, Ram and good luck, Chris

I have only gotten to discuss it with my neuropsych. With that said, the idea of non 24 came from neuropsych but the conclusion of it actually being non24 came about came about with a collaboration between my neuropsych, my neurologist, and a few other neurologist in her group that I have not gotten to meet. It is kind of like I am mixed up in a grand rounds kind of thing? I don't know though its odd because the each are in a different group under a different name. My neurologist works for semmes-murphey, my neuropsych works at some women's clinic and also at the VA. Yet they all talk as if they work under the same group.

Any how, I do know that the neuropsych came up with the idea of non 24 might be the issue and after the confab they all decided that is what it was and the neuropsych is the one that called and told us the info. After that it was my neurologist that had written the prescription even though semmes-murphey where she is at is all the way on the other side of town. It is odd. I have been in grand rounds before with groups of surgeons and such but it was all under one group.

I am Sorry for the yammering, I am trying to wrap my head around this. Simple answer no I have not gotten to talk with my Dr yet. I know she knows and agrees with the diagnosis I guess it would be called because she is the one that wrote the script. I will get to discuss it in more detail with her on my next visit. Now when that is I do not know only because I can not remember and my wife keeps up with all that. I do know it is sometime soon in the next few weeks or next month maybe.

Thank you brother, I am not diggin the drugs at all but, I do not like going days without sleep either lol. What is really odd is I do not ever feel tired even though say 3 days has went by. It is not till the end of day 3 or into day 4 that I start to feel a little tired. Personally it really don't mess with my everyday living because I have no idea of that amount of time has went by but boy does it mess with the everyday workings of the household.