I am in bed unable to walk. I hope to update everyone tomorrow. Hugs
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take care of yourself, scottie. the breaking news will wait. We do worry about you, you know…
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Hi Judy. Thank you for caring about me so much. I do appreciate it and at this point in my life it is one of the few bright spots I have is that so many here on the blog do care about my health. I is getting worse and better by the day.
Sorry for not replying to comments. I am just getting back up from sleeping most of the afternoon. I am getting better slowly so don’t worry about the sleeping today. I got my allergy shots and in my current shape sitting in those chairs caused a lot of pain that normal pain medications couldn’t dull enough to function so after I got home and made lunch using my rolling stool, I had to go lie down due to the pain and how tired I got. So I slept 4 hours. When I got up my pain was less and I could walk again for a little bit. But the important thing to know is that at the levels of my current pain I cannot just do things physically but it also interferes with my ability to think / reason well. For example, I am gritting my teeth as I sit in my desk chair to write this. Ron has said he is going to get one of my air cushions out to help me but he so far has never found time with dealing with three homes.
Judy the not being able to walk or stand is a new development on an older issue. I wish I had time or felt up to doing a video on my health but sadly even thinking about how to or when to do it wears me out. OK short story on the not walking issue. Remember the last two MRIs I have had on my back. The lower spine and the middle of the spine showed much more damage. I now need to have the top of the spine done. But they found that one part of the lower spine was so badly damaged that my doctor who normally provides my pain care which is my medications / muscle trigger point injections / and shoulder injections along with referrals, and my surgeon in the same office who provides my spine shots / epidurals agreed that I needed to see a neurosurgeon for back surgery. That was several months ago. But something happened, maybe I did something I shouldn’t have done that was far too much for me to do but I did it anyway and I am paying for it now which has made the area of the spine much worse. Much much worse.
So that for the last three weeks that along with the slight decrease in my pain medications I can’t stand or walk more than 5 or more minutes with out the pain in my right leg going from just the lower end being like I stuck it in an electrical socket to stabbing pains with each attempt to extend the leg to the floor and then excruciating pain that takes my breath away if I put weight on that leg.
At this point in the night to walk from my bedroom to the bathroom is OK, but I have to take one of my canes because as I stand there to urinate the pain becomes so great I can’t get back to the bedroom without it. I have a pain doctor appointment on the first of June which I hope to get something done to help me. I am hopeing that the surgeon who does the spine epidurals will give it another try to quiet that nerve that is now outside the vertebrae. But if not I have to call the surgeon who operates on the spine to set up an appointment to be cut up. I have to go finish the cartoons / memes / news post for tomorrow I started two days ago but have not been up to finishing. My pain plus being so easily tired out is why I have not been able to do much at my desk and post what I do from my phone or pad. The getting tired is not so bad now as it was, I am taking the Walmart supplement brand shakes that are like boost or ensure and I also am back to taking the vitamins the doctors had wanted me to but I stopped because while on them I can’t grow or maintain fingernails / toenails. They are a once a day vitamin for women because the women’s has iron which I need and the men’s does not. I also am back to taking B-12 and D3.
OK I have to go as it is already 6 pm and I am tired and want to get tomorrow’s post done. Other than from my phone or pad it is the only one I do from my desk now as I simply can’t sit here and do this. I am both hating so very much what is going on with me health wise and so grateful to Ali who basically is keeping the blog going and replying to comments which is important and I can’t do, and to Randy who posts when he can as he is stressed trying to keep a metal fabricating plant going in the tRump economy / tarrifs and keep as many people employed as possible along with caring for his elderly parents who are both in health crises that need his attention. He gladly gives that time and effort but it comes at a cost of his own personal free time to do things he enjoys or for himself. Plus every few days he checks in with me via phone to make sure I am doing OK. Thanks again. Also if you could if you see people leave comments wondering why I am not responding to their comments if you could share my situation I would be grateful. Thanks. Hugs
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Yeah, take care of you. Unable to walk sounds bad. Go see someone-it’s a 3 day weekend, so go tomorrow morning.
Not bein’ bossy, or anything. Do take great care.
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Hi Ali. I know you read all the comments so I won’t repeat the above reply to Judy which took several hours to write. Yes I know it shouldn’t and I need to address it, you are correct. I have started to with my primary doctor but I first have to deal with the new pain issues. Plus as I wrote to Judy I am taking the supplement drinks and back on the vitamins I was directed to take before but stopped. I have no idea if that led to my current anemia or current health issues, but I know they let me grow finger / toe nails that were not breaking deep down into my skin for the first time in years. Since I have gone back to taking them I no longer have fingernails. I am not sure if it is cause and effect or either. But I did it to help my blood work stuff.
Ali I know you read all the comments which I am grateful for. So I won’t repeat all that I wrote to Judy. Except to again thank you for the work you do for this blog, all the posts you make, along with all the comments you respond to. It really is what is keeping the blog going and adding more views in my opinion. I explained to Judy that I struggle to even do the cartoons / memes / and news post for tomorrow which I started days ago along with the stuff I post from my phone / pad and so I can’t really reply to comments. If you feel you would like to respond to any comments on anything I post I welcome you to do so. I had so much more I wanted to write to you but it is now 7:21 pm here now and I have not even gotten started on finishing tomorrow’s post. If I don’t get to it very soon I am going to have to try to get up at 4 am or such to get it posted on time. Sorry I do want to share so much with you but I can’t do it tonight. Hugs
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Oh and Ali. You are not now nor ever being bossy. Your being a big sister like Diane is to Ron. But in this case you can’t be here to see everything you need to know so you have to use what you read to make your “suggestions” “demands” or “asking me to do this to feel better” so I agree with you on the information you have. It is flattering in a way that you care enough to “push” your suggestions for me to me. And in fact I am not really thinking that clearly right now with the pain and being as tired as I am, so you are correct in keeping your suggestions coming at me. I respect you enough already that even if I was not feeling so “shitty and hurting” I would still value your advice and take it seriously. So please keep being you. But to reassure you, I have gone back on the hated vitamins and have an appointment June 1 with my pain doctor to get some relief for my pain issues. To reassure you, Ron is as concerned as you are. But this is Florida, and doctor appointments are not easy to get. It takes months. In the case of my retiring endocrinologist who is retiring that I last saw on April 8th it is not until August 8th that I can even call to ask for a new appointment for them. However Ali I promise you I am doing the very best I can do as you asked of me. And again I thank you for caring enough to push me on taking care of myself and getting better, I want the same thing. I really want to do a few things for tomorrow’s post and then I will go to bed. I wanted to do a bigger one but I simply have run out of energy to do much more on it. Oh and that is not your fault. It is just that I have not been able for a few days to get it together enough to do it. Hugs
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Thanks, Scottie. I appreciate you taking the time and energy to respond to these comments! I hope you haven’t overdone it, but it’s good to hear where you are on this stuff.
All you can do is all you can do, and you have to come first. I know we’ll all be glad when you’re feeling better!
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