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Thursday, February 1, 2024
Pain News Network - Updates on "Capitol Hill, and so much more....
Wednesday, January 3, 2024
Left Femur break - Update probably going to inpatient rehab a few days
Left Femur break - Update probably going to inpatient rehab a few days
I am making a decision to go in to inpatient rehab for a few days. My PCP is getting the orders ready. So, as soon as that is done, I will just go from home to about 5 miles away if that ti the same place that rehabbed my r. hip fracture in 2016. I am wearing myself out without proper pain control and the nerve pain and muscle have had me in tears for 24 hours.
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Monday, January 1, 2024
Tough Literal Break On Saturday before Christmas...Femur Fracture...
Tough Literal Break On Saturday before Christmas...Femur Fracture...
Here is the heck of a mess.. my femur down by my knee I fractured it lengthwise up from to the knee right to the knee prosthesis I have a plate and screws on the left side of my left knee Merry Christmas and happy new year I hope to go home Wednesday or Thursday...
I am home and I’m just getting the pups chilled and I am exhausted but I’m here and I have lots of rehab rest and out of the hospital where I feared the flu RSV and COVID going around keep me and my son Jason in your prayers and thoughts he is exhausted and worried about me and also my daughter in your prayers also she is very worried about me and has so much to deal with so all of us are in need of a prayer chain honestly
2nd full day at home. It is still sucks. I knew it would be a challenge since I cannot BEND my knee at all. I can put all the weight on it i can stand but cannot bend it.
so the hospital was easier..wider doors. and even floors...etc..I knew my house would be a challenge. BUT, due to the FLU, COVID and RSV going around..plus what happened either to my pup in 2016 with my hip fracture. I wanted to be AT HOME!and
ALL of the PT therapists totally signed off on it. But, I struggled that first part of the night
Thursday getting home so late, and Friday..yesterday was kind of off just getting things organized from me being gone so the pups had toys everywhere and my son had been having to try and work, and then during the surgery the weather was horrid in Dallas the 23rd and 24th..I told him to stay at home. He could not do a thing up there but sit around and wait.
I am a bit challenged because we still really do not have the house "cleaned up and stuff moved around yet.
I still have the option to go to inpatient rehab if i feel i cannot handle it t home for a few more days...
I have a very tough decision to make and been trying to..either SELL THIS HOUSE AND MOVE.. OR HAVE THI ONE REMODELED! BUT MOST CONTRACTORS DO NOT WANT THE HASSLE OF these older homes AND ALL OF THEIR QUIRKS AND ESPECIALLY AFTER A COUPLE OF THINGS that have happened here and are wearing out... so the MAIN ISSUE is finding somone that will do it all or most of it or sell it and move somewhere more "compliant" for handicapped... this house of course was not.
AGAIN THANK YOU EACH ONE FOR THE THOUGHTS, PRAYERS, WELL WISHES, POSTS AND MORE. I WILL TRY TO ACKNOWLEDGE EVERYONE BUT IF I MISS SOMEONE IT SI DUE TO I CANNAOT Thank You, PamE FOR VERY LONG EITHER...
Wednesday, December 20, 2023
Me.. As I Walk through the Realms of the Holidays...
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I am okay all.... I have not been online the past several days. I have had several doctors appts, and finally got to see my new teeth yesterday. They will be perfect... they should be ready by about Jan 8th...
Honestly, I am a bit forlorn about the whole holidays right now. After losing one our own... such a shock... and thinking about how things have so changed right at the flash of an eye...
One moment we are young, with all of the family having INCREDIBLE and MEMORABLE HOLIDAYS... cousins, Aunts Uncles, Grandparents, Parents... and siblings if you have them... and within a breath's spce the decades have gne by and you find yourself in a space, time, and realm you cannot fathom it went by so quickly and everything has changed... nothing as it was before...
People say "get over it", celebrate for the right reasons, be grateful you are here.... and ALL of the things some people should really "think" before they open their mouths... and it includes me at times...
Memories of all of the good times, the good years... all come FLOODING INTO MY MIND AND HEART LIEK THE RUSH OF A WATERFALLS AND THE HUES OF COLOR IT BRINGS...
I feel like a "waterfall" in the cold weather of somewhere such as "Wolf Creek Pass" where the waterfalls are "frozen in time"...
I feel like I am "frozen in time" and I cannot seem to move ahead or step back.... like a statue..like a rare photograph like I am looking through the mirror of my life...
I have had things to do around here..some outside before it has gotten colder and we have had quite a bit of rain off and on...the sun is coming out now and if it is dry enough I have the last of the leaves to shred if it is dry enough...
I have also been FIGHTING WITH A SQUIRREL! He or She have been trying to dig into my roof or in to the laundry room again..so I have been trying to find a way to keep them from trying to get in... ALWAYS SOMETHING....!
I hope to get by the cemetery in the next day or so, to put flowers out on Mom and Dad's..and my Grandparents graves... I have the flowers... so if it is warm enough later I may get out there...
I went and bought another "sample" size pain of the next darker color than what I bought at first. Now I am thinking about doing it like my bedroom and using waded paper to look like it is sponged...but my bedroom is awesome... I put a tad bit of pain glitter in the paint.. and t only shows in certain light..it is incredible...
So, I may either pain a couple of walls one color and the other the lighter or I may wind up doing 2 or 3 colors and sponging it... LOL..so part off my wall in my living room have two colors of aquamarine paint on them...
The ONE thing and I have NOT broken the tradition but maybe one year I was in the hospital but I ALWAYS WRITE ON ANNUAL CHRISTMAS LETTER! I put one in the Christmas cards I "snail mail"...BUT I do not have but a few cards to send..all the family is nearly gone...and I am having a difficult time just even trying to decide what to say... I may write it but only post it here etc..and on my blog.... I have about 6 Xmas cards to "snail mail" out... and I may leave just what I wrote in the cards and not send a letter this year... AT least I wrote it.... and posting it HERE IS LIKE FAMILY IN MANY WAYS.....
I "hope" to have the energy to get these things done and hopefully come to the "emotionally and mentally" in sync to write the letter and hope to have the "under joyous" feelings I have at the time...
I KNOW the true meaning of this precious holiday is... and presents, trees, decorations, food... all are a part of it...but the real "REASON FOR THE SEASON" HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH PARTIES, FOOD, DECOR, BUT FOR WHOM WAS "BORN IN A "MANGER" long ago... walked this Earth as we do,,and much harsher conditions... to sacrifice His Life in Order that WE have "Eternal Life"... so Baby Jesus... is the true meaning... and all of the rest is in "celebration" of His Birth....BUT think about it...we..with ll of our toys, expensive trying to "one up" the "Jones" .... cars,, houses, technology, designer labels... shoes that cost more than most car or house payments....
We (and I mean myself included) should SEE the TRUE Meaning.. IF WE were in the cold in a manger... would WE be that HAPPY!? We we be that "grateful"? We would travel miles and
miles in the cold on foot..to see the Newborn "King"?
JUST "FOOD" for thought.....
Tuesday, December 12, 2023
How RA and Chronic Illness Make Us More Empathetic
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Saturday, November 25, 2023
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HAPPY THANKSGIVING 2023!
Have an incredible Holiday season. Be safe, enjoy family, friends, some football...a Great Deal of food...
and LOVE!!!!
Friday, November 10, 2023
Handling Sero-Negative Rheumatoid Arthritis
The Pitfalls of Seronegative RA
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The Real Story of Seronegative RA: What the Blood Tests Don't Show
Thursday, November 2, 2023
CONGRATS!!! TEXAS RANGERS 2023 WORLD CHAMPS!!!!!
TEXAS RANGERS WORLD SERIES CHAMPS AFTER 51 YEARS!!!
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Thursday, October 19, 2023
FLU VACCINE... RSV VACCINE AND COVID-19 LATEST TO COVER NEW VARIANTS AND SHINGLES, WHOOPING COUGH AND MORE IF YOU HAVE CERTAIN HEALTH ISSUES
GET VACCINATED!!
HEY YOU! yeah you!? do you have your flu, rsv, and latest COVID-19 vaccine that takes care of more variants!!! I DID! THREE BANDADES LATER AND I AM COVERED.FOR IT ALL. "RSV" EFFECTS YOUNG INFANTS MORE THAN ADULTS but if you have other health issues eith your lungs, Autoimmune system..other things that may keep your body fro fighting RSV get the vaccine!!!
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How can our kids feel safe when WE as adults don't???? I fear Wal-Mart or just walking across the parking lot at HEB in my small lo...
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I really have SO MUCH to try & catch up here on, so I am going ton"Post"n some of my ongoing chronic health issues, things abo...
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I finally made a trip to Urgent Care with what I feel is a very bad Lupus and RA flare, but there are several "symptoms" strange t...