BS: Kat needs your good thoughts (Great News!)

Subject: RE: BS: Kat needs your good thoughts (Great News!)
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 21 May 11 - 10:53 AM

Good for you, Kat!

Subject: RE: BS: Kat needs your good thoughts (Great News!)
From: freda underhill
Date: 21 May 11 - 08:11 AM

What fantastic news! YAAAAY!!!

XXX freda

Subject: RE: BS: Kat needs your good thoughts (Great News!)
From: Herga Kitty
Date: 21 May 11 - 07:21 AM

Kat - it's brightened my day to see your latest report on this thread!

Kitty
xx

Subject: RE: BS: Kat needs your good thoughts (Great News!)
From: jacqui.c
Date: 21 May 11 - 07:09 AM

More whooppeees from me in the UK. What a relief!

xxxxxxxx

Subject: RE: BS: Kat needs your good thoughts (Great News!)
From: Will Fly
Date: 21 May 11 - 06:08 AM

Kisses, Kat.

Subject: RE: BS: Kat needs your good thoughts (Great News!)
From: Morticia
Date: 21 May 11 - 06:05 AM

wonderful news, so relieved!

Subject: RE: BS: Kat needs your good thoughts (Great News!)
From: Roger the Skiffler
Date: 21 May 11 - 05:41 AM

What the fat man said, Kat.
luv
RtS

Subject: RE: BS: Kat needs your good thoughts (Great News!)
From: fat B****rd
Date: 21 May 11 - 05:28 AM

Wh00000000000pppppppppppppppppppEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Kat needs your good thoughts (Great News!)
From: mouldy
Date: 21 May 11 - 02:19 AM

Whatever you are doing, you are most certainly doing it right!

Go, Kat!!!


Andrea x

Subject: RE: BS: Kat needs your good thoughts (Great News!)
From: ranger1
Date: 20 May 11 - 11:26 PM

Yay! From me and J-boy and the fluffy-tailed pup and the adorable ninja cat.

Subject: RE: BS: Kat needs your good thoughts (Great News!)
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 20 May 11 - 09:45 PM

Yippee!

Subject: RE: BS: Kat needs your good thoughts (Great News!)
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 20 May 11 - 09:12 PM

big smile here, too

keep up the good work

sandra

Subject: RE: BS: Kat needs your good thoughts (Great News!)
From: olddude
Date: 20 May 11 - 09:04 PM

Simply Wonderful ... :-) I am smiling thank you. I haven't smile much lately ... needed this for sure

Subject: RE: BS: Kat needs your good thoughts (Great News!)
From: Bill D
Date: 20 May 11 - 08:14 PM

Wonderful! But no ski jumping too next year...promise?

Subject: RE: BS: Kat needs your good thoughts (Great News!)
From: gnu
Date: 20 May 11 - 08:02 PM

FAN*******TASTIC!

Subject: RE: BS: Kat needs your good thoughts (Great News!)
From: Bobert
Date: 20 May 11 - 07:57 PM

We like all stories that end in "victory laps", Kat...

Onward and upward...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Kat needs your good thoughts (Great News!)
From: catspaw49
Date: 20 May 11 - 07:53 PM

Pretty damn happy here too!!!!!

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Kat needs your good thoughts (Great News!)
From: Janie
Date: 20 May 11 - 07:47 PM

Biggest grin I can plaster on my face!

Subject: RE: BS: Kat needs your good thoughts (Great News!)
From: maeve
Date: 20 May 11 - 07:46 PM

Hurrah! Good for you, kat.

Subject: Doc does a victory dance!
From: katlaughing
Date: 20 May 11 - 07:38 PM

Wanted to tell you all the GOOD NEWS! Had another echo-cardiogram this morning. The pulmonologist just called me to say there was a "humongous improvement" that I needed to come in to see him next week to do a Victory Lap round the office! I think he was almost gobsmacked!**BG**

We are happy, happy, happy here. Thanks for all of your help!!

luvyakat

Subject: RE: BS: Kat needs your good thoughts (Update)
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 23 Apr 11 - 12:28 AM

Smiles!

Subject: RE: BS: Kat needs your good thoughts (Update)
From: Janie
Date: 22 Apr 11 - 11:43 PM

Love you, Kat.

Subject: RE: BS: Kat needs your good thoughts (Update)
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 22 Apr 11 - 05:55 PM

Thank you for this great news, Kat!

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Kat needs your good thoughts (Update)
From: katlaughing
Date: 22 Apr 11 - 05:51 PM

Oh, you dear, dear folk, it is with great pleasure that I bring you this report:

the blood gas measurement showed "vast improvement" today and the doc says to keep doing whatever I am doing to make it so! I have lost another eleven pounds since seeing him 12 days ago, which is good because it was water weight.

He kept the scary stuff low-key today, focussing instead on the positives I reported and he saw. I don't mean to make light of something so serious, but I do accept peace and love, now, and so it is. Just 2-3 weeks ago, they told me I could pass on any minute. Good friends and family begged to differ and gave me the courage and strength to carry on, making peace with meds I didn't like and docs I didn't trust, at first. I am most grateful. I open my heart and send Love everywhere, but esp. to you, my dear, dear friends.

Thank you, so much!

luvyakat

Subject: RE: BS: Kat needs your good thoughts (Update)
From: fat B****rd
Date: 22 Apr 11 - 02:58 PM

I'm happy for you, Kat. Onward and upward.
Take good care.
Charlie in Scotland

Subject: RE: BS: Kat needs your good thoughts (Update)
From: Bobert
Date: 22 Apr 11 - 09:26 AM

Glad to see yer feeling a lot better, kat... I'm putttin' you back on my voluteers list for the big upcoming move... You can drive a 26 foot box truck and load sofas, can't you???

B;~)

Subject: RE: BS: Kat needs your good thoughts (Update)
From: jacqui.c
Date: 22 Apr 11 - 09:17 AM

Good to hear all that Kat. Fingers crossed for today.

Subject: RE: BS: Kat needs your good thoughts (Update)
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 22 Apr 11 - 12:07 AM

Good thoughts from me, too. I'll be looking for your post after you've seen your doctor.

Subject: RE: BS: Kat needs your good thoughts (Update)
From: Janie
Date: 21 Apr 11 - 08:53 PM

Smiles!

Subject: RE: BS: Kat needs your good thoughts (Update)
From: SINSULL
Date: 21 Apr 11 - 08:37 PM

Miss Kitty,
Welcome back to the land of the living. Jump in - the water's fine.
Love,
Mary

Subject: RE: BS: Kat needs your good thoughts (Update)
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 21 Apr 11 - 05:27 PM

Kat

I suffered with Restless Legs for years, then went on potassium citrate. Bang- went away like that.

Subject: RE: BS: Kat needs your good thoughts (Update)
From: gnu
Date: 21 Apr 11 - 04:48 PM

Great news. And, good luck on the morrow.

As for the "continuously on the verge of an orgasm", that must suck. All I can say is, go ahead and JUMP!

Subject: RE: BS: Kat needs your good thoughts (Update)
From: Lizzie Cornish 1
Date: 21 Apr 11 - 03:41 PM

Good luck for tomorrow, kat..x

Subject: RE: BS: Kat needs your good thoughts (Update)
From: Ebbie
Date: 21 Apr 11 - 03:37 PM

kat, your improvements sound wonderful! I am sure it will be reflected in the new stats. Your doctor will be all smiles.

And so are we.

Subject: RE: BS: Kat needs your good thoughts (Update)
From: katlaughing
Date: 21 Apr 11 - 03:01 PM

BTW, forgot to say all good thoughts and support appreciated for tomorrow's doc's appt. wherein he reveals the new CT scan and other stuff since starting all of the new treatments. I KNOW it's going to be good because I have improved SO much and I am trying to live in the NOW, this moment and not get ahead of myself, but that little niggle of anxiety still comes up now and then.

The changes have been fairly dramatic. Since starting on new meds and the bi-pap, I have done a lot of "firsts in I don't know how long" i.e. washed dishes, cleaned out the frig, pitched a baseball for Morgan, walked across the soccer field from Morgan's game, walked over an hour in the grocery store, swept the front steps and sidewalk, started a sidewalk/stair lap program...slow and steady AND played my dulcimer!

Not 2-3 days before the meds and bi-pap, I was literally at the lowest I've felt in years and years. I am most gratefull for the upswing!

Thanks for all of your help.

luvyakat

Subject: RE: BS: Kat needs your good thoughts (Update)
From: katlaughing
Date: 21 Apr 11 - 02:53 PM

Why dewya think they gave me Revatio aka viagra?!**bg** BTW, Night Owl scooped you on this; she told me about it last week.LOL!

Subject: RE: BS: Kat needs your good thoughts (Update)
From: catspaw49
Date: 21 Apr 11 - 02:34 PM

I think I found a possible cause for the RLS. Tell Rog to get it in gear!!!

ScienceDaily (Dec. 17, 2008) — Persistent imminent orgasms in women are associated with restless legs and overactive bladder. This is the result of research by the Utrecht University and The Hague's HagaHospital. Neuropsychiatrist Dr. Marcel Waldinger and his colleagues studied 18 Dutch women with Persistent Sexual Arousal Syndrome (PSAS) and recently published their results in the Journal of Sexual Medicine.


Women affected by this rare and mysterious syndrome experience persistent genital sensations as if they are continuously on the verge of an orgasm. All participants received in depth interviews and various medical examinations such as MRI-scans of the brain and pelvis. The study showed that most women in this research also had restless legs, symptoms of an overactive bladder and pelvic varicosis. "These results are a very important breakthrough in the research of this syndrome and show that this is a real physical disorder", Waldinger emphasizes.

So did you forget to tell the Docs you are oversexed as well?????


Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Kat needs your good thoughts (Update)
From: katlaughing
Date: 11 Apr 11 - 02:06 PM

LOL...DougeR, I need an editor! I have added a "NOT!" Thanks for the catch.:-)

Subject: RE: BS: Kat needs your good thoughts (Update)
From: DougR
Date: 11 Apr 11 - 02:02 PM

Rog IS? Or Rog ISN'T? :>)

DougR

Subject: RE: BS: Kat needs your good thoughts (Update)
From: katlaughing
Date: 10 Apr 11 - 02:39 PM

I am glad to hear that, Sins! It should be in sometime near the first of the week, next. The O2 people know it is a critical, i.e. STAT, prescription and so will bring it as soon as they have it.

NOT to make light of any of what I and many others have been going through, but I do see some humour in this (for me, at least:) The new 3x's per day med is Revatio which is an original drug developed to treat pulmonary hypertension...it just happened to have an unexpected, multi-billion dollar side effect which became known as "Viagra!" I've already heard one Mudcatter joke that my body will be so stiff I won't be able to bend. Not!**bg** It is good to have a little to laugh about in all of this. And, no, my Rog is NOT borrowing any from me!(Corrected after DougR's sharp observation.:-)

Subject: RE: BS: Kat needs your good thoughts (Update)
From: SINSULL
Date: 10 Apr 11 - 02:18 PM

I think you are right about the bpap. I know many people who felt better the first night they used one.
When does yours arrive?
SINS

Subject: RE: BS: Kat needs your good thoughts (Update)
From: katlaughing
Date: 10 Apr 11 - 11:49 AM

The first night of the RLS med, I woke at 3a hurting terribly, I think from not moving enough. If I stay in one position too long, things get really tight. So, I got up and hobbled around hoping I had not done soft tissue damage to my feet the day before on the treadmill at the doc's. I was able to get back to sleep about 430a until 7 and it was a deep sleep so that was nice.

The next morning, yesterday, I took the first of three daily doses of a new med and about an hour later couldn't stay awake and had a terrible muscle cramp across my neck and shoulders. Back to bed for an hour's nap. Called the pharmacist. She thinks it was the RLS med kicking in still; recommended holding off on it to determine which one was the culprit. She was right. I did not take the RLS med last night and only woke up an hour earlier, at 2a, with no pain. Was also able to get back to sleep until 7a. I don't really feel rested, but I feel we are on the right track. Will call the doc for an adjustment on Monday.

My feeling is the BiPap will help with all of it, including the legs and, I hope I will be able to get by without any leg meds. The other med is much more important and I seem to be tolerating it well, so that's good.

Thanks for asking. Hope that's not too much info!:-)

Subject: RE: BS: Kat needs your good thoughts (Update)
From: SINSULL
Date: 10 Apr 11 - 11:37 AM

I slept with three kitties and a big yellow dog. Seems the kitties decided I pay too much attention to Seamus so there are circling the wagons.
How did your night go, Miss Kitty?

Subject: RE: BS: Kat needs your good thoughts (Update)
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 10 Apr 11 - 07:04 AM

Hope you had a wonderful sleep last night!

me, too

sandra

Subject: RE: BS: Kat needs your good thoughts (Update)
From: Crowhugger
Date: 09 Apr 11 - 01:23 PM

This is great news Kat. Hope you had a wonderful sleep last night!

Subject: RE: BS: Kat needs your good thoughts (Update)
From: fat B****rd
Date: 09 Apr 11 - 09:57 AM

Best thoughts as always. young Kat.
Charlie. X

Subject: RE: BS: Kat needs your good thoughts (Update)
From: jacqui.c
Date: 09 Apr 11 - 07:51 AM

Good morning Kat - how did it go with the medication?

Subject: RE: BS: Kat needs your good thoughts (Update)
From: katlaughing
Date: 08 Apr 11 - 11:46 PM

Thanks, folks.

SRS, thanks. I was reminded by anudder Mudder about the Ivory soap, but it was for leg cramps from what I remember. I do have some and will try it, but for now, the problem is severe enough and I feel so worn out, we are using medication at least for a week or two to see if it helps. Tonight will be the first night.

Subject: RE: BS: Kat needs your good thoughts (Update)
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 08 Apr 11 - 11:29 PM

Information is power, so it's a good thing you've had the various studies done.

What are you doing for the restless leg syndrome (or whatever kind of ailment it is considered?) Do you recall a discussion ages back, when it was suggested that (I know it sounds silly) a bar of Ivory soap under your bottom sheet down near your feet helps it go away? I've heard people call in to the People's Pharmacy on NPR and say it works. Have you tried it?

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Kat needs your good thoughts (Update)
From: jacqui.c
Date: 08 Apr 11 - 08:53 PM

Good news - I an so glad.