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Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times... From: Mrrzy Date: 20 Jul 22 - 10:32 AM Lying on mat again today. Just because I *could* sit didn't, apparently, mean I *should* ... Ok, lesson learned. In terms of pain, lying down is best if can locate precise positions, then walking, then sitting, then standing. And I was hoping to bloody *shower* when today's visitor was here, as yesterday was better. Merde. Maybe I can pace vaguely. But it used to be lying precisely vs. absolute yowie, so, yeah. In terms of precision, I still shift my left femur (angle from all three planes, plus rotation, plus occasional leverage by weight on knee with fulcrum under femur) and pelvis by judicious plushy placement. But today I no longer *also* need to guard the injection site, so again, yeah. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times... From: Sandra in Sydney Date: 19 Jul 22 - 11:00 PM sitting! walking!! yah |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times... From: Mrrzy Date: 19 Jul 22 - 07:16 PM Woot today I could sit for a meal! More steps! Finally! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times... From: keberoxu Date: 19 Jul 22 - 09:26 AM Mrrzy, old friend, a condition as extreme as yours has got to have a solution. It just beats me that they are taking so long to get to the solution. I'm hoping the CT scan succeeds where everybody else has let you down. Thinking and praying for you. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times... From: Helen Date: 18 Jul 22 - 04:44 PM A CT is good. They are taking your condition seriously. Hang in there. keberoxu, how about "the wonderful spine doctor of os"? Os is the Latin word for bone. Other than that, I'm no good at making up songs or rhymes. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times... From: Mrrzy Date: 18 Jul 22 - 01:25 PM Spine guy says (and I quote) No plan of care till after CT, now scheduled for Friday. No plan of care. Unbelievable. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times... From: keberoxu Date: 18 Jul 22 - 07:07 AM I would do the Wizard of Oz tune if I could get the words straight. We're off to see the spine doctor, the wonderful spine doctor of ... erm ... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times... From: keberoxu Date: 17 Jul 22 - 09:26 AM Will be thinking of you first thing Monday morning (while keeping my appointment with my therapist) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times... From: Mrrzy Date: 17 Jul 22 - 09:20 AM Under 24 hours to spine guy. I am counting down. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times... From: Helen Date: 16 Jul 22 - 11:05 PM Sandra, your tale about battling the winds reminds me of when Hubby & I stupidly decided to go to a hill overlooking the harbour to look at the wreck of the Pasha Bulker at Nobby's Beach [Someone has a sense of humour. The title on that page is, "A look back on the Pasha Bulker...ship happens".] We were battling hard to get up the hill and getting nowhere, just standing still, because the wind was so strong but that happens rarely and not on an everyday shopping trip. LOL |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times... From: Sandra in Sydney Date: 16 Jul 22 - 10:42 PM I'm on the edge of Sydney CBD, near the Harbour (can't see it tho cos it's surrounded by tall buildings) & it is not raining today! It will later this week. I'm also on top of a hill so don't get flooded, but we do get howling winds coming up the street from the CBD & into our street as they pass 38 story building on each side, most off the rest of our street are 4-storey Deco & 20th century apartment blocks, so we live in a wind tunnel. On some windy rainy days my shopping trolley & I have battled gale force winds & howling rain to get out, & I'm not a wee little thing, unlike my very slender neighbour, dunno how she doesn't get blown over. sandra |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times... From: Helen Date: 16 Jul 22 - 08:30 PM And from me too. Sending you soothing and healing thoughts. I'm above water. No problems in Newcastle, but up the valley has had major problems. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times... From: Mrrzy Date: 16 Jul 22 - 07:21 PM Mwah Sandra! Above water? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times... From: Sandra in Sydney Date: 16 Jul 22 - 06:21 PM best wishes from me, too. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times... From: Mrrzy Date: 16 Jul 22 - 05:45 PM It got better then it got wuss but nowhere near as bad as that day ooh nasty. Monday spine guy! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times... From: fat B****rd Date: 16 Jul 22 - 05:04 PM I really wish I could say something magical for you Mrrzy, but please accept my very best regards and good wishes Charlie (fB) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times... From: keberoxu Date: 16 Jul 22 - 12:22 PM THinking of you, Mrrzy. Keep fighting the good fight. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times... From: keberoxu Date: 15 Jul 22 - 11:21 PM Mrrzy, I am so unhappy and angry and worried for you. I know life is not fair, but for ****'s sake. I'll be counting the days, and you, I can guess, will be counting the MINUTES until you get the help you really need. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times... From: Mrrzy Date: 14 Jul 22 - 01:21 PM Ok next day pain pain pain. Shot not working but that may be good news --> sooner surgery. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times... From: Mrrzy Date: 13 Jul 22 - 09:07 AM Lemme say this about that... If you treat the pressure as pressure, boy does it turn into pain. That was a several-hour, sweaty, dizzy, bad idea, washing face and changing to clean shirt. Not to mention the wated effort for a soaked, once-clean and -refreshing shirt. But then, slept well, woke in no pain. Stretched! Quelle luxe. Today bowing to pressure, it stays pressure. Will grab a clo (the singular of clothes, per kid) when I next get up, and get into it when I lie back down. No dizziness, at leaat. Vasovagal crap. Haven't had that since 1994. So a lot less pain while lying down, but very little added ability to do anything else. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times... From: keberoxu Date: 12 Jul 22 - 07:21 PM THey just did this today? Better late than never, but still. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times... From: Mrrzy Date: 12 Jul 22 - 04:46 PM Stand down red alert! Shot of something-caine and steroids and (once I stopped trying to faint) all I have now is pressure but not pain why didn't they do this on the 4th? I am to pretend the pressure *is* pain in terms of staying out of positions where I feel it. I have a Rx for massage but can't start pt or normal life till after I see spine guy the 18th. And I spent 3 days trying to remember the name of the pt guy I saw in the 90's who was also on Steve's softball team, when lo and behold that is who the pain doc referred me to when I asked if I could have massage. I love this town. So while I am on my couch, at least if I shift position I get wooden-leg rather than agonizing knitting needles. All for it. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times... From: keberoxu Date: 12 Jul 22 - 03:14 PM If it helps, by all means, go for it! Wouldn't that be something, if it at least gave you some relief. In the meantime, the spinal clinic is -- when -- next week? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times... From: Mrrzy Date: 12 Jul 22 - 01:34 PM Ooh yeah I will ask about the insert. I have one for my short leg I don't wear. The insert, that is. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times... From: Donuel Date: 12 Jul 22 - 05:52 AM What a difference a centimeter makes. My back was making up the difference of one shorter leg with year long unhappy painful results so I reintroduced a lift for the right heel and it took about 3 days to escape constant pain. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times... From: Stilly River Sage Date: 11 Jul 22 - 11:01 PM Turning into a favorite sleep position and trying to stuff enough pillows between my knees to keep the surgical knee level is impossible, and when I wake it's throbbing. I have to head to the kitchen for the ice packs and wrap my knee and try again to get to sleep. This is a self-inflicted wound, an elective surgery, but it gives a glimmer of a view of what you're describing. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times... From: Mrrzy Date: 11 Jul 22 - 05:57 PM Yeah, first real sleep all month. I would find a bearable position, sleep for 30-90mn, shift and the pain would wake me back up, repeat till no bearable positions. Then transfer to LR yoga mat, too hard to sleep on. Many small plushies, and a footstool with bigger plushies for my lower legs. With the little ones I can shift my pelvis 1 cm *this* way and with the big ones my left calf 1" *that* way and find relatively pain-free positions for a while, but then the pain starts building up so I move the rabbit or whatever a few mm. This is my day... Shifting plushies, going to pee, lying back down to get the pain back under control, shift some plushies, call someone to bring me things. If I find a pain-free position I can *relax* in rather than holding myself in, I can nap. And the leg buckles if I do try to walk on it. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times... From: Stilly River Sage Date: 11 Jul 22 - 04:36 PM Pain at night that keeps you awake, that's the worst. Good you found the "goo" to help you past that! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times... From: keberoxu Date: 11 Jul 22 - 03:41 PM You rock, Mrrzy! Just get through tonight safely, we all will be thinking of you. What an awful ordeal. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times... From: Mrrzy Date: 11 Jul 22 - 12:46 PM Pain clinic tried to say September so my mother's true child made many, many more phone calls and wonderful PCP doc's office person, who knows everybody, got me something somewhere else for tomorrow, yay! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times... From: Mrrzy Date: 11 Jul 22 - 06:23 AM They prescribed drugs that cannot be taken together. Great. That was Friday. They referred me to the pain clinic. First, it isn't open weekends, and second, they can't take referrals from an ER. Great. Another ER trip Saturday because someone called in a welfare check when I hadn't eaten in 30 hours. Different ER, though. Was out in 2 hours, not 13, and someone looked at my MRI itself, not at the results that said there was nothing wrong. The new look also said nothing wrong. Channeling Larry Niven, I cursed the machine for a lying robot. They gave me percocet and sent me home with a prescription, not with no plan for when it wore off. Meanwhile I had ordered some legal weed extract goo that comes in a syringe you squeeze measured cc's from. When the nausea from the percocet wore off I had a friend dispense 2 ccs of that into a truffle. The corner has turned. Pain only bad, not excruciationg, in several horizontal positions. The goo conked me out by 7.30 last night and I woke up at 3 because I had slept, not from pain. Not trying standing sitting or walking yet. Today pain clinic opens. I might make it to the 18th for the spine clinic after all. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times... From: keberoxu Date: 10 Jul 22 - 01:17 AM Will you have to have more surgery? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times... From: Mrrzy Date: 09 Jul 22 - 08:55 AM Morphine shots HURT but then I didn't, for about 10 hours. Better than the dilaudid. But my stomach had little hot rocks for a while. Home, waking in pain. Not trying to walk yet. Scared of what I'll find. They prescribed something I can get OTC. The ER notes keep saying Resting Comfortably. My ass. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times... From: keberoxu Date: 08 Jul 22 - 07:19 PM Aha, I get it: Back in the ER, 12 hours and counting. Look at a QWERTY keyboard, it may be true of other keyboards as well. B and N are right next to each other. I'm guessing that Mrrzy, presently in the ER, sent this from her Iphone using that keyboard. Do you have to be there alone? Can your other son keep you company or something, or can he come for you when they release you? Or are you relying on friends who are not blood relatives? You ought not have to do this all by yourself. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times... From: Mrrzy Date: 08 Jul 22 - 07:06 PM Nack [haha] in ER. 12 hours and counting. I refused pain meds till ortho saw me, now they aren't offering. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times... From: Steve Shaw Date: 08 Jul 22 - 05:49 AM I had the same kind of problems nine years ago (stenosis, spine protrusions impacting nerves, disc popping out on one side like a chewing gum bubble, another disc gone, etc.) which led to severe pains shooting down both legs on top of the back pain. The surgery completely fixed the leg pains and they haven't come back. The back pain can't be fixed by that surgery but it's eminently liveable with. I have to take an NSAID every day. I think I might have regaled the forum before with my Tramadol horror story. I took it for three weeks only, it stopped working at all after two and I unknowingly became physically dependent on it. I won't dwell, but coming off it was the worst experience of my life. I'm not a doctor and don't issue medical advice. Let's just say that I went back to the doctor who prescribed it for me and gave him a severe bollocking. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times... From: Doug Chadwick Date: 08 Jul 22 - 04:52 AM I still think your son with the cat should let the cat keep you company. Cats need feeding and to be let out. Litter trays need changing. Isn't a bad back bad enough without becoming the servant of a cat? DC |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times... From: keberoxu Date: 07 Jul 22 - 08:24 PM I still think your son with the cat should let the cat keep you company. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times... From: Mrrzy Date: 07 Jul 22 - 06:37 PM IMPRESSION: 1. Postsurgical changes of left*** L5 laminectomy. 2. Right paracentral and subarticular zone disc protrusion at L3-4 resulting in right lateral recess effacement likely compressing the descending L4 nerve root. 3. Moderate right L4-5 and moderate bilateral L5-S1 neural foraminal narrowing. 4. Mild to moderate spinal canal stenosis at L4-5. ***All the pain is left leg so none of this other stuff apparently matters. They've switched one painkiller for valium. Barely took thr edge off. If no sleep tonight either I can call an ambulance. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times... From: keberoxu Date: 07 Jul 22 - 10:28 AM Mrrzy, old friend? Are you still hanging on? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times... From: keberoxu Date: 06 Jul 22 - 09:02 PM Mrrzy, this is simply horrible. I don't know what to say that won't sound cheap or something. You are in my thoughts and prayers. Whatever you do, don't be isolated and alone and without someone to reach out to -- is your other son and his household in touch with you? Maybe they could loan you the family cat?? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times... From: Mrrzy Date: 06 Jul 22 - 08:36 PM Nope. Tried prednisone flexeril im dilaudid im toradol then naprosyn and tramadol now tramadol and toradol and tylenol and I am still in terrific pain. Emergency MRI, results tomorrow. Can't sit or stand for more than seconds, can't walk more than a few steps, cannot find a painfree position for sleep. Son is out of jail. No other info. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times... From: keberoxu Date: 06 Jul 22 - 04:02 PM Your back, plainly, is telling you that you have more than your fair share to carry. Hope you are feeling somewhat better. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times... From: Helen Date: 05 Jul 22 - 03:56 PM Yes, but did you get your back back? To normal or at least a workable sort of normal, that is. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times... From: Mrrzy Date: 05 Jul 22 - 03:46 PM That was 11 hours I'll never get back... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times... From: Mrrzy Date: 04 Jul 22 - 03:58 PM Just for giggles I am in the ER for my back. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times... From: Stilly River Sage Date: 01 Jul 22 - 09:43 PM This sounds like an opportunity for your son, the services have aligned to possibly give him some help. I hope it goes well. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times... From: Helen Date: 01 Jul 22 - 06:54 PM Mrrzy, I hope everything works out well, especially if your son gets some therapy. I think you can be, as they say in the media, "cautiously optimistic". My fingers and toes are crossed. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times... From: keberoxu Date: 01 Jul 22 - 04:03 PM Your son is nicknamed "Jesus" for the physical/facial resemblance, did I hear you correctly a while back? Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, and ALL the saints, as my favorite Irish-American recovering Catholic liked to say . . . |
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Subject: RE: BS: Mrrzy is living in interesting times... From: Mrrzy Date: 01 Jul 22 - 02:16 PM I got there early and talked to the prosecutor, who taught me the term "therapeutic docket" and said son had to request it. Yikes. It was his actual trial. He claimed that the jail never gave him a PIN so he hadn't been able to hire a lawyer. Offered the choice to continue without one or wait to have one, he opted to proceed without one. He only ran on a bit. Not too psychotic-seeming. Malheureusement. The judge at the beginning asked me if I would help with bail, I said I would help if on therapeutic docket, at which point son told me to leave the courtroom because he "doesn't like" me but he was on video from jail so I just went to the back. He pled Not Guilty to everything, offered no defense, did not cross-examine, guilty on all 3 counts. Prosecutor recommended therapeutic court for sentencing AND HE AGREED! Excellent news! If he complies there will be a lot of therapy and help with housing and employment. If he doesn't, 11 months of jail (12 months, 11 suspended). I don't think failure to comply results in hospitalization, but in loss of suspension of the prison sentence. However, the initial eval may result in instant hospitalization. I was able to say sorry to all the vics, which made me feel better, and they all seemed happy he would be getting treatment, which even more so. 2 of them knew him as a regular homeless guy they saw when going to work on the Downtown Mall. So here is what he actually allegedly did: Vic 1 works in front of a plateglass window fronting on the courtyard son often slept in. One fine day he stood in front of her window with his back to her, pulled his shorts down and wiggled his bare ass at her, turned around and wiggled his front, turned around looking over his shoulder at her and wiggled some more... She moved so her monitor blocked him but he kept at it FOR OVER AN HOUR till her boss noticed, and *he* called the cops. Vic 2 lives somewhere off the Mall and first saw son talking to her landlord in her front yard, then a few minutes later when she looked out the window son was starkers, so she called the landlord, but he (son) got dressed and left. But then later when she came home with groceries he was in her yard and wouldn't leave so *then* she called the cops. Vic 3 is a librarian and knew him, as he came in often to use computers. They were closing because a storm had knocked out the power and when she went to tell him he poked her in the boob. She asked if he needed anything in case he meant to just get her attention and missed her shoulder, but no... Then something happened the judge wouldn't let her talk about but I think she heard about the other stuff and reported it. She was the happiest when he agreed to treatment. So... He should be out of jail once the paperwork goes through. Here's hoping he complies with whatever this therapeutic docket dishes out... So I am on my second gimlet at my fave French restaurant on the Mall... |
