Week's Activities Train---All AboaARRD!!

[essdipity]

Mine--

Tues, doc's appt followed by 3T MRI, brain and c spine

More to follow

[PastorDan]

Congrats & best wishes, sho.

[shoshin]

I got a job offer this week. I'm simultaneously ecstatic and petrified, but am trying to buckle down and get on top of all the things involved in moving.

sho

[essdipity]

This is absolutely awful! I don't blame you for staying away from the ER. What could they do anyway that you're not already doing?

Be as careful as you can possibly be about infection.

Worriedly,
ess

[HVAC]

I have so many open wounds I think a hospital would leave me with Staph or merca. I just wish my Doctors would listen to me immediatedly not let it get bad. I wish they would trust my triage even though it was with animals. Later they ask why I did not scream louder, sooner. I did!

Oh well. I have a nebulizer.

Alex

[RedFlame]

Happy B-day Addi and Jess, JJ I hope your son does well in his studies!  Everyone else sounds busy.

I have the week off pretty much wich just one doc appointment tomorrow with a back specialist.  Hopefully the rest of my week will be quiet.  Red

[sllowe]

Holy Crap Alex!!!!!!!! This sounds dangerous! What are your go to the ER warning signs?

[HVAC]

Quix,
  Never had it before. No I was using cloves and mostly pulling  Virginia Creeper five leaves off the fence. Called Dr asap two weeks ago when it started. Put me off until they finally saw me on Monday two weeks later. PCP deemed it the worst she has seen. Now it has spread ten fold. Afraid of picking a staph infection at an ER. I am on oral pred and adivan. and a pred shot.

The fun will be when the blisters on my eye pop. Oh and my MS is worse go figure.

Alex

[Quixotic1]

I nominate Alex to get a redo of her week.  Yuck!  Were they burning the plants?  How awful.

Monday - PT to re-evaluate what kind of therapy we can do with the bum ankle and leg.  During the gentle manipulations I got what must have been a spasm in my lateral calf.  It was so sickeningly painful.  Then my leg just went rigid and I couldn't do anything, like even bend the knee.  Much of the pain I have had with the ankle is increased spasticity.  This makes sense.  The first step in treating spasticity is to "remove the noxious stimuli."  In my case this is pain.

Tues - See Orthopedist about the ankle and get okay for PT

Call for walker,  there is no getting around it.

Friday - more PT

Quix

[HVAC]

Have bad poison Ivy going into lungs. Eye swollen shut. From head to toe. Steroid shot and steroid taper and adivan to help sleep.

[Inny2009]

Nothing too much happening here. I offically had to end my job today cuz I can no longer work physically..maybe I can find a nice sit down job that requires me to sit..lol.

I am going to rest tommrow and Im getting ready to watch a movie with my husband! Im so excited this is a movie i have been waiting for for 3 weeks!!!

The Hershey Medical Center called me today!!!!!! Normally when you scheduale an appointment it takes 3 to 4 months to get in. They are seeing me in AUGUST!!!

Im so excited for that..3 long years and I actually have a nuerologist who I will be seeing who BELIEVES me. *Dancing happily in my mind lol*

But yea..thats my life in a nutshell!!!

Inny

[supermum_ms]

Nothing much happening here, DS is counting down the days until he sits his entry exam (4hrs), he's scared of the opportunity and excited he's going to be doining a science test. I'll be a basket case on Saturday, its his first 'real' exam and he'll be one of the youngest there, umm he might even be the youngest thinking about it lol all the others kids will be around 15 (he's 12) and there's going to be about 400 sitting the entrance exam.

If the school hadn't asked him to sit the exam I'd probably of waited, hard to know what to do, he's still a babe with a brain of a 20 year old. The mummy in me wants him to play and be a little boy still, the academic in me wants him to get the education he needs. I'm getting ahead of my self, he may freak out and not get a place, we wont know one way or the other until August. Uggg i hate waiting for test results lol.

Other than that i'm clearing out the playroom, wall to wall toys that need to go so we can turn the room into a model/hobbie room. I like organisation, the mess to get there is going to drive me batty but once its done it'll be better to have a working space for all his building projects and get them off my floors. It will also save me some falls!

Cheers........JJ

Oh I love baby watching

[JemmAus]

No medical appointments except flu shot tomorrow (yes, we've heard THAT before!)

I am slowly....SLOWLY....painting  my bookshelves and sitting in anticipation of a delivery from Ikea. Oh, how I LOVE online shopping!  I am truly a frustrated interior decorator.

And missing my baby who went back to school this week after the winter holidays.

Today i feel like c**p so I think it'll be more scrabble online and gasbagging on here than anything else.

[Guitar_grrrl]

Called UCSF for my follow-up appointment today.  Had my MRIs last Friday.

I'm officially on "baby watch".  My daughter's in the earliest stages of labor as we speak.  She wants me, along with four other friends, to be her doulas.  I'll also stay with her for some time after the baby's born to help with cooking, laundry, etc.

Oh, happy me!!

[addicted2harleys]

I have been seeing a counselor for the last 2 weeks.  I like him.  My goal is acceptance of my disabilities and learning to accept help.  I see him again on Tuesday.  

Thursday I am suppose to call UCLA to see if I can get in to see them.  They have been reviewing my records for almost 2 weeks now.  Fingers crossed!

I went to Physical Therapy last week.  The therapist did a complete neuro exam on me.  I have regained some reflexes in my left side...but not my right.  She wants to wait to see what UCLA has to say before continuing anything with me.  She doesn't want to do anything that can possible hurt me.

I also have an appointment on Tuesday with my orthopedic doc for my drop foot.

My birthday was yesterday.  Happy Birthday to you, Jess!  

Addi

[Csativa]

Going to the Shrine of the North American Martyr's in Auriesville New York.

Renting a meat freezer to sit in for a few days.

Bought two bottles of Oatmeal Stout and some cherrystone clams.  Have not had a good beer, actually have had none, in about three months.

Doctors:  Follow-up's with Surgeon, Neuro, Cardiologist. New appointment w/ Oncologist.

Taking Tonya's advise about being an optamist.  Plan on winning the NYS Lottery.  

Frank

[Lulu54]

PD - relax.  You haven't forgotten a lunch date.  I'm heading the other way on Saturday.  Cosmobirdy (Rita) and I are taking a road trip. If you want to do lunch with me you'll have to drop down to Columbus/Gahanna on Tuesday - I think that is as far as I'm venturing this week.

What are the chances that three of us Co-CL's have neuro appts on Tuesday??  Are the planets and stars aligned in some strange way?  Are we all falling apart at the same time?

[PastorDan]

Too sleepy to read through all this; finally got a gabapentin refill, and I think I'm getting whacked by the first dose since thursday or so.

Dentist this morning, otherwise I'll write more after I can read more, probably tomorrow.

Uh, Lu -- lunch @ end of week?

[jensequitur]

I have an appointment tomorrow to talk about my weird facial swelling...  This last Thursday, a mosquito bit me on the left side of the face.  The next morning, my mouth had really swelled up on that side.  That afternoon, it moved to the other side of the face, and the next day, it moved up to my upper lip!  I think it was just making the rounds - finally on Sunday, just the right side of my mouth and my cheek were swollen, and today we're back to normal, with just a little soreness.

[sllowe]

I have a routine neuro appt. tomorrow afternoon.

Happy almost birthday Jess.

I wish I were planning get-togethers with forum members! And, I plan on avoiding the heat and humidity like John! Maybe we can wish it away buddy - ya think?

Good luck w/your appt. Terri.

Wishes for peaceful imagining tomorrow Essy!

-Shell

[johnniebear]

My youngest son fly's in this week from Alaska,  he'll spent a week with us then on to his new duty station.

I have a follow up visit on my achilles , PRP injection was given two weeks ago.
besides tendinosis  & had a small tear,  maybe  another month in the boot.

Avoiding the midwest heat & humidity as much possible.  

John

[Sparkysarah]

Nothing to report which after all the recent hospital visits is a blessing. Life keeps me very busy at  home with my 3 teenage kids.

Wiaitn gofr next week and my dermatology appointment..but that can keep for a week.

Sarah

PS Happy Birthday Jess on Friday

[lovemy6monkeys]

I'm waiting for my neuro's office to call me back so I can pick up a copy of the transcripts from my last 2 visits and the report from my LP.

Wednesday afternoon I see my PCP for the chest pressure along with various other things that I would normally see my neuro about but he's on vacation until August. How dare he have a life LOL

The only other things I have going on are schoolwork. I took my first test on Friday, so I'm just waiting to hear how I did. I should hear in the next few days.

My birthday is this Friday (woohoo!!) so I'm trying to figure out what to make for dessert. My oldest son suggested I make an ice cream cake (I make a mean ice cream cake LOL) or a peanut butter cup cheesecake. Decisions, decisions :-)

I hope everyone has a great week!!
~Jess

[tjj3761]

Good morning all,

I also go for my follow up appointment Tuesday with my neurologist.  With no diagnosis, I never know what is going to happen.  A DX would be nice....

bye....
terri

[Lulu54]

I bought a ticket at the station for Columbus and an extra visit with the MS nurse to review some recent developments forTuesday.  Had hoped to hold off for the regular neuro appt scheduled for next week but they want me up there now.

At the end of this week there is a lunch planned with two other  forum members - I hope the plans we have made work out.  We'll post some pics.

nexT?