I had another round of therapy today I do not do much the therapist usually move my right leg from side to side up and down I only have 3 things I actually do myself-well today she had me do something different where I put each foot on a scale and try putting as much pressure on my right leg as possible, it hurt while I was doing it but I did it becase it is the only way I am going to gain strength in my leg.
I had to ride with my daughter to pick my grand daughter up from school as I got out of therapy at the exact time my daughter ususally leaves the house, the therapist gave me a bag of ice to use to put on my hip while we were waiting in the car for her. I used it for 20 mins. My leg was hurting but wasn't too bad.
I was home about a half hour and my leg started hurting bad, I was gettign sharp pains in my hip, I had a burning feeling, and my thigh and calf was aching. Only thign I can think of is it was the new exersice I did at therapy I always avoid putting pressure on my right side. As little as possible, and do put pressure on it on purpose at therapy I do believe was too much for me.
It is now 4 1/2 hours after I got doen with therapy and I have taken 2 ultram and I am sitting with a cold pack on my right hip as I write this. I am having a real hard time walking it hurts just to sit.
I am not sure what I am going to do I have to do therapy in order to try and get strength in my right side, and to make my insurance company happy, But if I am going to hurt this bad from doing that particular exersice I won't be able to do it again.
I have a grand daughter to raise I can not be laid up and not be able to do things with her.
I have therapy again on friday in 2 days we will see what happens then.
more to come
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Sunday, March 18, 2012
My Finished Projects
I also finished a bear baby bib
and I bought a ceiling fan from A habitat restore for $15.00 I thought was a great deal I I used craft paint and painted 2 blades dark pink and 2 blades light pink this will be going into my grand daughter's bedroom
next I am hoping to finish a bench I got for FREE soon if the weather holds off enough this week been getting bad storms here, I am going to sand it, paint it, my step dad is going to make legs for it I will paint those white and then list it for sale
please visit my etsy website http://www.brendavr.etsy.com/ for cross stitch, jewelry, and fun fur scarves,
Hope everyone has a great day I am hurting but it's a better day pain wise today!
more to come
Monday, March 12, 2012
Therapy
Well had my second day of physical therapy today, my first one on friday last week just him seeign what i could do and the therapist doing lots of paperwork to make up my plan. It hurt so bad today doing. You really take noticve of the things you can't do, Just lifting my leg laying on my side was very hard and a couple times I needed the therapist help to do it. It is very disapointing. One day I can walk no problems hold down a full times job, sometimes two, to hurting some walkiign with a limp, to having difficulty climbing stairs, and now to not climbing stairs, have to walk with a cane, use the riding carts if I go shopping, and can not bend very well.
I sdaid in a earlier post the new pain Dr I went to said he thinks I have RSD a chronic pain disorder. I am wondering if he is right. In the past week I have achyness in both my arms and thighs, very bad tingling in my lower legs and feet it is so bad I wait until I just can't stay awake any longer to go to bed. Last nightit was 1:15am. The tingling and the pain in my hips woke me at 4am that is just under 3 hours of sleep, which is not enough. I had a couple errands to run and therapy I just need more sleep. I Took a pain pill before I went but didn't help my pain very much.
I am now making a appointment with a neurologist hopefully I can just get on a pain patch that helps 24 hours so I can at least get through the day without the pain being so bad that I just sit in my chair and don't so anything because I can't.
If this is the way RSD makes a person I can see where people say it really changes their lives, for the bad. I will eventually learn to live wiht it becase I have no choice but my life sure has changed inthe last 6 months. i am a active person in the sence of working 2 jobs, and doing things with my grand daughter and too not be able to do much is really annoying to me, But I will ge thtrough it just will take some time.
I have been reading blogs of other with this diease and most have a postitive attiude I will too. Hopefully the Neurologist will confirm this diagnosis so I can start being treated.
I also want to mention that I follow money saving mom on facebook with me on disability from work(60% of normal pay) I need all the savings I can get, she has a book out you can buy on amazon also she is giving the book away to a luck winner go on over to money saiving mom and ente rthe contest.
more to come
I sdaid in a earlier post the new pain Dr I went to said he thinks I have RSD a chronic pain disorder. I am wondering if he is right. In the past week I have achyness in both my arms and thighs, very bad tingling in my lower legs and feet it is so bad I wait until I just can't stay awake any longer to go to bed. Last nightit was 1:15am. The tingling and the pain in my hips woke me at 4am that is just under 3 hours of sleep, which is not enough. I had a couple errands to run and therapy I just need more sleep. I Took a pain pill before I went but didn't help my pain very much.
I am now making a appointment with a neurologist hopefully I can just get on a pain patch that helps 24 hours so I can at least get through the day without the pain being so bad that I just sit in my chair and don't so anything because I can't.
If this is the way RSD makes a person I can see where people say it really changes their lives, for the bad. I will eventually learn to live wiht it becase I have no choice but my life sure has changed inthe last 6 months. i am a active person in the sence of working 2 jobs, and doing things with my grand daughter and too not be able to do much is really annoying to me, But I will ge thtrough it just will take some time.
I have been reading blogs of other with this diease and most have a postitive attiude I will too. Hopefully the Neurologist will confirm this diagnosis so I can start being treated.
I also want to mention that I follow money saving mom on facebook with me on disability from work(60% of normal pay) I need all the savings I can get, she has a book out you can buy on amazon also she is giving the book away to a luck winner go on over to money saiving mom and ente rthe contest.
more to come
Sunday, March 4, 2012
A couple of boring days with tingling
Yesterday I didn't do much, All morning I was having tingling and numbess in my legs, feet, hands and fingers, But something new I experienced was tingling in my arms I haven't had that yet. It drove me nuts felt I had ants inside my skin, Because of this I just sat around all morning doing nothing I was really bored but felt like I couldn't do anything. This terrible tingling is a symptom of the RDS. I did go to my mom's house we didn't do much sat talked while drinking a cup of coffee, but it gave went to a second hand store a few blocks away it is new looked around for 5 mins didn't buy anything went back to her house stayed there a while then came back home.
I was still having the tingling in all my limbs but it didn't seem to be as a bad as the morning. I wanted to paint just didn't feel like my arms would handle it. so I sat around most of the evening looking on facebook, playing computer games and watchingHGTV shows. Life goes on.
Today was better this morning I managed to make my bed, do dishes, and make dinner, couldn't do anymor emy hips started hurting. This evening about 7pm my tingling is back right now my legs are tingling pretty bad, both my feet are numb and very cold. I again just watch tv, found a lifetime movie that was good, i search around facebook that's about it. I just didn't have th edesire this evening to do anything and I never do when my feet and legs feel this bad So I have very boring days, where all I want to do is lay in the bed. I force myslef to stay up then I get overly tired. But again I am surviving. My beautiful grand daughter keeps me going she comes out of her room and tells me something she thought was really good ona movie she is watching. She come sout and says I love you and just want to give you a hug. That is awesome for me. She brightens my day everyday.
I just can't wait until spring time I am hoping by then I will have the right treatment and medicine to be able to goout and plant flowers and refurbish some furniture.
For now I sit in my chair in the living room being very bored watching tv and dreaming about how I am going to spruce up my yard.
The bathroom is 3/4 painted I will post a after picture when it is all done. My daughter has to get onthe step ladder and do the rest for me.
more ot come.
I was still having the tingling in all my limbs but it didn't seem to be as a bad as the morning. I wanted to paint just didn't feel like my arms would handle it. so I sat around most of the evening looking on facebook, playing computer games and watchingHGTV shows. Life goes on.
Today was better this morning I managed to make my bed, do dishes, and make dinner, couldn't do anymor emy hips started hurting. This evening about 7pm my tingling is back right now my legs are tingling pretty bad, both my feet are numb and very cold. I again just watch tv, found a lifetime movie that was good, i search around facebook that's about it. I just didn't have th edesire this evening to do anything and I never do when my feet and legs feel this bad So I have very boring days, where all I want to do is lay in the bed. I force myslef to stay up then I get overly tired. But again I am surviving. My beautiful grand daughter keeps me going she comes out of her room and tells me something she thought was really good ona movie she is watching. She come sout and says I love you and just want to give you a hug. That is awesome for me. She brightens my day everyday.
I just can't wait until spring time I am hoping by then I will have the right treatment and medicine to be able to goout and plant flowers and refurbish some furniture.
For now I sit in my chair in the living room being very bored watching tv and dreaming about how I am going to spruce up my yard.
The bathroom is 3/4 painted I will post a after picture when it is all done. My daughter has to get onthe step ladder and do the rest for me.
more ot come.
Saturday, February 25, 2012
another sad turned out ok day
My daughter has been planning on ging to a Big Time Rush concert on 2/25/2012 since November when we bought the tickets. My 5 year old grand daughter is also going. I had a big problem with my daughter and grand daughter driving through Detroit late at night in a old van, so she asked her dad who lives in Redford if she could stay at his house, he said yes no problem, well the night before the concert he told her no they couldn't stay she was so upset she cried. I was very upset, mad, and disappointed at her dad. I almost told her she couldn't go to the concert she would have been devastated.
I just don't understand why her dad is always either ignoring her or treating her bad. He has a daughter by his second wife and a step son they are both disabled as are his 2 grown adult children, but for some reason when he got remarried he stopped being a "dad" to them. He was always the grestest dad. Takign them to the park, ball games, picnics, playing cathch whatever they wanted. I woked 2 jobs and wasn't home as uch as he was.
Then he got married and it was like wow he wasn't thee for them anymore. I do not know what happened. He thinks that since he has 2 children with him and his children he had with me can fend for themselves, and they can't.
I was so mad at my first husband for almost making hte grestest thing in my daughters year not happen.
This may sound harsh but I told my daughter she needs to not do anyhing with or for her dad ever again, becase he has disappointed her so many times she needs to stop letting him break her heart.
I hope one day he realizes what he has missed not partisipating in his childrens lives(when we divorced the children were 11 and 13) my children have been a challenge, my daughter with her bi-polar and ADHD, myson with his sczophrenia, ADHD, and anxiety, We have always had to raise them a little differently than other children, school was a challenge for my son he has been vbery smart but becase of his disabilities was put into a special ed class with regular work. He has made some very good strides recently moving into his own apaprtment, and volunteering at the hospital 2 days per week. My daughter lives with me she has a hard time keeping a job and I worry that she can't live on her own.She does jelp me out some taking me where I need to go, and helping me wiht laundry and I appreciate it. But children need their parents no matter what age they are, I am 44 year old and I still need my mother for many things. So I hope their dad stops and thinks!
thanks for reading more to come!
I just don't understand why her dad is always either ignoring her or treating her bad. He has a daughter by his second wife and a step son they are both disabled as are his 2 grown adult children, but for some reason when he got remarried he stopped being a "dad" to them. He was always the grestest dad. Takign them to the park, ball games, picnics, playing cathch whatever they wanted. I woked 2 jobs and wasn't home as uch as he was.
Then he got married and it was like wow he wasn't thee for them anymore. I do not know what happened. He thinks that since he has 2 children with him and his children he had with me can fend for themselves, and they can't.
I was so mad at my first husband for almost making hte grestest thing in my daughters year not happen.
This may sound harsh but I told my daughter she needs to not do anyhing with or for her dad ever again, becase he has disappointed her so many times she needs to stop letting him break her heart.
I hope one day he realizes what he has missed not partisipating in his childrens lives(when we divorced the children were 11 and 13) my children have been a challenge, my daughter with her bi-polar and ADHD, myson with his sczophrenia, ADHD, and anxiety, We have always had to raise them a little differently than other children, school was a challenge for my son he has been vbery smart but becase of his disabilities was put into a special ed class with regular work. He has made some very good strides recently moving into his own apaprtment, and volunteering at the hospital 2 days per week. My daughter lives with me she has a hard time keeping a job and I worry that she can't live on her own.She does jelp me out some taking me where I need to go, and helping me wiht laundry and I appreciate it. But children need their parents no matter what age they are, I am 44 year old and I still need my mother for many things. So I hope their dad stops and thinks!
thanks for reading more to come!
Thursday, February 23, 2012
A sad moment
Well I was hoping to move into a 150 year old home in June BUt I now know that isn't going to happen. Some people I known own the hosue thye haven't been able to sell it, I found out it is on the market until March 23rd if it didn't sell by then I was going to be able to move into it. It would have been awesome, I am folling all these blogs of people who refurbish furniture and decorate with old county and shabby chic, I can not put anything mor ein the home I have now it is too small. I was SO looking forward to buying pieces of furniture that need a little love furburshing and painting them and putting vintage pieces in the house to go with the homes age. It is beautiful original dark wood trim has lots of rooms, big rooms. Has a garage and lots of acres of land my daughter was lookign forward to working on cars which she so wants to do but can't with us living in the city and not havign the room. All of that dream got crashed to a halt when I was told I wasn't welcome to move into it any longer, I was very upset for a couple days, even cried, my daughter wasupset that she couldn't work on cars. I so wanted my grand daughter to experience living in a country like setting, with lots of land, and having a big garden.
Well I am over it now I am used to having lots of hopes and dreams and having them crash and burn.
Well enough about that, what's done is done, I thought well since I'm not moving I would fix up the house Iam living in. I only rent it but no one says a few hundred dollars in a rental that your going to be in awhile hurts. I put new nickel finished knobs on the kitchen cupboards. I kept the old ones so when and if I decide to move I can take the new ones. I painted 2 walls in my living room and one in my bedroom. The paint was very cheap it was pre mixed someone had brought back to the store. it only cost me $8.00 for the gallon. I painted one wall in my grand duaghter's room with a pint of pink paint that was pre mixed someone had brought back only cost me
$5.00 for the pint, and it did the whole wall. Bought new curtains for my grand daughter's room they were only $9.00 I bought 2 pair. So not much money spent.
I went the Habitat restore yesterday I found a gallon of blue gray paint and pink ceiling fan, the ceiling fan is going in my grand daughter's room and I am going to tackle painting the bathroom I figure why not make the bathroom nice? SThe walls are white and I can't stand white. I am posting a before pic of the bathroom and when it is doen I will posting a after pic. I don't proclaim to be good at painting but we will see.
more to come!!
Well I am over it now I am used to having lots of hopes and dreams and having them crash and burn.
Well enough about that, what's done is done, I thought well since I'm not moving I would fix up the house Iam living in. I only rent it but no one says a few hundred dollars in a rental that your going to be in awhile hurts. I put new nickel finished knobs on the kitchen cupboards. I kept the old ones so when and if I decide to move I can take the new ones. I painted 2 walls in my living room and one in my bedroom. The paint was very cheap it was pre mixed someone had brought back to the store. it only cost me $8.00 for the gallon. I painted one wall in my grand duaghter's room with a pint of pink paint that was pre mixed someone had brought back only cost me
$5.00 for the pint, and it did the whole wall. Bought new curtains for my grand daughter's room they were only $9.00 I bought 2 pair. So not much money spent.
I went the Habitat restore yesterday I found a gallon of blue gray paint and pink ceiling fan, the ceiling fan is going in my grand daughter's room and I am going to tackle painting the bathroom I figure why not make the bathroom nice? SThe walls are white and I can't stand white. I am posting a before pic of the bathroom and when it is doen I will posting a after pic. I don't proclaim to be good at painting but we will see.
Monday, February 20, 2012
Pain Injection
Well I had my pain injuection today--went really smooth, I waited in the waiitng room about 20 mins they took me back asked me to take my top off put on a gown I was able to keep all my other clothes on including my shoes! They took my vitals started a IV which I did not feel, I told the nurse it takes me awhile to wake up from anesthesia. Last injection I had at another facility after 2 hours they called my mother back to help wake me up and that took another 20 mins. I waited about 10 mins they took me another room
I got on a different table on my stomach they put oxygen in my nose and put medicine through my iv tube I was out, the procedure took about 12 mins I was back int he same room I was in before I was moved. The amazing thing is I woke up right away, I commented that I woke up without trouble and right away, the nurse explained that they used a different medicine and use as little as possible. It was enough I didn't feel a thing.
I had to wait 20 mins then I was on my way. My pain was a 6 upon arriving for the procedure when I left it was a 2 which is great for me. They gave me a paper to record my pain level every hour till 9pm tonight and from the time I wake in the morning for 3 hours. My pain now is about a 3 1/2 I am hoping it doesn't go higher.
I do have very bad tingling and numbness in my feet which I can't stand drives me nuts!! Dr said that will take a while to go away IF it goes away. Medicine they gave me on tues alomost a week ago hasn't helped so far, But I'm hoping.
more to come
I got on a different table on my stomach they put oxygen in my nose and put medicine through my iv tube I was out, the procedure took about 12 mins I was back int he same room I was in before I was moved. The amazing thing is I woke up right away, I commented that I woke up without trouble and right away, the nurse explained that they used a different medicine and use as little as possible. It was enough I didn't feel a thing.
I had to wait 20 mins then I was on my way. My pain was a 6 upon arriving for the procedure when I left it was a 2 which is great for me. They gave me a paper to record my pain level every hour till 9pm tonight and from the time I wake in the morning for 3 hours. My pain now is about a 3 1/2 I am hoping it doesn't go higher.
I do have very bad tingling and numbness in my feet which I can't stand drives me nuts!! Dr said that will take a while to go away IF it goes away. Medicine they gave me on tues alomost a week ago hasn't helped so far, But I'm hoping.
more to come
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