Hello ... thought I would drop in and say Hi ... been lurming last day or two looking for a jump in spot ...now sitting here when I should be tuck safely in bed I figured it was a good place ...
Will start by saying I have missed this place ..just reading is helpful ...thanks for being here...I know it is said often but give thanks where thanks are due
been having issues that have kept me away...mostly computer croaked on me ...now using an ancient IBM Think Pad we found in a house on property we bought...
the creek that is on the property line is what we wanted ... old man that lived there and FIL have shared the creek since 1953...gentleman agreement ... old man died about 6 years ago and then his wife moved to town about 3 years ago when the daughter that was taking care of her died of an asthma attack before we could get help to her...the old lady died in January at the age of 99 and we were giving first dibs on the place ...4 acres and a little old house that is about had it ...couldn't afford it but since th creek is where our cows get water ,couldn't afford not to buy it ...flooding moves the creek and who's land it is on...wrong people buying it could mean disaster for the farm
the kids found this thing and tried to get it working ...it had a password on it under the signin name which was AnnieRuth... the daughter who passed away ...we put it aside and one day I plugged it in and typed in Cowhorn which is the name of our road and it opened ... my husband said I should give it to the brother who we bought the place from but I told him Annie Ruth gave me her pass word so it was mine... there are no pictures or personal files store on it ... so for now I am using what my kids are calling The Dinosaur... can't print off of it and the key board is driving me nuts ... someone moved the keys or my hands grow when they get near it ...and the screen is small ...teeny tiny small...but it works so can't complain ...
next is medical ... have a duptured disk in neck on surgery side ...lost most use of arm for a bit and it is in constant pain from spasming muscles ...over last 2 weeks we have got that to a tolorable state ...I have been trying to tell doctors that something was wrong but they didn't really pay attention to me ... so many things werewrong that didn't seem to them to be connected ...tingling up and down arm, aches in shoulder and neck going up in to scalp and headaches ...none were there pre-surgery... MRI shows scars tissue around area... they are think that when my head was clamped down for surgery that the tears in muscle happened and as they healed were pulling and irritating nerves cusing the pain and tingling I had in arm and also headaches ...
I had just upped dose of lyrica because I was having breakthough headaches ... when this ruptured they took me off lyrica so they could do nerve conduction tests without it blocking reponses ... I was scared of brain wrecks returning ...have had a few tylonal treatable headaches but no wrecks ...who would have thought loss of use of an arm would cure headaches ...only idea is that pressure was releaved from something and no wrecks ...still will get a sharp pain if I bend down to pick up things sneeze hard ...but over all happy with head ache issues being mostly gone
have PT and traction ... a mass of pulleys and rope and a bag of water with a sling for my chin ...hang it in the doorway and sit in it for 4 - 30 minute sessions a day... plus range of motion and stretching exercises ... added 2 pound weight to routine becasue of muscle tone loss ... some of the lifts I cannot no ...opposing muscles all try to pull at same time and lock up locking arm at elbow ... they say it is due to nerve damage and have to keep working at it ...can do it with no weight but just a pound is too much ...like I said ..it's been a wild ride ...
when I asked my now songwritinf surgeon at last visit with him about the arm issues he said a nerve may be pinched but should over time clear up ...and it was never followed up ...
may have surgery in next few months to remove damaged disk and replace it with a piece of bone from my hip or a synthetic disk ... hoping to avoid surgery ... counting AN surgery I have had 8 surgeries and a baby in last 10 years and figure that is more than enough ... and someone cutting my neck scares me as much as having hole drilled in head ...
on muscle relaxers , pain killers , prednisone , capsacian creme and patches , hot showers , PT , traction and rest ...the last is hardest ... not going back on lyrica just yet hoping what ever moved releaving brainwrecks will not get put back in place from the PT or traction and I can have just Tylonal headaches and not need lyrica ...
well now that I have wrote a book I think I am going to try to sleep...insomnia is still a big issue with me ... went grocery shopping at 3 am one morning last week ... typing at y'all has got to be safer...
...good night ...or I guess good morning seeing it is almost 1:00am here ...
