Wednesday, October 23, 2013

As I said before... each day should be considered a new adventure for us all!



With that said, although, déjà vu may be applied here; for albeit many similarities did come across with what turned a somewhat ordinary day, into a miss-adventure one.



You see, last night was not a good one, body-wise, specifically pain-wise.

I had more areas of me in more places than are necessary for pain and discomfort and so with my prescribed medications taken I hit the hay!

And that was just before nine P.M. and it did not mean my night was to be restful with my grocery list of ailments causing their utmost screaming matches on my ears eyes, neck, shoulders, lower back and stomach too!

I finally got out of what should have been a cozy warm cocoon, at a few minutes past six A.M.; sounds like I had a long rest, hmm?

No, absolutely NOT!

As soon as I awoke I realized that I was going to need some legit medical intervention.


And so I got showered and dressed, thinking that could help a bit, that is the warm shower…but with me and the Multiple Sclerosis component most warm showers make my back hurt more, and as sure as the day is long again it did just increase that factor, oops! Of course though on any NORMAL day within a half hour or so the back pain would subside, but NOT today, oh no, NOT today!


And of course the shoulders and eyes etc. all rallied for their slots in the making me miserable parade of ailments!

My left ear ached so much I started to have flashbacks to 1985  when both, oddly enough, number one son then, at the age of thirteen, and me old enough to be his mom, both had Mastoiditis, which is not contagious, and it was my intro into the use of Cipro that was prescribed for both of us!

Below is the link explanation of Mastoiditis:






Any-who, it was very painful and I was wondering why and what was up with everything else, now even experiencing mild periodic chest pains, WHOA, DOCTOR CALL!

And so I did, I called mine that is, my GP and her appointment person said that she could probably fit me in this afternoon… Well, I being me said how about your Walk in Clinic?  And she said sure you could go there, and I asked for the number and wow I was lucky, during the ‘rain storm’ they were without anybody in there!



Hubby drove me up, of course, and this was now around eight thirty A.M.

The nurse saw me first and took my vitals they even gave me a cup to give them a specimen of my golden body fluid…

I don’t know the results of that, but my vitals were all normal including my temperature.

In comes the male doctor and listens to my heart and chest and says that I have inflammation from the MS and that he is going to put me on prednisone a high dose and I told him I get a diabetic reaction and so he acquiesced to the lower dose in the step down six day one that I have had before! No more gym for a week or more, according to how I feel that is…

Moist heat, and he wanted to give me muscle relaxers and I said no that I have my anti-spasmodics and he said maybe I shouldn’t have lowered the dosing… I let it go, but mentioned that in the Baclofen I have been able to take it only when I seem to need it… He didn’t look at my ears and I had realized it when we were leaving and so we were called back in the room and he checked both of my painful ears and he said that they were both fine; CRAZY, but good I guess! I love my MS, NOT!



Our old pharmacist that I still use for short-term meds had the prescription ready by the time we got there, with this crazy insurance I was thinking that we might be gouged not getting it mailed, but thankfully my co-pay was only four bucks! The emergency facility charges the same as the doctor’s office co-pay twenty-five bucks too!

Peace of mind, but not happy with this exacerbation and we all know in the MS World if these pills don’t do the trick I could be back on those horrendous IV’S of the Solu Medrol for days at a time, which makes my glucose go up way too high and my body get fatter too, and me with NO gym now!



Gosh, I have been here way too long for any of this and my body is telling me to say goodnight to all of you and that you should count your blessings and to kindly share all those overages with you know who and we will too!



And next time please be here or be square, ya hear!

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