Howdy, everyone!
As the title of this post reads, I definitely have "familiar feelings" today as this is the day I have to go to yet ANOTHER seminar about the Lap-band or Realize band procedure. And they couldn't have picked a busier hospital than Good Sam in downtown Phoenix! I'm worried about parking and how far I will have to walk to even get to the conference room. I've had MAJOR problems with walking lately. My right leg has just been incredibly painful with "pins and needles" in my foot, muscle spasms in my calf and thighs, and let's not forget that lovely "shooting" pain I get from my lower back. This morning it took me about 15 minutes (and me having to stop and lean against the wall to work out severe cramps in my thigh) to walk down the short hall to the bathroom. And then back into the bedroom so I could take my morning cocktail of medications. Please work fast!!!
Yesterday I went to the podiatrist and he gave me a clean bill of health - for just my left foot! The pain I was having in the arch is completely gone. So either that lovely moon boot or the steroid shot I had a month ago has finally started to kick in. But I haven't had pain there all week now. Praise the Lord!! Now if only the REST of me would get the picture and follow suit. I'm really glad my foot really cleared up, because as of October 1st, my insurance will no longer be paying for podiatry care. Our state's government is bankrupt (or close to it!) and that is how they see fit to fix it...take away even more health care benefits to the poor or the elderly. Makes a lot of sense, doesn't it????!!!
I talked with my dad, who now lives in Michigan in his own apartment, on Monday and he sounded fantastic! He has met a new friend online, her name is Gina and I spoke with her, too, on Monday. She set up a three way phone call. Pretty neat....I would have absolutely NO idea of how to do such things. I'm glad my dad is happy. It's been a long recovery process, and I didn't know how I'd feel seeing him with other women, but I know it's what Mom would have wanted for him. And it isn't really so hard seeing him with someone else (or "hearing" him with someone else, for that matter!). She sounded very nice and sweet and perfect for my zany and crazy dad!! LOL....couldn't help myself there for a moment.
AND, I've saved the best news for last. MY GRANDMA IS COMING TO SEE ME IN DECEMBER!! My grandma (on my mom's side) who moved to Texas shortly before we started our move out there too, decided that two years is too long of a time for us to see each other. I agree! And the last time I saw her, I was in shock and grief over mom's recent death. If it hadn't been for her there with me (as she came from College Station to San Antonio in record time when she heard how bad mom was and that she wouldn't make it for long), I don't think I would have made it. I love my grandma soooo much and have missed her equally so, that I'm thrilled that my in-laws have warmly welcomed her to stay in their home and my aunt and uncle (grandma's son with whom she lives with now) already bought her ticket. When I saw my grandma's name on the ticketless travel receipt in the email, it just tickled me so! OK, so I'm a little giddy....LOL!!! She will be arriving Dec. 8th and staying until after Christmas on Dec. 28th. Three solid, whole weeks!!!
Nothing much else to report. Please pray that I can get to the conference room tonight for that bariatric seminar and please pray I can have the procedure. My husband called up my insurance and verified again they cover this procedure and they said yes, as long as it is for medical purposes and NOT cosmetic. No prob there...all they gotta do is look at my charts and they'll see all my medical problems that could very possibly be corrected by having this procedure. And hopefully this place is the RIGHT place this time!!
I'll be sure to post again tomorrow and let you know how it went. You all have a wonderful day....may it be without too much pain!! We can only hope.
God bless you all,
Until next post,
Missy
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Showing posts with label Moon boot. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Moon boot. Show all posts
Thursday, September 23, 2010
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
Today WAS The Day!
Well, today my hubby is a very happy man. He is, at this moment in time, absolutely & completely DRAIN FREE!!! The surgeon came in, looked at the output in the bulb (which wasn't much indeed!) and said, "are you ready to have the drain out?" Duh! Do bears crap in the woods? Of course he wants that drain out! He wanted it out the day they put it in. So now all he has on his belly is some antibiotic ointment and some gauze with tape. The surgeon showed me the little hole he has left (where the drain was) and told me that tomorrow, he can change the gauze and just wear a band-aid until healed. He wished us well and pretty much signed off the case. Whew! We finally completed THAT chapter in our life!! Frankie called to make an appointment with his allergy specialist to resume his weekly shots. We thought it best to get a professional opinion before starting the shots. They are hard on the body as they are giving you stuff you are allergic to and he just is getting back on his feet. I'd hate for a relapse!! So he sees the allergist this Thursday.
Boy, we are almost "normal" again!! :0) Hopefully nothing else will happen and we will go years and years without this thing bearing its ugly head. Frankie will start back on the Gleevec at half strength starting tonight with dinner and then after a week, start full dosage again.
Be sure to check out the awards page. I've added two more terrific blogs onto it. Be sure to stop by and visit them....tell 'em Missy sent ya! :0) And if you have your own blog, please let me know in the comment section of this post. And please vote in the poetry poll....I need lots more votes to keep the poems coming, if you want that.
My feet have swollen so much, I couldn't wear that boot out to the second appointment today. The velcro straps wouldn't stay on, my toes kept sticking out and I couldn't ever get the heel back far enough. So now my arch is killing me on top of everything else. So I'm gonna go put them up and take a nap, I think.
I hope this post finds you happy and well and as pain free as possible.
Hugs,
Until next post,
Missy
Boy, we are almost "normal" again!! :0) Hopefully nothing else will happen and we will go years and years without this thing bearing its ugly head. Frankie will start back on the Gleevec at half strength starting tonight with dinner and then after a week, start full dosage again.
Be sure to check out the awards page. I've added two more terrific blogs onto it. Be sure to stop by and visit them....tell 'em Missy sent ya! :0) And if you have your own blog, please let me know in the comment section of this post. And please vote in the poetry poll....I need lots more votes to keep the poems coming, if you want that.
My feet have swollen so much, I couldn't wear that boot out to the second appointment today. The velcro straps wouldn't stay on, my toes kept sticking out and I couldn't ever get the heel back far enough. So now my arch is killing me on top of everything else. So I'm gonna go put them up and take a nap, I think.
I hope this post finds you happy and well and as pain free as possible.
Hugs,
Until next post,
Missy
Thursday, September 2, 2010
My Big Foot
Hello, folks!
Well, as you know, yesterday I went to the foot doctor because my left foot has been hurting me something awful. The arch part especially. Every time I would stand and put full weight on it, it would hurt so much I would see explosions of stars going off in my brain-it hurt that much! And everyone knows that when your feet hurt, your WHOLE body hurts!!
Anyway, I told the doctor that the steroid shot he gave me last time didn't do a thing. So he said, "those shots ALWAYS work, which means your problem is different." Of course. I'd hate to follow the same road everyone else does! So he examined my foot and pressed on all the right places where I'd wince in pain or pull back. He then took a look at my x-rays that I had taken when I was there two weeks ago and he said they looked good, even the "bad foot." So he is saying I sprained the arch of my foot. Which is entirely possible with all the moving we've done over the past year and then Mom and I trying to do the travel nursing circuit....I could have sprained it anywhere!
So the "cure" for this is a "moon boot" or "air cast" boot which I wear when I'm walking. I can take it off to sleep and shower. At first, I thought I'd NEVER get used to it and I was afraid of falling because it set my center of balance off. But then, today, I'm walking around the house wearing it and it isn't that bad. I don't have that searing pain I used to get in that arch area. So they may look goofy, but they are working against ONE of my painful areas!! I took two pics of my new "boot."
Well, one thing I can say for it is that hopefully it will help keep my swelling down in that leg. You can see the build-up of fluids in my calf region of my left foot. And walking around is a lot easier and it gives that arch a rest so it can heal. The doctor says it can take anytime to heal from two to three weeks to a month. Everyone is different. So I can expect to wear my special boot for a month! At least it's nothing that requires surgery or anything like that to fix it.
The rest of me is so incredibly sore. My right hip region is giving me such fits of pain that I could just scream. The humidity is up there and I think that is why I'm in such agony. I see a lot of other "fibromytes" are having problems, too. So it definitely is something in the air!!!
I don't know if you've seen it yet, but I added a new page to my blog called "New-Blog Awards." I've seen a few sites that have awards on them and they are so cute and it recognizes to the owners how very hard it can be to get a blog up and running and have it be of quality work. So every blog I see that fits my requirements, I will give them an award for their hard work. So please check out the new page and leave me a comment with your blog's URL and you could be the next person I give an award to!!!
That pretty much is all the news around here. Frankie's drain is draining more on the outside.....on his dressing instead of in the drain. The visiting nurse thinks the tube has migrated outside of the wound. So I'm not to flush it until he has spoken to the doctor. If I haven't heard from him by 5pm, I'm to give him a call. It would be such as a shame to have to have it re-insterted and then removed on the 7th! The wound looks good: no redness, swelling or unusual pain. It's just not draining to well inside the bulb like it should. Complications, complications! That's our middle name, think!
You all have a great day and God bless you all,
Until next post,
Missy
Well, as you know, yesterday I went to the foot doctor because my left foot has been hurting me something awful. The arch part especially. Every time I would stand and put full weight on it, it would hurt so much I would see explosions of stars going off in my brain-it hurt that much! And everyone knows that when your feet hurt, your WHOLE body hurts!!
Anyway, I told the doctor that the steroid shot he gave me last time didn't do a thing. So he said, "those shots ALWAYS work, which means your problem is different." Of course. I'd hate to follow the same road everyone else does! So he examined my foot and pressed on all the right places where I'd wince in pain or pull back. He then took a look at my x-rays that I had taken when I was there two weeks ago and he said they looked good, even the "bad foot." So he is saying I sprained the arch of my foot. Which is entirely possible with all the moving we've done over the past year and then Mom and I trying to do the travel nursing circuit....I could have sprained it anywhere!
So the "cure" for this is a "moon boot" or "air cast" boot which I wear when I'm walking. I can take it off to sleep and shower. At first, I thought I'd NEVER get used to it and I was afraid of falling because it set my center of balance off. But then, today, I'm walking around the house wearing it and it isn't that bad. I don't have that searing pain I used to get in that arch area. So they may look goofy, but they are working against ONE of my painful areas!! I took two pics of my new "boot."
Well, one thing I can say for it is that hopefully it will help keep my swelling down in that leg. You can see the build-up of fluids in my calf region of my left foot. And walking around is a lot easier and it gives that arch a rest so it can heal. The doctor says it can take anytime to heal from two to three weeks to a month. Everyone is different. So I can expect to wear my special boot for a month! At least it's nothing that requires surgery or anything like that to fix it.
The rest of me is so incredibly sore. My right hip region is giving me such fits of pain that I could just scream. The humidity is up there and I think that is why I'm in such agony. I see a lot of other "fibromytes" are having problems, too. So it definitely is something in the air!!!
I don't know if you've seen it yet, but I added a new page to my blog called "New-Blog Awards." I've seen a few sites that have awards on them and they are so cute and it recognizes to the owners how very hard it can be to get a blog up and running and have it be of quality work. So every blog I see that fits my requirements, I will give them an award for their hard work. So please check out the new page and leave me a comment with your blog's URL and you could be the next person I give an award to!!!
That pretty much is all the news around here. Frankie's drain is draining more on the outside.....on his dressing instead of in the drain. The visiting nurse thinks the tube has migrated outside of the wound. So I'm not to flush it until he has spoken to the doctor. If I haven't heard from him by 5pm, I'm to give him a call. It would be such as a shame to have to have it re-insterted and then removed on the 7th! The wound looks good: no redness, swelling or unusual pain. It's just not draining to well inside the bulb like it should. Complications, complications! That's our middle name, think!
You all have a great day and God bless you all,
Until next post,
Missy
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