Anybody else here getting physically very "old" really fast? At least it feels really fast to me!
Finally a little over a year ago I found a small place to rent that isn't a dilapidated dump like the last place I lived for almost 6 years. I was so excited to have a place that I can hopefully be in until (if) I can't take care of myself with a small sunny front yard to play in.
I should have known a happily ever after wasn't in store for me. Oh the house is still mine, it's my health that took a big smelly crap. Now I'm nearly housebound and almost can't get off the 2 step porch- unless it happens that I fall off which is about the only catastrophe that hasn't happened yet!
As if ms isn't enough now I appear to be having heart issues following an ER trip last June of '15 (if I'm getting the dates right) which turned out to be pneumonia and sepsis. Suddenly following that my blood readings were reflecting various organ problems (duh- sepsis, hadn't thought about it) but by the time I got into the specialists those issues appeared to have resolved. Then when moving a chair I thought my leg had shattered, went to ER with a blown up leg that I couldn't put any weight on and they thought it was fractures also but it wasn't showing on x-ray. They could see the obvious swelling but sent me home with pain pills, crutches and told to see my PCP. Turns out it wasn't fractured at all. Three weeks later I thought I was having a panic attack but the 2.5 valium I take didn't fix it so back to ER. It had been a massive blood clot. A piece broke off and went into my left lung. Differing opinions are 2 Docs say it was from the chair incident and 1 says no way would it have gotten that big that fast, it had to have already been there and the chair thing knocked it around and loosened it up which is why I would have had such extreme pain and the sedentary behavior (ER instructions mind you) is likely why a bit broke off and traveled. That was another 5 day hospital stay that was the stay of nightmares!
So now I see I was dx with angina and need to get a TEE- not going to try to spell it but its a camera down your throat to get a backside view of the heart, I already did the arterial one.
I'm just so bloody tired of being poked and prodded and dinked around!
I guess this is just an overwhelmed rant. I thought I was doing so well when the neuro was excited to tell me that I have no "brain shrinkage". Great ay? So my brain will be intact when I blow an artery.
Thanks for the opportunity to vent. Please pardon the bit of sick sarcasm.
Finally a little over a year ago I found a small place to rent that isn't a dilapidated dump like the last place I lived for almost 6 years. I was so excited to have a place that I can hopefully be in until (if) I can't take care of myself with a small sunny front yard to play in.
I should have known a happily ever after wasn't in store for me. Oh the house is still mine, it's my health that took a big smelly crap. Now I'm nearly housebound and almost can't get off the 2 step porch- unless it happens that I fall off which is about the only catastrophe that hasn't happened yet!
As if ms isn't enough now I appear to be having heart issues following an ER trip last June of '15 (if I'm getting the dates right) which turned out to be pneumonia and sepsis. Suddenly following that my blood readings were reflecting various organ problems (duh- sepsis, hadn't thought about it) but by the time I got into the specialists those issues appeared to have resolved. Then when moving a chair I thought my leg had shattered, went to ER with a blown up leg that I couldn't put any weight on and they thought it was fractures also but it wasn't showing on x-ray. They could see the obvious swelling but sent me home with pain pills, crutches and told to see my PCP. Turns out it wasn't fractured at all. Three weeks later I thought I was having a panic attack but the 2.5 valium I take didn't fix it so back to ER. It had been a massive blood clot. A piece broke off and went into my left lung. Differing opinions are 2 Docs say it was from the chair incident and 1 says no way would it have gotten that big that fast, it had to have already been there and the chair thing knocked it around and loosened it up which is why I would have had such extreme pain and the sedentary behavior (ER instructions mind you) is likely why a bit broke off and traveled. That was another 5 day hospital stay that was the stay of nightmares!
So now I see I was dx with angina and need to get a TEE- not going to try to spell it but its a camera down your throat to get a backside view of the heart, I already did the arterial one.
I'm just so bloody tired of being poked and prodded and dinked around!
I guess this is just an overwhelmed rant. I thought I was doing so well when the neuro was excited to tell me that I have no "brain shrinkage". Great ay? So my brain will be intact when I blow an artery.
Thanks for the opportunity to vent. Please pardon the bit of sick sarcasm.
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