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This is my personal blog away from my single mommy blog.
This is where I talk about my scoliosis, the spine fusion surgeries that I've had in February 2006, my 2nd spine fusion/laminectomy in September 2008, living with chronic back pain and trying
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Blew a fuse to boot.
I'm really having a heck of a time lately. A few things have gotten totally screwed up in the last 24 hours, 1 being that my doc called in another new med, (getting sick of the constant switching of meds) I can't go get it, really irritated about th...
I got a new smile for Christmas!
Dr. Dorociak is the dentist who gave me a new front tooth for Christmas, and I cannot thank him enough.For the first time in 14 years, I have a full front tooth. Before, my right front tooth was broken off completely in half, it looked absolutely hor...
All I want for Christmas is my 2 front teeth.
When I was about 8 or 9 years old, my entire family used to go to all of my big brother Mike's football games both at home and away, on the weekends, as sort of like cheap family entertainment.There were a lot of us kids, Mike, Jo, me, Frankie, Benji...
My insurance will finally pay for a med that works.
I had my appointment with my pain doctor today and was able to get a medicine that works and my insurance, Humana, will pay for it.Yay!Because of the whole Purdue lawsuit, the pain med that I was taking, the oxycodone 40mg, is no longer available in ...
I finally ordered the netbook!
It may not be an industrial computer, but I finally (been thinking about buying 1 since school started up back in August) ordered the netbook that I've been wanting to get for Sebastian, and I have been talking about it on my other blog, and debating...
Really crappy couple of days.
I have just been feeling like total crap the last few days, so crappy that I have not gone anywhere further than my own couch, haven't been outside much at all, maybe got the mail like twice.You wanna know what the absolute best fat burner is? In my ...
I spent the night puking my guts out.
I can't be entirely sure just yet if the cause is the new medication, or if I caught the flu.If it's the med, I have stopped taking it and that should cause the sickness to stop.If it's the flu, the puking will continue. Either way, I don't think I h...
Migraines, swollen feet, and health insurance.
I had been battling a couple issues the last 2 days, a migraine that wouldn't quit, and a swollen foot.The swollen foot thing is always bothersome, it (left foot) swells up so much that it hurts to try and walk, it turns red, it feels like it's going...
Fighting with insurance.
I swear, the pharmaceutical industry and the insurance industry must be cahoots with each other.They do everything that they can to get the most amount of money from people for the least amount of work or money being spent on their end of the transac...
I have my own life.
Monday was just one of those days, the kind of day that makes you just want to rip your hair out and start shooting people. I hadn't gotten any sleep since like a few hours on Friday, my period started, I pulled a muscle in my right side lower back, ...
He wants to call the shots doc!
All of that stuff that was going on with me and my family a few months back now, is still on our families stage.Instead of being front and center like it was, it's now just hanging out somewhere stage left. Mark and I had a long talk on Thursday afte...
Keep on doing what I'm doing.
I went and saw my pain doc today and actually got to see him, not his physician's assistant like I have been seeing the last 3 visits. This is something that I had talked about before, that I wanted to see him, because he's the only one who can chang...
Words of wisdom from a doctor.
My friend Christine sent me this link to an advice column posting, and it made me feel so much better to know that there are people out there who understand what I'm dealing with.I'm going to copy and paste it here, but anyone is free to go read the ...
Added 2 more drugs to my allergy list.
Well I certainly didn't need any Phenphedrine these past few days, my medications took care of that for me.As I posted on my other blog, I now have 2 more medications on my allergy list.I now have to write in whenever I'm asked for medication allergi...
Elavil, day 5.
I thought that I would/should start documenting how it's going with the new antidepressant.I want to keep a record of how it's going so that if any bad or weird side effects happen, I will know what day they happened, and so that I can tell my doctor...
Fat but happy? Maybe, maybe not.
Well, it looks like I'll be back on the hunt for the best weight loss pill again very soon.One of the side effects of the antidepressant that the doc put me on is weight gain.Just doing a Google search for various side effects like I do for every new...
Doc still wants the tests done.
Even though we've decided to not do the surgery right now, my surgeon still wants me to have a bunch of tests done.I need to call and schedule an MRI, I still have the referral paper he gave me last week, good thing I didn't throw it out after decidi...
I'm not going to do it.
The surgery, not right now anyway. My surgeon is someone I trust so much, you have no idea how much I trust that man.He has never lied to me about any of the risks, how I would be after the surgery, any difficulties I would face when I came home, any...
Losing weight various ways.
Over the last 10 months now, I've been losing weight through a variety a ways. One way has been because I was afraid to eat during the day when the teens weren't home because if I got sick, I was choking on my own vomit and almost dying, so I lost we...
No stress test needed. Yay!
I had my appointment with the cardiac doctor on Tuesday morning at 11am, and surprisingly, it went very well.I was surprised it went well because I had not slept on Monday night at all, I was wake straight through from waking up Sunday, and I didn't ...
Still no MRI.
I waited and called all day again, and kept being told that it was being worked on, but I never got the call to go get the MRI.My sister reminded me that I still had my boot from when I fractured the same ankle 6-7 years ago, so I had Sebastian help ...
Waiting on the ok to go.
I spent the entire day, since 8am, waiting for a call back from my doctor's office telling me what time to head over for an MRI of my ankle.I called back 3 times, and each time I was told that the doctor was busy with patients, and as soon as she had...
Might be fractured.
Last night sometime between 8-9pm, I went into the kitchen to throw something away, then I turned around and felt something in my left ankle snap, kind of like cracking a knuckle.It didn't really hurt at first, so I thought it was just my ankle bone ...
1 more, hopefully the last.
I went to my surgeon appointment this afternoon, I didn't see my surgeon, he was in surgery, so I saw one of the other surgical team members.She went over my CT Scan results, text and the films, and we talked about everything, what the plan is, what ...
Feeling better, docs, meds, and money.
I was so sick yesterday and last night, most of this morning, and I'm just finally starting to feel better.I don't know what it was, but man, my stomach was just wrecked, I was throwing up, cramping up, in tons of pain, and my feet that were swollen ...
Not feeling well.
I woke up feeling like absolute crap this morning, I'm just having a rough time of things the last few days.My feet have been swollen, I've been dead tired for days, and this morning I woke up with my stomach doing back flips.I have my new pain doc a...
Swollen feet and blood work.
I had some blood work done today for the new pain doc to have on Monday.I am well prepared for him to freak out over the high white cell count, they all do.I've had almost every test known to man to try and figure out what's wrong, and there is no in...
Adjusting.
The new med, the 40MG Oxycontin, is much stronger than the 30's, much stronger.I had a very rough night with it, I was physically sick from it, puked like 4 times, couldn't eat, was wicked dizzy.I spent almost the whole night just laying on the cou...
Stupid people.
This may be long, sorry.I went to my pain doc appointment this morning, and let me tell you, it was just a messy day.My pain doc does sports pain, rehab kind of stuff, general pain management, helps people wean off of pain drugs.That was my original ...
Would I sign it?
If any of my doctors asked me to sign a contract to not post any reviews about them anywhere online, I don't know if I'd want to sign it. There are new radical changes in the doctor patient relationship. While more and more people use...
