Back Painnnnnnnnn
Posted by Robyn Nelson on Friday, January 31, 2014
here is how the day went. went to have my MRI done, and they told me to take my boots off. So I stood on their cold floor and waited and waiting, then i stood on one foot then the other... it only took a few minutes for my feet to start hurting from the cold floor. by the time the lady went to lead me to the MRI room, i was shaking from head to toe. she was asking me questions, but i couldn't answer, i just blurted out I have Raynauds and the floor is too cold for me to stand on. Her eyes got big and she quickly had me get up on the table. Then they ran and got a heated blanket, oh... sweet relief.
So the MRI took an hour, but half way though, the fan that blows air through the machine, had made the blanket cold for my feet again, plus, my arms were loosing circulation so we stopped for about 2 minutes and they wrapped my feet in another hot blanket and wrapped another blanket around that. It is such a pain in the butt to have this problem.
by the end of it, my back had locked up... so I couldn't sit up on my own. Good gravy, seriously? So they had to help me to sit up. and then once I was down on the cold floor, I made a be-line to get my boots back on.
Then EO dropped me off at the lobby, and as they have wheel chairs right by the door at St. Lukes, and after EO parked the car, he came and wheeled me off, so we could go see the Oakleys. We didn't go in to see Jason, but he is off the breathing machine, so he is breathing on his own now. However they do have an oxygen mask over his nose and mouth. When we got there they were doing dialysis. He still isn't out of the woods yet. We just couldn't be happier that he is on the road to recovery.
Afterwards, we went to go see Carol for an hour or so. Leon did the same thing, dropped me off at the lobby door and then I climbed into a wheel chair and he motored me around. Carol was awake and visited with us all the while we were there.
Poor EO still isn't doing so hot. His gallbladder isn't as bad but is still uncomfortable. he just doesn't want to have to deal with it right now with so much going on. We also got news about Julie's biopsy...cancer. So I don't blame EO for wanting to put off, but we don't know how long he will be able to do that. We know this past week has been an unusually high amount of stress, that along with the fact that Bill, Carol & Deenie have all had to have their's removed, genetics plays a part. Hope he can endure as long as he needs to.
So back to my bellyaching.. my belly doesn't actually ache right now. But my hips and back are screaming at me. Oh well, that is what pain pills are for.
Steph got the estimate for her car. When she was over baking cheese cakes at my mom's one day. A tenant hit her car and knocked the mirror off and put a couple of dents in the door and fender.. nearly $2,000 it is going to cost the insurance company. Steph wasn't in the car and she wasn't at fault. So that is good. But annoying as this I think is the third time she has had an accident. actually i don't think she was at fault for any of them. someone else was driving her car and crashed. hail damage and now this one.
So the MRI took an hour, but half way though, the fan that blows air through the machine, had made the blanket cold for my feet again, plus, my arms were loosing circulation so we stopped for about 2 minutes and they wrapped my feet in another hot blanket and wrapped another blanket around that. It is such a pain in the butt to have this problem.
by the end of it, my back had locked up... so I couldn't sit up on my own. Good gravy, seriously? So they had to help me to sit up. and then once I was down on the cold floor, I made a be-line to get my boots back on.
Then EO dropped me off at the lobby, and as they have wheel chairs right by the door at St. Lukes, and after EO parked the car, he came and wheeled me off, so we could go see the Oakleys. We didn't go in to see Jason, but he is off the breathing machine, so he is breathing on his own now. However they do have an oxygen mask over his nose and mouth. When we got there they were doing dialysis. He still isn't out of the woods yet. We just couldn't be happier that he is on the road to recovery.
Afterwards, we went to go see Carol for an hour or so. Leon did the same thing, dropped me off at the lobby door and then I climbed into a wheel chair and he motored me around. Carol was awake and visited with us all the while we were there.
Poor EO still isn't doing so hot. His gallbladder isn't as bad but is still uncomfortable. he just doesn't want to have to deal with it right now with so much going on. We also got news about Julie's biopsy...cancer. So I don't blame EO for wanting to put off, but we don't know how long he will be able to do that. We know this past week has been an unusually high amount of stress, that along with the fact that Bill, Carol & Deenie have all had to have their's removed, genetics plays a part. Hope he can endure as long as he needs to.
So back to my bellyaching.. my belly doesn't actually ache right now. But my hips and back are screaming at me. Oh well, that is what pain pills are for.
Steph got the estimate for her car. When she was over baking cheese cakes at my mom's one day. A tenant hit her car and knocked the mirror off and put a couple of dents in the door and fender.. nearly $2,000 it is going to cost the insurance company. Steph wasn't in the car and she wasn't at fault. So that is good. But annoying as this I think is the third time she has had an accident. actually i don't think she was at fault for any of them. someone else was driving her car and crashed. hail damage and now this one.
