I'm tired of cooking/preparing 3 meals a day. It's just the two of us but boy oh boy can that woman eat!! She stays slimish, I get fattish. It's bad enough I do everything here much less start making her one thing and me the other. At times I feel guilty when I buy her fast food cuz of the nutritional value....not to mention I eat it too.
I need so many surgeries I put off because I was caring for Mother but now that Mother is gone and I've gotten the tests,procedures,xrays,MRI's ,etc.,every doctor Iv'e seen has told me that my bones are too soft and fragile for any surgeries.
My last appointment was to see about putting in a spinal stimulator for the pain but again,the doctor said he couldn't do it because my bones are too fragile so there's nothing that can be done and I just have to live with the pain.
I wish I would have drank my milk~
Finally, all the large trucks, etc turned off my route except the duely. Nearing one of turns I really wanted to.pass him as I did not want to follow him for the last 30 or so miles to the interstate.
Just as I was getting ready to pass him, he drastically slowed and one of the ramps blew into the air, maybe caused by wind, came down, hitting the asphalt, leaving skid marks. It was a very strange sight. I was not too close thank goodness. He pulled off partially into a roadside ditch, and on I went, passing him.
There is usually very little traffic on that route. Getting home took about twenty minutes longer than usual.
Be sure to deduct the Calcium mg. in the Tums from your needed dietary intake of Calcium needs.
You could get heart palpitations from an imbalance of Calcium.
I am surprised about the side effects of a lot of the newer drugs for arthritis, osteoporosis, and other conditions. Still people take them,still doctors prescribe them.
Still, the FDA takes them off the market, still, the FDA puts them back on the market.
I am also surprised about what so many drugs do to leach your necessary vitamins and minerals from your system, or do to prevent absorption of your other supplements. These drugs are called "Drug Muggers".
Become informed.
It takes a sleuth to discern what will help or hurt you coming from your doctor.
Isn't there a big lawsuit against that company now? I'm surprised if they are still prescribing to people.
My Mom had strong bones up into her late 90's, and her grocery list would show why: cheese, milk, ice cream, yogurt, cottage cheese, cream cheese, and whipped cream. Unfortunately both my Dad and I were lactose intolerant, and Lacaid had limited products at that time. My Mom would say "a little bit won't hurt" not realizing a little bit can cause what my Dad would call "the trots" [run to the bathroom].
Llama, I also pass on the Fosamax. What I use are 2 Tums each day. Figure it is better than nothing.
I can go to another radiology department. I never had a bad experience there before.
This office has the best, most competent front desk staff!
Maybe it was a bad day for everyone that day. Often, my mind works similar to an OSHA inspector, so I have to set aside taking responsibility for others' incompetence, let it go this time. Take care of myself.
Good word for the radiology techs.
Squirrely fits too.
Not all radiology techs are like that. Everyone I met has been a professional.
Send, that radiologist sounds sketchy.
Maybe after I recover from the strange happenings at the radiologist's. Maybe nevergoingbackever!
Every x-ray on my feet has been lying on a table.
Instead, the techs had me standing, climbing up on a home-made 2-step stair that was shoved to the wall. A 6 inch cabinet on the wall took away the standing space...you would have had to be there watching these two techs.
One using very poor body mechanics to move the stairs, not standing all the way behind the booth that protects them from radiation. Balancing the x-ray plate between my legs.
Mostly mad at myself for climbing on that stair, when I protested the tech said "It's okay", and NO, it is not okay. I should have left for my own protection. Maybe I should have asked the tech to climb up on the stair?
I no longer climb onto the second stair on my own safer step-ladder at home.
And surely would never put the step-ladder under a cabinet sticking out from the wall 6". Where was my shoulder supposed to be?
I think I can get over this, but not sure 3 days later.
gershun - I don't like soap operas either.
Seriously, that is NOT fun. Heal quick.
Sorry..........hope you aren't in too much pain.
Hugs!
Good Grief!
I never liked soap operas.
Just saying.
I can't believe this but we have another obstacle. It's becoming a soap opera. R was finishing part of a job - lifting the last floor board off with a prybar when a piece broke off the bar and flew into his forearm - just between the top of his glove and the cuff of his shirt. Drs said the fabric or even fat (R is very lean) would have slowed its progress. He was 6 hours in the hospital where they poked and dug and finally found the piece between two tendons and against an artery and decided to leave it there. He had a tetanus shot and is on a hefty dose of antibiotics. He was to have an MRI for a shoulder injury yesterday and come up today but the MRI has been postponed for a couple of months, and we will see how his arm is when they change the dressing. He needs to rest it. Fortunately it is his left arm and he is right handed but still...
The drs talked about future specialized surgery if the metal shifts or if he has lasting numbness in his fingers. I guess it will take a few more days to settle down so we can see what is happening.. My father got shrapnel in his shoulder in WW1 and it stayed there all his life and didn't cause him any problems. But, R does a lot of physical work with his hands and arms. I think R's challenge is to rest his arm specially these first few days. He doesn't take kindly to inactivity.
On the bright side, dd seems to be doing well with radiation therapy so far. And I have a dumpster organized for the 23rd . Sil and dgs will do the honours.
It is getting to the point where I am wondering what will come next. I was hearing on the phone about R's gory episode when Rocky who was sitting on the dresser looking out the window fell (or jumped?) behind the dresser, All I heard was a "thump". She was trapped behind there and tried to scrabble up the back then fled when I moved it so she could get out. Not like her at all.