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Ready To Trade in My Legs

My birthday was this week.  I am older, but am not getting any wiser.  I keep getting myself into the same painful spots I have already been in.  Short of quitting walking, quitting working, and quitting driving I don't know how to stop overdoing it.  Oh well....

Took my Mom to the vascular surgeon  yesterday.  Great news, her abdmonial aortic aneurysm is not at a danger point yet, and per the vascular surgeon she will need to come in every year for an ultrasound and a checkup.  He said as slowly as it is growing, she may never need surgery.  He said for aneuryisms less than 5 cm wide (hers is 4.5 cm wide) watchful waiting is the only treatment.  My mother who had been building castles of disaster in the air (a lifelong habit) was very relieved, as I was, to hear this.  WooHoo!!!  Her aneuryism is right where the abdominal aorta turns into the left and right arteries that go down the legs, so it was lower than I thought it was.

I have had a lot of pain today, but I soldiered on and got Mom to where she needed to go.  Hoping April is going to be the month this all turns around and everything is better.  The fatigue is very bad, and driving is very hard to do without pulling over every so many miles and napping.  I feel it will be a very long drive to St. Louis next week.  Sigh....

I am going to try to work tomorrow.  I have lots to do and not much time to do it in.  Arriving at work is going to depend on how much I aggravated The Legs taking Mom to the doctor.  Hoping I recover while I sleep!

Bad Day No. 1 2011

Have Had Worse

Bad Day today all around.  Never made it into work.  Had to have a phenergan injection to stop the nausea.  Finally able to keep liquids down.  Hoping kidney stone #2 is now through gnawing its way through my innards.  In pain from The Legs and The Belly and The Headache.

No pain meds today as I was not sure if they are increasing the head pain and nausea while decreasing others.  I am hurting, but the blessing of the phenergan injection was that I slept most of the day again.

Am going to try my best to get into work tomorrow.  I can't afford many of these days off.  Not sure what to do.  I have things that have to be done there.  I was so hoping this year would be better, but so far it's not so great.

I had many more hives last night, will take some benedryl in a bit to see if I can make this crop go back to where ever hives come from.  I didn't think the cyclosporin was doing anything but I might have been mistaken. 

I am looking forward to getting up tomorrow and making my way to work.  Hoping it will happen! Gotta get my mojo back someway this winter.  Sigh.

Malfunctioning Legs

Need That Bongo Sound Effect

I've had a hard time this week with pain especially leg pain.  Finally the other night I decided that I was being stupid so took some of the medication I carry with me just because of this problem.  Instead of impairing my ability to think, I was able to think of something besides pain. I think my concentration was improved rather hindered.

I have been standing a great deal the last few days, and walking back and forth between two buildings at the client we are working with which is a couple of blocks.  Doesn't sound like a lot of effort, but my legs have been getting weaker each day.  I would hope that using the durn pegs more would make them stronger, but they are just not cooperating.

Today I stood up from sitting in a chair and working on a computer for about 30 minutes and my legs wouldn't move.  I couldn't pick my feet up.  I couldn't scoot them forward.  My body had forward momentum but the legs and feet were glued to the floor where I stood up.  I don't have good sensation in my feet but this was different.  It was like sending a message to the feet - move Move MOVE - and they weren't paying attention.  The legs weren't asleep (as from a pinched nerve) they just weren't obeying.

I caught myself on the desk where I stood since I was my generally hell bent on getting somewhere self and had started moving my whole body forward, not realizing my legs were nailed to the ground.  I felt like I was in a cartoon where the feet move in a blur but you don't go anywhere.  I thought if I only had that bongo sound effect I could just skedaddle and get going!!!  Pyoooooiiing!!

I managed to unglue my feet by actually sliding my legs forward using my thigh muscles and lifted my feet and tried to stomp them into submission the same way.  I sure was glad I had BLING with me!  I have been using BLING daily but even BLING was not enough motivating force today.  I have had to kind of lift my legs tonight and shuffle along but I'm able to ambulate.

Tonight I am sitting around the hotel room hoping the legs will revive.  They are hurting, tingling, very weak and pretty numb.  The huge hives that were on them last weekend have shrunk to normal hive size, so I don't think this is due to angioedema.  Not sure what to do if The Legs just quit on me.  I wonder if this is what Dr. SassyPants meant by saying he didn't know if I could make it through this fall traveling.  Am halfway afraid to take Soma tonight in case that is what stopped me in place like a mouse in a glue trap, but also know if I don't take it I won't be able to walk because of the pain. 

I guess if I get stuck again, I can get myself a fancy slide along walker - one of my bloggie friends has a fancy rollerator walker that I am quite jealous of.  There is a bright side to everything and the fact that there are fancy rollerator walkers I could shop for is definitely a bright side.  I wonder if they make walkers out of carved aluminum like BLING??  I would like my chariot and my pogo gogo stick to match.  Maybe I can get mini-spinners for the wheels!!!