And just how are people who work normal hours supposed to do that 9-4:30? We had a similar system in an apartment we once rented. Mail was a nightmare. If you had a package delivered, you had to go to the office during normal business hours to get it. We both worked. Fortunately that was before Amazon.
And it seemed once a week they needed to get into our apartment. While we were at work.
Sciatica flaring up. At least I donāt have a pulled muscle to go with it this time. I just wish I knew what I did, so I donāt do it again.
Dadās going into surgery soon. Theyāre going to remove his peg tube, which has been leaking like a sieve, in part due to his third small bowel obstruction in about a month. Theyāre hoping to do something about that too, once theyāre inside. I am hoping and praying it goes well, and they donāt find any new cancer. But itās scary, given heās going into this pretty weak, and it took a long time for him to recover from the last surgery.
Wishing for the best possible outcome for your dad. And love and continued braveness to you.
Sciatica sucks. Hope you feel better soon.
Dad got through surgery, but it was a little dicey since he was severely dehydrated and had some blood pressure issues while on the table. Heās on a ventilator in surgical ICU. Itās looking like yet another long, hard road to recoveryā¦ but Iām grateful he got through today, so far.
Iām glad he got through! Wishing you the best of luck in the coming weeks.
Things have gotten worse. The surgical ICU doctor told me heās basically on life support right now. Despite tons of IVs, he got severely dehydrated, and the fluids and blood theyāre giving him donāt seem to be helping much. If he doesnāt start turning around in the next 24 to 48 hoursā¦
ā¦Iām not ready for this.
I knew all the hospitalizations and surgeries were wearing him down. I knew this was coming, eventually. But I thought there was more time. I didnāt realize just how bad this had gotten. (Iām not sure the doctors did either.)
Iām so sorry.
Nothingās definite at this point, but to be honest it seems like the doctor didnāt have much hope. I want toā¦ it doesnāt look good.
Dad is still critical-but-stable. Time will tell.
No one is, not completely. I thought I was, but I wasnāt.
Keep going, keep loving, keep breathing, keep taking care of yourself. This is difficult, but your care is a comfort to your father. And, doing what you can now will be a comfort to you later.
I hope you have someone IRL who can give you the exact number hugs as you wish to have, no more and no fewer.
Awwww, thank you, and Iām sorry. But Dad made it through the first 24 hours, and heās coming up on 48 hours, and heās still critical, but stable. Theyāre slowly weaning him off some of the blood pressure meds, and making plans to wean him off the ventilator. My aunt (Dadās sister) is visiting and keeping in touch with me, and an aunt and uncle on Momās side are keeping an eye on me.
Weāre not out of the woods yet, and if he makes it through, the recovery promises to be very long and difficult. But Iām taking it day by day, hour by hourā¦ and thatās all that can be done.
Modern medicine is tremendous, and Iām glad heās stable. Iām sending my love to your whole family.
Ughā¦ this sucksā¦
My husband and I are both in need for sizing our wedding rings down. His slipped off his finger while playing with our daughter in the yard. At sun down.
In the meantime, wrap some string around the bands in one section that can sit comfortably on the underside of your finger.
And last couple of weeks, actually.
So Iāve been on a new drug (Forteo) for about two months now, for corticosteroid-induced osteoporosis. Itās supposed to actually build bone. I have to inject myself nightly. The novelty of that wore off pretty quickly, but itās really no big deal. Not even painful, really.
But the main side effect is driving me crazy. Itās causing random, deep, aching pain in my hips, legs, shoulders, and various other places. Itās a known side effect, but all my attempts to track down why it hurts have failed. I figure the drugās probably activating pain sensors in the bone for some reason. People with bone cancer have terrible pain for a number of known reasons ā e.g., acidity caused by cancer cells. I donāt think I have cancer (the stuff has caused cancer in rats, at really high doses, but not in people. So far 
), but there must be some mechanism going on thatās causing the pain. All those extra osteoblasts creating new bone material?
People can only be on it for a year or two, thank goodness. I hope I get a payoff after this.
Remember growing pains? You may just have figured out why.
70% of patients who go off Arimidex (a cancer medicine) do so because of the bone pain youāve described. I donāt know what the scientific explanation is, but itās excruciating. I sincerely hope your body gets accustomed to the medication and stops reacting like that.