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August 5, 2004

I just got off the phone once again with MSN tech support, and the person I

spoke to this time was so much more helpful. It appears that my problems with

sending and receiving emails is resolved...or at least will be within 24-48

hours. At least this support tech person was successful in walking me through

some steps involving backing up archived/etc. emails onto both my computer and

within my MSN Premium, updating some settings, etc. This person was mercifully

brief, concise, and seemed much more knowledgeable than the 3 I dealt with last

Saturday for a total of 4+ hours, at which point I was literally shaking and

trembling in pain. I did actually have to spend several days lying down after

that futile and extended session with tech support on Sat.

I did see my pain management dr. on Monday, who increased the dosage of my

Duragesic patch, prescribed a different med for breakthrough pain (the old ones

were simply not working anymore, and I have valid pathological reports to

explain how and why my pain has increased, which I gave him copies of). He gave

me a much needed injection into my left arm just below my elbow as well. I had

BADLY dislocated it about a week or so ago while attempting to simply rearrange

my bed pillow behind me. It was so badly dislocated that my arm was literally

pointing the wrong way at the elbow and had an extremely distorted appearance.

It looked broken, but wasn't. However, I could feel that my tendons, ligaments,

etc. were under such a strain in the dislocation that the bones were about to

break under the extreme pressure. I have never had that elbow dislocate to that

extreme degree before. Fortunately, I was able to avert going to my local ER

(where I have been physically injured and treated with unacceptable

insensitivity on numerous occasions in the past year). was at home, and

being an EDSer himself, was able and willing to attempt putting my elbow back

into place for me. He literally had to rotate/twist and put it back into the

socket. It popped LOUD when it went back in, and naturally injured and

traumatized the soft tissue surrounding the area ever since. The pain in my arm

was rivaling the pain in my c-spine, and keeping me from sleeping. The

cortisone shot did NOT hurt (I know, I know, it should...but my pain tolerance

is scary and dangerous). Better but sore now.

Love to all,

~LoneStarRose~

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