Re: [SPAM] Good Day today

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You, my friend are another of the brave people with this cruddy disease. I hope all goes well for you and you have a wonderful and pain free Christmas. God Bless and Keep you.

Now I think I will go shopping.

Jackie from Wisconsin BRRRRRR

[sPAM] Good Day today

-Went for a post op visit today, everything is going great, it's been a week since my surgery and I am reading 20/20,My internest found a Rheumatologist for to see to receive the Remicade per Dr. Baughman's instructions. It's female, waiting to hear from them to schedule my first appointment. I promise I won't spasout waiting for the appointment.i called my Ortho who will see me tomorrow to inject some of my joints. My left shoulder especially. Waking up with the horrible back aches has returned. We have figured out to keep the Vicoden ES right next to my bed, so when i wake up with the horrible back ache i now take two immediately which takes the edge off it.I very slowly made it two our second floor yesterday, Bob was right behind me and it took about 15 minutes to do the stairs. I was trying to locate a plastic tub that contains my sweat pants. No such luck, so sfter my eye doctor appointment today we went to Walmart and got some new sweat pants and 2 sweat shirts and also a neat top with blue and gray strips, it has a hood and will look nice with the gray sweat pants I already had and the Navy blue ones we bought today.Weather is changing here constantly,weather changes bring on lots of pain. I got out my tens unit to try and get it to calm the pain some.Also went to get xrays of my hands, wrists and chest. They put the films on a DVD so i got a copy for me and we put them into one of those DVD cases. I had another set that was done after the auto accident, They did my entire spine.Well another bad storm fromt should hit us tomorrow night, looking forward to that,why not it will just push up my pain level to about a 8-9.Bob bought a new watch for about $14 for it, it has gigantic numbers and hands so he can see what time it is. One of his eyes formed a membrane over something in his eye, they will lazer it in two months if it is still there.Thank you all for your encouragement and good wishes and prayers.You must know that you all our in our prayers every single evening.HugsJudy in PA-- In Neurosarcoidosis , tiodaat@... wrote:>> Judy,> I'm sorry that your experience with cataract surgery was so upsetting. When > you go in this next week for a post op exam, talk to the surgeon about this. > She needs to know that her staff was unprofessional, and not focused on her > patients, but were more concerned with where lunch was to come from. > The fact that they were already 40 min behind-- tells me surgeon came in > late. Her problem.. not yours. > The whole procedure from the time they take you in to get you set up > (anesthesia and scrub) to the time the surgeon starts and completes the surgery is > rarely more than 30-45 min. Actual surgery can take as little as 12 minutes. > I know that can seem like a "cattle call"--- but a good GOOD surgeon has the > staff trained and has done so many surgeries that they are that effective. > I know the MD that I worked with had his surgeries down to this time frame, > so while he was working on one patient, his surgical team was prepping the > next.> However, we weren't allowed to be socializing with each other (staff with > staff) while he was doing surgeries. > If the person that sterilized the equipment between patients (we had 4 sets > of tools always ready)-- had to order lunch for the staff-- you'd never have > known it. That happened- out of earshot of the patients.> It is remarkable that your husband had such a hard time, he truly relies on > you to keep his "pieces" in place. So, when you add something else to his > plate-- he, (like my husband) wigs out and ends up so emotionally exhausted > they're useless. I totally understand-- and it drives me nuts also. > This is where we really need to keep frozen dinners in the icebox, and use > them. That way no one has to stress, and if it does land on us to do the > 'SELF-CARE"-- and we know it probably will-- then we at least don't have to add > more logs on the fire...> > Take care, keep the artificial tears going-- and in a few days, that eye > will teach itself to see. It will be a transientian time (sp) but it's worth it!> > Blessings,> Tracie> NS Co-owner/moderator> > > > **************************************Check out AOL's list of 2007's hottest > products.> (http://money.aol.com/special/hot-products-2007?NCID=aoltop00030000000001)>