If it is going to be 6 months between postings, then I suppose one might think that my life is very humdrum. Quite the opposite in fact.
My sister and I finished up on Mom's affairs. My sister discovered that she, herself, is very ill with Scleroderma. She's been ill for quite some time (years) and unfortunately it reached crisis last fall. She's had a port implanted thru her chest wall direct to the heart with medicine which is pumped in to help decrease the pressure within her lung and heart. She's feeling much better now after nearly bleeding out last fall. I'll tell yolu, folks...it's been a year to...remember? forget? Whatever!
After I was diagnosed with fibromyalgia in October, I've been learning how to deal with it - and everyone seems to have their own way of dealing. I am seeing a pain clinic doctor and he ordered an xray on my neck. He said it looked funny - and here I was going to him because he is a pain specialist. My neck didn't hurt!
The Xray showed that there was a problem and an MRI said that it was a disk which was pushing on the spinal cord. I had a diskectomy with a bone graft from a cadaver bone donor and a titanium plate screwed into the bone. Guess where the surgical incision began...
Oh, c'mon....Guess.
Right above the collarbone at the base of my neck!~ After 3 months, the bone still has not healed as the doctor wished, so I am on another 3 month stint of limited activity. It doesn't hurt much so I can live with that. The reason it is slow healing is because I'm diabetic. I'm not on any meds, and my blood sugar is normal but when it comes to healing, a diabetic's body is still diabetic.
We've been updating our house a little. I want to move to West Virginia where my husband's family lives. He left there 45 years ago and we've gone back for visits, but now it's time to go "home." He and I have been expecting to hit some bumps while discussing this, but so far we're still getting right on!! We've decided on a Modular, but haven't decided on the builder yet. If you have an opinion on which is the best, leave me a comment. :)
Cya sooner than 6 months!! (I hope)
