Hi everyone, remember me?
verhere:
I'm lucky if I do these days. I have been lost in a fog of narcotics, depression, and pain for about two months now. I have had many an adventure since then.
Tried to blow myself up lighting the pilot on the hot water heater at the end of August. Poof - I looked like the cartoon man who had the cigar blow up in his face. No eyelashes, eyebrows, singed hair everywhere (even inside my nose!). Mostly just 1st and 2nd degree burns, but alot of them. :stretcher:
No sooner did I start to recover from that, I ruptured two discs in my lower back. Oh ouch!
uch: I had no idea - I thought lupus had taught me how to deal with pain, but I was wrong! I'm still dealing with the aftermath of that one.
I have nerve impingment, can't feel most of my rt. foot, parts of the rt. leg, and my butt is numb. Sliced my heel open on a piece of sharp metal, because I could not feel it. I'm sure it hurt, but didn't even need a local for the stiches.
While all of this is going on, we put our second home in the Rocky Mountains on the market to sell, as my husband has taken a promotion that will move us to Philadelphia. We had two contracts fall through at the last minute, and had all kinds of weird problems with the third. It finally closed just this week.
Not that I've been stressed or anything :wink2:, but now I am having a monster flare. My vasculitis has returned in both legs, I can't think or remember a thing (worse than usual, hard to imagine! ), and I think I've started menopause. :bashhead:Oh, and the prednisone has been bumped up yet again!
Jerry Garcia (Greatfull Dead) said it best - "What a long, strange trip it's been!" I'm going to do my best to stay out of the emergency room this week, but can't make any promises about being committed to a looney bin!
Only a lupie could do all of this! Glad to be back
I'm lucky if I do these days. I have been lost in a fog of narcotics, depression, and pain for about two months now. I have had many an adventure since then.
Tried to blow myself up lighting the pilot on the hot water heater at the end of August. Poof - I looked like the cartoon man who had the cigar blow up in his face. No eyelashes, eyebrows, singed hair everywhere (even inside my nose!). Mostly just 1st and 2nd degree burns, but alot of them. :stretcher:
No sooner did I start to recover from that, I ruptured two discs in my lower back. Oh ouch!
I have nerve impingment, can't feel most of my rt. foot, parts of the rt. leg, and my butt is numb. Sliced my heel open on a piece of sharp metal, because I could not feel it. I'm sure it hurt, but didn't even need a local for the stiches.
While all of this is going on, we put our second home in the Rocky Mountains on the market to sell, as my husband has taken a promotion that will move us to Philadelphia. We had two contracts fall through at the last minute, and had all kinds of weird problems with the third. It finally closed just this week.
Not that I've been stressed or anything :wink2:, but now I am having a monster flare. My vasculitis has returned in both legs, I can't think or remember a thing (worse than usual, hard to imagine! ), and I think I've started menopause. :bashhead:Oh, and the prednisone has been bumped up yet again!
Jerry Garcia (Greatfull Dead) said it best - "What a long, strange trip it's been!" I'm going to do my best to stay out of the emergency room this week, but can't make any promises about being committed to a looney bin!
Only a lupie could do all of this! Glad to be back