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Posted 1/24/2011 5:34 PM (GMT 0)
It is good to keep yourself as busy as you can and know when to call it quits. Distraction is a great way to help with CP. Sitting or laying and doing nothing is the worst thing any of us can do for ourselves, staying up and mobil is a must. Remember back in the old days if a person went into the dr and said they had a back ache, he automatically said a week of bedrest, well not no more. They found out that week of bedrest did more harm than good and I can believe it. I spent a week in the hospital once in lumbar traction due to a fall. When I got out of the hospital and went home I was as weak as a kitten, had no strength at all, was just zapped. It seemed like it took me forever to get back up on my feet after that. Since then, I have had numerous things to happen and lots of surgeries and staying active is the key to it all, as long as it is within limits.

Take care.
Posted 1/24/2011 11:23 PM (GMT 0)
Before they did my cspine fusion I had lots of problem with twitching and going numb. After the fusion it was MUCH better ---for a while. My degenerative bone is bad enough that it caused the fusion to collapse inward to my spinal cord and now will have a corpectomy on feb 3. btw anytime there is stenosis, there is a good chance that a good neurosurgeon will do something, because as the stenosis continues, it will compromise your spinal cord and eventually damage it. My spinal cord has some damage to it, and surgoen said he couldn't fix that. There is no way to repair the spinal cord.
Posted 1/24/2011 11:25 PM (GMT 0)
I agree, movement is key to feeling better. I thought I was crazy because I couldn't understand how working my arse off someone made me feel better, you'd think it would be the total opposite, not so. I didn't do a lot today, just working to put this new house together, but I'm more tired than when I rearranged the garage, hauled huge boxes in an out, lifted furniture. I think I'm going to do long walks after we get the house done so I get into the bad habit of sitting around thinking to much and worrying about the "ifs." I don't think I could do weights because any overhead work really bothers me. I can walk, though, and put a good pace to it too. I can break out the bike and ride, do yoga, there's a lot of choices.

I didn't get to call the doc today, I had four people show up at the new house to help me unload and organize, day slipped right by me, need to jump on it after I drop my kid off at school tomorrow. I just want to get this house thing over. It has been a huge project, so much construction work involved too, seems we're working on fumes as we near the end. :)

Posted 1/24/2011 11:31 PM (GMT 0)
and there's so much left to do too. we bought a 2000 square foot old house on a half acre, thank God it's a ranch, I hate stairs. but, bank did a bang-up job hiding all the problems and I wasn't sauvy enough notice them. you could take me through an old house now and I'd spot darn near 90 percent of the coverwork. i wish i knew all this then because I'd have done a better job hammer out the sale price. we overpaid, I think, by about 10K. we needed all new windows, they painted over wallpaper (didn't notice until we got in there), we cut a big serving window out a kitchen that otherwise looked like dungeon, we did drywall, tore down a big wall that split the house up and made an archway (which we need to redo because we screwed it up), installed windows, put a bedroom set together, tok down cabinets, painted every room, cleaned the crap of of the place.....we haven't even started on the outside yet. it's a great house but it needs so much work. i try to focus on just what needs work now, small jobs and not the overall big picture. we're going broke fixing things. this was eligible for a fannie mae rennovation loan, should have taken one, we did straight fha. stupid move. :)
Posted 1/24/2011 11:36 PM (GMT 0)
our next project is to redo the master bathrooms, of course my brother laughed, he said, you don't realize how much money that is, that's huge money, best you wait until you've got the capital for that project. as i've learned, bathrooms and kitchen will turn you upside down and shake all the change from your pockets, plus some. i have been finding a lot of good deals on craigslist, i keep checking it out for materials. i figure that when we're done, we could build a house ourselves, minus the electrical, that's not something i'd ever attempt on my own. when i was a firefighter, i got electrocuted and I'll never forget feeling of being glued to an metal ladder with volts running through me. i hire folks for that stuff now, wisely.
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