Monday "Check In"

After having a couple of bad weeks health-wise (flares, etc) - I finally had a decent week last week and over the weekend.

After 10 years of not teaching classes due to my health issues, I'm tutoring a group of kids for the next several weeks (2x per week). It's exhausting - but when you are doing something you are passionate about, it's worth it. I almost forgot how very much I love teaching! (I do teach my older kids @ home... but it's a bit different than teaching to a class). If a miracle happened and my health issues got somewhat better - I would love to resume teaching in some capacity.

I'm also going to write a book (regardless of my health stuff!).... have always felt called to write -- just don't have my subject yet! Each time I think I'm settled on something, I change course. But I bought a couple of notebooks over the weekend - and am really going to start exploring this area again.

Other than that... spent lots of family time together this weekend - despite the extreme heat! Enjoyed a wonderful dinner with friends tonight - it was another large family.... so, between our two families - there were 18 people! But it was a perfect evening... all the kids got along and the adults got to visit.

On the agenda this week is continuing w/ my class.... just all my "mom" stuff.... and praying my health/pain stays stable. It would be a miracle if I had another week of feeling decent. I can't remember the last time that I had 2 weeks in a row where things were all ok. But it would be awesome if it happens

Regardless, I'm thankful that I had a decent week and weekend!

--Tina

Pain reached a bad point and also had a really bad gall bladder flare up that landed me in the hospital lay week. Had a hida scan. Results today or tomorrow.

In other news with me, my fentanyl patches have been missing since Friday (that's when I last saw and had them). Been looking for nearly 2 hours now. I don't know what to do. They were either thrown out or stolen. In tears and panicking majorly. So a very nasty start to a new week.

Hope others have a better week than me.

Nothing special here.

Wife had to work 15 hours Friday, and didn't get home till nearly 1 in the morning, so couldn't even do our usual Friday Night movie nite routine.

Saturday, still feeling weak from my passing out episode. We did a little local shopping before it got too hot, and had lunch out - had the worse waitress and service possible - which is a shame, because we don't eat out often, and its a shame to have a bad experience. I have never done this before - when I was signing the bill for the meal, I refused to leave a tip, and in the "tip" area, I wrote "Terrible Service".
That might be kind of tacky, but we were pretty upset, and there was no manager present to tell of our experience.

Rest of Saturday and all of Sunday, I mostly laid around, rested often, and still was dealing with a lot of
what I call "serious CP". The pains in my right leg and right foot were at their worse, it was hard to walk at all on that side of my body.

Don't have a real busy week planned thus far, kind of glad for once. No medical appointments.

Daughter's birthday is Thursday, and youngest son is moving locally on Friday. He already knows I won't be able to do any moving or lifting, but still hoping to be helpful in other ways.

david

I dropped my Cymbalta to 30mg and am returning to 200mg of Tramadol.... finally feeling better and am out of bed for the first time in months!!!

I finished going over the gallies for my book (about 50 typos over 300 pages) and also last night even had it in me to finish a review for a journal!

Hi everyone I had an appointment this afternoon to get my eyes checked. Thank God the diabetes hasn't affected them. It had been a few years since I had them checked, and I'm supposed to have them checked once a year. I don't plan to wait that long anymore. My prescription changed a little, plus I'm getting bifocles because I can't read without looking over my glasses. He said that would be a lot easier that way. I said cool.

I also have an appointment Wednesday afternoon to get my yearly female exam. Oh joy. I just remembered I have a script to get a mammogram done. Yikes!! I forgot. I gotta get that scheduled.

That's all for this week. My weekend was ok. The usual pain. It did cool down here finally yesterday. It was in the 90s with humidity in the 70s last week, so it feels much better.

I hope that everyone has a low pain week.

love and hugs
Loretta

Thanks for starting the thread Tina. Happy to hear that you had a better week.

Vickie: Hope you daughter had a safe flight. One week has gone by already.

I had my last session for this course of physio on Saturday. This Saturday I have an appointment with the ortho.

I'll be going on one week vacation from work starting Friday. No plan though. My father is still in the hospital. We're hoping he can get the Angiogram this week and he'll be discharged. We know the doctors are doing all they can.

To all who has appointments: Hope your appointments goes well.

Wishing everyone a great week ahead.

UA