Monday Check In

Hey all,

I'm actually on time for once in........ about 6 months :)

This is the place to check in, let us know how your weekend was and what you've got planned for the week ahead.

As always - hope you all have the best week possible! Also, with today being Veteran's Day - a "thank you" to all of our Veterans here at HW.

--Tina

Hi everyone! I had a wonderful weekend and I am still feeling amazing! I took the Kids and Maximus to the cider mill and we walked for two miles. The weather this time of year is gorgeous. I love it. We finished off the trip with doughnuts and cider.

Nothing exciting this week. Just grocery shopping today and preparing for Thanksgiving... I'm not sure what I am making yet.

I hope everyone has a low pain week. Happy Veteran's day to all the soilders here at HW!

Linds

As I posted I had surgery 2 weeks ago. Pain has been high, but that is expected. The docs have been great with pain management so I felt pretty good.

Oh Tina, so glad you are on the ball, I dropped it again, lol. I totally forgot about the Monday check in, lol.

Susie

Oh okay, I totally understand. I'm still very proud of you!

Well my sister took me out to lunch  today, and when we got there, they asked if either one of us were Veterans I told them I was retired Air Force well she gave me a sticker and thanked me for my service, and then when ordering my meal, they told me my lunch was free, as today all Vets are given free lunches, I had deep fried shrimp with deep fried battered cod pieces and fries, and a nice house salad and peach pie. So my sister got off easy LOL

 Anyway my unpacking and moving into my house house is shaping up, got my leather recliner chair and sofa delivered  last week and have my master bedroom and kitchen and dining room and living room all set up and done. Now the other two bedrooms, one will be a computer/exercise room and the other a guest bedroom for if and when my daughters come to visit. Ha. and then finish the garage and then I should be pretty well settled in.

I hope that once I get everything unpacked and put away that my back settles down, and the pain lessens a bit! Lately the pain around my waist and then the sciatic pain in my hips and down my legs have been really bad. And of course the pain is always worse at night when your trying to sleep. It gets to be like a vicious circle, trying to get enough sleep!

Anyway that is my update.......White Beard

Sorry I am late to the party to post on the Monday check-in! I routinely get on the computer between 5 and 8 am. The check-in gets posted later in the day, so I normally post on it on Tuesdays. Once I get done reading a couple of different message board sites, I am done for the day on the computer and off to do different things.

The weekend for us brought some cold temperatures. My body doesn't seem to be responding to the cold very well. In the past couple of months, I have gained weight and gotten less active because of the increased pain from the cold temps. I really don't like this, but being in Ohio - the weather is very unpredictable! I have never lived outside of Ohio, it would be really strange to be in another state. Other than the increased pain, everything else seems to be going okay.

This week, I have appointments scheduled on Wednesday for a new health clinic sponsored by my pain doctor. She and a few other doctors all treat the same patients with the same lung disease - Bronchiolitis Obliterans Syndrome. This is actually a fancy name for graft-vs.-host disease located in the lungs. When I got this diagnosis, it scared the heck out of me and I stuck my head in the sand and didn't want to face it. So - for a year - the only doctor I saw was my PM specialist. A few months ago, I decided that I really needed to face this problem and figure out how to proceed with treatment. When I went to see my lung and PM specialist (appointments were in the same week), they told me about this special clinic that they are having on Wednesdays. Every Wednesday, they only see the patients with this disease. There are several different doctors that are available to treat us, this week, I am scheduled to see the Hematologist/Oncologist, Pain specialist, and Pulmonary specialist. Hopefully I will find out more about this disease and what it means for my health in the future. The information I have read about it on the internet is very scary. So I will be spending my entire day on Wednesday in Columbus, Ohio - sound like fun?? LOL!

Hope everyone is having a low pain week!
Trudy

Ok I made it!! Late but here! Lol

Im doing fairly well, actually much better then I expected and I believe as long as we can find something to control my pain issues as much as possible this has been the best thing I could have done.

No appointments for me but my teen has several this week and that means I go to. We are a bit miffed at Medicaid, she's not had but a tiny piece of her front tooth since she fell and broke it at 8. The dentist at home molded a huge filling to remake the tooth, KY medicaid didn't pay for crowns ever for any reason so the past 6 months or so this tooth's become dark and looked rotted.

The Florida medicaid pays for crowns in kids with good reasons to. She's really self conscious about this and I dont have $800 to crown it and medicaid turned us down last week, yesterday the dentist made her a prosthetic cap and that's also not covered, the dentist absorbed the cost! I was stunned! And thankful!!

She took actual pictures of the tooth, explained how this effected a 15 yr old girl and resubmitted the request for the crown!

So many times we hear about how Drs only care about the money and not us as people and I wanted to share this with you guys! It renewed my faith somewhat in Drs, dentists, and the medical field.

Hope everyone has a great week!