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Posted 2/16/2015 10:10 AM (GMT 0)
Well it's Monday check-in after a long busy weekend for me. With Valentine's Day Saturday and my granddaughter turning 10 yesterday and today I guess its presidents day and kids out of school so I have babysitting duty! Its also the start of race week here in Daytona so we are jammed packed full of racing fans all week building up to the Daytona 500 Sunday which I will be attending for the first time!! Not necessarily a race fan but am a Kid Rock fan and he's opening the race this year so I am excited! Unfortunately Florida's still seeing some unseasonably cool weather and I certainly am ready for spring!

This is Monday check-in where we all come together to share your weekend, tell us what's planned for your week ahead,appointments,surgeries and tests and anything else you want to share.

Need extra thoughts and prayers for yourself or any one please let us know here.

Welcome all new members and to all regulars hope you all had a great Valentine's weekend.

We also have a few missing member's and hoping that they check in with us soon and thoughts going out to them.
Posted 2/16/2015 12:30 PM (GMT 0)
i am tired, but have been clearing out old stuff. my shoulders ache, but with movement my slipped disk has not been too bad. i feel all the members with surgeries, injections and stuff.my sockets are just stuffed and have a stack of arthritis in my neck. i have a stack of other medical issues that are compounding though. i don't know too much about pain stuff. i understand anatomy okay, did some at uni, but that was many moons ago. my stuff is that sublxuation, don't know the spelling. i do toss and turn severely and am having insomnia because of the pain. i offer you my healing thoughts. to all of you. i post with support and care, but i am a little out of my league on some stuff. take care.
Posted 2/16/2015 3:10 PM (GMT 0)
Wow.Vickie is a Kid Rock fan.Never would have guessed that .Cool.

33 degrees in N.E. AL right now and misting rain.Might snow a little.

This is the start of my 3rd month taking Morphine.It seems that the less I take the better I feel.No side effects.

I'm satisfied with the pain relief it provides so that's what is important.

Hope everyone has low-pain weeks.

Take care all,

Rick

edit:I'm so sorry to hear that she was subjected to that.That's terrible.God Bless Her.
Posted 2/16/2015 5:52 PM (GMT 0)
Had a better than average weekend, got outside in the sun and stole my share of vitamin D! Lol......... But the nice warm weather in southern Texas has come to an abrupt halt, nice come's the rain and cooler temps - UGH! That means more pain and less mobility for me.
Still dealing with the severe numbness issue, I am going for my MRI on Wednesday and pray that nothing serious is going on. I really don't know if I could handle another setback, buy hey guess what I will have to won't I. I am still very nervous and anxious about the pain associated with laying on the MRI table but I HAVE to do this.
All is well on the home front, having been doing my crafts to keep my mind busy.
I hope everyone had a great Valentine's Day with the ones they love, my hubby was good to me as usual - a card, Big Hersey Kiss, and roses, what a sweetie!
All my prayers and hopes to those in pain and having procedure done - be strong and be well!
Pam
Posted 2/16/2015 6:53 PM (GMT 0)
Well yesterday I went shopping and stocked the larder and today since one AM this morning we are under a winter storm warning, with between 10 and 15 inches expected for the area I am in. We had been lucky so far this winter with very little snow, and now it is pay back time! Have about 8 or 9 inches of the nasty cold white stuff on the ground already with the heaviest snow fall yet to come! I tried to shovel out a little area in the yard for my dog to go potty, but my back and legs started screaming at me, so I quit! Luckily it is a light dry fluffy snow as the temperature is only in the mid teens. Kind of unusual for this time of year in Kentucky. They are saying the snow will be followed by record cold temperatures for the rest of the week so this stuff will be around for a few days! Not what I would like as I am more than ready for warm weather and spring!

White Beard
Posted 2/16/2015 7:22 PM (GMT 0)
Okay Whitebeard, I am embarrassed because I do not know what a "Larder" is? Is that a southern term? Lol
Saw that weather system on the map today and all I can say is "I'm sorry"! Stay warm and dry.......
Pam
Posted 2/16/2015 8:07 PM (GMT 0)
Greetings from the Jersey Shore! Had a quiet Valentines Day. Cold = pain for me and this morning it was 2 degrees F with wind chills in the negatives! Hot water line is frozen! To make matters worse, the nerve in my leg is pinched again. Very much like sciatica but a different nerve, not as far down the leg. But just as painful! Glad my neighbor has a snowblower and is willing to do my place too. We are expecting another 5-8 inches. On the bright side, my daughter made brownies today! Good thing, since I already ate the whole box of chocolates my sweetheart brought me! The buds on the lilac are swelling, the daffodils have broken ground, other signs of spring are there if I look for them. I have not lost hope!
Posted 2/16/2015 8:07 PM (GMT 0)
Oh, these children! The larder was a cool place you kept food before refrigerators. Now look up "chamber pot," "belfry," "ha' penny," and thrice round the castle "widdershins." I must be getting old. er.

I really didn't want to get out of bed this morning, knowing what my day was going to be like at minus 7. I've got 4 dozen turkeys depending on me with the floor of the woods covered with ice and snow. My rabbit fur lined "Mad Bomber" hat plus ski goggles for plowing with the tractor is the right kind of clothing with this wind and awful cold. The critters are fed and I'm aching.
Posted 2/16/2015 8:30 PM (GMT 0)
Oh Alcie, I am by far not a "youngin", I told you I was going to be embarrassed! lol I understand now,
I empathize with you as well as kudos to you for having to do what you need to do in that kind of weather!!!
Bless you!
Pam
Posted 2/16/2015 11:42 PM (GMT 0)
Hi, this is my first Monday check-in, but I am hoping to get more active in this forum. I am extremely thankful for finding this site.

Freezing, single digit temperatures today in New Hampshire. Just finished shoveling out after Saturday's storm where we received another snowstorm. I think the total amount of snow is well over five feet now! And there is more snow to come! I guess it is a good thing that I love snow! My mom says it is because I was born in a blizzard.

I've been trying to be good about my recent diet, but I have eaten an ungodly amount of chocolate this past weekend, whoops! I've got to say, I'm a bit jealous that you are seeing Kid Rock!

Pain wasn't so bad today, as I just hung out around the house today, and took a well needed relaxing day that I had off from classes. I have an appointment with a new doctor on Wednesday, so I am a bit anxious, yet excited for what is to come.

I hope that everyone has a fantastic week, stay warm!!!

Megan
Posted 2/17/2015 12:05 AM (GMT 0)
Hi SisterPam I had to chuckle a bit at your post, I am actually from the Midwest and just moved here to Kentucky a little over a year ago. Larder was just a saying that my parents used to use as I was growing up, and just something that I have always said. Pantry would suffice I suppose too. Ha

I went out and tried to find the flattest area in my drive way to take a snow measurement, so far today we have gotten a good nine inches with another possible 2 to 4 inches more accumulation tonight. Then the really cold weather is suppose to settle in in the next few days! The funny thing is, is I was stationed in Alaska twice during my military career, 2 years in Anchorage, and then ten years later 4 more years up just outside of Fairbanks. Now when ever the winter weather gets bad here, I just go to the National Weather Service web site, and look up the weather up in Fairbanks Alaska to see what there weather is like. Usually they are much much much much colder and more snowy and that makes me feel better about the weather we have here!!. But when I looked up there weather today, they have much warmer temperatures and allot better weather than what we are having here in Kentucky! Go figure????? Ha!!

White Beard
Posted 2/17/2015 12:23 AM (GMT 0)
White Beard,

I know I am butting into this conversation a bit, but I am from New Hampshire, and we have taken quite a hit in terms of snow this winter. I can relate to your story though. I have family in Juneau, Alaska, and my younger brother likes to continuously check the weather in locations that we have family. Every time he checks the weather in Juneau, it always seems to be warmer than it is here! At the moment, it is 12 degrees here, and 39 degrees in Alaska! I'm a bit jealous, although it is a few hours earlier.

Anyways, sorry I jumped into this conversation, I just thought there was a funny similarity. Take care.

Megan
Posted 2/17/2015 1:47 AM (GMT 0)
Fun conversation today!

Pam, I've been married way more than ten years more than you and we married past college, so I'm one of the older ones here. I guess I got my old fashioned words because of growing up spending Christmases in the attic bedroom of the Centennial family farm home with outhouse, coal furnace and crank telephone. At least there was windmill pumped indoor water at the kitchen sink. I appreciated that my family lived in town and I only had to occasionally hoe the bean fields with my cousins.

We're not the coldest at only 10 below last night in PA, but I have a hypersensitivity to cold. I can't stand my own touch unless my hands are warm. Getting spinal injections, the worst part is cleaning my back with cold antiseptic.

I have a son in Denver where it's balmy and sunny by the standards of this winter in the East. It's too cold to even go skiing here.
Posted 2/17/2015 3:49 AM (GMT 0)
meganec17 the northern states and the northeast have taken a beating this year with snow and cold weather! Kentucky on the other hand has had a rather mild and some what snowless winter up untill now! Oh we have had a little snow now and then but it was always gone in a day or two! Now they are saying we are going to get a full winters worth of snow in just the next few days!

As a kid I have live in some places that had some pretty cold winters, but stationed up by Fairbanks Alaska was definitely the coldest place I have ever lived! I have seen 95 degrees on the 4th of July one year, up there and then had one winter where we went six weeks with a daily high of 30 below and lows at night as cold as 55 below! That's why I always like checking their winter weather and compare it to where I currently live!

I must admit one of the reasons I moved here to Kentucky was to get away from the long cold winters and all the snow and cold. I think I maybe should have moved a bit further south! Ha

White Beard
Posted 2/17/2015 4:09 AM (GMT 0)
PM decided to stop my pregabalin when I saw him last week, as it didn't seem to be helping all that much, and I was experiencing some pretty significant side effects (made me very dizzy). I see him again in a few weeks, at which point he'll have some more test results back, and we can better decide where to go from here.

As far as appointments this week, seeing an endocrinologist for the first time this week, because I have all the signs of thyroid/endocrine disease yet my blood work has always been normal. So my doc thought it might be worth consulting with an endocrinologist.

Also hoping to get an appointment this week or next week with a doc that I was referred to by my psychiatrist (but also approved by my PM) to discuss possibly getting ketamine infusions done for both pain, and actually, primarily, treatment resistant depression.

In non-doctor news, my birthday is on Wednesday. So my parents and grandmother are going to take me out to dinner at my favorite restaurant. Also been very cold here the last few days (was -8 actual air temp when I got up this morning). And unfortunately, the cold is supposed to stick around all week. So I'll probably be staying indoors as much as possible. Even the dogs, who normally love the cold, didn't want to stay outside this morning!

Hope everyone has a good week and stays warm!

Skeye

Post Edited (skeye) : 2/16/2015 9:13:29 PM (GMT-7)

Posted 2/17/2015 9:03 AM (GMT 0)
WB when I was a kid growing up in KY we use to see a foot or more at times in winter with drifts up to 3or 4 feet then sometime during the late 70's early 80's Kentucky's weather took a huge turn and we saw very little snow for years until the late 80's early 90's we had relatively mild winters with very hot summers then we started having horrendous ice storms,several a season that would literally put the entire state in a state of emergency. Once in I believe 2005 or 4 memory not so good anymore,we had a ice storm of enormous proportions that put lives in danger for up to 9 days in some areas with deaths,no power to people for days and up to a week with single digit temps,leaving thousands in the dark with impassable roads in neighborhoods even to police and rescue service. We had no heat,water,food ruining and no way out. That went on for 7 straught days. All we could do is wear everything we had,stay huddled in one room,eat whatever we had that hadn't spoiled,and drink melting snow,it was a very scary week. No stores were open since the entire town was without power so even if you got anywhere walking which a few steps were impossible there was nowhere to go.

We had those ice storms for several years but never again to that degree. Now in mid 2000 weather changed again and snow seems to be getting more and more and later and later in the season. I actually left my home state in 2009 and moved to Florida because 56 years of the cold,ice and snow was enough for a lifetime for me. Florida has been a great move for me and my health issues took a much better turn for the better in the year round warm climate. When you were getting hit with all that snow I was lounging on my deck watching sea gulls in shorts and barefoot to the tune of 74 degrees!! Although even Florida has seen some unseasonably cool weather this year we're talking about 40s and 50s lows at night a handful of times not single digits daytime highs.

Here's a fyi, larders were built on the north sides of houses with small mesh covered holes for the cooler temps to circulate through and everything from fresh meat to curing meat as well as staples and yes lard was stored in there year round.
Posted 2/18/2015 2:50 AM (GMT 0)
I'm finally just about through morphine withdrawals. That was no fun at all. As I mentioned last week, I needed to stop 15 mg twice a day quick, no time to taper, as my pain had decreased and I was starting to feel overdosed (wanting to sleep all day, etc.)

Over the last couple of weeks I've notice a very gradually increasing shortness of breath, nothing major, just need to catch my breath a bit more than I should after walking around.

I'm due for a monthly check-up with my oncologist but my wife had to reschedule the appointment till after I got through the diarrhea part of withdrawals. (Too much information, I know.) My wife mentioned my shortness of breath, and the nurse on the phone said I had to go to the ER if I had shortness of breath; the oncologist wouldn't deal with it. Huh? It's so minor the ER would laugh at me.

So I emailed my oncologist and didn't hear back, but magically I got a call that he'd ordered a CT scan the morning before my appointment.

Then the snow came. My wife won't drive on snowy, icy roads this bad, and my appointment is Thursday. The insurance company pays for transportation to 15 doctors visits a year, so I'm using their transportation for the first time, while my wife stays home to take care of the dog in the bitter cold. It'll be strange going to the doctor alone, driven by a stranger, but I'm looking forward to getting the CT scan and having the oncologist tell me what if anything is causing my shortness of breath.
Posted 2/18/2015 9:17 AM (GMT 0)
Well having done the w/d thing several times and from several meds and one of the nastiest I can certainly relate to that and the "NO way" getting further from the porcelain bowel than I can waddle quickly, I feel for you and get the rescheduling!

I had to give up driving for awhile after my recession years as I call them,pertaining to my health not finances,and not liking riding buses for hours to take a otherwise 15 minute trip used medical transport van several times and I have a word of advice and hoping that this is only my experience,take a good book for I waited a long time almost always to be picked up to return home.

Not sure why a nurse would advise you to go to ER knowing that they would likely just kick you back to Onc. I am glad to hear your Dr was listening and ordered testing and naturally you have to be worried so calming prayers for you and that alls well.
Posted 2/18/2015 10:46 AM (GMT 0)
hello.........i'm not in the usa. i do say g'day though. and i did say g'day earlier. i don't expect hello from everyone, but one would be nice. i have had a few say hello in the past. i understand that not everyone responds, that is cool.
Posted 2/18/2015 9:16 PM (GMT 0)
Hello Happy Turtle! I don't always comment on your posts but, I look forward to seeing that you have posted each day. It helps keep me going.
Posted 2/18/2015 10:00 PM (GMT 0)
Thank you, Vickie.

The weather here is so nasty tomorrow--record cold, snow still on the plowed roads--that I decided the insurance's contract driver shouldn't even have to go out in that, and I wasn't thrilled about it either, so I rescheduled for next week when the forecast looks better. Still looking forward to having stuff checked out, but not in this weather!
Posted 2/18/2015 11:42 PM (GMT 0)
Okay all.......... I guess now I feel like a youngin' for real - hehehehe

Happy Turtle,
I didn't know you were abroad, not that it made any difference! Anyway, Hi, I sure hope I didn't offend you because that is totally not me and I will apologize if I did.
A great big Texas hug your way!
Pam
Posted 2/19/2015 2:11 AM (GMT 0)
thx pitmom and pam. no offence at all.
Posted 2/19/2015 3:10 AM (GMT 0)
Another Texas hug for the THE HAPPY TURTLE!! Our weather is very nice and warm compared to many of you here in N. Texas. Where are you Happy Turtle? I'm just curious. And are you still attempting to use the C-PAP? I am, but still don't like it at bit!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Skeye!! Hope you enjoyed that special dinner with your family.
Posted 2/19/2015 3:49 AM (GMT 0)
beautiful day today. i am down under. (australia) c-pap is a pain. i can get 2 hours then i have to chuck it off. i am breathing better though, less breathless when walking. only got an hour with it last night, then i chucked it. keep perservering.-that word, not spelled correctly. i will start a thread. HAPPY BIRTHDAY SKYEYE. may your special day be fun and rewarding.
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