My husband had his annual appointment at his radiation oncologist and his psa at four years was 0.1. His last psa a year ago was 0.4.5 which was up half a point and had us concerned. Wiggyann Husband...
Hi JessyRee, Just saw your post and wanted to mention that I was at Walmart today, one of the super Walmart's and was amazed at all the products that now have which are now gluten free. They even...
Update on Mother :-) After the omsbudsman visitied the nursing home, the director of nurses made an appointment for me to come in and talk to her about mother. Basically, this is what she told me....
Dear SnowyLynne, When I mentioned to the nurse that mother needed a thin needed (as she has always had small collapsible veins) She said they only had the one size. I recently contacted the Land of...
Dear SnowyLynne, This is what has me upset. The nurse told me they only had one size needle. I don't even know what size it was. The nursing home contracts a company to do the bloodwork and it...
Thank you, Lyn I'm relieved things worked out the way they did. I hope you are doing okay. I know you have a lot of health problems you have to deal with and yet you continue to bless others. The...
Thank you so much for your concern Smurfy. My brother is there every day and I go in around 5:15 to feed mother and put her on the commode and put her to bed. If I"m not there my daughter goes or my...
Hi Smurfy Shadow, Thanks very much for all of your help. It means a lot to me /community/emoticons/smile.gif I had mentioned that mother was taken off coumadin and put on another medication and she...
Hello, My mother was hyperthryoid and had to take a special radiation pill to knock out her thyroid. Then, they built her thyroid back up with thyroid medication. She only has blood tests maybe once...
Dear Lyn, Thank you for your compassion. I know my mother lived in fear of the blood tests and it is terrible to live in fear. I just contacted a retired cardiologist on allexperts.com who has...
Hi Smurfy Shadow, Appreciate all of your help. Something has changed for mother. I heard from my daughter who went to the nursing home yesterday evening that the nursing home checked mother's leg and...
Red-34 I just talked to my brother and he sees nothing wrong in them holding mother down and giving her these painful blood tests. He said that she has to have them because of the coumadin. I told...
Smurfy Shadow May I ask what kind of help you get for your mother? My brother and I are going to the nursing home today and talk to the director about how the nurse treated mother and the aide who...
Thanks Smurfy Shadow, You've really given me some things to think about. As a nurse who does blood tests all of the time, she should have known there were different size needles. Both she and the...
Thanks SnowyLynne and Red_34 for all of your help. I'm glad you spoke when you had blood work done. I took mother to the doctor' once for a blood test and they sent a young man up from the lab to do...
I was at the nursing home today helping mother eat her dinner and before we left the dinner table a nurse stopped by and said she needed to get blood from her. Mother had a blood clot in her leg...
Hello Noelle /community/emoticons/smile.gif I am sorry but I just found the email letting me know you had posted on the thread I started. Your situation sounds identical to what happened to my...
Dear Lyn, I just wanted to say that I hope the sign language will be easy for you to learn :-) I watched a movie last year, "The Family Stone" and one of the young men in the family was deaf and all...
Dear Lyn, What a trooper you are :-) My brother who is a vietnam vet developed a form of maculer degeneration in his late twenties. Eye specialists from all over the United States have come to the...
:-) Thank you Stacey and Lyn for your conforting words. Lyn, I'm so very sorry you had to go through what you did, but am happy to hear that you have regained your memory. I hope that your hearing...
Dear Friends, I have written before several times on this forum but It has been quite awhile ago. It was about ten years ago when mother began having symtoms of alzheimer's. She is in a nursing home...
Oops http://www.healingwell.com/community/emoticons/sad.gif I meant "Many Thanks Jeannie" in the above post, but wrote Judy instead. Sorry 'bout that. Thanks to Judy also :-) Wiggyann...
Many Thanks, Judy :-) I really appreicate your advice. Wiggyann...
JUDY, THANKS FOR THE VERY GOOD TIP :-) I noticed that you are a co-moderator for the thyroid forum too. My husband also takes levothyroxine for his thyroid. His thyroid tested hypo on a blood test...
Thanks so much, Lainie, Jeannie and Tutorgirl :-) I so appreciate your help and suggestions plus It's nice to find out that there are others whose blood pressure goes up in the doctor's office. I...
Hi Jeannie, There is a cardiologist on allexperts.com whose son is an endroctrinologist. I asked him a question about my husband's blood sugar going up when his doctor added the water pill to his...
Dear Jeannie, I think in your situation, I would take the hydrodiuril too, instead of suffering with the kidney stones. However, I wish my husband's physician would give him the plain lisinopril and...
Hi Marburg, The problem with my husband's high blood sugar began when his doctor added the water pill (hydrocholorthiazide) to the lisinopril he had been taking for several years. He did not have a...
Back in 2006 my husband's physician added a water pill hydrochlorothiazide to his blood pressure medication (lisinopril) and about four months later, his blood sugar tested high. His doctor sent him...
Many thanks to everyone who responded to my question. /community/emoticons/smile.gif To Ohio State: My husband turned 71 in October. He did have the psa test taken six months ago at his urologist's...
My husband had his annual appointment at his radiation oncologist and his psa was 0.4.5 His last psa six months ago was 0.4 So, it has gone up half a point. The doctor told him not to worry about it,...
A special thanks to Chris R., Just Julie and CPA for posting. I appreciate all of you. The urologist told my husband to phone his office in two days for the results of his two year PSA test. He did...
A special thank you to everyone who posted. Geebra, Don 826, Purgatory, John T. Tudpock 18 and rob2. I feel much better after reading all of your posts :-) and am very grateful to all of you. wiggyann...
Greetings everyone, My husband had 25 radiation treatments and a 90 seed brachytherapy two years and two months ago. psa at one year 0.5 psa at two years, two months 0.4 no 18 month psa was taken I...
To all, /community/emoticons/smile.gif The good news about selenium. One large study reported that the incidence of prostate cancer was reduced by 63 percent in those taking selenium supplements. [b]...
Hi lvdgs, Just wanted to ask how your husband is doing. I have heard that with laproscopy, you are up and about a lot quicker, but my husband's doctor would only do his surgery the regular way....
Hello mlbsm and lvdgs, My husband's inquinal hernia surgery is two weeks old tomorrow and he still has a little swelling and a lump down under his incision. He mentioned last night that he thought he...
Hello lvdgs, I hope your husband is well on the road to recovery after his laproscopic surgery. He has had more than his share of health problems this past year. Also, I am so sorry to hear about his...
Hi lvdgs, Thanks so much for the update on your husband's surgery. I'm sorry to hear that you were not feeling well, but am glad you are okay now. My husband read your post and appreciated it very...
Hi Gildersleeve, Wanted to thank you for your comforting words about my husband's inquinal hernia surgery. He goes in tomorrow at six and his surgery is at 7:30 AM. May I ask what kind of anesthesia...
Hi mlbsm, Just wondered how you are doing and I hope the swelling you had has gone down. Also, I want to thank you for all of your advice and help :-) I just reread your last post and made a note to...
Greetings lvdgs, I hope your husband's laproscropic surgery went very well and I hope he is doing okay and on the road to recovery. I spoke to my neighbor yesterday and she recently had laproscopic...
Hello Everyone, This morning I happened to read that if you have had radiation treatments and are having a hernia repaired, the healing may be slower. My husband had 25 (IMRT) immensely modulated...
mlbsm, Thanks, Billy for all of your input, I sure appreciate it. It says on the papers the surgeon sent, if strips of tape were used to close your incision do not pull them off. Let them fall off on...
Hi mlbsm, Thanks, Billy I never heard of a surgeon using glue before on surgery It seems like a tacky job to me :-) only kidding... I think I would prefer glue to staples. I was appalled when they...
creed_three, Hi Lana, I wanted to let you know how good it was to hear from you and to thank you for your recovery wishes for my husband. I read your husbands latest psa which looks very good :-) My...
Hi mlbsm, I hope your feeling okay today and I hope the swelling is down from what it was four days ago. May I ask if you had your surgery done under general anesthesia and if you had to take pain...
Hello lvdgs, Thank you for responding :-) The nurse was trying to set up the 24th or the 30th for his surgery. My husband was hoping for the 24th, but I guess that date was filled, so his surgery...
Hello lvdgs, My husband just came back from the surgeons and he is going to have the regular surgery done. He did mention the laproscopic surgery to the surgeon, but he told my husband that these...
Hi mlbsm, Thanks for your post. It's nice to hear from someone who just had the surgery and I do hope the swelling you are still having goes away soon. My husband goes to the surgeon tomorrow, so we...