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lighter:
Yesterday evening chiro adjusted back and neck.....all was dizzy free till he turned my head to the right and pressed left of spine in neck and WEEEEEeeeee!!!!
I'm at ENT, waiting in magical miniature train set room. Huge and in snowy progress.
Someone here loves Christmas, starts early.
Can barely turn head....woke up in pain...assume from adjustment. Chiro said this won't last and dizzies will resolve eventually.
::crossing fingers::.
Twoapenny:
--- Quote from: lighter on October 25, 2024, 02:38:49 PM --- Yesterday evening chiro adjusted back and neck.....all was dizzy free till he turned my head to the right and pressed left of spine in neck and WEEEEEeeeee!!!!
I'm at ENT, waiting in magical miniature train set room. Huge and in snowy progress.
Someone here loves Christmas, starts early.
Can barely turn head....woke up in pain...assume from adjustment. Chiro said this won't last and dizzies will resolve eventually.
::crossing fingers::.
--- End quote ---
Hopefully that's a good sign, Lighter, I know sometimes when I have a treatment things are worse before they get better. Not nice during the worse bit but fingers crossed it means the problem is getting better x
Twoapenny:
--- Quote from: sKePTiKal on October 25, 2024, 08:18:48 AM ---Lighter, from what I'm reading at my "home spaces" on the 'net a lot of us are feeling like life is piling crap up - needlessly - and not only is it overwhelming, it's carrying with it a huge uncertainty about the near future. This is what people are expressing.
And that sense of things whirling apart is very prevalent. Some people are masking it, but still will admit they have moments when it forces thru. Hol's been called out to "first respond" to friends of her generation having meltdowns lately, so it's not age specific.
I think you're making a good choice about going back through the list of things in your "toolbox" and intuiting which ones will help now, while you find out if there are any physical causes of the dizziness. That could take awhile given the entropy happening in corporate medicine/health insurance.
B's docs LOST the approval paperwork for his stimulator lead change test. He only found out when he tried to ask about an appointment. And when he called the Federal Worker's Comp insurance, his case manager has changed again and she has no idea whatsoever about paperwork sent in the past 3 weeks.
We are trying to simply put one foot in front of the other, sometimes having to hold the "caregivers" hands and TEACH them their jobs. The only other option is to walk away; and we know the outcome of that choice.
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Oh Skep, sometimes I think the cock ups are even worse if you've had a 'light at the end of the tunnel' moment, as you did with the previous situation. Always fascinates me when paperwork is lost, the invoices never go missing, do they? I hope it can be found or reissued. It's maddening watching the people you have to involve in the process make such a mess of it over and over again.
sKePTiKal:
Yes indeed Lighter! Very maddening. Especially for B, since he's been TRYING to get a working pain mask since 2017, when the Surgeon removed the dirty devices he installed and B had to fight (on his own with my help) to knock down the MRSA infection. Even septic, no one wanted to treat him. He found a doc finally to start IV antibiotics, then continued the course with a home health nurse.
People look surprised when he gets angry at yet another roadblock or hoop to jump through. He's been jumping through all the hoops, following up with everyone - and repeating himself telling them, what it is THEY need to do to request approvals from the federal insurance. And of course, anger doesn't help them understand that it is THEIR JOB to know how to do these things. It just scares them and they withhold any potential workarounds as options for him.
Yet, if they just did their jobs competently, he would be the most pleasant person they deal with. If they CARED enough, to follow up themselves and saw him as a human being who's struggled with all this since '94 (and initially there was a long period where he was stable and the devices worked well) so he's NOT in there to get an Rx for narcotics... he's NOT a perpetual whiner looking for attention... he just wants enough pain relief that is consistent to have a quality of life. No he's not going to be the Bionic Man and instantly return to his age 40ish physical ability. But he isn't going to accept being an invalid either. That's not just male ego talking; it's his true wish to be able produce and care for people, kitties, and the place here.
The trend to see people as just patient number xxxx, has been taken to the extreme and now these docs are like fast food drive throughs. In - out - no actual personal interaction.
lighter:
Amber, I think I gave you contact info for a retired Army Ranger who worked in this medical/ money end of things AND has an implant/spine.....and he had hook ups to get proper treatment immediately and with best possible outcomes.
He's dealing with operator's syndrome, micro and macro dosing shrooms and in daily touch w/ buddies to keep each other semi sane .... doesn't always work.
He's a resource, not emotionally stable, but smart and experienced in what you guys are dealing with .....at least to some extent.
It might do his head and heart good to listen and perhaps guide/help B's situation. Maybe not, but I know he'd do well to have another cause to keep his wounded soul occupied in a positive direction.
If you're interested, I'll make the first call....or ask him how he might help....if he can help.
He's a warrior. He knows the system.
Lighter
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