hi lighterHa! My sister mentioned the time change, so I wrote it on my calendar, but it was already printed on my calendar, and I forgot anyway. I awakened at 5 am but it was 4:00 and got up. My computer and telephone didn't match, so I remembered. I went shopping and had 2 naps that put me to after 9:00 at night. Am I up for the night? What else is new? So I just emailed my sister back, as...
She starts her chemo treatments Tuesday, for 6 sessions.
My lawyer had me do a Before and After description of various things in my life, like getting in and out of the tub, the car, pain (none Before, all sorts After) etc. Now the Before won't change but the After will, so I am to keep track, say once a month and see if anything has changed for the better in After, and it will, as my therapist and I are still making progress. She will be the one who will be able to tell when the progress stops and I plateau. Meanwhile, HE is arranging for the Physiatrist regarding my Harrington Rod pain (as my doctor said I was overdoctoring and no one would ever be able to diagnose the tics and twitches, the teeth gnashing and shoulders shakes, wouldn't refer me...he has always been so nonchalant and uncaring.) Now when I stretch, like arms over my head, or out to the side, or that one whereby the elbows are bent and one pushes backward while yawning and pushing the shoulder blades together, my teeth clatter. I wake up in the night with everything going a mile a minute, as I am lying on my back, causing pressure on that damaged area. I go to sleep on my side, but eventually roll onto my back in my sleep.
Going to the Physiatrist privately, i.e. without referral will cost and take longer to get in, but wants me to see him, after the 2 year mark, MARCH 27, 2011. I suppose I ought to have had a physiatrist long ago, as there were 2 in the Rehab hospital for the '69 accident and they know spinal cords.
I am also going to a new dentist about my teeth being knocked out of line and 2 of them tender, as well as the Crown on my front tooth being tilted from all the teeth gnashing. I can chew in only one area, and have the gaps stuffed with orthodontic wax.
I am paying my therapist, as the Insurance company cut off her funding last April. Oh-oh, Boo-boo after Boo-boo made by the Insurance Company.
So, that being said, my lawyer expected about 2 years, and put it on the court Calendar for 2011--that seemed so far away back in 2009, but not now.
I am very inventive and keep finding simpler ways to do things as the time passes, and the pain lessens but I will always have the pain and will always have no left hip to rotate my leg. That's a given, but where I plateau is still unknown. That I work so hard at this and that I didn't give up when the insurance Co. did, is in my favour by MILES.
Now to get through the winter. We might have maybe 3 snowfalls?
Thank you for thinking of me.
I lost 2 part time jobs over this, and had so much time on my hands, but slept a lot even if it was all day and up all night, but i want to get back into tutoring, youngsters in lower grades in spelling, reading, math &/or computer, or illiterate people in reading and writing, maybe more, as I did this for some time back in Ontario....then my students outgrew me with more knowledge.
Love
Izzy
