Hi All,
Is this health or family----?
My other post talked about a nick to a toe and I bled, in the dark, 3:00 a.m., not knowing until I moved and the ambient light, from street lights through the blinds, showed dark spots on my white kitchen tile. I backed up more to get to the dining room light and there was blood, red blood….mine. Now what?
The closest I was to anything to stem the flow was the door under the sink where I keep “rags” for cleaning. One happened to be an old cotton nightgown freshly washed and there (from using it as a base for my oven racks and the cleaning thereof). It had gone through the wash and I felt it safe. I grabbed it and wrapped it around my foot. We just grab what is handy!
Then I grabbed a scrub cloth and cleaned the kitchen floor, then followed my trail across the carpet to the computer and back. I felt “quite but not quite” like cleaning up so dealt with my foot. Whatever, I was in my bedroom by now and everything fell off my foot and I bled on the bedroom carpet. What to grab? a make-up covered Kleenex? See what you need?… a whole suitcase of supplies just going from room to room, and each experience teaches me more as to “what to put where in case of what…”
Ellen attended to my messy cleaning today!
I was 2 weeks and 4 days off the Prednisone and knew I needed more, so went back for an Rx. My face was swollen (“moonface“) and my feet and lower legs. Instead of the 25mg dly where I had stopped before, Dr. put me on 10 mg dly, go down to 5 mg dly, but I could adjust for myself. I was too weak on the 10mg so took the 5mg extra today, and was much better So will stay at that. (Internet, another place, tells it might take 2 years to cure. OMG! OMG! But my face has gone down somewhat and my feet and legs, as Karla massaged all the lymphatic fluid back up to my knees--saw Dr. after that massage and he said “No”! --it was a waste of her time and a waste of my money, but from then (a week ago) the swelling had not returned. Who to believe?
Today I am trying to get to our Interior Heath for a nurse to come and advise me on my legs, as they are both bruised and one is leaking lymphatic fluid. These will be the same nurses who came in 2008, for the pressure sore on my heel, one of which told me I would lose both my legs… ……………… I remember being really upset, but now I will take it or leave it as long as I have an answer.
The contact with my brother has been good, although not from his perspective, but he told me about his arthritic knees (and therapy), (I hadn’t known) how all was well until just last Friday when they gave out on him. I have yet to learn if he fell, or regained his balance, but that is the FIRST any member of my family has told me about an ongoing health problem, in the manner he used. In 2010, my sister had cancer but she acted as though it was nothing and she would be okay, sent pictures of wigs and bald heads as though it was happening to someone else.
I definitely see now a difference in the way the two of them write and I would rather hear from my brother!
I really like Karla and Ellen, and also like my privacy. It works well, such as it is!
XX All
Izzy
