Posted on 08/22/2009 10:29:53 PM PDT by FOXFANVOX
Yikes! The things we have to do to be healthy! I am sure
you will do whatever it takes....and make sure no one is
in the room with a video cam! *grin*
After I zapped my post and read further, I saw that you were up on the 3rd floor! Sounds as tho you’ve been a very good patient—faithful rehab can work wonders.
BTW since I've started taking my vitamins and minerals plus vitamin D3 seldom have a reaction. Have you had your “D” levels tested? My adult onset chronic asthma was nothing more than a severe vitamin “D” deficiency.
And don't forget they are trying to take your money, too! 8)
Thanx for the prayers for saveliberty.
To top that off, I was doing a crossword on my laptop when I fell asleep. When I woke up, my lap top format was portrait and not landscape. It took me the better part of Sunday evening to resolve that glitch. How can something that is so difficult to correct be brought on so easily?! Maybe the cat did it? She has created other problems when she chooses to walk on my keyboard, or worse, when she steps on the speakerphone button and opens up a telephone line.
Saw the reference to soy above and think it is worth avoiding. Hard sometimes, it is in so many products. One of the doc's on a weekend health show said it is not as healthful as all the hype would have you believe, anyway.
Tai Chi, eh? Is that a sorority? I joined Chi Phi fraternity in college. [But, they pronounced it differently.] OK, I am just teasing. Tai Chi would be perfect for you. It relaxes me just to watch it. There is a Tai Chi show on TV that I watch on occasion, just for the peaceful music and surroundings!
The journey to wellness is opening new doors for you, and that is a good thing.
Keep up the good attitude and God bless you.
....and our money! LOL!
Hello everyone!
It’s been over five months since the surgeries and I’ve made wonderful progress! Yay! Thank you for your encouragement, your support and prayers!
I am still not where I need to be yet though. After surgery, I had partial facial paralysis. The nerves were still intact, but they weren’t active on the side where the operations occurred.
Since then, I am much, much better. However, I still don’t have control over my eye. This means that I need to keep eye gel in it all day, which means, as my eye doctor put it “You can’t see worth beans!”
LOL How right he was/is!
So I asked the surgeon about electronic stimulation which the physical therapist had recommended. He referred me to a facial nerve specialist and she said that electronic stimulation does more harm than good. But she did recommend minor surgeries (nothing like what I went through five months ago) so that I would be functional again.
I cleared it with my ophthalmologist and the surgeon: they both think that this is a reasonable course of action and I am scheduled for the first procedure later this month and then there will be a second procedure in early July.
Other than that, things are coming along. I don’t have much issue with dizziness but I do find that I have physical limitations that I didn’t before- lifting, scrubbing or bending are still issues as these are prone to giving me bad headaches, but maybe these symptoms will go away as time goes on.
I was hoping to heal naturally, but after five months it’s a concern that if you don’t use a muscle, you will lose it.
Thank you once again for your friendship, prayers, humor and support!
save
Thanks for the update!
Thank you, trisham!
Please continue to keep us posted. :)
Thank you, trisham! I will!
you know we hold you close to God in our prayers!
(((Hugs))) Thank you, DollyCali!
Thanks for checking in, SL! Hope you just continue to improve and recover!
I’m so glad to hear that there is a way to correct the problems you are having with your eye, and that you are going to be having it done soon!
Keeping you, and all those tending your health, in my prayers for your complete recovery of good health and well-being, save. (((Hugs))) to you, and to Mama and Papa save too! : )
Bless you sl, thanks for the update my friend. It sounds like you are proceeding with good, well researched advice that’s been agreed on by all your medical professionals.
I’ll keep you in my prayers, please keep us posted as to your status.
Thank you, (((LUV W!)))
((((Hugs)))) Thank you so much, LucyJo!
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