National Kidney Foundation Kidney Walk

A New Day Dawning . . .

Well, glory! Carey Barr (wife and nurse practitioner of Dr. Barr)was doing rounds at the center yesterday and I showed her my arm. She immediately ordered an IV dose of antibiotics and called in a prescription for 3X a day. By last night I was feeling like a human (almost). One of those cases where you don't realize how bad you were until you get better. My arm is still quite sore and swollen but I can tell a big difference. Even in my head, throat and chest as well as my arm. I am weary to death of this constant difficulties. I am so ready for something different. But I know that challenges are going to be the order of the day from now on.

~Later

A Bad Week

I hope this is a week I will never again remember. It started Monday morning. It was really rainy, bad weather and I woke up around 5:30 in mega pain all over! Okay, so I immediately try to figure out what is causing this. Get up, take tylenol, get ready for church. After church go to the Brass Lantern to eat. That takes another 2+ hours sitting in awful chairs. Then semi activity until church time again. Two more hours of not hardly being able to hold my head up. So, was it the sitting, was it the weather and fibromyalgia, or all of the above. Went to dialysis, hurt some more, cramped some, just misery. And on top of everything else they gave me my fourth (I think) shot for the vaccine series for . . . . .shucks, . . . . can't think of it. Wait . . . . . .YES! Hepatitis B? C? Whatever. But because I am a dialysis patient I get double the amount that regular people do. And we're talking some serious pain, folks! And serious pain for the next two days. I could continue to whine, but I guess it wouldn't accomplish anything. Every joint hurts and radiates outward to the rest of the body. My head is pounding big time. Goose bumps everywhere. Not chills, just goose bumps. If the pain would confine itself to one or two places at a time I could handle it, but not THE WHOLE BODY!!! All I can do is lay there and plan my funeral, or non-funeral as the case may be. Enough? OK. ~Later

I can hardly stand the excitement!

I haven't kept this up like I should, but I've been kinda miserable. Today (Tues.) marks two weeks since I had surgery on my arm, and all that went with it. The incision has healed well, but my arm is still very sore. It feels like pins and needles inside it sometimes. Can't use the arm much and if I do it swells something awful. I'm getting cabin fever, can't go anywhere, can't do anything, can't drive. I just KNOW that Spring has to be around the corner. I'm watching for it!
~Later