June 4, 2007

• Umph!

  Went to my doctor last Thursday with the idea that I had pulled a muscle and the pain finally made me go to the doctors.  I HATE GOING TO THE DOCTOR!  Seen the doctor and drove thru the drive thru Pharmacy since there was no way I was getting out of my van.  Finally, with medication in hand, I drove home and slowly.....oh, so slowly eased myself out of my van and gave it a fond glance.  I knew the van and I would not be seeing each other for a while since there is no way I can get into it until my pain goes away.  To bed, bathroom break, bed, bathroom break, bed, bathroom break,repeat every four hours.......bathroom breaks take about an hour to an hour and a half since it requires me to be able to inch my way to the side of the bed and then weeble wobble myself onto my feet and then shuffle my way downstairs and then back up those stairs.  I must say.....going up is a lot easier then going down and feels a whole lot safer too.  No, there is no downstairs bed or couch that I could use .....I tried!  Plus I am beginning to think my youngest daughter's old bed is haunted or something.  Everytime I would drift off, I would feel someone sit on the bed.......and since I am the only one home.....that is not possible.  I am in so much pain anyways......I was spooked but not enough to attempt to turn over so if some ghost or something wanted to sit on the bed......go ahead!  It went that way until about 11 o'clock Saturday when my daughter finally convinced me to go to the emergency room.  By then, other things were going wrong beside the pain in my back and I was tired of toughing it out.  Emergency room!  Nice people but I wanted my daughter with me since I was not thinking clearly and even though I made that clear, they did not bring her back until they had wrapped everything up.  I wanted something for the pain but I also wanted to know why so much pain and why I was getting worse.  My daughter wanted Xrays and bloodwork done......that did not happen and she is not a happy camper!  Monday I wake up and while the pain is less.....more new problems have appeared....so to the doctor again.  This time bloodwork and Xrays are done and I will get the results Wednesday.  I am sad that I have left my doctor's office feeling dismissed, on hold, and definitely not reassured.  I have always thought he was the greatest doctor but now it is like he has too many patients and not enough time and I am now a number.  I still think he is a good doctor but I missed the warm, caring country doctor that I switched to from a medical center where it was hard to even get the same doctor.   

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