January 18, 2006

Well, my Rhuemy of 5 years, Dr. Kelly Sems left practice to work for the AMA. I had heard good things about her senior partner in the practice and transferred to him. Well I had my first visit with him on 12/20/5 and he was a complete ASS. He did not listen to me, even cutting me off. Now I know we fibromites can chatter on, but I wasn't, I was focused and he was just rude. I should have left the room, but he was between me and the door, and I need RX refills.

On top of that he doesn't RX Soma for long term use. So I was without it with no other change in meds for over a week and didn't sleep a wink! then my psychiatrist raised my night dose of Neurontin from 1200mg to 1800mg, and now I sleep, though I don't feel rested and I have saga dreams and think I'm bouncing from low levels of sleep through REM all night.

My move into my mom's, our home, is complete. All the boxes were emptied & stuff put away in time to decorate for Christmas. Our computer crashed 12/5 and we decided to let it be when the internet provider didn't help matters.
We focused on faith, family & friends and the Joy of the Season. It was a beatiful Christmas, simple, & beautiful.

I got an offer on my house today, a good one, YEAH! I have been so stressed and anxious with the market being dead in Phx, AZ since I listed late October. Well now we're on our way......I'm very lucky that the real estate market here has gone bonkers and my beautiful home became a good investment. Of course once I pay off debts, I won't have as much, but at least some substantial savings. Being on a fixed income stinks because expenses are never fixed. And, once Mom and I are up to it we can have the means to take a trip......we promised to celebrate her miraculous recovery from heart disease & surgery and I'm gonna get walking and get my bursitis in line. Our first plan is to go to Disneyland next year between Thanksgiving and Christmas while it's decorated and while the visitor trend is lower. Together, we'll be fine and hopefully, dandy!

Anyway, I am shopping for a new Rheumy in the Phx area, preferrable a woman, or a compassionate man.
Anyone know of one?

Love and Blessings,
Judy

Posted by Judy at 03:11 AM | Comments (391)

Hi there. Well the hip x-rays I had to check on the pain in my left hip that is often a 12 on a scale of 1 - 10 came back. It's bursitis, bad bursitis. Good news, no arthritis or disc issues,.... Yeah!

I still believe that if you are having more pain or strange symptoms in a particular area that we should not assume it's FMS and overlook it.

Love and Blessings,
Judy

Posted by Judy at 03:08 AM | Comments (2)

October 10, 2005

Hi all, It's nice to be back here. I can't believe that I was complaining about pain and fatigue on 7/14 and on 7/21 my Mom was admitted to the ER for misc. symptoms and she ended up having 5 artery Coronary Bypass surgery on 7/24. She was in the hospital with a few days home before getting a leg infected, from 7/21-8/11. My life revolved around the hospital. Mom's sister came from Arkansas and she and I cared for Mom once Mom came home. Mom's doing really well now. Still building stamina and activities. She has one wound still healing, very close!, and when that's healed she can go to the cardiac rehab program at the hospital.

I hate to report that when I came home from the hospital on 7/25 and was exhausted and scattered from being in the ICU with Mom for 9 hours and from the previous 4 days stress..... well, Frank, my life partner was less that supportive and got verbally abusive, threatening to leave, and pushed me. That was that. I told him to leave. After 6 years, I never thought he'd put a hand on me in anger, or that he'd be so lacking in compassion so as to whine that I didn't have 5 minutes 'for him', that night. OMG! So... that night I moved from the house (my house) to my daughter's apt. then 2 days later to Mom's when my aunt arrived, and I've been here since. Frank and his son were OUT of the house on 9/24 and I started packing up 9/25 and finished 10/4. I'm living with Mom and we're quite happy together.

I'm selling my house as I'm unable to keep it up and pay my share here. Luckily the real estate market may be very kind to me. Dumb luck. The house should be ready to show on 10/18 and let's pray it sells quickly at a fair price.

I had to get rid of my beloved dogs, even before Frank could leave the house or I could consider calling a realtor. Friends adopted my yellow lab (female 6), and a woman approved as adoptive 'parent' by White German Shepherd rescue group adopted my Suzie, white shepherd and husky mix. They're both safe and happy.

I do miss Frank. It's not like I was miserable forever, nor was I rash in making my decision. We'd had fights since 1/2005. I think he was stressed by having his teen son in the house and the raising of him. Frank would get mad and threaten to leave (he has nothing??). He even did that on our vacation to Maine in June..."When we get back to AZ I'm moving out!"...I called him on that then and he backed down and claimed stress from dealing with his daughters there. His 'pushing' me, was the last straw, along with his 3 threats to leave that night.

So, I'm finally moving in here, with Mom's living room FULL of boxes. And I'm starting to adjust to and feel the results of the breakup. I was more focused on the dogs and the house before because he kept making me angry. He's being really sweet now, of course.

Anyway, that's what's been going on here.....

Glad to be back,
Love and Blessings, Judy

BTW Did go and get bone density test and hip xrays because of severe hip pain and want to rule out 'stuff' not assuming it's the FMS... hopefully the news isn't too bad.

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