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Join Date: Sep 2013
Location: Georgia
Posts: 905
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Join Date: Sep 2013
Location: Georgia
Posts: 905
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I'm right there with ya Stacy
Good morning from Georgia !
I too don't want to leave my house and am here 99% of the time. My advanced SFN does severely limit me. A year ago I had just been laid off from a job I had 26 years but with 7.5 months of severance I wasn't worried. After the 1st few days I knew the world was wide open for me and I could decide to do whatever I wanted and that was very freeing !
I was 50 (51 now) and I had my daughter's wedding on a dock on St George Island, FL on the bay. What a blast we had ! So laid back and fun. Then on Oct 22 I had what I say is a 'normal' hysterectomy and bam ! 3 weeks later I was in my GYN's office with a path report that said they found Serous cancer in my uterus. They had to look it up because it's rare. Figures with my luck. I am diabetic but not insulin dependent.....fast forward through 6 rounds of chemo (Taxol/Carbo) and exactly a month later I could hardly walk. Had some symptoms of neuropathy during chemo but it was not debilitating. So I've been seeing dr's since May to try and figure this out while my husband thought I was 'faking' and just didn't want to go back to work. Boy did his attitude change when I called him with my skin biopsy report !
Anywho......I'm now waiting to see a 2nd pain specialist (first one I liked but his office bldg. was nasty). The foot dr that did the biopsy said nothing could be done to regenerate the nerves in my feet and that a pain dr was all I could do.
I never, ever thought that NOT going to WalMart could affect me so badly. I don't drive cause it makes my feet hurt, can't walk much cause it makes my feet hurt and so on. I can't even go to the grocery store....I did last Friday morning and boy did I pay for it.
Until last week I only took vicodin and Xanax as needed but I had a slightly swollen, very painful place come up on the left side of my left foot. Pain got so bad I went to our ER Alternative in town....they did xray's...not broken...just progression of SFN. Great......something else to hurt worse than I already was. The dr's have been telling me to get on a pain plan but I just didn't want to but I am now......vicodin 4 times a day and Xanax when it is really bad. This sucks !
And finally........I'm probably going for the neurostimulator if this next pain dr approves. I have 2 grown children and 6 grandchildren and I'm tired of not being the mom and grammy I was a year ago. No more huge dinners every weekend (hell I can't even cook for me and my husband since this new thing started with my foot last week) I'm missing their softball games and cross country events. They have all been awesome....they are in and out of the house all week taking out garbage, cooking, grocery shopping, sweeping and mopping and so on. Could not do this without them.
OK....I'm done.......I feel like an invalid most days and always have to have my feet propped up. Any surface my feet come in contact with just gets them all riled up.
But I feel much better sending this to you.......we'll get through this and come out on the other side better. I love life, sunshine, rain, my dog Charlie and I could go on and on. Life is good.....even from the recliner 
I've only been on neurotalk for a couple of weeks but have been reading threads since Dec 2012. I love this place and all the people on it. I have learned so much from them.
Debi
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