I AM a good wife. lol. Been taking care of this man since forever.

Yesterday I spoke to his doctor who explained that Alan does not have the flu, he has a virus that has been going around, to continue to do what I know to do, keep him hydrated and the Prednisone is the best thing for him because of his inflammation. Alan has auto-immune stuff going on in his body so his inflammation markers on usual blood tests indicate that. He also has psoriatic arthritis and other things going on. But this virus came out of no where. I told Dr. Fred. Alan has disabilities but he really never gets sick because I make my own colloidal silver and we don't get SICK, so this is really new to us. He explained that it takes several days for a virus to make anti-bodies (i already knew that). I've studied this man's auto-immune body for YEARS.

But yesterday he sweated so much through his underpants they were absolutely soaked. I said 'OMG", didn't you notice this?" He said 'No, my lower back is killing me" He had all the indications of sciatica (which I know too well).

This happened to me last year and I was incapacited for a while (but I still got stuff done). Alan is not like me. He's a PATIENT if you get my drift.

I looked up inflammation on google and it says: Inflammation is the body's defense system. So I figured 'oh!!! he's got a virus, his body got MORE inflammed than usual, so now his sciatic nerve is inflammed so now he has to do what I did last year (which he will never do). I went to P/T. Learned how to do simple stretches (almost killed me but I did it). Took Advil only when I needed to. And my knees were so bad because I hurt them last year but I did the ultra sound therapy, the hot packs, the exercise (my p/t made a fortune off of me) but it DID help me. As well as the exercises and stretching.

My husband is not up to this. He is just laying in bed moaning. I used BenGay, gave him his prednisone and an advil and I make him drink fluids to rehydrate him. His fever is almost normal. I'm thinking, once the virus goes away, his inflammation might subside a bit and he'll be able to get up and move around.

One HAS to move with sciatica or one will NOT be able to move.

I learned this. It's a ***** but you have to move.

So now he's sleeping again and I have to go make a wash. I'm 67years old and if you think this is easy on me (no one to help) well I can assure you it is NOT. But at least I get to go to Dunkin Donuts (right next to my house) and have a cup of coffee in the morning just to read my newspaper on my Kindle Fire. This is a treat for me. Then I go back upstairs and the day repeats itself.

Alan looked at me last night and moaned "Getting Old Sucks'.

Indeed.

Be well, Melody