{{{{{{{{{Addy, Lara, and Alffe}}}}}}}}}}
Thank you for your caring love and support!! It always feels good to come in and see your posts with good advice, and positive thoughts when I'm having such a rough time mentally and emotionally. Those sort of disabilities are hard to deal with sometimes, and I Thank God for all of you who do understand! It's as difficult for the support person to work through, as it is the one with the problems! That is what makes your support so special!!

Here is a brief overview of what was covered in yesterday's appointments. First, the injection wasn't really that easy this time! The doc would push that needle further into my spine which made me jump, so he told me to say "Oh Baby!" everytime I felt that bad LOLOL!! I was laughin until he pushed the needle a little more, and then I hollered Oh Baby!!! In the end he repeated it with me a few times, as I think he knew it was hurting BAD with the last of the med he pushed through the needle. I was able to leave for home 20 min. after I got off the table!

My yearly physical exam was this morning, and then I went over to get the injection. I had the female exam part of my yearly physical done, because we had to discuss some extra stuff, so he will do the rest of the physical next visit he said. Do you remember those huge cysts I had not too long ago, in the vicinity of the groin? Then remember how they multiplied? They've came out again!!! He took a culture of them also today, which involved a small cut on one of them....uuggghhhh!! They are very painful, and my pain meds aren't helping that kind of pain.

I also have a large ulcer on the inside of my calf about the size of a nickel. He took a culture of that too. I thought it was a spider bite, but he isn't so sure. The specimen will help figure that out, I hope! The doc gave me a script for Augmentin, and wants to send me to a gynocological specialist to look at these cysts. He told me they may need to be lanced or excised....eye yi yi!!

THEN, we discussed the results of my chest x-rays, and there is a nodule on my lung, behind my heart. It's small, and he wants another doc to take a look at it, if he will. My doc is having the new films taken on my first appt. reviewed, and compared with some 2 yr old chest x-rays that I have. I have to take those old films to his office, then wait to hear from one of those docs to get back with me.

My doc had taken wrist x-rays on my first visit, and is now sending me to a neurologist due to having carpal tunnel. My appt. is scheduled for the first week of November. The Neurologist wants me to plan on having an EMG and a nerve conduction test at that visit. Oh Goody!!!

There's the short and skinny on today's appointments. I go back to see this doc (primary care)the same day that I go for the EMG/new neuro visit. I have 2 more injections scheduled for the next 2 weeks, as they do them in sets of three. Oh Boy!! I'm wore out just trying to remember it all! It is alot to cover all at once, but this doctor seems to be very thorough, which is good! The pace will slow down once I get all of the new doctors set up, and their tests done. It does wear me out!!

I appreciate your asking Alffe!!
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~Kimmy