Thank you to all that posted. I am able to do so much more since taking Baclofen, I was not too far from needing a wheelchair...at the rate I was going. Now I can walk up and down steps, I can walk into Walmart and actually look instead of getting my kids to run and go get me things!! I guess spastisity can be a major issue if it is not medicated. Now I am starting to lose the extra many pounds that I put on while on Predinesone for 8 months. DH is still a jerk, I may sit here and plot a plan of attack just in case he stays a jerk. He has always be a self centered jerk, but he was my jerk. If I am not happy in the spring, I am leaving once the kids are out of school for the summer. So, what can I do to prepare if this goes badly? I am a planner of sorts and I like to prepare a head of time.

He makes much more than me now and loves to remind me of it every day. I was laid off for almost two years and just found a parttime job bookkeeping that pays little. It used to be me that was the breadwinner, of course I never reminded him of that but I get sick of him "supporting" me. He carries my health insurance as well. DG your story makes me want to cry. When I think of how insensitive people can be, it makes me sick, I would love to put some of these jerks in our shoes for just one week. They wouldn't survive a week, in fact people like my hubby are total babies when they get a cold.

We may make it thru this because I feel better, but I will not forget how I have been treated because of my pain and illness. I look at things differently now with a wiser eye towards thinking of the future.