Praying all goes well and is successful in lessening your pain and "no impacting"!!! Please keep us informed.


Gerry

Thinking of you Pam.
Hope your procedure results are completely successful and you are able to enjoy the holidays.
Please update us when you are feeling better and have some spare time
(yeah, right!).
Nothing like being hospitalized a week before Christmas.
All my best, D.

Hi D, we did a quick recky and this is either the 7th or 8th consecutive time I've been in hospital a week before Xmas, sadly I have ended up back in hospital by New Year's Eve every time. So this year I'm saying NO im not going to give in to the supreme indirect bullying and pressure from family members to participate and show my face. They simply just don't get it, just because I look ok on the outside, I'm not on the inside. Oh and as an added bonus, this year I've just been diagnosed with pneumonia. There is nothing quite like trying to hold a cough because it hurts so much to cough.

I will have some good news to share next week, I can't say it now just in case, and I'm going to need all of you to put on your thinking caps and share your best advice so I can make a good well thought through decision. And yes I did something "silly" thinking it cant cause any harm and nothing will come of it!

VA Dr is cutting me off my only medication. 27 years too many meds to list and the last and only one that has helped will be gone. I have no faith at all in Dr's anymore. They do as they please and do not listen to the patient. For all those Drs out there I only have this to say, I pray that one day not one of you has to go through what it is like to be in pain 24/7. Yes you get woke up with the pain if you sleep. 27 years now. This just may be my undoing of fighting as Dr's have the last say. What ever happened to "patient's' rights"?
There is nobody left in this world except where they are pushing me into the anti-depressant world. My mind is sound and they are doing all they can to set me back again! Been there done that and I won't go into the details of the devastation that caused in my life. Dr's are accountable to nobody! I'm more convinced than ever that we the one's who suffer just fill their bank accounts. A number is what we are nothing more nothing less. The oath says "do no harm" yet they do and there isn't nothing a person in pain can do or say especially at the VA. We are all human and when one is alone it is much more difficult to fight. You just get tired and worn out. What do you do when there is nobody to turn to? When you find somebody they betray you or say one thing an do another. We are the forgotten one's in this society. Serve this Country for this? I hope that others on here get relief, find relief and don't ever end up where I am at this point. I have been frustrated before but this is beyond frustration when one has exhausted all options and there is no where to turn. Dr's are NOT God but they think they know what is best for the sufferer. Dr's "listen" to the patient, don't pass judgement and decide what YOU think is best. Especially for a patient who has been through the gambit. For all those who are suffering have the best Holiday you can have. You are not alone.

Yikes, pneumonia after surgery....your poor immune system is taking a battering. You are smart to tell family NO, I know the temptation to do until we drop...you really have no choice between the procedure and pneumonia, you must be beyond exhausted.

Hope you are home now and able to rest. It must be warm in Aus now so hope you can sit out back and enjoy some nice weather.
Hope recuperation goes well, no obstruction issues and a peaceful, relaxed holiday.
D.