My injury from my accident of last Monday, has raised it's ugly painful head.
I had a hard time getting to sleep last night. Took 2 Bayer asprin and that
helped some, but it's hurt all day today and I could hardly get up to use the
bathroom. It's my bad leg, so my stronger leg gets me there but it's not
easy.

Doing my PT, trying to keep from having to go back to the hospital. Please
say a little prayer for me.

Thanks..

Saying a prayer for you Sally as I type this. Hope tomorrow is a better day.

tomorrow is the last day of my current oral prednisone taper. I'm already feeling it. Feel like crap. It seemed like it was actually helping, but as soon as I started to taper down, the horribleness came back.

I wish I could get something to help the inflammation to go down long enough for some sort of healing to happen.

So tired of not being able to do anything fun. All I seem to do is sleep.

You can 'get' something to help with the inflammation. Its a matter of what you 'take' and don't 'take' regarding food. Diet plays a huge role in the inflammatory response, both exacerbating it and helping to calm it. Being overweight can add to that inflammation.

The beauty of it is that you have the choice to do it or not.
The way I understand it is that inflammation is a way to send nutrition to the places they are needed most, and if there is no nutrition the inflammation will continue.

When I really nourish my body- versus just eating, I can tell a big difference.
One of the problems we have in this country is that we are overfed and under nourished and the media and crap-food industry promotes it.

Luckily as adults we have a choice. There is so much info on this topic.


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Sally,
I'm so sorry that you are going through this. I'm praying that you slept well and feel better this morning. Please keep us posted.

missj,
Regarding diet and symptoms, I totally agree.

With love, Erika

I ate an organic whole foods diet for years but it wasn't until I went Gluten Free that my body inflamation went down. I went GF 18 months before I was finally diagnosed and it reduced my daily pain by 90%!
Turns out my son is gluten intolerant as well. Once he was GF he grew 4 inches in 2 months and still seems to be catching up. All his self control problems at school went out the window too, his teacher was amazed at the difference.

On a pharmaceutical note. My remaining pain level has pretty much been obliterated since I started Gabapentin. It's harder to tell when I'm reaching fatigue status but it's only been a week. So I've got some things to learn about my signs not being pain related.

sending hugs

SO MAD RIGHT NOW!

Went out to eat at a nice restaurant. While we were there, some little brat broke my walker.

I had the walker sitting next to me at the table. This lady at the table next to us got up to take her little demon spawn to the bathroom. The kid was about 6yrs old or older. He grabbed the brake cables on the walker, and was yanking them around. He bent one almost clean off, and was working on the other one.

I told him "PLEASE DO NOT DO THAT!", and he kept doing it. His mother barely apologized for her kid and dragged him off to the bathroom. What the heck? We weren't at McDonald's. My walker is NOT a toy! I **need** it to walk.

Now my brakes don't work. That walker was expensive, and I am so mad about it. The last time we had a walker that had the brakes go bad, I could never get anyone to fix it. (tried a bike shop, and the place we bought it at, and no one could fix it). I'm going to try again and see if I can find someone to fix this one for me.

I'm just really mad right now.

Erin, I would have gotten the Mom's name. Is there any survielance video in the place for evidence. I think I watch to much crime dramas on tV

My dad didn't want me to cause a scene.

I really really really really wanted to. oh em gee....did I really want to go off on the woman and her kid.

When I left, I was kind of loud about saying that I hoped the brakes on my walker would still work, and hopefully I can get them fixed. I'm almost hoping that someday the karma fairy visits that kid and something that he relies on gets broken (vandalized) in front of him by a bratty kid. He was old enough to know better. Little <bad swear word>.

Tomorrow I go to pick up the new AFO that my new physiatrist Rx-ed for my left foot. (hey, I get matching shoes again, just not the kind I wanted to wear) I'm going to ask the guy that makes the AFO's if he knows how to fix the brakes on the walker.