I feel so much better today. I can move my arm, and it's not as painful as it was. Still hurts a bit, but it's nothing like it was. Seriously huge improvement. I didn't get any sleep last night with 3 cortisone shots, and the last of my oral steroid pills in me last night. Tried to go to bed at 3am this morning. Ended up still awake at 8am. Finally fell asleep and woke at 4pm. Hope I can sleep tonight, and that it doesn't hurt my shoulder too bad tonight. Might attempt to sleep in bed tonight. Had to sleep in the recliner last night.


My mom seems to be feeling better today too. She had to go to the doctor for another test tho. This one was interesting. They had her swallow a spy camera. A giant horse pill sized thing. (my dad said it was the size of what potassium pills usually are). She had to swallow that, and wear some sort of electronic thing around her waist all day. Then later this afternoon, she went back, and they took the electronic belt thing off of her. She has to watch for the spy camera to come out tho. Not sure if they want that back or not tho.

My dad told me something scary. The doctor said my mom almost died last week. She was a step away from having a heart attack. (explains the chest pains, and her problems breathing). She was so low on blood. She really was very close to dying. That is really really really scary. She didn't get that close last year when she had West Nile virus.

She's now grounded from drinking or eating caffeine. No more chocolate. (good thing I bought her that 3 pound box last week before they grounded her from it. The box should be empty tonight. Since she can't have any chocolate anymore, that's going to save me $60, because she'd wanted another one for Christmas. No chocolate for her now.

Now we have to buy her decaf Kcups for her Keurig that I bought her for her anniversary/birthday. Good thing I got the do-it-yourself cup adapter for the machine. My dad has several pounds of her favorite coffee in decaf for himself. (she drinks Community Coffee with the chicory flavor in it....eww!)

So, hopefully she's done with all the scary stuff. We still have to wait and find out what her spy camera might have found, but hopefully it's not too scary. My mom never gets sick with colds, so when she does get sick, she gets SICK. It becomes some big dramatic affair when she gets sick.