I'm whining for my boyfriend and the health issues he has now because of a stupid bicyclist that caused his motorcycle accident last week.

It seems he's extremely sensitive to Motrin. The pain med they gave him after he broke his leg.

Said he didn't feel good over the weekend, so he stayed in all weekend.

He didn't show up for work on monday. He doesn't remember monday at all. His job called his dad to go check on him. His dad found him sick, and took him to the hospital. He was in kidney failure from the Motrin. So, he's been in the hospital all week, and he'll be coming home tomorrow. They got his kidneys working again.

I'm a bit freaked out. Because he was sick, he didn't call me until about a half hour ago. So, I just now found out about all this.

And I thought I'd been having a bad week.

Yikes, Erin! How scary! I will say some prayers for him.

The hug is back!!! While I deal with it everyday to varying degrees, it's really been giving me a go of it the last few days. I'm not a happy camper about this. Enough said.

I thought I was having a bad week, but my boyfriend has had it worse. I looked up what Motrin might interact with to cause kidney failure. High blood pressure pills is one. Hopefully it didn't cause him too much damage, and he'll be ok.

So I thought I needed a nap and proceeded to lie down and watch TV. I figured I'd fall asleep if I was tired enough.

First phone call was from a car dealership where I had purchased a car nearly 10 years ago!! I guess they're cold calling old clients trying to drum up business. I told him I wasn't interested.

Lie back down and the next call comes in and it's a charitable organization asking if I might have any donations of clothing or household goods. I tell them no and lie back down....again.

Phone rings again but this time it's DS and DIL. They had been to the doctor and were giving me an update.....which I wanted to hear so I didn't mind that call.

Laid back down and the 4th call comes in!!! It started off with what sounded like a ship horn. Then the automated call told me that I could win a cruise if I just listened to their sales spiel. Good grief!!

And now I'm here on the computer because I think I'm not supposed to have a nap at all!!! My phone hardly ever rings during the day......but just let me try to take a nap and the flood gates open!

Kitty, do you not have, oh I have a block and can't think of it. It's a service you join free and salesmen can't call, it's against the law. Ours is run by the state. Now your car salesman would have your number and would get through. I'm not sure about the organization wanting donations but I don't think the cruise could have gotten through. I know there are some who can get away with it. Our local fire and police department can somehow. I get all sorts of calls wanting money. They always start out with reminding us to put our seat belts on so I just say thanks for the reminder and hang up.

We do have caller ID so if I don't know a number I can choose not to answer. I have been known to take my phone to bed with me if I know some one is really sick and if it isn't their number ZI don't pick it up while I am in bed.

I'm still feeling like crap. Basically, same crap, different day.

Whining again about my boyfriend and his health stuff that he's got since that bicyclist caused him to crash his motorcycle.

Got a call from him this afternoon. He got out of the hospital yesterday for the kidney shutdown thing. (they're back to work again).

He went to an orthopedist today apparently (told me the other day he had an appointment with one), and he told me this afternoon that his broken ankle isn't healing correctly, and he has to have surgery on it sometime next week. Which makes me wonder. When my mom broke her shoulder, the doctor told her not to take ibuprofen, because it inhibits broken bones healing. Boyfriend was taking Motrin, which has ibuprofen in it. So, now I'm wondering if all the Motrin he was taking not only fried his kidneys, but kept his ankle from healing.

All this is still making me really angry at the bicyclist. The guy who caused the accident. All he got was a ticket, and a mangled back tire. The pictures of the guy's bicycle on tv looked like all he needed was a new tire, and he'd be good to go. He just seemed kind of blasé about the accident when I saw them interview him on the news.

Wish there was a law on the books that would make the bicyclists financially responsible for the damage they cause when they're at fault in an accident.

I just fell down.

I was trying to go outside to sit with my parents, and I was trying to get down the step from the front door onto the front porch.

Fell down before I could get out the front door. Right there in the middle of the doorway.

Couldn’t get up.

wouldn’t have happened if I had the <swear word> ramp that I had asked my dad for last spring right around this time. My sister and my dad’s little sister both mocked me for asking for it. That’s why I didn’t push my dad to get one built. Because my sister and his sister made fun of me every time I mentioned it.

So, I just fell on my butt in front of both my parents, and my next door neighbor. My aunt (not the one that mocked me) had to come and help me get up. She’s a nurse and knows all the good ways to help people get up. I was stuck on the floor in the doorway for about ten minutes before my aunt walked up.

I don’t think I hurt myself when I fell (back feels a little weird tho), but now all I’m doing is sitting here crying. It was scary how fast I fell too. I went straight down. I tried to hold onto the door jamb, but I had no strength in my arms and legs. I’m mad at my sister and my other aunt for making fun of me for wanting a ramp.

so tired...and now my arms and knees hurt. Knees hurt from having to bend them to try to stand up, and my arms hurt because the frozen shoulder is coming back in the left arm, and I have some sort of repetitive stress injury to my right arm from using the walker. Everything hurts right now.

So sorry for your fall Erin. Been there done that. Glad you weren't
badly hurt, but take care, sometimes ouchys show up a day or two
later.

It's been about 45 minutes. I'm starting to feel pain in my arms and around my ribs. Probably from the strain of getting up when my aunt used her nurse super powers to help me get up.

had a bad weekend, feel like crap. I might be canceling my drivers assessment for today (monday).

It has just taken too long for me to get anything done, and now I feel so bad, that I think it might be too late for me to do anything like get my hand controls, and a new car. (yeah, that's back on...if I do good at the assessment, if I take it, and they can suggest what I should drive)

That physiatrist that I had last year just kept putting me off and putting me off on the hand controls. Then the insurance changed, and I had to find a new physiatrist which took forever. Took forever to get the two appointments that I've had with him. Didn't take a lot to get the Rx for the hand controls out of that doctor, but I've gotten really discouraged having to wait so long for everything to happen.

I am so frustrated with everything. My body hurts today. I fell yesterday (saturday) and I'm terrified that will happen again. So weak at the moment, that if I do get the hand controls, I won't have the energy to walk into any stores to do anything once I drive to them.

kind of afraid that I'm going to go wheelchair shopping before I get to go car shopping. I hate MS so much right now.

It's like the MS and the world don't want me to drive, or be able to be independent.