HI SUE,
BOY I COULD FEEL THE PAIN OF THAT FALL ... OUCH. I HOPE YOU ARE NOT FEELING THE AFTERMATH TODAY. sometimes the day after is worse than the day of the fall.
i am so extremely happy you are moving to your own place. your sister sounds like a major stressor and you do not need that. having your own place will be great and small enough for easy upkeep. so it sounds perfect for your needs and you are right, privacy is so important.
now i know your husband is disabled, but does he go out during the day and give you some alone time? i don't know what i would do if my husband did not golf and work two days a week! so when can you move?
i will be looking up that med. i am always curious at what others take and how it works.
take care, love, joan

Joan,
Iam ok from the fall, but iam a little sore. I can't wait to move. Everything is going so wrong in my life right now. I really can't put up with her to much longer. The bank took our house today. I've just been crying all day. We had a realator that said he had a buyer and told me he was comunicating with our bank, but the bank told me that he has never talked to them. He really ripped us off. Now he is trying to give to the bank the buyer (theres actually a buyer) so that they can buy the house and our loan will be paid off. My husband gets out of the house thank god. For a while he wasn't and we were not getting along at all. He isn't home now and I know its going to be a bad night because we lost the house. Iam so embarresed that this happened.
Hope your well.
Sue

oh God Sue do not be embarrassed. this is such a sad disaster, losing your home, and then people taking advantage of you on top of it all, and then living with your sister. you are going through so much. just moving twice with rsd must be a killer. i can't imagine. i have to psych myself up for every 'event' and then rest two days after it. so to move twice would be unbelievable.
i am glad the husband gets out. that helps, to have some alone time, and when you move that will be even better. mine is working today. he works two days a week in the summer. and the teen is at camp, so this is a good day for me. sometimes i cannot even stand the noise of people home.
i'm also glad you are not hurting too much from the fall. i know the days after something like that can be tough.
well, i am here for you if you need me. you have my e-mail address, right? i have good shoulders to cry on. i will pray for better days of great peace ahead for you. love, joan

Joan,
Well I fell again. I seem to be having an awful time with by balance. Is this normal with RSD. Of course I never seem to hit the good side. This time is bad. I was making the bed and when I fell I hit the nightstand with the RSD foot, my shouder too. My foot is so swollen and bruised and I can't move my neck. What a day. Thanks for the kind words and support you have given me with everything that is going so bad in my life right now. I know better days are ahead for us.

Love Sue

HI SUE,
i think you are over stressed, and your mind is going a thousand miles an hour and that is why you are falling. we have to think of every step we take, unlike the 'normal' folk, and so when your mind is racing with so many problems, it is no wonder you are falling.
try to slow down to a normal pace, really focus on that. whatever needs to be done, you will get done all in good time. try to just think positively of the days to come, and that you will be in your own place, and at peace. sometimes, life does not give us peace and we have to make it in our own souls. take some deep breaths throughout the day and think of how you are trying your best. do something you like or something just for you. make a few good moments for yourself each day. you deserve it so much.
take care of the foot .... you are special so be kind to yourself.
love, joan

joan,
your right, i need yo slow down. things are so stressfull aroud here that i can't wait to get in our own place. 4 more weeks. I started buying things. I think I'll get a few thing each week. I gave everything to my kids when we moved. I need everything, nut i know it will all work out. the best thing is that my husband is so excited. for a while with all of the problems we have not been getting along. now he's so happy.


Lpve Fur

I have been reading your post and I am really sorry that you are having such a hard time and hope it lets up soon.

Like Joan says, stress can cause the falling. I fell so many times and always on my worst side. Sometimes meds can cause the falls also. I will say though stress was my worst enemy. I finally got a lot of it under control through councelling.

I'm glad you are getting moved and you will be more relaxed. Just keep that move in the back of your mind and think happy thoughts about it.

I hope you start feeling better soon.
Ada

hi sue,
i'm glad the husband is behaving and in a good mood, that helps everything, doesn't it? so, 4 more weeks, i guess you will have to keep saying to yourself, " i can do anything for just four weeks" and you will get though it faster. if we lived a bit closer, you could come here for coffee when your sister is home!! ha! but i will be right here supporting you for the four weeks! we will do a count down. and think when you walk and breathe so you don't fall anymore!!!
ITS ONLY FOUR MORE WEEKS!!!!
LOVE, JOAN

joan,
i read about your toe and i hope it starts feeling better soon. i came on here to ask you a question, i feel bad asking knowing your having problems of your own. but you know me so well both of us having the foot issue. when i fell the 2nd time i hit my rsd foot pretty hard on the leg of the table. now its black and blue and swollwn on both sides of my foot. could i have fractured it? it hurts so bad normally to put weight on it and it just flops around all the time. I was using one crutch at first but today I have to use 2. very sharp pains in my toes and ankle. i will be thinking of you and praying you have some relief. this is just an awful thing this rsd.

Love Sue

Boy Sue,
i would not take a chance with that leg. i have a rule of thumb, unless a pain is so severe i that i am scared to death [and that has happened, and i have gone all the way to Boston to have something checked that very day], i put heat on the area, take ibuprophen every 6 hours to take the swelling down, and i wait 24 hours, and if i feel better, i wait another 24, if still i do not improve, i call. a bruise will feel i bit better in a day of two, but a break will not. please let me know how you are tomorrow.
my toe is better today i cut a bit more of the nail off one side and took ibuprophen and i was able to keep the shoe on today. so, i think i caught it right before it inflammed. i hope.
and please always ask, when will i not have problems???? ha! never!
love, joan