What Happened to Part 2?

Don't ask me because I typed on someone else's computer disc who was supposed to post it on my computer. Some times mistakes are better, others are worse. We all survived the storm but not without mishap. The real moral here is don't throw someone in the lake and expect them to automatically ski and don't ignore the weather signs, especially our health ones.

So many things have happened to me to bring me to this state of health and life itself that I can't write about them all. You you would be bored to death and so would I (not literry). For those new to my  world I am an older woman with a wonderful husband, kids and grand kids. I've had back  problems ever since the ski party at about age 12. Then I was given a myelogram with pantopaque which showed I had an "extra" vertabra and would need a fusion. My parents said no and I made my way as best I could because it never occured to me that others didn't hurt like me. I wasn't medicated either. Of course I didn't have AA then either.

I'm limited in time so I'll just say that I got  a "pain pump" in1989 which lasted until 2006. I got the new pump but it just didn't sem to work. We had left the old cathaerin in because it tested OK. We finally did find out it was the catheter. Time for a new one. It should have taked 45 minutes but it took 5 hours because it had "rotted" and broken and was moving out into my body in small sigments. It could have been fatal had he not gotten all those litle bits.

However the surgery has left me "spastic"-- pressure inside the spine instead of outside like AA. I have a spinal cord injury and am paralyzed from T-7 down. Paralyzed in this case doesn't mean I can't move my legs some in bed or chair but if I stand up my legs will not move at this point.

It's time for dinner and a bath which is not a pleasant experience at all.

More to come in this saga of just being a patient now.

Wanda