The following will include a vivid description of a medial surgery that is quite extensive. If reading things like this bothers you, stop reading now. If it bothers you to read it imagine how scary it is for me to consider having the surgery done to me! Crazy surgery. What is Pulmonary Thromboendarterectomy? This description from […]
I get a V/Q scan once per year, give of take. It’s a radioactive test and you get a little sticker afterward that says you had a radioactive procedure and might test positive or up to three days and then you get the date written on it. They said that’s mostly if you are flying, […]
Physical therapy is going well. I’m able to sit up for longer and do more without as much pain. This is the ultimate goal, especially with ankylosing spondylosis, The spine is eventually going to fuse together. Physical therapy helps keep me active as long as I possibly can. My therapist has some stretches she taught […]
I talk a lot about the fun part of being owned by parrots. I talk about how cute they are, how cuddly they can be, what an honor it is to be loved by these little guys. But I don’t talk about the other side of the coin, the bad stuff, nearly enough. Because it’s […]
Soooo, today was my second day of starting physical therapy again since the COVID quarantine. I’m so happy to be back into the swing of things, though it was hard to make myself want to go. I did get up and go though. I even dressed in peddle pusher pants and it was a cute […]
I have to go for physical therapy assessment tomorrow afternoon. I’m nervous about. It’s been about two years since I’ve walked on my own. I’ve been using a walker for very short distances and I’ve been using the wheelchair for everything else. I try to walk with the walker as much as I can, but […]
So I’ve been sick now off and on for about two months. I kept thinking I was going to get over it, and I’d start to feel a little better, then I’d get worse again. When my friend Rissa came to visit, I could hardly get out of bed and spend any time with her […]
I’m in a quandry. Ya’ll know how I sort of spiraled into a depression a few months ago? And I’ve been struggling to get out of it. Well, I’m mostly on the other side of the fence and I’m starting to feel and be me again, and that’s fantastic. But now I have to face […]
I will be doing an update this week. It’s been hard to write here, because… my emotions have all been a jumble. I think I’ve decided to consult an attorney about some of the things that happened to me medically at one of the facilities I went to, so I can’t talk about a lot […]
So the last doctor’s appointment with the pulmonologist was an interesting one. He took plenty of time to answer several of my questions. I asked about the last V/Q scan, and I’m due for another in February–this is the gamma radiation scan that makes me radioactive for up to three days. It’s cool–they give me […]
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