Re: Hi Nancy from Sally

From: Sally Grigg (lostcst@mcn.org)
Sat Jul 14 21:39:45 2001


Dear Nancy, Hi, again, Have you really been on the board for a year and a half! Wow, time flies. Glad to hear a friendly voice. "We must stop meeting like this". Love ya, Sally

"Nancy E. Hale" wrote:

>
> I've been on the adhesions board for about a year and a half - since just
> after my diagnostic lap. My story is on the quilt - appendectomy gone bad
> when I was 3-1/2 years old, severe lower back pain spreading around the hip
> to the pelvic area beginning about 4 years ago, fighting with the doctors,
> hospitals, and Canadian health care system ever since for treatment and
> pain management. Still fighting - have finally gotten something stronger
> than Ibuprofen, but I can't take enough of it to control the pain - my GP
> finally put me on codeine two months ago, but I can't take more than 90 mg
> a day or I end up with severe chest pains on top of the pelvic pain, and
> the codeine isn't controlling the pain.
>
> I've been waiting for over two months for a reply back from the pain clinic
> regarding the assessment form I submitted, and for almost two months for an
> appointment with the surgeon in Fredericton. Nothing moves very fast here
> on the East Coast of Canada.
>
> As I said in my post to Tinky - today has been a bad to rotten day. Both
> legs are now numb, and tomorrow will most likely be worse because I forced
> myself to keep going today - dishes, housework, laundry, gardening,
> harvesting, shopping, etc. I probably won't sleep much tonight and won't
> be worth a tinker's damn tomorrow, but at least my house is clean, my
> laundry is done, the garden is weeded, I have greens in the freezer for
> this winter, and we have food in the house. If I can't walk tomorrow, I've
> got a sweater to finish knitting for my grandson, so I'll have a good
> excuse to lie back with my feet up all day.
>
> Hope everyone is having a better weekend than I am.
>
> Nancy in NB
>
> ICQ #9683431
>


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