Dawg Tired

I thought it was a security thing after the forum was revamped and upgraded a while back.

Bugs, birds, and blue skies.... Does it get any better???

I am outright obsessed by it... I am careful about the furniture in our house, as in "what if I hit my head on there?" It takes me down - physically - for days after I faint. No, I have never gotten used to it.

I used one for a while... but the help didn't last long. Within a few months I had upped it as far as it would go then it didn't help at all. I tried going off of it for about 6 months then starting it back up and it didn't help. Now I have a pacemaker and can't use it.

A few times I hav been on a low dose of Prednisone - 2mg day - and it does help my ANS problems... I have a friend with Lupus who was on it for 19 years.... Low dose...

My doctor insisted I start Tricor for my slightly elevated triglycerides - apparently it is not a statin - but it gives me horrible headaches. Needless to say, I quit it. I mean, my good cholesterol was 91, bad was 180 - I decided not to worry about the 230 triglycerides! I figure I'm more likely to die from fainting and hitting my head on this huge coffee table hubby loves so much.....

Melissa... So sorry you are having such a struggle again! Here are some flowers - hope they brighten your day!

Aww! Pretty kitty! Congratulations!

Hah! We have the same issue with a steep roof pitch. Plus last year we put a steel roof on the house so it is incredibly slick now. But... we DID capture the bat safely, and got it outside and it flew off. I'm sure we were quite a sight - I was running around trying to catch it on the fly with a towel and hubby picked up a shirt from the laundry (clean!) and managed to catch it. We took it out to the carport and set it free - Rick held the shirt up as high as he could so the little critter could have a "drop" to takeoff form - bats can't take off from the ground - they have to be up in the air and catch air in their wings on the way down.

I think this falls along the same lines as being told we have "anxiety".... in the "before diagnosis" time. Well... let's see... any logical person who faints for no reason - and has fatigue and dizziness - is going to be "anxious" until the reason is found! Certainly, I was taken to the point of tears - and when I started crying from the frustration my first doctor jumped up like he NOW had "proof" that the only thing wrong with me was anxiety - and he told me that! Obsessed.... well, when you realize that if you don't stay constantly vigilant you could die from a head injury from falling if you don't watch where a pre-sync hits you, then, yeah, we - or at least I get obsessed!

Okay, Katherine... Now I have to get a chimney cap too... A BAT was in the house the other night. I don't know where it is now - I hope he went to the attic and found his way out! Or back UP the chimney....

WOW Katherine!

Okay, this junco (snowbird) hit my big picture window then stuck around for pictures.... Wasn't that nice? It was fine, it flew off a few minutes later.

Maxine, so sorry to hear of your loss.

OMG!!! When I saw you had posted I started crying.... I had to dry my eyes to see the keyboard - Hubby asked what was wrong; he thought I was upset but I had to explain I was THRILLED!!!! XXOOXXOOXXOO (gently...) Love you, Miss Sunfush! And here's a Bluebird of Happiness!

Wow... It's just one thing after another.... I agree - WHY would they put a port in her breast?? I can see a multitude of problems there and it sounds like she already has too many! Sending heartfelt prayers your way, Pooh!

I LOVE that!!

Yes, indeed, I am still fighting to get my student loans discharged. I have been fighting this battle since 2003 and Saturday I recieved a letter from the U.S. Department of Education and I thought "aha! It's finally resolved!" Only to open the letter and see that I had been, once again, "turned over to a private collection agancy due to being in default". Okay, I have harassed my good-natured doctor for... well, almost 4 years now! He has filled out form after form, written letters, made phone calls on my behalf. Each time something is mailed, I follow it up with a phone call to make sure the form or letter has arrived at the proper destination. But apparently, the U.S. Department of Education does not recognize the state agency I have been dealing with. Or the state agancy simply ignores protocol. Here is the web address of where to download the disability form once you get the the FEDERAL level. (It looks just like the state one to me - but what do I know??) Student loan forms

Now the Missouri Governor has declared a state of emergency and activated the National Guard. Springfield, 40 miles south, is pretty much totally without power. Many of the emergency shelters are out of space. Yes, we have more coming.....

And it is supposed to get worse the next 2 days! Ice pictures

I didn't have an ablation, but a Holter monitor showed my HR was dropping into the 30's. I have NCS.... So I ended up with this da_m pacemaker.... I STILL run 180-190 HR and it does nothing for that.... It is VERY expensive and I am stuck with it for life.... No, they can't just "take it out" if you don't like it. YOU ARE STUCK!!!! It did nothing to help the way I feel - NOTHING to help the syncope, NOTHING to help me go back to work. I am still short of breath when I walk across the floor. I have a huge (5-inch) scar on my chest and every 3 months I have to get a pacer check on the phone. Every year I have to go to the EP and they check out the battery and so forth. When the battery gets low I will have to get another one. Will they just hook it up to the old leads that are now imbedded in my heart muscle? no, because the techlology will change and they can't really take out the old ones without open heart surgery.... I know a lady who had 8 leads in her heart and finally had to have open heart surgery to have them removed. So.... pacemaker for POTS???? Well.... I would be very careful!

When I got sick in the spring of 2002 I listened to the doctors and kept pushing - up to the point where I went to work one morning in Sept 2002 and was actually falling out of my seat - they had to call Hubby to come get me. I went home to bed and did not get up - except for doctor's appointments - until January 2003! I know now that I can't just keep pushing myself - if my body is in need of rest then I stay in bed.

So sorry Melissa - my best wishes are with you!

Oh boy... I am surviving. Still hurt - and now have gone off my Vicodin due to major constipation.... Taking OTC stool softner and Metamucil 3X a day. The house is a MAJOR wreck because Hubby doesn't see the point in keeping dished done up and he has to be reminded to scoop kitty litter boxes (and REPLACE LITTER!!!) and reminded to feed the cats. I can't load/unload the dishwasher because I still can't bend over. Yesterday I made it to church - but miserably. Today... hmmm.... still hurting - but NO heartburn/reflux - YAY!!! Incidentally - I have lost 12 pounds in the last 3 weeks.... (I need to lose, ummm... 100 more!)

Well, let's see... it took over an hour to get an IV started... They did a "midline" in case I stayed all night. Took 4 tries to get THAT done. I was wheeled into the OR at 9:30... and discharged by ... NOON!! Yep, they wheeled me out to the curb and dumped me into the car while I was still groggy.... no waiting to see if I could go potty or anything like that. Now, let me see - when I was in nursing school - which, I realize, was back in the DARK AGES - NO ONE was discharged until it was ascertained that they could, at least, "pass gas"..... When I was fully awake - sometime this morning - the full impact hit me and I am MAD!!! I, in NO WAY, met Medicare parameters for discharge! Okay, back to bed now.....