I’m so happy for you!chocolite wrote: ↑Wed Mar 22, 2023 8:24 am Good morning, all. I have been up since 4, lol. My eyes popped open and I felt as if I’d slept long enough, so up I got. It’s nice early in the morning. Everything is quiet and shadowed…lovely atmosphere. I’m on my second Tervis cup of iced coffee/cream, and I have finished off a 32 oz yeti-type cup of water. Time to refill. I just feel better, like overall, when I drink a lot of water – especially in the morning. Weird but I’ll take it and run with it (what if I could run?) ☺
IC Frugal, thinking of you and praying for your husband—and you.
Quilter, when you talked about your episode of ‘stuckness’ and not much motivation to do the stuff, I can so relate. The thing that comes easily to mind is in my writing. I want to want to do it; I need to do it, but the feeling is just meh. With that particular malady, my savior has been regular deadlines. I’m a finisher for the most part, and having mini-deadlines has transformed my writing. I can remember not so long ago that when we were having company come to stay, I would clean and scrub. Then after they’d leave it would be so wonderful to have a spic-n-span house. I always said if we didn’t have company, I’d never deep-clean anything. Now…if anyone comes, they just come into our reality. No, the floors aren’t spotless and there’s dog hair on the furniture. Oh well. Disability has colored my expectations for sure.
Well friends, I had my caudal (nerve) block yesterday morning. It was at the same facility where I contracted MRSA in 2020, and I told every single employee about it and made them swear that the policies have been updated and the facility is a different place now, under the new medical director. I also reminded my doctor, just to be sure it was on his mind during the actual procedure. Of course, this procedure wasn’t nearly as invasive as implanting the stim unit. This was basically just a giant needle going into my spine.
During the procedure I had local pain relief and IV conscious sedation. I prefer that because I can talk to the doctor during the procedure. After, I told DH that I think he went into a much deeper place within my spine – specifically all the way down my S-levels. (There’s some pain still, and pressure, that lets you know exactly where the medicine is being pushed to.) Sorry if this is TMI but I told DH I felt like the steroid went down in between my crack, LOL. Anyway, it went fine and we were home by 8:30 (after DH took a side trip to Chik-Filet drive through. Oh heavens, their chicken minis…………. It’s been years since I had them, but they were every bit as good as I remember.
So last night I felt pretty much the same. No discernable difference in my feet ‘electricity’. I was mildly disappointed, but not much, because I simply did not allow myself to really believe that this procedure could change anything. Of course, the discharge paperwork tells you that it can take up to 36 hours to begin feeling a difference, and up to two weeks to get total improvement. So, imagine my shock this morning when I put my feet on the floor and the feeling of sparklers going off in my foot is markedly decreased. I’m almost afraid to say it out loud, but I think it’s helping. OMG! My mind keeps telling me to just slow down, that maybe it’s just a ‘good day’ and the minute I eat something with any carbs it will bring it all back full force, that actually saying it out loud will jinx it. But y’all…this is nothing short of amazing. My feet are still terribly numb. Actually, the numbness is even more pronounced, I guess because I can actually discern it better without all the crazy tingling. I still definitely need my walker. But the relief, just from the electricity reduction, is wonderful. The tingling now seems the worst in the tips of my toes on both feet. And I think that’s why I didn’t discern a difference until I put my feet on the floor this morning - because the covers were touching my toes and giving me the electric zings.
Anyway, I’m grateful – and hopeful that maybe it will get even better. It’s going to take a few days to really believe that the procedure worked, but today is a gift and for that, I am so grateful.
When I came home from the hospital last summer and had at-home antibiotics, my feet bothered me a lot with tingling and hot and cold. I later decided it was a temporary neuropathy. I was fortunate that it went away but I know a bit of how your feet have been feeling and know that it is terribly frustrating. For me it wasn’t pain, just a really weird feeling.
I hope that you continue to feel relief.