So we meet again! It’s been way too long since I’ve posted. I am sure all of my fellow spoonies know all too well, there are many things that keep us from doing the things we love…so there’s no sense going into all of it. However, I will update you a little on what has been going on with me lately.
Last month I had to go for an MRI because my lower back pain has been worse than the normal smattering of pain here and there. It is painful all the time now. So during this month’s visit at my pain specialist, I was informed that the MRI did in fact show another herniated disc that is pushing against my spinal cord, but also that a “mass” that was found in my uterus.
I was then sent to an OBGYN where they did a pap test and vaginal exam. They also scheduled me for an ultrasound next week and then a consult to go over all the findings the same day. It was a little nerve racking sitting in his office hearing words like cervical cancer or uterine cancer. Honestly, I just heard cancer. So, now we just wait and see what comes back next Wednesday. I’m hoping to hear the word fibroid or benign.
In between the MRI results and my OBGYN visit, my boyfriend collapsed at a Christmas open house and had to go to the hospital by ambulance. After spending two days in the hospital running tests and monitoring his vitals, they don’t know what caused him to pass out. They did find bleeding within the subarachnoid space, which is the area between the brain and the tissues that cover the brain. They don’t know if the hemorrhage caused him to collapse, like a small aneurism, or the bleeding happened due to injuring his head when he passed out.
See, when he passed out the first time, he came to and decided he was fine and stood up. He should have listened to all of us there and stayed on the floor because he immediately passed out again and hit his head, again. I really can’t fault him for standing up though because he doesn’t remember a thing until he “woke up” in the ambulance. His entire first day in the hospital is still a little fuzzy to him.
He’s now home and is off work for a week and can’t drive for a month. They have him on a heart monitor to make sure he isn’t having cardiac arrhythmia or any other anomalies. He’ll also have to have another CT scan in the next week or so to ensure that the bleed in his brain is healing up on it’s own.
So…that has just been the month! The previous nine months have been fairly similar, just not as overwhelming…thank goodness! I honestly cannot fathom how someone posts regularly when they are battling a chronic illness and have a family. For me, it’s just a lot with two grown kids, two kids in college (one four hours away and one still at home) and homeschooling my 17 year old. We have also sort of started a small reptile zoo in our home, not to mention our two dogs. I’ll have to post about that soon! Honestly, there are times I am lucky to get a shower regularly, see Shower Confessions.
Right now we are trying to get through Christmas and even a healthy person can have challenges doing this! I am just praying for it to be over quite frankly. We don’t even have the tree up yet. Hopefully we’ll have it up this weekend. My step-son and I are going to pick her up my daughter at IU today, so I’m sure she’ll want to help doing that.
I will have to be more diligent in keeping up with my blog this year…guess that’s my New Year’s Resolution!
Happy Holidays everyone!
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