It’s hard to believe that it has been nearly 7 months since
I wrote my last post. My goal was to stay more updated with my blog & place
an entry at the very least 1x month, but with my current health condition, I
really haven’t felt like doing too much. Especially since this past Winter
& Spring were so cold and long. I don’t even think we really had a spring
to be honest. And, the beginning of this Summer hasn’t been much to write home
about.
My car accident was almost 8 months ago and although I don’t
feel as terribly as I did in the 1st few months, I still don’t feel
well. I have fair days & horrible days with pain, discomfort, tingling in
the leg & muscle fatigue & weakness. The fatigue & weakness
increase with the more I try to do, as does the pain. I hate that I am not feeling
like myself yet, and working at least on a part-time basis. I just am unable to
tolerate any one position too long, so it makes it difficult to participate in
functional activities. The horrible days are far more than the fair days. I also
had to have a change in medication. I was on Gabapentin 600mg 3x/day & it
wasn’t helping. I was still having the tingling in the leg & the medication
was making me “loopy”. I couldn’t even concentrate on any kind of reading,
paperwork or TV programs. Basically anything that required me to use my brain
cells. How awful is that? It was a terrible feeling. So now I am on Lyrica and
although the tingling is not as intense it’s still there as is the pain.
I have spent a lot of time (maybe too much) playing on the
iPad & my cellphone with games, Facebook & surfing the Internet non-productively.
I have made a commitment today, that I really need to get out of this FUNK
& get myself back on track. So I’ve limited my game time today (I did play
a little) and got some more important things completed like: sorting mail,
paying bills, balancing checkbook, filing important papers & even starting up
this blog again. I also finally (yesterday) scheduled my two annual female
appts (Pap Smear & Mammo w/US). Yeah! Me!
I have my Mammo tomorrow, which I am glad because for about
a week now, my left breast has been tender, especially when I roll over onto it
during the night.
Later today I plan to work on my NYIP courses and sorting
out the UC files on this computer. Who knew, I would have so many files, etc.
from my college time at UC? It’s incredible. I hate to get rid of it all,
because I have the belief that someday I will need to refer back to it. So, for
now I will sort it delete doubles & triples & save to a thumb drive.
Well for now I don’t really have anything else to say, so I
will end here & hopefully keep this up-to-date more often, as I promised in
January. Haha! Only time will tell.
Thanks for listening.
