Friday, October 06, 2006

Oh yeah, this thing...

So I am very sorry to all the people who try to keep caught up and here it is almost 3 months since my last post. Don't worry, I have been reprimanded by plenty of people.

I somehow made it back to Abilene and am taking 2 classes. It hurts a lot sometimes, even though I'm on medications. It's just down to the point where I feel like I can do some things on some days. So Tuesday and Thursday mornings, I take 2 classes and that is it for now, and for some reason seems like I'm taking a full load or something.

So it's not that I haven't had anything to post, it's pretty much the opposite. I have had so many thoughts that I've wanted to put out there but I'm either struggling to keep up in my classes or exhausted from them or in pain, or some combination of any of those.

This week, pain, but I'll at least tell you a good story from yesterday. It got to the point to where I couldn't sit up very well on my own and slightly twisting my abdomen and back area was like a knife in my side. I ended up calling Dr. Brookoff (my hero forever), and he said I may have an infection and am in too much pain to notice it. So his first try is to put me back on steroids for awhile, but not as many or as strong as last time.

Anyway, last night, I started to feel at least a little better to where I could sit up a little bit and walk on my own without feeling too dangerous. When I came out of the bathroom, I felt I should share this story with my roommates, Julia and Morgan, and Morgan's boyfriend Donny, who have all be wonderful at taking care of me and babying me on my bad days, by the way.

So I went out into the family room and said, "So I had a misjudgment problem in the bathroom," everyone laughed nervously and then Julia immediately turned around and headed towards the room, as if she were going to clean something up.

"Hang on Jules!", I said. "Not like that. Let me finish my story...So I was walking over there and I misjudged the distance and just sort of kept on walking and hit my head on the wall!"

We all laughed at my clumsiness then Jules came back with me to my room. I was still laughing about her initial reaction, but got my words terribly mixed up and said, "I can't believe you were going to go in there right away and eat that....No! Clean! Clean!!!"

Oh dear. So that is my life most days. Clumsy physically and with my words and sometimes in too much pain to think, and sometimes the pain isn't so bad and I have some really great moments. Hopefully I can share some more stories with you later on if I continue to feel better.

Thanks for your prayers, readers. That means the most to me of anything at all.

7 Comments:

At 5:48 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

I found this blog by accident when I was looking for information about the external interferential stimulator that you previously mentioned. Did it help? I'm a long-time IC patient who is interested in finding out.

 
At 11:59 AM, Blogger Lisa said...

Great question. Thanks for feeling free to contact me. I'd rather talk details over e-mail if you are comfortable with that idea.

My e-mail address is lmm02a@acu.edu (l is a lowercase "L", not a number "1", and the 0 is the number, not a capital "o")and I'll be laying low for the next few days getting over a virus (hidden by my narcotics so thank goodness my Dr. figured that one out!)...so from now until Monday would be a great time to contact me.

Anyways, I hope you get this - it was my best way of thinking to contact you. If I don't hear from you in awhile I'll try to think of some other way.

Please contact me! I always feel ICers need to stick together and sharing things that work and don't work and just being able to wallow together sometimes is a true blessing that has come with the internet.

Am eager to hear from you soon :)
-Lisa

 
At 2:19 PM, Blogger Heather said...

Too funny about the word slippage. I was with a male colleague at Starry Night last month and went to make a snarky comment to him about his choice of seating and the art display (an abstract nude) - and totally messed it up. Which was probably better anyway - God's way of keeping my tongue in check.

Hope you're feeling better soon. :)

 
At 3:47 AM, Blogger ElanorJoy said...

Thanks for updating Lisa, I miss you so much and it's good to hear how things are going for you, even if their not going all that well. We will definitely keep you in our prayers! Thank you so much for the happy birthday wish! I love you friend!

 
At 3:43 PM, Blogger Jim Peterson said...

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At 3:45 PM, Blogger Jim Peterson said...

Hang in there kiddo. I'm so bummed you're in so much pain. I did want to thank you for the care package. It was really funny to see all the things you packed in there, like the Spiderman lunch bag (it was even blue... they used to call me "Jim and his Blue Lunch Bag" in junior high because of my blue lunch bag). Hopefully I didn't still have a blue lunch bag in high school or you'd probably already know that story and I'd feel like a doofus. =) Oh, but like I was saying, like that and the darts and mini planes, and fruit roll things and Twizzlers. I must confess I ran out of room to bring it all back on the plane and so my parents are gonna have to send the rest out here to me (haven't yet because I'm still moving around like I don't know where I'm living). So, admittedly, my mom re-froze the peanutbutterchocolatechip cookies. I promise I will try one soon. However, I did eat the Russian Tea Cake ones and they were quite tasty. They were slightly different than the ones I've eaten before...well, the plane ride sorta mushed them, but the crumbly aftermath had my mouth and stomache very happy! Thank you! I gotta go for now, but hope you feel better. I'll have God remind me to pray for you as I eat the rest of the cookie crumbs. God Bless!

Jim

 
At 6:12 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

You are such a trooper and have a great attitude and such a strong faith. You really inspire me.
It was fun spending a few days with you, even with all the trips to the grocery store! :-)
Hang in there and eat all your vegetables.

 

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