Health Scare

Our new additions to our family are Soeckli (swiss for little sock) a girl kitty...
...and Baerli (swiss for...you guessed it right... little bear)a little boy cat.
Victim of hard play!
innocent looking kitties!
David and Trina cleaning the pond of dead vegetation
I am helping!
Got to drag it out!
Good job, Trina!
Give me that load.
So much muck!!!





Well I had a rough couple of weeks. Went to the doctor on a Friday for a check up because my arms and legs keep on falling asleep and I have some dull pain in my right arm and right knee. He listen to my lengthy complained list and then blasted me with the remark that all those symptoms plus my fatigue, stiff neck, frequent headaches and dizziness suggest Multiple sclerosis and that he would like to run some test. Oh my gosh, my heart dropped in my pants and I could hardly wait to get out of there and drop into David's arms and sob my heart out. Now I had to wait through the whole weekend for my first test. Plenty of time to read up everything there is to know about MS and the symptoms were all there.
Monday the testing began with a brain and spine MRI. Oh man, how I hate when they shove you into this tub and then the banging begins. One and a half hour later with also some dye in my veins and brain I was on the way home. Two days later I had a test where they run electric currents through your nerves to test how well they work. I was scheduled to run this test first on my arms and then the following week on my legs. Went to the hospital again and had this trigger happy (grumpy person number three in Ohio) doctor who just loved to electric shock me. My arms were flopping and took on a life on their own every shock hurting like a SOB. A few days later came an extensive blood test. The next day came a call form the doctors office that my cholesterol was way high but the doctor wanted to wait with seeing me till he had all the results from all the tests. I still had the 2nd shock test for my legs the following Wednesday. Then Saturday before mothers day I got that fateful call, again from the doctors office, that the spine MRI was not normal.......but the doctor would wait to see me till my final testing was done which would have been another week. I asked if he could see me sooner and the nurse agreed to have him see me on Tuesday. 3 days waiting, hard to do. I never understood quite the "sinking feeling" expression but at that moment I felt it in all its dept. It was a dark, dark moment. I told David and we kind of started to make plans what to do if...... .It was a miserable mothers day and hard to stay cheerful (and write cheerful blogs). Then came Tuesday and we sat across the doctor and he started to tell me that.....the MRI was not normal because I have 3 severely depressed vertebrates which pinch several nerves. Hence the stiff neck, headaches, numbness in my arms and legs. The dizziness is still caused by my menieres disease, the pain in the right arm turned out to be carpel tunnel syndrome and the pain in the knee is ....old age (arthritis).
Here I went again sobbing but this time with relief. Suddenly then sun was up again and I felt like I came out of a dark tunnel. I still had to take that last electric shock test but even this time my legs flopped helplessly, I forgave this trigger doctor knowing it would be okay which he confirmed.
So now I have an arm splint for 3 weeks for my carpel tunnel syndrome, a knee brace to heal the inflamed arthritic knee, am on cholesterol medication and have 3/week physical therapy for my neck. He thinks that the high cholesterol is genetic. Have to check with my brother to find out if my mom had high cholesterol. Anyway friends, I never have been so thankful for being as healthy as I am. We just always take it for granted until something like this happens.
Just to make my happiness complete I went the following day shopping. It is magic, shopping always helps to restore my mood!!!
I love you all and I am happy to be alive!