Doctor yesterday, doctor tomorrow

[cjsmith]

...but no doctor today. The guy from the New York pain clinic called me -- excuse me for a moment here:

*** YAY !!! YIPPEE! WAHOO! :-) :-) ***

-- while I was out of town, and he wanted me to call him back when I returned. Now I hear he is coughing a lot and has canceled all his patients for tomorrow. I'm instructed to try again Monday.

Fingers remain crossed.

Comments

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

For me it's not even the pain -- I don't have pain unless I use my feet much. For me it's the limitations. "Using my feet much" can mean as little as trying to reach a high shelf, and thus standing on "tiptoe" (the ball of the foot). The idea that some day I could go to the grocery store and not hurt, or go running at all, or hike, or go to a street fair... wow.

hummmm

[moriamerri.livejournal.com]

hummm.... that sounds a little bit like my recent experience (although my situation was temporary and even MORE limiting than your feet). I had pneumonia and pluerisy (I've forgotten how to spell the latter, which is a good sign!) I described it as "like having an electric fence inside my body" -- do one thing "wrong" and get a shock. One learns very quickly not to try anything "rash" (like changing position or moving, for example). Not knowing what would trigger major pain was scary. Seems a bit like your feet?? I was forever trying to "negotiate" what I could and could not do. ("Do" includes just being in a given position, as well as movement.)

Taking a deep breath without pain is now my equivalent of going to a street fair....something I took for granted until now, and that I now cherish and relish in a whole new way. (For a while I could not lay down in any position, now I can EVEN lay on my LEFT SIDE a bit!!! Imagine!!)

Of course, I wish your limitations would disappear as "quickly" as my pneumonia. (In quotes because it SEEMS incredibly slow -- but slow and fast is all relative....) Sadly, I realize yours is a whole different ballgame because it is unknown if it will change.

Anyway, I can certainly relate to LIMITED (even though I have the luxury of also watching the limitations go away).