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11:37 P.M. - Monday, Mar. 12, 2007
WHAT? AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Back to the Dr�s office today thinking this is it, I�ll know the plan of action and most important what is wrong with my spine. This morning was upbeat but apprehensive.

I didn�t have to wait long for Dr. Gloom and again we had an office chat, they found no masses on my spine good news, as I didn�t think about a tumor. Ok�it did cross my mind but I dismissed it listening closer to him chat about a possible fracture.

The CAT scan detected a fracture on my lower spine, but for strange unknown reasons it hasn�t healed and this happened Feb 5th; time enough for a bone to start healing itself. All the soft tissues that were damaged during the fall are healing but the fracture is holding back.

After a short meeting with another Dr. they decided best course of action was to send me to a larger city and get an appointment with a neurosurgeon. I was supposed to get the call this afternoon, wanting me to see a specialist soon as possible. At 3 pm my patience left the building and I called the nurse asking when I might hear back from the office about this weeks new appointment. After him-haw around she told me they decided to send all my tests; X-ray�s, MIR, Cat scan, and notes from physical therapy to allow the expert and his medical crew to decide when I should come in and have an idea what they are looking for. The out of town Dr will be the one getting a hold of me. It might not be this week, because they hadn�t been able to gather my test's results up to get it sent off. (Faxed?) Earlier my Dr felt I would be the one to pick up the results from the hospital and take then with me.

So I wait, wondering, fretting, and just thinking�WHAT???

Now I am on an official medical leave, no more hiding behind vacation days my Dr. said even if I had a desk job he couldn�t release me to work. My right leg will no longer carry my body weight without extreme pain and even without placing my foot on the floor the pain racing through my back and leg is hardly manageable. He set me up with pills to help manage the pain until I get that appointment and see yet another Dr.

Just to make my day a tiny bit better I got a call from the computer repair place I had taken my newer computer to and they can fix it for a little over $200.00 $$$$--that I haven�t got, now out of work and the sluggish way we get medical payments. The motherboard is damaged.

HA-ha I thought. Thanks but I�ll have hubby pick it up on Friday. I don�t even care. I am just glad I have this old one I can use. Things could have gotten worst if I had tossed this one out in the gravelroad, over the Bluffs, smashed it over rocks, or what ever. Ok�I feel better now.

Heck with turning another page in my book of life, I want a new book.

In truth I am not angry, it is the not knowing that is gnawing on me.

Sandyz

 

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