Rabbit Update - The Sequel
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So, new update. I just spoke to vetinary nurse Rhiannon, and Misty is out of surgery and awake. They're coaxing him to nibble some food and things are looking reasonably good. He's staying there another night so they can keep a close eye on him, just to be on the safe side, but I'm to phone at 9am tomorrow and hopefully he'll be well enough to come home then. I'll let you know when he's home.
Thank you to everyone for your hugs, good wishes, thoughts and prayers, you've helped me get through two very stressful, worrying days. I'm blessed to have so many great, animal-loving friends, you're the best!
Thank you to everyone for your hugs, good wishes, thoughts and prayers, you've helped me get through two very stressful, worrying days. I'm blessed to have so many great, animal-loving friends, you're the best!
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Date: 2012-08-07 04:28 am (UTC)love Deb.*late poster*
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Date: 2012-08-07 02:43 pm (UTC)Also, I LOVE your icon! Heeeeee! =D
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Date: 2012-08-09 07:12 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-08-09 07:25 pm (UTC)Sorry you're still in so much pain, no wonder you're behind in the housework. When it hurts no matter what you do, all you want to do is... well, nothing much at all, it gets so hard to concentrate on anything.
Love & hugs, Jean xxxx
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Date: 2012-08-15 05:44 am (UTC)Thank you, yes the pain makes everything harder. I went looking for some blue jeans today, found nothing, and I was tired after looking at only one shop. :P I came home with a pair of flip-flop type shoes, really cute, but the one of them hurts my toes so I will have to take them back. Great! NOT.
I'm so behind on posts and I need to go to sleep. I see the acupunture guy tomorrow afternoon finally. Oh FUN! O_0
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Date: 2012-08-15 10:12 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-08-16 03:34 am (UTC)I'm going to start taking the Viibryd in the morning. Some people say it makes it hard for them to sleep at night. I need my sleep, I hope it doesn't do that. Also, I hope my face doesn't swell up again or I get an attack of the hives. The mood stabilizers seemed to be what was causing that the most, but who knows??? Here we go again! "To swell!"..."or not to swell!"..."that is the question!" YES! I'm a Loon!
Dr. Han has all kinds of ideas on how to get me out of pain which is what I want, but I also want to heal, and he shed no light on that subject. He was funny and fast talking and gave me lots of hope as far as pain relief goes, but at the same time, I never got to talk to him about healing from this condition. He probably doesn't know either. Oh, he is a Neurologist, not just a holisitic doctor. He can prescribe medications. He said if it got bad enough he could give me these shots in my V area...OUCH!...that would numb me up. I asked if it helped other women and he said yes. Told me I could come everyday, but I really would rather not have to do that unless it was a last resort.
THEY CUT ME AGAIN! LOL!
Continued on next post in reply to this same post.... :D
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Date: 2012-08-16 10:01 am (UTC)Real love means you stick with someone through good and bad, and that's what you and Michael have. I know how difficult this is being for all three of you, but despite your ups and downs, you're sticking together and staying stronger that way than either of you would be on your own.
Keeping my fingers crossed! *hugs tight* Love ya! ♥
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Date: 2012-08-17 11:04 pm (UTC)I wish they had a stone or crystal for contiuous alleric reactions. I wonder if there is a "real" Dr. House out there. He could be as mean to me as he wants to and I would take it if it would fix me.
:(
Oh well. I'm crazy.
sorry,
love you,
Deb.
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Date: 2012-08-17 11:17 pm (UTC)There is always hope, someone WILL figure this out, just hang in there, grit your teeth and be stubborn!
While I'm looking for crystals, talk to your bloodstone, tell it that it's calming your immune system, cleansing your blood and stopping allergic reactions. That's probably the best one you've got at the moment, but I'll look into the best ones for all kinds of allergies, rashes, itching etc.
*hugs very carefully* Love, J xxxxx
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Date: 2012-08-17 11:24 pm (UTC)You still awake? What time is it there?
Yes I have a stone or stones that said immune system and bloodstream somewhere. I'll find it now.
I need to calm myself down and stop crying right now. I'm getting a headache and I can't take anything for pain.
I'm so glad you are here. :) ...but if you are off to bed I understand.
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Date: 2012-08-18 09:30 am (UTC)Hope you're feeling a bit better *hugs more*
Love ya! J xxxxx
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Date: 2012-08-22 04:41 am (UTC)I knew you went to sleep. I'm glad you did, it was awfully late. I was surprised when I realized you were posting.
Yes I have been using my Black Obsidian, but I have no idea if it works. Oh well, couldn't hurt. I have been holding and talking to lots of crystals, the bloodstone, rose quartz, moss agate, calcite, and amazonite the most. They are my buddies. Stones for "hope" calming, pain, inflamation, the amazonite is suppose to get rid of negitive energy which I need.
Did I tell you I tried the cream they sent me with pain killers + mood stablizer and an antidepressant in it and it still made my lip swell up and it is "topical!" The Gabipentin (mood stablizer) it numbs nerve endings, caused my bottom lip to swell up, not real horrible, but not good either, then by morning I had welts again and my upper lip swelled slightly though the bottom one was back to normal. I broke down crying again today. I only used "one" application of the cream yesterday and that was all it took for my body to go haywire! :( And even worse.... is the pain level was much better all day, but I can't go around with my lips swelling up all day long. I wish I could die sometimes!!! That's it! There is nothing else but crystals and maybe acupunture. I feel like I am being punished and I don't know what I did though I know it doesn't work that way. God doesn't punish while I'm on earth anyway, I don't think. Oh, surgery is left, but no quarantees that will solve the problem and it terrifies me! I don't want to be butchered down there...if it means cutting stuff off, not just removing overgrown nerves, then I guess I will just suffer until I die or it magically goes away, not likely. Sorry, I'm a pessimist. It is just that everytime I get any hope it is smashed! Another failure.
I am trying to find someone in town that knows how to perform this kind of acupunture, but I don't know if there is anyone. I called a group today who are checking into it and are suppose to call me back. I can't drives 2 hours to Atlanta or somewhere for weekly acupunture. I need to find someone here, but this place helps a lot of atheletes with arm, leg, back pain, etc., type problems. The woman I called had to write down the name of my condition because she had never heard of it of course! *rolls eyes* I need an old Chinaman that knows it all. lol! Maybe if they don't know this kind of acupuncture, they might know of someone else who does. I hope so. If not I will just have to keep looking. If all chemicals are out, there is nothing else. I've been told it works for V. for a lot of women.
Shutting up now! Sorry.
love Deb.
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Date: 2012-08-22 03:37 pm (UTC)On a brighter note, there's a package in the post for you, I posted it this morning. Had to take mum for her annual doctors check-up and we did some shopping
afterwards. Now we're both exhausted. It's nearly 4.30 and I've only just had lunch!
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Date: 2012-08-22 09:03 pm (UTC)Thank you for the package. I will be looking for it. It took awhile last time for the first one to get here, but it has a long way to travel. lol! :)
Oh, I'm sorry you are so tired. Me too. Ate lunch with Michael and Alex at Alex's school today. He can't seem to eat lunch in the lunchroom, the noise of everyone talking and other sounds distracts him so he cannot eat. He has been bringing his lunch back home uneatened for years now. I always hoped he would eat something. He sometimes would eat the candy and I know he threw away some of it. Michael said he had the same trouble in school when he was a kid and would go outside and eat. Alex can't do that, not old enough so we are going to try to get with the priniciple and see if there is a quiet place he can sit and eat his lunch. I worry about him going all day with no lunch. He needs his energy and I don't want him to be hungry. :( We are even suppose to supply him with a healthy snack for later in the day. We have been sending grapes this week. Going to have to go buy him something else tomorrow. Running out of grapes. Not sure you needed to know that, but I am weird right now.
I hope you got home and rested some. I am going to bed early tonight, one way or another. I'm so tired.
love Deb. :)
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Date: 2012-08-22 10:04 pm (UTC)Oh boy, I've been resting since I got home, put the car away, put everything back in the garage that I have to take out in order to get the car out, and put all the shopping away, but my feet are still throbbing and my legs ache. Feel like I could sleep for a week, well, if I could ever manage to stay asleep instead of waking up every couple of hours.
Poor Alex, I hope the principal can find him somewhere he can have his lunch in peace. Kids need regular meals to keep their concentration levels up. Hope you can find him something nice for snacks when the grapes run out. Speaking of snacks, I was naughty and bought myself some salted nuts for snacking on - pistachios, cashews and dry roasted peanuts. I wanted to get some Honey roasted peanuts and cashews, but they were so expensive I decided I'd better not. Not the healthiest things on earth because of the salt, but I do love them. I love dried cranberries too, they're much healthier and I have a few bags of them so I am eating some healthy things!
Think I might get an early night too.
*hugs tight* Love ya, J xxxx
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Date: 2012-08-16 03:40 am (UTC)I am now unsure as to whether we are going to see the Nashville doctor or not. We really don't have the money and they will probably try all these same kind of treatments and it will cost more money to see him + the drive + medications. I would love to talk to someone that really understood it though. He maybe could take a biopsy and see if there is an over growth of nerves that shouldn't have happened. They have done surgeries on women and removed them and then they were fine again. They could have sex again and even had kids. This was on the 20/20 show I watched online....but there are always risks, what if the surgery didn't fix me?...very expensive loss and I am sure I would go into a deep depression. I would need a lot of help and support. It may not be that at all, if it is nerve damage instead like we first thought, then if I can stay on meds that keep me out of pain, I can just wait it out even though it may take years to heal. It is not like I haven't practically been on some kind of pill for my depression/mood disorder about my whole life anyway! 0_O
If the rash crap would just stop, I would do what other women seem to be doing at this stage. A combination therapy to make life better and less pain. The pills + topical stuff (used safely, not too much) + relaxation techniques like the crystals you sent me. :D + deep breathing and if necessary really do go and find a certified China man or woman that knows acupunture! lol! I've read on the NVA. site that this seems to be how women are coping with it until more research is done and I hope a cure found one day...Actually since we are all different, I would like to know what is causing this to happen to so many of us. Maybe I will find out in my lifetime, but I don't think they have been researching VVS. for very long, maybe since the mid to late 1900's? I need to look that up. I saw something online talking about 1994 (I think?) and wondered if any one was doing anything before then about it. Like I said, some Dr.'s didn't used to even believe it was real. I can't imagine women in the 1800 and 1900's going through this hell alone with no relief especially when a really bad pain day would hit. I bet there have been some unexplained suicides from it though that is just my mind wondering. I'm a whimp anyway! lol! I hate any kind of pain and this is the worst I have ever had to deal with + the emotional stress that goes with it.
Again I should have wrote this up on my LJ, not here. Sorry. It is so hard to sit and type anywhere even on my bed. I really need to buy that donut pillow or one of those blow up rubber kind like they play with at the pool. lol! Take the touch and pressure off my poor bits. *rolls eyes*
How are you doing?...and how is Misty doing?
Sorry this was so long.
Love Deb.
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Date: 2012-08-16 10:12 am (UTC)There are good points and bad points to going to the specialist - distance and cost on the downside, and the fact that this dr specialises on the condition and might really be able to help on the good side. I guess this is something you and Michael need to discuss to decide what you'll do about it. Good luck either way!
That rash thing is really hampering treatment. I wish I could just magic it away so you could just be treated like any other woman with the condition. It must be so frustrating knowing there are treatments that work, but you can't use those because they make you swell and itch. *hugs carefully* it's so unfair, hon, I wish I could fix it.
Love ya, J xxxx
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Date: 2012-08-17 11:18 pm (UTC)So sweet of you to want to fix it. Doesn't seem to be anyone who can right now. Not sure if I told you that I cancelled the appointment "for now" with the specialist in Nashville. Probably would have had to anyway since my period is about to start, if we go we would need to move it up a week. I am going to talk to Michael about us talking to them again though. If it would be worth the trip to go if I can't take any oral treatments. If he could do a biopsy to see if it is an overgrowth of nerves then it would be worth it, if they thought remove the overgrowth might cure me or at least improve my condition quite a lot. What scares me is I only know of the 3 cases that it worked well on from TV, from that Dr. in Washington DC. One girl is completely normal now who had the nerves removed. I just don't know if it works for all cases and is there a way they can tell that it is the problem "before" they operate because if it isn't then we would be wasting our time and our money and quite frankly my hope/sanity. This is like a bad dream I can't wakeup from.
I'm so sorry to be like this.
You poor thing hitting your head twice, trying to get that blasted rabbit to and from the vet. LOL! I'm glad he is doing so well. :D ...but I feel awaful for your head. I hope otherwise you are still ok.
love ya!
Deb.
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Date: 2012-08-17 11:29 pm (UTC)Yeah, bad timing for the appointment, cancelling for now is a good move. If you could just talk to them over the phone and figure out if the long journey might be worthwhile it would help - but I guess they'd charge for a phone consultation too. Wish I could win a few million on the lottery, I'd make sure you could afford any treatment you needed then. *sigh* Of course, to win the lottery I suppose I'd have to buy a ticket first.... Oh dear, I'm tired and a bit loopy, excuse if I don't make sense, I really need to get some sleep. If you hear a loud thud, it's just me yawning my head off. *weary hugs* Love ya! xxxxx *trundles off to bed*
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Date: 2012-08-17 11:49 pm (UTC)I'm sorry about the migraine, like you needed that!
LOL! About you falling asleep and the lottery thing!...So funny you mentioned that. Michael has a great joke about winning the lottery. Some man was talking to God about how hard he had tried to be a good man and do the right things, so why is it he can never win. God said to him, "Buy a ticket!" In other words if I don't keep buying my tickets, going to each of these doctors, God can't help me win. So we have been buying tickets...everywhere, I tell you though, they are getting expensive. lol! It would be worth it to win though. I just hope my odds are higher than people who actually do play those money lotteries. The odds of winning is just ridiculous!
Sleep well!
love,
Deb.
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Date: 2012-08-18 09:34 am (UTC)Yeah, God helps those who help themselves so keep trying and it will work out eventually. It's just so hard waiting and suffering, I know, but keep believing that it will be okay. *hugs tight* Love, J xxxx
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Date: 2012-08-22 04:55 am (UTC)And thanks for the crystals.
love deb.
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