Most of all I am grateful that the Lord woke me up again today and gave me another chance to serve him. Using Poppy to do it put a smile on my face immediately.
I finally got in to see the doctor to see the doctor yesterday and got a steroid shot. It calmed down the muscle spasms mostly even by the time I got home and the nerve pain was reduced when the muscles were not spasming everywhere. It was a glorious afternoon and night.
I got some sleep last night! Even with a steroid buzz going I slept 4.5 hours at one go. More than I have gotten with the 10-30 minute snatches here and there put together for the last 5 days.
My mother has been doing so much better and she has even been trying to take care of me or take some of the load off by bringing me things when she is up that she thinks I'll be needing or wanting shortly, letting the dogs in and out so I don't have to get up, cleaning the table after meals and finding something to eat when I don't feel like eating, let alone cooking. It makes me feel a bit guilty but is so sweet because it has been years since I have been mommied and may never happen again.
Yesterday, even before I went to sleep last night I thought the prednisone the doctor gave me for a week was a bit much. I was feeling that even a three-day dose would have been more than I needed. Right now I am so grateful that in her wisdom the doctor did give them to me. The pain is not bad yet but I can tell that it is fighting through the shot and trying to rear it's ugly head again.
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