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I figured out how to get those animated things!

Now I am trying to say things in my posts that fit the gestures! lol

K - I know it's silly :o But I'm excited that I found it. It's the little things, you know? Doesn't really take much to make me happy. So, I will be going nuts w/these things so I do hope everyone forgives me :angel: . Oh goodness, I can't stop!! :nono:

Love you,

Talk to you soon! I'm so excited I figured it out.... lol :D

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Way to go Banker!!!! aren't these things just way too cool????? ;)

Should be interesting to see the next level of posts from you now. i am glad when ANYTHING makes someone happy.Have a good day Banker! Marcia :D

Marcia - I just love you! You are too sweet!!!! How have you been doing?

It's monday - :yawn:
I'm going to be late - :nono:
But I'm in a decent mood - :cool:

So today is a new day and I'm going to try to make the best of it. I hope everyone else does the same and I hope you have a :bouncing: kind of day!!!! lol

I LOVE 'EM!
Remember the "I'm FIFTY, FIFTY YEARS OLD" episode on Saturday night live? It just popped in my head - I love it. It's w/Molly Shannon, I love her.
That's what I feel like today - walking around w/my pants WAY too high and yelling "I'm THIRTY THREE, THIRTY THREE years old" while kicking my leg really high! I know I'm nuts! I'm just in a decent mood today and it feels good for a change. :)

Dang, Banker, you are just way too perky for words today!Hey, thirty three is no big deal.i just turned forty three in march,and really feel like eighty some days.

i am still hangin in there but getting rather depressed at times as this spasticity in my legs is getting way out of hand now.I have had two ESIs done over the last month to try and relieve the pain and spasticity in my legs.the first one worked about a week and a half on the spasticity, but not the pain.The second one didn't do squat on either.I am going back to see the physiatrist that took such good care of me when i was in actue rehab after the spinal cord surgery.I had to relearn how to walk.not pleasent.I want to try Botox injections for my legs.My pain doc said that my old physiatrist is actually quite the expert in spasticity issues due to spinal cord injury.So,i am hopeful.This just sucks you know?When i get up from a seated position, i have to actually walk on my toes for about fifteen minutes as the heels just wont touch the floor until the muscles finally let go.I just need a little relief here.Hopefully, it will come soon.

I just have to tell you.My son is doing so well right now.He was released about a week ago and seems to be doing quite well on the depakote now. I just have some concerns with him taking it as it can be very hard on the liver.and now, i got a call from his GP on friday, unfortunetly we were not home when he called but left a rather ominous message about the labs we had done on his liver and kidneys on wed of last week.He said that there is nothing to worry about but he needs to discuss my sons labs.now, if there is nothing to worry about, why in the heck is he calling?I am just a little worried about what is wrong.He is not in the office on mondays so we have to wait until tomorrow to find out just what "no problem" means.God, i don't want my son to have to go through the hell of yet another liver failure.Once is more than enough you know? I am just hoping that this is nothing serious.

Well, thanks for asking Banker and have a really fantastic day.You sound sooooo upbeat.I think you are rubbing off a little on me. Thanks. Marcia

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Hey, Banker - isn't it true that it's the little things in life that make us so happy!! :D And, the good news is that when you reach my grand old age you can be assured that nothing changes!!! It's all just as much fun. If you were here, I'd insist you hop aboard my extra push-scooter (large adult size) and charge down some hills with me. I'm having a bad day (just dropped Theo for bone scans and have to wait all day for the bone specialist to tell me what's up. He is limping horribly--and nothing showed up on the x-ray.) So...I need a few hills to get my spirits up and to keep me busy! :eek: Am not at work, because I need to be here when the dr. calls me in to chat with her. It was awful leaving my "baby" with this strange man this morning at the clinic. Theo was clinging to me. Oh...in case you forgot--Theo is a DOG!! (I didn't leave a real baby with a strange man!) LOLOL!

By the way, I keep the extra push-scooter for any thrill-driven friends who wish to use it. So....get on over!! :D You sure sound happy enough to move it with just sheer exuberance!!!

Marcia - I never realized that you could get that kind of spasicity from spinal surgery. It sounds so bizarre--and nasty to deal with. Hope your psych. has some answers. Am so glad you son is doing well on the Depakote....and I don't think your doctor would just leave a message (particularly, telling you not to worry), if there was something awful showing up in his tests. I should think he would have gotten back to you right away if that was the case. Still....I know how awful it is to just miss a doctor's Friday call!!! :confused:

Okay, wishing you--and Banker--a very good day! (With lots of smile icons!!) :wave:

Lynn

Marcia - I'm so sorry you are having to deal with your pain. That is so odd... Is your surgery really what caused this? Did you have the surgery to help w/the problem or is this a result of? Bless you heart - I'm very sorry and but glad your son is doing better. I also agree w/Lynn --- don't worry too much. Worse case is they need to decrease his dose a little... that will be o.k. Just be thankful that they finally diagnosed him properly and got him off of those SSRIs. Keep us posted about your doctor...

Lynn - I would be skootin' away on that thing... :bouncing:
But, this is to everyone - my good day is shot! :eek:
My son forgot to do a school project and I went to check his homework and found out. So... I'm going to be about two - three hours late this morning and so are they. I cannot send him to school without it as I and HE both got in trouble for not turning in homework several months ago. I wasn't checking it and he wasn't doing it .... This would be the child that was just labeled as 'gifted'... Isn't that nice? Anyway, I'm about to leave now so wish me luck today and pray that my 'good mood' comes back... Needless to say - the kid is grounded! :nono:

Lynn,

I know your sweet Lhasa will get good results and/or they will tell you exactly how to treat him so he gets out of pain. I can relate so much to the love of Lhasa's... I miss mine so much! Please keep us posted as to what the doc says... K? Try not to obsess and worry too much but I know that's very hard to do. Just remember that you are trying to get him better... Think positively and I will too!

Take care, both of you.

Thanks soooo much Banker. I am trying to imagine the vet saying to me, later, "Oh, nothing to worry about--just a "????"--fill in the blanks with something not at all serious!! :-)

What a world we live in today--the MOTHER gets yelled at if the kid does not do his school project!!! LOL! How did you put a project together so fast?!? I hope he hadn't been asked to build a 3-D scientific experiment!!! "Build a display showing where you think the WMD are hiding..and the safest way to dismantle them." :-) Anyway! Hope you get your "good" day back!!! xxx

Lynn - any word?

Hey banker, in regard to your questions, Yes the problems that i am having,the spasticity,the pain syndromes and the brown sequrd syndrome(with the BS syndrome,I can no longer feel hot or cold senastions or surface pain on the r side since the surgery,I can feel even light touch there, but you could just jab a needle into my r leg right now and i would feel the sensation ,but not any pain.Now just how bizarre is that?)

Before I had the cavernoma removed(or partially,since I still have that 10% left inside the cord)The worst symptom that I had was this totally hidious gnawing pain under my r shoulder blade that was just unrelenting and becoming almost constant by the time i had the surgery.all of this totally weird crap was caused by the surgery.

The cavernoma was having little bleds into the cord and was slowly starting to take up the cord space.The NS i saw said that if i had one more bleed,and this was very highly likely,i would most likely end up just suddenly parylized from the chest down.so i could have left it in and risked the parylization or have it removed under more controled circumstances.The only problem was that the nerves to the fine motor in my hands and the nerves to my legs ran right between the cav and the cord wall,so i knew that there would be, without a doubt, some sort of neuro damage.i just didn't know how bad,or just where it was going to be.but i really did not have much of a choiceIt was a much greater risk for me to leave it in.

So now, i am trying to pick up the pieces here and deal with all of the pain and damge.it hasn't been easy.i had to give up some things that just totally devistated me.I will also never be able to work again.I filed for disability a couple of months ago and am still waiting to hear from them.I am just praying that it comes through for me.We have this huge stack of medical bills.between me and my son,(hosp stays and meds) we are in a major financial bind right now and my husband is working way to much just trying to keep up.

I finally heard from my sons doc yesterday(it was a very long wait since friday)The prblem with his labs was his bilirubin was up a little, not good.And the valproic acid level(the depakote)was way too low to be really having an impact.it was 38 and should be at a minimum of 50.so we have to raise the depakote to three times a day instead of two.I am just a little nervous about that as the depakote can be very harmful to the liver.But this drug is the perfect one for him to be on right now,and it was okayed by his GI doc.so we will just have to keep an eye on things.

So, thats the story.Things are never dull around here. thanks for caring enough to ask. Marcia

Marcia - It doesn't seem possible the way troubles just seem to pile up, does it! I need to get out my anatomical book (just one of those "What Does Your Body Look Like" sort of thing) to find those body parts you mention! Scary operation with so many hand and leg nerves inbetween, like that. But I don't see where you had any choice. I'd certainly have done it rather than risk the paralysis. I know things must seem very overwhelming right now. Can you move those parts that are numb, okay?

As for the disability...when I wasn't working for three months during a very bad depressive bout, I did (once I began to come out of it) wonder what I would do if I were home permanently. (Sounds good, until it happens, huh?) As a hobby, I make greeting cards, I could freelance as a researcher, writer, etc.--but I would have to fight such an overwhelming urge to hide, when it came to marketing myself. I'm just no good at that. Have you got any skills that you could work at home with? What did you do before? Was it nursing?

Anyway, just wanted to stop by and say sorry that you have to deal with all this. luv, Lynn