No idea what day it is, but it’s a good day!

October 4th, 2008 at 08:32pm Jodi

I have no real clue how long I’ve been here, I think it’s 9 days, but I have made progress. Today is a ZERO head pain day. YIPPEEEE. I had a cervical epidural block yesterday and outside of the horrible back pain, which was resolved with some good muscle relaxers, my head pain is a zero today. I had a zero for a few hours once during the week, but today it was all day long. I feel like my old self. I took over an hour walk outside, chatted with fellow patients and watched a movie. Tomorrow during the doctors rounds I am going to ask about when I can get this procedure done again and if we could start to transition me onto what my home medications would be. I am hopefull that by mid next week, I will be pain free and back to my kids,…. I miss them terribly! And I miss Brian of course.

I have a scheduled MRI for Tuesday, again, to check the status of my brain. Apparently there is a legion on the right frontal lobe that no GA neurologist told me about, I found out the day before I came here. Well, they are speculating that with my blood clotting disorder that I passed a clot in my brain and thats the way it leaves it’s mark. I don’t know for sure though, who really does.

Ironically, I met a girl named Gabbie here that is from a town just next to where we live in GA. She actually was from MI too, but 12 years ago moved to GA. All her family are here as well. Well, her kids go to a private school about 2 miles from our old rental house in Dunwoody. Her headaches started bad after her last child, 5 years ago. She has seen some of the same head doctors like I have down in GA and she has sought her care here in MI the last few years because no one down in GA could help. I don’t feel so alone as that is exactly what I experienced with the GA docs. Lucky for me, I am getting treatment early.

Some folks here are all better, some are really suffering from withdrawls as they have a no narcotics policy so they have to be weaned off, and some are on the road to recovery. Each day is a new challenge, but it’s so nice to be in the company of so many that know exactly what this is all about. I will miss some of the great people and nurses when I leave, but I will look forward to being the “old mommy” as Braylen says it.

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