My Best Techie!

And he’s FREE!

Pinewood Derby for Non-scouts

Newel made both of these for a couples social at Church. I wanted a Tin Lizzie and he produced this little work of art—my “Wood Whizzy!”

Implant Update

Last Wednesday I had the first trial for the medicinal pump.  I got a shot of an anesthetic which deadened me from the waist down in just a few seconds.  He said he have me a whole day’s worth of what I would get in the pump, so it was pretty strong.  In fact, going to the car afterwards, even after resting in the office for about half an hour, I was virtually a paraplegic!  Really! My legs were like rubber and wouldn’t do what they were told. 

We went through a drive-thru for lunch because I didn’t want to try falling on my face in a restaurant.  Then we drove home.  I had the shot at 12:55 am and when we got home at 3:30 pm I was able to walk by myself from the car to the house.  I had no pain at all for about 2 hours from the waist down, but as the sensation began to “thaw” from the soles of my feet up, I began to feel everything.  By 4:00 pm I was pretty much “thawed out” and back in the pain business.  I reported to my doctor the next day.

My next step will be another trial with another drug—morpheme.  I have to obtain a prescription for it from a special pharmacy that makes up these meds, then I take it up to Dr. Li who will then inject it like he did the others.  Oh, what fun!  I asked him if the morpheme will deaden my legs like the last one did and he said it wouldn’t.  There has to be a magic bullet out there somewhere…….I’ll keep going until I find it.

When at first you don’t succeed…..

……you try, try, try again.  So, here I sit with the very latest of electronic fashion accessory draped around my  body, trying out every level of  stimulation it produces.  I’m to try  it all day and all night!  Next week I’ll go back and report my success…….or lack of it.  Just so I keep my sense of humor—which does get away from me from time to time.  Something good HAS to happen because there isn’t much to choose from after this.  I’ve had steroids injected into my spine, at least one ganglion scrambled, and have taken pain killers by the wheelbarrow full.  With the stimulator, I have endured two sessions of a small lead (like a wire) jammed up and down my spinal cord to find the exact spot where the pain is the worst.  The doctor found the magic spot a week ago, but I have yet to experience the magic of the stimulator.

Newel looks a little like he’s forgotten that Halloween is over with because he still has some of his Frankenstein make-up still on.  He had a cancerous lump removed right next to his right eye, and a benign (but large) lump removed from his lower back.  I get to play nurse and dress his “owies”.

Growing older is just so much fun!