Re: GOOD MORNING
AZMAINIAC (AZMAINIAC(AT)prodigy.net)
Mon, 18 Jan 1999 18:23:05 -0800
ALICE ROGERS wrote:
>
> Hi,
> Boy, was my mail box full this morning! Thanks to all of you for your
> support and suggestions.
> Sabryna didn't have a very good day yesterday. She is in a lot of pain.
> The swelling is back and has gone up her back almost to her left
> shoulder and around her body to her abdomen. She is also having some
> pretty severe headaches. Her father, Roy, works in the ER of the hoe-
> pital where she was admitted. He spoke to another doctor there Sat
> night and he prescribed Loritab for her for pain. It did help her
> sleep.
> I called the Shriners Hospital again this morning. The doctor there
> said they cannot take her as a patient because it doesn't sound like an
> orthopedic problem! His suggestion was to take her to Shands Teaching
> Hospital at the Univ of Florida in Gainesville. My daughter is trying
> to contact them now.
> Sabryna has a 9:45 appt with the chiropractor but my daughter is re-
> luctant to go. On Friday he told Sabryna not to take pain pills or she
> would become an addict!! I recommended that she take her because he
> DID provide some relief of the pain but to tell him to keep his
> editorial comments to himself. She is, after all, only 8 years old.
> Several of you were cocerned about not being able to contact me on
> Sunday. I own and operate a tool and equipment rental store by myself,
> no employees. I'm here from 7 AM till 5:30 PM Monday thru Saturday.
> That's 66 hours a week! Then when I do get to go home---I have four
> disabled people there, my husband, my Mom, and my husband's Aunt and
> cousin. To add to all that, we have two mare of my husband's Aunts
> visiting from Minnesota!!! Anyone want to trade with me?? (<: Oh my,
> I forgot the dog---he's a 125 pound shepherd/huskie mix who thinks he's
> a baby. So----Sunday's are usually a little crazy trying to do all the
> things I can't do during the week, and especially so this week.
> I told my daughter, the one who has Acute Transverse Myelitis, about
> all of you and she is overjoyed to hear of a group she can join and
> talk to people who REALLY understand her life and feelings.
> Well, lots of work to do and more phone calls to make. I'll keep you
> posted on our progress or lack thereof. God help anyone who need a
> doctor on the weekend!!
> Alice
Alice,
There are good chiropractors and bad "Quack-o-practors! The main thing
is that Sabryna get relief from the pain. PAIN causes a lot of stress
which is not neeeded!
Over 27 years I have been on many pain medications. A pain medication
for a short period of time is not going to cause addiction!
The only medication I had trouble getting off from was Valium and I was
on that for 11 years.
I pray that they at least make the pain tolerable while they are
searching.I suffered much pain before I got a baclofen pump. I am one of
the "guinea pigs" 5that was in the blind study about the baclofen pump
that was written in "The Clinical Journal of Pain".
My mother had an abcess removed from her bowel last Thursday. they
connected up an epidural and she was able to push a button to give
herself medication.(It is set so that one cannot get too much).
I have seen may changes in medicines and technology to help pain over
the years.
Again, I say that there is no reason to suffer the pain. It can be made
tolerable and I pray that Sabryna get some relief.
John