When I frist got sick I qas in New Mexico. I had a rerrible painin my back
and I noticed that I was dragging my right leg. Mt husband said I needed to
gohome that we weren't in a place to get sick(we
were trave;ing for his work). I caught aflight home and in the 2 hours it
took to get here I couldn't move anything. To cut this down some in 3 months
I was able to walkwith just a cane orholding on to someones arm.I went back
to N.M. because I wanted to be with my husband& it was almost Xmas. On 1/7/91
it hit across my shoulders. My husbandwas at work and I was taqken to a small
hospita
by tha time he arrived I had to go to the bathroom really bad. Ihad to
self-cath and needed help. I asked him to call a nurse abbd was told by him
to shut up there were sick peop;e in there. Anyway we were talked into
letting this Doctor? take a look which was my fault but, I was in such pain I
would have done most anything.It made me alot worse I could not move at all
without help and sitting up was out of thequestion. I was sent home in the
back of an Explorer flat on my back for a 21 hour drive because he had ro
work and couldn't take care of mr to.So it was up to my mother here iis were
the fun starts. I got a T.V. with a remote so I could change channels it
would be taken awat from mand put on a table where I couldn't reach it. She
decided that I didn"t take my meds right so took them and wou;ld give them
the way she wanted. When I would ask for one of them she would bring them all
and say take them all and die B____.If I caried I got a wash rag stuffed in
my mouth. The phone was taken away so I couldn't call for help.I have and had
no control over bowels and bladder. Her words were tou do this S___ on
purpose you M_____ F_____ and use dry papertowels to clean me up, The lady
next door would come over and see my legs and tell her to stop throwing me
into the railings that my legs were all brused. She even called my husband at
4 in the morning and told him but, he would not come cahe didn"t want to take
off work.It is 6 almost 7 years later and I figured that if I didn"t do
something I was going to die and I wasn"t read to go yet. Now I cook, do all
the cleaning, sll the shoping, cut the grass and drive the car. I am 48 and
raising 2 grandchildren 10 and 6.Yes my mother is still in the picture and so
is my husband of 21 years. He still travels for his work and I get to go
visit the differentplacrs for a week or so but that is not the way it is
suppose to be.Well that"s about it. I have never told this story and I just
wonder what someone else would think
Thanks for listening
Patti
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