To my loyal readers who have been wondering where in the world I have been......I have been running myself ragged to my entourage of doctors I have accumulated in the past several years. It seems I need to go to them all each month now. As you know I had hand surgery in October consisting of removal of a bone which controls the thumb, tendon reconnection from my forearm arm and while they were at it they went ahead and did carpal tunnel surgery which was long, long overdue. Last October I had my right hand done, this year I had my left done. I also took a fall on the ice on December 23,2010. This put me in a set back for healing. The pain in my arm rose to be so severe in my arm over the last 6 weeks or so that I would find myself in tears because of it. Not relating it much to the fall, I was puzzled as to why this surgery was not healing properly. With my MS there is associated pain, with the b12 deficiency the mielyn covering of the nerves (also a problem with the MS) is destroyed and sends pain throughout your body, then the trauma of the fall which was just weeks after surgery. Upon complaining still to my doctor (my personal doctor was on vacation when I fell, so I saw an associate who only xrayed my hands even though I stated I hurt up to my shoulder) last week when at my checkup, he xrayed the shoulder area and found I had fractured the large bone in my arm and also the rotator cuff was giving me a problem because of this. Well, even though this of course is some unneeded pain and recovery time I did not need in my life, it surely was a welcomed explanation as to why I hurt so badly. I had traumatized the entire arm upon falling and since I already know it takes the surgery I had at least a year recovery time for me to feel somewhat better (it will never be 100% since the surgery) I realized the next several months for me will not be what I have expected. So 2x a week now I am back at PT to try to help the pain and gain strength back in the arm and hand. So everyone as winter nears an end for us...(it is heading this week to 60 degrees for us Pittsburghers' !!!) please, please be careful for ice. I went down on black ice in a parking lot. The lot looked clear. It was not safe. Thank God I was not prancing around that day in my high heel boots. I had nice totally flat shoe boots on which I thought were safe. It could have been worse being I slipped between the cars. But yet, it is bad enough for me and not what I needed with a fresh surgery still trying to heal. It has been a set back not expected. But then again that is what life is all about. I am just thankful it happened to me and not an elderly person who would not have taken the fall quite so well. You see it happened at a restaurant and after I slipped they went out and salted the spaces between the parked cars, which no one ever thinks about at the time of salting. So perhaps my fall saved another from having worse injuries. Never know, but that is how I choose to look at my bad circumstance. Things always happen for a reason, or so they may seem.
I will be back now regularly with my blogging.
Have a wonderful Wednesday & I do hope the sun is shining on you today!
Gabbriella
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