Fuzzy's Romp Room

I'm going to the primary's PA today - the pain in the shoulder blades just isn't letting up.. I like her, I hope she has more suggestions besides what I have tried:

Ice/heat combination
ultimate healing cream
miracle ice
toradol (got sick from it dizzy, nauseated)
Hot shower -bad idea
stretching - soon as I stop it spasms again
Laying down - makes it worse when I stand up
Tennis ball
Computer set up had been changed for months, I don't hurt as long as I don't reach forward
Get up every hour – walking and stretching
Meditation
Breathing exercises – belly breathing ok, chest spasms if I breathe into my chest.

pocket party is ok with me,,

Gma. What a great peaceful picture. Hope your PA was able to suggest something that will help you.



Cindy

Wren its the same spot as you though - PA said,"Oh my God you are all knotted up!" and then she scrunched her nose and explained how it could have been something I did 3 days before it started hurting.  The only thing I did differently was WALK LOL 

BTW - pain meds have eased it some but if I take any more I will definitely have to put my CPAP on.  They did refer me to PT - go in tomorrow for a little help.

GM, I am so sorry you are hurting so much, but boy am I glad your doc helped you out!  What a relief!  Tough deal on the needing the breathing machine, tho.  And I am personally sorry that a couple things I suggested didn't work.  But fortunately, I'm all out of suggestions!

I can testify that I, too, had pain in shoulder blade on the same side as my mastectomy, I think I described it before.  But that shoulder blade thing may be a commonality, I remember a few people mentioning it.  I think, therefore, it is an expected thing, but GM, I do think yours is especially bad.  I don't argue against the doc, but it's just that when you hear something that unusual from a few people who all had the same operation, well, it makes you think, you know? 

Hopefully PT (physical therapy?) will be willing to roll out that back of yours, I rolled on the floor, over that shoulder blade nice and easy, but I do not recommend this AT ALL.  I was carefully taught how to from my car wreck, so I wouldn't hurt myself.  Brings back some unsettling memories, so I KNOW just how much it hurts. 

Well, let us know if PT knew what they were doing and helped you.  Perhaps ask them to gently but firmly massage out that spasm?  Poor you.  At least when you're up and awake you can take your meds?   Gosh, that's rough.  Hang in.  GG  

Pain pills helping a bit

"April Morning Shadows"

Savgigi - I am but shouldn't be - I won't explain, but tired of hiding and running away. I will just deal with the situations as they arrive.

GMA, that is beautiful. He will love it, especially because Grandma made it for him!!

Hi all, I don't get here often, but a lot of familiar sisters meet here...
GG, a few pages back, I read the description of your greenhouse....if you can do all that, you will be pretty much set in your mountain paradise!  I really like the hot tub for your achey days, and the fireplace to keep warm.  A greenhouse makes the spring come earlier and the summer last longer. 

Gma, I love your view...and how it changes all the time.  I always said if I had mountains here along with the ocean, I'd have everything....and as a young girl I always wanted to live in Oregon...even though I'd never been there.  I finally got there in 2008 and it is as beautiful as I always dreamed.  Thanks for sharing the peace and beauty.

Hugs

Joan

GIRLS (sorry I still like the girly and boysie terms),

For those who, like me, have suffered with that shoulder blade pain associated with surgery, this morning I was thinking about it as I put the gallon of milk up on the top shelf with that side, and I felt a twinge in my upper left arm, the last part of the whole shoulder thing to let up.  It occurs to me now, altho I was very careful to use my other arm for that dang milk after surgery, that could be I sleepily DID use the wrong milk arm, and we just don't quite have the muscle strength for certain things.  And FOLEY, as you said, perhaps it was quickly finishing that quilt that may have strained up your shoulder blade.  WREN, maybe you did something about the time it began to hurt that boogered it up, and it wouldn't be much, really.  Took me a long time to regain range-of-motion with that arm, and I still do not like it to go up, but I do sometimes, and I can feel it pull in a muscle that goes around from the chest and under my arm to the back.

Now, I also have a spasm that happens in my thoracic spine, where I fractured my back, and to this day, it will get one in it, and I have to ask husband to massge it out, or I get on the floor and roll it or lean against an outward corner in my house.  Just be really careful getting up or down, I don't recommend any of my stuff, except the massage thing, as long as it's not too hard; just firm.

FUZZY, pleeeeez COME BACK to us.  We miss your lively talk, and I wonder how your little doggie is doing, and hoping you are as well as can be expected.  LOVE TO ALL, GG 

Gma, oh wow!  I would think I was in heaven with the views you have.  You're so lucky.  I was raised a city girl but I love nature.  That must come from a past life I've lived, lol.

I was raised in silicone valley, AKA San Jose, CA - After 50 years there we had to get out of the rat race and DH got a job up here.. Thank You God for getting us here :-)  Sure hope Fuzzy is ok and VEGGY - Nice seeing you !   Oh and Kathindc, we have an extra room if you want to visit!  We wanted to make this place into a bed a breakfast at one point. Just don't have the energy...

How peaceful!

FOLEY, that "North Morning Views," I SO like that one.  Is that moss or grass out there, that well shows the little ripples of soil under the trees?  Ya'll have a pretty place with the views.

DREAMERS, you really cracked me up with that cancer sign!  Oh, would that it were true, a cure, you know.  Women of tomorrow will wonder how we stood up to this... well, maybe they'll read our words and know.  My brother's son had cancer when he was a teenager, about 12-year survivor now.  And one day when they were visiting at my folks' house, several of us were standing near the fireplace talking, and I happened to say how I felt left in a fog from the chemo.  And he looked up at me with a VERY knowing look.  I felt more for him than myself, for he is gifted, yet has trouble getting going on things.

FOLKS, last night I slept all the way thru to morning.  This was a miracle, because this new medicine I've been taking since March has disturbed my rest powerful awful.  I feel guilty because it wrecks any useful parts of my day, and I finally had to indefinitely put off eating dinner with my folks, and this was at MY invitation.  But I cannot help it.  Well, we'll see if I can overcome it, I've reduced the amount and changed the times to earlier in the day, that seems to do the trick.  Until next time, ladies, and VEGGY, it was mighty good to see you.  Always, GG

I am in awe!