Hey gang,
This week has been a bit of a drag. My UTI, plus antibiotics, beat you up a bit, loss of appetite and being tired all the time is a bit of a drag. I had an ultra sound on my shoulder and they think there is a torn ligament or tended in there, but they couldn’t really tell for sure since I was on a stretcher they couldn’t get me into all of the positions. I also had an MRI on my neck, but I made a bit of a mistake, as I took 2mg of Ativan an hour before and 2 more mg 15 minutes before, they did put me in the big magnet which is a little easier than then the small one. 4 mg of Ativan do work, and I was able to stay in the tube for 30 minutes plus with no problem. Last time I took Ativan and got back in my wheel chair I ran into a few things, so this time Darcy put me in my wheelchair and didn’t allow me to move and they couldn’t wake me up even when I had visitors, sorry, kirs, and jackline. I didn’t really wake up for the rest of the night seems I only need about 2 mg of Ativan to make me comfortable 4mg, knock me out. I also had an x-ray on my back as some of the PT back stretching seemed to move something. I haven’t heard the results yet for the ultrasound, MRI, or the x-ray.
Darcy is working hard at getting the house ready and getting lift for the garage, renovations have started in the bathroom, and should be done soon. Darcy is here with a toilet in the back of the bug. Vern came last week, and trimmed my beard and I guess I don’t look like grizzly Adams anymore. Thanks Vern, he’ll have to come and see me every 2 or 3 weeks and keep me trimmed up.
The Rick Hansen Relay went through Tillsonburg yesterday and Meghan and Kelly and Darcy all walked It was great to see. I now have their numbers a medal and a jacket, and a t shirt. I am in Rick Hansen’s data base so hopefully all the information, I give will be useful in the future. I am also in Christopher Reeves, Data base and a grasp study, and also, a blood indicator study. On Monday I have to do all the grasping tests like taking nuts of screws, putting a key in a lock, moving pegs around in a board,…etc. I will also be doing, a sensation testing where they stick me with pins everywhere to see if my sensory system is returning, I had it done when I came in and several times when I was in Toronto, so they will be able to compare the data, and see if there are any changes, hopefully there will be improvements.
I have a constant motion machine I am now using on my leg; I use it three times a day for about an hour. And it moves my leg (left) about 15 degrees of extension, up to 75 degrees of flexion. I have control so I can change the degrees to see how much i can tolerate. If it gets moving again (my knee) and I can bend it I may be able to get back on the Moto med (bike) if physio thinks it is a good idea. In physio I have been getting acupuncture and they stick needles in my foot and my knee, and I also have what they call tacks that are permanently stuck in my leg I have three of them one on my foot (in the liver spot) and then I have 2 in (eye of my knee). The tacks are basically little bandaides with a really short little needle on it. They stay in until they fall out or decide to take them out. I don’t’ really know if acupuncture is working but it is worth a try. I do think they may help because I haven’t had to take so many pain pills, I’m down to one or two a day, so it could be the acupuncture, or that they are being more careful with my knee, and I keep my brace on fixed at a 30 degree angle. Which is probably why the physio therapist gave me the constant motion machine, as they don’t want my knee to lock up, we’ll see how it works.
The air force Colonel who was here told me the real story of the poppy, as why it was chosen by John McCrea, when he wrote In Flanders Fields, It seems that the poppy can propagate either from seed or a piece wood even though the fields were all blown up with trenches and shells, poppies would grow, from the bits of root or seed that were spread throughout the fields, the poppy is symbolic re newal of life. Canada was the first country to adopt the poppy as a symbol of remeberance, followed by England and Australia followed.
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