Mom asked me to post a note and ask you to pray for her this weekend. The physical therapy was not good for her this week. The therapist apparently worked her neck and wasn't supposed too. She failed to contact Dr. E (the Houston doctor) before starting therapy on Mom. So mom has been in a lot of pain this week and getting worse. She's had a lot of pain in her arms and legs and is limping again. She's also shaking quite a bit.
Tonight she talked with Dr. P from the Mayo Clinic and he was very upset that the therapist worked on Mom's neck and wanted her to see Dr. E immediately. Of course, it's Friday and Monday is a holiday. Dr. P wants her to go up on her medication dosage. She's been going up on it very slowly (in 5mg doses) because it's had some nasty side effects before when she took it in larger doses. But tonight she's going up 10mg and wants everyone to pray that the side effects are minimal and that this dosage increase helps with her symptoms.
She was really doing well on the medication before she started PT last week. At Christmas she really was feeling great. And now she's scared because a lot of her symptoms are back. Hopefully the dosage increase will help.
Thanks for your prayers and please let me know if you have any questions. Feel free to post messages!
**I know some of you are having trouble and I'm not entirely sure why. But you should be able to click on the word 'comments' (if you don't see the comment box already). then type your message and underneath the comment box you will see 'comment as'. select 'name/url' or 'anonymous' then click on the gray comment button.
Have a great weekend! And thanks in advance for your prayers! Mom really covets them.
***On a personal note, while your praying for Mom will you please say a prayer for some dear friends of ours, they lost their baby this week. She was about 8-10 weeks pregnant. I know they would appreciate your prayers too.
Friday, January 15, 2010
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Physical Therapy and Driving!
Sorry that it's been awhile since I posted anything about mom. Please feel free to email me if you want to know how she's doing: purplestacy@mac.com
We had a great Christmas. Mom's sister, Sharon, and her husband, Stan, came down for a visit. Mom felt really well over the holiday season. She and Kim even went out for New Year's Eve!
She started physical therapy (PT) the last week. It was rough on her. She had lots of break through pain and shaking. They went today and talked with the therapist and decided to wait awhile before starting back up again. The therapist said that Mom might not of had enough time to heal before starting the PT. She said that they see women all the time that have had an epidural during childbirth and have back pain from it. So even though she's been bedridden for months, she wasn't able to really heal because of the chronic pain. So after a few weeks she's start back up.
For now, she'll walk in a heated pool that's not far from her house and walk around her yard.
Last week she drove with Kim in the car up to our house which is about at 25-30 minute drive. Kim said she did great and gave her permission to drive short distances. That was a boost for her because now she doesn't feel confined to the house.
That's it for now. Please continue to pray for her recovery. It will be a slow one, but all the doctors and the therapist all say she will get better, it will just take awhile.
We had a great Christmas. Mom's sister, Sharon, and her husband, Stan, came down for a visit. Mom felt really well over the holiday season. She and Kim even went out for New Year's Eve!
She started physical therapy (PT) the last week. It was rough on her. She had lots of break through pain and shaking. They went today and talked with the therapist and decided to wait awhile before starting back up again. The therapist said that Mom might not of had enough time to heal before starting the PT. She said that they see women all the time that have had an epidural during childbirth and have back pain from it. So even though she's been bedridden for months, she wasn't able to really heal because of the chronic pain. So after a few weeks she's start back up.
For now, she'll walk in a heated pool that's not far from her house and walk around her yard.
Last week she drove with Kim in the car up to our house which is about at 25-30 minute drive. Kim said she did great and gave her permission to drive short distances. That was a boost for her because now she doesn't feel confined to the house.
That's it for now. Please continue to pray for her recovery. It will be a slow one, but all the doctors and the therapist all say she will get better, it will just take awhile.
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