Just so y'all know, I am posting almost exclusively on mixedbordernews these days--I usually lack time/brain energy to try and post more than one place.

I'm watching a lot of TV sitcoms these days. Oddly--since I hate country music--I have gotten totally hooked on "Reba"!

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Hi all--first time back online for weeks!

I'm typing from a wheelchair in the rec room at Youville rehab hospital.

Wavyarms started this new community (Thank you Wavyarms!), mixedbordernews, for updates to relay from me by phone. It's hard for me to talk on the phone because the morphine makes my voice really weak. I'm planning on ( Read more... )

When on earth did I break a vertebra?

How?

How did I not notice it??

(Cross-posted to robed_embraceDischarged from ER ( Read more... )

Oh joy, I've developed a new symptom. It's a shooting tingle like an electric shock that runs from the small of my back down my legs when I cough or go over a bump in the car. Momentary, but very startling and uncomfortable ( Read more... )

A friend of mine whom I just told about my tumors exclaimed ( Read more... )

I just told my parents--but only about the liver growth. It was such a shock and horror to them that I know I was right to not tell everything yet! They rallied, though, to be supportive and my mother didn't lose it on the phone ( Read more... )

My bone scan today was NORMAL. They scanned my whole skeleton head to toe, and there was no activity anywhere. YAY!

And my dr. told me that some of my discomfort is caused by the barium still hanging around in my intestines and clogging them up, and a good strong laxative should take care of that. So I'm off to Walgreen's. I will take it after legostud ( Read more... )

(cross-posted to robed_embraceDear friends ( Read more... )