Today I emerged slightly from the misty morass of modern medical drugs and actually took a look around on the computer for a few minutes. Went to ER a week ago with pain and swelling completely out of control. I was writhing and weeping on the bed. That's when I soon discovered what a blessedly wonderful drug morphine can be. They gave me two shots of it while I was there, and I came home with pain pills and a prescription antihistamine type of drug, to which they added prednisone four days later. All the blood tests and other tests they did showed the same thing my doc has been saying. There is nothing going on other than a severe allergic reaction. A high norm number for that blood test would be 6. Mine was 21. DH has been setting a timer and giving me my medicine every four hours round the clock for a week, and I have just today seen some real improvement. He's also doing all the meals for us, and anything and everything else that I need. The swelling was so bad he had to cut off my wedding ring. Boo-hoo! But I'm consoling myself with thoughts of getting a new one. No sewing yet, just some reading, some movies, and some more reading. And sleeping. Oh yes, sleeeeeep. Verrrry niiiice. So I just wanted to stop in and say hi. Y'all keep up the good work around here.
Karen, Queen of Squishies