Sciatica pain

[WmFritz]

Good to hear, Lynn.   8)    I've got an electric dog collar that Pat can borrow to help ''wake'' the nurse.  :D :D

Thanks for the update.

[doctorb]

As nerves "wake up" after being compressed they often go from anesthesia (no pain) to hypesthesia (increased sensitivity / pain).  Not an uncommon scenario.  Hang in there Pat!  MM too!

[NH4000]

She is off of any meds that might cause blood thinning now.  "Tylenol" type only.

I am wishing your wife a speedy recovery. Be careful not to overdo the tylenol dosage. It is not like advil in that you can give yourself the "prescription" dose. From what I have heard, a tylenol overdose can be serious.

Not a doctor, but just wanted to share.

Steve

[SPIKER]

Pinched nerve and the waking up nerve pain are way different both (will be censored real bad if i posted it) but the pins and needles burning is not as bad as the compressed nerve but a whole different and annoying pain that really drags on daily life...

luckily she has not LIVED with the compressed nerve so long to cause the continuous pain (hopefully!)

Mark

[Magicman]

We made it OK last night.  I just have to do what she says.   ;D

The pain meds that she was prescribed has Tylenol so she can not have any "extra".  She starts leg lifts and walking today. 

I am "grounded", but the sawing customers understand.  Thankfully, I sawed and knocked out the hot ones during the past couple of weeks.

[thecfarm]

I hope all goes well and Pat improves each and every day.

[Magicman]

The ladies in Pat's Sunday School class are bringing vittles.   

Last night it was chicken spaghetti, pecan/cranberry/apple green salad and a cherry/white chocolate pie.  Tonight it was smoked brisket, potato salad, fried okra, baked beans, and pumpkin cookies.

This nursing gig ain't all bad.   ;D

Pat ran a couple ° of fever this afternoon, but it has apparently broken.  She is walking....kinda and did her leg lift exercises.  Hopefully her soreness will diminish.

[Shotgun]

Lynn,

Time for another hug for Pat from Florida and best wishes from N & M. Would you mind helping me deliver it, Lynn?

Thanks.

And our best to the apparently well fed nurse.     :D

Norm

[WDH]

Nurses have to eat, too. 

[pineywoods]

Them church ladies can be too much of a good thing.. ;D Couple of years ago, my wife was bed ridden for 4 weeks with a broken pelvis. I was the attending nurse. Them church ladies brought in so much vittles, I couldn't eat it all. Had to freeze some of it. I told them it was so good, I wanted to save some for later. Wouldn't do to have someone find out I threw out her favorite casserole !!!  I did put on a few pounds...

[trapper]

Thanks for the updates  Been praying for her

[drobertson]

Amen, and Amen on them  Church Ladies 8) 8),  Glad Pat is doing better!    david

[Magicman]

Thanks for all of the well wishes.  The hug was properly administered, but the kiss was from me.    

Last night was really, really bad.  She could not allow anything to even touch her foot so she (we) turned sideways on the bed so that she could hang her foot off of the bedside.  Thankfully it is not so bad this morning.

I am hoping that when that sciatic nerve settles down to it's new environment this foot pain will go away.

[SPIKER]

MM those first days were really bad for me but then I was stuck in hospital bed for 3 weeks and the nurses would not listen & would jam the sheets down under mattress to where I didn't have strength to pull them out to get my legs out.   spent much of that time laying on top of sheets w just blanket on my chest... :( >:(.   Make sure she is taking the pills on time, do they have her on a Naproxin or ibuprofen?  those two are anti swelling/inflammatory pills & have to be in your system to build up / work they are not really a take them as needed pills from what docs always told me...
Even today 5.5 years later for me about 1/2 my leg is pins & needles 75% of the time and my left foot still has days where it feels like a blow torch is on it...   Spells are different (not worse or better) than when the nerve was pinched for me where I can't set still, drive or stand shuffle around.   Heating pad don't help and Ice feels just like shoving 1000 pins into ya.

Wishing her well...

M

[Magicman]

She has no ° this morning which is good.  She started out this morning on the couch, but I see that she has migrated back to the bed and is asleep.   

[Magicman]

Today has gone fairly well.  The foot pain is still there but maybe not as intense.

At least we are eating well because the ladies showed up again this evening.  Lasagna, green beans, tossed green salad, garlic bread, and brownies.

[Magicman]

She had a slightly better night last night, and is in the recliner this morning.  Hopefully the foot pain will diminish.  Hopefully.

She says that I can not saw Monday, and sadly she has given up on her being able to make the Goodwill Sawing trip to Texas.   :-\

[wwsjr]

Hope Pat continues to improve. Too bad she may not make the TX trip, I was looking forward to her support. After my wife's surgery and was taking chemo, I had to eat a lot of those church lady casseroles.

[Magicman]

Until tonight, I had never shaved a lady's legs before.      

[Southside]

MM,
Hope your wife is feeling better, just my personal experience but after breaking my L5, then my L4 a decade later, along with herniating my L5-S1, L4-L5, and L3-L4, I understand her pain.  I have been through the meds, surgery, physical therapy, steroids, all of it.  The pain would radiate down both legs and drop me to my knees just walking across the barn, I had to use a walker for 6 months after the second break.  Things got to the point where the meds and steroids were not working any longer and it was suggested I try OMM (Osteopathic Manupulation Medicine).   All I can say was that it was sort of a chiropractic without the cracking, mixed with massage, and some energy/whoo-hoo medicine - now mind you I am a very much hands on have to see it myself to understand it kind of guy, so I have a hard time believing in something I can't understand.  My doctor is all of 5 feet tall and maybe 100 lbs, 30 years old, gray hair.  Well - there is something to this sort of therapy, I can honestly say after the first session I walked out of there amazed, went back for probably 6 more sessions, have not gone back now for maybe 3 years.  Now I will get sore once in a while, but I can swing a chain saw all day and pull cable so sore is expected.  Just something to look into that is not drug related and is really aimed at helping the body heal itself.  I truly hope she feels better soon, it really is a miserable kind of pain. 

[Sixacresand]

Until tonight, I had never shaved a lady's legs before.      

TMI lol.  We pray that Pat continues to improve.

[SPIKER]

Until tonight, I had never shaved a lady's legs before.      

TMI lol.  We pray that Pat continues to improve.

Might need a blood transfusion after the leg shaving lol... :D

[Magicman]

Which one of us  ???   :D   :D

[doctorb]

If Pat had a few laughs during the "shaving procedure", she's getting better.   :D

[Magicman]

Guess what this morning's duties included.