Life can be a Pain

[Owlunar]

Hi @Appleblossom

Thanks for your thoughts

My life was a perfect storm for a short while - everything happening and now I need to find out about my relatives but also feel I need to take more time to myself first - I might be tempted to go to Tassie before I have recovered myself

I had to pick up my computer this morning - do I ever miss it when it is away for a short time - and I sent my daughter flowers yesterday and this was followed by a phone conversation - she feels better than she has for ages though she is sore - four stitches

I love the Celtic stories also - I love the pic you posted - I am trying to think of a Celtic story right now - perhaps Merlin who was sometimes right and sometimes wrong felt like I do now at the end before Nimue trapped him - or he chose to be trapped

I have been fascinated by Merlin since I was a child - I have never been able to work out if he was a good guy or not and think after all this time that he was like the rest of us - brilliant but over-thinking sometimes - we can only do what we do when we are trying our best

So that fits - I had a run of painful orthopaedic issues capped off with getting used to BP Medication and all my ill relatives - mostly my daughter - and I will give myself time to recover before I get on with other issues in my family - 

I have the feeling I am repeating myself - 

Dec

[Owlunar]

Hi @utopia

You are right - I do have a very strong daughter and I am beginning to see where it comes from - I have been too busy fighting the odds to take much notice of how I must seem to her but yes - the apple didn't fall far from the tree

It is a hard thing to lose a child and those of us who have would never want anyone else to know what it's like - I find @Former-Member a tremendous support - she is a wonderful person

This terrible MRSA - I remember when I first injured my spine I was admitted to a big hospital as an emergency and I was in a really old part of the hospital that was being renovated. There were four of us in this same room which I saw when I was a later admission every time I passed - I can hardly believe how tiny that room was - and at the time - how dirty the carpet was.

The woman in the next bed had surgery for an abscess in her leg - I was having all sorts of tests and wondered how bad this creepy bug could be and how it could travel and if it was already in the dirt in the carpet - it was all cleaned out but empty when I last saw it a long time ago but I really think that it was an example of how MRSA could hatch.

Still I needed a night in the nice clean hospital I was in last year - and it is private and I had a room to myself. There were two wounds in my knee and one of them leaked a lot - had I been at home that would have meant going back to hospital yet I was only there because I live alone. It would have been problematic if I had been home - I guess I have been thinking of that with my daughter having too very short stays in hospital in a month and the first time she should have been in hospital over night she was so ill and in so much pain.

I guess there is always that fine line - one thing I have gather through years is that being over-clean is one reason that MRSA can grow and spread - who knows - this thing is really scary

I know you are here for my Utopia - it means a lot - thanks

Dec

[Shaz51]

soo glad your daughter is feeling  better than she has for ages @Owlunar , recovery time now xx

@Former-Member is a wonderful friend xx

[Owlunar]

Thanks @Shaz51

[Appleblossom]

Ah @Owlunar I would be thinking it was a scary painful storm ... but you posted a perfect understatement.

[Owlunar]

I really like that @Appleblossom - this is my perfect overstatement of Likes

[Owlunar]

Hi @Former-Member

I do understand your pic of a fire blasted tree - it really does feel like that - totally destroying - 

Aw - it really speaks to me

Dec

[Former-Member]

Hey @Owlunar, can't chat long as on the run, but guess what? Finally found a DR willing to do an MRI of my lower back 😱 Yay! Finally. Since Anzac Day its been horrible saw. Just had to tell ya. Gonna cost a packet but worth it i think. Think i'll stop eating 'till the pain goes away (re weight :/). Had to tell someone. Thanks for being here ❤❤❤

[Former-Member]

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[Owlunar]

HI @Former-Member

I read somewhere that you are having a really hard time with SI atm - I know how that can really get to you and that can be so hard to manage - I  understand - I forget where I read that but I am answering that here for your sake and I only have a few minutes

I really care Lapses and hope to get back later - I am also glad you are having that MRI - you have had that back pain long enough for it to be called chronic pain now and an MRI will help to sort all of this out and I wish you the best

Sending lots of hugs - Fridays are busy but I will be thinking of you - 

Dec