I caught a bad case of the flu during the flu season here in Arizona and I could barely catch my breath, I ended up in the emergency room at our local hospital where I waited for 16 hours to be seen! I would have waited longer but I stood up to get a drink of water and blacked out from lack of oxygen, I woke up in the back with elevendyhundred wires poked into me and the doctor walked in and handed me a script for an inhaler and some antibiotics and sent me home, in total he stayed to speak to me for less than 3 minutes! I feel your pain and totally understand your frustration of the medical field, I would only go back to the hospital now if I had my liver in a jar.
Oh Bev you poor girl. I sure hope it eases up. Fibro and RA pain is so rough. Yes I agree sometimes those of us who have these conditions have a hell of a pain tolerance level and distinguishing how badly hurt we are at times is tough. Praying for you.
Hugs!!! Mrs V make you a walker bag so that you always have something to put your phone in. You can find easy tutorials online. Also you could attach a basket to walker (like on your scooter) for carrying goodies to the critters. Please be careful precious lady. We love you.
ER in Ontario is no better. I was 2-3 times every year for 8 yrs at the ER, for unremitting upper right stabbing abdominal pain.Not to mention the frequent episodes at home. Each and every time I told them I believed it was my gallbladder as 10 yrs. prior I was told that I had grit in my common bile duct and if I developed pain it needed to come out. Instead they gave me morphine, took an ultrasound, insisted that they didn't see anything. My G.P. took ultrasounds, I asked for referrals but even the GI specialists insisted there was nothing. I even asked for a contrast X-ray but that was denied. So after 8 yrs.(on at least 5 of those yrs.I had the same chief of the ER attend me), they finally found something on the ultrasound and I was referred to surgery. The surgeon assessed my file and said that this was my gallbladder and it looks like this issue had been going on a long time. If I wasn't in so much pain I would've done something very violent to something or someone. Needless to say that they finally took out a very inflamed, infected, enlarged gallstone filled gallbladder. The gallbladder was so enlarged that it had swollen to lie well below the liver down into the right side of my abdomen. This 8 yr. delay has caused me so many health issues and almost 3 yrs. post surgery I'm still dealing with issues. I'm so very glad that you didn't break anything, and with time you'll feel a little better. Thanks once again in describing chronic pain sufferers issues and dilemmas. Today I have a yellow day.
To the person that helped you get off your truck and into the hospital, thank you. What a wonderful person to offer herself and help someone in need. Please take care of yourself Mrs. Volfie.
Prayers to you Mrs. V. for a speedy recovery. I too have Fibro and what you said is spot on. I try to tell people and even my Doctor that I don't feel pain like a person does without Fibro. It's really miserable. Anyway, I'm sorry that happened so rest and take good care.
I have a ton of issues myself. Arthritis , Fibromyalgia , Asthma, COPD . Um high blood pressure, severe fatigue. The list could go on but hearing someone my own age going through the hardest of it all being the fibro to that understands the pain. Mine is mostly in my rib cage and in my right shoulder blade. I have a 20 yr old back injury that pretty much ended the life I had made for myself so I had to start all over. Having to sell off all my horses almost killed me. I started Teaching myself things I can do sitting down has been my only saving Grace. I couldn't work so I had to find an outlet that was more than staring at t.v. all day. I just love your videos. I wanna start on a towel band set from one of your videos. I taught myself to sew and to crochet, a little knitting. I didn't mean to get in this deep on the comment section but here is what I came to say, I just love your videos, your good people. I completely understand your struggles and your still doing what you can and not just forgetting to live while your going through these struggles, and for one I Respect that... God Bless You and Yours and Thank you for showing and sharing your talents with me. Prayers for your pain to subside.
Oh, good grief, Mrs V! Things were going so well at Casa Volfie this summer, too! So sorry to hear about your plight! Sending you all the positive thoughts and healing energy I can muster. And, hugs to Nan - what a blessing she is!
so sorry this happened to you. I too have fibro and broke my back in three places. I was admitted to a hospital but after two days of a sleep inducing drug, I was released. I was flabbergasted and mad. I has to go to doc and get a mri. after 2 months I was told I couldn't be helped as to much time has passed. I know your pain and simpatize. much love and healing thoughts going your way. take care sweety, blessings.
Oh my OUCH!!! The older we get the harder we fall.... And yes, then comes the fybro! I've had several falls that warranted an ER visit and I hear what you are saying. Take your time healing and take it easy. You are in my prayers. God Bless!
You are SO right! I have had chronic pain for 39 years. It's ALL I know. I have no recall of how it was to live without pain of some sort. I am SO sorry you fell again, sweetheart. Get out the trusty heating pad and relax as much as possible. I can see the pain and fogginess in your face. REST! REST! REST! I'm not supposed to leave the house without my phone either....I do forget from time to time though. What a disaster that hospital is! I thought ours in the states could be less than wonderful. WOW! That's really reprehensible that they have no one to help patients get into the hospital. We have a bunch of volunteers to help. They are by and large elderly who want to help, and what a blessing they are.
Bless you. Today is Gold!!! I love gold. Sure beats the red and orange of the last couple of days. Hate those falls. Tuck and roll has kept me from breaking bones many times. Take it slow and easy for a while.
When we were in the ER for an emergency with a friend (whom we then got admitted at a better hospital), we noticed the folks with tats, who were skinny, overweight or dressed in a certain way were treated different. Wonder if this happens at all hospitals.
This video is the exact reason I tell people not to judge a person by how they are one day to another. I also have fibromyalgia as well as other chronic pain issues. You are so strong to push through your days to not only take care of your home but to make these videos. My thoughts and prayers are with you. Keep up the fight and feel better
Thank God for your loving and caring Mother-In-Law being there to help you and stay with you.....You are blessed with having family and friends pray and worry about you and your health. Thank-you Nan & Howie! God speed Bev!
I'm so sorry you've had some rough days. Thank you for sharing your info and experience with those of us who are fairly new to this. (It took me six years to catch on to the fact that "successful pain management" sometimes means making it to the end of the day without screaming bloody murder. I've experienced that with both legally prescribed pain meds and natural alternatives. Some days are just going to be red days. Worst six years of my life...)
Oh Geeze! You take care. Yeah the hospital emergency is not a good place to be. My hubby had to go to emergency yesterday as he had an ulnar nerve operation in his elbow on June 2 and although the stitches dissolved a few weeks back, he woke up yesterday morning and the whole scar opened right up and he was bleeding. He was in an out of there in an hour. They used some kind of glue to seal up the scar and taped it shut and gave him a prescription for antibiotics. Thank god we live one block away from the hospital also. So if there was a long wait we could come home easily, like a 3 minute walk, but I guess they did not want him bleeding all over the place.
Oh, how I feel your pain! I suffer from FM too and I'm afraid to take anything but Tylenol for the pain since I'm allergic to all the drugs you referred to. This is currently Oct 2019 but I had a disastrous fall in Sept 2019 when walking my dog around the neighborhood. My left foot hit a raised portion of a sidewalk and I fell flat on my face. I broke my nose, lost four front teeth (one was driven into my upper lip), and severely injured my left knee. At first, I just laid there in shock and then began assessing my injuries. My hands and both wrists ended up black with bruising but, thankfully, I didn't break a bone. I'm still suffering from headaches in the sinus area. I'm no stranger to pain either but enough is enough. God bless you and your sweet man.
I do hope you feel better, rest and heal. So many times hospitals treat people like drug seekers, it makes me so mad, it has happened to me when I had a grapefruit sized internal abscess caused by a fistula from crohn's.
So sorry to hear about your ER experience. I can truly sympathize as two weeks ago, I had to go to my local ER at 1 a.m. for what I thought was indigestion. After nearly 14 HOURS of waiting to be placed in an examination room, seeing the ER doctor, blood tests and scans, I was admitted to the hospital for emergency gall bladder surgery. The surgery was scheduled on Thursday, June 29 at 7:30 a.m. The surgeon said he was releasing me to go home on Saturday, July 1, but the hospital doctor wanted to release me on Friday, June 30, stating some happy crap about recuperating better at home when I knew full well that it was the insurance company who did not want to pay for an extra day's stay. I was able to stay for that extra day only because of the fact that I lived alone and would not have anyone to help me at home as well as transporting me home until Saturday. Between the hospitals and the insurance companies, they couldn't give a diddlysquat about our health and well-being. Health care not much better here in the good old USA. Hope you are feeling better daily. Hugs to you, Bev. Hang in there.
I'm a fibro sufferer, along with some other health issues, and you're right - chronic pain all the time. I've fallen several times in the last few years and once you start falling like that you kind of worry about falling. Agree about always having a phone and either a walker (or cane). Hope you feel better soon and thank you for keeping it real.
I must have missed this at the time, so bit late to be sorry to hear about your tumble! Bless you. Great description of fibro pain :/ much love as always xx
I am SO VERY SORRY about your fall and your treatment! That really stinks! Thank goodness that Nan was there for you. Thank goodness your Howie is so sweet. I know it will take a while , but this too shall pass. One of the ways I deal with my fib pain is to count my blessings and it helps me feel better. I have been fighting a concussion for the past two weeks along with the fibro and you know how Mr. Fibro feels about any competition. But we do what we must. Wish I could be there to help . I am in Va. But I am sending you love and hugs and prayers for better days to come.
Drs are amazed I soldier on with all my health issues but I love to be busy an provide ,bake and can good food...help grandkids with on line school,run business.Love life an accomplishment.Even though kids grown they always stop by for good food an I always have 1 of 6 grandkids here to feed.And I love it.
Tomorrow I make the six hour trip to Stanford Hospital where they double and triple appts. I'm rehearsing in my head my dialogue with the check in nurse. Last time they said they were running 45 minutes late and I said I'll wait one hour then leaving! (Not my personality but come on) Of course I got right in and sat in the room for another hour😡. So tomorrow when they tell me there's a wait my response is Ive been waiting over a year (They decided to close the office on 4/7 when I had that appt for over a year)I had been waiting to see the Dr. since March 2016! I may walk out...There are no Drs. locally that can help me...We may have pain but we are Warriors!!! ❤️
Dear sweet Bev, please take care. A nasty fall I had 18/19 years ago has come back to haunt my knees, I really should have had medical help way back then. I understand your frustration with the attitude that some medical persons can have. Short staff of doctors is often to blame for the long wait. Thank you Nan for watching over Bev.
I am so sorry about your fall, you probably need to check to makes sure nothing is broken. I took a fall about 5 years ago and I suffer from fibromyalgia as well as many other chronic pain diseases. I didn't go to the ER at first either, I walked on my ankle for about 5 days and that includes going to work every day. Finally I went to the orthopedic dr and I had broken my ankle in two place. Just like you mentioned we always have pain and being in so much pain everyday we don't often realize when we have a severe injury. Awesome video👍
So sorry you took a tumble, one of my worst fears! I have chronic pain & relate to pain levels. Our daily pain would be someone else's horrific pain. We just learn to live with it, grin & bare it. Add on new pain & it can be devastating. I hope you heal quickly.
Hi Bev you do what you need to do to get yourself where you need to be with your fibromyalgia God bless you take it easy when you can be very careful we're always here when your videos come up they make my day much love . your family a mother law and Howie are so amazing wonderful people many prayers you bring a lot of joy to a lot of people and education on fibromyalgia
Amen! We don't know. Luckily you have family that understand. My family tells me to "walk it off" when I can hardly pull myself out of bed, or when I over work myself. Thankfully I haven't had a tumble like yours. As you were describing it I was cringing! Rest 'til you're better. Do as you must because sometimes we have to do for ourselves, and not let our pride get us down. Thank your for the videos, and letting all of us living with Fibromyalgia see that there is some one else out there living with the same issues. I can't speak for anyone else, but I know you make me feel less crazy ( even though I do have the diagnosis and the doctor can't tell me I'm crazy any more). Thank you.
God bless you Bev, I am so glad Nan was there. I will keep you in my prayers. Sounds like your Canada medical is about the same as ours in the US which doesn't look to get any better. Take care and REST.
Thanks sooo much for sharing your story...My husband tells me not to do anything stupid and I always take offense...I have RA discovered by blood test but my back and joint pain that is getting worse and like you, I have learned to roll in a fall so much that I tripped over my service dog and shattered my shoulder and ended up with a complete reverse shoulder replacement a year later...now the other shoulder has taken the trauma by compensating while the other side was out of commission...like you, I have allergies to certain analgesics and when I tell them they look at me the same way...Texas is working to being a medical marijuana but it's going to be years more before it gets worked out and moving is not an option so my only relief is pain management doctors and the state has limited availability when schedule 2 drugs are prescribed.
I have fibromyalgia sue I was 23. By the time I was 33, I had ESRD and have been on dialysis for about 13 years. The minute I tell them what I’m allergic to, and use “alternative “ means of pain relief, they turn me off, and move on. Most of the time I don’t go, because it takes 5 hours to give me a shot of something to make me sleep a waste of time money and energy.
Oh my goodness! Thankfully, nithung was broken..So sorry you had such a bad experience at the hospital.. I can't believe there was no one there to help you get out if the truck.. I've worked in ER's, and never saw that kind of thing happen.. God Bless..💜💜😎💕
Oh that sucks! I'm so so sorry for this painful accident. I do understand that chronic pain suffers You tend to disassociate from the pain to be able to bear it. I hope today is a better day. And I hope that your pain goes back down to a more manageable level soon. I don't know what the doctors could do with all your drug sensitivities. I just can't believe that people are judged for tats, and prescribed weed, You are not a thug or anything. Love you and I'm praying for you Hugs and Blessings!
I am glad you didn't break anything, I was really worried about you sweetie! You are truly blessed to have such a wonderful mother-in-law! I hope you feel better real soon :) GENTLE HUGS from Texas
Hope you feel better quickly. So glad Nan is there now. And, Bev, I want to thank you for telling others what we go through (my son heard you, and he needed to hear this). Take it easy. grams
So sorry about your fall Mrs. V but you're a strong woman, glad to see you're o.k. without no broken bones or other complications,....hope ya pass from the orange pronto to the green! As for medical rant, same here in Mexico, and if you go see a private doc and hospital, they charge ya an arm and a leg! Love ya Mrs. V, take care beautiful! :)
Oh Bev!! As a fellow Fibromite I can (unfortunately) relate. Falls are worse than awful!!!! You know what you need to do, and how to do it. So do those things to care for yourself. Lots of love & healing light coming to you from Savannah, Georgia, USA. Use your medicine and, as hard as it is, ask for help if you need it!! Please thank Nan for her emotional and physical support, from those of us that love you. You're in my prayers, Fibro-sistah!!! 💜 Susie
I am in Alberta and have a rare brain tumor that has grown back. They seriously have no clue so when stuff goes wrong, I hope and pray it passes. The last time I had major bruising on the side of my head for no reason. My eye was slighly damaged when they removed the tumor. The hospital was more concerned with my messed up eye than the unexplained bruising.... God forbid you need an MRI here, especially on your head because it takes 6-9 months to get one!
I am so sorry for your fall.Hope you feel better soon.falling is a horror these days.i fell out the back door over a yr ago and its still not completely well. i feel your pain.God bless you and keep you safe..
I'm so sorry that your in a lot of pain.And you are spot on about the pain. It's hard to explain exactly how much pain or how bad your really hurt. All my best wishes to you. I think that the health system is like that most all places. Here in Alabama where I live they are also lke what you explained. If they know about your meds and what ever else they precieve you as a drug seeker! I will not go to the ER in the town I live in. Because they treat someone like me as a drugie. Or just ignore me all together. I truely pray you didn't hurt any part of yourself.
Oh my dear Fibro Sister, I too know that pain of falling and the soreness that comes with it. It's no fun. I am happy to hear that you are alright. I don't blame How for worrying about you. Please know that I will send you positive energies and I am lighting a candle for you. Please give those adorable pups love from me. Rest up - It truly takes time. Blessed Be!
I hope you feel better soon. I have inner ear trouble after 2 tia's. I have balance issues and fall down too. Please take care of yourself. You have become an important part of my day. Love you.
Mrs. V. I am So sorry you fell 😢. I am praying for you. Since last year my world has been upside down medically since a once in a life time trip I am unable to hold food I throw up often I had my gallbladder removed near 2 years ago Florida health care sucks theres so hung up on body size they keep telling me to lose more weight and I have not by choice it's because my body won't hold on to it in the process of trying to figure this out with my GI system I discovered my spine is completely deteriorating one of my disks in my thoracic spine is herniated into my spinal cord And there nothing they can do also L3 to S1 are herniated and quite a few other spinal conditions going on so with the spine and Gi issues alls I know is pain right now and no one is willing to help. To know That I am not alone helps and I give you a great big hugs for sharing your life with us thank you Mrs. V.
Happy birthday Nan.🎂🎉🎈Sorry I missed it. Now Bev, no more trips to the barn without your walker. Fashion a way to attach your phone to the walker. If anybody can figure out a way to do it, you can. Just suppose Nan hadn't been there. I hate to think what could have happened. I wish I lived closer so I could help you. I'd love to try milking the goats! Please be careful and here's wishing you a speedy recovery
I am a RN in the US and things are no better here. Sounds like you got the standard care or no care as it was. You are so right about chronic pain suffers. When I was working in the recovery room we had an emergency surgery for a ruptured appendix/sepsis. The woman had been seen in the ER 3x that week. Because oh her flat affect and pain med history the nurses had actually charted "drug seeking behaviors". This poor woman just barely escaped death due to this kind of bias. Needless to say I had a private conversation with her distraught husband.
So sorry, will keep you in my thoughts and prayers. Isn't it sad how ER's treat you when you give them the information they ask for and then judge you before they even lay a finger on you? Been there, done that....after my last er visit I will have to be half dead before I go back. Love ya Mrs. V :)
My biggest issue in the summer is air conditioning. I don't have it in my camper so the humidity kills me, but I come into my friends house and I freeze to death. I ache from the cold (pain increases by 200%). Humidity is better than freezing lol. Be careful and follow the rules by using your Walker!!!
oh dear. I'm so sorry you fell. I too suffer fibromyalgia, & am recently injured too. It's a nightmare. I'm so sorry your in extra pain. Gentle hugs dear.
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I caught a bad case of the flu during the flu season here in Arizona and I could barely catch my breath, I ended up in the emergency room at our local hospital where I waited for 16 hours to be seen! I would have waited longer but I stood up to get a drink of water and blacked out from lack of oxygen, I woke up in the back with elevendyhundred wires poked into me and the doctor walked in and handed me a script for an inhaler and some antibiotics and sent me home, in total he stayed to speak to me for less than 3 minutes!
I feel your pain and totally understand your frustration of the medical field, I would only go back to the hospital now if I had my liver in a jar.
Oh Bev you poor girl. I sure hope it eases up. Fibro and RA pain is so rough. Yes I agree sometimes those of us who have these conditions have a hell of a pain tolerance level and distinguishing how badly hurt we are at times is tough. Praying for you.
Hugs!!! Mrs V make you a walker bag so that you always have something to put your phone in. You can find easy tutorials online. Also you could attach a basket to walker (like on your scooter) for carrying goodies to the critters. Please be careful precious lady. We love you.
ER in Ontario is no better. I was 2-3 times every year for 8 yrs at the ER, for unremitting upper right stabbing abdominal pain.Not to mention the frequent episodes at home. Each and every time I told them I believed it was my gallbladder as 10 yrs. prior I was told that I had grit in my common bile duct and if I developed pain it needed to come out. Instead they gave me morphine, took an ultrasound, insisted that they didn't see anything. My G.P. took ultrasounds, I asked for referrals but even the GI specialists insisted there was nothing. I even asked for a contrast X-ray but that was denied. So after 8 yrs.(on at least 5 of those yrs.I had the same chief of the ER attend me), they finally found something on the ultrasound and I was referred to surgery. The surgeon assessed my file and said that this was my gallbladder and it looks like this issue had been going on a long time. If I wasn't in so much pain I would've done something very violent to something or someone. Needless to say that they finally took out a very inflamed, infected, enlarged gallstone filled gallbladder. The gallbladder was so enlarged that it had swollen to lie well below the liver down into the right side of my abdomen. This 8 yr. delay has caused me so many health issues and almost 3 yrs. post surgery I'm still dealing with issues. I'm so very glad that you didn't break anything, and with time you'll feel a little better. Thanks once again in describing chronic pain sufferers issues and dilemmas. Today I have a yellow day.
I was going to say..the upper right pain sounded like your liver/gallbladder
To the person that helped you get off your truck and into the hospital, thank you. What a wonderful person to offer herself and help someone in need. Please take care of yourself Mrs. Volfie.
Prayers to you Mrs. V. for a speedy recovery. I too have Fibro and what you said is spot on. I try to tell people and even my Doctor that I don't feel pain like a person does without Fibro. It's really miserable. Anyway, I'm sorry that happened so rest and take good care.
I have a ton of issues myself. Arthritis , Fibromyalgia , Asthma, COPD . Um high blood pressure, severe fatigue. The list could go on but hearing someone my own age going through the hardest of it all being the fibro to that understands the pain. Mine is mostly in my rib cage and in my right shoulder blade. I have a 20 yr old back injury that pretty much ended the life I had made for myself so I had to start all over. Having to sell off all my horses almost killed me. I started Teaching myself things I can do sitting down has been my only saving Grace. I couldn't work so I had to find an outlet that was more than staring at t.v. all day. I just love your videos. I wanna start on a towel band set from one of your videos. I taught myself to sew and to crochet, a little knitting. I didn't mean to get in this deep on the comment section but here is what I came to say, I just love your videos, your good people. I completely understand your struggles and your still doing what you can and not just forgetting to live while your going through these struggles, and for one I Respect that... God Bless You and Yours and Thank you for showing and sharing your talents with me. Prayers for your pain to subside.
Mrs. V...bless your heart...so sorry you fell...please rest easy and mend. You are in my prayers....
I am doing fine...just slower than usual!
Oh, good grief, Mrs V! Things were going so well at Casa Volfie this summer, too! So sorry to hear about your plight! Sending you all the positive thoughts and healing energy I can muster. And, hugs to Nan - what a blessing she is!
so sorry this happened to you. I too have fibro and broke my back in three places. I was admitted to a hospital but after two days of a sleep inducing drug, I was released. I was flabbergasted and mad. I has to go to doc and get a mri. after 2 months I was told I couldn't be helped as to much time has passed. I know your pain and simpatize. much love and healing thoughts going your way. take care sweety, blessings.
Oh my OUCH!!! The older we get the harder we fall.... And yes, then comes the fybro! I've had several falls that warranted an ER visit and I hear what you are saying. Take your time healing and take it easy. You are in my prayers. God Bless!
Ohhhh Mrs.V!!! Sending love and healing light!
So sorry Mrs. V.! Please REST and take the time to heal as much as you can. We love you. 💕💕💕
Sorry to hear about your fall. I hope your pain level goes way down. You are in my prayers.
This is the saddest I've ever seen Mrs. V. Hang in there and I hope you get to yellow soon!
You are SO right! I have had chronic pain for 39 years. It's ALL I know. I have no recall of how it was to live without pain of some sort. I am SO sorry you fell again, sweetheart. Get out the trusty heating pad and relax as much as possible. I can see the pain and fogginess in your face. REST! REST! REST! I'm not supposed to leave the house without my phone either....I do forget from time to time though. What a disaster that hospital is! I thought ours in the states could be less than wonderful. WOW! That's really reprehensible that they have no one to help patients get into the hospital. We have a bunch of volunteers to help. They are by and large elderly who want to help, and what a blessing they are.
Very gentle hugs..Sending you energy to cope...love ya Bev!!
we love you too, just worry about you. I've been in the same place myself here in the states, broken systems all around
Bless you. Today is Gold!!! I love gold. Sure beats the red and orange of the last couple of days. Hate those falls. Tuck and roll has kept me from breaking bones many times. Take it slow and easy for a while.
Blessings for a speedy recovery, Mrs. V! Prayers lifted for you!
Bless your heart. Prayers for swift recovery.
Poor you, Mrs. V.... Hope you feel better super soon! LOVED Papa kissin you by by....
When we were in the ER for an emergency with a friend (whom we then got admitted at a better hospital), we noticed the folks with tats, who were skinny, overweight or dressed in a certain way were treated different. Wonder if this happens at all hospitals.
This video is the exact reason I tell people not to judge a person by how they are one day to another. I also have fibromyalgia as well as other chronic pain issues. You are so strong to push through your days to not only take care of your home but to make these videos. My thoughts and prayers are with you. Keep up the fight and feel better
Very gentle hugs to you. Thank heavens for Nan and the kindness of strangers!
I am so sorry. I hope your pain level can ease up. Hugs and prayers from Iowa....
I hope you feel better soon and are getting good rest. Take your time, we'll still be here! :)
Thank God for your loving and caring Mother-In-Law being there to help you and stay with you.....You are blessed with having family and friends pray and worry about you and your health. Thank-you Nan & Howie! God speed Bev!
I'm so sorry you've had some rough days. Thank you for sharing your info and experience with those of us who are fairly new to this.
(It took me six years to catch on to the fact that "successful pain management" sometimes means making it to the end of the day without screaming bloody murder. I've experienced that with both legally prescribed pain meds and natural alternatives. Some days are just going to be red days. Worst six years of my life...)
feel better mrs v. sending prayers
So sorry to hear your hurting! I hope you get well. Loved to see you and papa kissing..... cuteness factor over maxed! You two are adorable!
Bless your sweet heart. So sorry to hear about you falling. Will be praying that your pain level gets less each day. Love you!!
Mrs. V. please take care and feel better soon. We love you. Wonderful news about the baby turkey.
Oh Geeze! You take care. Yeah the hospital emergency is not a good place to be. My hubby had to go to emergency yesterday as he had an ulnar nerve operation in his elbow on June 2 and although the stitches dissolved a few weeks back, he woke up yesterday morning and the whole scar opened right up and he was bleeding. He was in an out of there in an hour. They used some kind of glue to seal up the scar and taped it shut and gave him a prescription for antibiotics. Thank god we live one block away from the hospital also. So if there was a long wait we could come home easily, like a 3 minute walk, but I guess they did not want him bleeding all over the place.
Oh, how I feel your pain! I suffer from FM too and I'm afraid to take anything but Tylenol for the pain since I'm allergic to all the drugs you referred to. This is currently Oct 2019 but I had a disastrous fall in Sept 2019 when walking my dog around the neighborhood. My left foot hit a raised portion of a sidewalk and I fell flat on my face. I broke my nose, lost four front teeth (one was driven into my upper lip), and severely injured my left knee. At first, I just laid there in shock and then began assessing my injuries. My hands and both wrists ended up black with bruising but, thankfully, I didn't break a bone. I'm still suffering from headaches in the sinus area. I'm no stranger to pain either but enough is enough. God bless you and your sweet man.
I do hope you feel better, rest and heal. So many times hospitals treat people like drug seekers, it makes me so mad, it has happened to me when I had a grapefruit sized internal abscess caused by a fistula from crohn's.
So sorry to hear about your ER experience. I can truly sympathize as two weeks ago, I had to go to my local ER at 1 a.m. for what I thought was indigestion. After nearly 14 HOURS of waiting to be placed in an examination room, seeing the ER doctor, blood tests and scans, I was admitted to the hospital for emergency gall bladder surgery. The surgery was scheduled on Thursday, June 29 at 7:30 a.m. The surgeon said he was releasing me to go home on Saturday, July 1, but the hospital doctor wanted to release me on Friday, June 30, stating some happy crap about recuperating better at home when I knew full well that it was the insurance company who did not want to pay for an extra day's stay. I was able to stay for that extra day only because of the fact that I lived alone and would not have anyone to help me at home as well as transporting me home until Saturday. Between the hospitals and the insurance companies, they couldn't give a diddlysquat about our health and well-being. Health care not much better here in the good old USA. Hope you are feeling better daily. Hugs to you, Bev. Hang in there.
continuing to pray for you. Rest as much as you can my precious friend.
Sorry to hear about your fall.Sending hugs and prays
feel better Mrs.V
I'm a fibro sufferer, along with some other health issues, and you're right - chronic pain all the time. I've fallen several times in the last few years and once you start falling like that you kind of worry about falling. Agree about always having a phone and either a walker (or cane). Hope you feel better soon and thank you for keeping it real.
omg i feel so bad for you bev . i know how u feel . sending you many prayers of healing n to lessen the pain . hugs from michigan
This fellow fibro fighter understands.......gentle hugs to you......😘😘😘😘❤️❤️❤️❤️
I must have missed this at the time, so bit late to be sorry to hear about your tumble! Bless you. Great description of fibro pain :/ much love as always xx
Thank you sweety!
You're lucky! I hope you feel better soon. Thank goodness for the "good samaritan"
I am SO VERY SORRY about your fall and your treatment! That really stinks! Thank goodness that Nan was there for you. Thank goodness your Howie is so sweet. I know it will take a while , but this too shall pass. One of the ways I deal with my fib pain is to count my blessings and it helps me feel better. I have been fighting a concussion for the past two weeks along with the fibro and you know how Mr. Fibro feels about any competition. But we do what we must. Wish I could be there to help . I am in Va. But I am sending you love and hugs and prayers for better days to come.
I am so sorry you had to go through all this. I am glad it is orange instead of still red! Feel better soon.
Drs are amazed I soldier on with all my health issues but I love to be busy an provide ,bake and can good food...help grandkids with on line school,run business.Love life an accomplishment.Even though kids grown they always stop by for good food an I always have 1 of 6 grandkids here to feed.And I love it.
Mrs V!!!! Please rest! Thinking of you❤️
Healing prayers sent your way, Bev. Get better soon.
Tomorrow I make the six hour trip to Stanford Hospital where they double and triple appts. I'm rehearsing in my head my dialogue with the check in nurse. Last time they said they were running 45 minutes late and I said I'll wait one hour then leaving! (Not my personality but come on) Of course I got right in and sat in the room for another hour😡. So tomorrow when they tell me there's a wait my response is Ive been waiting over a year (They decided to close the office on 4/7 when I had that appt for over a year)I had been waiting to see the Dr. since March 2016! I may walk out...There are no Drs. locally that can help me...We may have pain but we are Warriors!!! ❤️
Bless you Bev! I too suffer from the fibromyalgia, I will be keeping you in my prayers🙏
Dear sweet Bev, please take care. A nasty fall I had 18/19 years ago has come back to haunt my knees, I really should have had medical help way back then. I understand your frustration with the attitude that some medical persons can have. Short staff of doctors is often to blame for the long wait. Thank you Nan for watching over Bev.
I am so sorry about your fall, you probably need to check to makes sure nothing is broken. I took a fall about 5 years ago and I suffer from fibromyalgia as well as many other chronic pain diseases. I didn't go to the ER at first either, I walked on my ankle for about 5 days and that includes going to work every day. Finally I went to the orthopedic dr and I had broken my ankle in two place. Just like you mentioned we always have pain and being in so much pain everyday we don't often realize when we have a severe injury. Awesome video👍
So sorry you took a tumble, one of my worst fears! I have chronic pain & relate to pain levels. Our daily pain would be someone else's horrific pain. We just learn to live with it, grin & bare it. Add on new pain & it can be devastating. I hope you heal quickly.
Oh my gosh, we just got 5 baby turkeys! We called them Easter, Christmas, Thanksgiving! ha,ha. Yes we love Nan !
Hi Bev you do what you need to do to get yourself where you need to be with your fibromyalgia God bless you take it easy when you can be very careful we're always here when your videos come up they make my day much love . your family a mother law and Howie are so amazing wonderful people many prayers you bring a lot of joy to a lot of people and education on fibromyalgia
Amen! We don't know. Luckily you have family that understand. My family tells me to "walk it off" when I can hardly pull myself out of bed, or when I over work myself. Thankfully I haven't had a tumble like yours. As you were describing it I was cringing! Rest 'til you're better. Do as you must because sometimes we have to do for ourselves, and not let our pride get us down. Thank your for the videos, and letting all of us living with Fibromyalgia see that there is some one else out there living with the same issues. I can't speak for anyone else, but I know you make me feel less crazy ( even though I do have the diagnosis and the doctor can't tell me I'm crazy any more). Thank you.
Get well soon dear lady. Praying for you. Blessings.
God bless you Bev, I am so glad Nan was there. I will keep you in my prayers. Sounds like your Canada medical is about the same as ours in the US which doesn't look to get any better. Take care and REST.
So sorry about your fall! Keeping you in my prayers!
Thanks sooo much for sharing your story...My husband tells me not to do anything stupid and I always take offense...I have RA discovered by blood test but my back and joint pain that is getting worse and like you, I have learned to roll in a fall so much that I tripped over my service dog and shattered my shoulder and ended up with a complete reverse shoulder replacement a year later...now the other shoulder has taken the trauma by compensating while the other side was out of commission...like you, I have allergies to certain analgesics and when I tell them they look at me the same way...Texas is working to being a medical marijuana but it's going to be years more before it gets worked out and moving is not an option so my only relief is pain management doctors and the state has limited availability when schedule 2 drugs are prescribed.
Hoping you feel better soon! My mother has fibro and muscular dystrophy. I can only imagine how hard it is.
Bev hearing you talk about falling hurts my heart . Please be safe , we love you !
I have fibromyalgia sue I was 23. By the time I was 33, I had ESRD and have been on dialysis for about 13 years. The minute I tell them what I’m allergic to, and use “alternative “ means of pain relief, they turn me off, and move on. Most of the time I don’t go, because it takes 5 hours to give me a shot of something to make me sleep a waste of time money and energy.
Oh my goodness! Thankfully, nithung was broken..So sorry you had such a bad experience at the hospital.. I can't believe there was no one there to help you get out if the truck.. I've worked in ER's, and never saw that kind of thing happen.. God Bless..💜💜😎💕
here in Manitoba an ambulance cost is $500
I am so sorry to hear that you fell and that you got hurt! But I am so glad you did not break anything and didn't happen to be left alone for hours.
When I saw your FB post yesterday I was scared to death for you. Please do take it easy. Praying for your continued healing.
Oh that sucks! I'm so so sorry for this painful accident. I do understand that chronic pain suffers You tend to disassociate from the pain to be able to bear it. I hope today is a better day. And I hope that your pain goes back down to a more manageable level soon. I don't know what the doctors could do with all your drug sensitivities. I just can't believe that people are judged for tats, and prescribed weed, You are not a thug or anything. Love you and I'm praying for you Hugs and Blessings!
Thank you for explaining the true pain of fibro, we're not crazy! lol. Hope you feel better soon sweetie! ((hugs))
I am glad you didn't break anything, I was really worried about you sweetie! You are truly blessed to have such a wonderful mother-in-law! I hope you feel better real soon :)
GENTLE HUGS from Texas
Aww Bev.. I feel so bad for you. I'll be praying for you sweetie. Blessings, Big hugs and Love you, ❤ XOXOXOXO MARY ❤⚘🌷
So sorry you went through that ordeal. Unfortunately it sounds so much like our health system here in Australia. Hope you feel better real soon...
So sorry Bev! Hope you feel better soon!
So sorry honey sending healing prayers from Australia love and blessings from
India down under !🇦🇺💖🙏
Hope you feel better quickly. So glad Nan is there now. And, Bev, I want to thank you for telling others what we go through (my son heard you, and he needed to hear this). Take it easy. grams
So sorry about your fall Mrs. V but you're a strong woman, glad to see you're o.k. without no broken bones or other complications,....hope ya pass from the orange pronto to the green! As for medical rant, same here in Mexico, and if you go see a private doc and hospital, they charge ya an arm and a leg! Love ya Mrs. V, take care beautiful! :)
Oh Bev!! As a fellow Fibromite I can (unfortunately) relate. Falls are worse than awful!!!!
You know what you need to do, and how to do it. So do those things to care for yourself. Lots of love & healing light coming to you from Savannah, Georgia, USA. Use your medicine and, as hard as it is, ask for help if you need it!! Please thank Nan for her emotional and physical support, from those of us that love you. You're in my prayers, Fibro-sistah!!! 💜 Susie
My dd is on the same journey with fiber and pain. Right now she has extreme back pain. Hope you heal fast.
I am in Alberta and have a rare brain tumor that has grown back. They seriously have no clue so when stuff goes wrong, I hope and pray it passes. The last time I had major bruising on the side of my head for no reason. My eye was slighly damaged when they removed the tumor. The hospital was more concerned with my messed up eye than the unexplained bruising.... God forbid you need an MRI here, especially on your head because it takes 6-9 months to get one!
I am so sorry for your fall.Hope you feel better soon.falling is a horror these days.i fell out the back door over a yr ago and its still not completely well. i feel your pain.God bless you and keep you safe..
I'm so sorry that your in a lot of pain.And you are spot on about the pain. It's hard to explain exactly how much pain or how bad your really hurt. All my best wishes to you. I think that the health system is like that most all places. Here in Alabama where I live they are also lke what you explained. If they know about your meds and what ever else they precieve you as a drug seeker! I will not go to the ER in the town I live in. Because they treat someone like me as a drugie. Or just ignore me all together.
I truely pray you didn't hurt any part of yourself.
bless you..prayers coming your way..
Oh my dear Fibro Sister, I too know that pain of falling and the soreness that comes with it. It's no fun. I am happy to hear that you are alright. I don't blame How for worrying about you. Please know that I will send you positive energies and I am lighting a candle for you. Please give those adorable pups love from me. Rest up - It truly takes time. Blessed Be!
Wow Bev so sorry to hear this, hope you feel better soon. try to give yourself a break and relax some. I feel for you. Nancie (Medford Oregon)
I hope you feel better soon. I have inner ear trouble after 2 tia's. I have balance issues and fall down too. Please take care of yourself. You have become an important part of my day. Love you.
I love to see how awesome of a husband Howie is to you. GOOD MAN.
Mrs. V. I am So sorry you fell 😢. I am praying for you. Since last year my world has been upside down medically since a once in a life time trip I am unable to hold food I throw up often I had my gallbladder removed near 2 years ago Florida health care sucks theres so hung up on body size they keep telling me to lose more weight and I have not by choice it's because my body won't hold on to it in the process of trying to figure this out with my GI system I discovered my spine is completely deteriorating one of my disks in my thoracic spine is herniated into my spinal cord And there nothing they can do also L3 to S1 are herniated and quite a few other spinal conditions going on so with the spine and Gi issues alls I know is pain right now and no one is willing to help. To know That I am not alone helps and I give you a great big hugs for sharing your life with us thank you Mrs. V.
Happy birthday Nan.🎂🎉🎈Sorry I missed it. Now Bev, no more trips to the barn without your walker. Fashion a way to attach your phone to the walker. If anybody can figure out a way to do it, you can. Just suppose Nan hadn't been there. I hate to think what could have happened. I wish I lived closer so I could help you. I'd love to try milking the goats! Please be careful and here's wishing you a speedy recovery
I am a RN in the US and things are no better here. Sounds like you got the standard care or no care as it was. You are so right about chronic pain suffers. When I was working in the recovery room we had an emergency surgery for a ruptured appendix/sepsis. The woman had been seen in the ER 3x that week. Because oh her flat affect and pain med history the nurses had actually charted "drug seeking behaviors". This poor woman just barely escaped death due to this kind of bias. Needless to say I had a private conversation with her distraught husband.
Sorry you had a tumble. Speedy recovery. Big hugs!
Get well soon ...Ninette Bird- The Caribbean Wife.
So sorry, will keep you in my thoughts and prayers. Isn't it sad how ER's treat you when you give them the information they ask for and then judge you before they even lay a finger on you? Been there, done that....after my last er visit I will have to be half dead before I go back. Love ya Mrs. V :)
Oh no Bev... ouch.... Oh listening to the girls..cute..I'm sorry your in so much pain..Prayers coming your way...
very sorry for the treatment you received and hope you feel better soon
My biggest issue in the summer is air conditioning. I don't have it in my camper so the humidity kills me, but I come into my friends house and I freeze to death. I ache from the cold (pain increases by 200%). Humidity is better than freezing lol. Be careful and follow the rules by using your Walker!!!
So sorry for your fall, hope you feel better soon! !
hugs from Scotland,sending hugs and healing prayers xx
oh dear. I'm so sorry you fell. I too suffer fibromyalgia, & am recently injured too. It's a nightmare. I'm so sorry your in extra pain. Gentle hugs dear.