Archive for the ‘Health’ Category
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Well these last 10 days were full of health issues, my tooth problem and four Aunts that ended up in the hospital. Yes, I have many aunts.
- Aunt #1 - Got a back surgery (she’s in her 60’s)
- Aunt #2 - Bronco pneumonia (she’s in her 90’s)
- Aunt #3 - Bronco pneumonia and some neurological disturbs (in her 70’s)
- Aunt #4 - Gangrene in one leg, as soon as she arrived at the hospital, the leg was amputee. (She’s in her 90’s)
Aunt #1 is home already recovering from the surgery the other 3 Aunts are still in the Hospital.
Each time my mother calls me now I ask: who’s sick now?
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Posted ( Laura) in Health on May-15-2008
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Although I continue with some pain on my jaw and gum, things are much better now. Today I’m stopping taking the pain killer and see out it goes. Why, because although I still have pain, the medication is attacking my stomach and causing me stomach ache. This was something I was warned about by the doctor and I must confess sometimes I take the medication without eating first therefore the stomach is easily attached.
The hole in the gum is huge, in fact I have two holes, one from the tooth removal and the other a lateral gum hole caused by one stitch that was infected causing the hole not to close. Let’s see how it goes in the next couple of days.
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It seems I only have bad things to write about on this blog, but life is what it is. Again I haven’t updated it for a few days due to health issues. Do you remember my tooth removal? Well the pain didn’t go away and it was unbearable. I held on with all my strength and tried to “swallow” the pain, it wasn’t easy. I decided to wait until Monday to see a dentist but now I know it was a mistake.
I had an appointment scheduled to remove the stitches tomorrow but yesterday I called the clinic and asked to be seen my the present dentist, just to check if everything was fine. I went there and as soon as the dentist saw my mouth she start talking to her assistant requesting anesthesia, needles, scissors, and other materials I don’t even know the name. I asked: is there something wrong? The dentist said: yes, you have a serious infection, you shouldn’t have waited so many days to come. I can’t imagine the pain you went through, I’m going to remove the stitches and clean all the area including the bone once the infection has spread out.
Well, the gum was so infected that she had to give me several anesthesias in several places to put my gum and mouth to sleep. After all the work she had to do on the gum and tooth hole she told me I was going to have a lot of pain the next couple of days because the antibiotic she prescribed me takes 2 days to start doing effect, however she put a smelly product inside the hole where the tooth was to help fight the infection while the antibiotic is still trying to work.
Today I feel much better although the jaw is hurting a lot and I have difficulty in opening my mouth. The wound looks much better now but I still have some pain. Tomorrow the antibiotic will be working “full time” so I hope this all go away soon. That’s enough…go away pain.
Fortunately no payment was necessary for this urgent appointment.
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Yesterday I wasn’t in conditions to update my blogs. The tooth issue was resolved. The tooth couldn’t be repaired and was removed. After several failed attempts, the tooth had to be broken in two and remove each part separately.
Once the hole was very big the dentist had to sew me, yeap, I have 4 stitches on my gum. After the effect of anesthetize went away the pain started really hard. I still went to the office after the tooth removal because I had a lot of work but I was feeling real bad.
At night I went to bed at 20.30 with ice on my face. Today the scenery is the same, while the pain killer effects is on I’m more or less, when it goes away I’m full of pain.
I’ll return next Wednesday to the dentist office to remove the stitches and fix another tooth. There goes all the money…
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Posted ( Laura) in Health on April-30-2008
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I had my dentist appointment today, two teeth repaired and the one that I though it was going to be removed today is still here. Gum is still very injured and we’re going to wait one more week and decide what to do: restore or remove.
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On Sunday my tooth situation got worse and I was able to get an emergency appointment with at the dentist clinic. The broken piece of my tooth was removed and I was told that the tooth broke already in the root, meaning, probably I’ll have to remove the tooth. I’ve got an appointment for tomorrow and the dentist is going to decide what to do.
Once bad luck doesn’t walk alone, I have two more teeth that were treated some years ago, that need to be treated again. Why did I fool myself by thinking that May was not a month with extra bills?
Today I’m going to start taking my anxiety pills because dentists are not my favorites doctors and I hate when I have to go there. I hope to treat the two teeth and remove the other one tomorrow (all in one). If one teeth has to be devitalized I have to go there two more times.
Have I already told you I hate going to the dentist? Yeap…it’s true.
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A tooth that I recently fixed broke Friday while I was eating ice cream. I can’t eat using my right side teeth because I’ve got a lot of pain and I can make the situation worse by breaking the rest of the tooth. I contacted the dental clinic but they only had an appointment for today at 12.30. DH was working so I couldn’t imagine myself at the dentist with my two kids… I hope I can get an appointment tomorrow so…I’ll be in pain until tomorrow.
Also, Dani’s tooth just lost the “bulk” it had inside (it’s been fixed) and I have to schedule an appointment for him too. He’s starting to feel some pain already.
I hate dentists and the extra bills!!!
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I’m disappointed, after all the anxiety I went through because of the Pap Smear test, the doctor had to go to the ER and my appointment was postponed to May 19th.
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Posted ( Laura) in Health on April-22-2008
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It’s already Wednesday (00.28) and I’m a bit nervous about this morning. I’m going to make a routine medical appointment and one of the tests I’ll be doing is the Pap Smear. I haven’t done it since my daughter was born, four years ago, and I’m afraid, not of doing the test but of the result. I know, I’m a chicken but with so many cancer cases lately, I’m worried.
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I’ve been in a lot of pain these last days. Shoulders, neck and thorax have been killing me lately. I know what it is, accumulated anxiety and stress from these last weeks. Yesterday I barely could move my head but still, I spend all day in the office working and screaming each time I had to make a sudden movement. I’m taken some pills and although still having a lot of pain I’m better than yesterday.
Yesterday my father had his new electrical bed delivered and is much comfortable now. I went to the pharmacy and paid for it, a huge amount I must confess.
Today my kids had a birthday party of a neighbor in a “party academy”, I used the waiting time to be in the parent’s area to catch up with some neighbors. Interesting thing, I felt good, relaxed, meaning I really stress at work and I get better on weekends. Damn it…I can’t get stressed, I have to control myself. Yeap…I know there are techniques, I’ve tried them but once my bosses enter into the office…I get stressed and want to go home.
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Today a decision was made regarding my father’s health condition. My father has Alzheimer and is totally depending on my mother’s help. He is in bed, with diapers, food must be put on his mouth, making it short: he is a 176 lbs baby, who doesn’t move by himself.
My mother has an hospital bed at home where he stays all day and all night. The bed is very high and my mother is not strong enough to lift him up or put him on a chair, so today we order an electrical bed. This bed has a control attached to the bed and with a touch of a finger it goes up down, lifts the head, the feet and has several positions. I think my father is going to like it because there is one sitting positing and that’s what he begs for everyday.
My mother will be able to adjust the bed to her needs, she can wash him and feed him easily by changing the bed position.
The sad thing is that my parents are retired and the electrical bed costs almost 5 times the monthly payment she receives from social security. We are not really thinking about it right now and we are just interested in getting some comfort to both my mother and father.
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