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Being chronically ill is fun because my right leg is numb and the right side of my lower back and hip are in a huge amount of pain and I don't know if I dislocated something, if I aggravated the spinal cord injury I had when I was a kid, if I aggravated the fracture in my tail bone that I got in Spring/Summer of '22, if it's nerve pain from my Lyme disease and related palsy, or something completely new!
Also this is a fun time to not know where my fucking cane is! Usually it's in the car, but our car was totaled in August and I don't know if I rescued my cane from it after the crash.
Fuck my life, I can't fucking walk today.
Being referred to the ER I guess because the doctor thinks I dislocated something deep in my hip and I might need surgery to fix it.
Hahaha I love life.
Being chronically ill is fun because my right leg is numb and the right side of my lower back and hip are in a huge amount of pain and I don't know if I dislocated something, if I aggravated the spinal cord injury I had when I was a kid, if I aggravated the fracture in my tail bone that I got in Spring/Summer of '22, if it's nerve pain from my Lyme disease and related palsy, or something completely new!
Also this is a fun time to not know where my fucking cane is! Usually it's in the car, but our car was totaled in August and I don't know if I rescued my cane from it after the crash.
Fuck my life, I can't fucking walk today.
Negotiated to outpatient X-ray and a follow up plus referral to rheumatology. They gave me Prednisone and Flexeril, so I can kinda get around now, but not really.
This is not fun
Being chronically ill is fun because my right leg is numb and the right side of my lower back and hip are in a huge amount of pain and I don't know if I dislocated something, if I aggravated the spinal cord injury I had when I was a kid, if I aggravated the fracture in my tail bone that I got in Spring/Summer of '22, if it's nerve pain from my Lyme disease and related palsy, or something completely new!
Also this is a fun time to not know where my fucking cane is! Usually it's in the car, but our car was totaled in August and I don't know if I rescued my cane from it after the crash.
Fuck my life, I can't fucking walk today.
I distinctly remember a nurse telling me whenever I got my spinal cord injury after my first big seizure,
"it's just a CSF leak, it'll be better before you're married."
Now I'm 29, I've been divorced for 5 years, and my spinal cord injury still fucks with my life on a regular basis, and even though my seizures have gone from multiple a day to just one or two episodes per year they're still a fucking problem, and I kind of want to go back to that nurse and just tell her,
"it wasn't better before I got married the first time and isn't better after the divorce. Do you think if I get married again it'll cure me?"
Medical fucking gaslighting...