Update on leg
I went for a checkup July 1, and I will be 3 more weeks in this cast, then she will take it off and see what is what and whether I need another full leg cast or we can go with an up to the knee cast. This break was a pretty bad one and I will have a hard cast on through August it looks like, then maybe I will be able to start having a weight bearing one in Sept (I hope!!!). Until then I am in a wheelchair and using a walker to hop to the bathroom.
I am off the Oxycontin now and the doc is happy. Personally I didn't get any thrill out of it, so can't see why people would take it for fun, but maybe if you don't have a broken leg it affects you differently. In addition, nothing affects me like it seems to other people. I need 4 shots of Novocain to get a tooth filled, like that. I am very resistant to anesthesia and none of the over the counter meds that make other people sleepy affect me at all. Anyway, I’m off the really hard stuff, now down to a couple of Oxycodone a day and Flexeril at night to keep the dumb leg from spasming.
The new and latest addition to my travails have been panic attacks! I had never experienced one before and it really threw me for a loop – as I guess it down everyone who suffers from them. I talked to my counselor and he agreed with me that it was probably a temporary situation resulting from being so restricted in movement and being so dependant on a wheelchair, a walker and other people. Anyway, better living through chemistry came to my rescue and I am on Xanax temporarily. I imagine as soon as I can get out of this cast and be able to at least go outdoors on my own, and drive somewhere on my own, like that, that the attacks will pass. It was interesting, in a third person sort of way, to experience it. Many people have told me they felt like they couldn’t breathe while it was going on, but for me, I felt like the walls were closing in and I had to do something and I couldn’t do it (but I have no idea what “it” was). All I could do was cry, and panic. Not fun, and my empathies to all who have ever felt that way. And a big raspberry to Tom Cruise – he should stick to what he knows how to do, which is saying lines other people wrote and pretending to be someone else. Just my opinion!
I am off the Oxycontin now and the doc is happy. Personally I didn't get any thrill out of it, so can't see why people would take it for fun, but maybe if you don't have a broken leg it affects you differently. In addition, nothing affects me like it seems to other people. I need 4 shots of Novocain to get a tooth filled, like that. I am very resistant to anesthesia and none of the over the counter meds that make other people sleepy affect me at all. Anyway, I’m off the really hard stuff, now down to a couple of Oxycodone a day and Flexeril at night to keep the dumb leg from spasming.
The new and latest addition to my travails have been panic attacks! I had never experienced one before and it really threw me for a loop – as I guess it down everyone who suffers from them. I talked to my counselor and he agreed with me that it was probably a temporary situation resulting from being so restricted in movement and being so dependant on a wheelchair, a walker and other people. Anyway, better living through chemistry came to my rescue and I am on Xanax temporarily. I imagine as soon as I can get out of this cast and be able to at least go outdoors on my own, and drive somewhere on my own, like that, that the attacks will pass. It was interesting, in a third person sort of way, to experience it. Many people have told me they felt like they couldn’t breathe while it was going on, but for me, I felt like the walls were closing in and I had to do something and I couldn’t do it (but I have no idea what “it” was). All I could do was cry, and panic. Not fun, and my empathies to all who have ever felt that way. And a big raspberry to Tom Cruise – he should stick to what he knows how to do, which is saying lines other people wrote and pretending to be someone else. Just my opinion!
posted by colbysmycat @ 7/04/2005 03:20:00 PM
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