I am glad to have a 2 day respite from Meals on Wheels. It stinks up the whole apartment. For the last couple of days, I simmered orange peels and cinnamon on low to help the place smell better….but I can still smell the frankenfoods! And yay to having a supply of good food on hand! I can eat some yummy things while holed up in here.
This has been another couple of days with a temperature inversion of bad air. It was yucky last night and got worse today. Good thing a storm is coming. It hurts to breathe today.
I have been floppy weak. My limbs don’t do what I tell them to do and each time I get out of my chair, it’s quite the fight against gravity. For days now I have been having heavy night sweats that leave a vinegar vapor cloud in the air. Two nights ago the sweats were so extreme that I got killer leg and hip cramps. Hate those! When I got out of bed this morning, I had forgotten all that. I struggled to sit up and then when I tried to stand, I bent back and forth like a sapling in the wind. Not easy to do with a very un-sapling-like body 😮 I pulled muscles in my belly and could feel internal ripping 😦 If there was time lapse photography of how fast my hernia is enlarging, I would not be the only one feeling faint. It’s frightening!
I finally found a way for you to see the horror of my hernia. I used the laptop to take the picture. I am flat in bed. My hand and the cat’s butt give the hernia a sense of scale. I bet folks had no idea the hernia has gotten so big. This is why my internist sobbed.
So….now my belly area is in tons of pain. While putting away things from the dishwasher, the slightest touch of the hernia to countertops, sent shockwaves throughout my body. I also notice that I can hear my intestines gurgling even louder than ever. There’s not much between my intestines and my outside skin. Not good. The hernia is also pushing on my lungs and diaphragm, making breathing painful and difficult. The slightest thing makes me wicked short of breath.
When the camera is near my face, there is no way to tell how steep the belly cliff is. Very different perspectives, huh?
I am in enough pain from this to consider going to the ER. I would go to a hospital I have never been to before to get a second opinion. This morning’s belly mishap has made the cystocele (bladder coming through vagina) excrutiatingly painful. There are several spots around my abdomen that hurt way worse than normal. My usual hospital is just waiting for me to pop open and die. Maybe there is really nothing that can be done? I would prefer another opinion.
Wendy The Wanderer 
Oh Wendy! I knew it was bad, but that is so unbelievably huge! How can any doctor who sees you not try to do something to help you! I don’t know how they live with themselves. Sending more prayers for you. I hope if you go to another hospital, someone there tries to help you!
It’s called being on Medicaid in Utah. They wrecked me and take no responsibility.
I had no idea it was that big. Are there anymore hospitals in SLC? Or do they all put people on Medicaid on the shelt? You really need help so bad. Will pray for you.
I take magnesium for leg cramps but my neurologist said to not take much because it would make MG worse if I have it. The wonderful world of the unknown. I just wait until I have them again and then take if for three or four days and stop. Do you ever get foot cramps where your whole foot curls under? It is crazy and so difficult to get stopped.
Woke up last night with an asthma attack. Still taking a low level of Advair. I need 500/50 but my doctor forgot to order it.
Take care, hope that you don’t have more cramps tonight.
I haven’t been to Intermountain Healthcare yet. There are a bunch of smaller hospitals, but most are in one of 3 conglomerates. I sure have been woozy and weak this afternoon. It’s raining, soon will be snowing. I hope I can hold on at home. Yup, magnesium is bad for MG. Stupid asthma! You like Advair? The only inhaler I like is albuterol. I have tried them all. I hope we have a good night 🙂 Be good!
Is that place very far? I take Adair twice a day. It has helped a lot but not when it is very cold outside. Advair gave me the high speed cataracts. Both of them developed very quickly but they are out now. When we were driving to Texas, the sky, everything looked dirty brown and I could not read any of the street signs. I used to use albuterol as an emergency inhaler. It was so cheap and always worked. Then it was outlawed when I CA, must have been a state law. It was supposed to pollute the the air,. Now I use Provental or Combivent. They don’t work as good as Albuterol. I don’t know if it is outlawed in Texas.
Google says it’s 38 minutes from here to Intermountain Medical Center on TRAX. It says 36 minutes to my usual U of U hospital on TRAX. Same TRAX line, opposite directions. Sounds like a crazy CA law.