And it must be contagious

By Lee

Welllllll you know how it is with the old people… we all have our little boo boo's here and there…. And sometimes we get them all at the same time. That's just how it is with old people. By the way, this is an early weekend-post, and I wouldn't be surprised if there wasn't another one for the weekend. Just a heads up. I am however surprised that I can sit here and type. What's going on, you may ask? Well, ya know, it is what it is with old people… lol

I would start with ME, but I won't, cause that's not that significant. Let's start with the oldest of the old people. Mrs. Jay. I hope she gets my humor in this, because I can already hear her sermon about calling her "old" on the blog… (Silent giggles.) Alright, the situation is nothing to giggle about actually. I'm just trying to make it sound not AS depressing… is it working? Mrs. Jay had her back adjusted today by this chiropractor that the neuro surgeon sent her to. Apparently that was one of the most painful things to her since she had babies, as she put it. Not cool. They put her on tons of pain meds to help her out, the pain meds knocked her out, she's been sleeping most of the day and was actually admitted to that clinic/hospital she went to, just for the night, just because she's on so many heavy pain killers. On the positive side of things, it looks like they managed to put her vertebras back in place, at least enough to where it should reduce her pain level, once the soreness of all this goes away. They are basically saying that here soon she should feel a lot better. The slipped disc is still where it is, and there is not much they can do to actually fix that. They just said that she can probably help herself a lot with physical therapy etc, and surgery can be put off. There is hoping.

I saw her early this evening, and she looked pretty rough but said that she was already feeling quite a bit better, but admitted that she wasn't sure if her back is starting to be in less pain or if the pain killers that she's getting are just "really really good." Mrs. Jay on dope is quite a bit of fun, I noticed. (I will get a slapping for that one as well as soon as she can move again.) Bottom line, what they had planned on doing seems to have been successful, now we just have to wait a little bit to see the effects, and to see if it has the desired outcome. For now she's just hurting, and that's it. She just wants to and needs to sleep. Her friend Cassie was staying with her for the most part and she will also make sure she'll get Jay back to Austin (>> their second home) by tomorrow.

Needless to say, we're not taking them to their *first* home this weekend. Jay needs to recover, and I don't think she's up for a 30 minute drive. I'm not sure if Austin is either. He had some bad issues last night with his vitals. They were extremely low again, and he needed a bunch of medications. That kinda went away again, as we are used to this up and down rollercoaster by now, but he slept like a twisted noodle and woke up in pain too. And guess what, his back is hurting too. At least more than normal. On top of that, he's still coughing (I know, I sound like a broken record, but this congestion is just NOT going anywhere, and what can I say…) so he says his chest is sore and so on. He's weak and sleepy, and a rather unhappy camper with his Momma being sick, him being sick, and everyone wanting him to get better and try crazy things like therapy… He doesn't usually mind that, but if he's not feeling well, he's everything but enthused about going all over the place and having to do what people ask him to do. He wants to stay in bed and be grumpy, or else wants Amy to spoil him and give him back rubs or something. He's not that grumpy then.

I think he's about ready to have a "normal" day for once where his Mom is feeling fine and HE is feeling fine, and everything goes over smoothly with no issues or exceptional situations. HA, and me too! Cause speaking of back rubs, you move that up a few inches towards the neck area and turn it into something I need really badly too. I've been having a headache again for almost a week now, on and off, but today I went back to the doctor. He wanted to do a few more tests, but all I wanted was some medication that will help me get through this phase. I'm not looking to get hooked on pain meds by any means, I'm just looking to get rid of this headache and function like I need to. The doc thinks that something the equivalent of Tylenol 500 should be enough, unless we do further testing and find out why my head hurts. We've been there, done that. I can tell you why my head hurts. Oh don't get me started here… what I'm basically saying is that a lot of things at once have been hitting me and it tends to hurt my head. That's all.

I find it ironic that we're all having our aches and pains at the same time. We should open a field hospital and all pile up in there and call it the "pain wing." Leanne gave me an hour-long neck massage earlier, and she is really good at that, but it helped for about a minute. She claimed my neck was rock hard of tension. Maybe that's cause I walk around with a permanent cringe in my neck when my head hurts. There's no winning in this. The doc actually wound up giving me something else for the "migraine," as he decided to define it, but it's something that I don't wanna take either. It's seizure medication and supposed to help with migraines >> huh??!. Bah it's all pointless.

But this weekend, I tell you, it's all about relaxing and getting over all our pains (I don't have to work, there can be miracles!). It seems to be contagious or something. I told Amy to watch out, there seems to be a bug going around…. She might wind up with a hand cramp or something if she stays around us anymore. ;-) I think we need a little bit of all-round prayer for that pain-bug to go away.

My plan is to take Austin out for a while this weekend, beach or something cool, but that's given that my head will let me walk around and that he is stable and not in so much pain either. If I fall out, there are others who could take him, but most of them are kinda scared with him as instable has he has been (i.e. last night). Amy is gonna be off tomorrow, so we're gonna handle him. IF any of that works, it could be a decent weekend. IF Jay's back will finally feel better, it will be even better.

Yea yea, this is how it is with the old people. The very old have back problems, the not so very old have issues with back, chest, oh and heart…. Oh the heart issues… and the little bit older folks have headaches and are about to get themselves another neck massages while watching the Whoso's Friday night online while they were supposed to be there (being they are a few minutes from here.) But the pain bug happened… Hope they don't get it. Gee whiz… it must be contagious!