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Back from Philadelphia

I went to Philadelphia last week to continue doing the prescreening for the Low Dose Ketamine Infusion that I am planning to do to help me achieve much lower pain, at the least, and remission at best. The highly coveted remission! Flying was hard as we had to be at the airport there and back soooo early and I cannot sit for long periods of time without making my pain so much worse. One of the Doctors at Drexel College of Medicine told me that he so far saw no reason that I wouldn't be able to do it. Thank god!!! I am hoping and praying I am able to do this as it is scary to think of the future without it. In my last post I said that nothing good had come of RSD. On retrospect, I realize that that is an extremely negative position to take as I have learnt valuable life lessons from my experience. I would not like to continue with this illness and I would not wish this on my worst enemy. I have and will continue to try to make Lemonade out of the lemons that I have gotten. Unfortunat

Chronic Illness & Romantic Relationships

It has occured to me before that I am not the only one dealing with Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy (RSD). It has also occured to me that my husband is not the first to be the "well spouse" in dealing with this illness either. I guess that it didn't occur to me that there is a ridiculously high divorce rate, of 75%, attached to this wonderful illness we call RSD. Now of course we can't all buy into statistics or who would actually get married right? With the 50% or higher chance of failing.....Yet, somehow 75% sounds a lot scarier. Maybe it's that 50/50 gives us a fair shot either way. Now there is nothing fair about RSD......there just isn't. Well, I guess nothing that I have found as of yet. So it concerns me that after all of my losses, the biggest thing that I could lose is still on the table. My wonderful husband and our marriage. He breaks his back everyday so that we can live where we live, drive what we drive and pay for all RSD expenses and that is prett