Pepper died today. She was hit by a car. Lorii's dad found her trying to drag herself home Yesterday. The vet showed us five fractures on the x-rays. The four points where the pelvis attaches to the spine and her hip joint. The vet felt it was worth seeing if there was any nerve damage to the bladder, but overnight she lost the use of her legs. So we decided to end her suffering. I'll miss her company on the walks to the post office and her squirmed greeting whenever I came home.
Thursday, September 16, 2010
Sunday, September 12, 2010
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
Multiple Sclerosis
Lorii is still in hospital, but will hopefully be home soon. Perhaps even later today.
The treatment for her MS is over for now and it is only the fallout from the steroids that is keeping her in. Before the treatment Lorii was a Type 2 diabetic, managing her sugar with diet and drugs. Unfortunately a side effect of the steroids is to send your blood sugar way on up, and for Lori it has just not come down. She is now waiting on Diabetes Specialist nurses to come train her on how to manage her blood sugar with self injected insulin. Whether this promotion to Type 1 diabetes is permanent is unclear, but they won't let her out of the hospital until the nurses have signed off that she is okay.
The doctors have signed of on her MS medication. Another self injected drug called Rebif. Lorii will have to attend a clinic for training on that too. The poor girl is going to look like a human pin cushion.
The treatment for her MS is over for now and it is only the fallout from the steroids that is keeping her in. Before the treatment Lorii was a Type 2 diabetic, managing her sugar with diet and drugs. Unfortunately a side effect of the steroids is to send your blood sugar way on up, and for Lori it has just not come down. She is now waiting on Diabetes Specialist nurses to come train her on how to manage her blood sugar with self injected insulin. Whether this promotion to Type 1 diabetes is permanent is unclear, but they won't let her out of the hospital until the nurses have signed off that she is okay.
The doctors have signed of on her MS medication. Another self injected drug called Rebif. Lorii will have to attend a clinic for training on that too. The poor girl is going to look like a human pin cushion.
Thursday, August 05, 2010
Choices
Well Lorii is still in hospital, will be until Friday, and today chooses which drug out of many to use to treat her MS long term. She now describes the sensation in her left hand as having a really tight rubber glove strangle it. They've given her some new medication to help with that but it is a cumulative one and will take some time to get working. The steroids given to help speed the MS relapse have screwed her blood sugar so much that she is now being taught how to inject insulin. This and the fact that she will have to self inject the new MS drug she has to choose today has really got her down. It didn't help that the doctors came and told her what her choices were, told her she had 24 hours to decide, and left her. Within a few hours of them leaving she had promptly forgotten what her choices were.
Monday, August 02, 2010
Latest news...
Well as I type Lorii is once again in hospital. Another MS relapse this time effecting her left arm. She still has the use of it, but it's both going numb and itching. She should be out soon, they're just keeping her in while they give her some medicine that screws up her blood sugar as a side effect.
Tuesday, June 01, 2010
Sunday, April 25, 2010
Blink
Well the "Weeping Angels" are back on Doctor Who and last time that brought this picture a huge number of views. It'll be interesting to see if that's repeated this time...
Monday, March 08, 2010
Recent Events
So this is the easiest way to catch up with everyone.
On the 1st of February Lorii woke up feeling dizzy. The dizziness made Lorii feel nauseous so she had trouble keeping her pain meds down. Thinking she had caught the Noro Virus that was in the news, Lorii decided to tough it out. However by Friday Lorii was in such bad shape I called an ambulance. The A&E doc thought the dizziness was down to her brain and was uber concerned. Lorii was sent up to the CDU ward where the docs could decide what to do with her. The docs dismissed the brain injury idea and concluded her ears were up the duff. They discharged her on the Monday after a weekend on a drip to rehydrate her with some antiemetics and an appointment at a clinic in two weeks.
By the next Friday (The 12th) Lorii was as bad if not worse than the last time. I again called an ambulance. These guys could see her distress was very real and gave her some morphine before they took her in. We saw the same A&E doc who through a fit over the phone that her previous diagnosis had been over ruled. She was again admitted, but this time the stay was much longer.
Test were done and Lorii was told her carotid arteries were badly blocked and full of dangerous clots. New drugs were administered and Lorii was told to stop smoking, "…or something terrible would happen!" Then a specialist said her arteries were not so bad to need a operation and a MRI was done. The MRI showed demyelising had occurred to her brain. The docs start to prepare us for a diagnosis of MS. Then a neurologist quashes this but orders a lumbar puncture to confirm it one way or another. Lorii is then discharged before the results are in.
So here we are at home. We're now waiting on our GP to come back with the results. Lorii is still dizzy, and can barely walk. If it's not MS then she's suffered a number of mini strokes. Oh and the recession finally bit and I've been laid off. But given the last month I just don't care.
On the 1st of February Lorii woke up feeling dizzy. The dizziness made Lorii feel nauseous so she had trouble keeping her pain meds down. Thinking she had caught the Noro Virus that was in the news, Lorii decided to tough it out. However by Friday Lorii was in such bad shape I called an ambulance. The A&E doc thought the dizziness was down to her brain and was uber concerned. Lorii was sent up to the CDU ward where the docs could decide what to do with her. The docs dismissed the brain injury idea and concluded her ears were up the duff. They discharged her on the Monday after a weekend on a drip to rehydrate her with some antiemetics and an appointment at a clinic in two weeks.
By the next Friday (The 12th) Lorii was as bad if not worse than the last time. I again called an ambulance. These guys could see her distress was very real and gave her some morphine before they took her in. We saw the same A&E doc who through a fit over the phone that her previous diagnosis had been over ruled. She was again admitted, but this time the stay was much longer.
Test were done and Lorii was told her carotid arteries were badly blocked and full of dangerous clots. New drugs were administered and Lorii was told to stop smoking, "…or something terrible would happen!" Then a specialist said her arteries were not so bad to need a operation and a MRI was done. The MRI showed demyelising had occurred to her brain. The docs start to prepare us for a diagnosis of MS. Then a neurologist quashes this but orders a lumbar puncture to confirm it one way or another. Lorii is then discharged before the results are in.
So here we are at home. We're now waiting on our GP to come back with the results. Lorii is still dizzy, and can barely walk. If it's not MS then she's suffered a number of mini strokes. Oh and the recession finally bit and I've been laid off. But given the last month I just don't care.
Friday, January 29, 2010
Album Cover
What a small world! One day I take a picture of a statue in a cemetery. Piddle about in Photoshop a bit. Post it on Flickr to show the world. Now its album art for a band in the USA. Just watch my head swell!
You can check out the band here; Mike Nielson
You can check out the band here; Mike Nielson
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