Kickas.org Forums Ankylosing Spondylitis General Discussion #1 AS Web Support Group Thoughts and Prayers for Megan, her Dad and Family

He## Girl you are tough! reading your posts I feel like a big baby. I wish you and your family the best. I hope you get it sorted out soon so you can "get on with your life" and make your Doc's happy. I have a big Ol Hound that hates my vet, I bet he would work one or two of those Docs' over for you. Let me Know and I will ship him up to you for a couple of weeks.
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Darrel.

Hey Megan....I'm so sorry to hear what's happening with you right now. Hope your Dad and Maki will pull thru OK.

It makes me so frustrated hearing how you struggle to get the docs to sort their stuff out...I feel like slapping someone.

Hi Megan!
Thinking about you and your family and praying for you!Hope everything goes alright.
Shauna

not whining megan, glad you explained further, the first report made it sound like you were making better progress than this, sorry that you are not. i hate to hear how so many are treated so poorly, its incredibly frustrating.

and some of those comments: nothing causes eye pain? i like your pencil experiment, that might have proved the point! (no pun intended!) or glen's comment about googling eye pain, has he really never heard of uveitis for one? or not believing that the morphine might actually be helping with some of your pain? or the GP trying to take away your AS dx! no wonder you need to vent!

and glen has been such a rock for you along the way, i hope he regroups for you soon. i know how important it is for me to have my husband there for me. but not to say its always easy, chronic illness can be really trying on a relationship, i know sometimes hubby is pushed to his limits. but hopefully the two of you will get through this bump in the road ok. so sorry you are going through this as well right now.

got some more good photos, maybe should post them on the pets thread that dow started awhile ago. as for videos, i finally got a good one of him preening, but every time i try to get him swinging or playing, soon as he sees the camera, he stops doing what he's doing to pay attention to the camera. still working on the videos though.

sounds like dad is doing better and kitty abit as well, good to hear both of those things.

Go Maki!

how about this one:

control-option-command-8

have sometimes used that to invert the monitor during screenings, so that the whiteness doesn't compete for attention

when I first saw that trick, my first thought was to wonder if it might have helped when I had my iritis, with the lights out, lying under a blanket AND a pirate-type patch on my eye.

(With the TV still playing of course, every once in a while, I'd take a peak...)

proving conclusively how painful most television programming really is!

may your dad experience a speedy recovery, good food like your muffins will keep him going for a long time yet.

Aww your dog sounds like a great therapy pet. What a sweetie for just laying with you and making sure you're ok.

My dad's still in ICU and on a morphine pump for pain, so he's not in too much pain. Or at least not admitting to pain, anyways. For some reason, the guy just doesn't feel pain - even after splitting his head open and breaking all his ribs, he still didn't need so much as a tylenol. Weird. Too bad I didn't inherit that gene!

Hi Darrel, I'd be happy to borrow your dog for a bit - as long as he's good with cats. lol Thanks!

Thanks Chelsea!

Lisa, thank you for this.

Megan, we're all here for you. I'm sending white light and love your dad's way and pulling for the most positive result possible. BTW, this is what felled my sweetie last May. The Enbrel hid the symptoms for the longest time, but he finally went into crisis with the diverticulitis and they found a suspected perforated colon. They didn't opt for surgery with him, but massive doses of the strongest antibiotic my sweetie's ever been on. Diverticulitis is quite common as we get older.

As for everything else going on with you, I just want to come out there and shake them all 'til their eyes wobble about!!! Except your honey. He's been such a well of support for you. I guess everyone gets weary of it after a while, eh. He'd have to be, I don't know, super-human not to. But he loves you, Meggie. Of that I have no doubt.

I'm pulling for your kitty, too. It's so heart-breaking isn't it, to watch our 4-legged family-members when they're ill. My wee one had giardia right now. Don't know exactly how she got it, as she's an indoor cat. I can only think she's had it since birth, as I rescued her off the street when she was 10-weeks old. They say giardia comes and goes. Luckily, I got her poop tested last week (she was pooping in my brand new bathtub!!) and she's in the midst of a flare. Taking her into the vet tonight to get treatment for her. Don't you ever feel silly for being so concerned for a cat. She is a part of your family, Meg. You are, to all intents and purposes, her mom and like all moms, you are worried. Makes complete sense to me.
Warm hugs,