*NikkiBell*
Livin’ that DVC & AP life!
- Joined
- Jun 27, 2005
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Hi All,
I just wanted to write a quick post and let you know how things are going for me. It's been a rough couple of months and I am hoping that things settle down very soon. Many of you have reached out to me and were beyond supportive. I just want to let you know that I appreciate all of your kind words, thoughts, prayers, and PD sent my way.
Since May, life has been almost unbearable. I was diagnosed with costochondritis and began having visual disturbances and fainting spells. The extremely high white blood cell count from the the costochondritis caused this along with a very long night in the ER. Thank goodness for summer vacation from school.
During the summer, I had some problems here at home which made it very difficult for me to look at the world clearly. Just when I thought that things were looking better, my best friend, Princess, my beagle of 12 years, had a terrible stroke leaving her partially paralyzed. This was a very sudden occurence and led to her being sent above. I am still not over this and don't know if I ever will be. I don't deal well with change/death and this has been very difficult for me.
I know that some have either said (or thought) that I was being melodramatic, overly sensitive, or just making this situation out to be worse than it really was. However, to me this was an earth shattering occurrence and until one is in another's shoes, he could never know the pain she was feeling. I am still not sleeping at night. Thankfully though, the nightmares connected with my last memories of her and the brutal decision that I was forced to make are no longer a nightly occurrence.
Mold was found in our school a few weeks before work was to start up again. This delayed the beginning of the school year and added to the difficulty of my being home with nothing to do but sit and think about things. Shortly after work started, I then began having symptoms again and bloodwork (mind you, I am a severe needle phobic) showed that the costochondritis had returned. I was put on medication, developed laryngitis, and then had an allergic reaction to the meds. I stopped having feeling in areas of my legs and experienced difficulty walking. Thankfully, this went away. A few days later, I began having tingling and pain in my wrist and sides of my hands. I am currently scheduled to have an EMG test done by a neurologist to determine what is causing this. In the interim, the pain has become a constant in my left wrist and my dentist discovered three cavities on my wisdom teeth that need to be filled immediately or I'll risk having to go through extractions.
The moral of this story, boys and girls, is that when life hits you hard it's like a ton of bricks. The support you receive from those who care helps to remove the pressure weighing you down. Thank you to the DIS, its creators, the podcast crew, and my DIS friends for continuing to be there when it counts.
Nikki
I just wanted to write a quick post and let you know how things are going for me. It's been a rough couple of months and I am hoping that things settle down very soon. Many of you have reached out to me and were beyond supportive. I just want to let you know that I appreciate all of your kind words, thoughts, prayers, and PD sent my way.
Since May, life has been almost unbearable. I was diagnosed with costochondritis and began having visual disturbances and fainting spells. The extremely high white blood cell count from the the costochondritis caused this along with a very long night in the ER. Thank goodness for summer vacation from school.
During the summer, I had some problems here at home which made it very difficult for me to look at the world clearly. Just when I thought that things were looking better, my best friend, Princess, my beagle of 12 years, had a terrible stroke leaving her partially paralyzed. This was a very sudden occurence and led to her being sent above. I am still not over this and don't know if I ever will be. I don't deal well with change/death and this has been very difficult for me.
I know that some have either said (or thought) that I was being melodramatic, overly sensitive, or just making this situation out to be worse than it really was. However, to me this was an earth shattering occurrence and until one is in another's shoes, he could never know the pain she was feeling. I am still not sleeping at night. Thankfully though, the nightmares connected with my last memories of her and the brutal decision that I was forced to make are no longer a nightly occurrence.
Mold was found in our school a few weeks before work was to start up again. This delayed the beginning of the school year and added to the difficulty of my being home with nothing to do but sit and think about things. Shortly after work started, I then began having symptoms again and bloodwork (mind you, I am a severe needle phobic) showed that the costochondritis had returned. I was put on medication, developed laryngitis, and then had an allergic reaction to the meds. I stopped having feeling in areas of my legs and experienced difficulty walking. Thankfully, this went away. A few days later, I began having tingling and pain in my wrist and sides of my hands. I am currently scheduled to have an EMG test done by a neurologist to determine what is causing this. In the interim, the pain has become a constant in my left wrist and my dentist discovered three cavities on my wisdom teeth that need to be filled immediately or I'll risk having to go through extractions.
The moral of this story, boys and girls, is that when life hits you hard it's like a ton of bricks. The support you receive from those who care helps to remove the pressure weighing you down. Thank you to the DIS, its creators, the podcast crew, and my DIS friends for continuing to be there when it counts.
Nikki
