Leaving for HOME!!
August 5, 2009 2:34pm
Hey Y'all!
Great news, I am leaving on Monday the 11th for 3.5 weeks in CANADA!!!! Home sweet Home
It has been years! It …
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About Me
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About Me
My name is Nancy and I live outside of Atlanta. In 1992 I got in a fight with a 75lbs suitcase and it won, when I tried to "she-woman" it up on top of the roof of my car I herniated L3/L4 and L5/S1-somehow missed L4/L5 (which I chalk up to being Polish). By the time I got back from Canada (our destination) to Massachusetts (my home at the time) I could barely walk. The PCP ordered X-rays, she sent me to my first Ortho. He immediately said surgery, my son was not even 5 at the time, and I said no way. He told me I would be in a wheelchair by 40...UGH...I am 42 now and still walking! I had my first surgery in July 2000, caging at L3/L4 and micro at L5/S1-had to have a blood transfusion that day because I was so weak. Bear in mind I never stopped working throughout this whole thing. 15 Days post op sprung a leak and they had to go back in (surgery #2), a week after that rear-ended by an illegal taxi cab driver (no damage thank God)... 8 months of PT later and I was 85% better-that was until that day... That day I was at work and tripped over a box backwards. The job sent me to a "W/C Doc in the Box" who I had to tell how to X-ray me! The job never filed a workers comp case and when my ortho decided he needed to remove the hardware because something happened my job said it was pre-existing, I never got a lawyer- which was the wrong decision. I had the surgery (#3 surgery), he discovered my fusion had actually cracked, I was not being paid, I went back to work 3 weeks post op still wearing my "turtle" and never had PT. My company was finally bought by Home Depot. They granted me LTD bennys no questions asked after the buy-out. My pain worsened...ortho said go he needed to go back in and put caging back in to secure it up...okay (4th surgery) had PT thank God cuz at this point I am so full of scar tissue I now have CHRONIC MYOFASCIAL PAIN DISEASE. Went back to work part time and by November 2005 went out on full time disability. Got SSDI on my first try- I have no idea how but thank God. Then the fun started, one year to the day after I first got disability from Home Depot they sent me a letter saying I was cured and to go back to work---a freakin miracle has occurred call the Vatican? They stopped my payments, my health insurance was cancelled, I lost my savings, and I lost my home to foreclosure and went 18 months without ANY MEDICAL TREATMENTS at all. This has all caused me to become passionate about chronic pain and disability injustices... Because I worked 20 years I did not qualify for Medicaid. There are no clinics that offer more than a Motrin to ya...big whoop...18 months no meds: diagnosis....Failed Back Syndrome, Disc Herniation (cuz L4/L5 finally blew out), CMP, arthritis, sciatica, migraines, panic attacks, severe depression...NO MEDS NO TREATMENTS... I did get an attorney, January 2007 and in February 2008 I was granted my funds for the 24 month LTD benefits along with a letter stating that Home Depot does not cover �SOFT TISSUE INJURIES� longer than 24 months�your body can be considered mostly soft tissue except bone and blood. My lawyer gave up and dismissed me-but I have found a new one and will continue to fight to the end of my dying days. So this brings us to now-finally got Medicare and am getting the proper Pain Management treatments. Feeling so much better but my battle is not done...I have a ways to go till I am pain free- I am glad to have met all of you great folks here at DS...you are now my family!
My name is Nancy and I live outside of Atlanta. In 1992 I got in a fight with a 75lbs suitcase and it won, when I tried to "she-woman" it up on top of the roof of my car I herniated L3/L4 and L5/S1-somehow missed L4/L5 (which I chalk up to being Polish). By the time I got back from Canada (our destination) to Massachusetts (my home at the time) I could barely walk. The PCP ordered X-rays, she sent me to my first Ortho. He immediately said surgery, my son was not even 5 at the time, and I said no
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Reading Walking Jewelry Making Gardening (in pots only because I cannot bend over!) My dog Harvard and Cooking
Reading Walking Jewelry Making Gardening (in pots only because I cannot bend over!) My dog Harvard and
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Sorry-ain't been 'round!
May 21, 2009 12:25pm
I miss all of ya's tho!
My son graduated from Emory University here in Atlanta day after Mother's Day and that was the greatest gift I …
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2009...can it be my year?
January 5, 2009 9:32pm
I went out with 2 of my good friends on New Years Eve- after finding out my Daddy, who has not been to a doctor in 27 years...he is now 74, he passed …
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Henry-our new Puppy
December 30, 2008 11:06am
Well I came home from my son's house for Christmas and there was the greatest gift a person could ever get! A puppy!
He is just …
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Good Luck
Good luck Nancy. Hope you have a wonderful time.
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Hee's a big hug for you my friend. Hope all is going okay with you. I will always be here for you. Take care my friend.
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Hi, where ya been? I hope all is well with you.
Jesus still reigns! He's coming back soon.-
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Please accept this hug which will hopefully make you feel better. How are things? Take care my friend.
Ray of Sunshine
Lovely to get these messages. They keep me going.
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Close Degenerative Disc Disease
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Treatments
- Acupuncture Too Soon to Tell
- Doing it now (6 treatments so far) only thing I can afford w/o health insurance-no major changes noticed
- Stretching Working / Worked
- Have to on a daily basis or I cannot walk
- TENS Working / Worked
- Numbs the area so I can deal
Open Chronic Pain
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I worked as a certified ophthalmic assistant for a decade. First in general ophthalmology then in retina for 4 years...I am now disabled and cannot work anymore and I miss that job so much! The greatest thing was to tell someone they were in good hands and know that what ever could be done would be done...I miss the elderly patients most...they have such great stories.
Open Myofascial Pain Syndrome
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