Soon enough, hon! I'm alright. Went a tournament this weekend and I got home late, so I naturally overslept for work..... xD

What kinda tournament? Oh noooooo! Hope you weren't too late! I feel ya though, ergh, woke up and spent the day on five hrs of shut eye and STILL couldn't sleep til freaking 3am.

Awwww.......

It was a fighting game tournament, actually! Really exciting stuff. I wasn't too terribly late. Things started late so I was safe.

That's good to hear! Fighting?! Woah, that does sound exciting!

xD Fighting GAMES, though. Street Fighter and the like. I'm a dork.

How exciting for you! I'll bet you can't wait!

My day, started out, by me waking up in excruciating pain, at 4:30am, having fallen asleep last night, before I got the chance to take my bedtime meds... because I was fairly motionless throughout the night, I didn't feel the searing pain until I shifted in my sleep. I certainly woke up, then! Yowza!

I hadn't poured my meds for the week, so I had to go through, and fill my pill reminders, before I could even take any meds. And since it was so close to when I take my morning meds(between 6 & 7am), before I got all my pills sorted and placed in their proper sections, that I just waited until about ten till 6am, before I finally couldn't stand it anymore, and I ended up taking my meds then. Then I couldn't go back to sleep, until my meds had taken hold of the pain, and I was out by 7:30am, and then I was out like a light, until shortly after 11am.

I got up then, and took care of my mom (who is recovering from Vertebroplasty, where they inject bone cement, into the compression fractures of her spine). It has been a long week, starting last Monday... last week was so horrible! But, it's a new week now, and I'm praying that this one won't make me cry as much as I did last week. So far, so good, except for the pain that's always, ever present. I have Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy(RSD) or Complex Regional Pain Syndrome(CRPS)... same disease, different names. No cure, very painful, and makes me not be able to be up for very long periods at a time.

But, I took care of some more dishes, and making up a semi-healthy dessert for my mom and me... it's a type of Ambrosia, for those of you interested in a fast and easy, tasty dessert: In a large bowl, that can be covered, add 1 15oz. can of Whole Berry Cranberry Jelly, 1 Large can of Crushed Pineapple; drained, mix well. Fold in 1 8oz. tub of Cool Whip. Then add an entire bag of Mini Marshmallows; mixing them in completely. Chill and serve! It's super yummy! But, now I have that searing pain again, so I'm back to bed, after only a couple hours of being up, to take my afternoon meds, and take a nap. I hate how little I'm able to accomplish in between medication times.

Aaaaaaaaaaand...... Now I'm crying again... my vet just called, and woke me up, from earlier, said nap, to let me know that my pet rat, Suede, who died suddenly last Tuesday, in my hands, is back from the crematorium, and ready for me to pick up his ashes... He was my last rat, for a while, until after I move out of here. I can't take the heartbreak anymore. It's too much for me at this time in my life.

So.... yeah. That's been my day... Sorry for the major bummer... but thanks for asking, and letting me share, LuxOriri

Woah, that sounds like an amazingly stressful day/week. I am sorry things have been hard on you lately and sorry for the loss of your rattie. If you have any pictures of them, maybe I could draw them for you?? If that's something you'd like, let me know. Also, that dessert sounds awesome!! I may just have to try that! As for your Mom, I hope she and you are feeling better soon! I know I'm generally pretty busy, but if you need people to talk to, I just became a part of a group I think you might like, it's called OPAT, and the person running it is awesome.

http://www.furaffinity.net/user/one.....watatime-opat/

Wow! That page looks like it's gonna be helpful to a lot of people! I'm watching, and I'll be sharing it with some other friends here, on FA, that I think will benefit from it... Thank you for sharing that.

Oh! And my mom says, "Thank You," for wishing her well. As do I.

It was a horrible day and a horrible week, and I'm glad it's over, but now I will have to go and pick up his ashes, which I'm not really looking forward to doing, by myself... As for a drawing of Suede, I do have pictures of him, that I can send you, that is very sweet of you to offer, I would like that, very much, thank you I will note you with details...

And that dessert IS awesome! It's really good, especially as a Thanksgiving dessert (because of the cranberry), but it's really quick & easy to make, and makes a huge batch, so it's great for large family gatherings, picnics, potluck meals, etc.

I definitely feel for your mom. My mate got into a bad car wreck when he was younger and it screwed up his back pretty bad. He was having some sort of injections similar I think to what she's having done until they told him the injections, although great for pain relief, would deteriorate his spine over time....so he stopped. He tells me how awful, painful and scary it was and I can't imagine being brave enough to do anything of the kind.

As for OPAT, I think they're going to do great things! I will happily draw a little memoriem for yous Suede, I look forward to your note. I'm sorry you have to pick up his ashes alone :c

Yeah, my Mom's injections would have to be in every single vertabrae for them to be completely beneficial to her. But if the ones in her Lumbar are successful, then, the others won't be as likely to fracture, if she's just sitting in a chair. My mom has Osteogenesis Imperfecta, so she always has these spontaneous bone fractures. So, if these other two vertebrae get done, hopefully the ones in her spine won't be so common, anymore.

I had to go through a whole bunch of injections, and then have leads rammed up my spine, with not even twilight anesthesia... I was screaming bloody murder, when they inserted the leads for the trial of the Stimulator. There was a young, female medical student, watching from close to my right shoulder, and she asked if I was ok, and if I needed anything, and I asked if I could hold her hand. She obliged, and I just squeezed every time it would get to be too unbearably painful, again. She was so sweet. And then I had two other surgeries, the first I was under twilight sleep, and they kept waking me up, to check on things. I was in the O.R. for 6 hours, total, and the leads dropped when I was in recovery, so the stimulator was useless. But then the last surgery was done by a neurosurgeon, and they actually had to cut the plug out of my T-10 vertebrae, in order to anchor the leads there, so I was out for the whole thing, and it was actually successful, and now I'm able to walk, after 3 years without being able to bare weight on my left leg at all. I still have pain, but the stimulator helps to keep the pain signals from reaching my brain. So I'm a lot better than I was. I just wish my EX would have stuck around to see the miracle, but instead, he abandoned me. Oh well... his loss.

Thank you for offering to draw a memoriam of Suede. You are far too kind! Thank you, ever so much! He was so special. I got his footprints in some Sculpey, and I burned the piece, last night. It's was blue, and is now black. I am so upset! I should have known better than to use my mom's toaster oven... it's defective, and always gets hotter on one side, than the other. I am so mad at myself! Anyway, I can get some spray paint, to match the clay, and use a very light mist of the color I need, so I don't fill in his foot prints, because it's not as if I can get them again, since I had him cremated.

I did join OPAT, and I'm looking forward to sharing the link with several other folks, that are having physical, or emotional issues. Thanks again for sharing that link with me. I think you're right, in saying that the group is going to do great things. I know of several people that will benefit from it. I know that I will benefit from it!

Had to go to my job site on Sunday for mok evacuation drills and was sick. Recently got home from work, had to work in my nightmare zone while sick but made it through.

oh maaaan, that sucks!! hope you are feeling better soon!!

It's not all bad. I get to get off 2 hours early on Friday, for having to go in on one of my scheduled days off.

woohoo! Early weekends are always good!

Most definitely.