I am no longer going to apologize for when I don’t post. Actually this is a good time for you to subscribe by email to my blog, that way you will be sure to get each and every post that I write. Top right corner of the post. I have all these plans of to do’s for the day including posting, but I am just having to go with the flow. Please hang in there with me.
In my last post I said …life is not perfect it but it could always be worse. We are happy with where we are at the moment. Well if we could get just have a bit more heat from the sun then life might even be perfect. Well life did get somewhat worse. However we do have heat and sunshine. Blue sky and sun can’t help but make one feel better. Well if you add in a beach and waves, that would be perfection.
The girls have been sticking close to each of us.
We were relaxed and enjoying life day to day when we both had an issue. Colin who had worked in the garden in the last post developed an extremely painful back. He actually is no better today ( 11 days later ). So the day we had the window washer in – gosh he did a wonderful job, totally perfect but for $300.00 it should be. This company does not do screens, they are an additional $5.00 each. We have 19 screens but our response was that we would do them ourselves. Colin was unable to mange on his own so I helped him. Near the end of the four hours that Cody was here he wanted to move my computer and computer table further away from the window. I went to help him and of course fell ( this was my second fall in the past 4 days.). I ended up with my head hitting the window and other damage to my chest and rear end.
Colin has been taking several short naps per day and the girls are always on him, protecting him.
The next day I could not move my neck in either direction. So Friday the 28th we headed to Vernon to see our chiropractor – this would be Colin’s 3rd visit with her and my first. We both suffered over the weekend. In July of 2018 ( thank you dear blog for having this information for me to refer to) while camping in Clearwater, BC, we met a couple who gave us a card for an excellent chiropractor in Summerland – a 90 minute drive in each direction from where we live. We were more than happy with our Vernon chiropractor but she was not helping us in these extreme painful circumstances. So Colin drove to Summerland on his own on May 1st and we both went again on the 2nd. We are still in pain and it will take time for our bodies to start to heal now that they have adjusted.
The girls have gotten a walk, sometimes short, most days.
I quite like the doctor, he has been in business for over 30 years. Colin’s issues are his issues but I always share my ‘stuff’ with you all. He gave me the most thorough examination that I have ever had. He was shocked that my back was straight, totally straight, I do not have a curve to my back like you all do, that S curve. He discovered that the right side of my neck was stuck and could not turn, it was locked and pushed forward. In the middle of my back certain vertebrae could not fully open and close and interlock as they should be, there was a blockage. Movement was impeded. Also my right pelvis was locked and when I walked the right hip could not move. Hmm I wonder if that is the reason I keep falling and also have so much pain in my right knee 😮 Perhaps I won’t be falling so much now.
Was totally done at the end of the treatment and as we drove the 90 miles home I could feel my body reacting to the many adjustments that I had receiver. Best of all I could move my neck a few inches in each direction. This moving there is a tiny bit of improvement. The doctor told me that I likely have been this way for some time and it will take a while to heal.
Carlie’s eyes just draw you in.
He did give me permission to use our vibration machine, to walk and for me to get back to my kinesiology exercises. Sadly I have let them lapse since early March when my cough began. I finished the two week cortisone inhaler which did help a bit but I still am coughing. I have repeatedly asked for the Valley Fever bloodwork to be done.The last conversation I had was this past Monday with the locum at my GP’s office. She was very bottom line and said that Valley Fever was not treated in Canada and that there was no protocol for it 😥 Not true, I made several phone calls and there is a protocol and a blood test which is paid for by our medical system. All I need is the requisition. I am having another meeting with my doctor tomorrow morning for that request.
The results of all my income tax work for both us and the company. Pay, pay and pay more.
Meanwhile I still have not heard anything about my knee X-ray. The locum said it might be 6 – 8 weeks. At this rate I doubt that I will be seeing a specialist soon. Remember that I paid to have the knee xray and the MRI done while in Mazatlan but the Canadian system will not accept those documents so I have to start all over again. However the locum doctor insists on a chest x ray re the Valley Fever 😮 . That is a complete waste of time and money. So I asked for them to send the paper work to Vernon which should not take as long and to please add on my knee x-ray. I will be having the x-rays next Tuesday.
Love these chocolates.
I saw something online that I thought my help my cough. It is called AirPhysio and I ordered it. It really works. Yesterday was the first time that I could take a deep breathe, I suggest that any of you that have respiratory issues have a look at the link. Kudos to those in Australia who invented this device.
They usually sit on me from 5 – 7PM and again after we eat dinner. I think we are spoiling them, they are certainly spoiling us.
I am tired of writing about being unwell but It needs to be documented. Yesterday I actually did start my exercise program again. The veins in my legs look good and my face just has some barely pink spots. It’s time to get out walking and join the world again 😎
Thanks for sticking with me. I hope ( and need ) to be back on track soon.
Meanwhile anyone looking for a new RV think about this one 😀 
