I’ve been e-mailing the pain doctor (Chicago) all day today and we’ve spent a lot of time going back and forth with ideas. Thankfully, he has been quick in responding and suggestions. The bottom line is that we changed the pain medicine prescription and the anti-inflammatory medicine from what we discussed last Friday. We are going to start these tomorrow along with another medicine related to nerves, so we’ll see if this helps. The pain medication has serious “street value,” so I had to jump through mega hoops today to coordinate getting that filled in St. Louis, given that the prescribing doctor is in Chicago. Fax, mail, e-mail and phone don’t work when you are talking about drugs with resale value …. like I’m going to set up a stand with a pink and white awning in my driveway, but I understand the caution. My St. Louis orthopod ended up helping us and facilitating the process.
I scheduled a follow-up appointment with the Chicago orthopedic surgeon for Friday, August 3rd, but this may be too soon. If I need to see the surgeon with Lyola University, then this needs to happen at the same time. I did send a long thank-you letter today to the plastic surgeon in Chicago, thanking him for his professional advice and ongoing help.
Keep praying that the Chicago orthopedic surgeon will connect with the Lyola doctor (at some foot conference) at the end of this week and hopefully she will call at the beginning of next week with his advice. I know it is not a long time to wait, but the waiting seems like forever. I wake up each morning and look at the foot to see if by chance it decided over night to relax and revert to the normal position …..
Signing off to head to dinner at mom & dad’s house ….
je
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Setting off to have dinner at your mom and dad's house....girl, didn't she cook enough for you already? Just kidding! I laughed when you wrote about the awning in your driveway advertising your "goods." Like THAT would ever happen. But if it did, you're probably right that the awning would be PINK! I have to say that it strikes me funny that anyone would ever sign up to attend a "foot conference." What-EVER! Glad they exist, of course, for your sake! Dad was over earlier today stylin' in his Jobst/TED pantyhose thigh-high stocking. It was quite amusing b/c he had on camp shorts (w/ all of the pockets), a plaid shirt, a straw hat, sunglasses, camouflage Crocs, and his pantyhose. I didn't make fun of him face-to-face. Just on the internet here where everyone else can laugh too. I guess if I was a guy and wearing support hose, I wouldn't wear shorts. And the camo Crocs just topped off the ensemble. Ah, well, parents: you're related so you can't get rid of them! (Not that I'd want to!) Hope you're smiling today, mah de-ah (my dear). Hugs! The Jobacks
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