The Words Beneath My Fingertips

Whatever's going on with my nerves- whether its truly damage to the ilio inguinal nerves that I described in this entry , or if a new NF tumor is eating its way through me like a termite, is really starting to dampen my hopes of EVER getting better. I really thought my surgery to remove that other NF tumor was going to help, when in fact, it might have made things worse (since abdominal surgeries are often a cause of ilio inguinal nerve damage). My worst fear might come true: having to take my comprehensive examination in March while dealing with a bad pain spell. I don't know what to do! Blahh. Just wanted to vent.

This is just a small post to thank everybody for their support of me. Without a wonderful husband who rubs my pains away, without my friend Liz who is running her second Cupid's Undie Run on behalf of me (and who also kept my husband company while I was in surgery last August), and if it weren't for my good doctors and my friends and of course my FAMILY who weren't there for me, I don't know what I would do. I am constantly grateful for your support- you listening to my whining, etc etc. I see my new obgyn soon (the 18th) who will hopefully shed some light/insight on my ilio-inguinal pain and how I can deal with it.  I am positive this started slowly with the NF tumor near or on my genito-femoral nerve, and then got worse with surgery. I'll see. At least I have a new pain doctor who wants to help me through this too. Anyway, if you were brought here from Liz's link on her donation page, feel free to ask me any questions! Take care, much love!

John and I have been together for 10 years, married for almost 5. Since we moved to Boston, we've always been so busy. Sure our first few months we explored (went to the aquarium, explored the North End, shopped on Newbury Steet, walked around EVERYWHERE) but after that life got busy and, other than when people visited us, we never really did anything fun. So we vowed TO DO NEW THINGS: either do things we've been wanting to do and never got the chance, or be spontaneous and do something different.... not really a big deal but we still had fun. We'll continue this tradition and hopefully be more INTERESTING. Oh well, here is what we accomplished: January: we hadn't changed our main shower curtain SINCE WE MOVED HERE IN 2007. Sure we changed the lining, but never changed the front curtain. The old curtain was ripped thanks to the cats. So we bought a new shower curtain and a new bath rug. Before After. The new bath rug was WAY smaller than we thought when we bou