Not nervous, absolutely

[selenay]

Tonight there is a very important rugby match. Obviously, I am not nervous at all, in the slightest, nu-uh.

If I say it often enough I'll start to believe it. Sometimes, it's torture being an England rugby fan. Meep.

In other news:

Dear Body,

We are on lots and lots of painkillers. We have so many that we rattle. Why, then, are you ignoring the presence of said painkillers and insisting on having period cramps despite the fact that we shouldn't be able to feel a thing through all of this?

No Love,
Your Owner


The good news is that the higher dose of anti-inflammatories plus the amitriptyline has worked wonders on my hip pain. The bad news is that the back still hurts quite a lot, really.

I had an MRI done on my hip on Thursday. It was not pleasant. They had to tie my ankles and knees together and strap me to a board to make sure that my hip was in the correct position and remained that way. Of course, that made my back hurt quite a bit. And fifteen minutes in a teeny dark tube while tied up is, oddly, not a fun experience for me. It may be for some of you, but I think that I'm a very vanilla person and that kind of thing does nothing for me except make me go "Yurp" quietly in my head.

I should have the results on Tuesday, though. I'm actually hoping for something to turn up so that I can point to it and shout gleefully "See that? Not crazy!"

Heh.

Comments

[netgirl-y2k.livejournal.com]

Sometimes, it's torture being an England rugby fan.

You should try being a Scotland fan, it's enough to drive you to drink. And there are bad things about it too.

Feel better soon.

[selenay]

Ooch. Ouch. Yeah, Scotland rugby fan must be much worse than England fan. I probably shouldn't mention the last couple of Six Nations competitions, should I?

The cramps are easing off now (yay!) so I'm feeling better already, thank you. Even my back is being fairly sensible today, which is good because I do not want to be having an enforced lie-down at a crucial, World Cup-winning moment tonight.

[netgirl-y2k.livejournal.com]

You can mention the one two years ago when we beat you. But other than that, no.

*grudgingly* Good luck tonight.

[selenay]

That one two years ago isn't my greatest memory ;-) But actually beating a team (any team!) in this year's Six Nations made me feel slightly better about my poor team :-)

Thank you for the good wishes :-) I can assure that, positions reversed, I would have been cheering Scotland. I am quite happy to cheer other home nations teams unless they are playing England. And I'll cheer particularly loudly if they are playing the French.

[yragg.livejournal.com]

Sorry me darl, I have no sympathy for English fans.

Being Welsh and a supporter, I'm not going to watch, listen or get an update on the net.

Jealous, me? Sure am.

Ignominious defeat by all and sundry is just not good!

You bring grace and humour to your MRI experience, though I'm betting neither of those were going through your mind at the time.

Hope the results turn up something positive and I know you're not crazy. everyone else but not you. You can add all the medicos in the mix with the crazy too.

My consultant has recently left without completing some very important paperwork that has been sitting in his office for 12 weeks. Ah the joys of it all.

Enjoy the match. ::glances at clock:: You'll be watching it now.

[selenay]

I was watching it :-( But we played well and South Africa didn't simply walk away with it, which was the important thing.

You bring grace and humour to your MRI experience

Thank you. At the time all I was thinking was "Yurp" but when it came to writing the thing up I decided that funny was the way to go rather than "woe is me, pity the crippled girl". Mostly because I know at least a few of you might have enjoyed the tied up part *g*

Ah the joys of it all.

It gives you so much confidence in your treatment when these things happen *sigh*

[tejas.livejournal.com]

I feel your pain.

No wait. That's *MY* pain.

Never mind. ;-)

Yes, the flood of estrogen does some *fascinating* things to our pain receptors... like make them more sensitive. (Gee, thanks, body. Just what I needed. Is that a hint to get pregnant to avoid pain? Have you completely forgotten the whole big brain thing? I DO remember what labor felt like. Not to mention that the estrogen tide is WORSE pregnant. Get over yourself and by the way, tell the ovaries we're done, they can retire now.) My arthritis and bursitis (before getting *that* knocked out, at least) always gets/got worse just as the cramping started.

Here's hoping they find something fixable in the MRI results.

[selenay]

*sigh* Yup. I've noticed that my back often feels the pain more around my period than the rest of the time. Yay.

And apparently progesterone makes hypermobile joints even more mobile. Woo! What a joy the female reproductive system is.

Apparently an all-eostrogen, no progesterone Pill can reverse that effect a little. And for once I've got lucky there: I've been on the former for years thanks to my lovely endometriosis. I'm now wondering whether the last ten years of relatively few sprains and dislocations (two or three a year rather than per month) may have something to do with being on the Pill...for ten years.

At the moment I don't care about my hip being fixable, I just want to be able to poke my tongue out at the doctors and say "Nah nah nee nah nah, I told you so." Obviously I have the mental age of a three year-old about this :-)

[tejas.livejournal.com]

LOL! Well, there's nothing quite like having them look at you like you're lying to them when you *KNOW* there's something wrong. The *years* it took my doctor and I to figure out I had sleep apnea still bug me. I even realized later that she asked me sorta the right questions, but I didn't realize I was 'lying'. "Do you have any trouble sleeping?" "No, not a bit." What I *didn't* tell her was that I could sleep anywhere. Anytime. In cars, on planes (through take offs and landings), at stoplights (while driving). Oh. You're not supposed to catnap at stop lights? Oops.

[sg1danny.livejournal.com]

As I am living north of the border I say this in with all the sincerity I have...I am so sorry England lost to South Africa, NOT :P

Never mind...the English team can have the fun of beating the stuffing out of us in the next Six Nations *sigh*

[selenay]

I am so sorry England lost to South Africa, NOT :P

Pfffft!

he English team can have the fun of beating the stuffing out of us in the next Six Nations

:-p~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~