Hildred, When traveling, I have found that the Homedic seat cover very helpful. It has heat and vibrationl. My back pain is severe when sitting so long, but the heat seems to help along with the lower back vibration.
I still need to stop every hour or so and get out to move but I don't hurt as bad as I did without the Homedic seat cover. Hope this info helps. Candy K. ----- Original Message ----- From: To: [EMAIL PROTECTED];[email protected] Sent: 4/30/2007 5:16:52 PM Subject: [TMIC] Update on hospital stay I haven't written to the list in so long that half of you have probably forgotten me. First let me thank HeyJude for my contest winnings. They arrived in perfect shape and just made my day. Thank you so much. I went back to my doctor two weeks after I got out of the hospital. He basically asked me why I was there as I had just seen him 6 weeks before. He had no discharge summary on me and no results of the stress test. I find that really strange as he is in a practice owned by the hospital and he couldn't even find anything on the computer. After all that searching, he did say "Let's talk about when you were here six weeks ago." I didn't remember throwing a fit as I tend to do in the hospital when something doesn't go as I want it to, but I have made a promise to his nurse to behave from now on. Anyway, come to find out that I am insulin resistant which I guess means pre-diabetic. That shouldn't surprise me. Seems to be a family trait, plus I just lay in bed all day so I don't burn up anything. He gave me a choice of pills or a shot and I chose the shot as it supposedly helps take your appetite away and believe me, it does. The problem I am having is that he wants me t! o consume 150-180 grams of protein a day. I just can't eat that much and those drink things aren't real good. I go back in a couple of weeks so maybe he'll know something about my hospital stay by then. He at least knew I was in the hospital and that his hospitalist was seeing me every day. On another note, hubby has to go to a conference in Myrtle Beach early in June. The last time I went with him I was able to stand a little, so we took my wheelchair and went, however, sitting still for that ride and not being able to move my feet caused to get blood clots when I got back and I am still on Coumadin. This time we have to find a van to rent that takes wheelchairs. My manual wheelchair that comes apart was too wide to go through the hotel room door. My electric wheelchair doesn't have that problem. I am just worried about back pain because just going to the doctor in it hurts my back so bad. I can imagine what a trip to the beach will do but I am not staying her alone. Not leading a very exciting life these days, can't even watch my soaps cuz channel 6 goes off every day when they are on. MEAN!!!! That's about it for now. Will try to visit more often. Hildred in hot North Carolina TM since '76 See what's free at AOL.com.
