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FG's Mum/FW Poorly :(
Yup - last March she was typing a message about me being in hospital.
Thankfully she's not that bad.
As a few of you will know, she has been having real trouble walking anywhere. She can't even walk up the stairs - she has to crawul up on her hand and knees!
She can't do much either because she isn't very mobile. Anyway, she went to the doctors and she's had a throat swab taken and a blood test.
Poor lamb, she was having it taken from her arm and she was feeling very faint lying down. Then her vein collapsed and it had to be taken from the back of her hand - she isn't too good with blood at all which didn't help.
They're checking for a load of things she can only remember Gout and Rhumatic Arthritus (aww bless, maybe they should check for mind loss as well
)
But she's gotta wait about a mont for her results
Maybe i'm an impatient girl (well there's no maybe about it) but that seems just so long for her to be in pain. My glandular fever one only took a couple of days
So, yeah, um that's the story. It's weird, i can't stand seeing her in pain and not being able to do anything to make it better, all i can do is carry stuff upstairs.
Maybe, i'm naive but i always thought that if my parents ever got things like this it'd be another twenty years off - i know people get arthritus early (look at Daniel Johns from Silverchair, but his was to do with his anorexia) it just seems so unfair (yes, life is unfair, i should deal with it)
Ah well
Thankfully she's not that bad.
As a few of you will know, she has been having real trouble walking anywhere. She can't even walk up the stairs - she has to crawul up on her hand and knees!
She can't do much either because she isn't very mobile. Anyway, she went to the doctors and she's had a throat swab taken and a blood test.
Poor lamb, she was having it taken from her arm and she was feeling very faint lying down. Then her vein collapsed
and it had to be taken from the back of her hand - she isn't too good with blood at all which didn't help.They're checking for a load of things she can only remember Gout and Rhumatic Arthritus (aww bless, maybe they should check for mind loss as well
)But she's gotta wait about a mont for her results
Maybe i'm an impatient girl (well there's no maybe about it) but that seems just so long for her to be in pain. My glandular fever one only took a couple of daysSo, yeah, um that's the story. It's weird, i can't stand seeing her in pain and not being able to do anything to make it better, all i can do is carry stuff upstairs.
Maybe, i'm naive but i always thought that if my parents ever got things like this it'd be another twenty years off - i know people get arthritus early (look at Daniel Johns from Silverchair, but his was to do with his anorexia) it just seems so unfair (yes, life is unfair, i should deal with it)
Ah well
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*hugs* for FG's Mum 
Posted: 22:23 Oct 03 2002 
awwwwwwww sweetie *hugs* Ihope your mum feels better soon *huge-but-gentle huggles* for her.
GRRRRRRRR at the tests taking so long, was like that with my mum, so frustrating
Ihope your mum feels better soon *huge-but-gentle huggles* for her.GRRRRRRRR at the tests taking so long, was like that with my mum, so frustrating
Posted: 22:29 Oct 03 2002
So sorry to hear that FG...I hope that everything works out OK.
*huggles* to all of you
*huggles* to all of you
Posted: 23:04 Oct 03 2002 
Hope your mum gets better soon hon.. sending you both lots of *hugs* and *get well soon-type vibes
Posted: 00:41 Oct 04 2002 
Wishing your mum good luck on her tests Hope they sort things really soon
*hugs*
Hope they sort things really soon*hugs*
Posted: 00:59 Oct 04 2002
*huge huggles* My mum has had arthritis since she was 33, so i know how hard it is to see this in a parent.
Like everyone else says - hope evrything gets better soon.
Like everyone else says - hope evrything gets better soon.
Posted: 09:12 Oct 04 2002 
Hope your mum is better soon, FG
Posted: 18:42 Oct 04 2002
/me sends huge massive hugs along to FG, then sends more along to FG's Mum....
Things like this make us (the children) feel so useless as we can't do anything to take away the pain or help them get better.
I know where you are coming from on this one FG - please send your mum my very best wishes for a swift diagnosis, a fast treatment & a speedy recovery.
Package of super sized hugs on it's way as soon as I figure out how to get it in the post box In the meantime it will have to be get-well-thoughts sent to her Yuri Gellar style
Things like this make us (the children) feel so useless as we can't do anything to take away the pain or help them get better.
I know where you are coming from on this one FG - please send your mum my very best wishes for a swift diagnosis, a fast treatment & a speedy recovery.
Package of super sized hugs on it's way as soon as I figure out how to get it in the post box
In the meantime it will have to be get-well-thoughts sent to her Yuri Gellar style
Posted: 21:34 Oct 04 2002 
About six years ago my mum broke her ankle and after being in hospital for a week or two (which was bad enough) they let her home. It was about three or four months before she was fit to walk unaided and go back to work and during this time she had to shuffle up the stairs to the loo on her backside (so had to decide well in advance that she was going!) and couldn't shower or wash as much as she used to.
She's fine now, but I do understand the sort of thing you're going through.
She's fine now, but I do understand the sort of thing you're going through.
Posted: 21:35 Oct 04 2002 
*hugs* and sympathy
Posted: 16:09 Oct 06 2002
Hey, that sounds really bad. Hope she gets well soon and my sympathies and best wishes to all of you.
Hope she gets well soon and my sympathies and best wishes to all of you.
Posted: 16:46 Oct 06 2002