Surprises can be good or bad. I'm not fond of the bad surprises. Today I got a good surprise! My friend Rita needed to be in the Valley today and gave me a call. We ended up having a nice visit over lunch at Applebee's! Always fun catching up with old friends!
Then when I called mom, the bad surprise. OK, not so much of a surprise. She has good and bad days. She's had a pain for over a month. When she went to the doc, I'm not sure what she told him, or what her response was if he suggested anything, ie pain killer pills. She's very ... opinionated about what she should and shouldn't take. When someone suggests another pill, she almost always refuses them.
She's calling her pain "fibromyalgia" and I'm not discounting that as a real thing. But mom's the nervous worrying type. And when she worries, she worries so much that it manifests in her body as some kind of pain. I've seen it before, and I'll probably see it again. She has meds for anxiety and takes Gabapentin for pain. But her refusal to temporarily increase her meds drives me crazy. She won't take anything her doc hasn't already cleared her to take, including aspirin and Aleeve.
Now that she's not sleeping through the night, another cycle begins. Lack of sleep worries her; worries keep her awake. She can't seem to turn it off in her mind. My suggestions aren't overly welcome because she has already made up her mind.
And of course this happens Friday nights into the weekend when no docs are in the office. I can take you to an Urgent Care I suggested. No, they don't do much good and are a waste of money she says.
I know she is fretting because they didn't call her about her spine xray. I know it's on her mind because she mentions it's daily. I explained that they will only call if there's a problem, her results were sent to her doctor. He hasn't called.
Maybe I'll hit the treadmill and walk off some of my own frustrations!
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