Take a Walk

When I'm frustrated, I find the best way to let it all go is to take a walk.  

So Mom saw an ortho doc on Friday.  He gave her an Rx for some steroids to reduce inflammation.   After taking them for the first day, she felt really good.  So she stopped taking her Tylenol and reduced her Gabapentin.   And of course, today was another bad day.  And she thinks the steroids aren't working. 

I rolled my eyes, and bit my tongue to keep fron hollering.  I said now you don't really know if your bad day was because the steroids aren't working, or that she stopped taking pain meds.  Some days I want to ask her WTF is wrong with her thinking??? 

My nephew was listening in and asked why she stopped taking her meds??  What makes her do that??  A part of her problem is she looks up every drug and reads every side affect that could happen.  This causes her to worry, stirs up her anxiety and her body goes into fight or flight mode. She tenses up and boom .... more pain. Again. 

She wants to wait until her steroids are gone (4 more days) before calling the  pain management doc.  No way!  I'm calling tomorrow.

So ... after leaving her house, I went to my fav park and walked for a half hour. I felt better after! It was a beautiful day!