As interesting a day last Thursday was for me.... this past Friday was a doozy. I woke up to shooting, incapacitating nerve pains throughout my entire body on Friday morning every time I got out of bed. I made it to the bathroom (just in time) but then the nerve pains got so bad I had to ease myself down to the bathroom floor. Mom called Rafael, and he got me off the floor and back into bed. Several hours later, I tried to do it again, and only made it to the stairs before I had to sit down. The pains, again, were so bad that I eased myself to the floor. I felt like I was going to be paralyzed. On a scale of 1-10, the pain was a 15. Mom called 911, and the fire department showed up first, and then the ambulance came and took me to St. Joseph's. I spent 3 days in there getting high dose steroids, and I have had only 1 minor "nerve" episode since.... that was this morning. BUT... nowhere as near as bad as last Thursday and Friday. More medicines have been added to the pharmacy I already take in order to calm these hellish experieces down. Its the most terrifying thing to go through, and I hope they dont come on again. I only get a few seconds warning before it hits. I cant imagine what I would do if I was out in public... I'll be a crying/raving/emotional basketcase for the next week again while I taper the steroids back to my normal dose. Thats a nightmare in itself. Trying not to be sarcastic here, but according to certain family members... "I"ve been through this before, and it should all be a piece of cake, right?" Wrong.
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