When I got hurt back in 71, no one at my rehab had ever heard of AD. If they knew, it was never shared with me. When the sweat poured off my face, they would park me by the air conditioner which just tripled my misery. Does anyone know when AD was first diagnosed?
Sent from my iPad Begin forwarded message: > From: "nichole rohling" <zoocr...@windstream.net> > Date: March 11, 2013, 7:08:32 PM EDT > To: <lwillis...@yahoo.com>, "Quad-List@Eskimo. Com" <quad-list@eskimo.com> > Subject: RE: [QUAD-L] AD > > I’m tellin’ you, I really was thinking I was going to stroke out! I would get > severe AD in the first year and the it just has always been mild. I still > have a bit of a headache and it’s been over 5 ½ hours ago. > Wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy! > Nicki > > From: lwillis...@yahoo.com [mailto:lwillis...@yahoo.com] > Sent: Monday, March 11, 2013 5:51 PM > To: quad-list@eskimo.com > Subject: Fwd: [QUAD-L] AD > > Whew! I can feel your misery, Nikki. There is nothing else in the world like > it. Take care of yourself. Our old puny bodies can't take much of that. > > Sent from my iPad > > Begin forwarded message: > > Resent-From: quad-list@eskimo.com > From: "nichole rohling" <zoocr...@windstream.net> > Date: March 11, 2013, 3:28:18 PM EDT > To: "Quad-List@Eskimo. Com" <quad-list@eskimo.com> > Subject: [QUAD-L] AD > > Wow! Nothing like a big dose of AD to start my week off. > > My catheter has been stopping up so I went to dr 8 weeks ago (I’m sure I have > a bladder stone). He ordered CT scan and I’ve had to reschedule it 3 times > in 6 weeks because of weather, getting it done tomorrow (thank God). My home > health nurse told me not long ago that when my cath stops up have someone > remove it until she gets here and urine will flow out. Normally, (over the > course of the last almost 15 yrs) urine spasms out around cath so I have > never done that. UNTIL TODAY! Urine wasn’t leaking out, I was having spasms > in my back, face and neck were fire engine red, my head was POUNDING. I > thought “here we go, I’m gonna have a stroke” before she gets here! Then I > remembered, get the catheter out! My mom was able to get it out and sure > enough, urine leaked out. Hated to pee in my pants but when AD is that > bad……….it really didn’t matter! > > Just wanted to share that if no urine is leaking out remove the catheter > because it’s stopping up the body’s natural route for urine to come out! May > have saved me from stroking out today!! > > Nicki > c5/6
