I thought I'd write a little bit about me. I have a couple friends on here, from another site, who already know this, but since I'm new here, I thought I'd clue you all in.
Until last year, I had been walking daily, going 3 miles away from home, and then back. 6 miles a day. Last year, I lost the ability to even walk a mile. This year is even worse. I don't dare go out without someone with me, and even then it's dangerous for me, because I will fall, for no apparent reason, like I did last month. Nothing around to cause me to fall, but fall I did.
44 years ago, my daughter and I were hit by a pickup. First my daughter, the pickup hit her and kind of knocked her to the ground and out of danger, and then it hit me. It threw me into the air, they say over 20 feet, and when I came back down it was across a busy intersection. And when I landed, I landed neck first, then head, shoulders, arms, back, and finally legs, in that order. I was thirty years old at the time. How I survived, with out breaking my neck, no one knows. I did have neck damage though. And it gets worse by the year.
You see, The second, third, and fourth vertebrae, just below the brain stem, are out of place. the first and second are slightly shoved back, no longer in a straight line. The third vertebrae is pressing into the spine, and the fourth is shoved slightly forward. After therapy, I was able to continue working as a CNA, until I was in my late 40's, and had to take an early retirement, because of dizzy spells. Each year the third vertebrae shift's and presses a little bit deeper into my spine.
The dizziness has worsened, and I'm losing feelings in both of my legs, which are numb to above the knees. My husband and I were both forty eight when we married, in 1994. 6 years later I became disabled. He has been my solid rock here on earth.
I'm not on computer all that long during the day. Only for about three hours, throughout the day now, due to the problems I'm having.
I love making friends, but I just can't message. Or chat on line, for very long, so I just plain don't do it. I'm thankful for all the friends I've made on here and my other sites.
Another problem I have, is my hearing. I have profound hearing loss. I can only hear out of my left ear. I recently lost my hearing, and it was just last month. I had to take steroid shots, in my left ear, that brought my hearing back to where it was. Now I'm going to be getting a new hearing aide soon. It was recently okayed for me to get another hearing aide at no cost to me, and the place where I'll be getting it is only open on Wednesday, the Nebraska Hearing Institute.
My life has been a learning experience. I am now seventy four, and I wouldn't have it any other way. This is the life the Lord gave to me, and everything that's ever happened has happened for a reason. I may not know why now, but when the time comes, I will.
God Bless Your afternoon!!
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