How my health has changed over the last year. I have been diagnosed with quite a few problem more so since I hit 40. I hand had Chronic Regional Pain for a long time. This is mostly in my right leg. It started after I jumped over a wall when I was 14.
Being a child you never think your going to get hurt, you feel invincible. I lived in a street where one side was houses the other side bungalows, this is where the older aed people lived and inbetween those houses were small walls. There is about 8 houses, Me and my friends would start at one end then run and hop over all the walls bring the oldies out to shout at us. One day I was first, on the very last wall my shoe clipped the top of the wall making me land on my knee damaging my ACL - Anterior Cruciate Ligament, pulling tendons, chipping the bone and damaging the cartilage. I was in and out of hospital 9 times with 9 operations one being a ACL then 20 years later they had to redo the ACL as it had been sitting in the wrong position meaning my leg was in the wrong position for 20 years.
I was also diagnosed with Osteoarthritis in the knee and other joint plus Fibromylagia, this causes me a lot of pain. I take quite a few painkillers but nothing takes the pain away it's always there.
A few years ago I had a really bad fall down my stairs, hitting my spine a few times. I went to the Drs who sent me for a Xray, he said I had Osteoarthritis in my spine, I was expecting him to say I had damaged my spine. The pain I was getting made me think there was something more. It wasn't until 3 years later when I had to go to the Accident & Emergency with pains in my side, they sent me for an MRI. The Doctor came to see me to tell me the MRI had flagged up a bad water infection plus she said I gather you know about the fracture in your spine, I was shocked. I didn't know, sadly they couldn't do anything about it apart from more painkillers. The fracture had caused a compression which had made me lose an inch in height plus giving me really bad pains.
This has caused me more problems, I can't walk very far, bending over for a second has me in tears, turning over in bed is hard and all the things we take for granted like showering, getting dressed, getting out of bed is so hard I someetimes think why do I keep trying. I also have depression so pain and depression aren't a good mix, they cause each other problems. I have to keep thinking about my family, my granddaughter, my pets they all still need me.
I was talking to my family about how it all started and wondered what would have happened if I hadn't jumped over that wall, where would I be. They said you might not have had us, no granddaughter. I wouldn't want to change that so have to be thankful I'm still here and be very thankful for what I do have.
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