Roy wrote in rec.food.cooking:
> On Thursday, February 19, 2015 at 5:01:37 AM UTC-7, Julie Bove wrote:
> > "Bryan-TGWWW" > wrote in message
> > ...
> > > On Wednesday, February 18, 2015 at 12:08:40 PM UTC-6, Dave Smith
> > > wrote:
> > >> On 2015-02-18 10:56 AM, jinx the minx wrote:
> > > >
> > >> >>> Which ain't gonna happen with only a 2 year junior college
> > degree. >> >>>
> > >> >> Yep, that was rather my point. 
> > >> >>
> > >> >> Jill
> > >> >
> > >> > Not to mention no math, no history, no pre-college track
> > classes in >> > high
> > >> > school whatsoever. It's really no wonder why a career at KMart
> > was a >> > better
> > >> > option than college for her. Something has to give!
> > >> >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >> Career? It was the best she ever attained, and it didn't last
> > very long.
> > >
> > > Now she has a better gig than anyone here. She sits on her ass
> > > and collects "disability" welfare.
> >
> > Hardly. I don't make enough to live on. Not in this area anyway.
> > And I really do miss working. I am a people person. You don't see
> > too many people sitting at home and there isn't much I can do to go
> > out and interact with people since I can't stand up for long or
> > walk very far. I can't even sit for extended periods of time
> > without extreme pain setting in.
> >
> > I have had really extreme leg pain since Sat. I can barely walk
> > and each and every time I have to get up or down, I have to really
> > think about it and decide if it is totally necessary because doing
> > so causes me to howl with pain. Driving a car is torture because
> > to lift my foot from the brake to the gas causes me to howl like a
> > wolf and getting in and out of the car is sheer torture.
> >
> > Worse still is lying down. You would think that would bring some
> > comfort, but no. Only makes the pain worse. And nothing is
> > helping. Not heat, massage, Tylenol or even trying to walk it off
> > or stretch. I don't know the cause of it is but I may have to go
> > to the Dr. if it continues. I had planned to do the spring
> > cleaning now when Angela is out of school. I did manage to do a
> > little bit but if things don't get better then not much more will
> > get done now.
> >
> > Did not help that the front door knob fell off this morning at 5:00
> > a.m. I had to find a 24/7 locksmith then wait for him to come.
> > I'm sure he wondered about me. I was still fully dressed but had a
> > bathrobe on over my clothes to try to increase the warmth to my leg
> > muscles. I could neither sit nor stand well so I was partway on
> > and partway off of the unreclined recliner, thrashing this way and
> > that trying to seek relief. Thankfully he was a fast worker so I
> > was able to get to bed around 8::00. And while that didn't bring
> > relief I was able to sleep for a few hours and when asleep I mostly
> > don't seem to notice the pain. Although sometimes it is bad enough
> > to wake me. Just takes a while to get to sleep because of the pain.
> >
> > My neck is also so stiff that I can barely move it and my right arm
> > muscles are as the rheumatologist put it once, like iron. Normally
> > when they are like this, Fibromyalgia is the cause but that almost
> > always affects both sides equally. Right now it is only the right
> > arm and the right leg is far worse than the left.
> >
> > I wouldn't wish this sort of pain on anyone. It's not a fun way to
> > live.
>
> Creative writing at its best, eh Julie? Way to go.
Roy, if so she had to research both lower disc issues and upper disc
ones to come up with an almost perfect situation on how it acts. I for
one give her the time to get a diagnosis.
I was mis diagnosed for 5 years due to non-spine specialists. It was
not a fun 5 years.
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