The Fall Finale PLEASE READ THE FALL 1st

So here I go again;


Let’s see if I can finish the story, there’s not much left to tell.






So the intern(?) finally said “ok I’m going to get the Dr. to come and see you now”.






Well I’ve been very (blessed???) through my trips to the hospital via ambulance &/or firefighters with the exception of this ride because they were 2 women. For some reason I have always had handsome men.


This trip was no different the Dr. walked in & because I wasn't put on any pain killers yet I was very limited as to what I could get away with, so I simply said as usual “Did you just graduate med school?”, he gave me a beautiful smile and said “No but thank you ”, I’m thinking ‘ok either I’m getting older or these Dr.s are graduating much younger then the ones I seem to remember.’ So I decide, ‘nope it’s not me they’re graduating younger.’






They put me through for an x-ray because their CT-Scan was broken was broken.


On the way to X-ray my nurse Susan, not Susie or Sue but Susan,we


laughed at how people shorten names but when they’ve done it for yrs you have to let it go but your new friends you tell them the


name you want to be called, I asked her so I knew hers was Susan.






She knew the stinkin’ pain I was in so as we were on our way back


my curtained room, she said “as soon as the Dr. sees your x-rays I’ll see what FUN stuff I can put you on.” I thought ‘Alright I scored a good nurse, friendly, humorous & soon I’ll be pain free-that part, sadly, not so much.’






After seeing my GP the following day she thinks what I’ve done is badly bruised my ribs and obviously done some serious damage to my tissue & muscles, she prescribed Morphine which I only took when the pain was very bad in the beginning & here & there as needed.






My mum took the 1st week off work, God bless her, was with me because every time I moved it hurt so bad, engaging core and my oblique muscles were excruciating; getting in & out of bed was the worst part. Being mobile to go anywhere was out of the question. The following week she worked 1/2 days & then came over to feed me & put me in bed. Thankfully a friend came & spent 2 nights so my mum could have a break.






My church set up a meal plan for me so some ladies at church we’re bringing me meals as I wasn’t really able to stand for too long & my entire right side was pretty much useless. I can totally feel Gods healing through this entire process & even now as the pain still settles in new places in my back & neck that I have no doubt are from my fall, I know he’s still healing me. So many people are continuing to pray for my body.






Now my brother is staying with me while he works on the North Shore so he’s a big help, he’s doing my dishes & making dinner because I still don’t have a lot of staying power with my right arm. I’m still finding towards the end of the day my right side especially under my shoulder blade is quite painful.






So that’s pretty much my fall story.


I would like to thank everyone, all my friends & family that have prayed for me, fed me, and have been an encouragement to me during this difficult time.


May God bless you in the abundance of blessings that you have blessed me with.


I’ve re-read this 3X so if there’s still typos-I’m blaming cancer🤪






Ever so grateful,


Melanie.

The Fall SORRY NOT SURE Y SO SMALL

In my last blog I left off mentioning a fall I had that for once wasn’t caused  my cancer, (Seizure).  so here’s what actually happened.


It was The 1st Wednesday of Lent & instead of having our Bible study group we all decided that we would go to the Lent service at my Church. I hadn’t been to church in a couple weeks so instead of wearing my usual jeans a toque & hoodie, I decided to go all out (for me it’s all out) dress boots (no tread), did my hair nice I even wore my dress coat, minimal padding.
So I had arranged to get a lift from 2 people in my home group.
So the ambulance came and I asked my friends wife to come with me to the hospital.  Well as soon as they find out you have head trauma from a previous fall (oh yeh, I’ll get to that on my next blog).  They put you right into a bed & into one of those little rooms that give you curtain privacy.  I then had a,  resident Dr. or a Dr. who’s possibly doing a practicum?  Either way he was very entertaining.
I’m sorry but my shoulder is starting to really hurt, 6 weeks later & I still can’t do anything that makes my shoulder muscles engage for too long.  It’s a very gripping story😉 just bare with me.
I will finish the story, I promise.


When we got to church, I should probably mention that it was snowing & had been all day;  well as much snow as Vancouver gets in an average winter.    
So we got to church & I opened the car door & put my right foot down & the moment I turned to put my left foot down I went down head 1st hitting the pavement and rest of my body followed crunching the right side like a piece of paper you throw in the garbage bin.  The worst part was the sound of my head hitting the pavement as it was literally the 1st part of my body that came crashing down & in that moment the crackling crunch ricocheted through my ears.  My friend came running around from the drivers side as I was screaming in agonizing pain and I told him to grab my head we were both fairly certain I’d cracked it open but, by nothing short of a miracle I didn’t.


So his wife called 911, my Vancouver dad & ran into my church to get someone to come out to help me.  Fortunately for our church we have a lady that’s an ER nurse so she new what to ask me and how to keep me calm while I lay on the wet cement in the parking lot on wet cement and in snow that kept coming down.  I was shaking like a 9.9 earthquake had just hit, I was so cold & no doubt in shock as well.  Well The ambulance came within 10 mins.  We are on a direct route for police, fire, ambulance & hospital.  Very close.



Bless you all for hanging in with me,
Melanie