Hi Christine,
Thank you so much for your lovely mail, appreciate it so much,
I’m pleased your asthma is not too bad right now, mine is ok, but i do take 3 inhalers per day and a tablet, its more the cold weather that affects my asthma, if i get a chest infection they put me on antibiotics and steroids, sorry to hear your foot is bothering you again, hope it eases soon though, I’m praying for you, pleased scott is doing ok , maybe he has a headache if he’s not been eating , but the weather there may brighten he’s mood, its been raining here on and off again today, so miserable the weather here, i hate it too hot though, but hate the rain also! i went to the hospital today to get the results of my mri scan i had done last month, it took some time for the consultant to get the written report up, but it turns out ive got severe inflammation in my right foot, sever bruising, and they found arthritis in my foot, the consultant wants me to try acupuncture and other treatments done by the physio therapist there, they are going to call me with an appointment for that, and he also wants me to have another steroid injection in my foot under ultra sound control, i had one back in march,but it did not work, done at another hospital though, ive got that steroid injection on the 29th july at 3.45pm, stewarts on early shift so can take me that day, ive got an appointment to go back to see the consultant on 5th august at 12.45pm, stewarts on late shift that day, so he will have to try and get holiday or go in later that day, he’s going to put in for some holiday for when i have that steroid injection, as i cannot do anything for at least 3 days, got to rest up a lot too,the consultant did say if none of the treatments help me , he is going to have me in and do that dry needling thing and look around my foot under general anasethic, i did cry in the consulting room, as my foot is getting so much worse and i would give anything to be out of pain, i hate not being able to walk patch and relying on stewart to do that all the time, on stewarts lates patch only gets one walk per day, i know i would not be able to walk him myself though, i could not walk to the end of the road even, I’m really down since we came home from the hospital, stewart grabbed he’s bag and went to work when we got home, patch did come up to me and try and comfort me, animals do know when you are upset or something is wrong with you, i did used to work, when my kids were younger and i was married i did evening cleaning, ive worked in schools, mid day supervisor, looked after children in the lunch hour, i worked as a classroom assistant, hearing children read, helping them with their work etc, i worked at argos, a department store here, i also went back to evening cleaning when i first left my ex husband, i did 3 jobs at one time when i left my ex husband and it made me ill,my dr gave me a certificate for 4 months off work then, i had to go to the social security here as i had no income, nothing from my ex husband , so they paid me income support and because i have so many illnesses they wrote to me and said i could stay on this income support , so i did untill stewart and i moved in here, he works, so i told them I’m moving in with someone who works and i came off it, so i do not get anything , if my foot problems gets much worse I’m going to see if i can claim anything , but for now we only have stewarts wages coming in here, i hope your july 4th goes well, what are your plans? stewart is off this weekend, not often he’s off for a whole weekend, shopping for us tomorrow though, ive got laundry to do tomorrow too, anyway best go and mail colleen and get my dinner done and patch fed, I’m praying for you all there, quack, quack, christine