So I am extremely depressed by all of the bad things that have been happening to me lately. Here is the rundown. This is long and hopefully you will read it. In the last 15 years I have probably been to a doctor 5 or 6 times until this stretch of hell. Thank goodness I finally got my insurance at the start of September or I might have been in real trouble financially. Some of you know that I have been experiencing Gout flare-ups the past five years but I have been taking a little better care of myself and they have been much fewer now. Well earlier in the month of September I was lying in my bed and all of a sudden the ceiling started to spin. I wasnt drinking. I rarely drink. I closed my eyes, opened them and it was still spinning. I stood up out of bed and wanted to get to a mirror to see what my eyes looked like but almost fell down. I thought about walking to the bathroom about five steps away or to turn around and go back to the bed which was one step away. I chose the bed. About a week later I had a humming in my left ear that a few days later expanded to the right ear but not as loud. About a week later I had terrible knee pain and decided to see a doctor. The doctor said it was probably a Gout flare-up and to see a hearing specialist. He said that my blood pressure was a little high and gave me lisinopril for that. That was two weeks ago from today. He said a hearing specialist will contact me. Compared to what happened next...That was the GOOD NEWS!!! Last Wednesday I ripped the crud out of my thumb bowling and had to use Super Glue to get it back together for the next few days. Last Friday after Golfing the best round of my life I went home and once I started sitting down I had flashes like lightning bolts in my right eye. I went to the Urgent Care and they said to see my regular eye doctor as soon as I can. So Monday I go to that Eye Doctor and He said I have a tear in my right retina and should be seen by a specialist so I have an appointment set up for Tomorrow morning in Maplewood. Well last night bowling after a great 215 in the first game with the only open on a split in the 10th frame I started to feel a pain in my muscles on the right arm. I figured I would suck it up and just bowl a little slower as I dont bowl again until next Wednesday. The second game I was off to a pretty good start striking three of the first four frames and in the fifth frame while throwing at a spare. THWACK!!! I feel my muscles rip in my right arm in the Bicep area. I turn to my team and say Im done guys. Sorry!!! I have to go to the E.R.. They are looking at me like WHAT??? Well I then went to the same Urgent Care in the Blaine Medical Building that I went to last Friday. The doctor thought I had a tear in the Bicep but should be seen by an Orthopedic expert as soon as possible. So this is now the crazy part. Today I go to the doctor in Roseville at 10:30 for a follow up on the gout and blood pressure. Well that part was good. I then finally get the appointment for the humming in the ears. Then I leave there and go to the Orthopedic specialist in Blaine. The doctor feels that it is a tear in the elbow area of the bicep and that more than likely I will be in a hard cast with no mobility for six weeks and unable to bowl for six months. When I heard that my heart just dropped. I love bowling probably as much as anything that I do in my life. I have been doing it since I was 6 at Elsies lanes in Northeast Minneapolis. When our family moved to Isanti when I was like 9 the first thing I remember is going to Cambridge Bowl and bowling Saturday Mornings with Mike and Herb as coaches and Kenny Smith being on my team. As an 11 year old I led everyone in average there which was pretty cool. Tomorrow morning I go to Maplewood for my hearing. Saturday Morning I go to Roseville to get an open faced MRI on my arm. Monday Morning I go to Woodbury to get the results and to see what happens next. And on the 14th I go see what is wrong with my ears. All I am thinking is a gause bandage around the head with an eye patch and walking in a cast. People are going to congratulate me on making it through a terrible crash. All I have been thinking about is how I can live with just the use of my left arm. I wont be able to wear pants probably as I wont be able to button them with the left hand. Will I be able to put on socks with one hand? How the heck will I be able to put my right hand in a cast in shirts and jackets. Will I have to buy bigger clothes? I believe I will have to buy plenty of sweatpants and warm-ups. Why is all of this happening at once? I can understand once a year or so as I am getting older but not everything in the past week or so. Very worried, feeling sick, as I probably am going to need eye and bicep surgery in the next few days. There is a slim chance I will not need surgery on either but that is a slim chance. I am the most depressed now that I ever have been in my life besides when my dad died suddenly in 2005. My heart is probably beating 120 beats per minute. This sucks!!! Any ideas if any of this actually happens with the arm? Very scared!!!
Posted on: Thu, 02 Oct 2014 21:40:39 +0000
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