Schooling Hands

Thursday, April 12, 2018
Sydney stayed a long weekend at his fathers home. Not just for a visit but to give me a break, and to help his dad do some work on his shed house by helping him with drywall. Sydney also was excited that he didn't have to do any school work since his father doesn't have internet. When I went to pick him up he declared he found an old internet dish and circuit board that he wanted to bring home. Against my strict no protest due to his hoarding tendencies, he agreed that it would be better left at his dads place for later retrieval that would give him something to do. While gone he had gotten his new math book in the mail for his home school classes. I spoke with his school today and discussed that the new IEP would show the new curriculum. Once I looked at the book I knew immediately that the math was still outside my son's ability to reason with numbers. After all, fractions are only used in cooking, right?
My trip to the Jonesboro hospital was sorrow filled. With Jim and Sydney in tow I wanted them to be present so that they could hear what my limitations would be and how they could help me after surgery. With all pre-op work done in Forrest City I was shocked to hear that the Jonesboro hospital wanted all testing redone at their hospital. Either way, My wonderful neurology surgeon gave me a crushing blow when she said my bones, according to the DEXA scan were too brittle to hold in plates and screws at this time.I just broke down and cried; I'm in such unbelievable pain, and you tell me I have to keep on being strong? In less than a year I've gone from the feeling of numbness in the front of my arms to not being able to move my head or sleep throughout the night due to pain waking me, and you're telling me to suffer more? How much worse this can get I don't know. I'm already on 50,000 IU's (international units) of Vitamin D, now also on 1,000 mg of calcium citrate twice a day. However, she proceeded to do carpal tunnel testing right there (the nerve conduction study shows bilateral carpal tunnel syndrome) and asked me to do several resistant exercises, my left thumb couldn't resist her at all and was predominately weaker than the right.Voice command program works well- o.k. most of the time. Tuesday I go in for my left hand carpal tunnel release.
And absolutely not doc, I will not eat cottage cheese.