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Just Want to Talk | Last Active: Nov 8, 2024 | Replies (8)
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@knight7673, you're going through some tough stuff and it's hard to deal with this stuff on your own. I hope you saw the replies from @pml and @kb2014.
I'm glad that you reached out just to talk. It can help just to talk, even on a forum like this one. Sometimes talking to a real person, in real time is needed too. I'm sure you know this, but you can always reach someone at the 988 lifeline https://988lifeline.org/. Call or text 988.
How are you feeling right now?
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2 months ago I fell on my left hip. I am a 70 year old man. There was minor pain of my left hip. I was in rehab in a nursing home gym. I came out of the bathroom at 4:00 in the morning. No lights and very dark.
Nurse picked me up and rolled me back to bed thinking I had just rolled out of bed. No, I fell off my walker really hard.
Again I was put back in bed without having been sent to an emergency room.
A month later the back pain on my back slowly got very painful. I was n no longer in rehab and living at my Alf.
Another painful month went by and I should have gone to a neurologist .
I was now using a permanent walker.
Besides my lower back pain getting worse I was not walking normally.
The emergency room doctor said that I fractured my lower spine. Was in rehab because I spent a two week stay in my hospital bed not able to get up with a half dozen bags hanging over me through an IV.
It was mostly antibiotic as I had sepsis and pneumonia.
It’s been over two months now and I have to go to a neurologist as I had a permanent headache in the back of my neck and couldn’t turn it much.
Now my right foot started not being able to tap it.. it has now been paralyzed.
Between the right foot. I could no longer move the foot back and forth. I became flat footed couldn’t move my my toes and right side. I was becoming half paralyzed. I haven’t seen a neurologist yet but I felt sharp pains in my lower back and a foot that didn’t work properly and a permanent headache in the back of my neck.
I couldn’t move around tethered to my bed.
Maybe I’m in the wrong room for this issue but I became depressed lying in bed all day in pain my depression was so bad that I wanted to stop living but not really.
I didn’t want to die even though I was incapable of walking around normally.
Finally I have an appointment with a neurologist next week.
I’m simply really depressed . I wanted to end it all but a psychiatrist came to my house depression meds with a psychologist for “talk therapy " I wanted to call 988. I’m still the same but looking forward to a neurologist.