Positivity only fellow friends!

Hi, @ray666,
I got a huge chuckle over your description of the British murder mysteries ~ "perp-walked off to jail" ~ 😂🤣 I've not gotten into them even though there seems to be a plethora of options and I do watch PBS (no cable). My daughter really likes them, too ~ and as it happens she and her husband are on holiday in London (and then in Scotland for a few days -- plenty of crime stories originate there, too). I may need to enlarge my capacity to adapt to yet more criminal behavior - Ha!
Are you seeing a pt these days? I'm definitely noticing a decline in mobility since my pt stopped taking Medicare payments in January. Time to call for a new referral. I really hope your left hip/leg can respond to some kind of alternative to hip surgery. I'm no medical advisor but from my experience these surgeries may tend to complicate peripheral neuropathy.
Nonetheless, here's to a Terrific Tuesday!
Barb

Mikead63 mentions stage 4 of Neuropathy. I heard somewhere of the stages of Neuropathy. Can someone explain or enumerate these stages and the symptoms of each? In a conversation with a Neurologist I point blank asked him if this illness would kill me. He answered that probably not, but that it would make my life miserable. The stages alluded to, appear to indicate otherwise? Any one can explain.

I too prefer to be positive. I do not take anything for any of my neuropathy symptoms. I prefer to be aware of them. I exercise regularly, wear shoes that help my feet feel "connected" to the ground, and I always always always compare my situation with another's issue that is worse. I consider myself fortunate that I can still walk with a walker, drive my car safely and experience life with a grateful and positive attitude. Good luck to you, Mike!

Mikead63 mentions stage 4 of Neuropathy. I heard somewhere of the stages of Neuropathy. Can someone explain or enumerate these stages and the symptoms of each? In a conversation with a Neurologist I point blank asked him if this illness would kill me. He answered that probably not, but that it would make my life miserable. The stages alluded to, appear to indicate otherwise? Any one can explain.

Hi, Mike

I took me a while before I realized that my doctors' seemingly blasé attitude wasn't because they didn't care about my condition but instead because they'd nothing promising to tell me, and that was as frustrating to them as it was to me. I, too, continue to look up stuff, sit in on the occasional webinar, but basically I'm done playing the PN grad student. My focus is now 90% on keeping my bod in motion … which is perfect segue to:

@centre paraphrased Claudius in Hamlet, saying so appropriately, "When aches come, they come not in single aches but in battalions." This morning, I'm thinking (and chuckling) "How true, how true!" I have a call in to my orthopedic doc, asking to see him. Along with my PN balance issues and my post-sepsis shortness of breath, as of yesterday I'm having a tough time putting my full body weight on my left leg. Is that the newest battalion to be threatening my castle keep: a hip replacement? 🙂 It never does end, does it? (Until it does … but that's another topic.)

There was a time, too, Mike, when I would end my day with a tumbler of Johnny Walker Black. No longer, though. Much to my chagrin, I had to set down my JWB. I now end my days with a non-alky beer (oh, sigh). We do watch a little TV, though.

Lately, we've been binging on British murder mysteries. I used to wonder why we'd become so fond of them, but then the other day I read that these fictional murder mysteries serve as a relaxing break from the monstrous stuff facing us in our daytime lives. At least, in a fictional murder mystery, things get solved. You begin with a body, you follow the detectives through endlessly complicating complications, and, in the end (an hour later, maybe an hour-and-a-half), some grizzled culprit is handcuffed and perp-walked off to jail. After a long, hard day of slogging through reality, what could be more satisfying? 🙂

Life IS good, Mike! Take care!
Ray

@antonintampfl2009 - I am not familiar with "stages of neuropathy.

I'll pass this on to John Bishop our fantastic Volunteer Mentor @johnbishop
John?

Hi, Mike

I took me a while before I realized that my doctors' seemingly blasé attitude wasn't because they didn't care about my condition but instead because they'd nothing promising to tell me, and that was as frustrating to them as it was to me. I, too, continue to look up stuff, sit in on the occasional webinar, but basically I'm done playing the PN grad student. My focus is now 90% on keeping my bod in motion … which is perfect segue to:

@centre paraphrased Claudius in Hamlet, saying so appropriately, "When aches come, they come not in single aches but in battalions." This morning, I'm thinking (and chuckling) "How true, how true!" I have a call in to my orthopedic doc, asking to see him. Along with my PN balance issues and my post-sepsis shortness of breath, as of yesterday I'm having a tough time putting my full body weight on my left leg. Is that the newest battalion to be threatening my castle keep: a hip replacement? 🙂 It never does end, does it? (Until it does … but that's another topic.)

There was a time, too, Mike, when I would end my day with a tumbler of Johnny Walker Black. No longer, though. Much to my chagrin, I had to set down my JWB. I now end my days with a non-alky beer (oh, sigh). We do watch a little TV, though.

Lately, we've been binging on British murder mysteries. I used to wonder why we'd become so fond of them, but then the other day I read that these fictional murder mysteries serve as a relaxing break from the monstrous stuff facing us in our daytime lives. At least, in a fictional murder mystery, things get solved. You begin with a body, you follow the detectives through endlessly complicating complications, and, in the end (an hour later, maybe an hour-and-a-half), some grizzled culprit is handcuffed and perp-walked off to jail. After a long, hard day of slogging through reality, what could be more satisfying? 🙂

Life IS good, Mike! Take care!
Ray

You guys are so funny!