In a previous message Julia Sidebottom wrote to Wendy Apgar:
 
 JS> It sounds like you have been through hell and back! I am glad to
 JS> hear that you are doing better... I know and understand coumidin all
 JS> to well I take 10mgs a day and cannot maintain a decent PT level...
 
 I can certainly relate. That is how my level's were
 for a year. Then when my current doctor took it over
 it was regulated at a stable level within a month so I
 was only having to go in once a month for the pt test.
 Now is a different story! I've had to get blood drawn
 2x a week since he is trying to get it regulated since
 I was in the hospital. It's where it should be now, but
 we don't know what a stable dose is at the level that I
 am supposed to be now. So I take it all in stride and
 realize that being on the coumadin is a whole lot better
 than having a stroke and being more limited than I
 am now!
 
 .  I do hope you are healing well and that you are handling all the
 JS> "changes" that this surgery will and has bought onto your life.
 JS> Please take good care of your self and rest... do some stitching or
 JS> other easy and relaxing crafty things during your recovery time.. Julia
 Thank you for the encouragement. I've been doing my
 crafty things and have been reading quite a bit when I'm
 too tired to sit up.  I do my e-mail a little at a time.
 (Right now I'm sitting on an ice pack like my doctor
 prescribed to help my sciatic nerve that is giving me
 bigtime pain). The problem is I don't feel much like eating
 healthy food...especially when my stress level is up like
 it is today. I started out okay but then things got worse...
 like the drip of the faucet turning into a flood (an
 analagy of how the day has gone). So I did okay at
 breakfast (I think I ate breakfast) but since then I haven't
 had one thing that was nourishing except for the milk
 and whatever was in the cookies I ate!  But I'll take
 things a day at a time and do what I can to manage the
 emotional and physical pain as best as I can.  I know
 I rely on my friends, on-line especially, for the support
 that I need right now.
 Wendy
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