Sunday, April 23, 2017

Pains and Wonky feelings

So, you all know where it started. Now lets talk about how I got to this point from there. I was told the most important thing for me to do was walk and stick to my huge list of doctor appointments filled with specialists who all had their own Idea of what was wrong with me. They all wanted to run a lot of tests. I would get weird pains and I thought I could not feel my legs or feet but that is an inaccurate way to describe it as I learned more about what was going on, I learned what I was actually experiencing is called loss of sensation. My legs and lower chest felt like I had ran miles. Or that I had attempted to go upstream in an icy cold spring. I had a hard time sleeping but whether I slept or not I was always tired. Then pain in my legs was often excessive. I have shocked myself in the past quite a bit and each time I felt it unnecessary to tell an adult. Of course there are the small things like zapping my tongue with a nine volt battery. I also however had a curious mind beyond that. I looked into a light socket of a lamp and saw something in it. In the back of my mind I knew not to reach in. I thought though what will happen I mean what is the worst that will happen? Could it really be as bad as people make it sound? I stuck my finger in as far as it would go and yanked back. It hurt. Not too bad though I had lived after all. The next time I was plugging in my Jesus night light in the dark. I thought I was smart I reached out palm facing the outlet to get an idea of where the actual plug was.  As I plugged it in though I stuck the tip of my finger in the whole. It of course shocked me It was worse than the light socket but again I lived. The third time and last time I will mention my shocking experiences (even though trust there were more) I was a gamer and one of my favorite games was crash bandicoot. When you see an electric fence in game it is surrounded by blue static. I was young so I assumed this was a fact. I was told by a babysitter that a fence was electric and not to touch it. I looked at it and the animals behind it. I thought "how could they put an electric fence around animals?" "wouldn't the animals get shocked..." I did not know much about this sort of thing I was a military brat and had not been around livestock enough. I then thought "maybe it is turned off"  since I do not see any blue electricity. I reached out and I touched it. Oh man did it hurt. Then again I had lived so it was not too bad. The importance of these stories is that I felt an electric pulse running through my legs one I would describe as being much like the outlet so it was between the socket and the fence. Not too bad but enough to keep me from sleeping as it occurred most at night. (which I now experience in my arms as well and am told by medical professionals that this is known as neuropathy)  My headaches were awful and I was hot all the time. I told myself it was ok and I was just crazy. Boy was I wrong. I was a nanny at the time and walking started getting hard. Waking up became super hard. Lifting things got really hard. My back hurt all the time. I told myself I was normal and surely I could keep going. I found my job super hard and had a nice lady and her two children depending on me. I got help from my family so I wouldn't officially let anyone down. Of course I couldn't keep the job and I looked for one I might be able to manage...
me and the baby at Aunt Vikis

No comments:

Post a Comment