Hello!

[Elsie]

Just thought I'd stop by and say hello. I haven't been here in a while, though usually I like to read around a couple times a week.

My husb. is recovering from total hip replacement. It's been super super stressful for me. He decided to go into a rehab place after a few days in the hospital and I began to feel like I lived there with him. Then he came home and I had to worry about him all the time and keep telling him not to do the stuff he was trying to do. He still wants to work, his job is very physical.

We're getting through all that and he's about 5 weeks past surgery and has graduated to a cane and I put the walker away. He fell and broke his hip 3 years ago and the bone died and his pain and limp was pretty bad and he finally went to have this done. It was a big operation getting all the hardware out first.

Right now I'm very grateful that with all this stress my brain cooperated and the medicine worked and I'm still okay. Sometimes I wonder if I'll ever go back to having seizures if the stress gets too bad. Apparently not this time.

 

[Belinda5000]

Elsie,

If you let the stress build up in your life that can definitely bring on your seizures.You do need to think about yourself alsoand your health.
Have you tried talking to your husband about the way you feel?

Belinda

 

[valeriedl]

I can sort of relate to what you are going through.

My grandfather, who is in his 80's (so there's probably a huge age difference), broke his back about 6 months ago. They aren't sure if he fell or that his bones were brittle and just broke on their own. I've been helping my grandma out as much as I can but I know she's going crazy.

Because of his age they really didn't think it was good to have surgery done so he went into a nursing home for rehab. They didn't help at all. They gave him pain meds which he went crazy on. He didn't know who people were, though they were dead when they came to see him and was always seeing things.

When he came home they gave him this stupid back brace to wear to help keep him strait but I don't think it does a bit of good.

We are constantly telling him to use his walker (which he never does), sit strait, don't cross his legs, don't carry heavy things and so much more.

I hope you can keep yourself calm and don't let yourself get worked up. Good luck!

 

[Elsie]

Thanks. My Husb. doesn't react to stressful things the way I do. He really doesn't understand me. He just works harder and harder when things get tough. I think it's like when they tell you to exercise, that it's good for stress. He's sure not a worrier like I am.

I had thought one of my triggers was stress, because most of the time when I had seizures there was something stressful going on. A couple times I thought it was low blood sugars. A couple times I thought it was hormones. But I've never really figured it out because a dozen or so seizures in a lifetime isn't much to make a pattern on.

Anyway, as he recovers and can do more things I worry less and that's good.

Valeriedl, I'm sorry to read about your grandfather. It's sure harder when older folk go through things like this. In my husband's case, his recovery is based on very specific instructions of how to move and how not to, etc., and we both talked about how hard that must be for folks with impaired mental ability to grasp.

But life goes on...we'll get through it, I guess.