Facebook Status Saturday May 11, 2013 This is how I feel today! "Can't we all just get along?" -- Rodney King

Facebook Status Saturday May 11, 2013

People please! Can we all get over ourselves now?!?!?! I don't care if you are a Republican, a Democrat, or any other political affiliation, can we all stop acting like a bunch of whiney kids pointing fingers at each other! What happened to "One Nation" anyway?!?!

Let me tell you what we look like to the rest of the world right now! We look like a bunch of idiots standing around a pothole in the road, blaming each other for the existence of said pothole. We have the tools we need, right here to fix the damn pothole, but are too bullheaded to put our differences aside, work together, and get that road repaved if necessary!

All this finger pointing, name-calling, and disrespecting our president because maybe "your guy didn't win" or just standing around gloating because "your guy did win",is sending a clear message to our enemies! That message is this; that we Americans are no longer capable of getting our shit together! This is a very dangerous message to send people! It makes us look weak, and ineffectual! In other words, it makes it look like; if we can't fix a pothole, we can't fix anything, and we can be easily conquered! To the rest of the world we are showing our asses, and our mothers raised us better people!

Put your money where your mouth is (that means all of us), pick up the damn shovel, stop pointing fingers, and start working WITH your fellow Americans instead of against them, to restore our country to greatness!

Stop the whining, the distortions, the name-calling, and get down to it! This is not middle school, this is the real deal, and there are no do-overs, so let's stop screwing up while we still have a chance!

If this call to duty pissed you off, please un-friend me!

--Your friend, and relative
Kathy Dowdle

I'm not dead yet!

My husband means well, but he doesn't quite get it. My arm ROM is not good and the pain is bad. S he gives me a hard time about using my iPad. He thinks its not helping me, and he is probably right, but I can't do anything else! Ad unlike some people I cannot watch TV all the time..

Frustration

Today is Tuesday May 7, 2013. I have been off work with these arm and shoulder issues since April 23, 2012. I have been therapy almost continuously, and have undergone MRIs, EMGs, carpal tunnel surgery on both hands, as well as shoulder surgery to repair a rotator cuff that was almost completely torn off. As my surgeon put it, "it was hanging by a thread!"

After surgery and wearing a huge sling for several weeks I resumed therapy. It seemed to be doing pretty well (still sore but getting better) for several weeks, and then, bang! I was right back where I first started! Intense pain, and severely decreased range of motion. Taking a shower is a torture and getting dressed is worse!

I had an arthrogram (they injected dye into my shoulder capsule and took x-rays and another MRI) yesterday to see what is going on. My therapist is afraid to do any more therapy on my shoulder until the results come in. There is something very wrong going on here, and she doesn't want to make it any worse!

I have been a very nice, compliant patient, but I am so frustrated, and in so much pain I could just scream!