Re: Donna and a question about concentration

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I am happy to be returning to work part time but my pain dr has limited my restrictions greatly so that if they want to accept them as they are written then I wont be doing much more at work than I am at home. I have hrs as tolerated and a 5 pound max lifting restrictions. The restriction has no time listed on it and probably wont for quite awhile. They have to accept that I have OT and PT appts, neurological appts and pain clinic appts and that I will schedule my work around them not the other way around. Seeing people outside of home will be nice but I know its going to be a strain on my system which is already miserable because of the weather, the change in burning and the fac that Im weaning off of Ultram and switching to percocet.

Donna,

I wish you success on your return to the work force. I really hope that it is not going to prove to overwhelming for you.

With my job I had to come back at full time or not at all, and with the concentration I had before. I don't know about you, but I have found out that if I have to really study something, within minutes I get so tired that I have to put it down or I have sometimes fall asleep without realizing it. Has that happened to anybody in the group?

Take care Donna and I hope you a have a low pain weekend.

Lin

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I am happy to be returning to work part time but my pain dr has limited my restrictions greatly so that if they want to accept them as they are written then I wont be doing much more at work than I am at home. I have hrs as tolerated and a 5 pound max lifting restrictions. The restriction has no time listed on it and probably wont for quite awhile. They have to accept that I have OT and PT appts, neurological appts and pain clinic appts and that I will schedule my work around them not the other way around. Seeing people outside of home will be nice but I know its going to be a strain on my system which is already miserable because of the weather, the change in burning and the fac that Im weaning off of Ultram and switching to percocet.

Donna,

I wish you success on your return to the work force. I really hope that it is not going to prove to overwhelming for you.

With my job I had to come back at full time or not at all, and with the concentration I had before. I don't know about you, but I have found out that if I have to really study something, within minutes I get so tired that I have to put it down or I have sometimes fall asleep without realizing it. Has that happened to anybody in the group?

Take care Donna and I hope you a have a low pain weekend.

Lin

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I am happy to be returning to work part time but my pain dr has limited my restrictions greatly so that if they want to accept them as they are written then I wont be doing much more at work than I am at home. I have hrs as tolerated and a 5 pound max lifting restrictions. The restriction has no time listed on it and probably wont for quite awhile. They have to accept that I have OT and PT appts, neurological appts and pain clinic appts and that I will schedule my work around them not the other way around. Seeing people outside of home will be nice but I know its going to be a strain on my system which is already miserable because of the weather, the change in burning and the fac that Im weaning off of Ultram and switching to percocet.

Donna,

I wish you success on your return to the work force. I really hope that it is not going to prove to overwhelming for you.

With my job I had to come back at full time or not at all, and with the concentration I had before. I don't know about you, but I have found out that if I have to really study something, within minutes I get so tired that I have to put it down or I have sometimes fall asleep without realizing it. Has that happened to anybody in the group?

Take care Donna and I hope you a have a low pain weekend.

Lin

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Donna,

Good luck.....

I wish I was lucky enough to be able to go and find ANY kind of job that I could do that would work with me and the restrictions that I have. I could really use the money right now, plus just being able to get out of my house and be able to be around ADULTS during the day would be a Dream come true for me. Unfortunately, no matter what I do, I would have to drive 30 minutes to get anywhere......and that's the biggest problem that I have in front of me. I can't handle the drive, and living where I do, there is no such thing as public transportation.....no taxi's, no bus's, no handicaped transportation....nothing. It's called either I have to drive myself, or Gene would have to drive me unless I found a job where there was someone else from my town that works at the same place and would drive all the time.

And, if Gene would have to drive me there........that would mean he'd have to drive me 25 miles there, 25 back, 25 to pick me up, 25 back........that's a lot of gas and time for him just driving himself. It would be easier for him to just get a job instead and me to just stay home as usual. Which, would be just as depressing as it is now.......

As you can tell, I'm so depressed about having to stay at home all the time, having no money and no outside contact with anyone. Being able to work would be the greatest thing possible for me right now, but, it's impossible.

Just make sure that you follow your doctor's restrictions and don't do anything that you don't have to do!

Tonia

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I am happy to be returning to work part time but my pain dr has limited my restrictions greatly so that if they want to accept them as they are written then I wont be doing much more at work than I am at home. I have hrs as tolerated and a 5 pound max lifting restrictions. The restriction has no time listed on it and probably wont for quite awhile. They have to accept that I have OT and PT appts, neurological appts and pain clinic appts and that I will schedule my work around them not the other way around. Seeing people outside of home will be nice but I know its going to be a strain on my system which is already miserable because of the weather, the change in burning and the fac that Im weaning off of Ultram and switching to percocet.

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Lin,

Yes I used to fall asleep at 3pm no matter what I was doing...cleaning someone's teeth...writing checks..didn't matter if i didn't think i was tired or not I was asleep at 3pm. I have a very hard time concentrating...even when reading a book I love. I also have short term memory loss..someone can tell me to get something from the other room and I get there and can't remember what i was supposed to get. I have trouble remember simple words or names of things that i should know. I sometimes get the wrong name for something but it's in the same catergory...like I can't wait til christmas when meaning halloween..but at least it was a holiday I named. I think it is a combo of the disease and medication...cause I had memory loss now for 4 yrs and it has just gotten worse with each year...and that was way before I was on any med I am now on. you are definetly not alone...Hugs..Ginny

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I am happy to be returning to work part time but my pain dr has limited my restrictions greatly so that if they want to accept them as they are written then I wont be doing much more at work than I am at home. I have hrs as tolerated and a 5 pound max lifting restrictions. The restriction has no time listed on it and probably wont for quite awhile. They have to accept that I have OT and PT appts, neurological appts and pain clinic appts and that I will schedule my work around them not the other way around. Seeing people outside of home will be nice but I know its going to be a strain on my system which is already miserable because of the weather, the change in burning and the fac that Im weaning off of Ultram and switching to percocet.

Donna,

I wish you success on your return to the work force. I really hope that it is not going to prove to overwhelming for you.

With my job I had to come back at full time or not at all, and with the concentration I had before. I don't know about you, but I have found out that if I have to really study something, within minutes I get so tired that I have to put it down or I have sometimes fall asleep without realizing it. Has that happened to anybody in the group?

Take care Donna and I hope you a have a low pain weekend.

Lin

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Lin,

I never know what day it is unless I check on my calender and forget dates..could be the 20 or 30th for all I know. If I didn't have my cell phone which is also a palm pilot and set alarms on it to remind me of things I wouldn't even know when my drs appts or any other appts were. i used to remember phone #'s...I have to look up even ones I use n a daily basis sometimes cause I go blank as I am dialing it. It really is frustrating since I used to know over 400 patients names, home #'s and what ins they had and all the information including tel#'s for the ins companies. I forget how to retrieve my own voicemail somedays..and that is the most annoying thing. So don't think you are the only one...Hope you have a great thanksgiving and can enjoy it to the fullest...Hugs..Ginny wrote:

Ginny,

I can't read a book for even I hour, and the last Harry Potter I sat down one Saturday morn and finished by

Sunday afternoon. I think I slept some, but I am not sure.

About forgetting things , if you read an earlier e-mail then you know what i forgot and it cost us a 35 dollar late fee.

I am always going into another room and have to stand there to think up why I was in the room to get. I thought all day on Wednesday that it was Thursday and I even got mad when I went to turn on my favorite show CSI Vegas and it wasn't until I saw something that said Wednesday that if finally clicked. This is the most frustrating aspect for me of this disease, I hate my mind not being as sharp as it was, but thank you for sharing your frustrating it is always nice to know that you have a person who knows what you are talking about, and now I don't feel alone.

Thank you,

Ginny

-- Re: Donna and a question about concentration

Lin,

Yes I used to fall asleep at 3pm no matter what I was doing...cleaning someone's teeth...writing checks..didn't matter if i didn't think i was tired or not I was asleep at 3pm. I have a very hard time concentrating...even when reading a book I love. I also have short term memory loss..someone can tell me to get something from the other room and I get there and can't remember what i was supposed to get. I have trouble remember simple words or names of things that i should know. I sometimes get the wrong name for something but it's in the same catergory...like I can't wait til christmas when meaning halloween..but at least it was a holiday I named. I think it is a combo of the disease and medication...cause I had memory loss now for 4 yrs and it has just gotten worse with each year...and that was way before I was on any med I am now on. you are definetly not alone...Hugs..Ginny

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Lin,

I never know what day it is unless I check on my calender and forget dates..could be the 20 or 30th for all I know. If I didn't have my cell phone which is also a palm pilot and set alarms on it to remind me of things I wouldn't even know when my drs appts or any other appts were. i used to remember phone #'s...I have to look up even ones I use n a daily basis sometimes cause I go blank as I am dialing it. It really is frustrating since I used to know over 400 patients names, home #'s and what ins they had and all the information including tel#'s for the ins companies. I forget how to retrieve my own voicemail somedays..and that is the most annoying thing. So don't think you are the only one...Hope you have a great thanksgiving and can enjoy it to the fullest...Hugs..Ginny wrote:

Ginny,

I can't read a book for even I hour, and the last Harry Potter I sat down one Saturday morn and finished by

Sunday afternoon. I think I slept some, but I am not sure.

About forgetting things , if you read an earlier e-mail then you know what i forgot and it cost us a 35 dollar late fee.

I am always going into another room and have to stand there to think up why I was in the room to get. I thought all day on Wednesday that it was Thursday and I even got mad when I went to turn on my favorite show CSI Vegas and it wasn't until I saw something that said Wednesday that if finally clicked. This is the most frustrating aspect for me of this disease, I hate my mind not being as sharp as it was, but thank you for sharing your frustrating it is always nice to know that you have a person who knows what you are talking about, and now I don't feel alone.

Thank you,

Ginny

-- Re: Donna and a question about concentration

Lin,

Yes I used to fall asleep at 3pm no matter what I was doing...cleaning someone's teeth...writing checks..didn't matter if i didn't think i was tired or not I was asleep at 3pm. I have a very hard time concentrating...even when reading a book I love. I also have short term memory loss..someone can tell me to get something from the other room and I get there and can't remember what i was supposed to get. I have trouble remember simple words or names of things that i should know. I sometimes get the wrong name for something but it's in the same catergory...like I can't wait til christmas when meaning halloween..but at least it was a holiday I named. I think it is a combo of the disease and medication...cause I had memory loss now for 4 yrs and it has just gotten worse with each year...and that was way before I was on any med I am now on. you are definetly not alone...Hugs..Ginny

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Lin,

I never know what day it is unless I check on my calender and forget dates..could be the 20 or 30th for all I know. If I didn't have my cell phone which is also a palm pilot and set alarms on it to remind me of things I wouldn't even know when my drs appts or any other appts were. i used to remember phone #'s...I have to look up even ones I use n a daily basis sometimes cause I go blank as I am dialing it. It really is frustrating since I used to know over 400 patients names, home #'s and what ins they had and all the information including tel#'s for the ins companies. I forget how to retrieve my own voicemail somedays..and that is the most annoying thing. So don't think you are the only one...Hope you have a great thanksgiving and can enjoy it to the fullest...Hugs..Ginny wrote:

Ginny,

I can't read a book for even I hour, and the last Harry Potter I sat down one Saturday morn and finished by

Sunday afternoon. I think I slept some, but I am not sure.

About forgetting things , if you read an earlier e-mail then you know what i forgot and it cost us a 35 dollar late fee.

I am always going into another room and have to stand there to think up why I was in the room to get. I thought all day on Wednesday that it was Thursday and I even got mad when I went to turn on my favorite show CSI Vegas and it wasn't until I saw something that said Wednesday that if finally clicked. This is the most frustrating aspect for me of this disease, I hate my mind not being as sharp as it was, but thank you for sharing your frustrating it is always nice to know that you have a person who knows what you are talking about, and now I don't feel alone.

Thank you,

Ginny

-- Re: Donna and a question about concentration

Lin,

Yes I used to fall asleep at 3pm no matter what I was doing...cleaning someone's teeth...writing checks..didn't matter if i didn't think i was tired or not I was asleep at 3pm. I have a very hard time concentrating...even when reading a book I love. I also have short term memory loss..someone can tell me to get something from the other room and I get there and can't remember what i was supposed to get. I have trouble remember simple words or names of things that i should know. I sometimes get the wrong name for something but it's in the same catergory...like I can't wait til christmas when meaning halloween..but at least it was a holiday I named. I think it is a combo of the disease and medication...cause I had memory loss now for 4 yrs and it has just gotten worse with each year...and that was way before I was on any med I am now on. you are definetly not alone...Hugs..Ginny