Again very similar, because ,my daughter lives at the top of a mountain and to drive to her place , we have to go up the steepest cliff road for about 20 km's...and with a sheer drop down into a huge lake, and the track is only as wide as one car so if anything is coming the opposite way at a bend, you can be toast... ... . She has to drive up and down there in the pitch dark as well..there's absolutely no lights of any kind on the cliff roads.. Amazing how similar both the girls lives are for different reasons... .
@Holly Saunders I feel bad for coming onto this so belatedly......My best wishes go with you and your daughter. It is always bad, but could always have been worse...... Frank
Thank you all for your best wishes for my daughter, they're very appreciated, I'll certainly pass them on ETA... just had a call from my daughter, as she got up this morning she cracked another rib.... she's got to go to her osteopath, who will laser her ribs, and tape them up more... She made me laugh... she's in such pain, but she said ''mum who knew that cracked ribs came along with tourettes''??
At least she has a good sense of humor about the whole thing, Holly. Robin is that way about her MS, too. She knows it affects her memory, and so she tries to just make light of it. She is probably going to be even more sore for the next while. Cracked ribs hurt awfully BAD ! I remember from one of he car accidents I was in, and ended up with cracked ribs. I could barely even breathe for a while and was in terror that I might sneeze !
You're absolutely right Yvonne, she's in much more pain today, compounded of course by the new cracked rib. I've told her she can't drive, but she's in a situation where she will have to drive, and I'm worried for her because the mountain track up and down from her home, is unmade and horrendously bumpy even in her SUV... Hwever, she's saying that for the next few days at least until Sunday her staff can take over, and she will rest as much as possible. I didn't know Robin had MS Yvonne,...when was she diagnosed, did she have to leave the army?
She was actually suffering from the MS, but it took the doctors several years to get the right MRI to detect it, so by the time they found out that was what was wrong, she had already had MS for a few years, and I am thinking (if I remember right) that she was already out of the military on a medical release before a doctor finally defined it and started treatment for her. That was not the only injury that she had, but I am sure that it made the other problems even worse. I believe that is what drives her now, Holly; she knows that the day is likely coming when she will no longer be able to get out into the woods and other areas where she looks for fossils and antiques, and she wants to do everything she can , while she still is physically able.
Oh I can totally understand that Yvonne, I'm sure I would be the same. I can understand also as a mother you must be very concerned for her future. My own brother has MS and it took 7 years before he was diagnosed... and my late m-i-l had MS , in fact my husband can't remember a time in his life when she didn't have it.