FireCat
08-26-2005, 09:55 PM
Hi I havent posted to much lately, but I read those that need prayer every nite. I enjoy the hunting board. But approx 4 mo ago I had the privalege to give birth to a 6x 5mm kidney stone. It is such a enjoyment to bring forth one of those little objects into the world. I have a very high pain tolarance. I had my hip broken in two places in a work related accident 3 yrs ago, and after i broke it i was trying to walk around and finish my job for 1 1/2 hours. before i passed out from the shock. But giving birth to one of these little stones put me in tears for 3 1/2 hours untill the morphine kicked in. And through all this the Doctors descoverd I had a blood disorder called ..ITP...now I am not going to give you the medical lingo for this because there is not enough space here to do it. But my body is thinking my blood plattlets are forign, so my spleen is killing them off. Now a normal person should have a healthy plattlet count of between 140,000 and 200,000 they found out that mine were at 2000. As some of you probably know platlets are that sticky substance in your blood that the good lord gave you so you wont bleed to death. If they are super low you will be accaptable of very easliy bleeding to death with the smallest fracture or injury. You show signs of ..ITP..with bleeding from nose, , and ears and bruising easly. Now the only sign I had was brusing easly, I thought it was from taking to many ibproffin for the pain in my hip. So they put me on high doses of Prednazone and it was great, for me anyway. But tapering off, that was another story I was Doctor Jekel and hyde, Billy Graham one day and Charles Manson the next. My counts are like a roller coster up one week and down the next. I have taken a few things that are suppose to help but its not doing to well. Next thing that is approx 60% success rate is removal of spleen. which is no big deal but you have to be careful and not catch to many bugs or you get real sick. So that is why I havent been posting to many times. Actually trying to concentrate on a subject was kinda diffacult comming of Prednazone. I would catch myself rambling like a idiot sometimes. I dont want this to be a "poor me" post please understand that because this is a bump in the road compared to what many of you are going through. My wits are comming back better so take care brothers and sisters. Ill keep praying for all you needs.