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Bad news on the health front this week

September 18, 2011 by Tricia

You know how they say things come in threes? Well, I think I’m experiencing that phenomenon this week. Medically speaking it hasn’t been a very good week. I could sure use my Friends and Family around me this week!

On Wednesday I spent about four hours in the hospital seeing two different doctors and having a painful test done, and the week prior to that I had a follow test done on another part of my body that I just got the results of on Friday and the news isn’t good.

Let’s see .. where do I start? I’m falling apart? LOL Yeah, well that’s about the truth of it.

Ok to make this short and sweet:

1. I’ve always had bad knees but last winter and even prior to last winter my knees were just aching and even giving out on me on the stairs. I fell a few times – badly. I finally convinced my family doctor to take it seriously and had xrays and MRIs in June and it looked like I had osteoarthritis in my right knee. Well one of the doctors that I saw on Wednesday was an Orthopedic surgeon and I don’t have osteoarthritis yet (I probably will soon). My kneecaps on both legs are not tracking correctly because my lower legs aren’t formed right (tibia extortia – don’t worry they look fairly normal) so my knee caps are basically grinding on bone! Ow. The bad news is that surgery does not have good results in correcting this problem so I’m out of luck. The doctor said I’ll have good days and bad days and that’s pretty much what I’ve been experiencing and as we’re about to get into cold weather soon I expect I’ll be in more pain soon.

2. In April I noticed my voice was getting hoarse. I thought it was maybe due to a virus or something but May came along and my voice was getting worse. Sometimes I couldn’t rely on it at all. I’d never had any trouble with my voice in the past at all .. not even when I’d get a sore throat – no laryngitis or anything ever. By the time June came along and I’d have days where I could barely talk I knew something was severely wrong so I told my doctor I wanted to see an Ear Nose and Throat specialist. The problem … even in a huge city like Toronto there aren’t very many good ENT doctors and when my appointment was booked it was booked for December!

Anyway … I managed to get an appointment to see the specialist in the outpatient department of the hospital this past Wednesday – as long as I could make it there before 3 pm. I made it at 2:50 pm … my other doctor had been running behind! I told the doctor the symptoms that I’d been having and of course the first question he asked was if I was a smoker and I was happy to tell him that I quit over 11 months ago. He was happy to hear that. He then asked if I had a lot of gastric reflux. I told him that I had some occasionally, but that when I was smoking it had truly been a terrible problem – but once I quit it stopped for the most part too. He wasn’t all that surprised to hear that either. So .. he decided to put a tiny camera down my nose and throat to see my voice box – mainly to see if there was any damage like a paralyzed vocal cord or perhaps damage from gastric reflux. He didn’t see any damage at all.

So … he believes that I have a rare condition that causes weakening vocal muscles which causes people to have a weak voice. He said that it usually doesn’t cause people to totally lose their voice and sometimes it only lasts for a short while and their voice comes back completely normal again and other times it just doesn’t. So he’s sending me to a vocal specialist in another hospital. I guess he almost never refers people to other doctors because his staff was quite surprised at the referral.

The bottom line is that I’m losing my voice and I don’t know if it will ever return to normal. Sometimes I can barely talk. It’s terrible and kind of scary. The only good thing about it is that it might be a way for me to talk my husband into getting an iPad … I can carry it around and use it as a writing tool when my voice isn’t working right??? Uh huh. Yeah that might work.

3. The last bit of bad medical news might be the scariest. A little over a month ago I found a lump in my right breast. Now I’ve had a lump in my breast before and I’ve had the lump removed … it was benign – that was back in 1992. Hopefully this turns out to be benign too.

About three weeks ago I went in for mammograms and the person doing my mammograms had me sit and wait while she tried to find the radiologist to have a look at the pictures right away. I know this technologist and I can tell my the way she spent 45 minutes running around trying to find the radiologist and then trying to get me an ultrasound right then and there that she saw something in the mammogram but of course she couldn’t and wouldn’t say that to me. Ultrasound was totally booked up and believe it or not I had to wait two weeks for a follow up ultrasound.

When I had the ultrasound of my right breast the woman – someone I didn’t know (remember I’m a nurse and I’m on medical leave at the hospital so I know most everyone!) spent 15 minutes going over about two inches of my breast. I watched the ultrasound and she was repeatedly measuring something that looked like a small tumor (adenoma) to me.

On Friday my doctors office left a message on my answering machine while I was out stating that they wanted to do a follow up ultrasound in about two months. I tried calling back but the office had already called … but I know that there’s something there and if they want to ultrasound again in a few months they want to make sure whatever they found isn’t growing or if it is that it’s growing slowly … grrr … just take the darn thing out like they did in the early 90’s! Breast Cancer runs in my family!

Anyway you can bet I’ll be on the phone to my doctors office on Monday trying to get more answers. I don’t like this at all. Especially when I know my body likes to grow tumors. I already had a precancerous tumor in my thyroid removed in the 90’s as well and now I have more tumors in what’s left of my thyroid. I also have a tumor in my leg, and now I’m pretty sure one in my breast … Not good.





Filed Under: Canada, Health Fitness + Beauty, Home and Lifestyle, Items to Try, Toronto Tagged With: adenoma, bad news, benign, bone, breast, breast cancer, breast lump, camera, comes in threes, doctors, ear nose and throat, ENT doctor, Family, family doctor, followup, grinding, grow tumors, health, hoarse voice, knee, knee pain, kneecaps, losing voice, mammograms, measuring, medical, medically, MRI, not tracking, osteoarthritis, radiologist, scared, scary, specialists, surgery, test, throat, tibia extortia, tumor, ultrasound, voice, voice box, weak vocal muscles, week, xray

The Buskers Festival

September 17, 2011 by Tricia

My husband and I enjoy going to as many local events as possible – especially during the summer. I can’t believe that I almost forgot to post photos from the last interesting Toronto event we went to together.

Near the end of August my the Buskers Festival was held in Downtown Toronto. I’ve never attended this festival before but I’m pretty sure I’ll be going again. I really enjoyed what I saw. Firedancers, performers doing slight of hand tricks, flame throwing acts, dancing dolls, people walking around on stilts, dancers, acrobatics, musicians and more – all on the street.

Here’s a photo of Silver Elvis .. as I took the photo our dog, Midnight, started barking at him so he was enjoying himself posing for her and the crowd around us was laughing their heads off at our dog. It was funny.

Silver Elvis? 2

Here’s another shot:

Silver Elvis? 5

Then there was this woman who was dancing like a wind up doll:

Wind up doll busker 6 - Kate Mior

Wind up doll busker 2 - Kate Mior

One of the best events that we saw the night we went was a group called Flame Oz. I took video of their performance but I haven’t uploaded it yet. It was fantastic!

Have you ever been to a Buskers Festival?

Filed Under: Art, Canada, Culture, Entertainment, Toronto Tagged With: acrobats, August, barking, buskers, Buskers fest, crowd, crowded, dancing, Dancing doll, dog, fire dancers, flame throwers, fun, interesting, Music, musicians, Silver elvis, slight of hand, stilts, street, Toronto

The Huge Branch that Fell on Our House and Car

September 17, 2011 by Tricia

Back in August – August 21st to be exact, there was a sudden violent summer storm in our area of Toronto and while it only lasted about ten minutes it sure caused a lot of damage to not only our house and property, but to many other peoples homes in our area as well.

As I said the storm came on suddenly – it had been looking like rain for a while, but all of a sudden the sky had that dark almost greenish look that to me means impending tornado and there was in fact a storm and tornado watch at that time. Then, just as I stepped out on to our enclosed front porch to see if my husband was home yet from getting the groceries the storm started with a violent rush of rain.

I was trying to close the windows on the enclosed porch when I saw our car pull into the driveway. I moved towards the door, thinking that maybe I’d run outside to help my husband bring the groceries inside but then the rain really started shooting in the window that I hadn’t managed to close yet … and then there was a huge bang on the roof and all of a sudden there were branches all over our lawn and the car that my husband was still inside of … or at least I was hoping my husband was still inside … because if he’d started to get out of the car he could have been hit by the huge branch!

As it turned out … my husband was still in the car being tossed and turned like he was in a car wash. He was trying to call the house but of course I was on the porch and wouldn’t have heard the phone … plus little did we know but the power went out and would be out for the better part of 7 hours!

When the rain finally slowed my husband crawled out of the car and we both counted our blessings that neither of us had been hit by the huge tree branch. It had fallen off the big maple tree on the other side of our neighbors house. It’s a city tree … but of course as it turns out because of it was storm conditions we can’t make a claim for the damaged that the huge maybe 500 pound branch did to our house evestroughs and car … we tried and were turned down. Nice eh?

Here’s a couple of pictures of what the tree branch looked like covering our small lawn and car. I figure the branch was over 20 feet in length and weighed more than 500 pounds. Most of our neighbors were stunned by what happened – one seemed to care less but that seems to be typical behavior for them. Sigh.

tree branches cover yard and car 7

Large tree branches cover our car 15

Now that the city has turned down our claim for damage we’re going to have to either get a quote from our insurance companies or just pay out of pocket for the damage that the big branch caused … either way we have to get the evestroughs fixed as a couple of them have dents in them that look like the lip of a measuring cup and rain water pours out of that area just like it does out of a measuring cup … so yes we have to fix it.

Filed Under: Canada, Home and Lifestyle, Home Renovation, Life with Chris, The neighbors, Toronto Tagged With: awful, branches, car, city tree, claim, damage, evestrough, fell, huge tree branch, husband, neighbors, power out, rain, scared, scratches, sudden, sudden storm, trapped, tree, tree branch, turned down, window

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