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Cheery_Daff

Oh KK, how awful. I can only imagine how helpless you must feel 😕😕😕 no advice from me, just sending healing thoughts through the airwaves in your direction xx

Less_Talk_and_More_Action

Hi @KajiKita. Not totally surprised as he is obviously in so much pain.  I couldn’t have done them at my worst.  I just had to pick a moment and then I could only do a bit.   I have also done them on the bed when I couldn’t got on the floor.  It isn’t as flat/firm as the floor but better than nothing I found. 

If he can find a bit of sleep and see if there is a small opportunity somewhere.   

Take care yourself as well as it is very hard for partners when there is so much pain and so little help offered 

Sending hugs and hoping for some sleep for Mr KK and yourself and some progress tomorrow. 

L x 

PennysIntoPounds

Sending gentle hugs to you both.
Definitely sounds a good idea to get those sessions booked in and those exercises started as soon as he's able.

As you say, normal meds aren't going to hugely help but just to check, is he taking both paracetamol and ibuprofen? Lots of people think you shouldn't take two meds together (which is often true!) but those two are fine to take at the same time. Just saying in case it helps ease anything temporarily enough he can get a tiny bit more comfortable..
Microwavable heat packs and hot water bottles also good ideas, and apparently it's effective to alternate ice packs and heat pads, preferably cold/ice packs rather than warmth to start with
Also make him sip water, though if a large whisky etc might help at this point go for it.
Make him move. I know he's not up for exercises right now but staying in the painful position won't help, even if it feels the least painful position right now. Get him to bed/comfy floor so he's in a position to hopefully sleep at some point, he must be exhausted.
Make him go to the loo first so he doesn't have to contend with that sooner in the night, and check with him he is peeing okay! If he's not, go A&E.

I'm so sorry for him (and you), pain is so incredibly miserable 

PennysIntoPounds

Sorry, on re-reading, that was a very bossy post, I just went into officious emergency mode for someone I care about! I know full well how very awful pain can be so have an 'all hands to the pump' matron's attitude to it. I'm sure you'd rock a crisply ironed sternly tucked uniform too.
Hope you both manage a decentish nights kip x

KajiKita

We have had some pain free minutes this evening. He’s managed a couple of pieces of toast and a very quick shower. The latter made him feel a lot better. He can’t relax - he’s sat bolt upright, but at least he’s only aching rather than (literally) screaming in pain, which is what it went up to at one point this evening. 😳

In brighter news, because this is getting bleak and you have to remember that there are sips of joy and light here and there …
I brought out a cushion that we never use (it has a long, complicated history involving a Light Ship, a sangha and a midnight flit!) from the conservatory to help Mr KK’s knees when he was kneeling on the floor howling into the sofa. 

Chloe has now seen it. 

It’s now Chloe’s cushion … 😉



KK

PS - I was able to rescue the poor, exhausted, probably dehydrated, mouse and got it out into the garden ❤️

beanielou

Great news on less pain for Mr KK. 

Miss Chloe looks very comfy 😻

beanielou

Oh & well done on getting the mouse out of the house! 

SandyShores

Following along re. the sciatica and have fingers crossed.  Absolutely lovely photo of Chloe and her cushion.

KajiKita

beanielou said:

Oh & well done on getting the mouse out of the house! 

The poor thing seemed to be unhurt but utterly lacking in any get up and go any more - hence why Chloe lost interest in it, I think. I would normally borrow Mr KK’s slippers for the removal but he was mid howl so I didn’t think it fair to disturb him for them … Used a washed out takeaway crayon with a piece of cardboard underneath and dropped it into some long grass at the base of a wall. A little brown (field, I think?) mouse 😊❤️
And yes, I rewashed the takeaway carton! 

KK

KajiKita

SandyShores said:

Following along re. the sciatica and have fingers crossed.  Absolutely lovely photo of Chloe and her cushion.

He’s gone up to bed, which has caused more howling. I am becoming attuned to how severe the pain is by how loud and how much panting the howling involves …. But it seems to have stopped quite quickly 🤞

It’s a nice portrait of her I think. Sums up her ‘What?!’ attitude rather well … 😉😊❤️

KK