Here is a place for social chats with special attention to support and non medical discussions. We need a place to chill out, where we can distract from our pain and enjoy lighter moments, share a joke or funny moment with others.
If you'd like to see something to warm your heart, check out these two baby hummingbirds in their nest. It's a live webcam in Southern California. I've watched since the mommy hummingbird was sitting on the eggs. So sweet! A good distraction from our pain...
Here they are hatching. If you don't want to watch the whole video, fast forward to about the 3 minute mark and start watching. You'll hear a little "crack" sound when the baby hatches! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSih016w0e4
Emily B.
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That is seriously sweet, Emily! That's one snug and teeny nest; it looks like it's in a rose bush.
PNE as a result of childbirth, 2002. Treatment by the Houston team, with neurosurgery by Dr. Ansell in 2004. My left side ST and SS ligaments were found to be grown together, encasing the pudendal nerve.
I am cured. I hope you will be, too.
There are no medical answers on the forum. Your only hope is to go to a doctor. I was very happy with the Houston team, which has treated the most PNE patients (well over 400), more than any other US provider.
One of the best 10 bucks I ever spent was to get a little plastic hummingbird feeder to hang next to our back window. If they are indigenous to your area, do it! You boil 3 parts water to 1 part sugar, cool it, fill the feeder with it, and they start showing up in droves. They are totally not afraid of people; they will use the feeder if you are sitting right below it, or land a foot away and just stare it you. If you have a yard with some mature landscaping in it, keep the feeder filled and they'll probably decide to nest there.
pelvic pain started 1985 age 14 interstitial cystitis. Refused medical care from age 17, did GREAT with self care for years.
2004 PN started gradually, disabled by 2009. Underlying cause SIJD & Tarlov cysts
improved with PT & meds: neurontin, valium, nortriptyline, propanolol. (off nortriptyline & propanolol now, yay!)
Tarlov cyst surgery with Dr. Frank Feigenbaum March 20, 2012.
Results have been excellent so far; but I won't know my final functional level for a couple of years.
OMG - that is so sweet! I'm a bird lover, I have a pet parrot. I've had birds for years, starting when I was a teenager and had parakeets. Then we raised lovebirds for 10 years. Now, I'm the proud mother (for 10 years now) of a "Paulie" blue crowned conure. I cleaned his cage today outside and when I brought it in, he said "It's sooooooo pretty, thank you mommy". He also says "Coco says I love you mommy"
If any of you are bird lovers, rent the movie, "Paulie", it's an oldie but goodie. Also check out "Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill" about the wild conures in San Francisco. It will make a big smile on your face.
Coco loves it when I clean our house too - he starts singing when the vacuum cleaner is going. Just another random bird note - if you enjoy backyard birds and if you are in an area in which they visit, consider putting up a purple martin house. They have such a lovely song during the spring and from what I've read they have really become quite social birds and enjoy the company of humans. We have had a purple martin house in both our homes for years. Check out purplemartin.org if interested.
Fabulous pic! Thanks so much for posting and bring a smile to my face today!
Ultra Sound in 03/08 showed severely retroverted, detaching uterus with mulitple fibroids and ovarian cysts.
Pressure and pain in lower abdomen and groin area was unspeakable and devastating.
Total lap hysterectomy in 06/08, but damage was already done.
EMG testing in NH in 04/10 - bilateral PN and Ilioinguals
3T MRI at HSS, NY in 09/10
Bilateral TG surgery with Dr. Conway on 03/29/11. Bilat ilioinguinal & iliohypogastric neurectomy 03/12. TCD surgery 04/14.
