Chondrosarcoma – ah shit, bob's sick

Name the area(s) that have pain: Hip, Back, Right Leg, Body
Pain intensity: 4

Physical Symptoms:
Overall Morning Pain Level: (9:am) 1-10 / ( 3)
How Well Did You Sleep: 1-10 / (6 )   6 hrs.
You Woke Up Feeling: 1-10 / (7 )

Overall Afternoon Pain Level: (Noon): 1-10 / (3 )
What is your fatigue level: 1-10 / (4 )
How is your appetite: 1-10 / (5 )
How is your walking ability: 1-10 / (5 )

Overall Evening Pain Level: (7pm) 1-10 / (3 )
What is your fatigue level: 1-10 / ( 5)
How is your appetite: 1-10 / (5 )
How is my walking ability: 1-10 / ( 5)

Afternoon Nap:   1 hour

Mental, Cognitive & Emotional:
How is my ability to think: 1-10 / (8 ) 
How anxious do I feel: 1-10 / (0 )
How depressed do I feel: 1-10 / (1 )
How angry do I feel: 1-10 / (0 )
How irritable am I: 1-10 / (1 )
How happy am I: 1-10 / ( 7)
How is my relationships with others affected: 1-10 / (0 )
How is my enjoyment of life affected: 1-10 / (2 )

Exacerbating Symptoms:
Family/Home Stress Level: 1-10 / (1 )
Job stress level: 1-10 / ( 1)
Other: 1-10 / ( 4) ( )
Current weather conditions: 30 degrees

Medications:
30mg morphine(s)  7pm. – 
10/650mg vicoden(s)  5pm – 10pm
Overall day : 7

Thankfully, things have calmed down here to a reasonable degree. Life isn’t back to normal quite yet, but it’s close and getting better every day. Sure, our stove isn’t working and we’re missing some of the creature comforts we had, but we’re alright and after-all that’s the big, important thing.

Speaking of the stove, one interesting thing that we’ve come up against in ordering a new one is that most, if not all of the stores, don’t actually have any stoves you can physically look at any longer. Which really came to me (and Sher) as a surprise.

I admit that it’s been awhile since I’ve bought a stove, but the last time I saw them on display was in a Sears, in Rutland, Vermont. We thought this weekend we’d go out and buy a new stove, and deal with the insurance company later … but at least we cook.

Friday morning, when I left for work, I suggested to Sher, she call a few places around the area to find out who and what was going to be open, and what they have in the store that we could look at, figuring we’d hop in the car this morning and go searching.

I’ve made too many long, cold trips to stores here in Vermont, in the middle of winter, only to find out they didn’t have what I wanted, or they were no longer in business, they weren’t open that day, or any of the other things that can change with time.

I left for work fairly confident that we’d have a list of places we could chose from, and what the heck, we’d make a day of it. Take our time, have lunch out, pick up some other stuff while we were out.

It’s hard, if not impossible for me to go shopping like this any longer. I can’t just “cruise” through the stores at ease like I used too. So accuracy in the research of where to go was going to be a big part of our trip … and besides that, we are in a hurry to replace it. There’s nothing to really cook on, well we have the BBQ and fireplace, but that gets old quickly … nothing like the stove.

Anyway, later in the day at work Sher IM’s me (instant message on the pc) and says that none of the stores have cooking ranges that we can go look at. I said, I know the Sears in Rutland has them because I’ve seen them before and not “that” long ago. She said they told her that they no longer carry stoves in the store, but invited us to come up and order from the catalog.
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