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ORIGINAL: Maahsatti

Hey twinkle ,sweets,
I hope you are feeling better after the operation. My biggest wish was for this surgery to actually help this time and work at making your pain as minimal as possible.
I am starting to feel better myself, as I told you in email, so I will check on you this weekend hon, so expect a call. mean time, get plenty of rest.

love ya girly,
Mistress Maah

I guess that expression will give fuel to the lezbo theory *some* like to entertain...LMAO...Oh freakin well...*waggles eyebrows*

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ORIGINAL: donnaamarie

Hi twinkle,

I'm glad you are on the road to recovery.  I hope that what they did helps better with pain management.  Take your time, get better, relax, watch bad talk show television and be good to yourself!!!

donna

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ORIGINAL: donnaamarie

Hi twinkle,

I am doing well, thank you for asking.  The syn visc injections did not work this time.  I am pretty bummed about that.  I thought I could buy another year of mediocre pain.  Now I'm not so sure what is going to happen.  This weekend I did something that made my right knee hurt a whole lot.  I'm just riding it out now and seeing if anything changes.  Seems I am going to have some pretty big decisions to make in a short time.

I hope your recovery is going well!!

donna

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ORIGINAL: OrionTheWolf

~FR~

No where near twinkle's but seems I did my back in a bit today. I am building a room for my youngest son, and put the plate down and insultaion up today. Did something stupid, from a kneeling position I reached across a bundle of insultaion, picked up an air compressor with one hand, twisted and set it down a couple of feet away, and the damn thing locked up. Having to use the muscle relaxers, ice packs, and anti-imflammatories. Looks like a couple of days of nursing it is in order.

Glad I have a slave to do my running around for me, and getting blowjobs is part of any good treatment plan ;).

Live well,
Orion

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ORIGINAL: tazzygirl

greetings Free
hi girls

after speaking to twinkle last night, i realized that a well known product that has been available for years and widely known through the medical community isnt that widely known about  by patients, which is indeed sad.  the product is a skin barrier, sold originally for colostomy patients, but is a terrific use for those after surgery dealing with the itching of tapes, as so many seem to be highly sensitive to the adhesive in most.  it comes in a form much like alcohol swabs, and applies a layer of sticky protection between the tape and the skin.  most parmacies carry it, or, can order it for you.  the cost is typically between $15 and $22 per box, and well worth the money in my opinion.  the link below gives an example of such a product.

http://www.walgreens.com/search/search_results.jsp?term=skin%20barrier&is2Query=Y&wsection=P&N=604972&Ne=300000&nug=Brand

hope this helps

well wishes

tazzy

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ORIGINAL: Totalmaster4you

Tal Orion,
 
I'm saddened to hear that you've aggravated your back. I'm trying to figure out a technique where my slave can give me the back massage and blowjob at the same time without turning her into a pretzel. lol Feel better soon.
 
I wish you well,
T

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Greetings Masters,
Greetings Mistresses,
Greetings girlies and assorted lurkers,

kazza just came from her doctor and is feeling more than a little frustrated. she had seen him to get a prescription for her pain meds because at this point there's noone else to get them from. He treats her like a drug seeker and is more concerned with the possibility of addiction than controlling her pain - which is her priority. His focus is entirely on the aspect of addiction, he won't even order a new MRI to see whether there might even be something going on besides tendonitis. He says the thing to do is wait and hopefully it'll settle down.

To top things off, he won't give her any repeats on the Tramadol because it's a "controlled substance" so she will have to take time off work once a month to get a new prescription. kazza is well aware that the chances are she is addicted to the Tramadol she takes for her hip pain but her focus is on being able to function and keep her pain levels from returning to what they were this past summer it HAS to be, she feels the addiction can be dealt with when the pain is gone, assuming it ends. she has her doubts though as it's been more than 17 years and nothing that has been tried has worked.

kazza apologises for ranting but she just needed to get it all out and this has been such a good place to do so as the people here really understand.

she wishes all well,

kazza