The Max Murdok Program

I’ve decided this site and my condition needed a theme song. Why not? Even at my worst, this li’l diddy makes me smile cuz it’s so corn-ball. And so, I present to you the new and only Maxshealth.com web site theme song.

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The song is by Dinah Washington - Lyrics are available here.

So I wanted to let you all know that I am back home now and recovering nicely from this lastest set back. All in all the main thing, and only good news I have it seems is that the Hip Surgery recovery is going great. I’m certainly walking better than I have in a long time. The only set back is, because of all the set backs themselves – it’s been hard to exercise and get this hip used to walking, so slowly I’m trying to get walking more. I get winded quickly so it makes any exercise difficult. However, I can walk stairs now pretty easily. I get out with the dogs to the back yard and such and even tho I quickly tire, it’s important that I get this new hip broken in and healed as best as I can.

Real quick, I want to thank Elk Creek Fire for hauling my ass down the hill to the hospital. I was so out of it, I barely remember even making the trip – don’t know names or faces and even tho it’s your job I certainly do appreciate what you folks do. Sorry for barfin’ in your rig too.

Otherwise, sorry I have nothing to report. No appointments have been made or set up. The only thing of substance is, that it appears my lymph nodes have returned to a normal size. They had to take a new set of xrays or CAT scans this time and it showed a reduction. Still, I plan to follow thru and have a biopsy as soon as I can. I’m still afraid of Humira now, but it’s the only thing that seems to calm my Crohn’s. I’d like to get back on it, sure as hell beats the Prednisone.

And that’s basically all I got. Thanx everyone for the email & text messages.

Something was wrong. I could feel it coming on. Early morning May 3rd I started feeling pressure in my chest and cramps in my guts. Hoping it would go away, I just got up and turned on the TV. Not only did it not go away, it quickly got worse.

Aside from the cramping of my guts, the real off the scale pain is the crushing esophagus, a pain that is hard to describe. A pain that makes me loose all track of time, of where I am, I mean out of all the different “pains” I have, when this hits – it is one of the most feared. I don’t know if it is somehow related to prednisone, but one time in an amazing oversite I took Prednisone and Azulfidine on an empty stomach and it caused very similar what just happened to me now.

SO once again, I am writing to you from Littleton hospital by way of Elk Creek Ambulance. It’s ok, I’m shaking my head in disbelief as well. If there is any good news, I may be able to get my biopsy while I’m here. Today is the first day I had the strength to raise my head – so I will write more about whats happening now, I just wanted to post the latest senseless twist my health has taken this week.

Hoping to start feelin’ even slightly better, at some point.