Oh man Irene, that's just no fun to deal with. I am so sorry RTR was so hard on you. :( I wish you all the best and hope that you can get this pain level down several notches! And the bug on top of it. Bless your heart.
Lost On Land Again Thank you so much my sweet friend!!! 😄👍 I am thinking about smaller gatherings in the area of RTR but not right at RTR. 😉 I will try to figure it out next year but glad I still went and I to got to meet you, C Dubs, Frugal, Dan and a several others ..🤗💖👍I am better today inspite of my move. Just never know what with back issues. I will have my agenda but than it has it own agenda. 😲 Hugs sent & safe travels wishes always!!! 🌹👍😉💓😄🚐
Looking forward to your video. Happy you have found a way to enjoy your chosen life even though you live with severe pain. Living the life you want to live along with serious health issues is what a lot of us are interested in. Please take care of yourself or should I say continue to take care of yourself. :)
Hi Irene. So sorry about Your Flare up with your Back.But glad your finding remedies that are Working for You, 👍. Just do alittle here and There. You are always in my Prayers🙏💞. Happy Kent is there for Support. You are Very Blessed.To Have a caring Friends.Take Care🐾☺🐾. Love Your Videos. Were always here for You. Hugs to Milo🐶💞.Gods Healing Blessings🙏.Thank You for Sharing.
Theresa Wooten Thank you so much for the kind, caring & compassionate words my dear friend!!! 🌹😄 So many just don't understand unless they go through it. 😉 I am so much better today, the burning is gone but scared me and hope I become stable now. 🤗 The back and forth can get hard. I sending hugs..💐💖👍😉💓😄🚐
I am so sorry about your setback. Please take care of yourself. You have helped me so much and I very much look forward to your next video where you talk about van choices. I have been looking to travel within the next six months and value your opinion and experiences. I hope you are feeling much better soon.
You are strong my dear. I have problems, I have slowly gotten better. I will be heading out soon, hopefully next week. I have been thinking about what will do if I ever travel with a tribe. I can only drive a short while or I will get severe pain. I will have to drive 40 minutes to an hour before I have to stop and walk around a little bit and get back in my van. I suppose I could get to the location and meet there later. I don't think that will be a problem right now. I plan to enjoy some alone time and I notice tribes are in the west . I have to think about summer. I don't have AC, or any power. It's gets very humid here. Sending blessings and healing energy. Let your body rest between doing your physical therapy.
Please take care of your body! I too have sciatica, which got so bad I had tears running down my face, could not talk or walk. It was scary to say the least. If you ever want to know what I do for this I would be glad to share. Don't pressure yourself with the videos silly girl!!! I would't enjoy them if I thought if in any way they were hurting you, or keeping you from taking care of yourself. Blessings to you.
Irene sorry to hear your back flared so badly & that you got hit with the bug. I hope you find some good relief. I hope future RTR's are not out. Sure am happy I got to meet you at this years. Be safe, hugs to you & Milo & safe travels my friend! 🤗😎🌹🚐
C Dub's Journey Awe, thank you so much and I am so glad we got to meet!!! 🤗👍I am just thinking smaller get togethers in the Quartzsite area might be better, we will see. 😉 Thank you about the back and glad it is doing better again and hope this is my breakthrough to being back to my normal..🤗 Sending hugs my sweet friend!!! 😀👍😉💓😄🚐
So very sorry Irene. I understand that mind body connection, how you have to push through, but also rest. I wish you were in a place to be able to go to a warm therapy pool. That really helps. Prayers for you. We will always watch you, whatever place your in. You are a brave and sweet person !❤️🙏
John Scherer Awe, thank you so much John for the sweet and caring words ..😄👍Finally doing better again 🤗 Comments like yours gives my the strength to continue my vlogs. 💖Thank you. 🤗 Hugs 👍😉💓😄🚐
Joan Milano Thank you so much and finally doing better again!!! 😄👍I am so sorry you have some of the same challenges. 🌹 My heart goes out to you and I am sending hugs. 💖👍😉💓😄🚐
Faithful Heroine Thank you so much and have learned that I get into trouble a lot when I listen enough to my body!!!😉👍I am going better again..wahoo.🤗👍😉💓😄🚐
Darryl Drax Awe, thank you so much for the kind words and sympathy!!! 😄👍 I have lost so much in my life and people because of people not understanding how crippling and hard back issues can be. 😢 Back issues surely can suck but I hope to continue to smile as much as I can through it as long as I can..😊 You take care of yourself too!!! 👍😉💓😄🚐
I live in Cal City so am familiar with the area. I am also cursed with degenerative disk disease, 3 blown disks, fibromyalgia and a double mastectomy I year ago. I am working on selling my house and getting an RV to join the nomads on the road. Hang in there. I totally understand the pain issues and also understand that on your good days you want to LIVE! I am hoping to get a used class C. Don't feel bad about not being able to socialize. I am also a night person. Perhaps once I hit the road we can meet up and whine to each other. Hugs. Ask you doctor about Voltaren prescription ointment for your lower back. It sometimes helps with the swelling and inflammation.
I wish there was info out there on disabled that are on oxygen and Cpap. I so want to travel. I have a Minivan and it’s just me. I don’t know how to get started when it comes to traveling alone. That concerns me. I’m in Washington visiting one of the kids and will be heading back to Colorado at the end of the month. You and Debra Joy are my favorites! Love your determination to get out there and just do it!
Mary Duncan Hi Mary, thank you so much for your kind words!!! 😄👍 Email at irenesvanventures@gmail.com if you are interested in joining a ladies FB group I have started for women travelers. I can give you more info in my email. I know someone traveling with Cpap machine but has a lot of solar and capability to run it through the night from that in with an inverter when he boondocks. He is in a RV and think that is the best vehicle for that or a trailer. If a person is on oxygen I honestly would not recommend doing this lifestyle fulltime. It is to hard and there are a lot of place where you can end up with dusty air or air quality bad from fire smoke in the summer months. It is impossible to get out of it completely in this lifestyle. I have a hard time sometimes with my allergies but can't imagine do this on oxygen. The only way would be to stay at RV parks in a RV to be plugging in and have routes carefully planned. This is just my view on it. Feel free to email me. 😊Hugs 🌹👍😉💓😄🚐
WOW! you took the word right out my mouth. I have been dealing with back pain for 30+years and was forced to have back surgery in 2014 due to the fact that my back BROKE. A piece of my spine literally crack and it was floating around and I could have been paralyzed. Thank GOD they did surgery when they did. My thing is its not a matter of IF I am in pain, its a matter of how much pain I am in today. God be with you and happy travels. The Tins unit is great. I alos use a dome that is healing.
RVing Live The Dream Wow, I am so sorry for what you have had to go through!!! 😢 Back issues are really horrible but only those that go through back pain truly understand. A lot people don't understand how everyday is very different and how the back can be in one whole day. ☹ I am so happy you didn't become paralyzed. 🤗 Thank you so much for sharing your story..hugs 💓 What is a dome that you use that is healing? God be with you also and happy travels. 👍😉💓😄🚐
Just like the old saying, use it or loose it! Unless you have had back pain you can not understand. Stay healthy, and get Kent to do EVERYTHING! God bless.
Jimmy Fischbeck Thank you so much for the kind and caring words!!! 😄👍 That is so true about people and back issues. So many times I feel so alone in this world dealing with everything in my heart. ☹ I am so glad to have everyone's support and comments like you and people following my journey. 😄👍 I will do my best to stay healthy and wish the same for you!!! 👍😉💓😄🚐
The list of STUFF people can't understand is L O N G . 1000 years ago I was a sprint champion in track. Now I'm blessed not to fall down going to get the mail. It must be a drag explaining grinding lumbar discs to folks like it's fouled up to explain a brain aneurysm when my neighbors think I'm drunk. Be brave(as always) and smile.
Hi Irene my friend😉 im so sorry to hear about your spin, ouch.. and the pain your feeling ill pray that you feel as best as you posible can soon Take care my friend and be safe it was nice to hear from you 🌸🌸😊hugs
Andrea Thank you so much for the kind, caring & compassionate words. 😄👍 I am so happy I better today..🤗 That burning feeling really scared me. Thank for always following my journey. 🌹 Hugs 👍😉💓😄🚐
I have a lot of back issues. It's horrible and it's invisible,people can't see your pain. It's difficult some days to get out of bed. I'll pray for you.
I can relate Irene...I've had Sciatica for years and no one would help with it....12 yrs later 2017 I get a doctor to said he could fix it...I can't walk more than 20-30 ft without intense pain...so what happens...i needed a stent in my heart...there goes surgery until the end of the year...and I won't take pain meds so I just deal with it as well has I can...I empathize with you and wish you well...take it easy...if you can't you can't...people will understand...be safe
sandra mcnamara Thank you so much for your comment!!! 😄👍 Unfortunately I have been hurt by more people who don't understand than having people stay in my life and try understand. 😢 To many people are self driven in today's world and don't know how to love others even when they don't understand or even help others. I really feel sorry for the generation that is following after ours. ☹ I would not be able to move or do as much as I do without my exercises or stretches. Here is a link to one of my critical exercises that I do. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-bLdUHiJhvGM.html While at RTR one of my subscribers that I met told me about an exercise that she did that changed her life. She was so crippled up in so much pain and had no life. She got her life back and it helped my sciatica pain. 🤗 My pain now is from something different. I will see if I can find someone's video doing it. 😉 Try Arnicare. It helps me alot and is natural. I use that plus put Mineral Ice as well. I find the Lidocaine patches to help when I have my flair up. 😄👍 I really wish you the best and I am sending hugs your way!!! 🌹👍😉💓🚐
sandra mcnamara So true!!! I can't find a video of the other one that was given to me but if you RU-vid sciatica pain exercises there are so many of them that I do and was given to me by a PT. I don't know if you have any other issues going on with your disk so you could look at some and discuss with your doctor if you are able to do any of them. I do know I am far worse when not keeping up with them. They have to be done consistently in my life for the rest of my life. Hugs 👍😉💓😄👍
Irene, please call me Sandy...Sandra and so formal. I will indeed check that out. got a package of your beads today but will wait to send them when the other two arrive...or hell i might even wait and deliver them in person next month. *L* We can sit around and talk about our pains and aches. *L*....take care Irene...your new friend Sandy
sandra mcnamara Sandy...your profile name pops up automatically when I go to reply. Not sure what you mean about my beads. You didn't need to get me more beads. 😉 I am not sure what direction Kent & I will be in a month. Things start to warm up so probably will move towards higher ground soon. Right now weather has been cooler so we haven't done that. Funny we can talk about our aches & pains. How about what helps our life. Actually I try not to think about it. Being in nature helps me a lot and to help me feel a little more physically normal where so many people take that for granted. Hugs 👍😉💓😄🚐
I too live in chronic nerve pain in my back both hips and left leg from a motorcycle wreck in September of 2012 that tried to take my life... But I woke up from a 27 day coma to the worsted pain I ever felt.... BUT praise be to Jesus HE chose to let me live... Living in physical pain is no fun. BUT I deal with people with addictive personalities. And I see the emotional pain they live with daily trying to learn how to live life in spite of their addiction with every nerve ending and joint in their body screaming out for their drug of choice. Living in this world we all face our challenges most are physical and emotional. But we've learned through our 12 step program that we don't have to face these challenges alone. We group together with like mind people to hold each other up. BUT most of all many of us have come to know The power greater than ourselves to walk with us 24/7 and that one is GOD Almighty who gives us strength on a moment by moment base. It's only by God's mercy and His grace that anyone of us who live with chronic pain can make it one day at a time... Learning to have a personal relationship with GOD on a daily base is a true life changing gift... It's not any form of religion in any way. It's just having a life changing relationship our Creator GOD... Be blessed... BBE..
Bobby Baldeagle Hi Bobby!!! Wow, what an incredible inspiration you are and so happy to see how God has used you from a horrible incident to help others. 🤗👍Romans 8:28. He is the reason I can giggle like I do, smile so much through my pain and love people like I do. I take very little pain pills most the time but natural ones like Arnicare or over the counter meds like Lidocaine and Alieve and that simulator. God has continuously giving me resources to not to have to take narcotic pain pills since I am not working plus from my faith in him. Which when I worked my pain management specialist was pushing 1 to 2 pills a day to work which was destroying me and was a huge reason my body was systematic failing. My father was a recovered alcoholic that God delivered him from so I familiar with the program and my dad always gave God the glory of his sobriety. He later started a 12 step group for Christians who could come together and say the name Jesus and give Him the full glory of their faith. My dad brought many people to the Jesus before he passed away in 2005. 🤗 God answered my long time prayer that my dad wouldn't die without surrendering his life to him which my dad did so I was so happy about that. God is so good even though this life can be hard our eyes have to stay on God which gives us the peace that this world doesn't understand but gives God glory. ❤❤❤ Jesus is my Lord and savior. 🤗 Thank you so much for your comment and I will keep you in my prayers and all who you are reaching out to. 😍 God bless you and all who suffer with chronic pain because a support system is so helpful and not to emotionally exhaust out loved ones that our close to us. 😄 Hugs 💖👍😉💓😄🚐
Hi Sis, I am sorry you had a flair up. You are always in my prayers. Now that I have a headset for the library I can follow your blogs. Should I not get on it is that I had a flair up with my own health conditions. I was down for 10 days so bad I couldn't drive or leave the house. It is March 20th. Ask your doctor if you might qualify for pain treatment with Medtronic Neuro-stimulators. I have 2 one in L3 and one in L4 they are a God send to managing my pain. The leads can be placed in any area of the spine. They are biofeedback not the liquid pain medications. They send electronic impulses to specific areas in the spine to help with pain. Unfortunately, once you get them placed you can't have anymore MRI's and have to go back to old types of treatments to diagnose what you have.
Irene, my beautiful sister, can you sit when you do your videos? How can you stand so long with your back issues? I know your viewers would understand if you were to sit while you taped them. Keeping you in my prayers. At the library. Will head to Facebook here for a bit to answer Rheuben's message and leave you one. Love Lorraine
LorraineD Buskey Thank you so much for your concern. One thing to keep in mind is everybody's back is different and for me everyday is different. 😉 On an average in can sit and stand for one hour but since my sciatica issue sitting is actually more painful and sometimes I can sit for one hour or another day maybe only up 30 minutes at the time of this video. Every day and every week can be different. Another thing to keep in mind is my videos have many clips and are edited together and are filmed at different times, sometimes days and edited together. This video had two. 😊 Most the time things are not how they look. 😉 I love you sis and sending hugs 🌹👍😉💓😄🚐
I know you have been full time for a while and was wondering if you were starting over, is there anything you would do differently ? Would you choose the same rig or go with a trailer? How often do you stay in rv parks ? I have a feeling that boondocking is going to become more difficult in the future and cant decide between a class C or a small airstream trailer. Thanks
Van Helsing Hello, good to see a comment again from you!!! 🤗 I hope you have been doing great. 😉 You are welcome. 😀 I am going to use your comment to make a video base for my upcoming video so stay tune for that for more details. 😉👍Briefly being full time I didn't consider how much space our stuff can take up in such a small space. Having a RV van I lose a lot of storage space because of the housing compartments. I actually see that people that have converted a van have more storage especially under their beds. Someone with my disabilities needs to be able to have more storage space as to not to have to move things around that I have no space for. I would not choose my same rig but not opposed to a van and love having a van. I love the idea of a truck camper with an extended cab because their is extra storage space behind the seat. I like having something that is still easy to fit in places and be able to boondock in the rural areas I like to go. I need something that is also easy to go into my hometown for doctor visits if that wasn't a factor I would probably go with a B+. The only reason I don't like trailers is if your vehicle breaks down you will have to also deal with having a trailer towed somewhere also. I rarely go to RV parks. I hope this helps a little for you. I hope you will let me know what you decide. 😄👍 You will love traveling full time and I have no regrets about that. 👍😉💓😄🚐
Will you marry me,I love you, you're so Beautiful & I'll give you professional back/shoulder/neck massages, forever.. I'm also a millionaire so I would & could take care of you, I would feed you chocolate covered blueberries & strawberries...
