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Those who have been following my most recent health saga on Facebook know I’ve been having horrible itching for weeks now. We’re in the second week, going on the third, and though it’s a little bit better than the first week, it’s NOT getting better. I stopped a medication we think might be causing the […]
So I’m thinking about changing medical facilities. Perhaps not completely, as a few of the docs and stuff at the place I’m going are okay, but I’ve already had to change for my endocrinology, and I have a rheumatologist that is with the same group as the endo, and neither of them treat at the […]
This is the third or fourth day of waking with intense pain so bad I can’t think or even talk well. I had to wake someone up to get me a pain pill at about 5:45am. I couldn’t sleep through it. When it happens in the morning early like that, I try to sleep through […]
I woke in a lot of pain this morning. It’s one of those mornings that happens once in a while with me that no doctor has ever been able to explain. When it happens, I’m in so much pain I’m literally trembling, my hands shaking, unable to stand or move or even really think. Those […]
Well, was back in the hospital on Monday, and they kept me for a while. They did blood work and then more blood work and then more blood work. My hemoglobin was dropping and I was laughing at them, telling them if they’d quit taking blood from me, I might actually see my hemoglobin increase! […]
In psychology, you’ll learn that people ‘tell’ on themselves all the time. Forensic psychologists learn to hear what people say and what they don’t say and use that to develop a profile of the person. My title to this post, a somewhat provocative one, I suppose, tells a lot. See, it’s MY hand but it’s […]
Most of the time, I deal with ‘living’ as a ‘dying’ person quite well. Most of the time, I handle being sick okay. Most of the time. But there are days like today, days where I want to just get up, walk out of the house and LEAVE somewhere, by myself, without anyone else around […]
I went to see an ENT for the first time in my life. Back in 2009, I had a CT scan of my head to check for pituitary problems, since I seemed to have hypopituitarism, and incidentally, they found that I had evidence of chronic severe sinusitis. We sort of laughed at the time because […]
So many of you know I’ve been waiting nearly three years now to get some type of medical insurance coverage, since the acute episode that almost took my life and hospitalized me, twice, for more than a week each time. I was eventually diagnosed with diastolic (left-sided) congestive heart failure, chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension, both […]
As of midnight, November 1, I am finally insured! Yay! It’s been a long road waiting for this to happen. My doctors have wanted me to have another sleep study, which costs $1850. My pulmonologist wants me to have another V/Q exam, which is a nuclear exam, and was quoted at $3200. I also need a […]
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