rethinking the future
pain
November 12, 2005 in Family, General, Health and Fitness, Oops!i made it through surgery, and yesterday wasn’t so bad. i was bombarded by hospital personnel in my room (the anesthesiologist, two nurses and my doctor) who explained things to me and stuck me with needles until it was time for them to lead...
appointment with the knife
November 8, 2005 in General, Health and Fitnesssurgery is scheduled for friday at 9 a.m. i’d like to get out of it. not only am i scared of the surgery itself, but the prep the night before isn’t very attractive either. i’m thinking a life of pain and other things may...
rollercoaster of emotions
November 5, 2005 in Family, Friends, General, Health and Fitness, Kiwanis, Workit’s been a rollercoaster of a week. lows then highs then lows. joe’s grandmother died wednesday morning. his parents called him tuesday night while he was here and told us she was in the hospital. we asked if we should come down to see...
prescription junkie
November 2, 2005 in General, Health and Fitness, Worki filled out a consent form for a pre-employment drug test tonight in which i had to list all the medications i’ve taken in the last 30 days. ok… category 1: pain relief pills naproxin category 2: cold tablets claritin d and benedryl categroy...
almost to a diagnosis
October 27, 2005 in General, Health and Fitness, Life, Romancefor six months i’ve been dealing with pain in my pelvic area. i’ve been to, oh, at least four or five doctors and two hospitals, and have tried probably every medicine known to man. i’m still not better. now that the blood test came...
can’t get full!
October 20, 2005 in Food, General, Grrr, Health and Fitnessi have been so hungry lately. i don’t know if it could be attributed to the medicine my doctor prescribed me or what, but i feel like a pig. anyone know any filling, low-cal foods i can snack on?
frustration
September 15, 2005 in General, Grrr, Health and Fitness, Weight Lossso the last couple weeks i’ve been counting calories religiously and have been eating under the number i calculated on a calorie calculator for when i don’t exericise. i haven’t been able to exercise much because i’ve been off my enbrel for several weeks...
worrying
September 11, 2005 in General, Health and Fitness, Lifeon friday i will find out if i have to have surgery. i always freak out about the anesthesia, so i am very, very nervous. my doctor thinks i have endometriosis, which is where the tissue in the uterus grows outside the uterus. the...
no more blood
August 25, 2005 in General, Grrr, Health and Fitnessmy arm hurts. that may be because it took about 15 minutes for the nurse at my rheumatologist’s office to draw my blood yesterday. usually it flows right into the tubes. yesterday, she had to push on my arm to coax the blood out....
