I'm not really sorry, I have a super busy life and only really take time to blog when I am avoid something. For instance, right now I'm avoiding studying for finals, particularly Calc III.
Illness:
-My belly:
Lots going on with my belly. If you've read much of this or were around me last semester much you know I went through some weird, un-diagnosed pain in the lower right quadrant of my abdomen. Good news: It's gone most of the time now! Wooohoo!! I have a theory that the pain was connected to the birth control I was on, but that's just my thought.
On the down side, because I'm no longer on birth control, I have the fear and pain of an ovarian cyst forming every month, but I usually ignore the pain that I feel and hope it goes away. This approach seems to be working most of the time.
Weight:
I struggle with weight. There you go, plain and simple. The semester before I started college, I gained 30 pounds. Oi. I kept that weight until this last December when I suddenly gained another 40 pounds.
Yeah, gaining weight does wonders for my self esteem.
I have been trying a bunch of stuff to work on my weight. I've been running (and if anyone knows how to avoid running, it's me), I eat healthy, I drink tons of water, I've even cut back on coke. Nothing seems to be working.
Turns out one of the medications I was on is known for making people gain weight. I've been on it close to 4 years. I just hope that now I can be healthier and not super huge and self conscious all the time.
- My head :
I had another field vision test (they stick my head in a big circle and flash different lights around, with me pressing a button when I see them). This last one, went fairly poorly. My blind spot is getting fairly big, and before you can ask, yes I have started to notice it. One thing that the Dr pointed out is how weird it is that my blind spot stops exactly in the middle. It's only on the right side. With a definite mid line stopping it before it gets to the left side.The Dr also looked at the different vessels in my eye using flourescein angiogram (They put a die in my blood system and take pictures as it's going through my eye). There was nothing that he could see wrong with it. So that's a plus.
This particular Dr's theory is that my migraines are so intense with their vaso-constriction that I am actually having mini-strokes each time. I don't know how much stock I put in thought because ever Dr has a different theory at every appointment. Although it does make sense with the language problems I go through each migraine.
Not-Illness:
It's the week before finals. Enough said.
Oh and I have a spinal tap scheduled for an hour after my last final. Next week should be a blast....
-Whit
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