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September 7th, 2010 by Echos

Tests

I went in for my blood work today. Doc Mick is pretty good with a needle. For a doctor. He’s concerned about my vision problems, as well as my vomiting and various bleeding issues. Four tubes of blood were drawn, and I was given another prescription. That brings me up to way too many to count. He told me that several of the medicines I’m on are not really necessary, but I still take them out of fear. My regular physician might not have a lot of common sense, but he has power.

My vision messed up again today. It was awful. A bright circle of flashes blurred out the entire right side of my vision. I couldn’t watch TV, it didn’t go away when I closed my eyes. I was worried it wasn’t going to ever end, and it lasted much longer this time than the other time.

I also made my first serious WordPress theme for the public. If you want to download it, just click the picture below. All I ask is that you keep my link at the bottom. If enough people like it, I can add more or even make some Blogspot themes.

September 5th, 2010 by Echos

Les éclats de Lumière

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The flashes have not stopped. This is going on two hours now. I tried everything I could, from taking my nighttime meds, to relaxing in a hot bath with my lemon and rose scented moisturizing bubble bath. I know this is a sign of a retina detachment, but I have not had any head trauma.

I called Doc Mick and left a message on his voicemail. Hopefully, he’ll get back to me tonight, if not tomorrow.

The flashes of light kept me from enjoying the stars tonight. Every time I would focus on a star, the flashes would smudge it out. All I could see were blurs of light, and the stars in my peripheral vision. It just wasn’t the same. :-*(

September 3rd, 2010 by Echos

Something’s Wrong

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I went to see my awful physician today. The evil one who wants me to have a form of gastric bypass that would be irreversible and dangerous. If I lose 15 lbs, I will be 100 lbs even, and that is not good. I look like a Holocaust survivor. I look as though I have anorexia, but I really have a very healthy appetite. I’m just losing weight at an incredible rate, and I don’t know why. This was not a reason for concern for my awful doctor, and he told me not to eat anything today that had calories in it. Um, sure. It was a concern for Doc Mick. He wants me to come in for blood work on Tuesday and what ever I do, eat! I know anyone else would claim they would kill to be at my weight, but I lost it all too quickly. I can pull up my shirt and count ribs. I have skin saggage that would put Roseanne Barr to shame. My entire abdomen looks like a shrunken balloon; wrinkled and deflated. But my primary care physician wants me to lose more weight.

I will admit: I was never a runway model. I will never be one. I don’t want to be one, and I never aspired to be one. I wanted to be healthy and happy, and able-bodied. Is that really too much to ask for?

August 31st, 2010 by Echos

Jewish Calendars and Bad Doctors

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Has anyone else ever saw a calendar like this before? One that ends in August?

My Jewish friend, Josh, sent it to me in February. Ironically, I came down with strep shortly after, but that was a coincidence, right? When the calendar ran out today, I asked the simple question: Why? His response? “According to Jewish law, the world ends tonight at midnight. Since you’re not a Jew, you’ll blissfully think there’s a tomorrow. Good luck with that.” And you guys think I’m weird.

My doctor has bullied me back into taking Metformin. The drug that caused my near-fatal accident in April. Again, that was just a coincidence. Having a blood glucose level in the teens just an hour after taking the nasty pills was totally coincidental. This time, he has told me that if I refuse to take the pills, I won’t be getting out of the mental hospital. He says this is for my own good, but after I took the first pill today, I threw up. There goes my $5000 caps. My dentist has told me that if I keep throwing up, he’s going to drop me as a patient. My physician tells me if I don’t continue to take this medicine that causes me to throw up, he will have me committed.

I was actually happy when I went to see him today. I’ve lost four dress sizes and I’m down 50 lbs. I just have the numbness and pain in my leg. I assumed that when I went to see him today, he’d see that I was serious about losing weight and focus on my pain. Nope. He questioned me about taking the Metformin. Although my three-month blood sugar test was pretty good, it was a 5, he’s hell-bent on me taking a medication that I am having serious reactions to.

Later on today, I had the signs and symptoms of a low blood sugar. It happened around dinner time. I snuck some food before dinner, and ate a little too fast, and it all came up. My husband assumes the worst: That I am pregnant (poor guy is VERY forgetful when he’s on pain killers). Chloe actually chimed in and said she hoped she was getting another little sister. No! No more babies! Hayley is just now sleeping longer than an hour at a time! Besides, I hate being pregnant.

Right now I don’t know what to do. I’m going to try to wait it out. See what happens after I get my insurance through my work. Then it’s kiss this doctor goodbye! Let him experiment on other people. I’m tired of being his guinea pig.