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Darkness Surrounds

I had to delete everyone off the RSS feed, so if you’re reading this, you need to re-sign up. You have to be approved, so put something like “I read your entry and want to be re-approved” in the comment box. I had to do this because my harasser was on the RSS feed to get access to my entries and photos. Persistent bitch, isn’t she? She read my entry about craving sex from my husband and sent me a nasty little note calling me a “dirty, dirty slut”. Um…One of the perks of marriage is a life-long permission slip from God to have as much (or as little) sex with your partner as you both want/can have. Her common sense is right up there with that freaky Canadian who called an Asian blogger the *N* word. Never heard Asians called that before. Ahh the internet. It opens up all sorts of craziness. Literally. These people truly believe what they put out there, no matter how stupid it seems to the rest of the world. Anyone who tells them any differently is clearly psycho.

Onto better things.

Last night was bittersweet and wonderful. I wasn’t able to walk around much, nor was I able to ride any of the roller coasters at the fair. I was able to ride the sky ride a few times, mostly to get to the other side of the midway. There was the Giant Wheel. It’s a huge ferris wheel in the center of the fairgrounds. I love that ride, especially at night. The wildest thing I rode? The swings. Yes, I suffered a bad back spasm afterward. Getting in line for the merry go round, the pain was pretty bad. Dennis took out my pill box and gave me the pills. I swallowed them without a second thought. I just wanted the pain gone so badly. How dare it rob me of my fun? How dare I get hurt while trying to take photos of my daughter on rides and holding stuffed toys or of her and her daddy sharing the same ice cream cone? How dare I have to take narcotics in the middle of a fun night.

Getting on the pink reindeer on the merry go round, my head started tingling. I knew what that meant. Soon I would become a living zombie. I wouldn’t remember anything after the tingling stopped. Not until morning. Chloe was perched on a blue reindeer and Dennis was on an orange lion. I reached out and took Chloe’s hand, then Dennis’ hand. I was sitting between them, our animals were parallel. The tingling became more intense. I rested my head against the pole in front of me, glancing over at Dennis. “Tonight was the best,” I said, with a small smile. The alarm rang indicating the ride was going to start. Chloe jerked her hand away and grabbed a hold of the pole to her blue reindeer. The merry go round started slowly. My pink reindeer slowly started to climb above Dennis’ lion. It was a huge merry go round. The higher my reindeer climbed, the less intense the tingling in my head was. Slowly, my hand slipped out of Dennis’ as my reindeer peeked, and Dennis’ lion descended to nearly the ground. The tingling in my head stopped. As did my memory.


Treatment

Treatment was uneventful. I think my doctor is getting sick of seeing me. There’s that 40% chance of another blood clot forming, so I was put on more heparin, despite me taking the regular doses before coming in. My treatment end date was set back to June. Brilliant, no? I get to go through another month of this pain.

I’m off to take a nap. The stronger pills really induce sleepiness.


I’m Back Baby!

I haven’t been around. I’ve been in the hospital. Saturday afternoon, I believe it was, I started getting chest pains and bronchospasm-like symptoms. I was taken to the Emergency Department, and diagnosed with Pulmonary Embolism-blood clots in the lungs. I was put in the ICU and given heparin shots to regulate my blood. On the 27th, I was given my first MRI. It was an open MRI and I hated laying on that hard, stiff table for several hours. I had several panic attacks while inside the machine and they had to re-do several of the scans. After a while, I was sedated and slept through the entire process.

A few days later, I had a minor surgery that I am still recovering from.

I stayed nearly two weeks in the hospital. It’s something I don’t want to remember anytime soon, especially since after next week, my life pretty much goes to hell in a hand basket. Treatment. Husband leaves the country until after our anniversary. I spent much of my time in the hospital trying to escape. One of my biggest fears is to die in a hospital. Alone and surrounded by strangers while my family has no idea what happened to me.

I got home yesterday, but I have been locked out of my site for days. Neither my hosts nor I really have an explanation for it. The best I can assume is that I had changed my password while in a drug-induced state of amnesia and forgot to write it down. I had to delete some tables in my database and start over, but that’s ok. I didn’t lose any entries nor did I lose any data, other than the stored password. I don’t really believe that I did it because all the accounts had their passwords reset. It’s weird. I don’t think I was hacked. Why hack a site and then do nothing to it? Plus, there was no evidence that any strange IPs logged into my site. Oh well. I had fun fixing it yesterday while in another drug-induced state of stupidity. :D

I can’t be happier to be home. I missed the simpler things in my life:

Oh, and the Halloween candy!


And I Feel

I am going to the celebrations tonight. I need the break. I feel pretty badly, and I don’t want to focus on why that is.

I feel that my morale has gone down. I’ve tried several methods to make myself feel better, but I just can’t feel better, no matter what I do. I even tried making a caffeine exlir to make my pain go away, but nothing. I have a doctor’s appointment tomorrow. Not that that may help me. My physician is no good. I wish I could have gotten insurance so I could kick him to the curb.

I took a nap today, but that didn’t take away the tiredness that I feel.

It’s only the first week of treatment, but already I feel as though I will never be back to normal. I haven’t gotten as sick as I know I can, so I am thankful for that. And now it’s time for Harvest Moon. Happy Fall everyone! :)

Smile! Life is a beautiful thing!

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