Bitchery Through The Ages (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} lucy_kitten_17) wrote,@ 2008-08-02 22:09:00 |
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Stupidhead:
I haven't written this summer at all, partly because at first I was having too much fun to write, and lately because I haven't been having any fun at all. I've been getting sicker by the day; my migraines and tension headaches have escalated to one or more a day; they're generally severe and last for several hours each, and they leave me exhausted and depressed.
At my recent kaffeklatch with my wonderful neurologist, I mentioned that I was living in fear that, at the rate things were going, I wouldn't be better by early September, and the upshot of the conversation was that I decided to take a semester off from school. I'm not even going to take one class, because I need to concentrate all of my efforts on getting healthy.
Currently, the health regimen consists of Frova, Propranolol, diet, excercise, and steroids. Yes, steroids. The doctor told me to warn my closest loved ones that I could experience aggressiveness, backne, depression, death, and/or bloody stools. I don't THINK I'm any more aggressive, but I've been amusing myself at work by yelling epithets once some particularly provoking caller has hung up (ex: "I will SNAP your NECK!!!") and then glancing around at the others and perkily saying, "Oops - steroids!" It's a peck of fun. I imagine mild Tourette's patients operate very much the same way when they're bored.
So for the nonce I'm going to work full-time, and when I'm not hurting, play badminton and go out with Tod and hang out with my friends again and go to parties (but only the good ones) and do some charity work (soup kitchen or animal shelter; I haven't decided which). I will also be tested within an inch of my puffy-from-Prednisone hide by the docs. The last resorts are Botox, lobotomy, and pain clinics, but I've got almost 5 months to play with, and I'm hoping I can find a preventative that works before then.
So please wish me luck, and I'll hopefully be re-entering the world again in the next month or so. I'll try to keep y'all posted, assuming you give a good goddamn.
xxxooo,
Me
I haven't written this summer at all, partly because at first I was having too much fun to write, and lately because I haven't been having any fun at all. I've been getting sicker by the day; my migraines and tension headaches have escalated to one or more a day; they're generally severe and last for several hours each, and they leave me exhausted and depressed.
At my recent kaffeklatch with my wonderful neurologist, I mentioned that I was living in fear that, at the rate things were going, I wouldn't be better by early September, and the upshot of the conversation was that I decided to take a semester off from school. I'm not even going to take one class, because I need to concentrate all of my efforts on getting healthy.
Currently, the health regimen consists of Frova, Propranolol, diet, excercise, and steroids. Yes, steroids. The doctor told me to warn my closest loved ones that I could experience aggressiveness, backne, depression, death, and/or bloody stools. I don't THINK I'm any more aggressive, but I've been amusing myself at work by yelling epithets once some particularly provoking caller has hung up (ex: "I will SNAP your NECK!!!") and then glancing around at the others and perkily saying, "Oops - steroids!" It's a peck of fun. I imagine mild Tourette's patients operate very much the same way when they're bored.
So for the nonce I'm going to work full-time, and when I'm not hurting, play badminton and go out with Tod and hang out with my friends again and go to parties (but only the good ones) and do some charity work (soup kitchen or animal shelter; I haven't decided which). I will also be tested within an inch of my puffy-from-Prednisone hide by the docs. The last resorts are Botox, lobotomy, and pain clinics, but I've got almost 5 months to play with, and I'm hoping I can find a preventative that works before then.
So please wish me luck, and I'll hopefully be re-entering the world again in the next month or so. I'll try to keep y'all posted, assuming you give a good goddamn.
xxxooo,
Me
