Hope your Granma pulls through Cat ,
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Today I was in a tiny garden area at the motel with Jammer, when I was walking and my knee gave way, as did both ankles and I ended up on my back on the ground. Not very elegantly at that, tomorrow I catch the ferry back to wellington as I have endocrinologist on Thursday, then I sail back Thursday evening. We have 31'C here tomorrow
Just got back from the GI and the infection specialist. Turns out, I don't have TB. Whew! Didn't waste all that money on Modulen for nothing.
The GI said that flares and green coloured diarrhoea in the middle of EEN were perfectly fine, as long as the flares have been decreasing in frequency, I don't feel so tired anymore, my inflammation levels are going down and I'm gaining weight. My CRP has dropped from 49 to 27 in this one month, and I've gained a total of 1.4kg so far. It's great news for me, but my GI wants to keep me on observation for about 1-2 weeks more, despite my protests. If all goes well, and I'm crossing my fingers right now, I should be able to start Azathioprine by mid February.
Was reminded of how suckish Crohn's was at the hospital today, when I got a look at my road to diagnosis. Here are some fun facts that I've compiled:
1) I've got a total of 4 doctors caring for me, and had been on the verge of adding a fifth.
2) I've burned through 5 appointment cards in the last 1.5 years alone, 3 of which were in the last 3 months.
3) I skipped about a month's worth of lessons in total, due to my numerous medical appointments and constant absenteeism.
4) I've donated more tubes of blood than I've done revision papers for my end-of-year examination last year (30 plus and counting).
5) There have been at least 31 different medical students (out of a cohort of 300 plus each year) that have sat in during my consultation sessions with doctors and interviewed me during my hospitalisation stays over the past 3 months.
You're only as old as you remember you are.
10 yrs back, all I wanted was to grow up and get married to my love. Now I'm 28, happily married to him but adulthood sucks. Can't believe I wanted to grow up :|
But yeah, the other stuff about adulthood, like having to have a job and pay taxes and all that stuff, not so fun. That sounds stupid but it's true. I love making a list and planning what I'm going to eat and going to the store and putting all the yummy things in my cart. I love walking down the coffee aisle and just inhaling deeply - I can't drink coffee but I love the smell of it. I love being able to buy whatever foods I want and trying new things. I don't like cooking, but I love grocery shopping.
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and soon things are much better.
I hope you get better soon.
No, unless you want to arrest the shelf that hit me! So maybe I need bubble wrap too.
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Even if he can't/won't speak to you much, you can still go and talk to him. My grandma has some type of dementia that is probably Alzheimer's as well, and she likes it when I talk to her. Sometimes she says that she must have done something right as a grandma for me to come and visit her, so I tell her all about the wonderful things she did for me when I was little. Maybe you could talk to your dad like that? About nice memories from the past, things he might remember or at least might enjoy hearing about?
Holy cow, what a game! SO happy that the Packers won! We beat the Cowboys!
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Hope you get some answers.
Me too Trysha.I bet you've forgotten what it's like to be pain free.
I think we might as well forget about us all running in the London Marathon this year.
So,relax those of you who can't, and stop smiling those of you who were pretending to be enthusiastic,SANDY !!!!
Thanks, Tony
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