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Dec. 20th, 2010 01:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
genlisaeSo, back in October, 4 days before I was scheduled for decompression surgery on my brain the surgery was canceled due to "elevated white blood cell count and a nodule in the upper right chest". Yeah, a "nodule". Official medical term. To be precise an "approximately 1.5 cm nodule".
Poking, prodding, various scans, being turned into a human sprinkler (400 psi through an IV just before the connection blows for the fifth time hurts by the way!), and a lot of waiting later, I can finally say what it's not!
It is not cancer, or, if it is it is the weirdest damn cancer anyone has ever seen. What is it? It is a "thing". That is the new official term. *nod*. Suspicion is infection of some sort. Baring that it might be a cyst. I had chronic bronchitis as a child often to the point of coughing up blood so scar tissue developing into a cyst is a distinct possibility.
What all of this means is I am now on a waiting list to see a Respirologist and have a month long course of antibiotics in the mean time.
Oh, and of course that the back of my skull is STILL intact. :( That is the part I am most annoyed with. I really want this headache to go away. I am ready for it go away. My liver is ready for it to go away.
I am tired of medical people asking me to rate my headache on a scale of 1-10 with 10 being the worst pain I can imagine. I have had to redefine pain the last few years. I try to explain to them it is an ever present, severe migraine and they all nod understandingly. Everyone who has had a migraine knows that pain. Then I tell them about how I take 50mg of topiramate twice a day, 2000-3000 mg of acetaminophen two to four times per day and occasionally, on the really bad days, I will add in 200-400 mg of ibuprofen with the acetaminophen. That usually takes the edge off.
That is when they stare at me baffled and don't speak for a really long time.
In other news. My graphics card sputtered its last breath the other day. Literal sputtering even, then it spiked to temps I don't even want to think about and my computer shutdown. :/
Now, because I have an awesome child, she has let me borrow her's until I get a new one. So pics are still happening. Her card is nowhere near what mine was and I am still adjusting to this whole "What do you mean I can't have 50 controllable sims on the lot?" thing, but pics are happening! Happening to the point that Chapter 4 Part 1 of Pleasantries should be up later tonight. :D
This makes me happy! I have had parts of this chapter written since January. It is also the ending of the first major plot arch and the kicking into gear of the plot proper! Parts 2 and 3 will follow shortly after but they kind of have to come as a set so I don't know quite yet when those will be out. Should be some time in the next week or so.
Right, so that is what I have been up to. A lot of waiting, but also a lot of writing.
Poking, prodding, various scans, being turned into a human sprinkler (400 psi through an IV just before the connection blows for the fifth time hurts by the way!), and a lot of waiting later, I can finally say what it's not!
It is not cancer, or, if it is it is the weirdest damn cancer anyone has ever seen. What is it? It is a "thing". That is the new official term. *nod*. Suspicion is infection of some sort. Baring that it might be a cyst. I had chronic bronchitis as a child often to the point of coughing up blood so scar tissue developing into a cyst is a distinct possibility.
What all of this means is I am now on a waiting list to see a Respirologist and have a month long course of antibiotics in the mean time.
Oh, and of course that the back of my skull is STILL intact. :( That is the part I am most annoyed with. I really want this headache to go away. I am ready for it go away. My liver is ready for it to go away.
I am tired of medical people asking me to rate my headache on a scale of 1-10 with 10 being the worst pain I can imagine. I have had to redefine pain the last few years. I try to explain to them it is an ever present, severe migraine and they all nod understandingly. Everyone who has had a migraine knows that pain. Then I tell them about how I take 50mg of topiramate twice a day, 2000-3000 mg of acetaminophen two to four times per day and occasionally, on the really bad days, I will add in 200-400 mg of ibuprofen with the acetaminophen. That usually takes the edge off.
That is when they stare at me baffled and don't speak for a really long time.
In other news. My graphics card sputtered its last breath the other day. Literal sputtering even, then it spiked to temps I don't even want to think about and my computer shutdown. :/
Now, because I have an awesome child, she has let me borrow her's until I get a new one. So pics are still happening. Her card is nowhere near what mine was and I am still adjusting to this whole "What do you mean I can't have 50 controllable sims on the lot?" thing, but pics are happening! Happening to the point that Chapter 4 Part 1 of Pleasantries should be up later tonight. :D
This makes me happy! I have had parts of this chapter written since January. It is also the ending of the first major plot arch and the kicking into gear of the plot proper! Parts 2 and 3 will follow shortly after but they kind of have to come as a set so I don't know quite yet when those will be out. Should be some time in the next week or so.
Right, so that is what I have been up to. A lot of waiting, but also a lot of writing.
