I’ve been having a rough time with things lately. My illness, which was officially diagnosed as fibromyalgia, seems to be progressing, which isn’t typical of fibromyalgia. I’m having a lot more memory issues and have had a couple of new symptoms pop up out of nowhere. Last week I needed to prepare for a colonoscopy, not a very pleasant thing to do anyway, and got deathly ill from the medications. Moreso than is usual, according to my gasteroentrologist. I lost an extra amount of fluids (isn’t that the point?) became severely dehydrated and had to be kept overnight in the hospital for observation. Don’t worry, though. I still got the procedure and they gave me a suhweet sedative.
What about before that?
Lil’ Miss is having some serious personal issues. As a matter of fact, they relate directly with my previous post about women’s rights. You might be surprised what fanatical Mormons are capable of, especially in the 21st century. So, she’s coming home on the 7th of December. I was originally trying to make some extra money to drive down to see her next spring, but now I’m trying to make money to bring her home. Oh, the joy! Anyway, this is causing some more issues in my marriage. Heh, funny that TheMan seems to be the least of my worries.
Between school (which I’m passing, by the way) and the other crap I’ve been really into my own thing. Which, I might add, is over now. I’m done. When I saw a post about Google being basically equivalent to Al Qaeda because they took PageRank away from some bloggers that was it. And then when I told the blogger they were reprehensible for equating the two situations, Google’s PageRank Smackdown being by comparison a nonevent, I was teh EVUL. WTF? Ok, some people finally piped up and agreed with me, but shit! Why were people being nice about it? And now that stupid ass bitch keeps emailing me trying to explain what she meant! Good flippin’ grief, chick, you said that Google is a terrorist organization because when they took your pagerank it scared you as much as motherfuckers flying 747s into buildings!! Um, guess what? Not everyone in the flippin’ world is going to agree with you that insignificant Google ratings are the same as lost lives and some people are going to call you a drama queen who is no better than Rudy Giulani using 9/11 to get fucking internet traffic. And no, I will not re-read your post because Jane Doe agreed with me until she re-read the post and now she thinks you’re right. I don’t give a flying monkey’s ass what some other idiot thinks. She’s only saying that so you will quit fucking emailing her! Hello! Anyone in there?
Ok, well, I got a little offtrack there. Sorry. That just happened today and got my blood boiling. And now I’ve had to stick that chick’s email in the spam folder because she just keeps explaining. I’m sure now she thinks I’m just another Osama bin Laden waiting to snatch her children or some damned shit. Heh.
Anyway, back to my issues. My new rheumatologist ran some new groundbreaking blood work and found something interesting. By new and groundbreaking I mean “a $5 test that a med student should call for but my other docs were too high* to order it”. He’s discovered that I’m severely Vitamin D deficient. Normal-Low range is 16-20 ng/mL and mine tested at 6 ng/mL. Holy shit! Amazingly, the symptoms of this new and unusual disease are chronic muscle pain and weakness as well as fatigue and memory impairment (ultimately leading to other diseases including, but not limited to, osteoporosis and schizophrenia). Stop the flippin’ presses! Two, that’s TWO long years of looking for a cause and treatment and getting worse and worse and all I needed was a damn vitamin supplement? And, of course, I attributed my aches and pains to sunlight because I seemed to get worse when I spent too much time outdoor, which prevented me from getting the Vitamin D I needed and the sicker I got the more I stayed inside and… Well, you get the picture.
I can’t be sure right now if the deficiency is the definite cause of my illness. Dr. Godsend (not his real name) prescribed me “super” doses of Vitamin D, which I’m to take only once a week, and we’re to chart my progress. I’m not to stop any other medications I’m on until we can determine if this is really what’s wrong, but… Have you researched this vitamin? Holy shitballs, but it’s necessary for everything! And no you can’t get what you need just from fortified milk (thanks for the suggestion though). But I was hurting myself by eliminating so many things while trying to get better. And why didn’t someone test for that stuff already? Gah! The Mayo Clinic released a report in 2003 that chronicles the rise of Vitamin D deficiency, how it’s correlated to the increased use of sunscreen and decreased use of fortification (whatever), and how 100% of their research patients who had chronic pain complaints were Vitamin D deficient. Very cool.
So, I’m working at getting back into my real blogging groove. I’ve done the experiments, made some money, made some enemies, gotten sicker (physically and mentally) and have decided enough is enough. Ya know? There’s a lot more to it, but dayum, this post is getting long. I know how some of you are ADD and can’t follow for too long (hahaha… It’s a joke! C’mon!). Plus it’s just whiny garbage. I need more stuff to make fun of and then I’ll be good as new.
I missed cussin’. Boy, that felt good.
*Edited to add this whole word in, which I had in my head when I was typing, but seem to have skipped altogether. HUH? I’m losin’ it. For real, yo.
Where was I you ask?
I’ve been having a rough time with things lately. My illness, which was officially diagnosed as fibromyalgia, seems to be progressing, which isn’t typical of fibromyalgia. I’m having a lot more memory issues and have had a couple of new symptoms pop up out of nowhere. Last week I needed to prepare for a colonoscopy, not a very pleasant thing to do anyway, and got deathly ill from the medications. Moreso than is usual, according to my gasteroentrologist. I lost an extra amount of fluids (isn’t that the point?) became severely dehydrated and had to be kept overnight in the hospital for observation. Don’t worry, though. I still got the procedure and they gave me a suhweet sedative.
What about before that?
Lil’ Miss is having some serious personal issues. As a matter of fact, they relate directly with my previous post about women’s rights. You might be surprised what fanatical Mormons are capable of, especially in the 21st century. So, she’s coming home on the 7th of December. I was originally trying to make some extra money to drive down to see her next spring, but now I’m trying to make money to bring her home. Oh, the joy! Anyway, this is causing some more issues in my marriage. Heh, funny that TheMan seems to be the least of my worries.
Between school (which I’m passing, by the way) and the other crap I’ve been really into my own thing. Which, I might add, is over now. I’m done. When I saw a post about Google being basically equivalent to Al Qaeda because they took PageRank away from some bloggers that was it. And then when I told the blogger they were reprehensible for equating the two situations, Google’s PageRank Smackdown being by comparison a nonevent, I was teh EVUL. WTF? Ok, some people finally piped up and agreed with me, but shit! Why were people being nice about it? And now that stupid ass bitch keeps emailing me trying to explain what she meant! Good flippin’ grief, chick, you said that Google is a terrorist organization because when they took your pagerank it scared you as much as motherfuckers flying 747s into buildings!! Um, guess what? Not everyone in the flippin’ world is going to agree with you that insignificant Google ratings are the same as lost lives and some people are going to call you a drama queen who is no better than Rudy Giulani using 9/11 to get fucking internet traffic. And no, I will not re-read your post because Jane Doe agreed with me until she re-read the post and now she thinks you’re right. I don’t give a flying monkey’s ass what some other idiot thinks. She’s only saying that so you will quit fucking emailing her! Hello! Anyone in there?
Ok, well, I got a little offtrack there. Sorry. That just happened today and got my blood boiling. And now I’ve had to stick that chick’s email in the spam folder because she just keeps explaining. I’m sure now she thinks I’m just another Osama bin Laden waiting to snatch her children or some damned shit. Heh.
Anyway, back to my issues. My new rheumatologist ran some new groundbreaking blood work and found something interesting. By new and groundbreaking I mean “a $5 test that a med student should call for but my other docs were too high* to order it”. He’s discovered that I’m severely Vitamin D deficient. Normal-Low range is 16-20 ng/mL and mine tested at 6 ng/mL. Holy shit! Amazingly, the symptoms of this new and unusual disease are chronic muscle pain and weakness as well as fatigue and memory impairment (ultimately leading to other diseases including, but not limited to, osteoporosis and schizophrenia). Stop the flippin’ presses! Two, that’s TWO long years of looking for a cause and treatment and getting worse and worse and all I needed was a damn vitamin supplement? And, of course, I attributed my aches and pains to sunlight because I seemed to get worse when I spent too much time outdoor, which prevented me from getting the Vitamin D I needed and the sicker I got the more I stayed inside and… Well, you get the picture.
I can’t be sure right now if the deficiency is the definite cause of my illness. Dr. Godsend (not his real name) prescribed me “super” doses of Vitamin D, which I’m to take only once a week, and we’re to chart my progress. I’m not to stop any other medications I’m on until we can determine if this is really what’s wrong, but… Have you researched this vitamin? Holy shitballs, but it’s necessary for everything! And no you can’t get what you need just from fortified milk (thanks for the suggestion though). But I was hurting myself by eliminating so many things while trying to get better. And why didn’t someone test for that stuff already? Gah! The Mayo Clinic released a report in 2003 that chronicles the rise of Vitamin D deficiency, how it’s correlated to the increased use of sunscreen and decreased use of fortification (whatever), and how 100% of their research patients who had chronic pain complaints were Vitamin D deficient. Very cool.
So, I’m working at getting back into my real blogging groove. I’ve done the experiments, made some money, made some enemies, gotten sicker (physically and mentally) and have decided enough is enough. Ya know? There’s a lot more to it, but dayum, this post is getting long. I know how some of you are ADD and can’t follow for too long (hahaha… It’s a joke! C’mon!). Plus it’s just whiny garbage. I need more stuff to make fun of and then I’ll be good as new.
I missed cussin’. Boy, that felt good.
*Edited to add this whole word in, which I had in my head when I was typing, but seem to have skipped altogether. HUH? I’m losin’ it. For real, yo.
Proofread, JJ, proofread.
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