What I Did on My Summer (not-really-Vacation)

[aldersprig]

So, let me tell you about my summer!

🌞

So far, Summer 2017 has involved medical foo, home renovations, surprise!funeral and not-a-surprise godbaby.

Medical Foo I have blogged a bit about in That Was Spinal Tap and That Was Spinal Tap Two.  I’ve also fic’d and freewrote about it in Diagnostic Machine and Just A Little Structural Rot.

The long and the short of it: After more doctor visits, blood tests, and spinal taps than seems reasonable or even probable (and two MRIs), I have a diagnosis and will start drug treatment soon.  It’s not a thrilling diagnosis, but, to quote Arnold, it’s not a tumor. (It’s not a baby either.  I don’t think they’d need a spinal tap to tell that one).

I now have three weeks without blood draws or doctor visits, and if my dentist calls, I’m going to tell them I’m out of the country for a while.  Or something.  No more co-pays kthnxbai.

Did I really just say kthnxbai?  Please forgive me.  

read on…

Comments

[ranunculus]

Medical is so not fun.
Glad there is a diagnosis and I really hope the meds help.

[aldersprig]

Thank you! I have to get used to needles on Me and not the cat, siiigh.

[kelkyag]

Yay for not being done with being poked and proded and stuck, at least for a while. I hope the treatment works well for you.

[aldersprig]

Thank you!

The thing is… other than the Oops Can’t See Out of One Eye thing… my symptoms have been either mild or in that jiggle-the-handle-on-the-toilet sort of place.

So I have a diagnosis and treatment for… Um… Something I hardly noticed?

[kelkyag]

"Oops Can’t See Out of One Eye" would be deeply frustrating at best for me. You've been handling it very calmly. And if the treatment can reverse the jiggle-the-handle level symptoms, you may find you notice *not* having to deal with them, even if the adjustments for them crept in so slowly you didn't much notice at the time. :)

[aldersprig]

I’m kind of hoping for that, I admit. And yeah, the eye thing was… more than a little argh?

[clare_dragonfly]

Yay babies! I'm gonna get one!