What a difference a day makes... that song wakes me... and puts me to sleep... I've been having health issues for about a year now. Guess it's my turn. It started a little after I started working with my personal trainer. Fell in love with crunches... would you believe??? and all of a sudden the trouble began..... terrible cramping on my side and then, it became pain... pain that grabs and won't let go...writhing on the floor of the bathroom not knowing if I can throw up or shit it away... can't ignore it and yet, it's intermittent. Help? Kept complaining but with the pandemic raging in 2020 -2021 never found the exact help I needed. Kept contacting the gastroenterology dept who ordered tests but not THE test. Finally, the PA listened. She ordered a CT Scan and they found the culprit. A 2.2 cm. benign lipoma which would be removed along with about 10 inches of small bowel on April 2nd 2021; 4 months of excruciating pain later and about 2 weeks after the scan. This lipoma had an ulcer on the end of it and had been twisting the small bowel. Hence, intense pain as the bowel curved back on itself. Where did it come from? Why? Who knows? The surgery was the answer. NOT!!!
Several visits back to the surgeon and finally, as COVID procedures allowed, a visit to the GP: she should be the manager of my trauma. She would direct traffic. Ahhh... at last after being offered a ridiculous panacea by the surgeon and agreed to by the GP (which I accepted BTW) STRETCH! that should alleviate the cramping. Well, here I am a year later.... cramping, extreme bloating, pain, bouts with constipation and diarrhea, intermittent anemia and then, seemingly without any warning other than shortness of breath... Pneumonia. Well, as I sat with my acupuncturist, Katie as the needles cooked... my symptoms added up to SIBO: Small intestine bacterial overgrowth. Ahhh lucky enough to get back to see the same PA, Kim Elliott who'd listened last year. She agreed to the synopsis and would treat empirically. Go for the virulent antibiotics, a double 2 week course which should attack and fix the problem. One and done... unfortunately for me... all the stool cultures have come back negative and I'm looking like I'm 6 months pregnant with no appetite, nausea, no energy and no reprieve with another week to go on the antibiotics. What to do?
I'm beside myself. Utterly frustrated. Depressed... yes.. Wouldn't you be? I'm sick of being sick!!!! I've been offered band aids but nothing has worked. After a long conversation with 2 friends and harkening back to my T time of discovery, perhaps an infectious diseases expert could be the key? After all, back in '99 when T was admitted for an unknown virus attacking his body, Dr. Armstrong, an expert infectious diseases expert, came to his rescue. He was willing to study and experiment and not just apply a band aid. I believe that the path forward and out of the pervading gloom is to explore and eliminate all the possibilities including ovarian cancer, gall bladder or irritation from scar tissue? I need answers not placations...
Let's switch subjects... ah politics... war on truth... Ketanji Brown Jackson is Biden's choice for the Supreme Court. Fabulous choice but the confirmation hearings are a cruel joke. She is being eviscerated by the usual flunkies... Cruz, Hawley, Cotton who are all poor excuses for rational human beings... ridiculous questions which allow no possibilities for response or pertinence other than future alt right sound bits for the questioners in the next elections. Has to be said... if Kavanaugh's outbursts didn't queer his confirmation... this justice certainly has withstood their attacks with aplomb worthy of her next office. What would have happened if she had followed his suit and counter attacked???? There is no equality of the sexes when these angry white men prevail. Just think what they're orchestrating with the tacit consent of the Christians? Voter suppression... elimination of self determination with the inability to have an abortion... and on and on and let's talk about truth... How does Fox get away with Tucker Carlson parroting and endorsing the Russian propaganda line? How do lies become accepted as truth? That goes back to Trumpism.... ah that's another day..
Carpe diem... I'm trying...
