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Another ultrasound

The tech was… not warm. She had crappy bedside manner. But I have pictures of Lightning. The tech inappropriately told me that she saw nothing wrong. That’s supposed to come from my doctor. But that’s...

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Moar doctor

Pain doctor yesterday. The previous visit was the “shit you are so low” visit. This was the “shit you are so high” visit. We looked at inflammation markers and heart disease stuff. Apparently I have...

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Ugh

The fourth IV vitamin injection has me feeling nauseous, dizzy, and my neck hurts so bad I’d be ok if someone wanted to chop my head off. Health. Yeah. That’s what I’m pursuing.

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Random physical yuck

I asked the sick person to not come to the party yesterday because I was concerned about a different party guest who is having surgery in a week. So I woke up feeling like shit anyway. I’m so dizzy it...

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Sleep study part the first

That was… fine. Just the initial consult. She said that I have an extremely posterior jaw and a narrow throat opening and that doesn’t bode well. With allll the symptoms I have I am definitely in need...

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I do some weird things to avoid feeling weird.

I now have 28 weeks worth of drugs in my house. Because I have 20.5 weeks to go until I’m done being pregnant and I’m super uncomfortable going to the dispensary when I’m really pregnant and I barely...

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Sleep study

I went in and got the results of the sleep study. I’m so pissed that it took years to get a fucking sleep study. I HAVE BEGGED. I don’t have sleep apnea. Well, technically I’m barely clinically in the...

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Apparently it depends on how you phrase things.

The sleep doctor wrote a long impassioned plea to the insurance company about why she believes I REALLY NEED to try a CPAP machine given my constellation of problems and she explained in great detail...

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Sick day

Both kids woke up with diarrhea and I threw up and can’t get through a bowl of cream of wheat. I don’t think we are going anywhere today. I’m overly happy about that.

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The best part about being rich…

I can do research and find service providers like these folks: https://divinejourney.org or http://www.reviveacupuncture.com/ and maybe find some kind of help. I am grateful every single day that I can...

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The “sick enough” dance

I keep feeling like I should put together a binder with all of my medical results and data. Then I am reminded that having such a binder means that many doctors will view me negatively as a drug seeker...

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current medical dump

I’m really itchy. Apparently that’s a problem during pregnancy. I need to go in at 7am for a fasting blood draw to see what is going on with my liver. Hopefully all will be well. If things aren’t doing...

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Oh phew

Got a call from my OBs office. I show no signs of the liver issue they were worried about. No reason to assume I will have to deliver 3-4 weeks early. Yay! A fully cooked Lightning is a happier...

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Very little sleep

My whole god damn body is an explosion of pain. I feel like I am minutes away from vomiting and I’ve felt like this for hours. I try to sleep and my shoulders hurt so bad I wake myself up every 20 or...

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Oh yeah, that’s why.

Every so often I go off my meds for stupid reasons. Forgetfulness, or self-punishment, or feeling ashamed of myself for being a drug addict. I forgot a full day of meds in the past few days. Whoops....

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STOP COUGHING ON ME

Everyone in my house has a cough. I went and bought cough medication/treatment for suppressing it. They don’t want to take it. Instead they want to not cover their mouths and cough on me all day long....

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Notes from today’s visit

I am on day 4 of a nasty headache. I am not overall prone to headaches so this is concerning in my 37th week of pregnancy. We used Noah’s blood pressure cuff and got a reading of 134/77. That is not...

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Third time’s the charm.

I have said for ten years that any amount of labor time under 24 hours would be easy. I was right! 21 hours were fine. First: this could not possibly have gone so well without our wonderfully kind...

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post-partum healing

If you’ve been reading me since the poop chronicles this will seem like a normal/gross piece from me. If you think body information is tmi, maybe skip this post. I have figured out the best regime for...

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Why don’t you take some vitamins?

As a person with chronic health complaints I get stupid comments from people about what I should do to fix my body. Trying vitamins is always high on the list. Well, today I finally got the bill for...

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