Archive > April 2008

Today…

is just beautiful.  The sun is shining, the temperature is perfect, the birds and their babies are out gathering food, and the world is in color again.  It feels like I’m alive again.

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CT scan complete.

1. Barium Sulfate suspension, even when it’s berry-flavored, tastes like thick Mylanta. It took every ounce of willpower not to throw up after drinking it. It hasn’t caused any stomach problems, though — no diarrhea, no gas, no nothing. YAY! 2. They told me my test was actually scheduled for tomorrow, but were thankfully able [...]

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This time tomorrow…

both my final exam and my CT scan will be over.  I’m feeling nervous about both and will be very glad to wake up Wednesday morning with all of this behind me.

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Tired of worrying about it…

so I’m going to write it down and get it out of my head. If I have a hernia, it’s incarcerated. It feels slightly different than it did a few weeks ago, but I still can’t push anything back in, like you can with a normal hernia. (Man, will I be glad to get this [...]

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Ah, Sunday.

Feeling so much better today. I think some of my extreme fatigue and stomach issues over the weekend were caused by eating raw honey from a local grower. Obviously I have allergies, which I control with Claritin, but actually ingesting the allergen did a real number on my system. Today I skipped the honey, and [...]

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Must remember to…

breathe.

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Mike’s endoscopy.

He has a hiatus hernia, (possible) Barrett’s esophagus and gastritis. The biopsy comes back in a week or two, so we’ll figure out all the logistics of surgery and such then. I really don’t know how much more of this I can take.

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A pic…

from last month, when the Kid was at his Grandma and Grandpa B’s:

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