Logging the sick
Date: Oct 22nd, 2008 9:22:02 am - Subscribe
So I was sick for about 3 weeks. Typical upper respiratory system cold. No muscle aches or tiredness or headaches. Sore throat went away after I figured out I was getting sick and kept myself hydrated. Would've felt ok except for the stuffiness. Took Sudafed. Towards the end, I was spitting out lots of phlegm. Phlegm did get dark in color then cleared up. The cold hung in there for awhile without changing than in a couple of days it was gone.
Approximate duration was 9-28-2008 to 10-17-2008
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Logging the sick
Date: Apr 19th, 2008 7:08:08 am - Subscribe
Cold. Thursday, I woke up with a slightly raw throat. I figured I was getting sick. Friday, my right nasal passage is plugged. By now, I have cold like symptoms. Runny nose and stuffy nose.
Sad. I wanted to make it without getting sick until June, making it a year.
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Banana
Date: Feb 24th, 2008 8:07:36 am - Subscribe
Bananas give me pretty much instant discomfort. Close to pain. Probably would hurt without medication. Note to self: Don't eat bananas.
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Logging the sick
Date: Jan 30th, 2008 11:03:35 pm - Subscribe
I have become complacent and overconfident. On the 29th I ate a #2 large combo from Wendy’s. That’s a double cheeseburger with large fries and large coke. Later I ate some cabbage, carrots, and jalapeno and bacon flavored beans.
Directly after eating the Wendy’s, I felt the discomfort with my gallbladder, but it wasn’t bad so I pretty much ignored it. Last night around 11pm, I started to notice a larger more spreading pain but still I ignored it. Around 12am, I decided to take the pills. The pain really wasn’t too bad and somewhere around 3am, I fell asleep. Around 5am I awoke with a great deal of pain, spreading from the gallbladder area, to below it and all the way to the left, below the sternum. This was a pain I kind of think as being extremely hungry multiplied, plus a twisting and burning feeling with cramps. Actually taking deep breaths and pushing down relieved some pain. It felt like I could feel bubbles moving around. I was also shivering. Considering this was perhaps the worst it has been for me and I was concerned I had a fever, I decided to drive to the ER. This time I went to a regular hospital. Actually, the drive was pretty tough. I had to bounce up and down and rock forward when stopped at the lights. I actually found myself driving much faster than normal. I probably shouldn’t have been driving at all.
I got to the ER and I was shivering and had very dry mouth and had a hard time actually talking, but I was the only one there and they told me not to drink anything. I went back pretty quick and I told them all the information about my condition, but instead of giving me pain relief, they decided to run the tests. Interestingly they kept telling me to relax, but unfortunately, my tenseness was actually helping me bear it. I had blood taken and then a sonogram. My blood is very dark. After awhile, 2 hours or so, the pain quickly started going away.
When the tests were done, the doctor explained to me that I had an 8mm stone lodged at the top of the gallbladder, but the common bile duct was clear and other things normal. So as my gall bladder stopped contracting, the stone slowly started falling back and the pain goes away. I also have other multiple gallstones in the 1cm range. I actually fell asleep in the ER a couple of times. It was a comfortable bed/stretcher.
Everybody was nice at this hospital and made a point of explaining everything they were doing. Compared to the teaching hospital, it was a nice change.
For future note, I am to go to the ER if the pain is unbearable for pain relief, or if the pain continues for 12 hours. I think the pain chart on the wall must be logarithmic, as 6 fells bad, but 7 is probably 10 times worse.
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Logging the sick
Date: Jan 23rd, 2008 8:16:30 pm - Subscribe
Well, now I have allergies, but I really don't feel sick. I've been sneezing a lot.
So I have Cholelithiasis, aka gall stones. The option the doctors gave me was surgery to remove my gall bladder, but I have decided to just ignore it. After all they said my stones were so small I shouldn't feel any pain. It would appear that I have had this pain for years, occasionally after eating ice cream. So my solution is to avoid things that I know give me pain. I was taking dicyclomine for about a month. I feel like it messed me up inside. So I quit that too. Up until my attack, as I am calling it, I felt fine. As such I will probably be fine until the next one. Then I will take the dicyclomine. Naturally, there are some bad possible outcomes from gall stones, and I'll be sure to watch out for the signs of them.
This has however motivated me to try my best to eat low cholesterol and low fat foods.
Interestingly, I went to a teaching hospital/clinic. It was kind of like Scrubs, but not funny. I didn't like it. In the future, I will go elsewhere.
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Logging the Sick
Date: Nov 30th, 2007 5:58:41 am - Subscribe
Mood: oblivious
boogidaboogida: logged in, so posted
Last time I was sick was towards the end of June with a double ear infection, throat infection and high fever.
So about 2 weeks ago, I was getting motion sickness. I thought it was from playing first person games, but it cumulated with a fever, stomach and back pain, and some vomiting.
Basically, I've been feeling weak since then. Tuesday morning, I had excruciating pain in my abdomen area and what felt like along my spine in the curve of the back. The pain seemed to move a ways and then it stopped. I had no feelings for vomiting or diarrhea, but I forced a vomit, as I thought I had food poisoning. I have experienced similar pain after eating ice cream several times over the past few years, but this felt ten times worse.
So Wednesday and today, I have a constant sort of pain I would describe as like knotting, right where according to Internet pictures, is where my gall bladder is.
Looks like I need to go see a doctor.
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Amon Amarth
Date: Oct 17th, 2007 9:18:17 am - Subscribe
Mood: intellectual
I tried out listening to this band. Initially, I didn't like them. Probably because I was in the mood for some power metal. I had my bass off too, so that might have affected things. But today I tried it again. I like them, mostly. I wanted to try them since I wanted to try some Viking metal. The thing is, it's simply death metal. I guess when death metal sings about Vikings, it becomes Viking metal. The problem with death metal is that it pretty much all sounds the same, and I mostly can't understand the words anyway.
I'd listen to them again, but only if I was in the mood for death metal.
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Blog
Date: Feb 14th, 2007 7:34:59 am - Subscribe
Wow, it's been a long time since blogging so here is a blog . I hate it when I was sure I wrote about something but can't find it. I made some directions and can't find them. Maybe I emailed it to myself.
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