Still alive!
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selenayI may be starting every day for the next while with "woo, I'm still alive!", seeing as apparently not being alive would have been a good option if I hadn't gone to the ER on Wednesday. And I wouldn't have gone if I hadn't got that blood work done and then had that call. Ugh, way too close.
I slept for 11 hours straight, apart from waking up to whack my alarm clock at 6am because I'd forgotten to turn it off. That probably explains the nasty headache that I've had all day: I always get a nasty headache when I sleep for too long like that.
I've also got some cramping, which could be the mysterious bowel problem or could be period pain or could be both. It's so hard to know and now that I know all the cramping etc. was a sign that something was badly wrong, I'm having a hard time not panicking about everything.
The good thing is that the only sign of bleeding that I have is the period I started last night. I'm taking this as a good sign and hoping this means that my GI bleed is gone, but we'll know more when I have my scope next week.
It's been a weird day. I've done some laundry and I'm going to run a vacuum around the kitchen. Sometimes I feel great and then the headache peaks or the cramping comes back and I feel yuck. So sometimes I can't believe that all of this has happened and other times I remember that something is actually quite wrong and technically I'm ill.
Mum arrives tomorrow and I'm looking forward to seeing her. I'm trying to persuade her that I have license to eat all the red meat I want, but I don't think she's buying it :-)
Let's hope that in the next few days, I get some answers and maintain my haemoglobin levels. I'd like not to have more blood transfusions.
I have so many comments to reply to. I'm going to get to all of them, but just wanted to say thank you for all the good wishes in case it takes me a while.
I slept for 11 hours straight, apart from waking up to whack my alarm clock at 6am because I'd forgotten to turn it off. That probably explains the nasty headache that I've had all day: I always get a nasty headache when I sleep for too long like that.
I've also got some cramping, which could be the mysterious bowel problem or could be period pain or could be both. It's so hard to know and now that I know all the cramping etc. was a sign that something was badly wrong, I'm having a hard time not panicking about everything.
The good thing is that the only sign of bleeding that I have is the period I started last night. I'm taking this as a good sign and hoping this means that my GI bleed is gone, but we'll know more when I have my scope next week.
It's been a weird day. I've done some laundry and I'm going to run a vacuum around the kitchen. Sometimes I feel great and then the headache peaks or the cramping comes back and I feel yuck. So sometimes I can't believe that all of this has happened and other times I remember that something is actually quite wrong and technically I'm ill.
Mum arrives tomorrow and I'm looking forward to seeing her. I'm trying to persuade her that I have license to eat all the red meat I want, but I don't think she's buying it :-)
Let's hope that in the next few days, I get some answers and maintain my haemoglobin levels. I'd like not to have more blood transfusions.
I have so many comments to reply to. I'm going to get to all of them, but just wanted to say thank you for all the good wishes in case it takes me a while.
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Date: 2011-01-29 12:18 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-29 02:20 am (UTC)((hugs))