TestResultLimitsLabEBV, Chronic/Active Infection> EBV Early Antigen Ab, IgG1.1H AI0.0 - 0.801Negative<0.9Equivocal0.9 - 1.0Positive>1.0> EBV Ab VCA, IgG>8.0 H AI0.0 - 0.801Negative<0.9Equivocal0.9 - 1.0Positive>1.0> EBV Nuclear Antigen Ab, IgG>8.0 H AI0.0 - 0.801Negative<0.9Equivocal0.9 - 1.0Positive>1.0

Well.. that could help explain the chronic ( Read more... )

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Shaky, shaky, nervous, crazy, just got done with psychiatric rehabilitation assessment, should be contacted by someone next week, people are available 24/7 and actually come to where I live to help me out, should be able to deal with medical assistance application, which was just finally denied yesterday after ten months, supposedly from not having ( Read more... )

So holidays were decent. Head is too fuzzy to articulate things. There was more good Kashable food, time spent with friends and family, and also a newer, warmer hoody involved. Plus anime. bossgoji, mmsword, and I helped introduce taliabear to mecha shows. We only got through Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory and Aim for the Top!: Gunbuster while I was there, but ( Read more... )

Initial blood tests returned mostly normal.  Uric acid was 9.1 mg/dL, when 2.4 - 8.2 is normal.  Total cholesterol was 207 mg/dL, when 100 - 199 is normal.  Triglycerides were 160 mg/dL, when 0 - 149 is normal.  LDL cholesterol was 117 mg/dL, when 0 - 99 is normal.  Ketones were 2+, when negative is normal.  Lyme IgG/IgM antibodies were 7.95, when ( Read more... )

So I just got back from my second appointment with the psychotherapist to complete my initial assessment, which couldn't be done in one session.  It is tentatively confirmed that I am an incredible mess, which I don't think should surprise anyone.  Depression, general anxiety disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, post-traumatic stress ( Read more... )

This morning I was watching the Wednesday, November 11, 2009 episode of The Daily Show on Hulu.  While the show's sponsor was The Home Depot, the second of three commercial breaks featured an advertisement for the Methuselah Foundation, a nonprofit group dedicated to extending the human lifespan and curing age-related diseases.  The commercial went ( Read more... )

If this CTV News/W5 special report is any indication, problems with Lyme disease are even worse in Canada than they are in the United States, in terms of getting diagnosis and treatment, because doctors assume Lyme disease exists only in the use U.S., as if ticks couldn't possibly cross the border from New York to Ontario or so forth ( Read more... )

I got some blood drawn for tests the other day.  They are testing for a bunch of things.  I among them I know are tests for hepatitis, diabetes, HIV, and some sort of thyroid tests.  I am not sure beyond that; the doctor was scribbling a bunch of notes on a paper, but I didn't really see everything she was testing.  I do hope that the tests yield ( Read more... )

Twice in the past week, friends of mine have discussed serious troubles with their mental wellbeing, most notably the sense of not being a real person.  As I said to one of them, I wish I didn't understand what they meant as well as I do.  Apart from small leakages of selfhood through all my damage, physical and psychological, I have not truly felt ( Read more... )