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In five months...
I moved houses with my folks. This may have been a bad move (pun intended). The soundproofing is horrible, I hear too much all the time, the neighbors are too close, and there are ceiling fans everywhere that other people turn on and ceiling fans make me sick to my stomach.
I took and finished the CNA class, took and passed the certification exam, and started working as a CNA. It is somewhat disheartening to get a closer look at some of the stories of the people I work with. One guy said to me, regarding my diabetes equipment, that if he'd had what I have, when he was my age, that maybe right now he wouldn't be blind (not to mention his other extremely major complications and side effects from treatments of complications).
Six weeks ago I got a stomach ache and threw up a few times and went to an emergency room, which sent me away after doing lots of extremely expensive and not very worthwhile tests (like an MRI to see my pancreas, only they couldn't see my pancreas because they didn't use any contrast). Most of the tests came back abnormal in one way or another (ie, elevated bilirubin, extremely elevated neutrophils, low levels of other WBCs, high total WBC, abnormally low pancreatic enzymes, odd blood gasses, protein in my urine, blah blah) , so my doctor at home decided to do a whole big battery of tests, almost all of which came back normal. My vitamin D level shows deficiency, which is not surprising but I'm wary of supplementing because I've had vitamin D toxicity in the past, and I'm wary of leaving it alone because my brother has rickets. My testosterone level also came back low, which was surprising to me as it doesn't seem to me that I've had any symptoms of low testosterone levels. I'm guessing I had skipped a dose by accident at some point.
I lost a significant amount of weight while ill, and although my bloodwork and urinalysis has pretty much gone back to normal, my weight hasn't. It's not technically underweight- my BMI is 18.9 - but I don't think it's all that healthy. I weighed about 120 lb in the summer of 2008, when I was 19 years old, which I thought was a good size for me. I was ill that year, a lot. The following summer I weighed about 100 lb. I had hoped that with the disappearance of those illnesses, I would regain the weight, but it didn't happen. I hoped that then the normal age gain of late adolescence would happen and maybe a little bit it did. I got up to about 105 lb but my weight was most recently measured at 97 lb. This, I think, is disappointing.
I moved houses with my folks. This may have been a bad move (pun intended). The soundproofing is horrible, I hear too much all the time, the neighbors are too close, and there are ceiling fans everywhere that other people turn on and ceiling fans make me sick to my stomach.
I took and finished the CNA class, took and passed the certification exam, and started working as a CNA. It is somewhat disheartening to get a closer look at some of the stories of the people I work with. One guy said to me, regarding my diabetes equipment, that if he'd had what I have, when he was my age, that maybe right now he wouldn't be blind (not to mention his other extremely major complications and side effects from treatments of complications).
Six weeks ago I got a stomach ache and threw up a few times and went to an emergency room, which sent me away after doing lots of extremely expensive and not very worthwhile tests (like an MRI to see my pancreas, only they couldn't see my pancreas because they didn't use any contrast). Most of the tests came back abnormal in one way or another (ie, elevated bilirubin, extremely elevated neutrophils, low levels of other WBCs, high total WBC, abnormally low pancreatic enzymes, odd blood gasses, protein in my urine, blah blah) , so my doctor at home decided to do a whole big battery of tests, almost all of which came back normal. My vitamin D level shows deficiency, which is not surprising but I'm wary of supplementing because I've had vitamin D toxicity in the past, and I'm wary of leaving it alone because my brother has rickets. My testosterone level also came back low, which was surprising to me as it doesn't seem to me that I've had any symptoms of low testosterone levels. I'm guessing I had skipped a dose by accident at some point.
I lost a significant amount of weight while ill, and although my bloodwork and urinalysis has pretty much gone back to normal, my weight hasn't. It's not technically underweight- my BMI is 18.9 - but I don't think it's all that healthy. I weighed about 120 lb in the summer of 2008, when I was 19 years old, which I thought was a good size for me. I was ill that year, a lot. The following summer I weighed about 100 lb. I had hoped that with the disappearance of those illnesses, I would regain the weight, but it didn't happen. I hoped that then the normal age gain of late adolescence would happen and maybe a little bit it did. I got up to about 105 lb but my weight was most recently measured at 97 lb. This, I think, is disappointing.