Sometimes you have a bad day...
but today was not one of those days for me. In fact, today was one of the best days I've had in a long time...and I'm not joking at all.
I mentioned earlier that I was trying to find a new advisor. I may now have one, and the area of research he suggested is something I find incredibly interesting and exciting. Even though the events leading up to this have been stressful (and let's face it, grad school can just simply be stressful), this has given me a more optimistic outlook.
The other thing that made me happy is that I ate something with cabbage in it the other day. It may sound like a strange thing, but it seems that some medical problems I've been having for a while may be the result of a long-term bacterial infection...ironically, it's something that can be treated, but it's not usually a "first diagnosis". (By long-term, I started showing symptoms about six years ago.) I've had the assumption for a few years now that I was having problems because of "stress" (the diagnosis they give you when they don't see anything obvious in medical tests) which has been getting progressively worse. I was given a couple medications to deal with symptoms, but they didn't seem terribly effective. One of the problems is that my diet has become more and more restrictive, apparently as the infection has been getting worse, because more and more foods were causing me to have symptoms. It started out with coffee, and every couple months, I would find something which had been fine previously would cause me to get very sick. Cabbage and broccoli are two of the worst offenders, so being able to eat a small amount of cabbage really makes me happy right now. I'm hoping that some day, I can eat my beloved sauerkraut or haluschka (what my great grandmother called cabbage rolls). A German who can't eat cabbage feels awfully empty inside (literally).
I mentioned earlier that I was trying to find a new advisor. I may now have one, and the area of research he suggested is something I find incredibly interesting and exciting. Even though the events leading up to this have been stressful (and let's face it, grad school can just simply be stressful), this has given me a more optimistic outlook.
The other thing that made me happy is that I ate something with cabbage in it the other day. It may sound like a strange thing, but it seems that some medical problems I've been having for a while may be the result of a long-term bacterial infection...ironically, it's something that can be treated, but it's not usually a "first diagnosis". (By long-term, I started showing symptoms about six years ago.) I've had the assumption for a few years now that I was having problems because of "stress" (the diagnosis they give you when they don't see anything obvious in medical tests) which has been getting progressively worse. I was given a couple medications to deal with symptoms, but they didn't seem terribly effective. One of the problems is that my diet has become more and more restrictive, apparently as the infection has been getting worse, because more and more foods were causing me to have symptoms. It started out with coffee, and every couple months, I would find something which had been fine previously would cause me to get very sick. Cabbage and broccoli are two of the worst offenders, so being able to eat a small amount of cabbage really makes me happy right now. I'm hoping that some day, I can eat my beloved sauerkraut or haluschka (what my great grandmother called cabbage rolls). A German who can't eat cabbage feels awfully empty inside (literally).