The weather ALMOST fucked things up, but the anal probe is over. I have mild diverticulosis, and they took out a few polyps.  They appear to be benign, but could have become cancerous if left undetected another year. I'll get results of the biopsy on Friday.

Colonoscopy prep begins now.
Gonna be a shitty night.

It's a heavy flow day.

One of the main reasons I can never get a septum piercing is that I've had too many bleeds, the membranes are thin and scarred, and the blood vessels burst on a whim.

Today was my appointment to get an MRI of my neck ( Read more... )

The Chicken, the pasta, even the Wendy's Frosty I consumed about an hour after eating all digested just fine. But the damned lemon-butter-caper sauce from my chicken piccata stayed in my stomach and made me throw up this morning?  It doesn't make sense how everything around it digested just fine ( Read more... )

The doctor strongly suspects I have apnea.
First sleep study is October 19. If that shows apnea, then the CPAP sleep study is a week later, and my follow-up with the doctor in November.

I just tried on my zipper jeans for wearing on the plane tomorrow. "Ummmm, are these the right size? *check tag* Yup. Uh-oh ( Read more... )

Well, it seems that it's the hip thing to do recently. Several of the people whose journals I read have recently taken trips to the eye doctor. Since it had been over 2.5 years since my last eye exam, and I needed to get the benefits of paying for my vision insurance, which ends in September, I visited the doctors who my previous eye doctor sold ( Read more... )

Over the past few years, I've become increasingly sensitive to perfumes and other aromas. It started with pollen allergies. After a while, all floral scents smelled the same: cloyingly obnoxious. Even synthetic floral scents in perfumes will trigger a response similar to a pollen response, even there's no pollen in it. Between spring flowers and ( Read more... )

In yet another attempt to raise my good cholesterol, my doctor has prescribed Lovaza, which is a form of Omega-3 fatty acids. I have to take 4 gelcaps a day, either spread out or all at once ( Read more... )