Content Note: weight, weight gain, etc ( Read more... )

When I went in for my one year post-op, my neurosurgeon finally got fed up enough with my whining to refer me to the UW Pain Clinic. My appointment was today and I'm glad I didn't listen to the little voice that told me the appointment would be useless so I should just cancel. The appointment was the opposite of useless and I am finally feeling ( Read more... )

Today is my lax day, when I don't have any appointments or classes and I am left to my own devices for a few solid hours. The rest of this week is especially busy so I'm trying to make it count. It still feels goofy to say things like that since when I actually look at my calendar so much of my schedule seems leisurely.

Tomorrow I walk Greenlake ( Read more... )

 Well at least my uvula is better. The weird gray dangly bit hanging from it has vanished and I don't feel like I have strings in my throat anymore. Unfortunately I was wrong about that being the cause of my nausea. Ugh barf why are gag reflexes?

I'm going through opiate...withdrawals (?) while I am still getting accustomed to gabapentin, so I ( Read more... )

 I'm doing worse today than I have been since I got out of the hospital. Vertigo, nausea, lethargy. And something going on with my uvula, which might explain the nausea. I've taken the zofran and I'm going to back to bed but I figure I may as well complain here like the good old days before I do.

I haven't been able to pick up Iliana from school and ( Read more... )

Added my second (morning) dose of gabapentin today. I started on one nighttime dose on Monday and that seemed helpful with the nerve pain in my hand, though the grogginess was definitely a force to be reckoned with. I try to go to Summer's house on Fridays so we can do our physical therapy exercises together (solidarity in suffering!) but I am ( Read more... )