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recovery
I am trying to keep people updating and informed so if they have this disease (Cushings) they won't feel alone or defeated. Last night I thought I was doing good, I actually ate a decent meal. Its been really hard to remember to eat. I've been doing Ensure and vitamins which I know I need to do more but I have absolutely no motivation to eat ( Read more... ) -
surgery
Ok, I've been out of the hospital for a couple of days and I'm recovered enough to write. Believe me, its been hard. So I had my surgery on monday. I was in ICU for 24 hours with a lovely catheter. There is no joy in this device, its just evil. Sure it allows you to go whenever and it makes it easy for the nurses to measure how much I'm ( Read more... ) -
surgery
Its the evening before my surgery and I'm anxious, dreading, excited, and tired all together. I have to be at the hospital at 530am to be prepped, poked and proded before surgery. Its funny, the preop nurse gave me this antibacterial soap to use the night and morning of surgery. And the surgery is for my pituitary gland remember. I had to eat ( Read more... ) -
Cushing's
So I'm back because I promised myself I would tell about my experience with this disease. Lets talk about testing. I have had numerous MRIs over the years. Its the most intensive way to see if there is a tumor. They stick me in a little tube and add insult to injury, they stick a helmut on me to immobilize my head. If you are claustaphobic, ( Read more... ) -
cushing's
I said I would write about this disease I have been dealing with for the last six years. Let me give the wikipedia definition of Cushing's: Cushing's syndrome (also called hyperadrenocorticism or hypercorticism) is a hormone (endocrine) disorder caused by high levels of cortisol (hypercortisolism) in the blood. This can be caused by taking ( Read more... ) -
marathon
yes! yes! thank the lord I am done with this race. Yesterday I got up at o'dark thirty and headed downtown with my sister, I'll call her the nazi trainer. I was freezing! It was nippley until about 10am. I walked, jogged, and speedwalked 13.1 miles in beautiful Austin. My crazy sister is about five inches taller than me, so she complained that ( Read more... ) -
marathon
tomorrow is the Austin Rock N' Roll marathon. I am so glad this is almost over. I almost killed myself getting into Austin today, late. And then traffic was horrific getting to the packet check in. My sister and I had to park and practically run/speedwalk to get there in time. Cut off was at 6pm but they were kind enough to hold the door until ( Read more... ) -
fireplace
I've been housesitting for my friends this weekend. And while it hasn't been cold cold, I've been using the fireplace. I love this!! I was reading in front of it on friday and my feet were just toasty warm. What is it about a fireplace that brings up images of things I've neveer done before? And want to do? I texted my girl, babypopspenguin, about ( Read more... ) -
question
I was playing twenty questions with an old high school friend of mine last night and he brought something to my attention and then he basically dared me to put it on here. He said he was going to put it on his facebook but I'm not holding my breathe. He said that is was harder to find someone you actually want to kiss than it is to find someone ( Read more... ) -
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Ok, I have to write about Book Princess. She also works with me but she is the saner of my office mates. Borderline psychotic but with charm and sass. We are checking out book porn and we are going to do a True Blood/Sookie Stackhouse marathon next month. I'm looking forward to it.