Posted by chicklet on September 6, 2003, at 11:57:38
In reply to Re: The Night Owl...hoo.. hoo » chicklet, posted by Sabina on September 4, 2003, at 15:14:47
beeeeeana,
> thanks for the kind words about my backwards schedule.hey, you're making the best of it! Ain't no kind words...
> i've been trying to re-watch kenneth branagh's (i love his work!) Hamlet today.
Ah, Ken. Have you seen Much Ado or Dead Again?
I'm a bit saddened that I didn't get a whole lot of Shackspeeere edumacation while I was in school. My high school days were sketchy at best and i never got to finish any books. In college i concentrated on my major. I read Richard III but I think I really need to have a study group or a prof guiding me. Yes I could take a class now. Well maybe not- I'm still not consistently good enough to commit to a class, pay for it and then end up losing money. And if I took a class it would be Spanish.
Sorry for the divergence. I'm not hypo...this is just the real me. It's the way I talk too.> hope your appointment went well. do tell. talk again soon, bean.
Oh jeepers you gave me an owwie when you called me 'Bean'.
My appt...wellll...that's what the hippie neuro reference was. Due to the ingestion of various narcotics over the past 2 weeks, I can't really recall which doc I told you about. Yesterday I called the neuro practice near here. At 3:30. They had a cancellation at 4!!! What are the odds, I ask you? He had crazy-messy-i-just-don't-care grey hair tied back in a little ponytail (!!!), very mellow and very knowledgeable. it was meant to be, clearly, that I saw him. He was rather impressed with my history, which in this case is not really a compliment. Bipolar, prolactinoma, taking numerous drugs (including Lamictal, a drug which of course he knew about and had much praise and respect for ..nice not to have to explain everything to docs), a funky virus that affected my eye, misdx'ed with a venous thrombosis 2 months ago (RIGHT BEFORE WE MOVED!!!!)...then misdx'ed with a sub-arachnoid cyst (not a toomah), hx of nasty-a$$ sinus infections and surgery for them, blah blah blah. I know- tmi. But I bet you're all impressed now too!As I knew I would be, I'm all good in the neuro dept. In fact I nearly pushed him clear out of the room when he asked me to 'try to not let him push his hands toward me'.
He was really concerned about my lack of sleep due to the pain (mostly), just as my pdoc is. But he took me off the benzos and gave me some nortrip. to sleep. It worked!!!! head still hurts like a bear but I don't care as much. He also gave me a steroid type something or other which is kind of like prednisone but not. He thinks it might be sinus related! Is that wack or what??
It's a relief but not...because they still don't really know what the deal is. I hate baffling doctors. EEG next week, which will be negative, and follow up with an ENT, find a primary care doc and an endo. We just frickin' moved here and i have no docs except for pdoc 45 minutes away.Stay tuned for more of the saga.
Thanks for asking,
Kar Bean Chicklet
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