| April 11th, 2018 |
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Trying to uncurl from my box again.
Big problem, looking at my reading page: the guilt and shame of having completely lost track of everyone's lives. It feels inappropriate to ask of someone who's clearly huge in their life now: "So, like... who is that?"
That sort of thing.
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I should probably mention why I've been basically gone for the last several years.
Basically I've been sick.
Summary:
Several years ago there was a nasty flu strain going around, and I caught it, and I was really really sick.
And then the flu sort of got better, but I still had a really nasty vicious cough that was bronchitis for a few months.
And then I still had a bit of a cough but the really nasty part was that I had a bad fever for about a year.
And I spent so much time sick and immobile, it seems, that I developed diabetes.
And then I was really sick for a while because it turns out if you have too much diabetes medication, that can also make you very very sick, and I started out on a dosage that was supposed to be we'll see how your blood sugar goes on this dosage and get an idea of how much to increase it from there which turned out to be okay so we'll cut that dosage in half.
Craziest thing about diabetes: I kind of have to eat more than I did before, but I am eating better because the government paid for me to see a dietitian. However, if I skip meals, eat late, or forget to eat, I am now very very sorry I did that.
This combined very badly with getting gastro last year. It was pretty bad. After I passed out and possibly had a momentary seizure, we went to the hospital, where I had to stay overnight to be reviewed by a cardiologist, because both the ECG and blood tests were showing I'd maybe had a heart attack.
I hadn't, but it turns out of you're sufficiently dehydrated that your blood is basically sludge (the doctor needed real effort to draw blood for the test) your heart panics a bit and sends out the same distress markers it does for a serious heart attack.
They gave me like four litres of IV fluids and I still didn't even need to pee.
And I still have a cough. Which has been getting worse. I'm on a hefty rotation of asthma puffers at the moment, but I still have to sleep propped somewhat upright or I can't breathe, and if it doesn't improve dramatically in the next week the next step will be to see a respiratory specialist.
Also to see if there were certain problems I had a chest CT and there's a lump in my lungs that I have to get checked again in a few months in case it's cancer or something.
And for the past several weeks I have had shingles.
Having shingles is incredibly annoying, and I would probably have lost it in some fashion by now except ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png) velithya found a capsaicin-based cream that induces a very mild burning sensation, which counters the neuralgia symptoms, which is great.
Although I also discovered just last night that if you used the cream and then washed your hands thoroughly like you're supposed to but then apparently touched your skin again without realising it, and then you rub your eye, then your eye will have extremely strong opinions about just how "mild" that burning sensation is. (Fortunately, after flushing my eye out with copious amounts of water, it turned out that while my eyelid was very, very upset with me, the stuff didn't seem to have got on my actual eye at all.)
So that's what's been up with me. I've just been sick.
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