Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Morphing Mongrels

Symptoms are often changing, challenging, and downright strange things. As mentioned I have what I call chronic nausea, but last night something not so chronic came up. I did not get to my medicine till about 1:00am due to homework issues. I was going to skip it all together, but around 12:00am my legs felt weird. All up and down my calves it felt almost like they were constantly flexing. They were tingly and hot. Alex got me a heating pad for a while and that seemed to help, but I gave up, wanting to sleep, I took my pain killers. I don't think it really went away, but I didn't seem to notice it anymore. Alex said his goodnight and went to his room. Shortly after I called him, (sorry for scaring you). I was really hot, and felt funny. I have passed out before and it felt similar so I wanted to call him just in case. I took off my covers, my fan was full blast and I drank some cold sprite, but nothing took away the stinging in my face or the heat. Alex was worried and despite my attempts at sounding okay, he came back to my room. I apparently was slurring my words (don't really remember that at the time). He got a wet paper towel and cooled down my head and shoulders. After about 5 minutes of him re wetting and talking to me I started to feel better. Both of these were really strange things that I seem to be "lucky" enough to encounter. My body loves to keep me guessing. I guess what I'm getting down to is
1. symptoms are cruel creatures that morph when you think you have just solved and treated them
2. Alex's are great to have around
3. pain killers at 1 in the morning leads to poor concentration for 8:30 classes
And lastly
4. ONLY 2 DAYS OF SCHOOL TILL SPRING BREAK!

1 comment:

  1. Great post! This will just be another thing to add to your list of things to talk about with a specialist. I'm glad you're feeling better, though! I love you!!!
    -Alex

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