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Health Update

One of the great things about this cake class that Monte got for me is that I'm getting out of the house, even if it's just for once a week. My health has left me with little energy. I posted awhile back about all the strange things that my body was doing and the end result is that the doctors can't find anything wrong. I've been to see 4 different doctors in the last 5 months and it is only getting worse. They have now done three different blood test and a deeper screening on my thyroid. Except for the pain they can't find much wrong with me.

Last week the doctor put me back on another steroid to help control the pain that has now moved from my back, neck, and knees into my feet, chest, and hands as well. The knuckles in my fingers would swell in the mornings or when I wake from a nap and I would not be able to bend my fingers. The chest pain also had gotten so bad I that I couldn't sleep any longer. The doctor is afraid that I may be form gastritis from all the stress the pain has caused on my body. So now I have to take the steroid (4 times a day) with food and the heartburn medicine twice a day on an empty stomach. Not a pleasant day.

Good news is, though, that the rheumatology department had a cancellation so I have an appointment on the 9th of February instead of having to wait another three months to see a specialist. So, wish me luck there. This is really starting to be very annoying. In five months I feel like I went from a healthy 26 year old to an old woman's arthritic body. I WANT MY BODY BACK!

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As for Monte, he's doing alright. The doctor switch his medicine again to a stronger one and seems a little miffed that things haven't improved much. He said it's just ulcerative colitis and we can give you medicine and you'll get better. Well, Monte is still having flare ups and the medicines aren't fixing anything. The new medicine he is on messes with his immune system so he has to have his blood checked weekly. Last week he blood test came back with a slightly high white blood count so he had to do another stool sample. That sample showed no more signs of C. Diff. which is a bacteria that he has been fighting on and off in his intestines. So that is good that it's gone...but why the high white count? We have to wait till this week's blood test to see if it has changed at all.

I have learned more about doctors and medicine and insurance in the few months I have been married than in my whole life up until this point. It's been crazy. I'm thinking of getting a medical degree so that I don't have to pay the doctors 20 dollars each visit to tell me they can't figure it out.

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On a completely unrelated note, but as a little treat to those of you that read the health update blog...here is a true story.

So, if you have ever watched The Office you may have come across an episode where in a bat flies into Dunder Mifflin and terrorizes the employees. Just this week my husband sent me this email that he received while at his cubicle at work:

"A bat was sighted on the 6th floor this morning. It appears to have found a good hiding place for now. If you do see the bat, please do not touch it. Call the fixx line ext. 33499. They have the proper gear to handle the bat. "

Honestly...I could not stop laughing when I read that. Apparently this sort of thing is not as uncommon as I once thought. What do you think proper gear for a bat really is?


And on another somewhat related note...since we've just discussed bats and cakes (in the prior post) I thought it only too appropriate to include this picture that I came across. It apparently is a bat wedding cake. If only I had known that such a thing existed when I was making my cake.

If only.
(Okay, so really...I think it's just supposed to be ivy. But poor choice on whomever decided on such dark colored pointy ivy for the wedding cake. It really looks like bats have just landed all over this cake.)