CMIH can be found here.

Lots of updates to the server and the wordpress system today, so things will probably look a little weird and move around a lot.

Please bear with me!

My ulcer’s still flaring up, but hopefully that’ll change soon. My diet is being modified to the extreme right now, so hopefully that’ll take some of the strain off of my stomach. Tomorrow it’s going to be bananas and cabbage soup, with icky licorice chewables to help heal my stomach.

Tomorrow I’ll call up my doctor’s office and double-check when my follow-up is.

‘night

Yesterday was a good birthday, probably the best one I’ve ever had — so awesome!

Starting today I’m going on a “semi-fast” to hopefully get rid of this ulcer, because it’s driving me absolutely nuts! I’ll only be eating foods that have been shown to heal ulcers (like bananas and cabbages), but I might go a little off-base with eating some soups. Definitely no pizza or muffins or anything like that. I haven’t decided on an end-date yet, just that I’ll stop when my symptoms go away. So this could be a couple of weeks of extremely modified diet. Which is definitely a good thing.

It was a teensy bit weird today, molly said she was worried about me, I guess because I wasn’t completely stuffing my face like I usually do. I haven’t been feeling all that great, but I’m doing pretty well I think. This year has been waaay too eventful (in a bad way), hopefully that’ll change sometime soon. No more crazy events!

I’m powering through all my work that needs to be done for the design site to launch. I’m finalizing packages now!!!! I’m so excited about everything (finally) getting off the ground, I think this is going to be awesome.

A month or so back, Molly kind of gave me carte blanche as far as doing freelance work for a year to see if it works out. I really don’t want to disappoint her or make her regret that decision. I’ve promised myself that I’ll be healthy enough to go to school this summer, and if I’m not making a living by then, I’ll get a job on campus washing dishes or doing whatever I have to do to help out.

I’m bringing my A-game with this, so if it doesn’t pan out it would really suck. A lot of people make great money doing freelance design stuff, but I’m really worried that I don’t have what it takes to make it. I guess it’s not so bad, because I know it’s more of a means-to-an-end, something I can do while going to school for my degrees.

Yesterday was a good birthday, probably the best one I’ve ever had — so awesome!

Starting today I’m going on a “semi-fast” to hopefully get rid of this ulcer, because it’s driving me absolutely nuts! I’ll only be eating foods that have been shown to heal ulcers (like bananas and cabbages), but I might go a little off-base with eating some soups. Definitely no pizza or muffins or anything like that. I haven’t decided on an end-date yet, just that I’ll stop when my symptoms go away. So this could be a couple of weeks of extremely modified diet. Which is definitely a good thing.

It was a teensy bit weird today, molly said she was worried about me, I guess because I wasn’t completely stuffing my face like I usually do. I haven’t been feeling all that great, but I’m doing pretty well I think. This year has been waaay too eventful (in a bad way), hopefully that’ll change sometime soon. No more crazy events!

I’m powering through all my work that needs to be done for the design site to launch. I’m finalizing packages now!!!! I’m so excited about everything (finally) getting off the ground, I think this is going to be awesome.

A month or so back, Molly kind of gave me carte blanche as far as doing freelance work for a year to see if it works out. I really don’t want to disappoint her or make her regret that decision. I’ve promised myself that I’ll be healthy enough to go to school this summer, and if I’m not making a living by then, I’ll get a job on campus washing dishes or doing whatever I have to do to help out.

I’m bringing my A-game with this, so if it doesn’t pan out it would really suck. A lot of people make great money doing freelance design stuff, but I’m really worried that I don’t have what it takes to make it. I guess it’s not so bad, because I know it’s more of a means-to-an-end, something I can do while going to school for my degrees.

About the ulcer thing: I’ve had issues with ulcers in the past, so no biggy — nothing to really get worried about. No way am I going in for them to do an Endoscopy — that’s where they make you swallow a big greasy tube that has a camera on the end. Ewwwwwwww……

I have been such a lazy bastard here lately, i was supposed to have my site done already (glamrockdesigns.com). I mean, it’s got a basic framework, but no real style. I need to fix that today.

287 as of yesterday!

I’m definitely headed in the right direction!

Blach, I’ve been sick again lately Yesterday Morning I was having a lot of pain, and I was just like Can we have a week where we don’t have a potentially life-threatening medical emergency?!?!! Luckily it was almost nothing (didn’t have to go to the ER). I figured it was a kidney infection, and started taking antibiotics for it. But based on other stuff going on, it looks like it’s an ulcer flaring up. Which is okay, since antibiotics and Pepto is the standard course of treatment for that (since most ulcers are caused by a bacterial infection). So woot on that end! It also explains a couple of odd things like why I’m still losing weight when I’m binging like crazy, and why I’m binging like crazy lately. But I’ve been sleeping a lot lately, I guess because my body is trying to heal itself.

I’ve really been doing a number on my body lately with the stress, all the new medicine plus going on and off the patches in the same month. Once I get down to 270, I can re-start patches, but until then no dice. I don’t like the idea that I could strangle myself with my own throat LOL — that’s just weird.

TOMORROW!
Tomorrow is my birthday — the big 2-2 We got an xbox and some wicked games, so that’s my b-day present

I found this at fatsparrow, and died laughing!

And now for the bad news…. Sorry once again for the slack bastard posting, but on top of the sinus infection….

WARNING! MEN WILL CRINGE WHILE READING THIS!

….I now have a yeast infection from being on the antibiotics for so long, and on top of that, I had suspected I had a bladder infection, and now I know for sure because it’s turned in to a fucking kidney infection. I have to call up my doctor tomorrow and beg and plead for them to fit me in first thing, if at all possible. That’s assuming I survive the night without ending up in the emergency room from the pain. Oh, and then there’s the chest pains, the tingling in my left arm, the heart palpitations and the feeling that I’m being strangled when I lay down to sleep. Nothing to worry about I’m sure.

The Spouse Sparrow is beginning to suspect that the only reason I have come down with all of this at the same time so I can get House assigned as my doctor. He may be right, but it’s entirely subconscious on my part. Honest. I just worry that I’d get that poofter Chase assigned to me. Fuck that shit, bring House in. I’ll demand that he looks at me while I’m naked.

I can just picture it now, me waiting patiently on the clinic exam table, playing with my nipples, as House comes in….

House: “So what seems to be the problem?”

Me: “Well, I started out with a recurring sinus infection, my regular doctor put me on antibiotics, I got a rash under my ginormous diddies, got a cream for that, got a yeast infection, got a bladder infection, and then got a kidney infection.”

House: (raises eyebrow, looks bemused)

Me: “So which would you like to look at first; the diddies, the yeast in my beast, or a urine sample?

House: (turns pale) “I think we’ll let Cameron consult on this one.” (starts to walk out the door)

Me: “Come back here, you coward! What kind of man are you?! Is that cane just for looks, or are you using it to mask your penis issues? Hello? Hey, come back, I have insurance you know!”

Ah well, you get what you pay for.

Well I went to the doctor and they did an EKG (actually a few times because the little stickies kept coming off of me), listened to my lungs and heart, and did this lung volume test to see how well I was breathing. And, much to my astonishment, my lung output was low for my age and height. It was 360-400, when I should be getting 460!!! Totally crazy shit!

So we’re doing a trial of Albuterol to see if I respond well to it, and if I do, then I’ll wind up being on that. I’d sort of discounted asthma as a possibility (what can I say? I’m a pessimist), but it makes about as much sense as anything else.

Phew. I’m feeling much better now, I had a good night’s sleep (and a good day’s sleep ) It was the first time in more than a week that I had a dream…..

I’m calling my doctor today at 9am to see if they can see me today… If they can, then I’ll be taking the train to San Francisco to be seen. They have an EKG there, which is awesome because it means that if they want to take a look at my rhythm they can check it right there instead of sending me to the hospital.

I’m kind of waffling back and forth on whether I’m really concerned about all of this… I mean, I don’t want to die or anything silly like that I’m just wondering how serious this really is. Wow, that’s probably the stupidest thing I’ve ever written in my MPP, just ignore that you guys.

I’m a doofus.

But maybe I’m researching this all wrong. I mean, TIAs are organic, they’re just sort of randomly caused by your body. All of this was caused by my inability to breathe for however long that was (shame I was passed out at the time, I’d love to know how long that was). So maybe it’d be closer to the trauma category than the disease category. [Sorry in advance to anyone who isn't a huge medical geek like me!]

It turns out that anoxia is the term for total absence of oxygen (like when your oxygen supply is cut off), but I’m not getting anything good from that search. Multiple sclerosis came up, but I don’t think I would be having the heart issues, and all this is very sudden (thank god, I SO don’t need MS).