Physical Check-In #2

Exactly that! Comfortable in our own skin is priceless.

Do not wish to freak you out, but I did, in fact, have a brain MRI at Good Sam today.

Cue Twilight Zone theme music...

I had to go off lithium too. It also damaged my thyroid but I got lithium toxicity. I was taken off and have been off permanatly. Id suggest that you never go on lithium. in the first place. At the very least you will damage your thyroid.

So strange. What are they looking for?

fern46 and bpcyclist, the most wonderful part of MRIs is when they're over. You got through them alright. I hope the results are some help in some way. Even receiving good results is a help.

Strange and wondrous neurological defects..

No, seriously, looking for whether I have an absent left VIth and weird-damaged VIIth cranial nerves, details of my prefrontal cortex, visual cortex, and limbic systems. Schizophrenia-like gray and white matter changes.

Yay!

Hope yours is fruitful...

Wow that's pretty amazing about your brain!

My brain is super weird.

Since we apparently share a brain maybe they should be looking for the same with me. In my case we're looking for indicators of temporal lobe epilepsy. It may be nothing, but it was time to rule it out if nothing else.

My brain was playing songs nonstop during my EEG. I bet that made it a fun read for the neurologist

Ditto. If nothing else, all of us here can join that club.

My kids are in school today and I had time to myself. I went to the pool and worked out hard. It felt great. I then came home and had a nice chat with my husband without any interruptions. It is nice just having the two of us around for a while. My kids are awesome, but breaks are healthy from time to time.

I also rocked out several chores so I am go I going to relax for a while before carpool.

I have more moving news. Every year, I have this recertification paperwork to do for section 8. Well now right before I move is when I have to do it! Ugh. As if I needed something else on top of moving! This paperwork is all proofs and two inches thick by the time Im ready to mail it back in.

Too bad it was not an fmri. Your temporal lobes would have lit up like a Christmas tree.

6 miles running yesterday and today. Really lovely. My mood is euthymic. So rare for me. And I am out of a med. Maybe this is going to help.

My sister came over for lunch and to also drop something off for me. My fridge is pretty bare since we'll be heading away soon, so I bought manicotti lunch specials from my favorite pizzeria restaurant. I decided to make it all look nice by transferring them from the takeout containers to my own baking dish and salad bowl. My sister was so impressed and said "John (our brother) always tells me that dinner at your house is always so great and that your meals are better than anyone else's! I think he's right."

After my sister said the above, I just smiled and said thanks. Yes, my response sort of implied that I had made today's lunch myself, but I didn't see the need to fess up to buying it. After all, I have made homemade manicotti (even yummier ones) many times in the past.

Then about one minute later, my sister compliments the meal again, so my husband replies "Yes, Alfredo's Pizzeria has always made delicious food!"

You can only imagine the look I gave him. He didn't say that deliberately to out me. He was rather oblivious to the previous exchange.

Whoops! I posted the above in the wrong thread. Sorry!

Today I felt fine, physically, other than my clogged ear. Hubby and I had two (yes two) different covid tests. In the morning, we went to an urgent care center. That was formal (with lots of forms to fill out) with a nurse administering it, and a doctor popping in. The afternoon one was literally done by ourselves, while in our car at a Rite Aide Pharmacy drive through. Why two? Because we must have results within 72 hours of our flight. Timing for getting results is a bit iffy. Tick, tick, tick.

I cheated on my diet today. The good thing is that I threw some leftover cookies in the trash. My sister brought them. They sucked. Definitely not worth the calories. Looking forward to French pastries.

My weekly weigh in today showed that I'm in the next lower 10 pound bracket. Just by one pound but I'll take it! That's 43 pounds down from my highest! Twenty down from a year ago.

Pretty darn sore today, hips and back. Gonna hafta just do yoga and take the day off. Maybe a short little walk.

so my care team have just been on the phone- and apparently, they want to arange for me to have live in care (based on what I've been telling them about
my pain, and the minimal results they are seeing in an improvement)

I was basically told today by the team that my body is on it's way out, and I was told they won't give me anything else- won't try me with anything else,
I should just accept it, and accept the fact that I'm going to need extra care

they said if their's ever any concerns email us, but I'm looking at a waiting list of 6 months to get the kind of care I need, and until then, I just need
to "struggle on"

I am only in my 20;s, and I certainly didn't want to here this at such a young age

but their it is. I guess a new era and a new reality (new normal) is on it's way, a lot sooner than I'd hoped

So sorry. I know you live in constant pain. I imagine this is a lot to take in. Hugs

I'm sorry you're going through this, raging vortex. I do have great hope that someday there will be some treatment that eases some of your pain. It's rough to have to be patient, but it's always worth it, in my view. You are young and you do have a long life ahead of you, surely with better and less painful moments.

I'm not sure about long

if my past attempts are anything to go by..

thank you

had a partial shower today

just did what I could (parts that wern't too painfull)

mostly I was in agony

My ear hurts, probably because of the tmj jaw pain ugh!