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14
September

I saw the family doctor yesterday. I really like her, and I’ve seen her before, so I’m pretty sure that she is competent. (My history with incompetent doctors causes my trust level to be almost nil these days.) She seemed concerned with the lump. She said the issue might be due to possible ulceration at the connections made during the gastric bypass surgery. (Isn’t that lovely?) She is sending me for an ultrasound for it tomorrow to make sure that if it isn’t an ulcer, then she finds out what it is.

Tomorrow is also the day that I will get my beloved laptop back, which is aggravatingly funny. Why? I was told on Friday it would be here Tuesday. Of course, the second person that I talked to this afternoon said that the shipping policy for Dell states plainly that it takes 7 to 10 days for a product to go from me to them and back to me. I knew that, but I also know that being told that it will be here one day and it not being here makes me a bit annoyed. When I get annoyed, I get annoying. Also, why would it take over a week for a computer to be delivered? If you use FedEx Express, then it should take 1 day (or less) to get to Houston, then another 1 day (or less) to get back to me. What honestly takes 5 days to repair. As far as I know, when my dad used to do hard drive installs and re-installs on our old Tandy computers, it took a very short period of time (between 15 minutes and a couple of hours, depending on the frustration level, cussing involved, etc.). I grew up having at least 1 computer in my house. Since I was 2 or 3, I’ve seen repair and upgrade jobs. It would only take a longer period if a product wasn’t in stock. I have a hard time believing that a 500 GB hard drive is that hard to find in Texas. Maybe 1 to 2 days, but 5? No. No! NO! This is a level of screwed up that even George Bush would marvel at.

Oh, sweet and nice doctor yesterday was shocked and amazed by yours truly’s über periods. I don’t really know why. Irregular and heavy periods are really not as uncommon as people think. So many people these days are either PCOS-ing or Endometriosis-y that I wouldn’t find it surprising that mega periods are affecting anyone. If you take into account my family history, my weight, my own health history, etc., then the idea that I would have a period that lasts around a month or more and is extremely heavy is not nearly as surprising as the idea that they’re shorter and lighter. I’m surprised that she didn’t call in some kind of hormone treatment or refer me to some OB/GYN that specializes in this kind of thing.

She did do one thing that was completely unexpected. She prescribed Polytrim eye drops. Admittedly, my eyes are itchy, but that is pretty much always true for me these days. They have some red marks in them, but that too is normal. It was a bit unusual when I went to the pharmacy yesterday to get my mom’s diabetes and blood pressure medicines and found out that those drops had been called in.

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One More Day

12
September

Tomorrow, I finally see a doctor for the stomach lump. I know that I had planned on having other doctors check it in the past, but appointments don’t always go the way you want them to go.

I’m actually quite happy that the appointment is tomorrow. I kind of wish it could be today, if that were possible. My appetite has virtually disappeared. I eat once a day most days now (and not much when I eat), with maybe 1 or 2 very small snacks. Any amount of food makes me feel like I’m stuffed from a huge meal. I can feel like my sugar or something is dropping, but I can’t really satisfy that issue without causing pain or discomfort with the other part.

I was thinking about doing one of those 30 day memes in this blog, but I’m not sure if I want to go through with that kind of thing or not. I could probably do one and schedule all the posts, just so that they make sure to post. I guess I’ll decide if I want to do that or not later.

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Under My Feet

6
September

I haven’t really been online a lot this weekend. That’s mainly due to heightened anxiety/stress. I think that’s due to the beginning of football season. Around the time my father woke up on Saturday morning, I started giving myself my headache medicine. It kept me asleep for around 12-13 hours. I ended up waking up during Auburn’s halftime, which meant I got to experience rants full-on. I had missed the rants about the teams that he didn’t even care about, which was good. I had wished I could make it through the Auburn ones, too, but they would have been harder to miss. Auburn ended up winning, which was good. If they had lost, then I probably would’ve started dosing myself into unconsciousness again. (I’ve often used medicines to induce sleep. It’s how I managed to sleep while I was having major sleep issues during middle and high school.)

I started crying sometime in the early morning hours on Sunday. I just felt like I was ready to scream, throw things, etc. I started composing a very long letter to my parents about how I felt like I needed to be taken more seriously. (This was what I used to do when I was a little kid–if I needed something or if I felt like I needed to apologize, I’d write a letter.) Well, the ink ran out of the pen and I got upset and threw it across the room. It barely made a sound when it hit Willow’s chair, but it was loud enough that my mom woke up. We ended up talking, and I complained about the thing on my stomach, which she checked out a little closer this time. She was surprised because it was burning up, and I told her that that was normal. (It is hot most of the time, but it gets worse in the middle of the night [around 3:30-5:00 AM] and it starts hurting worse.) I have an appointment to get it checked out with my family medicine doctor, but I have honestly lost faith in most doctors lately. Yeah, they send me for the tests, but the longer this whole saga goes on, the more dismissive they get. (Half the time, the results are never relayed to me.) And with the cardiologist refusing to even suggest anything that could help the extra beats and tachycardia, it just seems to be stupid to go through massive amounts of tests.

Speaking of tests and medical records, I think that is unfair that if I want to access my medical records, I have to pay fees. (Where is Files & Records when you need her?) If I want a copy of my blood work, I have to pay per page of the test, which can be 20-or-so pages. The doctors, who have a lot more money, don’t have to pay anything. They can get paper copies or faxes or computer access without paying anything. All that they really need is a signature from me to share the records. (If they’re in the Huntsville Hospital system and the record is on my hospital file, they don’t even need my signature.) All these people can see whatever they want about me, but I don’t get to see my own file. (At the Mental Health Center, I don’t even get the opportunity to pay for the records to see what’s been said. I can have my therapist or doctor or one of the nurses read it to me, though.)

I’m a little frustrated with the Social Security Administration. When I started on SSI and SSDI, I was told that if I started paying $200+ a month in household expenses, then my SSI check would be increased by that much. After I got the first check, I began doing just that. I’ve told the SSA about this twice. I filled out lots of paperwork the first time–nothing happened. I called again in May or June (or possibly early July)–I haven’t even gotten paperwork or anything that says that anything will happen. I get that the government doesn’t really have lots of money right now, but it seems like they could at least hold up their end of the 1/3 reduction rule.

Anyway, right now I’m dealing with an earache and headache that my mom told me was probably just TMJ. I agreed at first, but after a while, my throat began hurting. I would say it was allergies, but I know that’s not likely.

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