Beth ----I bet you could hear my Awwwww all the way in New York....OMG she is GEORGEOUS.....those eyes, those pouty lips - that face....those toes! What a love! Thank you so much for my updated picture. (prints out for desk at home)
Mamaof5 - She never said -I read through what you posted and OMG....what a quagmire of germs. She just kinda made a face but never elaborated as to if it were bacterial or viral. I'm guessing it's not the very bad one as I dont' have to come back and see her and oral antibiotics are the course of treatment. She said that she was glad I had chosen to have the other blood tests done that day as my insurance ran out on 6/31 - because normally? Since I am such a hard stick and they take blood out of my hand with a butterfly? I get stuck enough in the hand - it usually takes a few pokes to get enough blood and it doesn't flow enough with one stick so they end up digging around and it's very painful. The last kid was awful. Some can do it - he couldn't. I have no veins in my arms that don't blow. I get any contrast in my foot and usually am so lucky I get an anestetitian(spelling is so off there).
So when she got the test results from their on site lab from the first batch of wah hoo? She came in and said "I'd like to do some more tests and of course lists them off, but you may as well have quoted the periodic table to me in Latin - I mean why they do this is beyond me - she could have just said "I need to run more tests." and stopped. I'm not a nurse, I'm not medically inclined, I am at this point clueless except I have some idea of what Strep is - Bad sore throat, and Mono - okay son had that and he was sleepy and pukey, and lost a boatload of weight and the doctor told me about it then - but that was months ago....and then tetanus - well I kept thinking you had to have a rusty nail, and like you said - earthy or poopy or dirty. And of course my nemesis - drinking fountains - plague givers. So when I got the sore throat, stiff neck, achey joints, severe muscle aches (and I mean wow), the severe fatigue, and all the other little things? I figured it was maybe the flu or I (actually laughingly told my Mom I got lock jaw).
Well - you don't stab your hand in a second hand store and laugh about it to MY Mom. no sir. I explained that yes I cleaned it, and treated it and bandaided it - and covered it - you know - all the things to get your Mom off your back and satisfy her germo-meter. But when I sleep for that many hours? And I have a stiff neck and I can't move and I can't stay awake? Huge red flags. I'm probably the H in Dudes ADHD. Politely they say I'm just that side of very active.
So when the doctor said "I need more blood and you can do it when you come back or today?" I said "Well we better do it today - I won't have insurance come next week after Wed." she said "I'm glad to hear that - and they took me back to the lab. And .......stabbed around in my other hand for 20 minutes. So when I got there yesterday to the doctors I went to the lab - no jabbing boy - nice new girl, hit the spot, did whatever test it is they do for check ups, I went to the room and that's when the doctor told me that she was very glad I had taken the 2nd blood test. She said she had a sneaking suspicion that I was (techno-babble) for meningitis. I just kinda sat there and then I said "So that's bad?" and she said "Well it's not good, and fortunately for you the antibiotic we have you on for the tetanus is the same one I would have given you for the meningitis and that other female infection, but we're not gonna go there." - she said laughing. I'm sure I blushed from ingorance.
Then she asked me how the SOMA was working. I laughed and said "Well I've seen every rotten movie at 2:00 AM." she said "Ah it's having a paradoxial effect." I said "Yeah valium does that to me too - but when I took that I had a super clean house!" In hindsite (and thinking about all the packing ahead? I wish I had kept my mouth SHUT and asked for valium." No Mstang I will not come to your house if you get them.
So I left and my Mom called - poor thing.....I swear ONE DAY I will stop with "I'm fine." and learn to just let that be the extent of my words, but nooo I had to say "Well now she says I have meningitis." To which there was a silent pause then a WHAT???? and DO YOU KNOW WHAT THAT IS? and "OMG, Why aren't you in the hospital?" So now I'm thinking.....WTH is meningitis? I told her I needed to go, got home look it up and I'm thinking OMG it's not THAT (insert freak out music) and I'm thinking WTH.....WHERE HAVE I BEEn----WHO THE H have I been around that I got ALL THIS CRUD? Seriously HOW is it possible that I got THIS sick, THIS quick....and from WHO? WHAT?
I really don't understand. I mean I kept thinking - OH WOW.....this is going to be really expensive, but she told me that I wouldn't need a follow up and that my lymph nodes in my neck and under my arms aren't swollen any more. She did say my allergies are acting up to get some allergy medications. I laughed and said I am on so much dope now that I could open a pharmacy.
3 antibiotics, 2 anti-depressants, 2 muscle relaxers, 1 anti-seizure for headaches, 2 water pills, 1 diabetes medications, and prescription face cream....lol.
well there ya go-----that's healthy isn't it? LOL. Ooh and that 2nd muscle relax........zzzzzzzzzzz
yeah - it's like that.
The antibiotics she has me on are (and I said Flagyl maybe that's right and this is the generic but its spelled) metronidaol 500 mg. the other is augmentin 875 mg 2 a day and i got zipsor 2x/day and amrix at night only before bed. that's the one that knocks me out - it's like flexeril plus.
I do feel better today - We got out and went to the grocery store, but that's about the extent of my walking....I hate sleeping.....detest it. But apparently I have no choice over it. I'm sleeping around 12-13 hours a day with or without my consent. (can you say control freak boys and girls?) and MAN am I a crab. WOW. It's like I could mow the lawn just by looking at it with my laser vision.....(looking.......) (Lookiing........) okay well the grass has decided not to cooperate at this time.....but it will bend to my will) tomorrow.....when I make DF get out the tractor. MWHA HA HA.....you're going DOWN lawn.....DOWN I tell ya....like a bad weed.....hhahhahaha.
Lord I need a nap.
Nice to know you are well informed. I appreciate your expertise. 
I haven't been around much lately and am shocked to hear about you being so sick! Please take it easy - REST, REST, REST, etc... !!!
