Fated Strife

Well it’s been pretty much uneventful since my last post.

I saw Star Trek: First Contact the other day on the Sci-fi channel, I thought it was a pretty good movie, though I’m particularly enjoying the older shows/movies a bit more. If it’s got Dr. “Bones” McCoy in it, then its good.
I also saw A Scanner Darkly, it was interesting, I enjoyed the style it was made in. I’d like to find a copy to add to my collection.

I got a message from Angel on Saturday but we didn’t get to talk and I guess he wasn’t able to get on today.

My breakouts on my legs and feet seem to have subsided for the most part, the doctor placed me on 2 new meds to try to help with the itching as I had some good scratch marks all over my legs. One was Triamcinolone acetonide lotion to use on my legs to reduce inflammation and such. The other being Hydroxyzine(Vistaril), it is an H1 receptor antagonist antihistamine. Thus it would reducing the itching and such, but it also offers itself as an antiemetic (so it could help with my nausea), anxiolytic (reduces anxiety), and also shows weak analgesic properties. So hopefully this will help some at least to where I don’t want to itch so much.

My back has been in quite a bit of pain the past few days, today was pretty bad at some times, especially in the area where the spine and hips meet. I’m really hoping we can find something that can keep the pain under control when it does this (as my Tramadol does nothing for it) or something to just get it to not bother me at all. Wishful thinking I guess.

My mind has went blank now so I guess this concludes another post.. Until next time!

Also, thank you to those who participated in the polls I have mentioned in the past few posts.

Tags: a scanner darkly, Angel, back_pain, bones, doctor, dr. mccoy, itching, movie, movies, nausea, pain, star trek, steroid, tramadol, vistaril, vomiting

Well this past week has sucked pretty bad.
Did get to talk to Angel for a good hour one day, but some of the plans we had aren’t going to work right now and such but he says he still wants to get this to workout even if it takes more time.

Had to go to Sullivan’s office Wednesday for my iron shot but not before I started puking blood (again) so got in to see Bobbie and decided its upper endoscopy time. I was placed on clear liquid diet for Thursday to keep insides from getting too much hurt or something. I’m scheduled to have it done on the 4th of April at 6am. Hope it goes well and can figure out the source of the bleeding this time.

I spent most of my evening today in the ER again. Migraine got a bit out of control and was feeling pretty cruddy. Got back there talked to doc for a min he left, called my mom to come get me, they came in about a minute after I got the phone and gave me the shot (which isn’t like them, they usually wait to do it until your ride shows up). The Nubain/vistaril combo they give for those things actually make my pain worse. I’ve noted it several times and last time they said they would put a note saying no to nubain for me but they gave it to me anyway. Nurse came back in ready to kick me out and asked if it was any better, saying no it wasn’t she got all snitty and left. Waited and waited (my mom had been there 20 or so minutes by then) then she came back and gave me an injection of Dilaudid and promethazine. That helped a great deal, then the doctor wanted to get a CT done (just had one a few weeks back) since it was weird that it didn’t start helping the migraine (the nubain that is) so I had to sit there and explain it that it had always done that when they gave me nubain. Big mess, finally said I didn’t want the CT done and was able to stagger out and leave. That nurse’s hatefulness to not only me but to my mom also made me pretty mad, there was no need for her to have acted that way as we didn’t do anything to cause her any frustration, we were probably nicer than any other patient in the ER that night.

Oh well..

Tags: Angel, dilaudid, migraine, nubain, promethazine, upper_endoscopy, vistaril