Do you ever think back and say to yourself I remember where I was where...?
Last week Lil' Miss M was talking to me and she sneezed right on my face. I told her, "Cover your mouth, I'm going to get sick". And there it was! As Monday came to and end I felt bad. This new finger/arm thing along with my face hurting and I was starting to feel sick to my stomach. Gross! I did talk to the scheduler from Dr. M's office at UCLA. She had to talk my into making the appointment. Here were are, almost 9 months ago I was told about this time, but here I am. In the middle of November J, M and I will take a small family vaca over to California to see what they have to say. I mean he is the BEST of the BEST and that is what I wanted, but I'm so scared. We decided on UCLA because all of the doctors from all of the other institutes came from there. I don't really want to fly, and it's only a 4 1/2 hour drive. I do see my neurologist again before I go- but he's only going to tell me if he sees something else.
I woke up on Tuesday and was so sick. My throat was burning, I had the chills and diarrhea. I would never mention this but on this day it sucked to have this. Later in the afternoon I was scheduled for my two MRI's. I was in the bathroom all morning. I got up and decided to put some make-up on and I would feel better that didn't work. I drove to the Imaging Center early and was still in the bathroom. YUCK!! I looked in the mirror as I was washing my hands and thought, 'Is this my last day? Is this how your last day on earth feels?' A lady comes out and calls my name. I follow her back dreading the next 2 hours. I change out of my top and into a gown, then go into the the room. I told her I haven't been feeling good the last couple of days. She has me get up on the table and lay down. She gets my head situated and I start to go into the tube. She goes to the other room and I press the panic button, I thought I was going to get sick. So poor her she pulls me out and I sit up. I didn't get sick but I was feeling bad, bad because I was sick and bad because I was a pain in the butt. She was so nice and so patient. She let me sit there for a few and got a washcloth for my head. I laid back down and just tried to breathe. We started with my neck so I was able to keep the cold washcloth on my eyes and head. I was able to get up between each change to go to the bathroom. It ended up to be just over 2 hours and I left. It was almost time to get M so I went to the school. As I sat in my car I felt worse. I decided to just get her out 15 minutes early. As soon as we got home I went upstairs and got a washcloth and laid down not moving until I went to bed.
I woke up today and took M to school and headed to the doctors (I called on my way to the imaging center yesterday). I was sit feeling bad and stuffy. I saw the nurse practitioner and she said I had a sinus infection, left ear infection and maybe a mild stomach virus. I just had to laugh...because why wouldn't I get sick? I headed to the pharmacy and by the end of the day I was stuffy, but the stomach thing was kind of gone (oh thank god!).
On another note, yesterday, when J got home he noticed that there was a voice mail. It was from a man that was going to help me with my Social Security. Again today when I got home there was another voicemail from him updating me. Thank goodness. This was the result from a letter that I wrote the State Senator in August. It's at the federal level now but this man works for the first guy and is going to see this through. Aaaaahhhhhh! At least something good is coming from this.
I met 2 very nice people over the past two days. The lady from the imaging center and the guy from the Legislative Council Bureau. It started from a sneeze and will end with progress in all of my work.
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