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Yay! The daffodils are here. They showed up today.

From Garden 2011-April

I've had some dumb leurgy for almost two weeks, complete with awful headaches on some days. It puts me in a better mood to see the weather getting springlike and Daffodils!

I went to the orthopaedist today. The kneecap is broken. Bummer. I got a new brace. I had to pay for it by debit or credit card. They wouldn't take money. I have an appointment for another x-ray and to see the doctor in five weeks.

I am now all pooped out.

I need new glasses. Has anyone bought bifocals or progressive glasses online? Please post your experience here.

The chest cold seems to be getting better. It is still exhausting, but not quite as much so. I get exhausted because I can't take deep breaths and my nose is clogged a lot of the time. I also get exhausted by the coughing (it's hard to cough properly when you can't take a deep breath). But, it is getting easier, even if mornings are still bad. It also makes it hard to sleep. The hot, humid weather doesn't help the sleeping.

I got this in an email from a client. It's a description of the symptoms of a heart attack in a woman. They are different than the symptoms of a heart attack in a man:

NURSE'S HEART ATTACK EXPERIENCE

I am an ER nurse and this is the best description of this event that I have ever heard. Please read, pay attention, and send it on!

FEMALE HEART ATTACKS ( Read more... )

I had, I believe, a migraine last night. That makes three different kinds of migraines that I get. None of them have the head splitting headaches, thank goodness. This one is vertigo and nausea followed by vomiting. Oh, and a headache. I have only had this kind once before. It lasted a few hours, and then I could go to sleep. I'm not feeling so hot now and I have just taken some AC&C for the headache.

swestrup brought me a bucket, because I simply wasn't going to make it up the stairs to the washroom.

I am really bummed out, because I was going to go to a housewarming party today and at the moment I don't feel well enough to go. I was really looking forward to that party.

If I feel better later, I might go to the party for a short while.

I went to the ophthalmologist today, well, yesterday at this point. I'm not sure what to make of her. I showed her a printout that gives an idea of what I see, when my vision goes weird.
I explained that I see any one of those, depending on how severe the episode is. The last one is what I usually see.

She gave me the eye chart exam. She had me look through a thing with a bunch of tiny holes. She put eye drops. She did a bunch of tests. She put those awful drops that dilate your pupils. She looked in my eyes with some very bright lights shining in my eye.

She said I need glasses. She said it was an eye problem, not a neurological problem, because I could see more clearly through the thing with the tiny holes (pin hole camera effect). She also told me I have glaucoma. Yikes. She gave me a prescription for eye drops. I am only supposed to use them in my right eye. I have an appointment to come back on 31 July so they can see if these drops work on me.

I really don't understand about the glasses fixing the problem. Sure, I need glasses, but the problem varies enough that I'll need four or five different prescriptions.

She said that the skin below my eyes was puffy. That might be age or it might be thyroid. So, I will be having my thyroid levels tested as well as getting tested for diabetes, which could also affect my eyes.

One of the possible side effects of the eye drops is that my eyelashes might get darker, thicker, and longer. She said most women don't mind that one.

hendrikboom gave us a lift to the Jewish General Hospital's emergency room. Thank you again Hendrik. We got there about 23h on Tuesday. I saw the triage nurse and gave her the request for consultation with an ophthalmologist from the doctor at the clinic. She took my pulse, blood pressure, and temperature - all with one nifty machine with digital read outs. She handed me some paper work and told me to register next door. I waited about 20 minutes, while the lady who handled registration spoke on the phone and finished some paper work. Then the big wait began. ( Read more... )

I am waiting for a wretched headache to go away. I took AC&C because ASA isn't strong enough and acetaminophen and ibuprofen don't work on me. I've been having headaches every day since I got sick. I spoke with my doctor. She said it wasn't unusual to have headaches with the flu and flu-like illnesses. It wasn't unusual for the headaches to continue for a while after a person gets well, especially when they have been ill for over a week. Not time to worry yet.

I'm having a hard time not feeling sorry for myself.

Today I finally feel well. Still weak, but well. Part of the feeling crappy was probably due to the very strong, very broad spectrum, antibiotic I was taking. I took the last two pills yesterday and I notice a difference today. Tomorrow I will start eating a lot of yogourt. I think my intestinal flora need some replenishing. I suspect I may need more than one day of recuperating.