Two Health Updates

Monday:

So, yeah, I've been really sick. I've been having weak spells where I can barely move, I've got a fever, I'm achey, I'm shakey, I have ammonia in my brain plus about a billion other things. I've been seing my doctor a lot and we even went up to Omaha. I'm seeing my chiropractor every other day. It sounds like the doctors WANT to hospitalize me, but they don't have a reason that insurance will buy yet. Omaha is getting a copy of the CD of my CAT scan tomorrow and that'll give them more information.

In the meantime I'm lying in bed sleeping or making origami. Or just plain staring at the ceiling. Thank goodness for nurse Velvet and the rats.

Tuesday:

I was told if I got a really bad "weak spell" (one where my heart beat goes all mushy and my breathing gets shallow) I should go to the ER. So go to the ER we did last night when I had a weak spell and aches all over that even heavy duty narcotics couldn't take care of. The doctor didn't really understand what I was experiencing even though I tried to describe it in many different ways. Nevertheless, I was given more pain med, got an EKG, blood cultures and urine sample test done. So far they are unconclusive. So far. I'm also wearing one of those 24-hour heart monitor thingys.

Also in the works: tests for my 1-year-on-the-transplant-list checkup and seeing the pulmonologist about my breathing problem. Oh, and the colonoscopy :(

UNMC should have gotten my CAT scan today and I called them but they never called back.

My doctors are being exceptionally brainless at the time I need them most to help me. Add to that the fact that I'm a medical mystery.