Better - A Little

The adventure continues. The B12 is helping. I am clearer and can communicate without feeling like I am talking through a cloudy window. However, the tingling and burning that started the day after the big Cat Room clean up still continues. It is bearable now but makes me believe again that I have a pinched nerve or done some kind of damage to my neck on the right side which has caused most of this. I have an appointment on Tuesday afternoon with a chiropractor following my second B12 injection. I thought, "why not, what could it hurt?" So we will see how that goes. I have also finally worn by new bifocal glasses for more than a couple of hours and am starting to get use to wearing them. I just couldn't make myself get use to them while I had all of these other issues going on.

Have to start cleaning and getting ready for a visit from my mother in law and a trip to Chattanooga to take a river cruise, visit the aquarium and creative museum with my little girl and my wonderful husband also. I think the time away will help too! If not, they have ice there if I need it.

Below is one of my favorite songs for when I feel better. (When the feet are burning and you still are feeling better, that is strange!)

NORMAL

All of my tests are NORMAL! What the heck! I still feel like I am burning in my head, the feet and hands are always tingly and this is normal. I think NOT! Sorry for the yelling but this is getting crazy. Today my primary care basically said we don't really know what to do and it will eventually go away. They said that my B12 test was normal but on the low end so they can stick me with B12 injections for 4 weeks and then monthly and SEE if that works. Nothing like being a human guinea pig! I am currently taking a monster mult vitamin, Zyrtec for allergies, Iron supplements per my gyno, birth control to work on the possible ? hormonal issue, garlic twice a day just because I think if I have some kind of infection that I will kill it with garlic or at least keep ugly vampires away. The good looking ones can visit, Jen could use a cute new boyfriend.

Anyway, I think I should now go the route of hypnosis or see if I can astral project so I can get out of this icky body. Or maybe I need to have an exorcism, it could be some evil spirit has invaded my body and trying to get me out. Yes, you do start thinking about these things after awhile.

Deep breath...........

Omh..........................

Ok, I have a wonderful husband, a cutie for a daughter and a super sister along with some great friends and family. I will be ok. One day I will be 70 and think that this was really not that bad!

I love you my friends and family for putting up with me!

Electric Shock ..Thought It Had Been Outlawed

Yes nerve conduction testing involves electricity, needles and loads of fun for everyone! It began with a lovely woman named Deanna and I mean this because she was really nice otherwise I would have slapped her. She successfully provided electric shock to all of my extremities about 50 times. No I did not count them because I was too busy shaking. After she completed her testing, I then waited for 20 minutes. I think the shocking caused the burning to start for me again because I was nice and toasty by the time the second person came in. She did some manual testing with a tuning fork and went hmmm alot. Then she decided to do some deeper testing which luckily I had read about online or I would have decked her. Folks, as you know if you have read this blog, I have had acupuncture and this started off in a similar fashion. However, after she put in the needles she then proceeded to move them around which was not exactly relaxing. She dug in my neck so hard that it took 24 hours for my neck to even come close to normal again. She said that the test really found nothing but that the manual exam with the simple tuning forks shows that I have neuropathy. That means I have some messed up nerves - SHOCKING! Who knew?!?!? Anyway, I looked up more on it after I left and successfully depressed myself because I have either diabetes, some dread infection or my hormones are completed messed up. Nothing really good about the neuropathy thing! Anyway, I decided to take myself to lunch and had some great Japanese food and then went home and watched Surrogates which made me feel much better about myself. Later I rearranged Erynn's room and firmly decided that I will handle whatever it is because I am going to live long enough to see Erynn finish school, get married and have kids. If I believe it, it will happen!

This Too Is Becoming Normal

Since I am normal based on all the blood work then I guess this is the new normal for me. Yesterday was a good day yet tiring. I spend the day with my sister and brother tiling the counters of my Aunt's kitchen. First day in weeks that I was not burning and it kind of freaked me out. However, by days end it was coming back and I have been like a blow torch all day today. Right now I am logging this information while sitting here with a unique little ice pack called Peas because it is designed like a frozen bag of peas so it can conform to whatever you need it to. I am at least cooling off but eventually like all ice packs it will lose its coolness in the face of the fire before it and I will have to place it back in the freezer so it can rest. Wish I could just sit in a freezer.

It was good to spend time with my family and watch my sweetie daughter wear out all of the elders in the family with her need for constant entertainment. By the way, Doctor #3 has given in to my constant harassment and has decided that I might be perimenopausal and is putting me on some low grade estrogen pills. I can not start taking them for a couple of weeks but at least it is something. I go on Tuesday to have the nerve conduction testing done and will let you know how that goes.

Another summer of joy! Last summer I thought I had horrible heartburn only to find out it was a bad gall bladder that we finally removed in October. I am going to start praying now that next summer is less medical!