Thank you all for the well wishes and the interest in my story! Sorry it took me so long to let you know what happened, but things actually got a bit more interesting after I posted that picture.
First, my weekend was fairly great. I went hiking twice with my mom and we had fun. Got a lot of my errands done, got flirted with by the creepy Wal-Mart checkout guy, made my soynuts. The soynuts turned out great, but I need to cook them a bit longer on the next batch. I was afraid of burning them, so they’re still [ ... ]
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03
Feb 2009
Thank you all for the well wishes and the interest in my story! Sorry it took me so long to let you know what happened, but things actually got a bit more interesting after I posted that picture.
First, my weekend was fairly great. I went hiking twice with my mom and we had fun. Got a lot of my errands done, got flirted with by the creepy Wal-Mart checkout guy, made my soynuts. The soynuts turned out great, but I need to cook them a bit longer on the next batch. I was afraid of burning them, so they’re still [ ... ]
Category: Health, Weigh-Ins
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01
Feb 2009
I had a fairly decent weekend, but since I have to be up early tomorrow to have my permanent crowns put back on, and am currently sleepy from hydrocodone, I will leave you with this image to show how my weekend ended. Hope they don’t expect me to type too fast tomorrow at work! And of course I’m right-handed. I’ll hopefully be able to post the details tomorrow.
Category: Health
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30
Jan 2009
I was driving into Kansas City this afternoon and was completely in awe of the sun shining off of downtown. I think that the fact that it was somewhat of a cloudy day made it just that much more beautiful, but the sun was shining in full force from behind me and reflected off of many of the buildings. Winter is usually a pretty dreary time in KC. One thing I always try to do is to look for the beauty in the little things. Those every day moments that when you first glance at them seem like nothing special, but [ ... ]
Category: Health, Life in General
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27
Jan 2009
I just got home from visiting my new ENT and am not sure what to think. He was nice enough and seemed pretty thorough, but I’m still questioning a lot.
Not only did he do a physical examination of everything from my shoulders up, but I also had an ear pressure check and a hearing test. Interestingly, I seem to have some nerve hearing loss in my right ear.
So his diagnosis is that I actually possibly have two conditions going on right now. The first is the one I mentioned, patulous eustachian tube. He even brought it up without me mentioning [ ... ]
Category: Health
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26
Jan 2009
Oh my doctor is soooooo frustrating. Sometime I just wanna smack him. He obviously didn’t know a whole lot about situations like the one I’m having with my ear. In fact, after I repeated multiple times that being congested doesn’t make it worse and in fact often makes the symptoms a lot better, he still mentioned putting me on nasal decongestants. WHAT?!? I tell you that it gets better when I’m congested and you want me to go on a decongestant to what? Intentionally make it worse? Uh-huh. He then suggested that I try and make my ear pop more [ ... ]
Category: Health
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19
Jan 2009
You’re all probably sick of hearing about my latest medical woes, but I’m still on a mission to figure out what the heck is going on with me. My theory on sleep apnea has been thrown out. At least in my opinion. I taped my sleeping for three days and didn’t hear anything, so I apparently don’t snore. Hallelujah! Of course, it would have been nice if that had been the answer. At least something can be done about it.
Side note: Hanlie, I haven’t forgotten about the book you suggested! I plan on ordering it from Amazon very soon!
Wanna hear my latest [ ... ]
Category: Health
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15
Jan 2009
When I went to see my primary care doctor on Monday, and told him the meds were making no ground on the exhaustion/anxiety, I could just about see him mentally throwing his hands up in the air. I specifically asked him if he thought that there could be some other medical cause for it all and he said, “No, I don’t think so.” Well, phbbbt to that. I do see my endocrinologist on Tuesday and will go to have more bloodwork (to double-check results) tomorrow. It was kind of funny to hear him say (after looking at my chart) that [ ... ]
Category: Health, Psychology
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07
Jan 2009
Through the fog of my fatigue, I’ve slowly been trying to catch up on some blog-reading – I know I’m way, way behind. And while I care about each and every one of you, I just haven’t had the energy to keep up lately. I’m trying to get caught up, though, because I want hear all about what each of you have been up to. So I am sorry if I haven’t been as supportive lately. I do think about each of you often.
I did read a couple of blogs today that really struck a chord with me. The first [ ... ]
Category: Health, Psychology, Weight Watchers / Weight Loss
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12
Dec 2008
I hope everyone had a happy Friday! Mine has been decent so far, but I’m still at work, so that could all change.
I wanna know whose bright idea it was to have me schedule a doctor’s appointment before work on a Friday afternoon? Huh? Huh? I know I didn’t say anything, but you all should have known and said, “Hey, Missy, are you nuts?” Okay, it really wasn’t that bad, but I was kicking myself when it was time to get up since I had to get up two hours early. It also wasn’t fun dodging all of [ ... ]
Category: Health
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17
Nov 2008
I know that my posts lately have been less than cheerful, and less than full of positive weight loss joy, and I apologize for that. I’ve been a pretty miserable person over the past week, and it’s hard to spread sunshine in such a situation.
I’ve mentioned multiple times the fight that I’ve had with nausea due to the medication that my doctor put me on at my request. I’ve tried not to mention what the one that was making me sick was, but now I figure what the hell. My doctor actually started me on two medications. One that I don’t [ ... ]
Category: Health
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13
Nov 2008
I wrote a few days ago about how my doctor recently prescribed a new medication for me. I started taking it very early Sunday morning and ever since I’ve felt like about 13 shades of hell. 13 was a random number picked for the sole reason that it is a historically unlucky number and I know I’ve been feeling like a lot of shades of hell. Everything I’ve read about this medication has told me that this feeling will go away, but that it could take up to three months for that to happen. Ack! I don’t know if I’m [ ... ]
Category: Food, Health
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04
Nov 2008
Since I’m currently holding my breath while watching the election coverage, I thought this would be a good chance to update my blog. All I have to say at this point: Stupid Kansas People! ) Said with total love, of course.
I weighed in today and once again, I’m proof that miracles can happen. As I said, I did some pretty strenuous hiking on Saturday, but I don’t see how that could have balanced out all of the junk I ate. I was attacked again by that fun size candy bar monster, who was also joined by that little Papa [ ... ]
Category: Health, Weigh-Ins
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30
Oct 2008
I posted (well, vented) at the beginning of October about my health insurance company and their program to deduct $20 from our monthly premiums next year. In order to get the deduction, we had to have a health risk appraisal done (blood pressure, glucose, cholesterol, height, weight, etc.) and then fill out an online risk assessment. The third requirement was to call a telephonic health coach (supposedly a registered nurse). I’ve ranted several times about the whole thing, and I still don’t think it’s right. It seems like an invasion of privacy to me, but for $20 a month I [ ... ]
Category: Health
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20
Oct 2008
No, I haven’t been drinking, but if you’d met me on Saturday, you might have thought so. I think that that was the funniest part of the day for me. Well, it’s funny now. It wasn’t so incredibly funny at the time. I had the hiccups pretty much ALL day. It drove me insane. Hiccups for me are not an enjoyable experience, but are they really for anyone? Mine are alway incredibly loud and somewhat painful from the attempts at keeping them in. Usually, I can get them to go away if I calm down and slow my breathing, and/or [ ... ]
Category: Health
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06
Oct 2008
I have lost my mind. I posted a few days ago about how I hadn’t really been tracking everything this week, but that I had been able to avoid a binge. As Diana already knows, that lasted for about 3 minutes after I hit the “Publish” button on my post. I’ve been eating like crazy ALL weekend. We’re talking everything in sight, and it’s really frightening me how often this is starting to happen again.
I absolutely, positively, have got to nip this in the bud NOW. No more. Binging for me is a compulsion. (Hmm, perhaps that’s why they call [ ... ]
Category: Health, Weight Watchers / Weight Loss
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