It’s been a strange summer. It has been 41 days since I had surgery to drain an abscess that has become a deep tissue infection. American medicine failed me but Istanbul has excellent medical if you are motivated enough to travel to fix intractable problems. And I most surely am motivated. Add in the daily […]
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Day 1661 and Please Let This Be Over Soon
I am hanging onto my sanity by a thread as I round the corner of a surgery I did not expect. Well, I’m eight days out from it, so slightly more than a week. I’m hoping I start to feel gets better soon. It’s my first day without antibiotics and I am already certain I […]
Well it’s been exciting day for me and I may be a little bit high (alas not the fun or good kind) as I just had an abscess surgery in Istanbul. I’m waiting on the lab work for the culture and pathology but from what I saw come out of the abscess it can’t be […]
I’ve been having some side effects from my new biologic injection Bimzelx. Whenever I travel, I do a spate of doctors appointments before I leave so I can be adequately prepared for likely scenarios. Be prepared is my motto. I had gone to a dermatologist a month ago to check on a cyst or swollen […]
I need to do a better job at tying up loose ends. I’ll bring up a change and then forget to do updates until I’ve concluded the experiment. My January health reboot included changing my IL-17 biologic injection (moving from Cosentyx to Bimzlex) in the hopes of reducing my soaring inflammation markers has its last […]
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Day 1627 and 12 Hours
I went to bed yesterday around 3:30 or so. Oops. I could barely write a post as I was struggling to stay awake at all. I did three short paragraphs and tagged it and said good enough. My sleep was not peaceful or restorative but at least it was long. The night before I was […]
Much as the winter has been hard on everyone in my close circle, I don’t particularly want spring to arrive. I’d rather have a pleasant winter follow the unpleasant one instead. I woke up to fresh snowfall this morning after a hard night. Some previous stressor is making my hair shed. Pain has wrapped itself […]