Wednesday Update

First doctor's appointment today went pretty well! The PA went over all of my labs with me that were drawn in the hospital. Everything looks normal-which leads them to believe that my birth control is more than likely what caused my clot. I am still running a low grade fever which was weird to me. But I was able to talk to her about all of my weird side effects that I wrote about in my last post, and she made me feel a lot better about those. It's just crazy how much your brain controls everything you experience. Because of the location of my clot, so many of my senses are being affected. Literally everything I hear sounds so much different than before. So weird and so hard to explain to someone. And I really have got to stop running into things. You should have seen me with the cart at Kroger last night. Comedy.

After seeing the 1st doctor today, I had to make an appointment with my neurologist. When I called, the lady told me his first available appointment was November 31st. I kind of expected him to be pretty backed up but when she told me this I was not a happy camper. I am trying to get all of my major appointments done before next Wednesday when I go back to work. I just cannot afford to be off any more than I have already have planned to be. Long story short, I talked to the nurse for a while and she squeezed me in for Tuesday. I told her I loved her and she said "ok...don't forget to bring your insurance cards"--haha. What can I say, you always know where you stand with me. Speaking of which, my new UK insurance starts tomorrow. I pray there will be no issues in me switching coverage and that I do not have to deal with a bunch of incorrect bills, etc. I'm pretty positive the clot has taken away most of the patience that existed in me, which was sadly not much to begin with. I find myself taking deep breaths and counting down backwards from 10 frequently these days.

Last night and this morning around 5am I was in some significant pain. When I feel a headache coming on I panic and think- what if this never goes away? like the time I had a headache for 5 days? I have found that when I do get head pain, it lasts for about 45 minutes tops. But I have to lay down and rest if I want to feel better that quickly. I hope this decreases with time because I will obviously not have the luxury of laying down and taking a nap once I start back to work. I get so mad and worked up when the headaches come that I probably make it worse. Gotta stop that. One thing I wish I still had from the hospital was an adjustable bed. The whole time I was there, I kind of slept half sitting up- if that makes sense. I feel a lot of pressure in my head when I change levels, like going from sitting up to laying down flat. Laying down flat is not good for me right now. That is when i feel the most pressure. But if you know me, you know I am a very hard sleeper. I start the night off sleeping propped up on my back with the intention of staying that way, and wake up on my stomach laying completely flat. No bueno. I am thinking of getting some big body pillows in efforts of limiting my ability to move after I fall asleep.

After I was done with all the doctor stuff today I went to the bank and Qdoba. My life is so exciting I know. My appetite is back for sure and I cant decide if it is a good or bad thing because I really do not get much activity these days. At all. I feel like my butt is already bigger no joke. Probably not a good thing that we only had about 15 trick-or-treaters tonight because there is SO MUCH CANDY up in here.

Going to relax tonight and not over do it like I did last night. Didn't make it over to BSHS today like I wanted to. I decided it's probably best that I only do one big activity per day and today it unfortunately had to be the doctor. We had to wait for a really long time there and it ended up being a 3 hour ordeal. Ew. Going to try to go tomorrow after I pick up some things at the office. I miss my people!

Goodnight & Happy Halloween everyone! :) Do not make the bad choice of watching any of the Paranormal Activity movies or you will never sleep again. Never.