Hey Everyone,
Sorry I haven't broadcasted in a while. My excuse started as just being lazy, but now its evolved into something a little more respectable; I can't really walk. On Tuesday, while giving Jacob a hard time about how the lack of nutritional value in our meals, I noticed my toes were blue. No pain signaled it, I just all of a sudden had a smurf foot. That went away shortly after I elevated my legs slightly, but then I started feeling pins and needles in my feet, legs and hands and EXCRUCIATING pain whenever I tried to walk. I went to the emergency room when, after an hour, sensation still hadn't returned to my feet. As a result of the doctor's INFINITE wisdom I was prescribed the wonder drug Tylenol. After we begged, they also ran blood tests and found nothing. I'm fairly certain that doctor got her medical degree from the internet.
Anyway, I haven't been able to walk since then. Ive stayed in bed almost non stop. Yesterday I had my follow-up appointment with a doctor at 2:20, which wasn't kept because she had called in sick. Again, more begging ensued, and instead of being sent home like everyone else, we were gifted the opportunity to wait in the most uncomfortable chairs in existence till 4:40 to see a nurse practitioner. First they checked my blood pressure and weighed me (stand on the scale was great fun, let me tell you), and they hinted that a bed was available. Alas, the front desk staff ALSO got their degrees from the internet and no bed was actually ready. (Turns out they had listed my chief complaint as 'dizziness' in my file, nothing about it being impossible to walk. Genius.)
The nurse practitioner, when we finally saw her, was abrasive at first. It only took explaining the INFINITE wisdom of the emergency room doctor for her to become very nice. I have tests upon tests in my future, blood work, MRIs, things like that. It could just be a vitamin deficiency or it could be something more serious... Who knows? Until then, I'm literally not going anywhere.
If anyone has a spare cane they don't use anymore, hook a sister up! j/k, it wouldn't actually help.
Ciao
Saturday, January 12, 2008
Lack of motivation followed by paresthesia
Scripted by Norah at 4:52 PM
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2 comments:
:(((
you may have had an episode of Raynauds
http://www.emedicine.com/MED/topic1993.htm
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