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<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\nThe basic run down comes to this: The B-12 shots I was given didn’t do anything. The medical records I painstakingly acquired were not only taken from microfiche but were handwritten. This caused great amusement and she had to say sorry, she didn’t think it’d be that useful as it was impossible to read. Well… I can’t say I blame her. Maybe a blank slate is better anyway. I mean I looked them over myself and wow, the lengths those doctors went through NOT to diagnose me with fibromyalgia was phenomenal. “Patient has fibro-like symptoms.” If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck… but I digress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\nIn\naddition to this my last battery of test results came in. Aggravatingly they\ndidn\u2019t say much. Shockingly after raising animals and playing with livestock\nfor thirty-some-odd years I didn\u2019t have a single parasite. I also didn\u2019t have\nany healthy gut bacteria. Like\u2026. None. All dead. Like Wal-Mart goldfish. So I\nwas asked to try some probiotics which I will happily do. My food allergy tests\ncame out negative except for a TINY one-point into the positive \u201cvery low\u201d\nwheat allergy. Even so I was encouraged to go wheatless for at least a month to\nsee if I could get anything to improve. OK. Will do. My Lyme test, the correct\none, stated I didn\u2019t have any traces of the disease in my system which is\nanother shock knowing how many ticks I tend to bring home playing in the woods\nin the warmer months. And my hormone panel? WELL. I think I fucked it up because\nit was supposed to be on the 21st<\/sup> day of a normal cycle. I went in\non Day 21\u2026 and then skipped a fucking period. SIXTY-THREE days later as my period\ntracking phone app kept alerting me to interesting new irregular period podcasts\nAunt Rosie finally goddamn showed up. I asked if this lateness may have fucked\nup the test results. She didn\u2019t give me a straight answer\u2026. Just said I was low\non Progesterone and that she was going to give me a cream to try hopefully in\nthe two weeks between ovulation and my period IF I could guess it\nappropriately. This\u2026could be a challenge\u2026. But OK, I WILL DO MY BEST. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Finally\nshe put me on some anti-inflammatory med from the compound pharmacy. She hopes\nit\u2019ll help the pain that plagues me. And to top it all off she did send me off\nto have more blood taken and an eye test because I lamented I had found another\nfucking wave of mold in my home\u2026 <\/p>\n\n\n\n All and all I have a lot of homework, no conclusive diagnoses, and I am struggling not to feel like I am just lobbing spaghetti at the wall hoping something will stick. Then again isn\u2019t that what my entire life is about? Between trying to figure out what my medical problems are I continue to plot ways out of the house I think is killing me\u2026 I wrote a book <\/a>hoping it\u2019d turn into some sort of income. That\u2019s been a year and I am currently pulling an impressive 0 sales a month. I continue to write and hope to publish more but I no longer look at it as a means of income. I incentivized my blogs. On good months I get about 4 cents for my efforts. And now I am drawing weekly comics<\/a> \u2013 I\u2019m giving it a year to gain fans and followers before I set up a shop but it seems very few understand or appreciate my quirky humor so I\u2019m thinking that will be another flop\u2026 Can I really expect anything more of my medical quest? <\/p>\n\n\n\n The\nmore I tried to control my life, the more I sought concrete solutions, the more\nI failed and more miserable I became. I am letting it all go now. I write\nbecause I enjoy it. I take beautiful photos and sculpt because it soothes my\nsoul. I draw comics because I love giving the gift of laughter. And I go to\nspecialists, not believing I will find an actual diagnosis or cure, but because\nmaybe they\u2019ll find something to soften the blow a little. If I can improve my\nhealth at all <\/em>it\u2019ll be a blessing. And in the meantime I am really\nenjoying my visits to this practice. The staff there are absolutely wonderful.\nTheir financial advisor even asked me for a hug! And that\u2019s not bad. Not bad at\nall. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Being\nhuman means never being able to ever truly see \u201cthe big picture.\u201d I don\u2019t have\na clue what it is I say or do that\u2019ll make my life better but I know it\u2019ll be\nsomething at some time. 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