medical crap

[mamajoan]

So it turns out I might have asthma. Eh, that kind of sucks. It could be worse though. And after all these years of tendinitis, lower-back trouble, and bunions, it's nice to have an ailment that actually can be effectively treated with drugs! Anyway, I have to go in again next week and see an asthma nurse and take some kind of complicated test. Meanwhile, I have an inhaler to try. This should be interesting. Sigh.

I also got a tetanus booster shot, so now my arm is all sore. :P I'm thinking of skipping the gym tonight, because of that, and because it would be nice to get home in time to eat something before I go next door for game night. (That's card and board games, not anything crazy like RPGs.)

On the bright side, my blood pressure is nice and low. Well, that's a plus. The doctor did suggest I go in at some point for a cholesterol test too. You know, the one where you have to fast for twelve hours beforehand. I'm in no rush to do that! My cholesterol was fine the last time I had it checked, anyway.

So now everyone I know who has asthma (which is quite a few people) is rushing to give me all kinds of advice, and/or tell me their horror stories. With friends like these... ;)

Comments

[tiggrrl.livejournal.com]

The trick with that cholesterol fasting thing is to schedule it for early in the morning (say 8 or 9) and then you eat a nice dinner the night before and you're fine. One might ask why they bothered checking my cholesterol, given that I've been vegetarian since I was 5 and am close to vegan now, but to answer that would require an understanding of the HMO Mind, and I don't have one.

[mamajoan.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I forgot to mention to the doctor that I'm a vegetarian. I don't know whether it would have made a difference to her recommendation. I figure it can't hurt to get my cholesterol tested, anyway; despite being a veggie I do eat pretty badly, lots and lots of fat. But fatty foods are just so damn yummy!

[tiggrrl.livejournal.com]

You know they just found out that people can taste fat (duh) just like we taste sweet and sour and bitter and salty. So fat really does taste yummy!

[retch.livejournal.com]

Heh, responding to old journal entries, now this starts playing with the entire concept of the posts being grounded in a moment in time. Assuming you have email notifications on so you even know that I've responded here...

Anyhow, if you come out to cali, we've got a D&D campaign that loves guest players. :) Oh yeah, we play those crazy card and boardgames too. :)