Greetings!
Got my Blogger Reader back Thursday night. Friday I got an email from Blogger all about how they were going to cancel 14 specific videos from my 20 year old blog. Included a long complicated instruction list of how to save them and repost them? Did anyone else get such a crazy email from Blogger? I was all happy to get my Reader list back and then (if it is not spam) was very sad to think Blogger is going to start to trim the years of postings! :(
On Friday I had my virtual appointment with my R-Dr. (I am tired of writing out rheumatologist--lol!) After I have had my eye surgery she wants me to try a weekly shot. As she listed the side effects...let's just say it sounded potentially awful. She said there's an oral med but she thought I might have better luck with the shot. Maybe my body won't overreact to a shot the way it has to the oral meds? But I didn't want to make that decision right now when I am still trying to just get healthy enough to have eye surgery. She said it could take a month or so to get insurance approval, but I want to think about it and let Dagan and Leah read all the information about the shot and the next level of oral medication. R-Dr sent longer descriptions of each that we could all read.
I have been dealing with side effects and being sick for so many months that I just can't deal with deciding to try something new right now. I told her if I am finally feeling better and get this eye surgery behind me I may feel very differently. But I did tell her I might not want to deal with anything new at all. I'm exhausted. She said that I had to be made aware that I could get the inflammation in my other eye and end up blind...and repeated that to me twice. I do know that. I've always known that this whole last year. But then I've had it in the one eye since before Christmas last year and my good eye is still good. I think the odds are fair that it won't move into that good eye. But I do know that could change at any time.
I have had no luck with oral meds, so if I was going to try something I would be more likely to try her weekly shot. Even if I do not like needles and have to look away when they poke and prod and jab me...I could learn how to jab myself, I'm sure. She seemed to think I may have a better chance avoiding the bad reactions with the shot, too. That was her first choice. (I didn't want to tell her about my horrid reactions to the flu, shingles, and covid shots--lol!)
Anyways, since I hadn't even made it in to the lab for her bloodwork check, I suggested that I get labwork done beginning of October (in the first two weeks) as I need to go in for a pre-op physical before the surgery and I have to wait until I am feeling lots better so I can be okayed for surgery. Then she can message me about the lab results and we can see what is really going on. When we know whether my inflammation markers have gone sky-high or are the same or better, then we will have more information for a decision on the weekly shot. So I have a while to think about it.
I've been sleeping a lot this past week because I am totally shot from six weeks of constant coughing (my ribs still hurt), rashes, sores, increased pain levels, etc. It is soooo nice to be able to get up during the night and be able to get back to sleep--ahhhh! The little things in life, eh? I am on the mend! Only two bad coughing jags in the past week! I am now feeling more hopeful that I will be able to make it to the surgery. (Knock on wood!) This has been a really long year so far--lol!
Honestly--the past five years have felt really long and hard. So, I am just enjoying that I seem to finally be on the mend for longer than three days--lol! I have been catching up on several British mystery series' new seasons...watching movies and documentaries...writing letters...finally writing blog comments again...the weather has cooled off into the 70s...Allie's new less tracking litter is actually less tracking...my mouth sores are gone...blogger reader is back...able to sleep again...wasn't limping as badly this weekend...hand has mostly been less painful...the boys were down in the window well catching crickets and chatting with Gramma...life is good!
Allie agrees!
