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genie
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 Posted: 11/16/02 - 11:32 Post subject: Relapse........what a surprise (rolleyes)
Well, it was bound to happen sooner or later. I've been sick and exhausted for three weeks now from all this nonsense going on at work, it started with a sinus infection that I haven't been able to shake, and with CFIDS, stress is a BIG trigger for flare ups of the virus. I just got my latest blood test results back from the doc and my numbers are way high again (which is not good). I've been on antibiotics for almost a month now and they aren't helping, and now I have a damn kidney infection (OUCH), my third in a year, which is causing my doctor some concern and she wants me to see a urologist to check and make sure it's not anything serious (bladder and kidney cancers run in my family). She says my immune system is really weak now, which makes you prey for a lot of opportunistic infections, which is why my kidneys are now involved. I got majorly yelled at because she said I am chronically dehydrated, which is an early sign of a flare up. No wonder my tongue has been all sandpapery like a cat's!
She has me on Cipro, which is one of the most powerful antibiotics they make, three times a day, has ordered me to stop working so much (yeah right) and NO coffee or alcohol as they are major drains on your adrenal system. Sigh. I should have seen it coming when I had two solid weeks of really crappy running, dead legs, barely able to finish a couple miles without walking, but I just thought I wasn't eating enough, which I wasn't. So much for training, at least for the next few weeks. Fortunately, I have all of Thanksgiving week off so I can rest up and relax then, and hopefully by then I'll have the energy to work out some. This sucks--I have been feeling SO good for the last year that I almost forgot I am sick. 
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akern
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Posted: 11/16/02 - 11:44 Post subject:
Sorry to hear that Genie. Hope you feel better soon! 
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Laurie Ellen
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Posted: 11/16/02 - 11:52 Post subject:
| akern wrote: | | Sorry to hear that Genie. Hope you feel better soon! |
Ditto!
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Posted: 11/16/02 - 12:30 Post subject:
Mega dittos to the hope ya feel better.
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Laurie Ellen
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Posted: 11/16/02 - 12:38 Post subject:
| Cappy wrote: | | Mega dittos to the hope ya fell better. |
No, no, no! Falling would be disastrous at this juncture!! 
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genie
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Posted: 11/16/02 - 13:09 Post subject:
LOL at Laur..... 
This is so cool, my roomie just came home with a "sorry you are sick" present...I love those pillow style foot massagy thingies that you slide your feet into like slippers.....and he found one where the foot part is polar bears (I LOVE bears!) and it is the softest thing ever, just like stuffed animal fur! Ahhhhhh........
Wish I had a digital camera so I could take a pic....it is SO cute!
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Posted: 11/16/02 - 13:44 Post subject:
that stinks monkeys, g. Keep that chin up, though. You can get through this...
muchas smoochas your way!
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Posted: 11/16/02 - 14:08 Post subject:
take care of yourself
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Posted: 11/16/02 - 14:26 Post subject:
Sorry to hear you are sick again. But this will pass. Just take care of yourself. And heed LE's advice 
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Posted: 11/16/02 - 15:07 Post subject:
CFIDS???
sorry you feel like poop. getting better vibes coming your way.
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genie
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Posted: 11/16/02 - 15:38 Post subject:
CFIDS = Chronic Fatigue Immune Deficiency Syndrome, known in several other countries as Myalgic Encephalopathy. Here is a link to some general info if you're interested: http://wwcoco.com/cfids/sueprimer.html
Now I'm really creeped out. I was just at the cfidsfoundation.org website to read up on the current research, what little they are doing, and found this link to a memorial to people who have died, many of complications of the disease, and many by their own hand as a result of the suffering and debilitation it causes. There was a time some years back when I wwas much sicker than I am now and could really relate to that part.
http://www.ncf-net.org/general/memorial.htm
You start to get a little cocky, I think, when you've been in remission for a while because you feel almost "normal" again and forget that you always have the chance of becoming really ill all over again. It hits you like a ton of bricks when reality rears its head and says, "pssst.....you're not cured and you never will be." I think that's why I am so determined that I am going to run a marathon someday, although my doctor doesn't think my body can handle the stress of the training, no matter how good I've been insisting that I feel. And why I so much want to go to grad school and stop wasting my life in corporate america.
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Posted: 11/16/02 - 16:22 Post subject:
| shelflifers wrote: | Keep that chin up, though. You can get through this...
muchas smoochas your way! |
Ditto!
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Posted: 11/16/02 - 17:54 Post subject:
Take care yourself, you'll be back in no time.
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Posted: 11/16/02 - 18:31 Post subject:
I am really sorry to hear that is flaring up again. no more working overtime and going to the gym at 10 at nite!! And I'll engage Matt as a spy if i have to...
Take care of yourself and get some sleep. I will give you a call tomorrow. I hope you get back to your normal self ASAP..
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genie
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Posted: 11/16/02 - 20:34 Post subject:
Thanks, all! I just got up from attempting to nap (no, not THAT kind of nap ) and I feel a teeny bit better, the kidney meds are starting to ease the pain a little (and the orange color is really cool! LOL!) but I'm annoyed because this is the third weekend in a row I've gotten nothing done at home because I was too tired to do anything. Sigh. My cousin Mikey's 30th BD party is tonight but I had to call them earlier and tell them I wasn't coming. Still trying to figure out how I'm going to do without my pot of poop coffee tomorrow AM. Got two movies to watch though, Van Wilder and Sum of All Fears, so it won't be a totally bad night.
You guys always make me feel better! 
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