Monday, May 27, 2013

Is there a Dr. House in the house?

Ya know that t.v. show "House" where he identifies strange, unusual and curious medical conditions?  THAT'S who I need to talk to! 

I haven't posted anything since Friday because I've had another bad spell.

I was feeling decent on Friday.  Saturday morning I got up and got dressed, wrote on my blog, did the dishes and then went outside to rest on my lounger and read.  I've learned that being in the direct sun seems to zap energy out of me so I was only out there for about 15 minutes.  I got dizzy coming in the house so I layed down on the sofa.  When I tried to get up, it just wasn't happening.  I was weak and just couldn't get off the couch.  Then I had the most drastic energy drain episode yet.  I got completely zapped and was immovable.  Couldn't talk, anything.  Jeff and Jensen got me comfortable back in a laying position on the sofa.  It passed after about a half hour enough where I could talk again and then about 3 hours later I could eat a sandwich.   After about 6 hours on the sofa, I could get up and go to the bathroom but then just went up to bed as long as I was able to move.  Still cannot figure out what brings these on.  Is it something I eat? drink?  medications? What?

Sunday I had no real energy to do anything besides eat and get to the bathroom but at least I was able to do that.  Jensen BBQ'd some really yummy steaks and made a great salad as well. 

Today, I was able to take a shower and go to a special therapy appointment that Jeff set up.  It's called Cranial Sacral Therapy.  It's really not like any kind of "therapy" I've ever had.  It is a light touch on different placed on my face, head, neck and lower spine.  The therapist said that I probably wouldn't have any noticeable improvement for now.  I go back on Wednesday. 

Since I got home from that therapy appointment from this morning, I have mostly been resting since my energy level is really low, but in the last hour or two I've been thinking about this Adrenal Fatigue Syndrome that I read about a few weeks ago.  It's kind of hard to stay sitting up for too long, so I've tried to read what I can.  The symptoms are very similar to mine so here I go feeling like I might be self-diagnosing again.  I'm going to call the HD about it tomorrow.  I'm going to describe my intense fatigue attack that I had on Saturday and she was she has to say.

Jensen is out BBQ'ing again right now under Jeff's watchful eye.  It's Memorial Day and we should be at a party or something.  What a contrast to how we used to celebrate.  Boating, playing, socializing, eating lots of party foods.  Well, maybe next year, eh?


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