Wednesday, April 12, 2017

What You Aren't as Cool as Me?

What,You can not do tricks while typing?
I can eat hands free, a fully rounded meal folks! (Travels today left it hard to get all the nutrients in) but hey we bolus! I am so much better with my GP! I am eating well still and managing well. I see GI in two weeks to go over tube options. I'm a picky Tubie and I know what makes sense, oh and what I want! A G tube. I'm not ready to have no tube. That's out of the question for today. But I'm ready to step up to a G tube... So I will feed into the stomach and not the small intestine which has been bypassing my stomach completely all along the Tubie days. Making progress! I do a lot of mushy liquids. And I'm always feeling like I'm tweeting my diet to get what is needed in better. It's easy to lean on empty calories but it's not good for a GPer to intake empty calories we can't afford to loose the nutrients. So I am trying even harder to squeeze nutrition in me daily. Orgain is my game. And I do still have Gastroparesis it simply is being more manageable at the time. (I know there has been a lot of confusion on that. I am improved but not cured. I can prove it because I just found food in my stomach from 6plus hours ago. And your stomach should fully empty in two hours. Could be why potassium is dipping because nutrition dies off after spending so much time sitting in the stomach where food is not absorbed.) since I have neurological GP it can improve and also get worse so we pray and do the best we can... And enjoy the good times with faith they will last💕 The good times like today, eating at our "place".
I've been seeking the treatments of all kinds of kinds for many years now at St Joes. (And a bunch of other places but currently we have been at St joes for my Endometrosis & pelvis. If You are newer I don't speak much but my pelvis was a trauma case injury due to my disease being so bad and untreated. My body turned freaked out So injury occurred  and I Was in the same shape as someone crushed in a rollover accident minus broken bones. I had three years of physical therapy. And I am back into therapy again since my last surgery irritated the injury. #wompwomp. It will be better again though that's the good part! My Endometrosis had also gotten more severe they found in my last surgery making it harder to treat. It's treatable just more pain for me. I have the best doctor in the world no joke! and now one for my hand too. Anyways!  We always would go to the Park Place Deli. During the good, the bad, and the ugly times. We have to eat. And sometimes there are windows of time to kill... We like our place because it's cool and it reminds us of New York! Today we sat outside and I ate there for the first time in years. For a few years I couldn't eat there just watch. (But I still very much enjoyed the atmosphere) That place is near to my heart. It's dressed up some rough times for me. It's been a place of rest and distraction in some trenches of my battles. We just stumbled across it because the Hospital Front Desk lady gave us a list of places to eat near by one day... when we were newbies... And we were starving! It's really an amazing feeling to be able to eat there again...it feels so blessed in my heart. Today I saw my new hand doc/surgeon and I do NOT have to have surgery because my ganglion cyst has gone away (all while waiting to see a new doc, the old doc did not send my records to me after weeks and therefore I had to get new X rays... That showed my cyst is gone!) but the bad news is I have to have a nerve study on my neck because something seems wrong with my hand still. He bent and messed with my hand and wrist for a long while. (A good doc) He even cared that I fractured it once in my Dance days but he looked at imaging and that part looks perfect (more good news) I have some numbness and pain...  but I think it could just be my Dysautonomia. This doc was extremely thorough and thinks their is more to the story. (Which does follow all my other Heath issues). My pelvis surgeon sent me to him and he operated on her. So I figured if he could operate on one of the countries best surgeons ... Well, he could take care of this handful! He was not afraid of me. He also was really nice and answered my kagillion questions I always have. (He showed his students a few things so of course I needed to know what was wrong with me that we were showing others.... Lol. He graciously explained I have very odd weaknesses in places. I left it at that assuming it's Neuro related. Or Michelle related.) He was very good. I felt safe... I was thrilled to not have the need for surgery! But then about ten minutes after I left, I realized I probably have some weirdo nerve issue that will not be fixable and a pain in the neck! (Nice pun) we will do the testing and I will return for results. We will go from there. Luckily I see my Neurologist next week! I am intrigued on his opinion on all of this... I have been complaining of neck issues for a year or longer now. It's been brushed off. It could just be weaknesses. (Now this info is Dr Me.) My body has been fully deconditioned and I have reconditioned it but... You know maybe the neck didn't get the TLC it deserves. But I am having a hard time holding my head up. I have been feeling unstable in my neck. It also seems to be bending more then it should be able to. Maybe I'm loosing my marbles but I'm typically right when I think something is off... And continues to stay off. Hopefully it will all be easy to find some answers  and easy fixes. If not I will trudge along like always. One day at a time. "Im not medically complicated, I'm medically interesting" potassium I have upped and we will see what my labs show. Luckily the pills are allowed but I may not be able to tolerate them they warned. But I will.  I feel like things have been falling apart because I've been in a lot of pain and I've gotten to see doctors this week and my mind is at ease again and I'm feeling calmer. I have fallen backwards a little bit but it's temporal and not my Dysautonomia. I just have a lot of medical conditions that like to annoy me. Getting all my ducks back in a row again.  I just felt like updating everyone a good update will the info. Lots of love-Chelle 

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