Tag: mystery illness
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Danger, Will Robinson
When you are chronically ill, hope is a dangerous thing. At first you do. You hope. You hope fiercely. It’s what gets you through so many doctor appointments and awkward procedures and pain-filled days. Hope is what gets you through. But eventually, that hope fades. After going to get the ninth second opinion, your hope…
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International Incident
Well fuck. Looks like I’m not going to Eastercon after all. For various reasons, my doctor has asked me not to travel internationally for the next six months or so. I admit, when my doctor brought this up, I laughed. I mean, after last year, now someone is going to ask me to sit still? I’ve…
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Doctor, Doctor
Turns out I do not, in fact, have a bad case of loving you. I have a bad case of nobody knows what the fuck is up with my body. On the bright side, there is in fact medical terminology for what’s up with my body: Isolated, Idiopathic Colonic Ischemia. Basically the blood stops flowing…
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Countdown
Today started my last week in Japan. A week from yesterday I will board a US bound plane for the last time this year. I don’t know when I’ll come back here, though I know that I will. I know that I’ll miss this place. There is a more than small part of me that…
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Running Out of Gas
I am so tired. I am exhausted and frustrated and I just woke up. I have spent the last week dealing with a mystery illness that causes extreme abdominal pain, dizziness and forced bodily functions that nobody wants to have to deal with. Ever. I have seen three doctors this week, been to the ER,…
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