• Today started off with a doozy of a headache that is still hanging around.  Since I can’t take ibuprofen at the moment I have to settle for Tylenol which as usual didn’t help.  Next up…Tramadol!  Strike 2!  Waiting to see what they want to try now.  I don’t like taking narcotic pain meds at all and only do as a last resort but this headache has hung on for dear life!  Anything and everything makes it worse too.  A knock on the door is amplified.  The light hurts.  Chipper people are extra annoying…hahaha.  I have spent the day trying to sleep in my dark room with no TV.  I even have the brightness turned down on my phone and laptop.  This headache can get to steppin!  We are going on 12 hours with this one.  Ouch!   (more…)

  • Another day in the books…  I am still nauseous and my eyes feel like they can’t focus at times.  I have pretty much no appetite and nothing sounds good at all but I keep snacking to keep my calories somewhat up.  My calorie intake is defiantly not where it needs to be but some is better than none.  My creatinine has been on a roller coaster.  So here are the numbers.  Monday it was 5.3, yesterday in the ER before fluids it was 5.99, last night after a bag of fluid and half a bag of fluid with sodium bicarb it was 5.6 and this morning it was 5.8.  As I said before the normal range is .5 – 1.1. (more…)