Where have I been? What have I been up to? October is a busy month with the 1st 1/2 full of birthday get together & celebrations. Also I am still battling complications with my health. So, I know I am not dying (yet) and it's nothing serious enough that they can pick up on any of their normal tests but it's bad enough to keep me out of work at times, from seeing friends & doing daily activities at times. They can treat it, but we don't know the cause. So, I am sick of being over medicated & am now going to see a pulmonologist at the end of the month because my doctors feel this is the next step.
2 of my major problems are asthma and migraines. The mystery of the asthma is why is my allergist is always telling me that my breathing tests are coming back above normal, yet I feel like I still cannot breathe & I ended up in the hospital in August with symptoms that could have been either (a) a heart attack, (b) collapsed lung, (c) or a blood clot & it was none of those. Something came up on the blood test that concerned them which made them do a CT scan but that came back clear also. So I was put on prednisone & lortabs then released.
Last weekend I started getting the same feeling in the left side of my chest that put me in the hospital in August. Every now & then I can still feel it lingering & it has not progressed to the severity in which it had previously but I am being very careful about it. I have upped my asthma steroid medication & keeping my activities at a slow pace. Tried heating pad & epsom salt baths but because it's more internal those didn't work all that well. This caused a doctor appointment on Monday, decision on the new specialist, fasting blood labs today which resulted in an awful migraine for most of the day. Now I have a sore throat that's bugging me. Unrelated.
Overall, I am doing better. After work though I pretty much come home, sleep, wake up, get online & e-mail, try to work on mail or chores, have my bath, then fall asleep again until Chris comes home & we have dinner. Then I fall asleep again. So I have been very fatigued. I am working on tapering off another medication so it may be a result of that.
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Another thing about me is that I work for GEICO in the customer service department. I really love my job. I love it when I can find people savings, when I make people happy, when I connect with people. I have licenses in, I think, 8 states now. (I have a folder full of them!) I mostly handle the New England states. PLEASE do not ask me about car insurance on here! This is not what this blog is for. Call your local company. I am sure they are great. Or if you are insured with us call any of our agents & they will be happy to help.
So we do a lot of charitable things within the company for local & world wide organizations. I recently donated to a local animal shelter through our company & now we are making up baskets for a raffle that will have the money donated to the United Way. You can only imagine why I would be posting about it here! Because it is going to be filled with bathing goodness!
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See? I am already writing too much & I am very sleep, not feeling all too well, & must make a Betty trip to Rochester tomorrow to see Brown & Deenok for a meeting of the minds & to also celebrate the Libra's of our group.
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