Me and Doogie

I went to the naturopath today for an early appointment -that's why I am posting at 8 o'clock at night. He looked me over and did a whole bunch of different reflexology testing. He wants me to get xrays done to check on the status of my back, and he fixed a stomach hernia I didn't even know I had. I was surprised by how much he was already able to tell by essentially poking me. He said that my major problems with my liver, my adrenal gland, my thyroid, my secondary metabolism (I still have to look that one up), my hormones, and my sympathetic nervous system. It sounds like a lot, I know-but he said that he was nearly certain that there was only one or two major underlying causes to these issues and that he could fix them with only a few months of treatment. He's going to look over everything, including my xrays, and I go back and see him next Wednesday. Wish me luck!!

* This xray does not belong to be, but rather to the BBC.

For tonight though I'm just going to get to work-I have a long night ahead of me!

Linky Love

More good news/bad news. Good (FANTASTIC!) news is that we had a blood test done and I am not pregnant as I had feared. More proof God will never give you more than you can handle! Bad news is, I am still feeling just miserably ill. I'm going to go back into the doc on Friday to see what's up, and I'm going to try to get to feeling better in the mean time, but this mystery yuck is hard to shake!

I don't want to leave you guys hanging, so I thought I'd share some of the cool posts I've seen in the past couple of days...

You can go visit my friend Robynn at her 30 Day Throwdown blog. The Throwdown being, of course, a challenge to get healthy...this month we're doing away with junk food (easy enough for me, since my stomach turns at the thought of any food at all at the moment!).

Also you can stop by my gal pal Jesse's place, Muthering Heights, to enter to win a 18 x 24" poster!

Lesley, who you might remember from Fab Find Friday, wrote about her online romance with her soldier Hubby....a cute read!

Remember Samantha, from Apple Juice & Milk? She has a fabulous recipe for potato, ham, and cheese soup that is just delicious! [Even if you pick the ham out like I did!]

Last, but not least, I certainly hope you get a chance to stop by Helene's place-she's being featured on SITS today!

I promise I am not abandoning you, and that I will return back and better than ever...well at least back...very soon. For now though I'm just going to go eat some tums and lay on my couch.

Music To Your Ears

I'm still sick. The bad news/good news is that I'm not going to attempt to write a coherent blog post while I'm all barf-tastic. Sooooooooooooooo, today-please to enjoy my favorite Weird Al Songs (yes, I do in fact have a standing list of favorite Weird Al songs...I'm just that nerdy):

Smells Like Nirvana [Parody of "Smells Like Teen Spirit" by Nirvana]
I love the 90s. Heck, I love Nirvana...but not even I can figure out all the words to Teen Spirit!


Gump [Parody of "Lump" by Presidents of the United States]
The original song by the Presidents was fun, so this could only be more fun!


Another One Rides The Bus [Parody of "Another One Bites the Bus Dust" by Queen...see, I told you I couldn't write coherently.]
My very favorite of the really old Weird Al!




Ebay [Parody of "I Want It That Way" by The Backstreet Boys]
So true. So hilarious!




Honorable Mentions:
All About The Pentiums
White and Nerdy
Six Words Long

After Midnight Musings-I'm Teething

It is 2am.

All three of the kidlets are asleep.

I, on the other hand, am awake.

All four of my wisdom teeth are impacted.

All four of my second molars have consequently twisted and turned into freakish, unnatural positions.

There is searing, stabbing, burning, radiating, pulsing pain in my entire head.

I have taken 1000mg of Tylenol.

I have slathered half a tube of Orajel in my mouth.

Nothing.

I now sympathize with the kids.

I desperately want to lay on the floor and shriek at the top of my lungs until someone-anyone-stops the pain.

Instead I blog my complaint like the grown up I don't want to be at the moment and settle in for the long haul.

Our insurance does not cover dental.

Until 2011.

If these teeth keep it up I will take them out myself.

It's Childbirth x 1000

When I was 17 I had meningitis. I have also managed to push two children out of my body with an accumulated labor time of 28 hours and 27 minutes. These are relatively painful experiences.

They don't even TOUCH a gallbladder attack. Not even close. Even if you combined all the pain from the other most painful things I have ever done, comparing that to gallstones would be like saying a kitten scratch was the same as being mauled by a lion.

It's not even in the same ballpark.

I went into the hospital in excruciating pain when I was almost 25 weeks pregnant. They did an ultrasound to check the baby and discovered that I had a little more than a baby in there.

That picture totally doesn't do the things justice. When she flipped the little wand around and looked from a different angle [that I didn't get a picture of] you could see that the entire bottom side of my gallbladder is LINED with stones. When I asked how many the tech said "I don't really have time to count them all"!

No matter how much they hurt, they really couldn't take them out while I was pregnant cause of that whole surgery thing effecting the baby. Which I totally understand but still-the last 15 weeks of my pregnancy were painful. By the end I was having 4-10 gallbladder attacks a week, obviously sometimes multiple attacks a day, lasting about 4 hours apiece.

In case you've never known anyone who has had a gallbladder attack they feel like you're having a heart attack...while being stabbed and burned repeatedly in the stomach and back. The pain is constant and there's no position you can get into to make you feel better and it hurts so bad that you wish you would pass out from the pain just so you can have some relief for a moment. You know those movies where they show sick people in beds that are moaning really loud and writhing back and forth? I wish I could say I was being dramatic.

Anyway, since I've had Baby Bug they've been happening a lot less. I had three attacks the night after I had her, but afterwards I've only been having about one a week. Until yesterday. I had THREE in one day yesterday. When the last one started I noticed that my pee was turning orange (a sign of bilirubin issues=liver problems) so I went into the ER and they checked my liver function and discovered it was bad.

Like dark brown/orange pee bad (sorry if you're squeemish).

So yeah, I'm seeing another doc tomarrow and we're going to talk about when we can get this thing out but it will probably be this week or next. I'm a little freaked about having surgery (I've never done that before) but it can't hurt any worse than gallstones!

I'll keep you posted*