I’ve spent the past few months healing. And I’m happy that I can finally say my tush is officially healed. I don’t have any further appointments with that doctor. By my last day, the entire office staff knew me by name. They were so incredibly helpful.

I was on top of the world feeling great. I had low stress, low anxiety and more energy. Then I started getting nausea. Not the normal everyday nausea but extreme nausea. Burning, churning and worst of all pain. It was so bad for a few days that I had to take off work and go to the doctor. It was not my regular doc, he was off that day but the office still got me in. I was diagnosed with a kidney infection, given antibiotics and sent home. The nausea really didn’t improve. Many days I went to bed right after work because the pain was just too much. The doctor called me back. She had run a culture and it turned out that I didn’t really have a kidney infection. But I was still in so much pain. X-rays, lab work & a CT Scan were all clear. At this point, I imagine the doctor just throwing her hands in the air “I give up!” because she told me to follow-up with my GP. I was basically dumped by that doc.

So, I followed up with my GP. I love my GP, he’s the best doctor I’ve ever had. We have conversations and my input into my treatment is just as important as his. And he likes the Boondock Saints! I sat in his office for a good thirty minutes as he listened to my symptoms. He was perplexed. It was so cute watching him trying to decide next steps because he really was at a loss. He said that odds were that if we had further tests, they’d all be clear. But he didn’t want to give me the “It’s IBS” diagnosis either. Together we decided that we would wait for a month to see if things righted themselves. I’ve kept a food diary (mostly), trying to exercise more (nearly impossible with the pain) and in May he’ll prescribe Nexium when it goes generic. I’m treating the symptoms with Alka Seltzer to take the edge off the nausea (the nausea meds they prescribed actually make me sicker) and strong pain meds.

My next appointment with the doc is tomorrow. Not much has changed in a month so we’ll have to see how that goes.

When I’m not in pain, I feel great. I’ve been relearning digital scrapbooking using Photoshop Elements (my poor copy of Photoshop CS4 has gone to a better place – in other words – it just don’t work no more.) and I’ve been working on a Project Life book.

And for an early anniversary present my husband bought me a Kitchen Aid Stand Mixer. I’ve wanted one of these for so many years. It’s so pretty sitting on my kitchen counter.

 As I feel better & better, I expect to be around more. Till next time…