About a year since the last blog post.
Honey had a 2nd mast cell tumor which she had surgery to remove. I don’t know if that was 2024, but I think it must have been.
I had my tonsils removed. It was as painful as they said it would be, don’t regret it at all. Wish it helped more with the ear pain, drainage, and itchiness.
R had surgery to repair an inguinal hernia. Prior to that he had been vomiting multiple times a week, often multiple times a day for over a year. His gastroenterologist was worse than useless at diagnosing it, and literally made things worse. Apparently that office doesn’t deal with hernias, which everyone who is in any type of medical field thinks if ridiculous. He is still taking multiple medicines to help him with nausea and vomiting, and if he doesn’t take them, or drinks coffee before taking them, he will still get sick.
I had my front teeth (3 of them) fixed early 2024, (cost $800+) and by May, started having some pain in my front tooth, and the fillings in at least two that were fixed have cracked or completely come out. It isn’t visible, but this time it hurts when I use my front teeth to bite food. I’m extremely irritated about it because we paid so much money and I don’t want to hear what they think we should pay to have it done again. We still haven’t called to tell them it broke, probably because we can’t afford to pay that much to have my teeth only temporarily fixed again.
R has been waiting for the VA to get him community care for dental for more than 4 months. He now technically has a dentist, but they cancelled his last two appointments, because they want to do a full visit for a cleaning when the doctor that diagnosed him originally told him he had an infected tooth. He is in severe pain in multiple areas, a new spot is hurting him very badly (back right top), he still has an infected tooth, and they have yet to see him once yet. He went in for his first appointment over a month ago and they literally wouldn’t see him because they didn’t have the sedative that they told the VA they had (for his extreme phobia of doctors). We’ve been begging them to see him and if they don’t call on Monday to give him an appointment this week, I think I’m going to make him call my crappy dentist because at least that guy will see him quickly even if it costs $250+ for a single filling. Because even if it breaks it’s still better than it was before.
I’ve been extremely cold and tired lately and lots of brain fog. Told my primary care doctor that I think I’m anemic. He said he was doing a full cbc last time, which came back really abnormal… and he said I was fine. And then when we went in last week, he said he hadn’t done any tests for my vitamin levels since 2022… and so he did those this time, and said ohhh you’re borderline anemic… take a multivitamin. (I have told this doctor that I want iron infusions multiple visits in a row. He keeps telling me to take a multivitamin. I have told him I’m taking a multivitamin AND an iron supplement, and a vitamin d supplement, and a magnesium supplement every day. Nothing.)
I had my primary care visit, my thyroid visit (labs are normal), and my gynecology visit all last week. The gynecologist sent me for a transvaginal ultrasound since my periods are really bad again. Back pain, heavy clotting, severe pain, breast pain, mood swings, painful sex etc.
I found out yesterday… I have a cyst on/in each ovary. The right side is a complex cystic legion, likely either a hemorrhagic cyst or an endometrioma. It’s a cyst with another cyst inside it that contains liquid. It’s half the size of my right ovary. I see the gynecologist about it next week.
Grandma and Grandpa have been moved out of their home into assisted living, and it isn’t going well. Both are having memory issues. I still haven’t seen them. We’ve planned visits multiple times and we always get sick and have to cancel. In December, R and I both got Covid. (My first time). Then in late January, mom and dad got the flu or something and mom said not to come down.
Oh and our car needs all new tires before we can make the trip to visit anyway because they’re all dry rotted. That’s going to be somewhere between $300 and $500.
And R’s computer died in December. Still haven’t replaced it.
And we currently have TWO leaks in the basement ceiling, that we’ve been waiting on the plumber to come fix for almost a month. I’ve noticed that when we have leaks we have more issues with bugs… can’t control the moisture level.
Haven’t played D&D (not counting 1 on 1 sessions or online) in so long. Last time was when Cheshire came to visit. But before that I think it was… I don’t know. August 2024 with Alex?
Haven’t been able to play online with the Tiamat D&D group because of the computer problem, and before that had a month+ scheduling issues.
I’ve rearranged the living room, but I think neither of us really like it. He can’t see the tv very well from across the room (another health issue we are waiting on the VA to schedule an appointment for).
We’ve moved the queen bed into the master bedroom, from the computer room. So we are both sleeping in the same room again. Sometimes it’s wonderful and sometimes I have a lot of trouble sleeping. There’s junk everywhere right now because nothing is currently settled in its place.
I might need wrist surgery. Did a nerve conduction test on both arms (needles and electricity) and she said atypical carpal tunnel. Wrist has been hurt since before October but just now getting all the tests wrapped up. Healthcare wait times are literally bullshit. The tests take so long to get that by the time I get them the problem is either fucked beyond fixing or it’s fixed itself (so why did I go get the test done anyway?).
It’s beyond infuriating, and all of this makes me feel so helpless.
