Monthly Archives: August 2020

There is a lot I have to rant about right now, from the latest NDIS heckery to my cardiologist still insisting that the only thing that will help me is bariatric surgery, but that’s not what tonight is for. Tonight is for positives. 1: I do not have the ‘rona! I do have a sinusContinue reading “Positives”

I have been at the doctor all morning and it has not been a fun time. The good news is that my heart looks pretty good. This was a concern, because I’ve been having pretty scary heart issues – the least bit of exertion has been making me feel faint and giving me thundery heartContinue reading “A Very Good-Looking Heart”

As the venerable Arnie once said. It’s also not COVID, but as I am discovering, I have most of the COVID symptoms most of the time. It’s special. It’s nearly 5am and I haven’t slept yet, because I have a terrible headache that isn’t worsened by looking at screens but is bad enough that IContinue reading “It’s Naht A Toomah”

Today’s vocabulary word is “homeostasis”, which is the process by which the body maintains a certain equilibrium. It involves the endocrine system, the pituitary, the pancreas, all that fun stuff. You may recognise these things as things that Do Not Work Well In Me. It turns out that when you don’t produce your own cortisol,Continue reading “In Which I Am A Fainting Goat”

I’m still learning to re-manage my expectations of myself. Earlier this year, Something Happened that landed me in the emergency department, which is when I got diagnosed with adrenal insufficiency. It looks as though I’ve been having adrenal issues for a long time as my pituitary degraded over the years, but in April, something wentContinue reading “Sometimes There Is Roulade”

While I wait for the endocrinologist to call so I can be questioned by med students, some thoughts on one of my least favourite words: co-morbidity. Co-morbidity, which is such a terrible word that it no longer looks like a word after only three uses, is the occurrence of several conditions in the one person,Continue reading “On The Tyranny of Co-morbidity”