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[galadhir]

October in the mean time was mostly taken up with medical stuff. Weird IBS type symptoms arrived out of the blue, and the doctors are like 'take this test.' So I take the test, and the doctors go 'oh, blood. interesting. you may have cancer.' And I'm fast tracked into an endoscopy appointment.

I don't honestly mind the endoscopy, though it's unpleasant and uncomfortable, but the week beforehand where I had to stop eating anything that might have fibre in it, and then I had to stop eating altogether, and then I had to gag down two pints of heavy-metal water that made me dizzy and want to throw up, and go to the bathroom until there was nothing left in my digestive tract at all... I did not enjoy that.

So I go through all of that, and then the morning of the endoscopy appointment DH tests positive for Covid.

I have a lot of sympathy for him, but noooo I can't go through all the fasting and purging again. I phone the hospital and they say that if I am testing negative then it's fine and I can still come. And I am testing negative. So I go and have my colonoscopy, and get Daughter to pick me up so that I can have it under sedation.

Fortunately the colonoscopy detects no cancer, so presumably the IBS stuff is just the Fibromyalgia doing its thing and not something I need to worry about. (Other than maybe testing to see if I've become lactose intolerant.)

Come home, still wiped out from all of that and loopy from sedation, and two days later I also have Covid.

Pretty much that was the last two weeks of October. DH is officially tested Covid -ve as of today, so I'm guessing I'll be clear by Friday, and I'm already starting to panic because I have not even started Christmas shopping.

Time to take my blurry brain and maybe write 500 words of something. If I don't, I will never get back on the horse.

Comments

[mistressofmuses]

Ugh, miserable! I'm glad for the "no signs of cancer" result, but still, not a fun time at all!

Plus the covid! I hope it's an easy recovery from that for everyone. :(

[galadhir]

Thank you! Yes, I'm starting to feel a bit more normal today. And I managed to drink a soy hot chocolate today without troubles, so its entirely possible that the IBS stuff is dairy intolerance, which will be relatively simple to manage.

[mistressofmuses]

Dietary restrictions suck, but it's way easier to manage something like that than have to deal with mystery symptom triggers! I hope that's a relatively easy 'fix' for the issues!

[galadhir]

Thanks! Yes, I will miss cheese, but I do feel like I've got a handle on it already, so that's a relief.

[mistressofmuses]

Alas for cheese and ice cream and such... though there are some much better substitutes these days, it seems like! And well worth it if you're already feeling better!

[galadhir]

Yes, I've timed it well to coincide with the way that vegan food is now quite widely available. So that's something :)